The Archive · 1940

Helsinki, Jon, 7

The Red Army in Finland today began to dig in for the coldest days of the arctic winter and Soviet soldiers put down their rifles "0 take up the pick and shovel instead. Barbed wire entanglements—wer erected in front of Soviet position the invaders apparently hav decided to wait for warmer weather before launching any large-scale offensive, a Finnish General Stalf communique reported today.

Dealing in detail with war oper: tions yesterday, the communiqu announced that no less than. twelve Red warplanes wore shot down in as many hours by Finnish planes and anti-alreraft_ batteries—Hava:

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