Helsinki, Mar 15.
A mass migration of the Finnish inhabitants of Soviet-occupied Finland is expected in the next few days. Estimates set the figure of those who are about to leave their homes and land at about 99 per cent most of whom are farmers and small landowners.
Tentative plans put inhabitants of the Karelian Isthmus to be settled in central Finland, while those living along the coast of Lake Ladoga will be transferred, if possible, to the west coast districts of Vas and Abo.
In war-torn Helsinki, a semblance of normal life is beginning to be seen. The black curtains that hung in every window have been taken down, and the shop-keepers have begun to remove the protective boarding from the show-windows and doors of their stores—Havas.
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