MNNISH troops resisting the Red Russian invasion of the Karelion Pen sula yesterday wiped out two companies of Soviet troops and captured Russian tanks, an official communique said, here Jast night.
The announcement also so that eight teen Soviet planes had been shot down in various parts of Finland yesterday.
-Unconfirmed rumours night said that Finnish coastal guns) had sunk the Russian battleship Kirov off Bange Island.
Many Russian prisoners, believed to exceed 1,200, also were taken in the Karelian sector, the communique saic Finnish officials denied reports that Russian soldiers had landed by parachutes at Petsamo and denied that Finland had_asked Russia for an armistice. Unconfirmed reports said the Finnish Government was planning to move to Vasa, the middle part of Finland, over the week-end.
Soviet military forces renewed their air, land and sea attacks against Finland yesterday as the new Finnish Government headed by M. Risto Rytl, former governor of the Bank of Finland was established in an apparently hopeless effort to reach set-Hlement with Moscow.
Red. planes returned three times yesterday to drop about thirty bombs in the Helsinki area, Red warships were pounding at two points on the southern coast with their naval guns, According to unofficial reports. Four Red planes were brought down, it was. claimed, during raids on Tele sink the streets were soon deserted but the alarm was evidently false as "all-clear" sounded five minutes later.
Since shortly after 1 p. afternoon, Russia bombers were attacking coastal forlilications and towns along the whole of the Karelian Isthmus and the south as Bange.
AL roads t are crowded north trem Helsink ith thousands of re-fungoes, who spent the ni ight sleeping 'The Finns wore resisting the Red Army at' Karelia but there was no foMcial" confirmation available rovere fighting' on the GULE of Fin: land coast, "Meager advices did not indicate if' Soviet troops had Janded St Bange Island and at Borgaa, east of the capital, under the protection of an aerial and naval bombardment. "United Press, Vetsamo Recaplure Chaimed
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