The capture of Hogland, and several other strategic islands off the Finnish. coast, is claimed in a communique released! here today.
"Having recovered from the first more strongly" eMlicial Soviet newspaper. "The retreating enemy are leaving behind machine-gunners and snipers, "con cealed in. bushes and crevices" the paper adds. "Railway bridges and. empty houses all conceal mines, as well as snipers.
One correspondent, in a report published here yesterday, accused the Finns of having used poison. gas—Reuter.
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