Stockholm, Dec. 6.
The Finnish High Command nounced today that several Soviet attacks in the Karelian Isthmus on December 5" were repelled nest Janisjayrvy, and eight Soviet tanks were destroyed, 'Thus, 80 Sov destroyed since Soviet planes tried unsuccessfully to effect' several scouting flights, weather conditions being ~unsuccessfal, According to a local newspaper Finnish soldiers on skis attacked detachment of Soviet troops, inleting considerable Toss ae, Planes from Moly Rome, Dec. 7.
is admitted here that before the Soviet invasion, orders were received from Finland for planes, These orders will be fulstted soon as possible, it is stated, "It Tikely the planes will have' to be delivered overland by ain, since fying them over German territory might cause "a German-Soviet ineldent, The newspaper points out that most Finnish ait fare built in Ttaly and. most pilots trained in Ualy—Reuter allan Fllers with Finns, London, Dee. reported that rack:
airmen, veterans of the hn civil war where they had dhe opportunity to get used to Soviel air tactics, are now in Finland and are piloting, the sixty Tatian planes sent from Italy to Helsinki, It has been confirmed that the Ballan planes were refuelled in the Reich on their way to Finland, It Is asserted that these sixty planes are only the first part of a large eon= agent of Iatian planes to be deered to Finland. They have already done damage to the Russians, it being claimed that they have ae-counted for seven Soviet machines destroyed until now.—Havas.
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