The Archive · 1940

Finland Grateful to Britain SPECIAL TO THE "L.C."

London, Jan. 25.

The Finnish people were very grateful to the people of Britain for the humanitarian aid which was being so freely given, declared a Finnish spokesman in London to Reuter today.

An aeroplane loaded with British medical supplies left London for Helsinki on January 22. This, he said, was the second such aeroplane which British generosity had made possible.

Comforts and warm clothing, according to the spokesman, were specially welcome, owing to the enormous damage done by Russian air raids. All windows in many towns were shattered, so the inhabitants found it difücult to keep warm,—Reuter.

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