It is difficult to estimate how many shots were fired in the course of the siege. Detectives and uniformed men from Central Station alone fired about ninety pistol rounds. The Reserve Unit personnel, using Thompson sub-machine guns, likewise discharged a large number of bullets.
Tens of thousands of shells were thrown against the Finnish lines. The roar continued without a sec-end's intermission. The noise could de heard as far back as Viipuri It was the heaviest artillery barrage the United Press war correspondent had heard since the World Wa The Finns resisted bitterly and repelled the main attack, but the Russians renewed their assaults. The combat continued as this despatch was being written et 10 p.m.
The air is throbbing with the concussions of explosions. Birds fluttered about in wild panic this afternoon many miles behind the lines, The Finnish artillery thundered all day long.
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