At one point alone the Finnish artillery silenced most of 15 Russian batteries—about 45 guns, Finnish guns shelled one column of seven tanks putting two out of commission and repulsing that particular attack.
One Russian plane directing the artillery fre was shot down in the thick of the smoke screen used by the Russians to cover their attacks.
Today's 130 Red bombers, together with a large number of fighting planes, represents the largest concentration of aircraft used in any attack in Finland since the war began.
An air alarm was sounded at Vii-pun for two hours today, and for over half an hour the continuous roar of Red Cross Inquiry to Be Demanded Stockholm, Feb. 2.
The Swedish Red Cross has decided to ask the Committee of the International Red Cross to investigate the waging of aerial warfare against the civil population in Finland, and violations of the Red Cross symbol and the Geneva Convention, of which the Russians are alleged to have been guilty. It has also been decided to assist in the removal of sick and seriously wounded people to Sweden.—Reuter. aeroplane motors could be heard overhead among the low clouds.
were snow flurries most of the The terrain where the attack occurred today is less forested than other parts of the Isthmus. It is believed the attack is designed to prevent the Finns from shifting their troops from. the Mannerheim Line north to Lake Ladoga. The Firms, however, were prepared for the attack, They knew it was coming and were ready.—United Press.
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