Stockholm, Feb. 13.
The Russian offensive against the 1 Mannerheim Line on the Karelian Isthmus for the time being has failed and its strength during recent attacks indicates that the offensive has almost lost its force, it was learned yesterday.
High Finnish authorities gave this information by telephone from Helsinki yesterday. It coincided with what was learned in Finland. The Russians will probably renew their offensive, however.
Indications are that the Red High Command may fry to force a decisive phase in the war before foreign aid to Finland becomes fully effective.
The "Dagens Nyheter" correspondent on the northern Finn front claimed that the Russians were repulsed today on the northern front after a heavy attack. More than 600 Soviet troops were killed, he reported. Approximately 100 Russian parachutists, dropped with machine-guns and ' skis along the northern Finn front, were either or killed today, the correspondent said.
Details of the.amount of foreign aid and its origins have been carefully concealed by the Finns, but it was learned that assistance is arriving in much larger amounts than British Warship (Continued from. page 7)
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