IINNISH forces north-east of Helsinki, Mar, 3.
Lake Ladoga "annihilated' the 34th Moscow Tank Brigade yesterday, killing 2,050 Russians, a Finnish war communique claimed here last night, Tt was officially announced that Viipuri had not fallen and that the Russians had not entered the city.
The statement, it was explained, was issued in reply to several foreign radio stations which broadcast the fall of Viipuri.
The Finns admitted they had made ight withdrawals from the front at Viipuri but said the mi Russian attacks in that sec-for has been repulsed. Several Tocal attacks on Friday between Viipuri Bay and Vuoksi were repulsed by the Finns "with heavy losses" at Aerae, Paeae and Nuoraa, the latter five miles south of Viipuri, the communique said, 'The Russian 34th Tank Brigade had advanced from its base to support the recently destroyed 18th Division, the communique declared, but the tanks'
forees were surrounded and completely annihilated." The Russia. dead included the tank brigade Commander and the commander of the Tath Division and his staff, it was said.
Asa result of the defeat of the ath Division and the 34th Brigade the Finnish line north-east of Lake Ladoga was restored to Uomaa on tne Uuksjoki River, where it was at the start of the war, the communique continued.
The communique reported that fed attacks at Taipale were repulsed, Finn planes bombed Russian railway lines berating between Leningrad and the Isthmus front, the communique con-eluded, Two air raids, the last the longest since the war, were carried out over the Helsinki area yesterday morning and afternoon. "Some bombing was heard far north of the city, but a0 bombs were dropped on the lly self. Thitly-nine Red planes were seen in one flight. "It was believed there were 162 Russian planes in the nity of Helsinki during the frst raid in the morning.—United Press.
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