The Archive · 1940

100 Red Planes Over Helsinki

Helsinki, Mar. 3.

Over 100 Soviet warplanes flew over this city during one of two air-taid alarms yesterday, All planes flew at great height, Despite official denials that the have abandoned Viipuri, the f persists here that the Russians now in, the process of taking possession of that On, the. Karellon Isthmus, Finnish forees have retreated to the regions of Sainio, five miles south of Viipuri, and the regions of Heinjoki, seventeen miles east of Viipuri. The Russians attacking in the Heinjoki area advanced at least five miles during a week—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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