Take Port; Falling now Heartening Defenders The United States Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Sumner Welles, arrived here at'3.50"pm. for a two eay rest before eniraining for Paris on Wednesday "fo. continue his) tour European capitals to investigate the Situation of the war and. the. pos Sioilies of peace. y forees sent Helsinki, Mar, wave after yave of men across the ice Bay in a determined hi surrounding points before nature aids the battered Finnish troops. with a raging blizzard along the entire front, The Russians added to their already turion: drives along the whole Karelian Isthmus, Snow st perature dropped. With the deere temperature, Pin hopes grew.
Finnish soldiers alike prayed that the weather would become worse the next fow d sand further handicap the Ru ian progress on th suicide squads guarding Viipuri ian fro Despite the determined proper, it wax generally admitted that only a blizzard could effectively halt the Russian steam-roller theres ata the snows come in time, the Finns] Kusslans Claim More Towns will have mare time to fortify their Moscow, Mar. 5.
main defence fine on the Isthints inrthieveest of Viipuri, where they plan the stiffest resistance.
The strongest enemy attacks were still concentrated on the middle of the Mannerheim Line above Malko where, however, the Finnish artillery: fire far wax reported to have managed to maintain the Finnish positions, President Russian offensives. round the south-eastern istands on the Bay of Viipuri were carried out, leading to the belief that the Soviet plan ap= pears to be {0 reach the far western shore beyond. Viipuri.
The eastern part of the lines of advancing Russian infantry continued to race across the ice in repeated efforts to crush the Finnish defence In and round cipate, 'The Finnish fair force renewed activity today, bombing enemy reinforcements and supply stations on the Isthmus, par ularly' across the "frontier United states 9 Russian communique issued here today.
"In the fortress of Trongsund, captured three batteries of nav: long-range guns, a great number of machine-guns and rifles, and amn~ fon." It adds—Reuter.
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