The Archive · 1940

Tired Troops Frozen on Way

From the area westward of Ladoga, 50,000 cows, horses and pigs are being evacuated.

All inhabitants and their belongings are being evacuated from Bange, and mile-long columns of lorries, piled with every transportable object, are moving into the interior.

The evacuation everywhere is being carried out with great efficiency, people from the same villages being kept together and moved en bloc.

The extreme exhaustion of the troops is proving an, additional anxiety. Many are quite unable to cover the five miles daily stipulated in the treaty, One officer found 100 Finns, who had stopped to rest, frozen. dead.—Reuter.

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

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