Helsinki, Dec. 21.
Russian troops, supported by hundreds of tanks and under the cover of massed air squadrons comprising an estimated 250 bombers, made the heaviest attack of the Russo-Finnish war yesterday on the Karelian front, For forty-eight hours the Red troops battered at the Finnish lines, The attacks centred on a fifteen mile wretch between Lakes Muolo and Kauk where the Finns have a triple line of fortifications, It was reliably learned that two Soviet regiments were wiped out in the Savykoski region where the Finns were aided by a raging snowstorm and bitter cold, The Finns claimed they had captured ten Soviet tanks and downed 40 planes during ñghting Tuesday on he Karelian Isthmus. In the Tuesday track the Russians were said to have used 30-ton tank:
Meanwhile, thousands of fresh Soviet troops and large numbers of new tanks were reported to have arrived on the central Finland front presaging a major Soviet offensive in that sector.
Finland yesterday called to the colours Finns born in 1899, as the Russians began their third week of incessant pounding on the Manner-helm Line—United Press,
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