Helsinki, Jan. 23.
Nearly 1,000 Russian troops were killed in five separate attacks at various points between the Karelian isthmus and central Finland on Sunday, a Finnish war communique announced yesterday, Twelve Red tanks were destroyed on Sunday, the communique said; 450 Red soldiers were killed and five Red tanks were destroyed. at Killanjoki while 120 Russians were killed and five tanks and two armoured cars were destroyed in an engagement at Kitila, In the third engagement, the communique said, several hundred Russians were killed when the Finns repulsed them on the Taipale River front on the Karelian Isthmus, In the clash at Taipale, the communique declared, the Russians tried to frighten the Finns by using public address systems to warn them that the Germans were coming.
Artillery units yesterday sent shells at the rate of 100 each minute into the east end of the Mannerheim Line in an apparent attempt to make the entire line untenable by turning the Finnish left wing along Lake Ladoga. It was reported that the Finns were replying to the fire with machineguns and artillery fire and were holding fast. Reports from the front said the Russians were piling up munitions during the past two weeks and a large-scale battle was thought to be in prospect—United Press.
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