Wounded Soldiers Freeze to Death in Temperature 54 Degrees Below Zero Fighting on Salla Front Helsinki, Jan, 18.
JIN the most bitterly cold conditions known in modern warfare} the Finns drove back the Russian offensive on the Salla front! yesterday, where those wounded froze to death almost immediately, in temperatures as low as 54 degrees below zero. Military leaders said they believed that the Red Army has been baulked by the severe weather on the far northern Petsamo front.
They said the Reds had been repelled at Suomussalmi and had decided to make 'a large scale thrust westward from Salla, evidently hoping to reach Tornea at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia. 'This would split Finland in two and shut off arrivals of Finnish volunteers' by railway, The cold weather prevented the Russian ale force from continuing event ait raids.
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