Rovaniemi, Feb. 1.
Twenty-seven Russian planes in an echelon formation circled 2,000 metvex over the city yesterday and dropped bombs on the outskirts and in. the fice of the Kemi River in the second raid in two days.
we bombs fell in the outskirts of the city where most of the damage resulted from bomb splinters. "All the other bombs fell in the river.
Military reports, meanwhile, stated that heavy fighting: continued yesterday on the Salla front. It was reported that the Russians have sent. hotier trained and equipped Karelians frontier guards to Salla. They are being used in the Russian troops' repeated efforts to outflank the Finnish German Air Battle Claims Refuted London, Feb. 1.
A bulletin issued by the German Embassy in Tokyo quotes a report from Amsterdam, dated January 28, that, according to' the "London Gazette", Squadron-Leader "Wood was cashiered from the Air Force on January 6 in accordance with the, verdict of a court-martial, says a special commentary issued here today.
The report continued that, accord ing to a report from London, Wood was sentenced for failing to carry out the task assigned to him in the raid on Heligoland Bight and_for Yeporting successes which proved untrue.
This statement, says the comment ary, was entirely untrue in almost every respect.
Wing-Commander, and not Squa-aron-Leader, Wood was cashiered, it declares, and this was announced in the "London Gazette.
Wing-Commander Wood, it further states, was not an operational officer, and had not flown for many years.
'The British Wing-Commander con-corned in the Heligoland engage ment, the commentary continues, was 'Wing-Commander 'Kellett, who led the formation of British' air~ craft which gained the long-distance record for Great Britain with a Aight from Ismailia to Darwin.
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