Stockholm, Feb. 6. RUSSIAN troops advanced during the heavy fighting in' the battle now raging in the Summa sector and are now immediately in front of Mannetheim Line outposts, wireless reports claimed yesterday. The. Russians moved steadily through no-man's-land with "considerable losses on both sides," it was said. The Finns admit that the Russian are dangerous as a break in the Mannerheim Line gives the Russians control of the railway] line to Viiborg.
The Russians are now reported to be about fifteen miles from Viibory Viiborg yesterday suffered continuous bombardment by Russian heavy artillery and air bombings.
Two hundred houses in Viiborg, were destroyed since Saturday, it was reported. Salvage work continued yesterday with temperat tures at 30 below zero and lower. A Russian division was wiped out near Kitelae, north-east of Lake Ladoga, after the Finns outflanked them from the rear, as they' did at Suomussalmi, the "Dagens Nyheter's" correspondent on the Finnish front reported. Twenty-thousand Russian troops were claimed to have been dispersed, of whom 7,000 were killed, Finnish troops engaged the Russians Mantsinsaari, while other Finnish res skirted the north shore of Take and fell. on" the Russians cattying several patients at the time, but the damage' was small—United Press. from the rear at Kaesnaesaelkae, between Kitacle and the Russian frontier, the correspondent reported. In this manner the Red troops were out off from their bases and the Finns were then able to shatter the Aivision, he said At was Learned by telephone from Aube yesterday that the city's fre department worked on Sunday amid exploding bombs in sub-zero weather fo put out a wide-spread fire caused by a severe Russian air attack, Most of the important buildings fa the town were destroyed or partly gutted by fires started by incendiary bombs. The Swedish Consulate, a girl's echod, one church, a high Aube newspaper and Other offeial centres were demolish fed in one of the most destructive raids of the war. It was estimated that a total of from 60 to 70 civilians wore killed and many more wounded at Aabo since the war began—United Press,
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