Stockholm, Feb, 7.
Stealing through forests and over rocky terrain, Finnish patrols last night wore rounding up the remnants of the Soviet 18h Division to pro-vent any of them from rejoining the four Russian divisions known to be further north, according to Swedish correspondents, The "Allchanda"* estimates that Russians killed in operations Kitela, north-east "of Lake Ladoga, number at least §,000. Broken and demoralized atler a week's isolation, the Soviet 28th division was virtually annihilated when Finnish patrols closed on the beleaguered troops.
'A Fhinish communique issued last night claims the destruction of 22 Soviet armoured cars in a fierce battle atween Hatjalahdenjacrvi and Sum-ma. The Russians began a heavy fallacy on the morning of February 5 after a preparatory artillery bombardment. Over 100 armoured cars were used by the Russians, and the battle vaged fiercely all day. By midnight, the communique states, Soviet attacks wore everywhere repulsed with heavy enemy losses, including the destruction of 22 armoured cars.
North-east of Lake Ladoga, the Finns repulsed Russian attacks on the Pitkaranta archipelago and the coast, "the enemy losing several hundreds killed." It ig also added that the Finnish alr force, on the night of February 4-5, bombed Russian troops encamped round fires—Reuter.
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