Helsinki, Feb, 11. PROICATING the Russian High Command is determined to pierce the Mannerheim Line at all costs, the second major Karelian Isthmus battle suddenly expanded yesterday in a wide Russian offensive at four vital points.
The Red thrusts were aimed at Punnusjoki, Pasuri, Taipale, and the north-eastern part of the Mannerheim Line.
Late reports claimed that the Finns were holding all positions and had not retreated an inch.
Eight thousand Russian troops were killed and a column of sixty Soviet lorries and two tanks were destroyed in the sector} north-east of Lake Ladoga, a Finnish communique said. Extremely heavy Soviet pressure continued in the Summa area yesterday, but all attacks were repulsed and thirty Red tanks were destroyed, the communique claimed.
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