Moscow, Feb. 22.
The Moscow press yesterday displayed a dispatch from the official Red news agency, Tass, stating that the Red Army "has now decided to break through the Mannerheim Line" in a drive that "presages the end of the Finn war."
"Objective military experts are saying that the Mannerheim is as strong as the Siegfried and the Maginot Lines and that its destruction would be a very difficult task from a military viewpoint," the dispatch, date lined Kovno, declared.
The most important battle of the war was believed to be imminent in the Viborg sector with the Russians mopping up the Finnish left flank and advancing in two columns on a steadily narrowing salient. It was reported that the Red forces took up positions at Somme and Sanjie, six and four miles respectively south of Viborg. Russian war correspondents hinted that they were confident of a Red success on or Briton Charged in Sweden before the Red Army's anniversary tomorrow.
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