Helsinki, Mar. 3.
Over 100 Soviet warplanes flew over this city during one of two air-raid alarm yesterday. All planes flew at great height.
Despite official denials that the Finns have abandoned Viipuri, the belief persists here that the Russians are now in the process of taking Possession of that city, On the Karelian Isthmus, Finnish forces have retreated to the regions of Sainio, five miles south of Viipuri, and the regions of Heinjoki, seventeen miles east of-Viipuri. The Russians attacking in the Heinjoki area advanced at least five miles during a week.—Reuter,
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