Helsinki, Dec. 6.
Meking full use of the clear weather, Finnish bombers successfully raided the Murmansk aerodrome and destroyed about sixty planes. The Soviet airmen, it is reported, were taken completely by surprise and the bombs dropped by the Finns were so successful that not a single Soviet plan@ was able to take off in pursuit.
The task of invading Finland is entrusted to the Seventh Soviet Army, commanded by General Merejkov and comprising eleven tank divisions. Five Soviet divisions are massed in the Karelian Isthmus and four divisions are opposing Finnish troops north of Ladoga Lake, it is learned.
Military observers here say one of the chief objectives of the attacking forces is the railway linking Peisjaervi with Oulu on the Gulf of Bothnia and the branch line south-east to Port Vala, as this vital railway line commands the Gulf of Bothnia and the Ladoga Lake region at the same time. In the extreme north, Soviet troops comprise skiers from Kandala-sha, on the White Sea.
formed circles here, stated troops have penetrated 40 kilometres into Finland but sustain ned very substantial losses. Swedish sources estimate that half a million Soviet soldiers are engaged on all fronts and are opposed by 400,000
Finns,
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