T= Russian eight-day drive Lake Ladoga grew weaker Helsinki, Jan, 29. on Finnish positions north east of yesterday and failed to puncture the Finnish lines, according to a Finnish war communique issued last night.
Yesterday's attacks, the communique said, "were weaker than the previous attacks and hundreds were added to the death roll."
1t was reliably reported that the Russians have lost 5,000 dead and 15,000 wounded during the past week on the Karelian Isthmus, Responsible observers, however, believe that reports that four divisions of Red troops have been destroyed, are exaggerations. The Finns are fighting their greatest battle since Suomossalmi, but
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