Moscow, Feb. 21.
Further favourable developments in the offensive on the Karelian Isthmus were reported by the official communique released by the Leningrad General Staff Headquarters today.
Soviet troops, it was claimed, have occupied the city and fortress of Koi-visto, as well as Buoerkoe, and have forced the Finnish troops to abandon the Koivisto peninsula, gaining rich booty.
In other sectors there was nothing of importance to report. Soviet planes successfully bombed enemy troop concentrations and military objec.- tives Forty Finnish planes were downed in air combats, the communique claimed.—Havas.
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