Moscow, Feb. 25.
Heavy snowfall and fog prevented military operations on the Karelian front yesterday, this mornings official Leningrad General Staff communique stated. During the day, Soviet forces occupied 26 Finnish fortifications, including nineteen concrete artillery forts.
After a stiff fight, Russian troops captured the islands of Koivisto, Tiurinsaari, and Piisaari, together with their powerful concrete forti fications. A large amount of war material was taken, including 22 heavy artillery guns, ten of them being 10-inch and 6-inch coastal guns, anti-aircraft guns, machineguns, munitions depots and war equipment, There was no change in the other sectors of the front, the communique added. The bad weather restricted aerial operations to mere observation flights—Havas,
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