Helsinki, Feb. 21.
ing on all Finnish fronts went fon well into the night as the Red Army: Younehed large-scale opera tions in every sector yesterday and made a desperate but {atile effort to forcements through to the Sweden Protests To Moscow Stockholm, Feb, 21.
The small Swedish township of Pajala was still blazing after a Soviet bombing attack when. Wilhelm Wi ther, Swedish Minister in Moscow, lodged a strong protest at the Krem= Hin. this. evening.
Seven Red bombers participated the raid over the tittle in Lapland in the valley of Terne some six miles from the Swe. dish-Finnish frontier. The town population of 1,000 and, according to latest reports, there were no casualties, The attack was launched at 1 o'clock in the afternoon when the raiders, fying at an altitude of between 10,000 and 13,000 fect, dropped aerial torpedoes and incendiary bombs on the township. Estimates on the number of missiles dropped reported 50 high explosive and several hundreds of incendiary bombs to have been showered down, Many failed to explode.
Several missiles fell in the centre of Pajala, where three houses were destroyed by the resultant fire, Considerable other damage was done as bombs fell close to the town church and to a saw mill, which was destress ed. Workmen were in the build. Ing shortly. before the attack was made, but left it for prepared shelters just in time, When the rain of bombs ceased, the seven Soviet aircraft. were sighted aking off toward the Finnish frontier fen route to their bases in the east. Havas.
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