Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-12-21
Nv THOMAS F. HAWKINS,

Associated Press Foreign CORRESPONDENT.
HEEL SINKI, Dec. 2l-Soviet Rus
sian planes today bombed hospital
dormitory. heavily damaged school
for the blind, and struck out OF
10 other hospital buildings. Two
hospital patients were among the
injured, and some deaths were re-
ported likely.
This raid on Helsinki, coming on
the 6Oth birthday anniversary OF
Josef Stain, the Russian leader,
started at 1l:58 am. and followed
earlier attacks on towns for 70 miles
around the capital.
Fifteen bombs fell in the hve-
block hospital area,
It was the third successive day OF
aerial attacks on Helslnkl ana
vicinity.
Dormitory Building Hit.
officials said not all of the bombs
dropped in the hospital area explod-
ed, but the dormitory. flVe-Story
structure of red brick, sustained
direct hit.
The bomb collapsed the roof and
upper two floors, wrecked the back
of the building and tore out the
front.
Windows were broken over an
area of square mile.
The clinic building, flve-story
stucco structure, was damaged
heavily. as was the School for Blind,
a building four stories high and a
block long.
Power lines dangled over the
streets. which were Uttered with
glass, bricks and fragments of wood.
Firemen, police and workmen la
bored steadily, clearing away the
wreckage and spraying water on
small fires burning here and there,
though no incendiary bombs were
dropped.
One bomb which fell into the
street beside the school for blind
blasted 6-foot crater in solid rock;
another burst gas mains.
Most of Patients Removed.
Most of the hospital patients had
been removed. but 10 were too i'll
to stand transfer and one of these
was injured seriously while another
was struck by stones shot through
a window by one bomb explosion.
Eight planes swept over the city
In the attack.
The warning siren sounded at
11:58 am, followed by deep rum
BILE and then a series of rumbles as
the bombs loosed by the invaders
exploded.
Anti aircraft batteries then broke
loose and the planes disappeared.
One observer said he saw one of the
craft slipping downward with
smoke streaming from the tail, indi-
eating a hit.
After the first minutes of steady
firing only an occasional explosion
could be heard and no planes could
be seen, though the raid warning re-
manned in force until l :48 pm.
This was the second raid of the
day on the capital, four bombs
being dropped in the first. But the
attacks extended over an area for
25 miles around the capital with
bombs dropped on Lappvik, Hyvin-
kaeae, keraVa ard q number of
other towns.
HankO Base Attacked.
Villages to the west of Helsinki
toward Hanko indicated efforts were
being made to cut that base from
the rest of Finland.
Careful air raid protection in
HelSinki was believed to have kept
casualties to a small figure, but re-
ports indicated other centers suf-
fered heavily.
Throughout the attacks here the
populace was calm, the citizens
scurrying into shelters within two
minutes of the air alarm.
Streetcars stood empty with yawn.
ing doors.
Except for soldiers, wardens anc
lookouts there were few persons
allowed on the streets.
A direct hit Oh the Russian
23,265-ton battleship Oktaibrskaya-
Revolutia October Revolution was
reported by Finnish officials.
The Finnish announcement saiC
the hit was scored by coast defense
batteries guarding Koivisto, a Gull
OF Finland seaport about so miles
northwest of Leningrad.
GA Danish news dispatch to
Copenhagen reported two days
ago that the October Revolution
had been sunk. This, however,
was denied unofficially in Hell