The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-14
Nation Is Still Free
With Army Prepared
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Those In the audience stood a
attention during the five minutes
Of the presidents speech.
His broadcast was preceded BY
the rendition Of the national an
them, "Bjorneborgernes," marcf
in honor Of Finnish army which wal
composed for Napoleon when III
came to Finland in 1909.
Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav
Mannerheim, hero Of the war, was
to address the nation later today.
Sorrow Of People
So oppressive was the sorrow Of
the people, they hardly realized thai
the war was over - though they
realized only too we'll the Russian
peace terms which their leaders had
perforce accepted.
The air raid blackout, for instance
was imposed in full force during
the night. Streets were not lighted
and as a United Press correspond
ent telephoned a dispatch from his
hotel room a policeman went in to
ask him to lower the curtains, as
the light could be seen from the
street.
n (7.he censor was working also.
When the dispatch on President
Kanio's speech was telephoned to
Copenhagen, the United Press COR
respondent was cut off as soon as
ne began quoting the speech. The
censor as during the war insisted
on having a written copy of the dis
patch for advance approvaD
Losses In Battle
Mannerheim, in an order Of the
day broadcast by a radio announcer
last night, asserted that more than
5000 Films had been killed in the
war and that the Films had killed
100000 Russians. Russia had lost
1900 tanks and TOO airplanes, he
added.
Unfortunately" he said, "The val
liable promise of assistance which
the western powers gave us could
not be realized when our neighbors,
concerned for their own security, re-
fused the right of tansit for troops"
The aid in men that Finland re-
ceived, he said, equalled two REIN
forced battalions equipped with
artillery and aircraft.
(This might be somewhat over
1000 men,
Thanks His Army
4 Thanking his men for their fight,
Mannerheim said:
more than $4,000 OF you who
took the field will never again see
your homes, and how many those
are who have lost for ever their
Ebility to work. But you also dealt
hard blows, and If 100000 of our
enemies are now lying on snow
drifts, gazing with broken eyes at
our starry sky, the fault is not yours
You did not hate them nor wish
them evil; you merely followed the
stern law of force: Kill or be killed
Soldiers! have fought on many
pattlefields but never have L seen
your like as warriors. I am as
proud of you as If you were my owe
children; I am as proud Of the man
rom our northern Sells al
The sons of Ostro Bothnia, the Ka.
Felian forests, the hills of Sage
the Verdant hills Of Hame and
Satukunta, the leafy copses OIL
Dusimaa and Versinais- Suomi.
Proof of Suffering
Burned cities, ruined villages, fal
behind the front, as far even as oul
western border, are visible proofs Of
The nations sufferings. Our fate
Is hard now that we are compelled tc
give up to an alien race, race
with life, philosophy and mora
Values different to ours, land which
1or centuries we cultivated in the
sweat of our labor. Yet we must
nut our shoulders to the wheel in
order that we may prepare The sol
left to us at home for those rem
dered homeless and deprived of O
livelihood.
"As before, we must be ready to
defend our Finnish Fatherland with
The same resolution and the same
lire with which we defended our
undivided Fatherland
I'VE are proud because we are
conscious of these solemn duties in
which we shah continue to fulfill;
the defense of that western civiliza-
ton which 1t has been our heritage
for centuries. But we also know
that we have paid to the very last
penny any debt which we may have
owed the west"
Had Taken Viipuri
Moscow, March 14.-(UPJ-F'ive