The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-14

The Russians bombed two towns,
Woundlng three civilians.
There are tremendous physical
problems for the Firms as a result
Of the treaty which takes historic
Viipuri and the whole Karelian
Isthmus into the Soviet union
makes a Russian inland lake of La
doga, Europe's greatest. leases Gi.
braltar-like Hanko to Russia for a
naval and military base and pro.
vides Russia with easy transit
across Finland to Norway and
Sweden.
Will Evacuate Many
A total of $50, 900 evacuated resi-.
dents from the Isthmus and Ladoga
areas must be %resettled and pro
vided for.
Cession of territory taken by Rus.
STA and the withdrawal of Finnish
troops will start March Is and end
on April 10.
Hanko must be handed over
within ten days.
Tanner, however, said Finland in.
tended to make every preparation
of her own to protect her new bor-
ders.
Asked if she would be permitted
to fortify these borders under the
peace treaty, he asked: who is go.
ing to stop us?"
Our military commanders say all
borders are defensible," he added.
The nickle mines of the north, he
asserted, remain in Finnish hands.
Tanner said the peace terms, de-
spite the fact they were "unexpect
edly severe" had to be accepted
lin the national interest,""
The Finnish army and the Fin
nish people, he said, had done thei,
best against a vastly stronger foe.
"As we have no hope of securing
better terms by continuing the
war;" he said, sit has been preferred
to agree to the present terms rather
than continue a hopeless war;"
The war ended Officially at II a,
m. with fighting continuing right
up to the moment of armistice.
Fags Lowered
After Tanner had given the nation
the first Finnish word of the CAPT
%tulation, flags on all Finnish build
ings were lowered to half staff.
Women wept in the streets. News
of the end Of the bitter fighting
brought no celebration, no scenes OF
joy. Helsinki's newspapers appear
ed with deep black borders.
The members of the government
who resigned in protest against &C
ceptance of the Russian terms were
War Minister Julio Niuukanen and
Minister of Education Juno Han
nula.
For the future, Tanner appealed
for absolute unity with which to
build a new Finland.
Finland has been devastated be-
FORE" he said, and her people "have
ascended again." The Firms can do
it yet another time, he added.
"It would be easily comprehen-
sible," Tanner declared, eff opinion
dlllOIlS uS WSIC W NC alVluSu III IS-
gard to the decision now made"
A funeral silence fell among
groups of Films as they listened to
Tanner. The voice of Tanner him
self was tired. 1t was Red Russia's
peace, not Finland's.
Mothers took their children out
into the streets, safe for the first
time since last fall. Soft, g%listening
new snow covered the ruins of many
homes.
Bodies In Snow
The snow covered the sharp edges
of shells of apartment houses. At
the front lay frozen bodies of fallen
soldiers.
1--WE have shown the path which
small nations must take in the face
of demands by dictator states," Tan
ner said.
1t has not been our fault that
democratic states have been either
unwilling or unable to help us in
this unequal struggle"
Tanner was specific about Sweden
and Norway and their course of neu-
trality.
"All our efforts" he said, have
been hampered by n great de-
ficiency. We are a small nation and