Evening star., 1940-01-22
By WADE WERNER.

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BY WADE WERNER,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
HELSINKI, Jan. 22.-Hundreds of
Russians have been killed, the high
command reported today. in each
of number of futile attempts to
crack Finnish resistance on the
Karelian Isthmus and the eastern
front.
On the isthmus. where the Firms
have reported almost daily attacks,
the army said the invaders sought
to give effect to their drives by loud
speaker exhortations that the Firms
surrender under the threat that
the Germans were coming to help
their foe.
Reviewing developments in the
conflict yesterday. the high COM
mand reported in its regular evening
communique:
In the Taipale sector of the
Karelian front, about 120 enemy
dead were counted in our foremost
positions and on the ground in
front of our lines were the bodies
of several hundred others" after
Russian attacks were driven off.
Attack North of Lake Repulsed.
. On the eastern front, northeast
of Lake Ladoga, the Firms replused
the Russians. who left three officers
and about 100 men killed"
Further north, but still on the
lower eastern front. in the Loimola
sector. the Russians were driven
back with about $50 men killed"
and five tanks destroyed.
In ts;e far north, above the Arctic
Circle, where Russians earlier had
been reported bracing after With
drawing to Lake Marka, the army
said there was nothing new"
In slight air activity yesterday, 1t
was announced, only four persons
were known to have been wounded.
Text Of Communique.
The high command communique
issued tonight follows:
Land:
"On the (Karelian isthmus,
chiefly harassing artillery fire on
January 21. Our own artillery si-
fenced a few enemy batteries. In
the late afternoon the enemy began
concentrating for new attack at
Taipale. The attack was halted in
its infancy.
I'm the course of the day our
troops destroyed two tanks. After
yesterdays fighting about 100 enemy
dead were counted in our foremost
positions and on the ground in the
front of our lines were the bodies
of several hundred others.
THE enemy tried to give effect
to his attacks by loud speakers
mounted in his positions which ex-
horted our men to surrender, de-
claring that Viipuri would be taken
within 48 hours and threatening
that Germans were coming to help
him and would kill all Firms.
Northeast of Lake Ladoga our
troops, fighting successfully and re-
pelling the enemy, left three officers
and about 100 men killed; further,
five enemy tanks and two armored
cars were destroyed.
Five Tanks Destroyed.
TN the direction of Loimola the
enemy attacked our positions at
Kollaanjoki The attack was re-
pulsed, the enemy losing about $50
men killed and five tanks which our
men destroyed.
Farther north the enemy at
tackled at several points at Aittojoki
and in the direction of Ilomantsi.
The attacks were repulsed. On the
Kainuu and Lapland fronts there
is nothing new.
"At sea: Nothing to report.
'.Air: The enemy air activity was
lively on January 81 only in the
war zone. In the home area, Oulu
CUleaborg) was bombed and a few
buildings set on fire. New air raids
took place at night during which
men working to extinguish fires were
machine-gunned from the air. Ac-
cording to reports so far four people
were wounded in the raids"
Attack Across Ice Seen.
Freezing of the Gulf of Finland
from the Estonian to the Finnish
shore has confronted Finland with
the possibility of an over-ice attack
from Soviet Russian bases in Es-
tonia.
Foreign military observers specu-
lated on the chances of sue
cess for such a thrust, but Firms
insisted they were well prepared to
meet it.
The coast, in some sections at
least, has been fortified and barri-
caded with barbed wire. The frozen
beach at Hanko, for example, is
laced with barbed wire.
Hanko, Southernmost Finland, lies
at the tip of a Gulf of Finland
peninsula, SIS miles northwest of
Baltiski, Soviet Russia's Estonian
air base.
Almost as though in anticipation
of such Russian move, Finland
was reported to have struck at Rus
sian aviation bases on one of the
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