The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-02-28
FINLAND POURS
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 lati0n had gone and Russian aTtIl- leEy had destroyed most of the
 sOvisfs Batter Way
 The Russians had battered their way to Bomme. seven miles below Viipuri, and were spreading out in three directions, causing the Films to evacuate all towns bordering the Bay of Viiprri, and Q strip 25 miles back into the interior. The SOmme line of boulder barriers, traps and dug0uts was still holding. according to Finnish reports but was threat ened by the tl1ree-Way Russian at tack which was:
 1. Along the coastal branch of railways between Leningrad and Viipuri in the vicinity of Somn1e.
 2. West of there, over the ice, where a chain of islands almost bridges Viipur Bay. Fighting there has been furious. If the Russians pushed a large force across the ice to the far shore, the Films could not defend Viipuri even though they kept their land lines below the city intact. Finnish dispatches said that wave after wave of Russian infantry poured from their newly occupied island fortress of Koivisto and above Johannes, racing across the ice into well-directed Finnish mchaine gun fire; that Russian bodies piled on the ice and some broke through ito watery grave" The Finnish air force, augmented by new planes from abroad, was said to be aiding by raiding the Russian supply lines.
 3. Across the main line Viipuri- Leningrad railroad to the Peronjoki river which rises in Lake Perk- iaervi and runs northward to a chain of lakes above Viipuri before emptying into the head of the bay. The purpose of this drive appar- ently was to protect Russian cole unns aimed directly at Viipuri. The new Finnish line, from Aeyraepaen- jaervi, along the Salmgnkaita to Lake Vuolsnsi and then southeast words towards Taipale on Lake La- doga, has cut up Russian attacks so successfully that there was 8 real danger to. the columns moving on Viipuri. From the southeast bank of Lake Vuoknsi, the Films are pro- tected yb a wide expanse of lake and can enfilade any Russian cole umns attacking at Salmgnkaita or Aeyraepaenjaervi.
 Far North Warfare
 Major warfare also had been re- newed in the far north and al- though the Films had withdrawn 10 miles from the Petsamo region to the town of Nautsi, Scandinavian reports at Copenhagen believed that 1t was strategi cwithdrawal by which the Films hoped to lure the Russians away from the protection of the neutral Norwegian frontier.
 In this region, where the Pet Samo-Ivalo highway is the only line of communication, the Pasvik river forms the boundary between Fin land and Norway. The Russians have been entrenched along the river, their right flank protected by Norway. Below Nautsi, the river continues south but no longer forms the border. The "elbow" of Norwe- gian land extending into Finland ends at that point. Hence, south of Nautsi, the Russians no longer will have their. right flank protected.
 (At Svanvik, Norway, the far northern fighting was said to have produced hundreds of fires, set by retreating Finnish soldiers. The fires outlined the Russians to Fni- nish sharpshooters 1t was said. Ap- proximately 100 Russian airplanes were said to have harrassed the withdrawing Finns.)