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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
December 11, 1939,
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Finland has 65,000 fakes, which Russian invaders have a real problem to cross or skirt. Here grows the timber which is Finland's wealth.
FINNS MARCH TO DEFEND THEIR FREEDOM
Against great modern armies, little nations are saved only by terrain. Finland's lakes and vast swamps make an almost impassable barrier to the Russian tanks and armoured cars. · But in winter they are frozen over, vulnorable to expert ski troops. Furthermore, Finland's coast is long and open. Tho Finnish Army totals 30,000 'in peacetime, 300,000 in wartime, plus 110,000 veteran militiamen. Every man (perhaps a million) would fight and his place at home would be taken by the women of the famed Lotta Svard organisation. Whole families be- long to the various defence organisations. Last summer volunteers dug trenches along the bor- der of Russia where Finland has its only con- siderable fortifications.
An old grudge the Finns have against the Russians is the Treaty of Dorpat of 1920 by which Russia was to have given semi-autonomy to the Karelians, a people related to the Finns. After a revolt, the Soviets wiped out the Kare- lian leaders and put in the usual Moscow regime of bureaucrats, soldiers and secret police.
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