1939-12-11 — Page 18

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 11, 1939,

PHOTONEWS

Finland has 65,000 lakes, which Russian invaders have a real problem to cross or skirt. Hore grows the timbor 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 barrior to the Russian tanks and armoured cars. But in winter they are frozen over, vulnerable to expert ski troops, Furthermore, Finland's coast is long and open. The Finnish Army totals 30,000 in peacetime, 300,000 in wartime, plus 110,000 veteran militiamon. 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 defencè organisations. Last summer volunteers dug tronches 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.

AMERICAN JOURNALISTS LOOKING TOWARDS THE GERMAN LINES, FROM THE TOP OF Á CAMOUFLAGED BLOCK-

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