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Show REDS' V1IPURI PUSH HALTED, nuJiHiAi;,: Desperate Battle Reported on Mannerheim Line HELSINKI, March 5 (UP)-; (UP)-; A war communique today re ; ported that a red army attemp to strike across the Bay of Vil puri had been repulsed am that desperate fighting continued contin-ued at the western end of thi Mannerheim line for possessioi of ViipurL The communique also reported severe fighting as a result of Russian Rus-sian attacks on the western coast of the Bay of Viipurl, without admitting ad-mitting that the Russians had gained control of that sector. (Moscow last night reported thai Russian forces had landed on th west side of the bay to enctrcla VllpurU e The communique revealed thai the Russians had attempted tc ' cross the Oulf of Finland Ice at e point about 40 mile west of Um - Bay of Viipurl, while other force - continued to pound at the Finnish defense on three sides of the city, The attacks across the Ice which were repulsed were at- tempiea at naarasaan isiana an "i at Virolahti, which sticks out frori k the Finnish mainland about 3 J miles west of Viipurl and in the di rection of Helsinki. (Dispatches to Copenhagen sail that the Russians attempted U take advantage of the compare tiv. lack of Finnish artillery west o Viipurl, but that a last minute ar " rival of Finnish reinforcements re ' pulsed the attacks which were de signed to flank Viipurl bay. de fenses and the western end of thi ? Mannerheim line.) " Meantime, the Russian endrclini '" attacks on Viipurl continued witl heavy fighting on the island ii 0 the bay, on the northwest short of the bay, along the capes at' thi mouth of the bay and on the main k land between Viipurl and Lak r Vuoski. On the mainland, thi ' communique said, the Finns re ' pulsed local attacks, including im e portent thrusts against Aeyraepa and Pollakkala, east of Vlipuri. e The communique also reported new Russian attacks at Kuhmo, on ' the central front north of Lak 0 Ladoga, where it said more than 500 Russians had been killed anil ' the attacfes repulsed, d (The newspaper Berlingski Af-' Af-' tenavis at Copenhagen reported d that a Russian division, believed tc be the 168th, had been surrounded t near Kitelae, north of Lake La-, La-, doga, and was believed to be in a - dangerous situation.) . e |