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Show FINNS REPORT RED ARMY BASE 1 CAPTURED AND ATTACK BROKEN HELSINKI, Jan. 1 (AP) The capture of Russian army base and the smashing; of an all-day tank-supported red army attack at two polnU on the eastern front were reported today by the Finnish army communique. The Russian base at Alttajokl' "passed from hand to hand during the day" before the Finns flnslly took It, the communique said, adding add-ing that three machine guns, a field kitchen and 400 overcoats fell Into their hands. Near Lake Lavajarvt the Russians Rus-sians were said to have attacked the whole day with tanks support- lng the Infantry only to be repulsed with the loss of a tank destroyed. New Gains Reported Cains northeast of Lake Ladoga I and In the Suomussalml region, scene of the week-end triumph over the Russian 163rd division, also were reported. The Russians, the communique said, were beine ouraued in I he killed and four Injured. With soviet land forces reported stalled on the Mannerhelm line on the Karelian Isthmus, red bombing raids were seen as reprisals for the reversals. More than SO cities and towns have been raided In the month-long war. Some of the cities, the Finns asserted, have no military significance. Turku, a city of 20,000, Is the terminus for shipments of war materials ma-terials from Scandinavian neighbors. neigh-bors. Despite the bombings, the railway lines are reported to be undamaged. A blizzard swept over southern Finland today, making enemy air direction of Juntusrsnta, near the ( Finnish-Russian border. The Finns reported seven red army planes were shot down during dur-ing raids yesterday In which the I southwestern port of Turku (Abo) ; suffered heavily. Larze aertlnna i lay in ruins today. Unofficial reports said numerous numer-ous Russian bombers had been forced down in Finnish territory by frigid weather and blizzards. A bombardment of Kolvlito on the south coast by the Russian battleship October Revolution "without results worth mentioning" mention-ing" was recorded In the communique. commu-nique. Turku castle, dating from the 1 thirteenth century and housing one , of Finland's finest museums, still Is in flames. Many objects of art I were removed during the raid by I more than 20 planes. ! The waterfront district Is report- ed devastated. A government spokesman said the damage is "very great," but only two persons were reported raids over this section unlikely. Government leaders emphasized the country Is greatly In need of antiaircraft guns and more fighting fight-ing planes, since the enemy is avoiding cities which had adequate air defenses. "They-addeortharTroop-TepIace menu also are needed for the embattled em-battled soldiers who have been holding off the enemy In the frozen wilderness since November 30. The attack on Turku came as the Finnish army reported the destruction de-struction of a Russian motorized column of 12 cars In the Sails region re-gion Just above the Arctic circle. The raid was one of a aeries of bombardments carried out In the southwest and central sectors, a Finnish communique reported. The town of Jyvaskyla, another railway center about 170 miles north of Helsinki, was bombed and 17 civilians were killed by red army raiders, the Finns reported, end at Vaasa, on the west coast, at least three persons were killed and many wounded. In the arctic Petsamo region. where temperatures had dropped to 40 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit), (Fahren-heit), the Finns said enemy planes dropped bombs on Norwegian territory ter-ritory over the River Pasvik. Mop - up activities continued against remnants of the 163rd red army division, the communique said, with more war prizes taken in the Suomussalml region, where 15,000 soviet troops were reported virtually destroyed last week. (Dispatches from Klrkenes, Norway, Nor-way, said Finns In the far north are assembling an air force which Include large four-motor planes.) President Kyostl Kalllo, In a New Year's day message to the world. Iaaxea ior -active assistance at the front the only place where ruthless ruth-less aggressors' schemes caa.defl-nitely caa.defl-nitely be put to naught" |