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Show They Lost Freedom but Not Lives in Battle Against Finns 1 I v t I FOUR SOLDIERS OF STALIN FOR WHOM ARCTIC WAR IS OVER Character studies of for mta takes) prisoner la conflict . CRACK RUSSIAN TROOPS BATTLE TO BREAK TRAP Finns Tighten Grip on Foe Surrounded on Salla Front HELSINKI, Jan. IT (INS) While two crack Russian divisions fought desperately, to hew aa avenue ave-nue for retreat through a gigantic gigan-tic Finnish trap on the Salla front, an official Helsinki bulletin tonight to-night said the battle resulted only In tightening of the Finnish grip. . The Karelian front alto came to '1 "x SOMEWHERE ON THE RAMBLING RUSSO-FINNISH BATTLEFRONT Scholarly-appearing Finn officers question captured Russian soldier, second from left life suddenly, with "lively harassing harass-ing activity on both sides of tht Isthmus." "An enemy detachment northeast north-east of Lake Ladoga was routed," the communique continued. 'The enemy left 70 dead and 100 rifles, while two tanks were destroyed. Successes Claimed "Our troops in Lapland are fighting successfully in the direction di-rection of Salla. "Patrol activity and artillery firing occurred on other sections of the fronts. "Enemy sir activity was slight. Our own aircraft carried out raids on enemy columns snd concentration concentra-tion sites, and one enemy plane was shot down." Thousands of Finns, homeless In more than a score of towns bombed by the R unions Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, were suffering suffer-ing in temperatures 50 degrees below zero. Reports In Helsinki Indicated that the two Russian divisions at Salla were cut off from their supply sup-ply bases, and In their attempt to escape were striving to keep the (Continued (Ml Pan Twtt (Column Two I REDS ATTEMPT TO BREAK TRAP (Coatmaad freoi Pas Oim) Finns from capturing thslr artillery artil-lery pieces. At the sams time, the Russlsns were reported taking extreme measures to Increase the efficiency of the Leningrad-Murmansk railway, rail-way, which has been cut frequently by Finnish raiders. A number of soviet functionaries were said to have been arrested on charges of sabotaging the line, which Is a vital supply route for the Russian troops in the far north. While major ground operations were restricted owing to the weather, between 70 and 80 soviet planes carried out "ntininitnts of Interior Finland yesterday. Hundreds of civilians whoee homes wer wrecked by the raids were left without adequate shelter In the bitter weather. The Finnish air fores replied by bombarding Russian troop detachments. detach-ments. Finnish pursuit planes and antiaircraft batteries brought down four more soviet bombers. At Hango 11 fires raged as a result of repeated raids by planes which dropped Incendiary bombs, while at Ekenaes 400 of the town's 700 housee were In ruins as a result re-sult of daily bombings which have made Ekenaes famous aa "Finland's "Fin-land's Guernica.' Turku (Abo), also In southern Finland, was heavily raided and 30 persons there were reported to have been killed. As a result of the red air raids, Finnish authorities decided to enforce en-force compulsory evacuation of centers In southern Finland, Including In-cluding Hango, Turku Ekenaes, Karla and RUhunaekL |