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Show CAPTURED MISS AIRMEN YIELD j. MAPS OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY ! HELSINKI, Jan. 17 (AP) A Swedish police chief studying Finnish sir raid precautions today said maps had been taken from captured Russian airmen showing detailed routes from a soviet air field southwest of Leningrad to points in Sweden and Norwsy. ' This looks like evidence they expect ex-pect to do some bombing In Norway Nor-way and Sweden," Police Chief Zrnst Fontell ef Gothenburg, Sweden, declared. Fontell said he was In Turku (Abo) during a recent air raid when the Finns forced down a Russian bomber carrying two officers of-ficers and a pilot He said both offloera shot themselves to svoid capture, but the pilot was taken prisoner. Maps which the Russians carried, Fontell asserted, showed the routes te Sweden and Norway. The Swedish police chief said ha was traveling In Finland to study ; methods of combating air raids by profiting from the Russian attacks against Finnish cMies. "In Gothenburg alone we already have built 1000 shelters," he said. "In another fortnight there will be 3000 ready." The Finnish press continued to emphasise Finland's urgent need for more pursuit planes to fight 1 Russian bombers. Foreign mill-i mill-i tary observers agree the whole air situation could be transformed with the arrival of a few hundred modern fighters. The Finnish minister of social welfare, K. Facerhoun, welcomed i reported plan to send labor volunteers vol-unteers from Scandinavian countries coun-tries to Finland to reduce aa acute labor shortage because of the necessity nec-essity of using every available man aa the armed forces. I Finnish hospitals are treating an : lanprecedented number ef frostbite frost-bite casas from the Utter cold. The Red Cross Issued a bulletin ; advising the best protection against j frostbite la "unsalted hog's fat" smeared on exposed parts. |