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Show "REDS TRAPPED, FIHHSJEPORT MOSCOW, Jan. M IINS A4-mltUnf A4-mltUnf mfna la tke eampalta against Fin land, the soviet -war eemmual.ue aanaeneed today that red army troops have withdraws with-draws "several kilometers" east of fMwmuMMimt e Finland's Berth central frent. By WEBB MIIXEK HELSINKI. Jan. 10 (UP) Reports Re-ports from the northern front satd today that Finnish troops in the Salle area apparently had surrounded sur-rounded a large body of Russian forces and had cut their supply lines. Russian planes, the reports said, had been trying to drop supplies to the Isolated red army forces, but frequently the supplies fell Inside Finnish lines. The Russians were described as afraid to build fires at night because be-cause of the danger of inviting attacks by Flnnlih ski patrols. According Ac-cording to dianatrhea the R iiMlim still were holding on, but were in danger of freezing and starvation. The Finns have begun to construct con-struct strong defensive lines along the Suomusalmi mid-Flnlsnd front where they have won their biggest victories of the wsr. As mopping squads continued the search for fragments of the defeated de-feated Russian Forty-fourth Infantry Infan-try division and salvage squads collected abandoned Russian -war material, engineers began building Unk defenses by felling big trees In wide belts. Raids by Finnish ski patrols across the Russian frontier continue. con-tinue. These are purely demolition units, however, detailed to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railroad and make normal traffic impossible despite de-spite the work of repair squads. |