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Show FINNS REPORT FLIGHTOF REDS By WEBB MUXES HELSINKI, Finland, Jan. 9 (UP) Scattered remnanU of the Russian Rus-sian 44th infantry division fled into Russia today, leaving thousands of their dead carpeting the forested road for miles, reports from the Suomussalml front said. Finnish patrols were in the wake of the disorganised Russians, mopping mop-ping up. They found many wounded Russians Rus-sians who had frozen to death before be-fore aid could reach them, according accord-ing to reports. In bitter cold and deep snow the Finns, on their skis, rounded up small detachments of the Russians in the forests of the frontier area where the 44th had been smashed as the 163rd division had been smashed earlier. Additional quantities of war material ma-terial were found and added to the vast store whose eVpture had been announced yesterday, it was said. For military purposes, the Finns asserted, the 44th division had ceased to exist The Finnish victory almost certainly cer-tainly ended. In view of the weather, wea-ther, any Russian drive for a considerable con-siderable time toward the gulf of Bothnia, t cut oil communication -along the vital railroad supply line to Sweden. The dynamiting from time to time of the Murmansk railroad by small Finnish patrols made the task of reassembling big Russian columns in the north one of enormous enor-mous difficulty. All the vast quantity of war material ma-terial the Finns captured in their victories over the 44th, and earlier the 163rd, can be used by the Finns to fight the Russians. |