Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1939 — Page 5

FRIDAY, DEC. 15, 1989

FINNS SMASH |

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ONE RED DRIVE IN EIGHT DAYS

Defenders Stand Ground in Karelian Isthmus, Webb | Miller Says.

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its gets light late and gets dark at] 3:30 p. m,, a land of lakes and for-| ests, of bitter cold and glaring ice| and snow. In the battle has figured the world's smallest submarine, the Finnish Saukko, 99 tons, with a crew of a dozen men, operating on Lake

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Ladoga, the biggest lake in Europe, |

at the east side of the front.

The Russians have fired at the

Finns not only frontally but also] from the flank, from their own gun-| boats in the lake. | They have tried to send men) across the Taipale River into the| Finnish line in small boats. The]

Finns blew the boats to bits and|

phlegmatically, methodically, swept machine guns into the masses of Russian troops struggling and screaming, in their heavy overcoats, in the freezing river as their marksmen picked off individuals with their rifles,

Finns Blow Boat to Bits

Thousands upon thousands of men, day by day, have been thrown into the fight, and have been thrown back. The battle opened on the Finnish Independence Day, Dec. 6. It coi-| lapsed on the eighth day of fight-| ing, Wednesday. For the moment it is a business of angry artillery fire, an occasional burst of machine | gun fire, the casual crack of a rifle as a Finnish sharpshooter picks off | an insufficiently careful Russian 200] yards away across the river. When I came to the front, atten-

tion was on the fighting farther tion, important as it might be, was jad been destroyed by British shell |

north. But I came to find that the biggest battle of the entire war has been fought here on this Narrow)

front where big masses of men are slowly, their crews at battle sta-/gpee put out without effecting re-|in a time of distress, trial and opposed, and that the Finns have tions, hour after hour yesterday and pairs to them she would have only | aggression. won it. What is to come remains to during the night, off the port, ready her secondary battery of eight 59-|

be seen. It was evident as soon as I got here with the first party of Ameri-|

can correspondents to reach this Spee until late in the night when gpility that the Renown, with six | freedom and democracy in this | front that the Russian general stafl ambulances clanged up to the dock j5.inch and 12 four-inch guns and country and all over the world.”

had picked this particular point on | the Taipale River as ‘the spear-| head of their big attack. They figured, apparently, that if]

The German sea raider Admiral Graf Spee is shown in Montevideo Harbor with a hole ripped in her

armament during a running battle with three Brtish cruisers.

Raider Rushes Repairs;

Dash to Sea Indicated

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both outshooting and outdistancing;Krankenhagen, a German civilian the Graf Spee, and the aircraft expert. carrier Ark Royal with 60 fighting] He was understood to have asplanes aboard, had left there Dec. |serted that the ship was able to 4 and it was believed one or both navigate but that its gun power had of them might reinforce the death been materially reduced by damage watch here, to it. nd y The United Press received inforKeep Omelul Waren mation that the control tower for The diplomatic part of the situa- the Graf Spee’'s six 11-inch guns

overshadowed by the drama of the fire and that all six guns were out immediate present. of action. The British cruisers This would mean that if the Gra

had steamed f

for action if the Graf Spee made a inch guns against the six and eightbreak. inch guns of the British cruiser A big crowd stood near the Graf geath watch—leaving out the pos-

to receive the wounded. |a speed of 29 knots against the Graf

Eight stretchers were lowered Spee's 26, might be here or on the from the Graf Spee onto a Govern- way, ment tug. As it docked, one shaky, |

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FINLAND MEETS DEBT PAYMENT

Hands Check to Morgenthau While Other Nations Offer Regrets.

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{itude to the President and the ‘people of the United States. | “This money we got 21 years {ago to help us through a difficult | time, Now we make this payment |

| “The Finnish people are fighting {for life and the cause of truth, | Justice and democracy. We trust | (in the support of the believers in|

| Congressional leaders have indicated that Mr. Roosevelt's sugges tion for using the money for Fine nish relief would be followed.

NAPOLIS TIN

SOVIET TROOPS MASSING MILE FROM NORWAY

Border Guards Bolstered as Reds Prepare for New Offensive.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Soviet mechanized troops which dashed over the ice and snow of Northern Finland yesterday massed today for a new offensive less than a mile from the Norwegian border. Fighting was reported eight miles south of Salmajaervi, a few miles from the Norwegian border at that point. Finns set fire to a region about a mile square south of Salmajaervi

in an attempt to hinder Russian attacks. Tanner Goes On Air

While the fighting went on, the Finnish Foreign Minister V. A. Tanner went on the air this afternoon to broadcast in the Russian language a suggestion to Soviet PremierForeign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov that Russo-Finnish negotiations be resumed.

He intended to put a series of questions to Molotov and if there is no reply said, “the whole world will know what value to put on the Soviet Union's principles and promises.” Norwegian sentinels were placed along the frontier as the Russians consolidated their positions at Salmajaervi, now a city of charred ruins marked by the ghostly, towerlike chimney of what once was the valuable nickel works.

New Fires Flare

New fires flared up to mark the receding path of the Finns southward. One fire remaining from the inferno which yesterday made

{Salmajaervi a heap of ashes flick-

ered and died. Norwegian frontier guards erected posts to mark their border at intervals of 60 feet. Meanwhile, Finland called additional men to the colors today, completing what amounts to total moblization although the word mobilization itself is not used here. Summoning of last reserves means that about 10 per cent of the whole population of military age now is in the Army.

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THE CITY OWES a number of business firms in town about $80, 000 for December purchases and wishes these concerns would come by and collect. This situation was disclosed

yesterday by Purchasing Agent Albert H. Losche who said that only 15 days of the month re main for the City to pay off its December obligations and get a 2 per cent discount for payment in 30 days. “If invoices aren't sent in bee fore midnight, Dec. 31, the City won't be able to pay its December bills until next June,” Mr, Losche said. “Then we'll lose the 2 per cent discount.” The money to pay the bills re« verts to the general fund after Jan. 1 and unpaid bills can be paid only by a City Council ap« propriation, he said.

MORGAN DEALINGS WITHA. T. & T. AIRED

WASHINGTON, Dee. 15 (U. P). —Securities and Exchange Commis« sioner Leon Henderson told the Federal Monopoly Committee today that it was impossible to determine whether J. P. Morgan & Co, in underwriting almost $2,000,000,000 of bonds for the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in the last 33 years, did so “at the lowest cost and in the manner most in the public intere est.” Mr. Henderson made his statee ment as George Whitney, senior partner of the Morgan firm, testified about the Morgan relationship with the telephone company. He said that “at no time during this entire period (1906-39) did the bankers or the company consider any alternae tive method than that of direct dealings with a single banking group.”

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y 1d get across the river they | weak German seaman walked off. : Ne wor: one Lake Ladoga and He had refused to use his stretcher | HUI Indicates Western Republics May Protest

outfiank the Mannerheim Line. and insisted in coming ashore under Their tanks, their ET cars, his own steam. The other i WASHINGTON. Dec. 15 (0. 3 ir riv oats, their lake gun- gravely wounded, inert, some barely | / N N, ‘ (U.P) — : A . touts iy por fire, their | conscious, stared at the crowd as Secretary of State Cordell Hull go. | RIED States today from war Full War Strength Is Aim artillery, their infantry has been the stretchers were taken to the dicated today that moves toward | As of today. this is what foreign] The numbers involved in the] thrown into action. The low gray ambulances. | consultation have started among the governments Se the Orited olen | test I In Whe 21 American republics over violation Belprumn asn 552 goo learned. But it was known that |of the Western Hemisphere safety crechosiovakia . 185.788 588 | the armed forces will be at full war

clouds have kept down their planes. n A soldier who was there told me ot Charge De " na The chief surgeon of the Graf ,,ne phy German and British war- | Esthonia 2132107 | fo hting EE TOT ap aL [responses to today’s summons are in.

Other debtor nations have sent| Placards posted in the streets of their “regret” or have ignored pay- | Helsinki ordered all reserves not ment day altogether. | previously called up to report to Actually, $161,167,556 was due the their regiments tomorrow,

about the attempt of 5(9 Russians to cross the river in pontoon aS mee, who accompanied the wounded | ghjps, Frans 4.200.335 646 We Sogn RW WR. i They . the pocket bat | Mr. Hull indicated that if formal Grea: Britain’ RN The Finns were holding their own nted: | Sie vy : § e 34,523,635 8 The ushed out into the river tleship’s wounded had been victims | consultation is asked, the TROVE ary 2413 700 (ON the Karelian Isthmus between YR boats were Swarmingiof a ‘‘vellow gas.” 1 ptobanly will come from the Pana- ray 2,025.525.086 | Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finthere. ee artillery had been! The unofficial charge, made by the Manian Government. He likewise Lata Lo. eave. Ta%0.0 land. ith Rp, Ag had not fired and Goa Legation Argo and by au- | Indicated that if a formal protest is Poland “ “ 268.815. 451 Heavy fighting raged on the cen3 ho 8 : V 5 by - uma v v the Russians did not know where it|thorized but not official sources at filed with the belligerent govern-|ppid i, ¢1.817578) tral front where it was reported p We opened up on them when pariin that the British ships had | ments the Panamanian Government | Armenia 23.803.104 | without official confirmation in HelHas. ope [Ey Faw be chosen to the sentiments of | Russia 394.992.092 I sinki that a force of 5000 Russians

$14,604.916,104 | had been cut off by the Finns in the

they got to the middle of the river.', ced mustard gas was firmly denied May ome En ator Which the Suomusalmi region, through which

"ee 3 ri overnments. They had gone 100 yards and had py Uruguayan surgeons and all the American g Re \t iho 100 more to go. All their boats physicians who examined wounded | The Secretary said the Violation |i, jieq States holds Germany responsible were blown to pieces We > {of the safety zone is a matter of and the costs of the Army of Occupation|the Soviets attempted to drive on De 3

ship and ashore, . and AWArds \ , , aime | ; hed Pontoon Te DR Noel B famous concern to the United States. 2G on rds under Wie War Claims Actiyjeaporg on the Bothnian Guif, Sees Smas on s . D. R. ; . yf Concer ) Salas lv “The river was full of dead and

| Montevideo eye specialist who ex- ; |amined one Graf Spee officer, blindwounded and drowning men. The. quiine the action supposedly by drowning ones screamed. ThHeir| aq gas, said that there was heavy overcoats and equipment ,. ....e of gas and that the offimade it impossible for them to swim. | oc wounds were due to an ordi-| We machine gunned the masses of, po shell. | them and picked them off With] Dr. Arnaldo Merhoff, who treated rifles. Nearly every man Was| .. «oac” casualty aboard the Graf drowned or shot. Only a few man- | oo ce. said that a shell splinter aged to get back to their own bank, coq the wound. It was suggested of the river. that, as often happens, some of ou he viata ory lus men might ho been affected sticking u . bid : I reached the extreme front line | Fb acid fumes in a normal bv walking about three miles : through a thick fir forest along nar- 61 Persons Are Happy row footpaths. About a mile from| There were 61 happy people the front we came upon evidences among those involved in the battle of terrific fighting. Thousands of of Montevidec. They were officers Russian sheil holes made gaping and men of nine British merchant- | black voids in the forest snow. We men sunk by the Graf Spee during had to scramble over tree trunks|its weeks of raiding in the southern! toppled by shells. | seas. Here and there we stumbled over| They were landed last evening, shining six-inch Russian sheils—|the younger ones among them | they weigh 100 pounds—which had] shouting with joy, the older ones not exploded. Every soldier told us{more restrained. the Russian shells were of poor qual-| Capt. Neibuhr Dietrich, German ity. naval attache at Buenos Aires, ar- | The firing was going on all the rived late yesterday and examined time. ‘the Graf Spee with Guillermo |

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