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03/12/2010 4:59:58 AM PST by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Day 104 of the Winter War, March 12, 1940
Colonel Hersalo's 21st Division launches a counterattack in Vuosalmi.
Photo: SA-KUVA
Fierce fighting on the Isthmus
- At 9 o'clock in the morning President Kyösti Kallio puts his signature to a paper giving full powers of negotiation to the Finnish delegation at the Moscow peace talks.
- Kallio says on signing: "This is the most awful document I have ever had to sign. May the hand wither which is forced to sign such a paper."
- There is fierce fighting on the Isthmus to the northeast and south of Viipuri.
- The Red Army breaks through at Kollaa to a depth of approximately one kilometre. Combat Detachment Haini's daily losses total around 100 men.
- On the days of fiercest fighting, the enemy is losing over 2,000 men a day.
- The Finns decide to abandon the defensive line along the River Kollaanjoki.
- Around 50 Soviet tanks drive across the Vuoksi to the mainland, suffering losses under the Finnish artillery fire.
- Colonel Hersalo's 21st Division launches a counterattack in Vuosalmi.
- The commander of III Army Corps, Major-General Talvela decides to pull back his troops in Vuosalmi on account of the ceasefire negotiations. However, in the evening his troops occupy the support line in the rear.
- There is a serious rail accident south of Hämeenlinna between Turenki and Harviala when a military train carrying a transport company is involved in a collision with an express train. All the company's 4 officers and around 30 men are killed, and another 40 are injured in the collision.
- Sweden announces its readiness to begin talks with Finland on a possible defensive alliance between the two countries.
- Finnish Foreign Minister Väinö Tanner wanted the expression "urgently consider" to be included in the news report of the talks, but Sweden demanded removal of the word "urgently".
- The delegations to the Moscow peace talks meet twice in the Kremlin, but there are no changes in the Soviet Union's terms.
- The meeting, which begins at 10 p.m., continues on beyond midnight.
- The troops defending Viipuri withdraw by midnight to new positions in Patterinmäki.
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03/12/2010 11:07:10 AM PST by
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