Russia Attacked

RUMANIANS' ENTER BESSARABIA: 'FINNS AIDING US,' SAY NAZI

RAIDS ON PRUSSIA: SOVIET TOWNS AND PORTS BOMBED

Fighting by land and air on a front extending for 1,800 miles from Finland to the Black Sea was reported last night to be in progress following the Germans' dawn attack on Russia. The main centers of operations appeared to be:

	Karelian Isthmus - In the area of north-western Russia, the scene of bitter fighting when the Russians broke through the Mannerheim line 18 months ago in their war with Finland, the Germans were attempting to push towards Leningrad. It was claimed in Berlin that Finnish troops were attacking with the Germans.
	East Prussia - Air raiding by both sides. Russian airfields attacked. German troops' penetration after preventing Russians from blowing up bridges.
	Poland - Many Russian 'planes destroyed in air raids near Warsaw. German troops crossed River Bug.
	Rumania - Advance by German and Rumanian troops, who occupied several towns.
	Ukraine - Towns and Black Sea Ports bombed by the Germans. The movement of Troops by the Germans, who had about 100 divisions massed on the frontier, was described as "the greatest the world has ever seen" in a proclamation by Hitler, which was read over the radio by Goebbels. The strength of the opposing Russian forces, according to a declaration yesterday by Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, is 160 divisions. They are commanded by Marshal Timoshenko, who succeeded Voroshiloff as Defense Commissar in October.

A few hours after German radio had declared that 'the German Navy is standing ready for action, it was announced in Berlin that E-boats had sunk a 4,000-ton Soviet ship in Russian waters early in the day. A fishing boat was also sunk.

In the air hostilities, according to Germans, were marked by a Russian attempt to fly over East Prussia, while waves of Nazi 'planes attacked airfields, anti-aircraft positions, troop concentrations and defense works. They were said to have destroyed many Russian machines.

The Russo-German frontier. Tabs show the stages

of the expansion of Russia since 1938

MOLOTOFF'S CALL TO NATION

M. Molotoff, the Soviet Vice-Premier and Foreign Commissar, in a broadcast call to the nation for unity, declared that Germans had "invaded our frontiers" at many points and raided a number of towns, causing more than 200 casualties.

These towns included Sevastopol, in the Crimea; Kieff, capital of the Ukraine; Jitomir, 80 miles west of Kieff; and Kaunas, which was the capital of Lithuania before Russia occupied that country and also Latvia and Estonia.

An unconfirmed report received in Ankara last night stated that the Luftwaffe had attacked the Soviet Black Sea port of Odessa "on the same scale as Rotterdam and Belgrade."

Moscow radio announced that general mobilization had been proclaimed by the Soviet Supreme Council in 14 military commands in Western Russia, and that all men aged from 23 to 46 were called up. Martial law was proclaimed throughout Western Russia, the far north and the Crimea.

Mr. Baggallay, the British Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, called on M. Vishinsky, Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs, yesterday, while in London the Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky, saw Mr. Eden, the British Foreign Secretary.

REVOLT IN ESTONIA REPORTED

Reports reaching Stockholm from Moscow stated that a revolt had broken out in Estonia. The Red Army was reported to be successfully fighting the rebels, who were said to have seized armed ships in Tallinn Harbor, from which they were firing on the Russians.

The official news agency of Finland issues a communiqué last night stating: "Between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. to-day Soviet aircraft penetrated at several points into Finnish territory. At 6.05 Soviet machines, in two groups, bombed Finnish warships without causing damage. At 6.15 four Soviet 'planes bombed the coastal defenses of Fort Alskar, in the Aaland Islands.

"At 6.45 Russian aircraft bombed Finnish vessels in the skerries of Turku (Abo) from a great height. Russian 'planes also bombed the south-east frontier of Finland."

It was stated in Berlin that Finnish troops had gone into action side by side of the Germans. The German-controlled Radio Paris stated that the Nazi Commander in Finland was the 'vanquisher of Narvik," and that Marshal Mannerheim was leading the Finnish troops.

The Helsinki correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Allehanda reported that German and Finnish troops were making a joint attack from Finnish territory on the Karelian Isthmus, and were striking in the direction of Leningrad, which is close to the Russian frontier with Finland.

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