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Day 46 of the Winter War, January 14, 1940

Helsinki: an ambulance donated by the French Red Cross arrives from Stockholm with four nurses.
Photo: SA-KUVA

Soviet 122nd Division withdraws to Märkäjärvi

Ladoga Karelia: the Soviet 122nd Division is ordered to take Uomaa village and push the Finnish detachments out of the terrain between Uomaa and Lavajärvi.
Northern Finland: the Soviet 122nd Division disengages from Vuosamonselkä and withdraws to Märkäjärvi.
Detachment Roininen and the 40th Infantry Regiment are ordered to prepare themselves to pursue the enemy.
At the same time word comes through that the Soviet 88th Division is concentrating troops at Salla.
The submarine Iku-Turso returns from patrol without having sighted the enemy.
Viipuri: Soviet aircraft begin to bomb the city.
Vaasa: 10 people die in air-raids, among them women and children.
Enemy bombers hit Rauma, Pori, Uusikaupunki, Sottunga in the Åland archipelago, Hanko, Karjaa, Salo, Tammisaari, Helsinki and Kauniainen.
In the Gulf of Bothnia, Soviet aircraft also bomb the Swedish coastline.
At Haparanda the air-raid warning lasts 1½ hours.
Helsinki: an ambulance donated by the French Red Cross arrives from Stockholm with four nurses.

So four days later the first rumors leak out of a German plane crash landing in Belgium with important documents on it. I think some might be able to read between the lines on the sudden recall of Belgium soldiers and this small report on the plane.

I wonder how and when the plane crash was reported in the Belgium press.