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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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Day 63 of the Winter War, January 31, 1940

Northern Finland: the Finnish defences repulse a massive Soviet offensive at Saija in the Kuhmo sector.
Photo: SA-KUVA

Enemy attacks ship carrying children to Sweden

• Northern Finland: the Finnish defences repulse a massive Soviet offensive at Saija in the Kuhmo sector.

• Lake Ladoga: the enemy carries out a number of assaults on islands in the lake.

• Northern Finland: Finnish troops defeat a Russian ski battalion at Silmälampi and Löytövaara. The enemy loses 160 men and a large amount of automatic weapons.

• The township of Rovaniemi suffers five dead in heavy bombing. The enemy is increasingly selecting civilian targets.

• Prime Minister Ryti sends Finland's response to continuing contacts with the Soviet Union to Chargé d'Affaires Erkko in Stockholm.

• A ship carrying children to Sweden is attacked by Soviet submarines.

• Another staffed field ambulance leaves Stockholm for Finland.

• Southern Ostrobothnia: the closing ceremonies for the 1939 session of Parliament begin in Kauhajoki with a church service at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The ceremonies end with the evacuee Parliament giving three cheers for Finland's freedom.

• Official figures suggest the enemy has conducted 643 air raids over Finland since the outbreak of the war, dropping over 20,000 bombs on a total of 207 different localities.

• Abroad: the Finnish pavilion at the New York World's Fair is also to be kept open for the 1940 exhibition.

• South African wine growers gift Finland 14,000 litres of wine and 7,000 litres of brandy.