Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/10470: Telegram

The Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Steinhardt) to the Secretary of State

Moscow, April 30, 1941—noon.
[Received April 30—11:20 a.m.]

880. Pravda today published the following despatch from its Tallinn correspondent:

“According to trustworthy information received here on April 26th, four German transports arrived in the Finnish port of Abo (Turku) from which were disembarked approximately 12,000 German troops equipped with arms, tanks, artillery, etc. On April 28th these troops began to leave for Tampere.”68

Repeated to Helsinki.

Steinhardt
  1. Tammerfors.↩