Finns Wipe Out Russian Division In Battle Of Suomussalmi -- The body of a Russian Soldier frozen stiff while erecting field telephone line on the Suomussalmi front. Many Russians have supper the same fate in the intense cold in which the battle are being fought. Encircled and out off from food supplies for three days, the Russian 44th. Division numbering some 17,000 men, was completely Routed by the Finns in a big battle at Suomussalmi in central Finland. The snow-covered battlefield was left strewn with wrecked Russian guns and tanks, and dead Russians. Stacks of ammunition and other war materials fell into the hands of the Finns, and hundreds of Russians were taken prisoner. January 19, 1940. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).