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Show EMBARGO iSED I i EEEO Jipilj 40,000 Tons of Corn and Oats to Be Shipped to j Finland. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 .Permission for the shipment of about 40,'jOO tons of corn and oars to Finland by way of j Sweden has been granted by t Vie food ad- ministration and the war trade board upon evidence that thousands of the Finnish Fin-nish people are starving. An agent of the war trade board will he sent into Finland from Sweden to investigate investi-gate conditions and make certain that Germany will not benefit by the American shipments. 1 I Dr. Kaarie Ignatius, special com mis-sioner mis-sioner of Finland, already lias arranged for transportai Ion, which will require about ten. phii is. He will g-t the oats and corn, as rapidly as the cargoes can he loaded. In negotiating for the export permits. Dr. Ignatius told the America n officials that his people were in a pitiable plight. A July frost killed their crops last summer, sum-mer, and the situation in Russia lias made It Impossible for them to import food from that country, on which they ordinarily depended for half their supply. Twelve million dollars has heen paid tor j food in Russia which never was deliv- I ered, Dr. Ignatius said, because starving Russians looted' the trains before they i could reach the Finnish border. I In addition to their famine. Dr. Tgna- I tlus declared that by supporting Russia ! in the war his people had been stripped of raw materials for manufacture, their Industries had been disorganized to turn out munitions and their finances impoverished impov-erished by tho payments of millions a year to the Russian government and the receipt of worthless paper rubles for their goods. The comimissioner's 6tory won the permit per-mit for the shipment of supplies which j are needed by the United States itself and its allies. |