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Show iiEllEiM LOSES MUM REDS LONDON, Fel?. 7. The Finnish red guard have surrounded Tammerfors and have defeated General Mannerheim, commander com-mander of the government forces in Finland, Fin-land, according to a dispatch from the Russian official news agency in Petro-grad. Petro-grad. General Mannerheim' s forces are said to be in retreat with the red guards in pursuit. General Mannerheim and his white : guards are retiring toward the Gulf of ! Bothnia. Tammerfors was defended by ! lO.OOu government trooos. The losses on i : both sides were heavy The fighting is I said to have begun early Monday morning. morn-ing. Dispatches from Ptorkholm Wednesday said that Genera! Mannerheim, who is acting under ' authority of the Finnish d-.et, "had captured Uleaborg, in northern t Finland, and also had taken Tammerfors, j which is l'-,0 miles northwest of Helsing- j tors, the Finnish capital. j PETRDGRAD, Wednesday. Feb. 6. j Ensign Krylenko, the Bolshevik com- I mander in chief, has issued a decree or- j dering that all supplies be cut off from 1 the f olish legion in the Russian army, and declaring its commander. Dovboro : Mouenitzkv. an outlaw. He also appeals j to all Bolsheviki to leave Polish commands. com-mands. A wireless dispatch received at Berlin 1 fioni Kiev and forwarded to Amsterdam j Tuesdav. said that Ensign Krylenko and his staff had been arrested by the insurgent insur-gent Poles. |