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Show LONG-EXPECTED nuun ii FIfiOPENS Railway Station at Helsing-fors Helsing-fors Reported to Be Occupied Occu-pied by the Red Guard; Fighting at Viborg. PROTEST MADE TO LENINE IN VAIN Ukrainian and Bolshevik Troops in Death Grapple; Austro-Hungarian Commander Com-mander Declines to Act. STOCKHOLM, Ji n. ".--The long-threatened long-threatened revolution in Finland has begun be-gun in the eastern piovinceti, according to yparp r-porrtj reaehini? Ilaparanda. The lied G'jai'd in reported to have occupied the railroad Rtfitiou at HeifdngforH, all the foreign consuls liac left the eapital and bhirp nshtmg 1b reported around and in Viborg, The Fd 'iunrd i? holding Rikimuht and otiier Important junctions. Russian fo diers are, aiding tlie red, and retntorL-e-mntA are coming Irani Pcirorod. The Jlnniflh minister in Petroerad hs pru'-cstel to tne workmen's and told :ei s' delaf-s against Russian interference in ! rinnlhh affairs. He received a reply that I "Ruh.U'a g'verrilll-I"lt' through its principles, prin-ciples, is in duty bound to support the ! proletariat in Finland in its battle against I the FinuUh bourgeoisie." The Bolshevik ! cornmifcsion further declared that help had j been sent to the reds and that tUU mure troops Trould be sent to them. : Finns Powerless. The forces of law and order in Hel-tlngforb Hel-tlngforb are powerless, became the city la commanded by the guns of Russian vurshipE, whi'di are in the hands of teo-sheA'ik teo-sheA'ik tailors. The commandant of t lie fleet summoned the city's authorise?, including in-cluding President Svinhufvud and the o-c o-c in list leadrF. tu his ship Saturday and , demanded t h it the government White i i uard . be Immediately disbanded. He, threatened to level the city to the ground if the order was disobeyed. M. Svinhufvud Svinhuf-vud replird that the demand ' could not be compiled wit h. The Helsingfors Bolshevik organ, Iz-vestia. Iz-vestia. ajimiui that the Red Guard has got out of the hand of Its creators. It reports re-ports tha t troops at va rious place? nre beyond control and that they 'have been guilty of murdering and plundering. Tho newspaper adds that anarchistic conditions condi-tions are prevailing. The Kinnipli government has sent to ail 1 lift powers that have acknowledged Finland' Fin-land' independence a protest against Russian interference in Finnish affairs. Telegraphic communication with 'Petro-grad 'Petro-grad is broken. "Recent dispatches from ITelsingfors received re-ceived in th Scandinavian capitals have reported that battles of considerable proportions pro-portions have been fought at pevera 1 places in Finland between the Finnish "White Guard," organized by the republican repub-lican governmpnt of Finland, and the Russian Red Guard. Civil war was proclaimed by tha Red Guard at Viborg, according to information informa-tion given out by the Finnish legation at Stockholm la-d Saturday, and the authors of the proclamation were said to ha ve received the promise of aid from the Bolshevik Bol-shevik government at Petrograd. A serious seri-ous conflict broke out at Viborg, the Red Guard being assisted by Russian soldiers with artillery. Peasants from the surrounding sur-rounding country went to the aid of the "White Guarantees," or government militia, mili-tia, and the Red Guard retired after heavv fighting. Red Guards Whipped. ! There was also fighting at Davjdstumm, I which ended in a victory for tho Finnish I militia, but the Red Guard Uureatened to j return with reinforcements.' Railway traffic in Finland was reported 1o have been stopped on government orders or-ders to prevent the movement of the Red Guard and Russian soldiers who were said to be conducting a reign of terror in various vari-ous places. The railroad station at Tam-merfors Tam-merfors was said to have been occupied bv Red Guards, who broke, open the International Inter-national mall cars and searched the mall bacs. Finland Isolaled. TNTljC)N, Jan. 2. A Renter's, Limited, Lim-ited, dispatch from Stockholm hays that since 11:30 o'clock Sunday morntng telegraphic tele-graphic com m n nt -a tion between Stockholm Stock-holm and Petrograd has been interrupted and tlint (lie telegraph station at Nystad has reported that the Red Guards 'have cut the wires. "Finland thus is isolated." says the correspondent. "Complete anarchv prevails pre-vails throughout Finland. The misery of the population lias been Increased by a declaration of the Bolshevik government that it considers itself compelled, bv reason rea-son of Its principles, to support tho Finnish Fin-nish revolutionaries m their struggle I against tho bourgeoisie." Fighting in Ukraine. AMSTERDAM. Jan. Heavy fighting has been in progress for several days between be-tween rkraininns and Bolshevik troops, according to pre.s. dispatches reaching here from Pkraluian sources. An attack was niado by Ukrainian troops, which at- (Contluuad on Fage TwoJ LBfiG-EMCTED II li FINLAND BEGINS (Continued from Page One.) tempted to take .possession of Lutsk. Vol-hynla. Vol-hynla. The Bolshevik commander appealed ap-pealed for assistance to the Austro-Hun-garian commander of that district, who declined to aid him. |