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Show SLAUGHTER OF RUSSIANS BY THE FINNISH GUARD MOSCOW, Saturday, May 11. (By the Associated Press. ) An official statement issued here today declares that after the occupation of Tammerfors, Finland, by the Finnish white guard, 500 Russian officers offi-cers and men were shot. The Russians, it is declared, were taken to the municipal theater at night. The next morning, the statement says, they were brought out in groups of fifty, lined up and mowed down with machine guns. The statement also contains a report on the battle fought near Lahti, the engagement engage-ment reported by Berlin to have resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the red guard in which 20,000 of the red guard forces were taken prisoners, early this month. The statement describes the engagement en-gagement as a desperate and bloody one and declares the white guards and the Germans lost about 4,000 killed. Many civilians, it is said, were killed by the German bombardment. |