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Show RELIEEJOIiK IK FINLAND Czar Personally Intervenes Inter-venes in Behalf of the Famine Sufferers. ST. ; PETERSBURG, Feb. 27. The Czar has personally intervened In behalf be-half of the famine-stricken Finns and has ordered that extensive relief work be started without delay. Besides the Immediate construction of the proposed Idensalmi-Kayana railroad, which will cost 1700,000. he has sanctioned the expenditure ex-penditure of the $300,000 on the Ulea-borg-Tornea line, voted by the Senate but hitherto unapproved, the raising of a $2,000,000 loan for other railroad construction, con-struction, the establishment of a bank with a capital of $800,000, which Bum is to be used in making loans to peasant farmers, and has approved an appropriation appro-priation of $140,000 for public works, principally the drainage of swamps. The Finis attribute the Czar's action to the steps taken In America to relieve the distress existing in Finland and to Embassador McCormick's inquiries on the subject. |