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Show RUSSIA HARD HIT BY ; PEACE CLAIMS Of FINLAND By A. E. Geldhof raprsaantatlva of th Finnish govt rain ra-in nt food administration In th ks coun-i coun-i try. Is but a natural rasult of th application ap-plication of th policy of salf-d-termlnatlon to th Husalsn situation. INHAIITKO V FINN. Th Flnna Inhabit moat of th coun ; try about Prtrofrmd.' aald Valkaanaa, 1 "Only a few mil out of Patrofrad th I psopls In th rural district spaas: Fin-; Fin-; man S-Clusivsly. Finland, har inda- pandem won from Ruaala altar lone 1 yaara of oppression, now aaka that aha b (Ivan th trritory that balonga to bar , "But wa raalis that w oannot taka Ptrorad from Huaala and cut har off commercially from tha aaa. Tharafora, Finland will ask tha Ruaslan capital be mada a free city, and that tha surrounding sur-rounding territory be Incorporated la our nation. "H is untrue that Finland la pro-Oaiman- W 'were forced to accept German aid to win our Independence from the Bolshevik C but tha sentiment of our people haa always been with the allies. W are particularly grateful to France, because Franca baa recognised our independence. HAVf NO OKRMAN KINO. "Finland will never accept a German king. Ther Is no acrt treaty between be-tween Germany and Finland. Germany, Ger-many, at th request of th Finnish government, sent trops to southern Finland. In order to enforce th stipuls-tlon stipuls-tlon In tha Brst-lltovsk treaty that the Russian army and navy should evacuate Klnland That waa th - N. E. A. Wash i no ten Buresu. Petrograd muat be taken from Bolshevik Bol-shevik Russia by th allies and mad a free port. The Kola railway, running from Fat-rograd Fat-rograd to tha Murman coast through tha new republic of Archangel, muat be internationalised. Tha provinces of Oloneta, Kathonla and Petrograd and part of Novgorod muat be given to Finland. These will be Finland's peace claims. If she la allowed representation at tha peace congress. If the aspirations of the Finnish people" peo-ple" for a tireater Fnlanaara" reaT- ised. Russia will b completely out off from the Arctic and th Baltic. This, urcording to P. J. Vstkeapaa, tent of th pru-feriuan Influence In Finland. "There Is no dnnbt thst Germany Is 1 working ceasele: s:v to extend her In. ! fluence in Kir :ini and our ability to 1 resist her effiife depends largely on j the attitude the allies take toward us. j ' 'Tlnlnnd. st Jrie sac rifle, of thou-j sande'uf her-avna, erected a dam j Hgalnit the flood of Bolsherism snd I ' stood one more, ss she has stood for i six centuries, as a bulwara against j (-astern despotism. The time will come when the civilised world will' give Kln-! Kln-! lend ths credit thst Is luMly hers for i bringing the llolehevist mena-e to ! naught.'' |