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Show dfleei;;g dagger area iii russ peril Precautions Taken as Mission Goes to Moscow HELSINKI, Oct 10 (ADAH (AD-AH civilians who can go were urged to make immediate preparations to leave the environs en-virons of Helsinki and Viipurt in a broadcast tonight by Minister Min-ister of the Interior Urho Kekkonen. He said the measure mea-sure was purely precautionary, precaution-ary, but the sooner carried out the better. The warning wu given ai a Finnish mission was on Its way to Moscow at the Invitation ot the soviet Russian government to discuss dis-cuss unspecified economic and political po-litical problems. Russia has gained sweeping concessions from similar missions Irom smaller Baltic states. The Finnish mission Is expected 1a rcacB the soviet raptta! tamam V LI purl is a port on the Cull of Finland, almost directly north of Leningrad. (Russian warships were reported massed today at Kronstadt Kron-stadt huge naval base near Leningrad, Lenin-grad, and hundreds of thousands of Russian troops are on the frontiers fron-tiers of the Baltic states.) The official decree calling on civilians ci-vilians to leave was scheduled to be Issued tomorrow, but the departures de-partures were left on a voluntary basis. The government will give free railway transportation to all who cannot afford tickets and will otherwise oth-erwise give material aid. MOSCOW, Oct 10 t Reports of a concentration of Russian naval power In the gulf of Finland emphasized em-phasized today the vigor of soviet Russia's drive to regain the dominant domi-nant position In the BalUc sea she held before the World war. Dispatches from Kronstadt the big naval base near Leningrad, said that a "whole armada of battleships" bat-tleships" was massed there and that naval and military activity was unceasing. , Kronstadt la only a few miles from Finland's territorial waters. A Finnish mission was en route to Moscow for one more In the series of Russian conference with envoys en-voys of Baltic states In which Russia Rus-sia has been gaining sweeping concessions. con-cessions. "--" - Little Finland Fears Worst l et ' I HERE IS LATEST SORE SPOT IN BALTIC Russian Battleships are reported massed at Kronstadt; Helsinki and Viipuxi get prepared |