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Show FINNS, RUSSIANS FAIL TOjAGREE HELSINKI. Nov. 10 UP Failure of the Finnish delegation In Moscow to reach an agreement with soviet Russia was announced by a Finnish foreign office spokesman spokes-man today. No common basis for a soviet-Finnish soviet-Finnish agreement had been found in the Moscow negotiations, the spokesman sadi. The statement followed a meeting meet-ing of the Inner cabinet which considered the report sent by the Finnish delegation last night after it had met for an hour and a quarter quar-ter at the Kremlin with Josef Stalin and Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissar Vlacheslav M. Molotov. Officials Indicated that the state of negotiations between the Russians Rus-sians and the Finns was worse than at any time since the Soviets first made demands for military and naval bases on Finnish territory. terri-tory. Recall of Paaslklvi and his colleagues, col-leagues, It was believed, would definitely close discussions and-would and-would leave the next move In the crisis up to the Russians. Finnish officials recognized the gravity of the situation and decided de-cided upon further conferences before be-fore definitely recalling the Paasl-"" kivi mission. Russia had demanded territory on the Karelian Isthmus, near Leningrad, and a soviet naval base at Hango, important Finnish port. Since then It has been reported, but not confirmed, that Russia has demanded the north. Ice-free port of Petsamo in addition to Hango. |