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Show Russ Pilaneuver Fleet While Warning Finns the regret of soviet Baltic sailors" sail-ors" that Finland refused the Russian Rus-sian offer. He added: "In Finland we hear but the rattling of arms and the call to war with the U. S. S. R. . . . The dark game of Finnish ruling circles favors IncemTlarles of war who aim to use Finland as a base lor hostile plots. "No obstacles wilt ever break our -decision to establish a strong peace over the Finnish gulf to safeguard soviet borders, the great city of Leningrad and friendly Baltic Bal-tic countries. The red bannered Baltic fleet la ready at any minute." min-ute." - MOSCOW, Nov. 21 W-Sovlet Russia today disclosed that her Baltic fleet la holding large scale maneuvers from newly won bases In that area. At the same time she warned Finland that nothing "will ever break our decision to establish estab-lish a strong peace all over the Finnish gulf." The warning was voiced by Admiral Ad-miral V. Tributx, commander of the Baltic fleet. In an article in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ of the Communist Youth league. Tributz declared that the soviet fleet was In command of the Baltic Bal-tic with the acquisition of bases from Estonia and Latvia. He said the Baltic fleet, previously landlocked land-locked in the Gulf of Finland by winter ice, now could navigate throughout the year. Negotiations between Finland and Russia over soviet territorial demands were halted last week when a Finnish delegation refused Russia's demands and left Moscow. Mos-cow. Russia asked a naval base on the north coast of the Gulf of Finland, Fin-land, a strip of territory north of Leningrad and concessions In the Finnish Arctic. In return Russia offered Finland a larger section of soviet Karelia. Artmtrar Tributz laid sovlef" ihlpi were making cruises from their new Baltic bases Into the open sea for gunnery and target practice. The Russian admiral expressed |