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Show FINNS STRIKE SIIAGON ARMS WASHINGTON. Dec. 13 Efforts of Finnish ffldali to obtain ob-tain American munitions quickly to help halt the Russian Invasion met with difficulties today. HJalmar Procope, the minister, and Colonel Per Zilllacus, military attache, conferred with war and navy officials on what they wanted to buy. Gas masks, guns, ammunition ammu-nition and aircraft were reported to be included. Prospects for obtaining them fat substantial quantities and without delay appeared to be slim, however, how-ever, because commercial plant already are behind In their foreign orders, Procope conferred with Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war, and Colonel Zilllacus with both Johnson and Charles Edison, acting act-ing secretary of the navy. Gas masks were understood to be near the top of the Finn' (hopping (hop-ping list. Military type are mad In the United States for the army at the Edgewood arsenal In Maryland Mary-land and a single commercial firm, Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, com-pany, Akron, Ohio, I turning out a, comparatively few experimentally , under arj "ediiratlnnay', oritur tnr the War department. |