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Show RUSSIAN FLEET ELUDES GERMANS WASHINGTON. April 18. All important im-portant units of the Russian Baltic fleet escaped when the Germans oc- i upi ,i Helsmcfors, official dispatches received here say. Most of the Russian Rus-sian naval craft had been withdrawn, probably to the naval base of Kron-stadt Kron-stadt or Viborg. A number of small auxiliaries were in Helsingfors just before the German occupation, however, how-ever, and these may have been captured. cap-tured. They included submarines, destroyers de-stroyers and a number of trawlers. |