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Show FINNS INSULT ALLIES American and British I Army Officers Gross- I lv Offended. IN FINLAND HOTEL I Were Traveling Under j I Orders and on Diplo- I matic Passes. I ! I STOCKHOLM. April .Ttae American Amer-ican and British army officer?, who recently re-cently Mied General Mannerhcitn, the Finnish White guard leader, upon orders from their Stockholm legation., wore insulted and threatened with a hotel restaurant in Vasa. according to a war correspondent in Finland of a Swedish newspaper. The correspondent says the two visiting officers who figured in the incident in-cident wearing the uniforms of their rank, entered the restaurant at a time when it was crowded with Finnish officers, of-ficers, mainly from a unit which had served in Germany The visitors had scarcely had time to take seals be-j be-j fore a Finnish officer approached the table and told them their presence was not desired. He withdrew only when ' shown a pass from General Manner-heim. Manner-heim. , Orchestra Plays German Airs. Later another Finn asked the or-I or-I chestra to play "Die v.'acht am Rhine," 'Everybody arose, the American and Englishman plainly desiring to avoid threatened violence also arising. Another An-other Finnish officer, continues the correspondent, swaggered to the table and Bald: "I is our principle not to sit in the same room with Englishmen." The American replied that be was an American, not an Englishman, but the Finn responded: Ordered From House "It's all the same, you have juat two minutes to get utit of the house " The visitors who had finished their meal, left the room accompanied by insults from the Finnish officers. M Sario. the White goernment'8 foreign minister and a noted pro -German, sat at a nearby table, the correspondent corre-spondent says and made no effort to protect the men although they were traveling on a special diplomatic pasa from his own government. Americans and Swedes who have recently been in Finland declare the incident is typical of the existing feeling feel-ing among the great majority of the Finns with whom they came in con tact. on |