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Show American, French and British Lose Powers in .Finland. SOLDIERS LAWLESS Swedish Consul Com-. Com-. jnanded to Serve as Chauffeur. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 20. The American, Amer-ican, French and British representatives representa-tives at the border station of Tornea, opposite Haparanda, have been stripped strip-ped of all actual power by 1-innish revolutionists, assisted by Russian soldiers. sol-diers. At the outset the revolutionists refused to recognize any diplomatic privileges and detained properly accredited ac-credited couriers. They were induced finally to desist from this attitude but they are bringing all conceivable obstructionist ob-structionist tactics to bear to compel the entente representatives to recognize recog-nize them. Recognition has been refused re-fused flatly. Swedish Flag Torn Down The revolutionists visited the Swedish Swed-ish consulate at Tornea and demanded demand-ed that the consul place his automo bile at their disposal and ho himself act as their chauffeur. This ho refused re-fused to do. The revolutionists then tore the Swedish flag from the consulate consul-ate and departed declaring that they needed no foreign consuls in Tornea. Ira Nelson Morris, the American minister, learns from a competent source that Petrograd was quiet up to I Friday night and that tho police were guarding the various legations and embassies. em-bassies. Fighting in Moscow has ceased. It is reported to have been very sanguine. san-guine. Estimates of the number of dead reach as high as '1,000. A general exodus of Americans from Petrograd and Moscow by way of Siberia Si-beria has been arranged for the next few days. Minister Morris is the only foreign diplomatic representative here who has had anything except the most i scattered reports since the beginning of the present situation in Russia. At the outbreak of the trouble there ho sent instructions lo all passible points that he bo kept informed fully, with a result that the British and American Ameri-can legations here have been almost wholly dependent upon him for knowledge knowl-edge of events in Russia. |
