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Show consul haynes sendmessaoe Fast at Helsingfors Terrible Present Bearable Future Uncertain, Is Report. STOCKHOLM, April 25 ,-With the re-establishment of telegraphic communication com-munication between Helsingfors and Stockholm after a fortnight's suspension, suspen-sion, American Consul Haynes at Helsingfors Hel-singfors has sent the following message mes-sage to the American legation here: "The past has been terrible. The present is bearable. The future is uncertain." M. Orloffsky, the Bolshevik minister minis-ter at Stockholm, has declared his willingness to vise passports of all properly recommended Americans for trips to Russia He .-till refuses, however, how-ever, to vise French and British passports. pass-ports. The only routes to Russia is by way of Narvik and eighteen days are required to make the trip to Petro-grad Petro-grad at an expense of more than ?250. American Minister Morris has been informed by Finnish Minister Grip-penberg Grip-penberg that the Finnish minister in Berlin reports that negotiations for the release of American and British citizens made prisoner on the Aland islands several weeks ago are proceeding pro-ceeding satisfactorily. Professor Henry Crossby Emery, the American involved, has been released from imprisonment im-prisonment at Lantzig and will shortly short-ly be permitted to leave Germany. |