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Show GERMAN TROOPS FIGHTING FINNS I -Fift een Thousand Operating Along Southern. Coast Against Finnish Rebels. STOCKHOLM. April 11 German I troops numbering 15.000 are now operating oper-ating alons the southern coast ot Ein-I Ein-I land where the;, already have had sev- eral small battles with the Finnish rebels, according to information received re-ceived by the Swedish government. Entente diplomats here have received receiv-ed reports that tbirt to forty Russian Submarines and destroyers End lour or five battleships are still oil Hels-ingfors, Hels-ingfors, the capture of which Is prcb-ahly prcb-ahly part of the German dim. It is bc-lleved, bc-lleved, however, that the warships have all been rendered unserviceable, i by their crews American Minister Morris has had a conversation with M. Linda. Finnish cr.pitali.-l and a brother-in-law ol General Mannerheira, military leader I of the Finnish goernment forces. The ! minister asked M. Linda what America Ameri-ca should consider the attitude of Finland Fin-land toward GerniMiy. M. Linda de-clared de-clared emphatically that the Germans merely bad asked to assist in restor-I restor-I ing the government's power and that no vassalship v. as implied. He said: "Our whole history has been one Ions tale of hardship and bloodshed. Nov hen freedom is in sight, nobody. no-body. Germany or any other country, will be permitted to dominate Fin-J Fin-J land." |