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Show SYMPATHY OF FINNS GOES TO KAEEUANS HELS1NGFORS. Finland, Jan. 28 i The natives of Russian Karelia, num-! num-! boring about 40,000, whose revolt i against soviet domination has caused Hi exchange of sharp notes between ! Russia and Finland, aro blood brothers broth-ers of tho Finns who live Just west of them. Their language Is practlcall ihc same. They are, however, members mem-bers of the Crock orthodox (Russian) church, while in Finland proper the population is lsrgelj Lutheran. The Russian soviet government, in ! signing a treaty of peace with Finland Fin-land at Dorpat. Esthonla, promised to give the Karollans autonomy. A Kr.re-lian Kr.re-lian commune with pomo autonomy, was established with its capital at Petrozavodsk (on Lake Onega). The government, however, was largelj in the hands of Karelian communists. The Russian government In its notes to Finland, accused the latter of pro motiug and aiding the revolt in or-' or-' r to annex Karelia to Finland. bile recruiting bureaus for the Insurgents In-surgents have been established in llel- singfors and elsewhere in Finland, and the sympathy of the Finnish press and public has apparently been large ly in favor of the insurgents, the Finnish Fin-nish government contends that it has given no official aid to the Karollans |