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Show LIVE CAPTIVES PUT UNDER ICE "No Quarter" Is Rule in Warfare Conducted in Arctic Forests HELsingfors, Finland Jan. 28. liy The Associated Press. ) i inly the use of rifles und machine guns n -tlngulxhes the wurfare now In progress between Bolshevik troops and Karelian Kare-lian IriMurgi nts In the Arctu inn-i of Russian Karelia from' the primeval prime-val stalking ami hunting thut the wild things of the northland have waged against each other In this frosen land for ages (Karelia Is a section .i aorthwi it Russia borderlstg on the White sea :tnJ extending into southeastern south-eastern Finland.) The Karellans, hunters fishermen and trappers from childhood, know tho forest trails as well as the wolves, who here outnumber tho hbmans. Fur-clad like Eskimos, wt-'irinc snow-shoes snow-shoes or sklls. the'y dash through tho I frozen land and In the long Arctic j nights pounce upon their similarly I clad Rolshevlk foes Rtports of this guerilla warfare which have recently reached HelsinK-fors HelsinK-fors Indicate that In many instances ' no tiuaiters" has been tho rule on both sides. The insurgents accufe the Bolshevik! Bolshe-vik! who In this ease ,u'e a No K.ue-lllans, K.ue-lllans, but red army men of stripping strip-ping their prisoners naked and rlrop-plng rlrop-plng them alive. through holt ohppped in the Ice of the lakes )iih dot the forests. They freeae to death even before they drown. f..r some days I the cold has been so intense that to .expose a bare hand to the frigid air meant a frosen hand In a few mlnuti The Holshelkl present similar charges against the Insurgents. The Karelian revolt began late In October, but the Russian Soviets did not bc-in active operations against the I Karellans until the laltei part .( In- cember. I The territory actually occupied by the Insurgent-, eon lsts only of about 10.000 square miles of sparsely settled set-tled forest wilderness, with a total population only of about -lO.OOO persons. |