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Show EXPECTED REVOLT IN FINLAND OPENS FOREIGN CONSULS HAVE LEFT CAPITAL AND SHARP FIGHTING FIGHT-ING REPORTED AT V1BORG. Bolsheviki Commission Admits That Help Has Been Sent Revolutionists and That They Will Assist Reds in Revolt. Stockholm. The long-threatened revolution in Finland lias begun in the eastern provinces, according to sparse reports reaching Haparanda. The Red Guard is reported to have occupied the railroad station at Helsingfors, all the foreign consuls have left the capital and sharp fighting is reported around and in Viborg. The Red Guard is holding Rikimaki and other important junctions, Russian soldiers are aiding the reds, and reinforcements rein-forcements are coming from Petrograd. The Finnish minister in Petrograd has protested to the workmen's and soldiers' delegates against Russian interference in-terference in Finnish affairs. He received re-ceived a reply that "Russia's government, govern-ment, through its principles, is in duty bound to support the proletariat in Finland in its battle against the Finnish Fin-nish bourgeoisie." The Bolsheviki commission com-mission further declared that help had been sent to the reds and that still more troops would be sent to them. Finns Powerless. The forces of law and order in Helsingfors Hel-singfors are powerless, because the city is commanded by the guns of Russian warships, which are in the hands of Bolsheviki sailors. The commandant of the fleet summoned the city's authorities, including President Svin-hufvud Svin-hufvud and the Socialist leaders, to his ship Saturday and demanded that the government White Guard be immediately immedi-ately disbanded. He threatened to level the city to the ground if the order or-der was disobeyed. M. Svinhufvud replied re-plied that the demand could not be complied with. |