NO VISAS FOR FINNS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25553, 22 July 1948, Page 5

NO VISAS FOR FINNS

LEADERS OF OLYMPIC GROUP REFUSAL BY BRITAIN DENIED IN LONDON (Rec. 8 p.m.) HELSINKI, July 21. Yrjo Enne and Erik Astrom, two leaders of the Finnish Olympic group, rood on the quay at Turku last night and watched their team sail without them because their visas had not arrived. Enne is vice-director of the Finnish Olympic team and a leading Communist and financial expert. Astrom is president of the Swedishspeaking Finns’ Athletic Association, find is alleged to have been a German sympathiser during the war. The British Legation in Helsinki said that the visas had not been received from London, but denied that the visas had been refused. The correspondent of the Associated Fress in Helsinki said that the British Legation had refused Yrjo Enne a permit to enter Britain, but in London last night a British Foreign Office spokesman denied that the British Government had refused Enne a visa. The Foreign Office spokesman said that Olympic competitors did not need to apply for visas in the normal way. Enne had been refused permission to travel to Britain it would be only because he had not been issued with toe necessary identity card by the furnish Olympic Games authorities. The Associated Press described Enne 8S a well-known Communist. The correspondent of the British United Press reports from Belgrade toat Jugoslavia’s Olympic swimming “°P®. Maroye Miroslavic, has been disqualified for life from public swimming events for “undisciplined, unbehaviour.” ARRIVAL OF OLYMPIC FLAME 12 RUNNERS BETWEEN DOVER AND WEMBLEY „ LONDON, July 20. oeventy-two runners will carry the Olympic Flame in relays from Dover, tk will arrive on July 28, to , e Wembley Stadium. The name of J? last runner, who will carry the c’J® into the Wembley arena, will not hJ hs S osed - He will light with the Jhe great torch which will burn the Games. ' TUDOR II AIRLINER British government TO DECIDE FATE I P' ml LONDON, July 20. L r® *ate of the Tudor II airliner will announced to-day. One official reDoir>K ays the airliners are disapjCJS under tropical conditions. alrpaH er »y s that 26 Tudor Il’s have fihoniZi, been huilt and that they h® used to avoid waste. It is com?JLJhat some of them could be Provpi;- to Tudor IV’s, which are imu aircraft and in service. U -N. COMMISSION ON KASHMIR <R £ 7 n?;! S EW DELHI, July 20. which i R Nations Commission Puts the Kashmir disbud out a United Nations to viser.- a military ad-