A SNUB TO FINLAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 18, 16 October 1918, Page 5

A SNUB TO FINLAND

FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE KING FROM GERMANY , I Paris, October 14. Official:—"France lias declared thai ..j semi-official relations with Finland j have ended, owing to the' Diet having I illegally substituted a Monarchy for • the Republic, and electing the Prince of Hesse to the throne. The Consular j Agent at Helsingfors lias been en- j trusted with the protection of French j interests."—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. I THE WaYFsIBERIA j BOLSHEVIKI AND AUSTRO-GER- ' j MANS OUTMANOEUVRED. j Tientsin, October 14. j A Japanese . communique states:— i "General Beuicnoff carried 'out a con- j verging movement'. : i roni Blagovest- I schenk. The .Japanese .from Haba- j rovsk defeated the enemy,.and cut off j and took prisoner 1500 Austrians and • j Germans who were endeavouring to., i reach China.—Aus.-N.Z.'i Cable Assn. , j .'.'. BIG HAUL OP BOOTY. (Kec. October 15, 7.40 p.m.) . . j Tientsin, October 14. I The Japanese captures in the Amur j operations included five .serviceable \ titeamers and huge quantities.of muni- ; j tions ' and Cable j BREST-LITOVSIHREATY NULL AND 1 VOID I ■ j, RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT'S BE-;, N LATED DISCOVERY. ■ London, October 14. | Tho . Stockholm correspondent of j "The Times" says:—"The Russian ■ j Government hag suddenly discovered j that the BresMpitovsk Treaty is null | and void. Lenin declares that it was I signed under protest,"—"The Times." j