CHAOS IN FINLAND
MURDERS, STRIKES, AND RIOTS
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE DECISIVE ACTION
(Received August 23, 9.20 a.m.)
• LONDON, 22nd August. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at Petrograd reports a chaotic condition in Finland. The Diet sat for four months, and the legislative result was practically nil. The militia at Heteingfors recently struck, leaving the city unprotected. Drunkenness and robberies are rife, murders are frequent, as well as strikes and riots. The rioters demanded the resumption of the Diet sittings, and broke into the Town Council and made the Councillors prisoners until they were released by' the militia and students. Many were wounded in street shooting. There is a strong undercurrent of_ pro-German agitation. The Russian Government is determined to take decisive action.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1917, Page 7
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121CHAOS IN FINLAND Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 46, 23 August 1917, Page 7
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