HELSINKI ALERT
TROOPS & POLICE FEAR OF RED COUP MINISTRY'S VIGILANCE (N.Z.P.A. —Reuter —Copy right.) (11 a.m.) LONDON. April 27. Leave for Finnish garrison troops was cancelled, two gunboats were moved into the harbour and the city s entire police force put into a state 0,. emergency last night says le Juries correspondent In Helsinki. It is understood that the authorities were acting upon Information received about Communist plans in connection with the ratification of the mutual assistance pact with Russia. Reuters correspondent says the Communist Minister of the Interior M. Yrjo Leino, in a broadcast. sa:a tnat unrest ir, Finland's political atmosphere indicated something more than an ordinary prelude to the July elections. , , “The increasing international tension has given new hope to the anti-demo-cratic forces in Finland.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22623, 28 April 1948, Page 5
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