FINLAND A SOURCE OF TROUBLE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 5

FINLAND A SOURCE OF TROUBLE

jPROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT EMBARRASSED:

ITS .ADVANCES NOT RESPONDED m

July 10, 8.50 a.m..) LONDON, July 9. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd corTrespondent says that the Finns aa*-e a grave embarrassment to the Provisional Government. They continue not -:to respond to the advances of the revolutionary Government and deny the right of the Russian Government to assume \ the place formerly occupied by the'-Fss&r j in the Finnish Constitution. They de- •' mand that the right to sanction" laws > should belong to a Finnish Government responsible to the Diet. < German agents in Finland are circ'u- ' lating false money tft&r the -purpose of depressing the value of the /.rouble. The Russian Government is trying -to raise a loan of 350 million marks in Finland, and the Diet approves the Finnish Socialists' demand that Russia should pledge the telegraphs., railways and other property in Finland as security for the loan. The Finns state that they wish to place themselves under 'international protection, as they dread the instability of the present Russian Government.