RUSSIAN REPORTS.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN FINLAND
ULEABORG RECAPTURED BY
WHITE GUARDS
TROTSKY'S MESSAGE TO THE REDS
(Received Feb. 8, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7. The Morning Post's Stockholm correspondent says that the Red Guards in Finland have appealed to Sweden to recognise the new Socialist Government. Sweden will probably ignore the communication.
General Mannerheim, after several days of regular trench warfare followed , by street fighting, recaptured Uleaborg. The town was greatly damaged by fire, and hundreds were killed on either side.
The Red Guards have decreed the death penalty for all White Guards who are taken prisoner. Trotsky sent the following, message: ""Greetings to -the heroic working classes who are now wresting power' from the bourgeoisie. The Finnish republic is making itself a model for Spcialist autonomy. Long live our sister Socialist Finland."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 February 1918, Page 7
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