RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
FINLAND'S KING
THE GERMAN NOMINEE.
AMSTERDAM, August 28. Finnish opposition to the Grand Duke Adolf of Mecklenburg as King resulted in the vetoing of the proposal. The Finns want a constitutional King, and not a member of the world's most reactionary family.
Keuter'i Telegrams. (Received A-dgust 29, 7.30 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, August 28. A prominent Finnish Socialist states that the White Guards in Finland recently shot 10,000 people, many of them innocent, and imprisoned 20,000. Tho proposal for a monarchy passed tlie Landtag by seven votes, by tlie exclusion of "tho opponents of it. A great number of Labour members of the Landtag were illegally imprisoned.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17882, 30 August 1918, Page 5
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107RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17882, 30 August 1918, Page 5
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