GERMANS WANT FINLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10119, 29 October 1917, Page 5

GERMANS WANT FINLAND.

EXPECT FINNISH ASSISTANCE AGAINST RUSSIA. Australian-New Zealand Cable. Association. Received October 29, 8.35 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 28. Scandinavian newspapers confirm the report that the Germans are preparing to land a. force in Finland, expecting tho Finns will help against the Russians. SPANISH CABINET RESIGNS. MADRID, Oct. 27. The Cabinet has resigned, GERMAN FLEET ACTIVE. Received October 20, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 27. ' A wireless Russian official message says: Enemy squadrons bombed the. Ain a/.hi sector at Saiismundc and the southern coast of Kimo Island RUSSIANS EVACUATING HELSINGFORS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. PETROCRAD, Oct. 27. Preparations for tho evacuation of Ilelsingfors are proceeding. EDISON AND THE U-BOATS. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27. Mr Edison and n large staff of assistants have returned to New York after spending ten weeks on I lie high seas experimenting with anti-submarine devices. Mr Ivlisou endeavoured to duplicate the U-boat methods in every detail, but refuses to make any statement as to results. MUTINY AT COLOGNE. Australian-Now Zealand Cable Association. LONDON. Oct. 27. Tho Daily Express's Amsterdam correspondent states that 2000 infantry in Cologne barracks who were ordered to Flandors mutinied. They disobeyed the colonel's orders, destroyed rifles and equipment, and stoned the general commanding Cologne from the barracks. The mutineers were arrested and 26 have been court-martialled. ON THE BALKANS FRONT. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Oct, 26. British headquarters at Salonika report-: the capture of Jour villages southward of Seres and tho killing of a number of Isul garians. Tho British then returned to their own lines. A French eastern communique says: The British raided the village of Salman, south of Seres, taking a number of Bulgarians prisoners. As a result of outpost fighting, the French took a few Austrian prisoners in the region of Pogradec. TURKS DIDN'T FIGHT. ~lian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON. Oct. 26. An official message from Mesopotamia says: The Turks on botli bunks of the Tigris on the 23rd of October approached our positions at Samnrra. On our advance tho Turks retreated without lighting.