GERMANS IN FINLAND.
20,000 TROOPS DESPATCHED
OUTRAGES BY RED GUARDS.
Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (Reed. 1.35 a.m.) LONDON. Mar. 11. The Stockholm correspondent of the Morning Post states that the German warships Westfalen and Rheinland and five troopships are anchored beside a Swedish squadron at Marieham. The Germans have brought 20,000 troop?. The Rod Guards are committing horrible outrages. They murdered 600 of the bourgeoisie at Helsingfors and elsewhere. Drunken Red Guards cut out the tongues of their prisoners, and shot a number of children in the presence of their mothers, and wives in the presence of their husbands.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 6
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