FINNS RENEW OPERATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16895, 6 July 1918, Page 7

FINNS RENEW OPERATIONS.

HUMAN LINE MENACED. GERMAN AID PROMISED. A. and N.Z. LONDON, July 4. Tim Stockholm correspondent of the Morning Post says that Finland is in for a new war. Notwithstanding the 1 severe censorship, it is evident that mi offensive against the Karelia-Murman railway has commenced. Swedish officers who took part in Hie civil war declined commissions in view of the serious consequences involved. It is believed that Germany has undertaken to provision the Murman expedition, in addition to sending an expeditionary force of 50,000 to assist the Finns. The Hclsingfors correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that high Finnish officers decliro that it will be decided on Monday whether Englishmen in Finland must be expelled. Though the Finnish Minister in Paris the other day declared that Finland had no intention of attacking the Murman railway, the Russian Government has organised a force on this frontier, and some of the Finnish Red Guards have reinforced the Russian soldiers. The war is against tho wish of the Finns, and is due to the insolent Officers' Corps and a few politicians who dream of a great Finland. The general feeling is that Finland needs peace to heal her wounds duo to civil war. Lack of food and forage makes the enterprise difficult for the Ger-1 mans, while there are 125 miles of communication to maintain through the wilder-