FINNISH PLOTTERS
SEIZURE OF PORTS ALLEGED GERMAN ORDERS INTRUDERS ANNIHILATED (Received September 16, 5.5 p.m.) MOSCOW Sept. 15 It is announced that Finns who were occupying the leading ports of Karelja, a Republic bordering on Finland,.havo been annihilated. The secret police allege that the Finns crossed the frontier, disguised as Communist refugees, and, under instructions from the German Intelligence Service, organised an infantry brigade which in the event of war was to seize Karelia and cut off the strategic Kolsky peninsula and the Murmansk railway.
Karelia is one of the Republics in the Soviet Union. It is bounded on the west by Finland, on the north by the Murmansk Province, on the east by the White Sea and the Archangel Province, and on the south by the Leningrad Province. The capital is Petrozavodsk, oh. the western shore of Lake Onega. Two of its ports are Kem—at the mouth of the Kem River—and Soroka —at the mouth of the Vig River. The population consists mostly of Russians.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22836, 17 September 1937, Page 11
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