THE SITUATION IN FINLAND
THE WHITE GUARDS WINNING. A MASSACRE OF THE WHITES. Potrograd, Feb. 25. The latest news from Finland shows that the White Guards are winning everywhere, the j& Red Guards are quarrelling, brawling, and disuniting. The Red Guards massacred 5000 White Guards who had taken refuge on the Pellinger Islands. They were mostly students.
GERMAN TROOPS IN FINLAND. SWEDES TO DESPATCH FORCES Stockholm, Feb. 26. The Gormans are transporting troops to South Finland in order to surround the Red Guards. The Swedish Government has introduced a Bill authorising the despatch of Swedish forces. SOME MIXED FIGHTING. Petrograd, Feb. 25. The Bolsheviks have captured Kostoff atfer street'fighting. The Germans have entered Wohmar. The Red Guards resisted and then lied, and were mercilessly shot clown.
BOLSHEVIK VENGEANCE. GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS JARRAINGED. ON A TREASON CHARGE « Berne, Feb. 26. German newspapers report that the Bolsheviks'have ordered that ex-generalissimo Grand Duke Nicholas he court-martiallcd on a charge of treason against the Republic.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 5
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161THE SITUATION IN FINLAND Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11473, 27 February 1918, Page 5
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