SOVIET ALLEGES BALTIC PLOT
GERMAN INFLUENCE ON FINNS STRATEGIC BLOW IN EVENT OF WAR (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 16, 6.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, September 16. It is announced that a group of Finns occupying leading posts in Karelia, a Soviet republic bordering Finland, has been annihilated. The secret police allege that the Finns crossed the frontier disguised as communist refugees, under the instructions of the German intelligence service, and organized an infantry brigade which in the event of war would seize Karelia and cut off the strategic railway to the Kolsky peninsula from Murmansk.
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Southland Times, Issue 23307, 17 September 1937, Page 7
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