SITUATION IN FINLAND

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14642, 21 February 1918, Page 5

SITUATION IN FINLAND

RED GUARD REINFORCEMENTS

FURTHER FIGHTING AT THE

AALANDS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Stockholm, Feb. 19

A Helsingfors message reports that 15,000 Red Guards, armed with rifles and machine gfns, have arrived in Southern, Fie land from Petrograd.

Several hundred White Guards reached tie Aaland Islands after crossing the ice. They caused further bloody fighting with the Russians, who now refuse to leave unless the White Guards also leave.

According to reports in the Swedish press, Germany is preparing to land tfce Finnish battalion of the German army and other forces it: Finland. These operations will be accompanied by naval action in the Baltic with landings also in unoccupied parts of Livonia and Es-

thonia