RUSSIA AND FINLAND.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 736, 8 February 1910, Page 5

RUSSIA AND FINLAND.

GERMAN MANIFESTO. ANTI-RUSSIANS RETURNED BY , FINNISH ELECTORS. By Tolecraph-Preiis_AßßofllaUon-OopTrlrts • . .St "Petersburg, February 6. Socialists and anti-Russian members have been largely returned at the Finnish elections.' ■ ' A ,manifesto by German professors upon Russian Resigns; against Finnish : autonomy has, provoked : much anger throughout Russia. . . ' . :: RUSSIAN SIDE OF THE CASE. For some time the cablegrams have recorded reports of Russian aggression on I'lWiish rights, .and - reports of Intended further aggression. - The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times" recently gave-the-Russianaide of the case. ■It.ros cabled some time ago that Russia to; annex theViborg proto 3l a —' correspond entof Ihe Times' says that as a result of a conversation with,im eminent Russian statesman upon;, the-.relations ; of. Russia and, Finland he is able to state. that the .Bnssian Government have no intenhon :rights; and liberties °i .%, Pinn3 or of • annexing the province ri»wo f i? 16 T £ Ol jespondent quotes Clause .2 -of the Fundamental' Laws of the Empire: -' - ■ The Grand Duchy of Finland, .forming an . portion - ofthe Russian affairs by b! tton tased on a separate , Tie meaning of this clause, he comis ' sufficiently ; clear. % Nevertheless, .ItnssiaM. and Finns hiu-o respectively placed ■; their,, own constructions upon , this clauso. ; Wie -.Bqbrikoff" episode is a, -lamentable illnstratidn : on the one .side; the attitada :of-the .Finns to.wards Russia at this moment " presages an opposite : extreme;. Th 6 present cßnniot'is a result, of the Finnish , insist98 separate entity of State. The demand is not rendered PJP5 6 , aooeptable. by the ill-disguised contempt meted out to all' things Russian." lie correspondent hears.that Russiana lesKkngat Helsingfora and' in ■ Viborg ft§ 66nd '?S th « ir families home. 1 . The ,_Novoe Vremya" declares that' Russian priests are constantly in'SK *>y Pjnns. Theso assertions are officially domed, but. the- publicity given S: "l 0 ™ :^ a ™wy inspires ivlarw among Russians inhabitating the Grand Duohy, and the fear is heightened by the dispatch of reinforcements. -The action of the .• Russian .Government in ; sanding troops may,, perhaps, prcoipitate matters. .Trustworthy information; confirms the, statement that Finland is quiet. ,But themselvoa now, admit the possibiuty •of disturbances ■, on the part of the Socialists.