FINNISH PRECAUTIONS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 256, 8 November 1939, Page 4

FINNISH PRECAUTIONS

reservists* leave cancelled /. > ■ ANTI-ALLJ.ED TIRADE LONDON, Nov. G. A message from Helsinki states that army headquarters in Lin land have, cancelled leave oi all reservists. The Moscow .correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports that the Kusso-Finnish negotiations will probably be suspended during the three days of celebration of the twenty-second! anniversary of the Red Revolution commencing to-dav. The Soviet Prime Minister and foreign Minister, M. Molotov, in a speech at Moscow on the occasion of the celebration .of the anniversary of the revolution, reaffirmed the neutrality of the Soviet. “No effort to draw Russia into war can succeed,” he declared. He added that the war was constantly spreading. England anG France ActusecS. He accused England) and France oi seeking to extend their influence to the Balkans; and Scandinavia for the purpose of increasing their own colonial possessions. _U. .Molotov hinted that the passage of the United States neutral it v measure was to screen the eventual participation by the l nitod States in tin.' war. ‘ Duly the Soviet Union is consistently keeping peace,” he declared.