FINLAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1918, Page 5

FINLAND.

MASSACRES IN FINLAND. TERRIBLE CONDITIONS PREVAIL. Copenhagen, Feb 10. Terrible conditions prevail at Helsingfors and elsewhere. Wholesale massacres are reported, especially of young men of the better classes. The pupils at the Industrial High School at Tammorfors' escaped from the city, but were discovered by the Red Guards, who killed 120. 1 PLUNDERING AND MURDERING BELONG FORS RED WITH BLOOIj.

fIARBOR FULL OF CORPSES. Received Feb. 11, 815 p.m. Copenhagen, Feb. 10. Finnish travellers from Hclsingfors ,tatc that hundreds are being killed daily in the streets- Russian sailors, armed with swords and bayonets, dash from the warships, killing indiscriminately. Hordes of other ruffians are plundering and murdering. Helsingfors harbor is full of corpses, and the paving stones of the streets are red with blood. Two members of the Finnish Diet have been murdered, whilst the fate of five others is unknown. The Hotel Kemp, where many foreignera are residing, was bombarded. While murder and pillage were at their )eight a proclamation was distributed n the streets calling the people to ■e»iat ibe red teiTor, and calling upon iffldals to conceal important Govcrnnent documentsMany soldiers, sick with the slaughter, are desirous of returning to Russia, but the Red Guards prevent them, even imprisoning some of the Russian soldiers