FINLAND
TERRORISM IN FINLAND,
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER. Received May 30, 10.45 p.m. London, May 29. A Russian wireless message states that the Central Committee of the Finnish workmen protests against the White Guards' terrorism in Finland. It also states that 70,000 citizens, the majority 1 of whom are social democrats, including 30,000 civilians, have been imprisoned and brutally treated, and that a wholesale slaughter wf prisoners has commenced l>y the Finnish troops, assisted by the Germans, 158 women prisoners being killed in one day at Lachti, many o? the latter being Sisters of Mercy. The Red Guards are being killed without trial by field court-martial. Commanders of detachments arc still condemning persons to death en masse, although the civil war is over The Finnish proletariat call on the civilians of the world, in the name of humanity, to stop this mad wliite terrorism.—Aus.-N.55. Cable Assoc- and Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1918, Page 7
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