FINLAND’S ORDEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 5

FINLAND’S ORDEAL

4 ASSURANCE OF SWEDISH SUPPORT DECLARATION OF ITALIAN SYMPATHY. FEATURES OF WAR OF NERVES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 19. A message from Helsinki stales that Finland still maintains that the negotiations with Russia are only suspended. She complains of Soviet Press exaggerations in the ‘‘war of nerves.” The majority of the evacuees have returned and the life of the capital is again normal. The Swedish Press outspokenly declares: "Wc will stand by Finland, which at present is roasting on a slow fire.’ The Italian newspaper “Regime Fascista” today declared: “We sympathise with the small, heroic Finnish nation, which is ethnically and culturally homogenous Russia is displeased Because she controls the entrance to the Gulf of Finland in which the Soviet has its second capital.” Commenting on a report that 15 Finnish ships are detained in German ports, including two bound for America which have been held up in Stettin for a month, the Moscow correspondent of the “New York Times,” Mr Gedye, states that claims that Germany js co-operating in a blockade of Finland are unfounded. The RussianFinnish situation is improving slowly and the prospect of an immediate hostile move is steadily decreasing, ne adds.