WAY OUT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1943, Page 4

WAY OUT

SOUGHT BY FINLAND CONVICTION THAT GERMANY HAS LOST WAR. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE IN HELSINKI. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. A conference of extreme importance for Finland’s future policy was held in the presidential palace at Helsinki yesterday, says Reuter’s Stockholm correspondent, quoting reports reaching usually well-informed Swedish circles. Although no details of the outcome of the meeting have so far been made available, well-informed circles declare that the object was to examine the possibility of getting Finland out of the war as quickly as possible. Those present at the conference, which was called by President Ryti, included prominent Finnish military and civilian leaders. It is not known whether Marshal Mannerheim attended. Reports reaching Stockholm indicate that an increasing number of prominent people in Finland are demanding that the Government take steps to save the country. The fall of Mussolini, the recent Russian victories and, above all. Sweden’s cancellation of German transit traffic, has convinced even the most reluctant Finn that Germany has lost the war.