Evening star., 1918-04-09
russ AGAIN bow
TO GERMAN ORDER
Forts and Warships in Finnish
Waters to Be Disar1ned.
Red Guard Cause Lost.
KAMENEFF HELD HOSTAGE
By the As,ociated Prssa.

| LONDON. April 9.-wlth the arrival of
the Germans in Finland the Red Guard
cause Is lost, ana tho fall Of Helsingfors
Is expected in the near future. says Reu-
ter's Petrograd correspondent, telegraph
ing Monday. Tho Germans demanded
the disarmament Of the forts, a. well as
waters before Friday. he reports. and the
Russian commissioners agreed to COM
ply.
The Germans have distributed by air.
plano q proclamation declaring that
any damage TO tho fieet or to shipping
in the ports or TO the land defenses
would be Severely punished They like
wise demanded that tho bolts and
sights Of tho guns on the ships and in
tho land batteries be loaded on barges
and anchored in the outer harbor Of
Helsingfors or Gustafssvard before
April IL. the crews Of the Russian
ships to return to Russia, with the
exception that thirty mon might be
left on the dreadnaughts.. twenty men
on the cruisers. five on the destroyers
and thirty on tho submarineA
The Germans base their demands
on article OF the peace treaty, q
note attached to which allowed the
Russian fleet to remain in Finland
until the ice melted
The Germans. the correspondent adds
have detained four members Of the Rus
sion delegations. owing to military
considerations"
KameneH Il Hostage.
NJ Kamenefr. who some time ago was
appointed bolshevik ambassador to
France. and was arrested in Finland,
will be held by tho Finnish white
guards as a hostage, Reuters Petro-
grad correspondent reports. In reply
to request made by the Russian
authorities through Swedish repre-
sentatives In Finland for NJ. Kameneff's
release. the white guards said he would
be held pending the receipt Of guaran-
tees of non-interference in Finnish af-
fairs by Russian red guards.
Proposed Indemnity to Germans.
Reuters Moscow correspondent quotes
the editor Of the German Newspaper
Volkerfuede. published in Petrograd by
of representatives Of maximalists and
commercial and Industrial interests in
Petrograd that the time was approach
ing fot beginning to indemnify Ger
by theA through the war. in accord
ance with the Brest-Ltovsk peace
treaSf. The government. the speaker
addtA estimated the sum at 5.000,-
000. go rubles.
Radek, one OF the bolshevik delegates
to the recent peace conference, as say
Ing the government was looking for
ward to the reopening Of tho Russo
German frontier and the dow of Rus
sian raw material into Germany, and
that 1t would shortly decree o state
monopoly In order to safeguard Rus
sian trade.
Would Control Russia.
By tho Associated Press.
MOSCOW. Monday April 8.-Ger-
many's assistance Of the government
forces in Finland IS part of plan to
gain control Of northern Russia and cut
the Interior OF European Russia OF
from the Arctic and Baltic. This is
the view Of the Finnish situation of
oscar .sS Toeoi, former premier OF Finland
rebel government. NJ Tokoi has made
the following statement to the Assp-
ciated Press:
German is rapidly investing Finland
and plans to take control there Just as
IN the Ukraine, and then move with
the white guards upon Russia's north-
ern ports, thus cutting Russia off from
the Arctic and the Baltic. Thirty Ger
man warshiph transports and supply
ships participated in the movement On
Hango on April and about $4,000
troops. some cavalry and motor trans
ports were landed.
Moving on Helzingforx.
The Germans are moving toward
Heisingfors and the red guards are
putting up . stubborn resistance with
now under German control. and Hhite
guards under German officers and sup-
ported by German troops ara movinr
on Tammsrfors.
The. white guards also are moving
eastward at several points farther
norIh In order to reach the Koia rail-
way, In Russia, and cut of Russfa's
northern outlet The soviet ;at Mur-
mansk 10 endeavoring to raise snf-
nctent troops to protect the railway.
but danger II Imminent, AZ rresf
forces are required to police the long
NJ Tokoi aded. that the cerm.r.
had reached q complete understanding
with the white guard. Recent white
guard actions in northern Finland he
said. had embittered the Norwerians
and alarmed the Swedes. who fear that
the white guards will invade their ter
ritory.
U1timatum to Russ.
By the Associated Press.
PETRoGRAD. April SIN reply to
protest to the sAolny Institute
against the landing of German troops
in Finland. Germany has sent q wire
less ultimatum demanding. In ac-
cordance with article Of the Brest-