Evening star., 1918-02-09
FIERCE SLAUGHTER
RE|GNS IN FINLAND
Great Masses of People Slain
in Brutal Manner by
Red Guards.
ANARCHY IS INCREASING
Ry the A,soctated Pre,s.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 9.-According to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen. a special correspondent OF
the Berlinske Tidende, who succeeded
in escaping from Helsinsfors, sends to
his paper a wireless report, which was
not allowed to pass the red guard
censorship. in which he says that the red
guards have made frightful slaugh-
ter of great masses of Finnish people
and have been pIundering and killing
in a most brutal manner.
The theater and q large number Of
public buildings in Helsingfors have
been destroyed. The req GUARDS. nov
ever. have been unable to control the
people and anarchy IL increasing. store
houses in Helsingfors which contained
food from Denmark for starving Firms
have been destroyed by the red guards
and Russian bolsheviki.
Planned st. Bartholomew Night.
Scandinavians from Finland. accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen, report that the RED
guard government in Finland few
days ago seriously discussed the ques-
ton of arranging a st. Bartholomew
night" 1t was said they planned to XIII
ali members of the capitalist class over
ei1ht years Of age The project was re-
jected only by two votes.
(The massacre OF St Bartholomew re-
suited in the killing OF more tnan w,
900 persons, members OF the dusueno.
victim was Admiral Coiigny and the
massacres began in Paris on the night
OF August 23-24)
Diplomats to Leave Petrograd.
STOCKHOLM, Friday. February g.
Constantine Diamandi, the Rumanian
minister to Petrograd. who is now at
Haparanda, Gays that the diplomatic
missions Of the powers will soon have
70 leave PetrogrAd, according to the
Daeblad of Stockholm. Foreign Minis
ter Trotzky had telegraphed to Tornea
ordering that Diamandi be sent back to
Petrograd, but Trotxky's orders are not
being obeyed in Tornea now
A bolshevik commissioner who came
on the same train from Petrograd with
Diamandi and the Russian bolshevik
at Tornea were tried by
court t-martial by the white CARDS there
md shot Communication between
Stockholm and southern Finland and
PetroRrad has been broken since Thurs
day night. White guards. forced by the
red guards to evacuate Nostad. where
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4 swedish rescue expedition has
reached Stockholm with $50 refugees
from Helsingfors. including the wife
and daughter Of Finland's new minister
to Sweden and a number of released
Austrian and German prisoners. The
expedition also was compelled to bring
three bolshevik delegates sent by
Trotxky to spread "the truth" among
other nations. These include n. Kane
neff. who had been one Of the delegates
at Brest-Litovsk.
Swedish Aid for Firms.
Swedish sympathy for Finland is
finding expression in various ways
One anonymous donor has given 10000
crowns to aid the government estab-
lished by the Finnish diet. Ellen Key.
the writer, Is one Of the prominent
signers OF q petition now circulating
praying to the Swedish government to
permit the expectation and transit Of
weapons to Gen. Mannerheim, COM
mander of the Finnish government
forces.
American Minister Morris was in
formed today that a train has arrived
at Tornea with American couriers from
Petrograd. Train service between Tor
nea and Petrogad Is expected to be re-
aumed fomorrow