Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-15
EPECT US. TO SEIZE
| FTNNS' $14,5OO,OOO
\ c.,N Sent to Buy Food Is Sc
'anestrated in New York
Banks
WAITS END OF STRIFE
,,..oss of Faction Backed by Ger
many May Invite
Interference
Washington, April IS.

NAM, Of "A fund Of S14,5OO,OO
pspssl, In the National city Bank OF
yark TO the account of the Gov
NV w Tmlard," is expected soon to
.la,s the subject OF serious considera'
paVs The United states Government
w ,,,lt of repeated White Guard sue
- over the BUlshcvik army N the
ir, n.,h The BoIshevii and III. white
- representatives here clo u" the
~, n administer the fund, VIII ch was
~ hste 10 buy food for the Finrs more
~ six months ago So far the
s-.hs,ik representative, Santer. Fuor-
Z. Sas managed to prevent NJ adrrr
rIss from drawing 1t but r.. as
sov thought probable. the white
s..,d establish their governm Ht Over
VI n Finland. they undoubtedly will
''a,1, their effort to get the money back
!. ths ground that they are the Gov
.,,rent Of Finland
A. every one knows, however the
vbte Guard victories have been made
,,ssble only by the assistance of
~. German army cooperating With
Am m the north. supplemented by
c,rman squadron, Wlirh has pounded a
s.dnv for more German troops along
~ cosst of southern Finland. Helsing-
~ the capital, which has been held by
N, polsbeyibi throughout the reyolu-
~ is expected soon tu fall into the
t,nds Of the Germans and then to be re-
s.tsblished as the capital of Finland
~ ihe White Guard in control
Awaiting Developments
wbiie the White Guard representatives,
hudly dsayow any intention TO submit
4 domlnation from Berlin when order
i,re-established, it is not likely that the
United States will place any faith in
,uch utterances, prefeTing 10 let the
White Guard show by their actions
vhether or not they have been able to
tsep free Of entanglemcnts with German
oHcialdom.
Therefore, this Government Is believed
n official circles not only likely TO pro-
hbIt the White Guard from touching
ne Finnish gold in New York, but pos
ably may see tit to make use of the
money itself in the near future. This
bsief is based Oh the latest information
from Finland and Germany, which is
10 the effect that plans have been pre-
pared for a combined German-Finnish
attack on Russia in the event that Ger
many wins on the western front. There
4 believed to be little doubt that the
White Guard leaders, who are for the
most part members Of the Swedish aris-
tocracy, which is the dominant element
h,the capital class in Finland, have al
ready entered into agreement with Ger
many for the establishment of u So
called Greater Finland, including the
Pe.rograd-NTurman hallway to the Arc
tc. 10 achieve which the Germans and
White Guard Firms would cooperate in
var on Russia. The dispatch also stated
that Japan had been invited to join the
alliance, with Siberia as her reward.
~ White Guard Enjoys
The White Guard representatives in
America are Karl Ignatius, Il wealthy
hSyef of Helsingfors, and Dr. Julio
Reuter- an International authority on
| chaldean and other ancient languages.
For several months they held forth in
! suite jH the Willard Hotel i'm Wash
hgtonG but are now said to be in New
York Mr. Nuorteva, the Bolshevik del
sgate, is in Washington, still endeavor-
Ing to get permission from this Govern.
nent to ship food 10 Finland, but meet
fg with little success.
II was TO purchase food that the
money now in the National City Bank
vas sent to America by the Socialist
Government of Finland last fall. When
the White Guard established Eoveru-
rant Of their own and sent Messrs.
lgnatius and Reuter- to these shores they
Instructed the National city to transfer
NE deposit from the name of the Fin
hkh Government to tile account of Mr..
lspatius as an individual This was
lIsed TO by the bank. Then Morris
hlqultt Socialist candidate for Mayor
dNew York during the recent elections,
was commissioned to take such steps az
Neie necessary to safeguard the money.
Nuorteva and IIllquitt warned the
pank officials that they would be held
ieponsble for every dollar of the money
!nd was turned over to Ignatius. This
20 the bank TO agree TO withhold pay
geat until definite settlement of the
snGultles in Finland had been ar
fgsd at.
Nhle the money has remained in the
pAk vaults for more than six months,
We people OF Finland have been vir-
ssspy Starving, the poorer classes being
,uueeu 10 hchcnS and ground bark.
aNsp l@i The money been spent for food,
.vSsseri the food would not have gone
funand for the reasons that, i'll tho
~ pace there are no ships in which
y ssna IT, and, secondly. it was felt GER
w ,ne Germans would have got the
''Vu mad II been shipped,