Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
Soviet Charges
ProduceCriisis
In Finnish Talks
HeIsinki Increases
Forces on Border,
Tuss Declares
By the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, NOV. 1l.-OulCldl RuS.
sian charges of Finnish recalci-
trance tonight produced a new cri-
sis in the month-long negotiations
In which Russia is striving to
strengthen her strategic position
through acquisition of Finnish ter
ritory.
Tass, the official news agency, de-
clared that the Firms had in
creased their army strength on the
frontier 'overhanging Leningrad"
from two or three to seven divisions,
thus demonstrating their uncom-
promising attitude" Said Tass:
According to the information of
Tass, the Firms not only do not
meet the minimum proposals of the
Soviet Union but on the contrary
intensity their irreconcilability."
The statement came as DR.. JUNO
Kusti Paasikivi, head of the Fin
nish mission, awaited another call
to the Kremlin for parley on Rus
sian demands for territorial con-
cessions and the establishment of
a naval base on Finnish soil at the
eastern entrance to the Gulf of Fin
land. Conferences were resumed
Thursday after being interrupted by
Russia's celebration of the Commu-
mist revolution anniversary.
Quotes British Report.
But Tass said: The English news
paper Daily Express published re-
port of an Exchange Telegraph
British news agency correspondent
from Helsinki to the effect that
Stain again rejected Finland's lat
est concessions
'"Tass is authorized to declare that
the report of the Daily Express does
not correspond with the facts. No
latest concessions have been made
by the Films, in view of which Stain
could not reject that which does not
exist at ALL
Premier Foreign Commissar WA
cheslaff Molotoff disclosed the
terms of the negotiations "for safe
guarding the security of the U. S. S.
r. and especially in Leningrad' in
an address to the Supreme Soviet
October 81.
He proposed to shift the Russian
Finnish border on the Isthmus of
Karelia several dozen kilometers"
further north Of Leningrad in ex-
change for a part of undeveloped
Soviet Karelia. twice the area Russia
would receive.
Moloton asked that Finland lease
q strip of Finnish territory near the
entrance of the Gull Of Finland for
q naval base. This fertilization, with
another base established on the coast
of Estonia, Molotoff said, would
fully safeguard the Gulf of Fin
land against hostile attempts on the
part of other states"
Soviet Forces Surpass Firms.
Well informed foreign quarters
expressed the belief that Russia had
at least three or four times as many
troops massed at the Finnish
Russian border as Finland has on
her side. These sources added that
certainly Finland entertained no
such notion as invading Leningrad.
The fact that the Finnish frontier
is less than 80 miles from Leningrad
has been given as one of the reasons
why Soviet Russia is seeking to have
Finland transfer territory whereby
the Finnish border would be with
drawn some miles from the Lenin-
grad area.
The lass communique was con-
strued as showing an impasse ID
the negotiations and also the posi-
bility of complete breakdown.
The Finnish delegation, awaiting
further instructions from home, did
not 60 to the Kremlin today.
Soviet Russia, flushed by her sue
cess in Poland following the con-
clusion of her pact with Germany
and her profitable agreements with
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, obvi-
ously annoyed at the refusal of the
Firms to fall into line.
The Firms previously had relied
on Germany to aid them against
any Russian designs, but the Reich
as a part of the price for her nom
aggression and economic pacts with
Moscow, obviously has adopted a
hands of" attitude in the Finnish
Russian nepOtiations