The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-12-02
|SCANDINAvIANS GROWING ANGRY
They Resent Soviet Inva- sion of FinIand-DemOn
 stratiOns Taking Place

Copenhagen, Denmark, December 20. - (UP) - Scandinavian anger against the Russian invasion of Fin. land exploded today into street demonstrations.
 Here, crowd stoned the Russian legation, smashing windows.
 At Stockholm, Sweden, police were called out to break up mob of thousands surrounding the office of Communist newspaper, New Day"
 The outbreak started when Con- munist onlooker shouted: Long live Stalin," at a crowd that had marched to the Finnish legation to cheer the Finnish charge d'affaires and sing the national anthems of the two countries.
 The crowd swarmed to the New Day. offices, gathering recruits on the way, shouting Down with Rus sia!" Down with Stalin."
 Sympathy For Finland
 Premier Per Tlbin Hanson of Sweden made public speech in Stockholm saying, "the Swedish peo- pie feel the deepest sympathy fos the people of Finland We all hope there exists means to limit the disaster, Grounds for that hope is the brave composure of the Finnish people"
 At Reykjavik, Iceland, dominion of Denmark, crowds formed a na- tional holiday yesterday to gather in front of the Finnish consulate and cheer and sing the Finnish an- them.
 Here, the newspaper National Ti- dende, in an editorial entitled, "Bolshevism on the March," said: "The reports of the formation of a Finnish peoples government makes clear the meaning of Russian can- mons: They point at civil war. Bolshevism, covered on the vest ern border by German friendship treaty and strengthened by newly won Baltic bases, is making Its way into Scandinavia,
 Stalin Dictatorship
 At Oslo. Norway, the Arheider- bladt, government newspaper, said. "Stalinite dictatorship has no re- spect for the independence of small neighbors, but such a policy will avenge itself."
 (At Paris, French naval quarters said Russia was anxious to get a foothold on the Atlantic and might ask Norway to cede her a strip of land running slightly west of North Cape. If this northernmost tip of European land were fortified by Rus sia, the French said, Russia would have secured her ica-free north ports and would have become a major Atlantic maritime powerD
 Oslo morning newspapers said Russia's "rowdy assault" on Finland was a Bolshevist crusade to conquer Europe. The Afatenposten sug- gested that the big powers, includ- ingi Germany, say word of truth to Russia with determination ano power behind 1t"
 Berlin, December ?. - (UP) - D. N, B., official German News Agency said today that Baron Carlgustaf Emil Mannerheim, Fin nish army commander, had Issued his first "order of the day" this morning, describing the war as a continuation of Finlands fight for freedom in 1918.
 (1n the War of 1918, when Man nerheim led the Finnish National ists against the Communists, Ger many sent him 10000 troops to help drive the Bolsheviks out.)
 DINE. said Mannerheim' Com denied that the Russians had occupied Terjoki, the border town where revolutionary Finnish government" recognized by Rus sia, purportedly was set up.
 It was learned that many Ger mans were receiving letters from t.'eir Finnish friends, imploring Germany's aid. There was a strong undercurrent of sympathy for Fin- land here, especially among Ger man veterans of the 1918 Finnish expeditionary force and athletes who had been on close terms with Finnish athletes. But the Nazi governments official attitude was one of silent assent to the Finnish invasion. Newspapers gave little more than a paragraph to the in-