The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-13
RED-FINN PEACE
TREATY SIGNED
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thnia, west of Finland, the
railway bisecting Finland
above her narrow walstllne.
9. Free transit for Rus
sian goods across the Pet
samo Arctic area from Rus
STA to Norway, duty free.
10. The right to maintain
any Finnish warships, sub
marines or warplanes in its
Arctic waters, with the ex-
ception of small coast guard
vessels.
Exchange Scheduled
An exchange of papers of ratifl-
cation of the treaty is scheduled 10
take place in Moscow.
Gn Helsinki tonight, shocked
Firms said the fate Of the war still
was up to the Finnish diet-there
was no indication it had ratified the
treaty..
However, under the pact, at 10
a. m. on March Is e a. m. E. S. I'd
Finnish and Soviet troops are to
begin to withdraw to their new
frontiers, a map Of which was ap-
pended to the treaty.
The treaty was described in the
official Moscow communique as one
which will "create mutually stable
and mutually peaceful relations,
based on precise conditions of "en'
during mutual security'-especially
for the Soviet cities of LeninSrad,
at one end of the Karelian 18th
mus; Murmansk, in the Arctic, and
the railroad which connects them
Un%contested Clutch
(Actually, it's terms gave Russia
an uncontested clutch on the north
ern Baltic. Before she invaded Fin
land on Nov. 80, Russia had peace
ably got strategic concessions from
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, but
these are nothing as compared tt
the conditions for Finnish peace
The terms, likewise, are far harshel
than the ones which Russia lai(
down before the Finnish invasion
Germany profits by the treat!
because she can now hope for rea
economic help from a Russia nc
longer engaged in war, and can
perhaps, extend her own influence
in Scandinavia. Russia also is mill
tarily free to look to her fences on
her Balkan border.
(The western Allies knew all this
and made urgent, last-minute Of
fers of an expeditionary force OF
so, 900 men to defend Finiand).
Greatest battle-ground
The Karelian Isthmus has been
the greatest battle-ground of the
a Great masses of Soviet troops
pierced the Mannerheim line. after
weeks of assault, but so far have
not actually captured Viipuri.
Russia's original demands .includ-
ed only a comparatively small sec
ton of the isthmus.
Vii IhC 1IoIlhO peninsula WlllSll,
under the treaty, it takes by lease
along with surrounding waters,
Russia will establish a naval base
capable of defending the entrance
Of the Gulf of Finland from aggres.
sion."
Finnish troops will evacuate Han.
ko within ten days from the eff.
fective date of the treaty.
Besides promising to maintain no
warships of any size, warplanes or
submarines in Arctic waters, Fin
land also, under the treaty, will es-
tablish no military or naval bases
of consequence on her Arctic coast.
Reds Will Withdraw
Russia in turn will withdraw her
invaders from the Petsamo district.
The treaty stipul: ton for a rail-
road connecting Kemijarvi with
Kandalaska, on an arm of the Gulf
of Finland, gives Russia the over
land route to the Gulf of Bothnia
which her troops tried vainly to
force above Finland's wasp waist"
Russia also gets a large section of
Finland east of Markajarvi. in this
section.
Kemijarvi is the eastern terminus
of the Finnish railway which runs
to the Gulf; the Soviet troops never
were able to capture it. Kaldalaska
is on the Russian Murmansk-Lenin-
grad railway, which the Firms at
one time claimed they had cut.
The treaty contains a non-aggres,
sion alliance.
Finnish-Soviet trade negotiations
are to open as Don as the treaty
goes into effect.
The treaty, an official commu.
nique said, was signed at 2:30 a. m.
today (6:30 D. M, Tuesday E. S. To-
Before that, however, it's general
terms were announced by the D, n
B., German news agency.
lass Statement
lass, the official Soviet news
agency, made this statement:
peace treaty between the Union
of Social Socialistic Republics and
the republic of Finland.
1.-THE presidium of the supreme
Soviet of the U. S. S. R. on the one
side and the President of Finland
on the other side, guided by a desire
to put an end to the hostilities that
arose between the two countries
and to create stable and mutually
peaceful relations, convinced that a
definition of the exact conditions of
enduring mutual security, including
the security of the cities of Lenin.
grad and MIlrmanSk as well as the