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...Finnish mainland last week the Lapuan or Finnish Fascist revolt that petered out so dismally fortnight ago (TIME, March 14) was punctured last week by the murder of Minna Craucher. Minna Craucher, brilliant, amiable and 40, was a well-known character in Finland. She started her career as a secret agent for the early Soviet Cheka. After the War her house in Helsingfors was a salon for Finnish writers and artists. Dozens of novelists dramatized her adventures. Minna Craucher kept up her spying, was jailed three times for fraud. She knew a great deal about the Lapuan movement...
Last week a cavalcade of 700 fishermen and 100 horses clattered out of Helsingfors to drag the ice of the Gulf of Finland. For two days the expedition prospered, moved farther and farther out from the shore. Suddenly a shrieking, steel-grey blizzard swept down on them. With prodigious snapping and grinding a great ice floe broke away from the shore. All the fishermen and their steeds were swept out to sea on an island...
They had few provisions, no protection against the blizzard. The little colony subdivided dangerously. Small parties floated away in different directions, most of them toward Finland's greatest enemy, Soviet Russia. After 24 hours the blizzard let up sufficiently for Finnish army planes to take off. They dropped sausages, blankets, hay, most of which fell into the sea. Slower but surer, Finnish and Soviet icebreakers smashed their way to the rescue. The refugees, horses and men alike, gnawed frozen fish. At the end of the third day, all but one or two of the frost-bitten fishermen had been...
...Finland's present President, jovial Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,* stands no bluffing. Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr"), as he is known to his constituents, promptly put into force an emergency safety law permitting the Government to suppress papers, search houses, halt all armed forces. Next he reorganized the Cabinet, putting in loyal General K. L. Oesch as Assistant Minister of the Interior, specially charged with maintaining public safety. Against Lapuan hopes, the Finnish Civil Guard remained loyal. The Lapuan leaders, General Wallenius and Vihtor Kosula, issued a blast about "fighting to the last man," but thought better...
...sooner was the Lapuan revolt ended than the Government had to face another problem. Packs of famished wolves were reported in East Finland sweeping south from Lapland. Farmers' livestock was slaughtered, the beasts even invading village streets. In mid-Finland a young girl was torn to pieces as she walked on the highroad near her home. Civil guards turned from the Fascists to the wolves but were able to report the death of only two by the week...