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...Ratified a treaty with Finland for the extradition of criminals...
...Helsinki (Helsingfors),* capital of Finland, 300 Finnish citizens assembled under the Chairmanship of Premier Lauri Ingman. They were the electors appointed by the people to elect a President for the years 1925-31 in succession to Dr. Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg who, amid many protestations, had declined to stand for reelection...
President Stahlberg, the first President of Finland since that country, in 1917, declared itself free and independent of Russia, was elected by the Diet in 1919. The present popular presidential election is the first to be held...
Beside being famous for her Nurmi, Finland was the first country in the world to grant suffrage to women; this was done in 1907 without any agitation on the part of the females...
...names in parentheses are the Swedish, the official languages of Finland being Swedish and Finnish...