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BERLIN--Military spokesmen intimated tonight that German and Finish troops have undertaken a far northern drive from the Salla area, 90 miles from the northwest corner of the While Sea, in an attempt to cut Russia's communications with the port of Murmansk and the whole Kila Peninsula...
...land ar<5und Finland is as pitted with water as Swiss cheese with air, because Russia is naturally defended from Rumania by the Prut and Dniester Rivers, Germany's two stooges on the flanks did little. Finland toppled reluctantly into the war as German drives developed on Murmansk in the far north and on Lenin grad across the scarred Karelian Isthmus...
...Murmansk. 4. Viipuri
...grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland's lost port of Petsamo and off Murmansk in Red Russia, an undetermined number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia. Perhaps also they would interfere with future shipments of Swedish...
...work in Finland accomplished, irrepressible General Mannerheim wanted to march his army into East Karelia and move on Petrograd in conjunction with the British Murmansk expedition. But the White Government, grateful to Ger many for her help in the civil war and thinking she was winning the World War, vetoed any cooperation with England. Mannerheim resigned in a huff and the newly elected Regent, Per Svinhufvud, asked the Kaiser to name one of his sons King of Finland. The Kaiser proposed his brother-in-law, Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse, who was promptly elected by the Finnish Diet. Next thing...