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...during the week children, mothers, the sick and aged were rapidly evacuated from Helsinki (see map) until this capital of 300,000 was half empty. Viipuri was also evacuated and blacked out nightly to match Helsinki, as though Soviet bombing raids were expected. A fleet of 21 Soviet planes was seen roaring over the Gulf of Finland, with Soviet warships cruising just outside Finnish territorial waters, and President Kallio promptly closed all Finnish ports in the Gulf. The entire Finnish merchant marine-Finland has the largest fleet of sailing ships of any nation-was ordered to take refuge away from...
...most important place in Finland last week was not Helsingfors (Helsinki), the capital; not the seaports of Vasa (Vaasa) or Viborg (Viipuri), but the farming village of Lapua. The Finns who speak Finnish and the Finns who speak Swedish all spoke of Lapua last week, as did all of Finland's 624 newspapers and magazines. Acute observers saw emerging from Lapua a minor Mussolini, possible Dictator of the country, by the name of Vihtori Kosola...
Under a system of proportionate representation, M. Lauri Relander, Governor of Viipuri (Viborg), Agrarian, defeated his nearest rival, M. Ryti, Governor of the State Bank, Progressive, on the third ballot by 172 to 109 votes...