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— Swedish

Bankers
Aiding
Whites

Committee Members
Control Millions Of
Capital In Sweden

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. —
The reactionary Swedish press
is straining all efforts to prove
that the “Swedish people’ are
wholeheartedly behind the de-
fense of “Finnish democracy.’

Wot the Swedish people, but act-
ually a small handful of big Swed-
ish capitalists and bankers are be-
hind the current drive.

The so-called* United Finnish
committee is headed by Malm,
chairman of the board of directors
of four joint stock companies, and
chairman of the Swedish Trading
Bank, with a capital of ninety mil-
lion krons. In addition, Malm is
a member of the directing board
of Boliden Mining corporation,
which has a capital of forty-two
milion kKrons. This ‘defender’ of
democracy is actually the owner of
enterprises with a combined capi-
ital of 136 milion krons.

Another member of the ‘com-
mittee’ is Vikander, who at one
time had his plants in czarist
Russia. YVikander is 2 member
of the directing board of the
Swedish Trading Bank and a
member of the board of directors
of five industrial corporations.
He is owner of a cork industry
corporation with factories in Fin-
land and other countries. The
capital controlled by Vilkander,
from which he receives his profi-
its, totals 111,750,000 krons.

Third member of the ‘committee’
is Stedingk, director and member
of the board of directors of eight
industrial corporations. Stedingk
controls and derives profits from
a capital of 124,188,000 rons.

Another member of the ‘commit-
tee’ is trade adviser Lundvik, who
is a member of the board of di-
rectors of five trading-industrial
corporations.

Tundyik controls and receives
profits from capital amounting to
39,640,000 Krons.

A fifth member of the ‘commit-
tee’ is Captain Palma, member of
the board of directors of four in-
surance societies, which have a
total capital of 6,300,000 krons.

Thus, five of these ‘defenders of
Finnish democracy control enter-
prises and banks with a total capi-
tal of more than 400,000,000 krons.

Red Army's
Feat Unique

KAUNAS, Lithuania—The news-
paper ‘Ovenblat’ here prints a re-
view of military operations in Fin-
land which declares that the Sov-
iet offensive against the Finnish
fortified lines is the first operation
of this kind in the history of mod-
ern wars. The Red army's suc-
cess in breaking through the Man-
nerheim Line, which was carried
out on an unprecedented scale with
unparalleled organization, will has-
ten the end of the war, the paper
declared. |

“Military operations at the be-
ginning of the war in Finland,”
Stated the paper, “were actually
only of a preparatory character.
The Soviet army in those days ac-
quainted itself with conditions of
warfare in Finland. In the center
of Finland the Red army deeply
wedged itself into Finnish terri-
tory, but the cold spell, most severe
in the past 100 years, led to a
lull in Finnish operations. Foreign
journalists predicted that the
USSR would meet with the same
defeat in Finland as that suffered
by Napoleon in Russia in the win-
ter of 1812. These predictions were
not justified.

Hitherto, both belligerent sides
in the West have not dared to
attack the enemy fortifications.
The Finnish fortified lines were
built by the same engineers who
built the Maginot and Siegfried
lines. In the opinion of cbjec-
tive experts the Finnish fortified
lines were just as strong as the
French and German fortifica-
tions.

“The Soviet offensive against the
Finnish fortified lines is the first
operation of this kind in the his-
tory of modern wars. It should
be remembered that the German
and Italian legions were unable
for two years to storm such a weak
fortress as Madrid, which was’sur-
rounded from three sides by the
armies of the enemy and which
had no technical equipment what-
soever to defend itself with against
the enormous amount of arma-
ments of the technically equipped
enemy. And, despite all this, Ma-
drid was taken only as a result of

disruption from within.

“After sixteen days, a2 modern
Maginot line has for the first time

THE ADVOCATE-

Big Business Behind Anti-Soviet Intrigue

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A CROWD of poor Chinese
hai struggle to buy rice, scarcer and more expensive because
of requisition by Japanese who themseslves are facing a rice
shortage at home. e

Food Riots In Ghing

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in Japanese-occupied Shang-

With The Red Army

series of these accounts.

snowy wastes calmed him. He

From the sea came the sharp
smell of seaweed. A red mountain-
ash was weighed down with white,
crisp snow.

Matti Tovonen looked wearily at
his feet, which were covered with
heavy soldiers’ boots.

In all else he was a civilian,
wearing a brownish coat, a soft
felt hat, and a scarf tied by his
wite.

Only those boots . . . Surely he
mustn’t lose his life because of
them,

Who cccupied the town now?
Almost four days passed since
the day he buried his rifle,
changed into mufti and hid away
in a cellar. Shrapnel explosions
could even be heard wunder-
ground as the fighting was
waged over the snow.

Who had won? Matti Tolvonen
ran from tree to tree. If he could
but see one soldier !

THAT WORD.

What was that word in Russian?
Matti tried to remember the word
and at last he smiled. In a whis-
per he pronounced the word:

“Tovarish.” (Comrade.)

It was quiet. Not a dog’s bark
could be heard, not the swish of
sledges as they passed over the
snoy:
From a nearby house a group of

‘What Was That Word?’
Asks Finnish Soldier

Out of the Soviei-Finnish White Guard conflict has come
an inspiring, new tvpe of documentary reporting by Soviet cor-
respondents with the Red army. These stories—written in an
original journalistic form—bring to life the evenis today in the
fighting on the Karelian isthmus. Following is the first of a

WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS.
—The cellar door opened slightly. An uneasy face with a thick
growth of red hair peeked out.
man immediately hid himself again. He listened carefully for a
long time before repeating the maneuver. The silence over the

But the door creaked and the

came out in the open.

Matti just managed to hide behind
a pine tree trunk.

Wo, these were not Red army
men. Wot only did they have no
Stars, but they had no shourer
straps.

Who were they?

Were the officers of his company
really right when they said that
the British and Americans had
come to their aid?

And all at once Matti heard
the voice of the commander of
these troops, who said to the
men in Finnish: “Comrade Ve-
zikko ...”

MATTER OF HONOR.

Crows, scared by the loud vaice,
flew up from a tree. Snow fell fim
the branches of a tree onto Matti.
The commander continued:

“Comrades Vezikko and Kune-
ros remain on patrol here. I re-
peat that this is a matter of
honor te the Finnish People’s
army that not even a piece of
string should be lost from any
house or shop. That is the main
job of our patrol work. And sec-
ondly, send Red army units that
arrive here to our corps head-
quarters.”

Matti emerged from his
place as the unit passed,
He hurried to catch up with the

hiding

soldiers came out at a rapid pace,

platoon.

Even Mention

government,

Indian Newspapers Can't

Censorship

BOMBAY, India.—_(By Mail) —The executive committee of
the Journalists Association here has issued a statement con-
demning the censorship in Bengal as seriously impairing the
integrity of Indian’s press. The statement, printed in the Bom-
bay Chronicle, declares that the press is at the mercy of the

The newspapermen point out in
their statement that due to rigid‘
censorship of dispatches, press
agencies and newspapers are suf-
fering severe losses. For informa-
tion, the newspapers are forced to
depend to a great extent on the
Associated Press and United Press.
Political speeches and declarations
made by Indian leaders and organ-
izations are often cut or delayed
for a long time before being print-
ed in Bengal newspapers. <A
speech made by Chandra Bose,
former Indian Congress chairman,
was suppressed by the Bengal cen-
sor.

Sanfibani, a | long-established
weekly paper, known for its mod-
erate viws, has been warned by the
censor because it published an
article calins attention to discord
within the Mohammedan Teague
on the question of participation in
the war.

Even those articles in the Ben-
gal press which support the war,

in history been broken through

but point out that granting of self

government to India would pro-
duce more ‘enthusiasm’ for the
war, and that India must become
independent herself before fighting
for the freedom of others, have met
with the sharp displeaure of the
censor.

The statement points out that
all mention of censorship in gen-
eral is prohibited. Consequent-
ly, Calcutta newspapers have
been forbidden to publish the
statement of the Indian Journ—
alists’ Association in which new
examples of press censorship
are recorded. These examples
are censored out and the resolu-
tion printed in misrepresented
for monly.

Irish Protest

DUBLIN, IFS—A resolution pro-
testing the conscription of Irish
citizens resident in Britain was
passed at a recent meeting of the
Connolly Glub in London.

Continued

Vi

The forests surrounding Vipurii,
now the scene of battle, contain
Many places closely associated
with the history of the Russian
revolutionary movement. Lenin
went in hiding here in 1906.

Built by the Swedes in the 13th
century, as a base for suppressing
the Karelians, the town stands
amidst pieturesque surroundings,
sheltered by Vipurii bay.

Vipurli is an important Finnish
timber export port and through
the Saimen canal is connected
With Finland’s timber districts, A
large part of its 50,000 population
are port workers, railwaymen and
workers in the sawmills, paper and
food industries and several small
engineering plants,

Vipuril belonged to tsarist Rus-
Sia after 1710, and when Russia
made peace with Sweden, was in-
cluded in the Grand Duchy of Fin-
land. The city was important as a
tsarist fortress.

HISTORY OF STRUGGLE.

The citys name is frequently
mentioned in tracing the history of
Russian labor. Here the contact
between the Finnish labor move-
ment and the revolutionary move-
ment against tsarism was partic-
ulary close, and Vipurii workers
always helped their Russion com-
rades in the struggle against tsar-
ism.

Here in Vipurii members of the
so-called technical fighting group
of Russian Social - Democratic
party appeared before the tsarist
court in 1907. In 1917, Vipurii had
a large Bolshevik organization,
numbering 560 members, most of
them army men.

The organization also maintain-
ed contract with the local Finnish
labor movement. It was the Fin-
nish workers, who together with
the sailors and soldiers issued an
appeal to the Finnish proletariat
on Jan. 22, 1918 calling for active
Class struggle against the bour-
geoisie.

The appeal of the Vipurii Soviet
of Workers and Soldiers’ deputies,
issued in conjunction with all local
labor organizations to the troops
and warships stationed at Viborg,
was a call to struggle against Man-
nerheim’s White Guards who were
marching on Vipurii bent on cap-
turing this strategic point, on the
approach to Red Petrograd.

Mannerheim succeeded in cap-
turing the tewn and on May 10,
1910, the White Guards began
Savage brutality against the in-
tropid fighters for the cause of
the Finnish people.

WHAT LENIN WROTE.

The bonds of solidarity between
the Vipurii workers were strong
because of the influence of the
nearby revolution in Petrograd
was always felt among the Vipurii
workers,

The fortifications erected by
the British General Kirk and the
stream of anti-Soviet lies alike,
failed to sever these indissoluble
bonds wihch were forged in joint
struggle against tsarism, the White
Guards and the intervention,

Lenin described these strong
bond of friendship in an article,
‘The Tsar against the Finnish peo-;
ple,’ written in 1909, in the follow-
ing words:

“Regardless of what bitter
moments the new struggle holds
in store for the courageous Fin-
nish proletariat, it will serve to
cement new bonds of solidarity
between the working class of
Finland and Russia, preparing
it for the time when it will be
strong enough to complete what
it began in 1905.”

in the same article, Lenin wrote:
“Finland’s proletariat knows that
the Socialist proletariat through-
out Russia is prepared to fulfil its
duty to the end.”

Continued

Business

Stamp, who is the government’s
economic adviser, did not contra-
dict him. Lord WBalfour added
something which has been empha-
Sized by every government speak-
er in the last three months.

He said, following Prime Min-
ister Neville Chamberlain’s dic-
tum that “We can’t soak: the rich
any more,” that the poor must
-pay for the war because the
spending power is in their hands.
He forgot, or did not find it
convenient to remember, that
23,000,000 people in Britain have
a standard of living below the
minimum laid down by the
League of Nations, while a
quarter of a milion own proper-
ty valued at £9,000,000,000.

But the result of the govern-
ment’s determination to cut con-
sumption will be seen in wun-
derstocked shops and bare cup-
boards. It will also be seen if the
government has its way on wages,
which will stay down while prices
rise. The war is costing £4000 ev-
ery minute, so the government
figures the workers must pay.

As a footnote it is worth re-
porting that the inventor of ‘ma-
con, the unpalatable war mix-
ture of mutton and bacon, in-
tended to replace bacon, has
died. Perhaps he tried his own

* product.

to White Guard Finland.

These are the facts to which the
political bureau of the Communist
party of Great Britain drew atten-
tion in a vitally important declara-
tion recently issued. Even as the
statement was being issued, for-
mer war minister Leslie Hore-
Belisha was making a speech in
his parliamentary division demand-
ing that Britain rush every form
of armed aid to Mannarheim Fin-
land.

The statement came at a time
when Hore-Belisha, General Sir
Hubert Gough and many news-
papers were whipping up a big
anti-Soviet campaign.

The statement urged the work
ers to act with all the powex at
their command, adding that “the
people can stop the war from
spreading and bringing the mur-
der of millions of human beings.
But only if they arouse them-
selves and act as never before,
only if they act now.”

According to some papers here,
British squadrons are off Mur-
mansk for the purpose of watch-
ing activities-of German ship. in
adjoining Norwegian waters. That
may be.

But many people are remember-
ing that it is only a few weeks
since General Gough, who headed
the anti-Bolshevik intervention in
the Baltic in 1919, and who is a
close friend of General Eir Eid-
mund fIronside, chief of the Im-
perial General Staff, and the
Paris press suggested dispatch of
@ British squadron to blockade

Act Now To Stop
War From Spreading,
Communists Urge

By PHILIP BOLSOVER

LONDON, England. — Away north in the Arctic waters,
British warships are reported gathering off Murmansk port, the
center of the British anti-Soviet intervention in 1918. Down
east, a powerful army has been assembled under French General
Maurice Weygand in Syria and another army of British troops
in Palestine. Across the Channel in Paris, British and French
Labor leaders have met to complete their anti-Soviet policy
with a demand by Sir Walter Citrine for more men and arms

While we are on this subject, it
is interesting to glance at the con-
tributors for White-Guard Finiand
as publicized by the Times. The
Bank of England gave £500, Bar-
clays Bank, Lloyd’s Bank, Mid-
land Bank and the National Pro-
vincial Bank—known as the ‘Big
Four’—all gave £500. Vickers Ltd.,

the great arms manufacturers,
gave £500, Bristol Aeroplane Com-
pany £250.

These are the well-known friends
of democracy who are now helping:
Finland. It is interesting to re-
member what they gave the demo-
cratic Spanish Republic during its
struggle against fascism. Ail] the
Spanish democrats got was the air

The anti-Soviet drive this week
was linked increasingly to the
attack against the Communist
party. The leaders of that at-
tack have been the Labor party.
The attack is all the more severe
because of the Communist
party’s efforts to defend the
workers’ interests in the war si-
tuation are obtaining increasing
support,

And the feeling against the war
is growing. The economic situa-
tion of the workers is playing an
increasingly important part in
that. The cost of living has risen
more than 20 percent since the
war began, according to relianle
estimates. f

Things like bacon and butter are
still beyond the reach of the poor-
er families, and, remember, there
are still one and a half million un-

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Joseph Green,

as in France.”

20th Century Robin Hood
Fires Arrow Of Protest

LONDON, England —‘Fight Hitlerism at home!”

A Twentieth Century Robin Hood who shot an arrow through a
window at 10 Downing street, official residence of Prime Minister
Chamberlain, told that to Police Court Magistrate Sir Robert Dum-
mett last week when charged with insulting behavior and wilfully
damaging a pane of glass valued at five shillings ($1).

An anti-war note was attached to the arrow he shot.
told the court:

“T regret having to play Robin Hood in Downing street, Today
I’m supposed to be joining his majesty’s forces to serve my king and
country. I think people here should fight Hitlerism at home as well

Evidence of other protests against the Chamberlain government’s
war policy was seen in hurling of a milk bottle through a store win-
dow displaying a picture of First Lord of the Admiralty Winston
Churchill and books he had written.

Big blotches of green ink were also found smeared on the huge
pillars in front of the Bank of England last week.

Murmansk. Tney are also remem-
bering that only this week the
London Times, the Sunday Times
and other papers have been sayings
how easy it would be to bomb the
Baku oil wells from Palestine.

As part of the campaign, Man-
nerheim’s London representative
has been asking for £1,000,000 ($5,-
000,000) to finance 5,000 ‘volun-
teers.’

The request was made at a
luncheon at which the chairman
was Lord Plymouth, ex-chair-
man of the Spanish non-inter-
vention committee—he is all for
intervention now. Plymouth’s
new comradein-arms, William.
Holmes, chairman of the Trades
Union Congress, was also pre-
sent, heavily disguised as a re-
presentative of the workers.

employed. The price of bacon is
reduced two pence, but the parlia-
mentary secretary of the ministry
of food stated in the House of
Commons this week that many
people are not buying their rations.

When poverty and rising prices
at home are linked with death
abroad, it is small wonder that
more working class organizations
are passing resolutions demanding
peace. Among the latest of these
is the Derby and district trades
council, representing 10,000 work-
ers, which called the war imperial-
ist and demanded an immediate
peace conference. The prelimin-
ary agenda of the conference of
the National Union of Clerks and
Administrative Workers has eight
resolutions condemning war and
demanding peace.

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