The Finnish community in Shanghai is anything but a large one, nevertheless the fact that. to-day they celebrate the anniversary fof their independence ought not to pass unnoticed. "It was one of the bad features of Tsarism that Fin and stood as she did at the out break of the European war, and it is satisfactory to note that in her pation she presenta 90. very different a picture from the Russia, Yet for a time, let remembered, she too appeared as if with the Russians she would be dragged into the slavery Bolshevism, A small Red minority lof the Finns attempted to introduce mob tyranny, but their innings was short. A splendid body of volfunteers going under the name of the Protective Corps of Finland stepped into the breach, and o them, It is interesting to note that the men who did this work were very largely of the athletic, sport ing type which athletes to-day take so prominent w part in all the me ternational sporting events of the world, Reconstruction and habilitation have since those critical Jdays been carried out in. Finland, Jand the sentiment is confidently expressed that the country is no Tonger liable to catch the, Bolshevik epidemic which once threatened, In fact countries such as Finland may well be considered as bulwarks for western Europe against this menace, and as such deserve congratulations fon their national day.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.