The Archive · 1930

New Lappa Move 3

Helsingfors, July 19.

The leaders of the Lappa mover ment who recently organized the march of the anti-Communists on the capital, have now gone a step further by issuing a manifesto ex-borting the nation not to allow subversive elements to vote in the coming general elections as otherwise Communist elements might again find their way into Parliae ment. The Lappoists, the declara~ tion emphasizes, are in any case re= solved to suppress all manifestations. which are not in accord with their own political ideas.

the Although Liberal ides had from beginning feared that the jon ary movement would, after having succeeded in the" drive rains Communism or at least against the civie rights granted by the constitution to the Communis well as, to anybody else, turn inst others, it came asa big Surprise when it was learned to-day that one of the country's most pro~ eminent Socialist deputies of Tammerfors, Mr, Hakkil been kidnapped this morning and conveyed in a motor car to an known destination by a band of farmed Lappoists.

'Meanwhile, the Minister of the Interior has' agreed to, the demand fof the Lappoists and has issued a decree prohibiting all Communist, meetings or other Communist pro~ paganda during the campaign preceding the election of the new parliament, It is feared that the country ha only just, entered -—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.

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