Moscow, Oct. 10.
The negotiations due to open morrow between Soviet Russia and Finland are expected to round off expansion of Soviet interests jin re~ Jation to her Baltic neighbours.
By pacts with Esthonia and Latvia, and the forthcoming agreements with Lithuania and Finland, the great Soviet aim of freeing Leningrad as 0 naval and. air base from the bottleeck of the Gulf of Finland, which Jgave any enemy easy means of preventing the exit of the Soviet Baltic Pleet, will have been achieved. 'To complete the programme. the Russians may' seek the neutralization of any threat from the southern coast at Finland fronting the Gulf. 1t ix lori~ cal to believe that Moscow would Jatso like to control the Aaland islands Jas a base from which ultimately to control Swedish exports to Germany.
Observers are wondering I the JSoviet-Lithuanian pact will conform {to the Esthonian and Latvign pacts, which mentioned the name of land frontiers from where attacks might come. In the case of Lithuani sould be necessary explicitly on the name of the Germ: ritory of Memel and Bast Prussia,
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