The Archive · 1939

Further Moscow Demands

Stockholm, Oct. 7. NOW that she has dealt with Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Soviet Ru: is about to demand concessions from Finland. authoritative les here declared.

Moscow has already demanded that Finland should send her foreign minister to the Soviet capital, just as the other Baltic countries did. Fin! 's final attitude on the matter is not yet known, the only indication being an official communique published in Helsinki and declaring that "the Finnish Government are studying the Soviet proposal to send a delegate to Moscow to continue negotiations in connection with political and commercial problems of interest to both countries,"

Meanwhile, according to mo: st reliable reports reaching here from Finland, the Finnish Government have decided to recall to the colours several categories of Army reserves.

Should the Foreign Minister of Finand comply with the Russian request and make a trip to Moscow, he would be asked to accept definite political and territorial claims put forward by the Kremlin, political observers here declared. According to reliable information reaching here, Moscow will demand a guarantee that the strategic Aaland Islands, the key {othe Bothnic Gulf, will not be fortined fand that certain territorial eoncessions, among them the transfer to Soviet Russia of the sovereignty upon the Island of Hogland, located: at the geographical centre of the Bothnic Gulf and which, according to the Russians, should "become an outpost fof the defences of Lenirtad.—

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