Helsinki, Dec, 7, Soviet troops have used poison gas of the deleterious variety in their attack against Finnish batteries North of the Ladoga Lake, according to the Finnish Telegraph Agency and eleven Finnish soldiers were asphyxiated yesterday, It is again emphatically denied here that Petsamo has been occupied by Soviet forces,—Havas, Finnish Minister Leaving Moscow Moscow, Dec. 7. The Finnish Minister and 29 members of the Legation staff are expected to receive passports today to leave Moscow at 8.50 p.m. for Stockholm, via Berlin, Count von der Schulenburg, the German Ambassador, as doyen of the diplomatic corps, has suggested t> neutral Embassies and Legations, except the United States Embassy, that their members should not be present at the station to see the Finns off.
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