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SOVIET MAY SEVE FINNISH RELATIONS Official Moscow Press Pre- dicts Possible Outcome of Crisis on Collectivization. By Cable to The Star. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.,, May 15.—The possibility of the severance of diplo- matic relations between the Soviet Union and Finland, with serious conse- quences, was forecast in official news- papers today. The crisis is due to the so-called “independent Karelia” move- ment in the latter country, which watchtower, which is the more en- becat ‘Communist couraging use the party is expected to lead the second wave of the Iberian revolution. ‘The immediate cause of the present strained Finish-Soviet relations is the collectivization of the villages of the Ingermanland tribe in Soviet Karelia. Ingermanlands being numerous on the !"mnuh side of the frontfer, their com- patriots have objected. Annexation Sought. Behind all this is a well settled con- viction in Soviet circles that Finni Expansionists cherish the hope of an- nexing Karelia and possibly xoh Penin- sula, making & new frontier line along the Gulf of Finland, Lake Ladoga, Stir River, Lake Onega and the White Sea, lenving Leningrad in the Soviet Union but_giving the Murmansk Railroad to Plnllnd “Diplomatic protests having been unavailing, the Soviet Union may sibly be forced to take more dec! 1\e measures in order to reveal the Hel- singfors war jncendiaries to the entire world and paralyze their attempts to precipitate an armed conflict betw reached the stage of violent demonstra- | the Soviet Union and Finland,” tion against the Soviet legation at Hel- | singfors last Tuesday. Spain_provides another promising conflagration detected by the Moscow | the Moscow Izvestia, leading govern- mf‘nh organ, “Our information about military | preparations in Finland and the recent | THE anti-Soviet -how m danger of a break in nmmu nlnuoxu hetwem Finland and Komsomol l’nvdn Onmmunnt pnrty organ. Pledges Soviets to Defense, “The Finnish fascist! aim to provoke & conflict with the Soviet Union and their program is an open call for war, ‘We cannot permit a clique of turers in the Finnish army gen to carry out.the plans of Western Europe for an armed intervention in the ish | Soviet Union or permit the peace of Eastern Europe to be endangered. “The laboring population of Karelia and the working class of the Soviet Union in answer to the threat will unite and defend the Soviet frontiers the moment this is necessary.’ “Numerous conferences of leaders and general staffs in Baltic countries and the increased interest of European im- perialistic powers in Finland show the renl military danger on the frontier of the.Soviet Union,” Indu!tfla“n!zlu “The Finnish government takes no measures against its Fascist{, but en- courages them and permits the anti- Soviet bacchanal. They demand that Finland seize Karelia and denounce the treaty with the Soviet Union.” EVENING | other storés The prospects in Spain are brighter | from _the Moscow vie t, the mboclunomvotcxnt conclu- 'nu laboring population of gives a perfect account of itself in it has not dethroned the monarchy in order to perpetuate the bourgeoise land- owner regime. They have now adopted revolutionary methods. The Spanish Communist party must head the strug- gle of the workers and peasants against the landowners’ rule and lead Spain along the revolutionary highway. “The experience of the Russian revo- lution serves as a model for the labor- ing classes of Spain,” it concludes, with reference to the Kerensky interim here. (Copyrisht. 1931) . BURMA REBELS KILLED Punjabis and Police Combine in| Attack Against Insurgent Camp. RANGOON, Burma, May 15 (®).— Thirty rebels were killed today in an |attack of a combined force of Punjabis and military police on the insurgent |camp near Taungnyo, in the Insein ammunition, rice and | ere captured. Two Pun- vounded. district. Gu jabis were STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, DEMAND DOLLAR WHEAT. Eansas and Oklahoma Growers Join Move to Cut Acreage. LIBERAL, Kans,, May 15 ().—Wheat growers in 14 Southwest Kansas coun- ties and two in Oklahoma were repre- sented today in a movement for dollar- a-bushel wheat. Impetus to the drive, which started two weeks ago at Minneola, Kans., was imparted here last night at a meet! of 500 farmers who agreed not to ses their land next Fall unless they receive $1 a bushel for this year's crop before planting time. G. R. Rooney, leader in the move- ment, estimated that farmers at the meeting represented a total ares of 200,000 acres. 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