ARCHANGEL, _September 10, 1918._
SANTERI NUORTEVA,
_Fitchburg, Mass._:
DEAR COMRADE,--I deem it my duty to appeal to you and to
other comrades in America in order to be able to make clear to you
the trend of events here.
The situation here has become particularly critical. We, the
Finnish refugees, who, after the unfortunate revolution, had to
flee from Finland to Russia, find ourselves to-day in a very
tragic situation. A part of the former Red Guardists who fled here
have joined the Red Army formed by the Russian Soviet Government;
another part has formed itself as a special Finnish legion, allied
with the army of the Allied countries; and a third part, which has
gone as far as to Siberia, is prowling about there, diffused over
many sections of the country, and there have been reports that a
part of those Finns have joined the ranks of the Czecho-Slovaks.
The Finnish masses, thus divided, may therefore at any time get
into fighting each other, which indeed would be the greatest of
all misfortunes. It is therefore necessary to take a clear
position, and to induce all the Finns to support it, and we hope
that you as well, over in America, will support it as much as is
in your power.
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