Kalevalan Sanomat - Marshal Häyhä speaks on the Malminmaa issue, Scanian affairs

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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YRJÖNLINNA, WEST KALEVALA REPUBLIC - Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä today inaugurated Union Way 27, one of the largest public construction projects over the last decade after four years of extensive construction. The inauguration ceremony was accompanied by significant representation of dignitaries including Transportation Minister Kyösti Sarkola and representatives from constituents through which the newly constructed highway will now provide easier automobile access. While portions of the roadway will remain unpaved for some time the entirety of Union Way 27 will now be opened for the public with the construction of last toll booths along the route having been completed in late September. The highway spans several hundred kilometers along the Fennian west coast from Yrjönlinna to the national capital of Kalevala.

During his inaugural address Transportation Minister Sarkola mentioned intent to develop further highway construction within the Union in response to the growing numbers of private car ownership, something expected to present a major challenge for the operators of national railway services. Maintenance of the highways will be funded in part by the maintenance of toll booths while the Union Congress is soon expected to discuss a proposal for the formation of a separate Highway Police over complaints from regional police forces regarding the increasing amount of traffic policing. The Union Way Project as it is called by Kalevala is also set to alleviate unemployment issues due to the Transportation Office's plans to encourage the recruitment of currently unemployed labor for the purpose.

- FREE CITY OF KONTULA - Controversy is abound in the Southern port city's cultural life after the local police released details that prominent movie star star Jussi Perttilä was arrested on Saturday during a police raid upon an illegal bar which, in the words of a police spokesman, contained "dozens of men, some of whom were engaged in lewd conduct with each other". The men arrested from the establishment were transferred to the central police station and most were released after interrogation, while some without personal documents remain in custody. City police commander Mikael Salo confirmed that several people arrested from the bar would face charges under the 1885 Sodomy Act, while the bar's owner remains in custody and will face charges for operating a drinking establishment without appropriate licensing.

Perttilä himself was not available for comment related to the charges. The actor, a star of the famous Kontula City Theatre as well as several domestic movies including Last Charge of the Botnians (1939 ) and Lalli (1948 ), could face up to five years in prison under the provisions of the 1885 Sodomy Act as a source in the Kontula police told Kalevalan Sanomat that he had been caught in a "lewd situation" by the arresting officers. Police commander Salo described the raid, which was carried out by the Union Vice Police in concert with the Kontula City Police, as a "major step in unravelling the murky waters of degeneracy that appear to be abound in the underworld of our city.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Suspected Communists assassinate Kalevala's Interior Minister


This morning on his way to the legistlature of the Union's largest constituent, Kingdom of Kalevala's Interior Minister Baron Julius Joensuu-Kaleva was brutally gunned down in what the Military Police has labelled a likely political assassination carried out by underground elements of the banned Fennian Communist Party. In addition, member of his security detail Kalevala Police Inspector Pentti Vettenterä was killed attempting to shield Joensuu-Kaleva from the bullets fired by the assailant while another policeman and the Interior Minister's personal secretary sustained light wounds during the attack.

Colonel Antti Talvela, Commandant of the Military Police in Kalevala, said that the assailant had opened fire against Joensuu-Kaleva from the rooftop of an adjacent building just as he had exited his residence along with his retinue to head to his official car. The weapon was discovered from the rooftop subsequent to the attack and has been named as a Kar47 semi-automatic carbine of a type used primarily by the Fennian Union Marine Corps. The assassin apparently fired all ten rounds of the weapon, expending its clip, before making his escape. A shot to the head immediately killed Baron Joensuu-Kaleva, and a doctor subsequently pronounced him dead directly at the scene.

While no one has claimed responsibility for the incident, investigators are considering it likely that militant underground elements of the Communist Party were responsible for the act in retaliation to Joensuu-Kaleva's heroic efforts in persecuting communist activities within the Kingdom of Kalevala. Between 1937 and 1940, Joensuu-Kaleva headed a special tribunal responsible for investigation of political murders carried out by communist paramilitaries before the National Unity Front's restoration of civic order.

The Military Police has released a description of the suspected shooter, describing him as a white male somewhere in his 30s, of medium build, of about 180cm height and dressed in labourer wear. Citizens are advised to contact the police with any leads that could lead to the capture of the terrorist. Investigation of the murder is being handled by the Military Police Security Department.

Inspections of traffic leaving the city are being carried out at major roadways as well as the Kaleva Central Railway Station. Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä today issued a statement condemning the attack and relaying his condolences to the family of Baron Joensuu-Kaleva. "Divisionist forces seeking to undermine the Union and to sow terror and chaos have struck at the heart of our capital", General Häyhä said in an address in the Union Public Radio, "We shall do our utmost to bring the perpetrators of this cowardly attack to face the harshest legal justice." At the age of 53 Joensuu-Kaleva was survived by his wife Aleksandra Joensuu-Kaleva and two sons Väinö and Johannes.

 

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The Grand Duchy condemns this horrendous and cowardly attack against a government official. We hope to see justice brought to those who perpetrated this crime.

Gian Lombardo
Foreign Minister​

 

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Valtionhoitajan Kanslia
Fennian Unioni

Chancellery of the Stateholder
The Fennian Union

On behalf of the God-fearing and loyal people of the Fennian Union and the families of those slain in today's cowardly attacks it is my wish to express our thanks to the Potenzan government for their solidarity. It is assured that those responsible for this cowardly act of insurgency shall be found and brought to face the harshest justice legally possible by our laws.

Regards,
General Joakim Häyhä
His Excellency the Stateholder of the Union

 

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Fennian Union Desk

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The Federal Republic is saddened to hear of the death of Interior Minister Baron Julius Joensuu-Kaleva. We hope that the killer will be brought to justice in good time and order by the Fennian Union. If we can be of any assistance in tracking individuals or organisations then the Union need only ask and we shall do our best.

 

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Valtionhoitajan Kanslia
Fennian Unioni

Chancellery of the Stateholder
The Fennian Union

Our neighbors in Telora have our thanks for their solidarity in time of such horrible acts of terror and sabotage, and we wish to relay to them the gratefulness of the kin of those slain in today's act of assassination. However, we respectfully decline assistance noting that the Fennian people shall remain ever steadfast and vigilant in ending the divisionist saboteurs among us.

Regards,
General Joakim Häyhä
His Excellency the Stateholder of the Union

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - As hunt for the suspected communist assassins responsible for the killing of Kalevala Interior Minister Julius Joensuu-Kaleva continues, the Military Police Security Department (TuOs) today announced a reward of ten thousand Fennian Marks for information leading to the culprits. TuOs spokesmen have confirmed a claim of responsibility for the attack by a group calling itself the Partisans of the Fennian Communist Party, pointing heavily to the involvement of the communist underground in the attack which left Baron Joensuu-Kaleva and a bodyguard dead and another bodyguard and the Baron's personal secretary lightly wounded. Military and city policemen have been put on high alert in Kalevala as the hunt for the assassin, who remains at large, continues. Inspections of outgoing traffic are being carried out on roadways and at the Kalevala Central Railway Station.

In today's session of the Union Congress, Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä said that the attack represented a "high sign that we are not, in spite of our best efforts, completely safeguarded from the Communist peril." "I cannot say in higher terms that it is the God-given duty of every Fennian to resist this enemy in our midst", the Stateholder General said to applause from the assembled Congressmen, "And that this dastardly act of murder calls our entire nation to resist this movement of terror everywhere within the Union from the level of our communities up until the level of the entire Fennian nation." Pending Kalevala Prime Minister Kristian Salonius's appointment of a formal replacement, the Kingdom's head of police Petteri Thorstrup is exercising the functions of an acting Interior Minister.

- UUSI TAPANILA, PROTECTED TERRITORIES - The Stockmann-Rosenberg Diamond Company today inaugurated what is said to be the largest diamond mine anywhere in the New Fennia colonies. Located twenty kilometers east of the city of Uusi Tapanila in New Fennia's Northern Territory, the Tapaninvuori mine will provide employment to thousands of locals after it formally commenced operation today. Participant in the opening ceremony was the company's chief executive officer Yrjö Rosenberg who travelled there for the purpose from Kalevala, as well as local officials including Governor-General, Vice Admiral Aleksi Sumuvuori, chief administrator of the colony. A project to open a diamond mine on the spot has been at the works since February when prospectors discovered Tapaninvuori's diamond deposits, and Stockmann-Rosenberg purchased the mining license from independent prospectors a month later against an undisclosed amount of money.

The mine is expected to provide an economic surge to the city of Uusi-Tapanila, which has seen decay since the 1931 completion of the Northern Territories Railroad begun to draw in residents from the area to towns adjacent to the railroad. However, the mine's success was uncertain during much of the summer as the company's establishment of the mine attained resistance from local tribesmen and suspected red agitators who carried out acts of sabotage against the mine site and a connecting railroad construction to the mine. In July, five locals of Swana extract were hanged for acts of insurgency and thirty others imprisoned with hard labor after the Mounted Military Police managed to unravel the ring of saboteurs that had been attacking Stockmann-Rosenberg efforts in the area.

 

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The government and I are most distraught at this most egregious event to have taken place and shocked the Fennian political establishment. Our flags stand at half mast in tribute to the memory of your illustrious minister of the interior, Baron Julius Joensuu-Kaleva.

That such woeful and detestable elements can undertake and conclude such an appalling act in the snuffing out of the life of an important figure is testament to their inherent inhumanity and heathen values that should never be tolerated by any civilised land anywhere in the globe.

I am also rather concerned that this awful assassination was due to the hands of communists, even if they are internal variants of the international horde. Increasingly, I am perturbed at the latent and potent threats caused to even the smallest and blameless of lands due to communistic actors and it is something that is taking up a great deal of both my time and that of key policy makers in my country in an effort to counteract.

We can only hope that the full and unquivering force of justice is exerted well and truly around the necks of these people as they learn to deal with the direct consequences of their actions.

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HR. HENRIK JOACHIM WESTERVELD

FOREIGN MINISTER OF THE GREAT DANISH IMPERIUM

 

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Valtionhoitajan Kanslia
Fennian Unioni

Chancellery of the Stateholder
The Fennian Union

I wish to render my most sincere thanks to the Great Danish government for the solidarity they have expressed upon this time when bolshevist peril has so affected our nation. The Fennian people are assured that they stand shoulder to shoulder with the Great Danes and indeed, with all civilized countries of the West, in protecting European civilization from the perils inflicted by bolshevists and other political renegades. Appropriately, we can assure the Great Danish government that the red scourge shall not take root in the sacred soil of the Union, for the Fennian people in its steadfastness shall suffer no calamity or adversity in keeping the Union safe and free from that evil.

Regards,
General Joakim Häyhä
His Excellency the Stateholder of the Union

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä for the first time today gave open address on the topic of the growing war in the East, as Danish and Mezhist Union forces battle the bolshevik junta in power in Miroslav. In Union Public Radio, The Stateholder gave assurances of Fennian willingness and commitment to maintain peace in the West in concert with other civilized nations but underlined that "there was no doubt of the fact that the Danes and the Poles are fighting a just war." "They are fighting on behalf of civilized and Christian nations everywhere in the world in taking on one of the most egregious heads of the red hydra gripping nations throughout Europe", Stateholder Häyhä spoke, "The fall of communism and the victory of liberty is ordained by God Almighty himself and as tragic as this war is with the suffering of innocents that it will entail, perhaps it is a message from God advising us of the inevitable fall of communist tyrants everywhere."

The Stateholder continued by saying he had instructed the War Office to recommence the naval and air neutrality patrols that were in place during the August Catastrophe to protect Fennian territories, and that it was in interests of all the governments in West to attempt to contain the war in progress. At the same time, Treasury Minister Anton K. Alanko announced that the Treasury Office was closely monitoring the situation of world trade during the developing conflict. Investor confidence already suffered a blow during the August Catastrophe and the recent oil price hike agreed upon by oil-producing countries, and Minister Alanko assured that all would be done to reduce potential effects upon Fennian economy, even to the point of greater intervention measures to be adapted by the Union government.

- FREE CITY OF PIETARI - The National Health and Temperance Alliance made calls today for regional and Union officials to curb the growing numbers of dance and music halls popular throughout Fennia, as the nation's leading association of health activists begun its annual conference in Pietari. Alliance chairwoman Councilwoman Margareta Mäkipelto spoke out against the "dance hall" culture, denouncing the halls as a symbol of "national decadence" and pointing out to the heavy consumption of alcohol often associated with the establishments. Mäkipelto referred to a recent report by the Union Vice Police regarding the state of drunkenness often found in the dance halls, as well as public disturbances in their vicinity, including acts of vandalism, brawls and public drunkenness. "Such centers of overt immorality as the dance halls inspire decadence everywhere they are found, luring honest workingmen to spend their hard-earned cash on the curse of alcohol", Mäkipelto spoke at the Pietari Union Theatre where the Health and Temperance Alliance is assembling.

Dance halls have become increasingly popular throughout Fennia ever since the 1943 reform of alcohol legistlation allowed service of alcoholic drink to their non-eating customers, though on the account that such halls obtain specific licensing from the Vice Police on the condition of offering what the law defines as "high-quality entertainment in the form of theatric or music performance or dance event." Such halls are found throughout Fennian cities and increasingly so in rural areas, where a popular dance hall might draw in patrons from many neighboring municipalities and villages. Perhaps the most famous example is the southern coastal city of Hanko, the town itself and its surroundings having been named "Dance Coast" for the many dance and music halls that have sprung up to cater to the masses of domestic tourists spending their summer holidays in the area.

- KOKONLINNA, GRAND DUCHY OF POHJANMAA - The Pohjanmaa Automobile Factory is setting off an expansion into the growing market of family cars with the presentation of its latest model, PAT Joutsen 6. Also intended for international sales under the export designation PAT Swan Six, the now unveiled car aims to strike to the needs of the growing urban middle class. Chief engineer at the company's Kokonlinna plant which will manufacture Swan Six, Juhani Jantunen, describes the model as a "highly affordable, yet comfortable town car providing the freedom of the road to more and more Fennians, and hopefully foreigners as well". The initial production model will be a four-door salon, though if successful the company is considering to bring a convertible model into production next year. The car uses a six-cylinder engine bringing power of up to 68bhp while its measured track speed is listed as 128 kilometers per hour. Heating and a radio set are available as optional accessories. In addition, a special police model of the car is being marketed to law enforcement agencies throughout the Union.

 

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - War Office commissions a Defense Review Board for Five-Year Army Reform


The War Office has formally commissioned a review board to plan a five-year reform of the Fennian Union Army expected to commence by 1953. The review board, made up of several high-ranking military officers representing all branches of service of the Union Army as well as representatives from the Offices of Treasury and War Production and several retired officers in a consultative capacity, is to commence work this week headed by Colonel-General (ret.) Vilho Schulberg. Before retiring from the military in 1949, Schulberg acted as the commander of the New Fennia Military District responsible for oversight of all Union Army units and reservists within the Protected Territories.

"In a time of rapid technological advancement it is crucial that the Bulwark of the Union remain on that forefront for us to safeguard our national sovereignity and interests abroad", stated the War Minister, Admiral Mikael Aminoff to reporters at the War Office as he presented the members of the Defense Review Board to members of the press. "With our best military minds pooled together in this endeavour, I have my utmost confidence that the Army Reform shall be a success and that it will invigorate the Union Army, allowing the brave men in its service to continue the defense of the Fatherland with the best possible efficiency and resources", Admiral Aminoff stated. While the Review Board has been given extensive authority to prepare its work solely with the supervision of the Commander-in-Chief, Stateholder General Häyhä and War Minister Tanner, the Union Congress will in the end go through the recommendations issued by the Board.

Technological advance throughout the world, also in the laboratories and factories within Fennia's leading industries, are the key reason why the War Office decided to commence preparations for the initiation of the Army Reform. Among the most important is the growing popularity and technological viability of jet aircraft in a number of civil and military roles. While both domestic and import jet models have been pressed into the service of the Air Force and the Navy with great success, the looming relegation of conventional propeller aircraft into fewer military roles is said by War Office to require growing investment into the production and acquisition of new aircraft. Coinciding with this is the impending reform of Naval coastal defense after several high-ranking Naval Aviation officers have pressed for greater replacement of traditional coastal artillery using jet fighter and bomber aircraft.

At the same time, the Defense Review Board is also set to draft general modernization of the Fennian military through continuing acquisition of up-to-date items currently in military service and through tenders placed for the acquisition of new military equipment. The Valmet State Metal Factories are already expected to attain a significant contract for the modernization of armor, aircraft and naval vessels currently in military service to expand the time they will be available for military use.

The continuing European instability and the looming threat of war, as evidenced by red aggression throughout the world, places high priority on the Fennian nation's maintenance of capabilities of self-defense. With a clash of powers again in the East not even a decade after our neighbors fought each other in a devastating war, it is obvious that defense of the Fatherland must be a high priority for every Fennian. Luckily, the foresight granted to the Stateholder General ensures that our nation shall be safeguarded from peril!

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - The Fennian Union does not intend to join the recently established Grand European Trade Pact, said Foreign Minister Kauko Vannas in today's session of Union Congress. The Trade Pact, made up of notable European states including Adgerike, Danmark, Great Engellex and several others, was entered into force at the turn of the month with the stated purpose of between-members bilateral tariff reduction. Foreign Minister Vannas today said that the "Union remained committed to ensuring its national sovereignity and that Fennia is free to direct its economic policy as it sees fit to pursue our national interests", thus refuting questions of Trade Pact membership raised by some in Congress. Vannas reminded that supranational mechanisms inherently transfer decisionmaking power away from the national level, resulting in "hard compromises and the movement of power away from the level where it may be most objective."

Instead, Vannas said that the Union was most interested in furthering ties between fellow civilized governments on a bilateral level. "What is significant in this regard that most of the Trade Pact members are such nations of common interests and goals with us that they would warrant closer bilateral ties", Vannas commented, referring to Great Engellex and Danmark as examples of such nations. However, the Foreign Minister also named other more distant countries including Cantigia, which the Foreign Office has reportedly approached in the interests of engaging in closer trade cooperation. Events occurring throughout the world, such as the Miroslavian aggression in the East and continued Communist and Post-Delegationist offenses elsewhere, prove the need of civilized Europe to form common ties against common enemies.

- TAMMERJOKI, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Though the shooter of Kalevala's Interior Minister Baron Julius Joensuu-Kaleva continues to remain at large, police operations in the Kingdom of Kalevala netted other red prey today as Security Department officers arrested local red agitator and murderer Christian Särkelä. Särkelä, a member of a paramilitary wing of the banned Union of Fennian Workers' Councils, was sentenced to death in 1937 for involvement in a murder of two Patriotic People's Front members and a separate incident in which a local policeman was shot to death during a strikebreaking action. He escaped from custody before his execution and remained at large for fifteen years before being caught today along with a woman also said to be involved in the banned communist group. Officers confiscated a handgun and banned communist propaganda from the residence in which the two were found, said to belong to the arrrested woman, named as Julia Lampinen.

Särkelä was immediately transferred to the Talvilinna Army Penitentiary where he now awaits for Stateholder General Häyhä to formally sign an execution warrant. Prison officials said that an execution by firing squad would be carried out by the end of the month. Ms. Lampinen will face charges on harboring a fugitive, engaging in divisionist activities and for acts of insurgency before the Kalevala Union Criminal Court. Though insurgency is considered by Union Criminal Code to be a capital offense, Union prosecutors have not stated whether they intended to seek out the death penalty for her as well. "This is a sign to the red underground that they cannot hide from justice", commented Union Prosecutor Kaarle Wallinsalo

Meanwhile, police forces are continuing their efforts in the Kalevala area to root out members of the active communist underground.

 

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - All-Fennian Hockey League 1952-1953 commences


The traditional Weekend Special is set to start off the 1952-1953 season of the leading league of our most popular team sport. A season starting tradition since 1941, the Weekend Special will see teams of the All-Fennian Hockey League start off their season with two consecutive evenings of games again expected to draw in high amounts of attendance and popular interest. Among the ten teams currently making up the League, preparation has been intense as teams prepare to face during the new season's first games, an anticipated opportunity of demonstrating their skills to their supporters after returning in from their summer vacations.

Perhaps the most anticipated of the eight first-evening matches of the season is the first Kalevala Derby. At Kalevala-Kiekko's home stadium, the Kalevala Sports Palace, last year's League winner will face against its traditional local rival Kalevalan Jääritarit in the first of many local matches of the ice hockey season. Tickets for the game reportedly sold out on Tuesday, filling to capacity the Sports Palace's 9500 seats. Supporters of the home team are looking forward to the return of the team's veteran winger and goal-scorer Teemu Kahila, who spent the last two months of the 1951-1952 season out of the rink due to a serious leg injury. In an interview with this week's edition of sports magazine Urheiluviikko, Kahila boasted that he had been "at the top of his game" in training matches played by the team in August and September as well as team training, and that he intended to provide a "righteous show" for the team's supporters.

The other matches of the opening evening are also expected to draw in high attendance. In Kontula, Kontulan Pallo will face off against IFK Malm, while Yrjönlinna will also see a derby game between Yrjönlinnan Pallo-Veikot and Yrjönlinnan Ilves. 1951-1952 bronze winner Pietarin Pallo will face last season's silver team Pasilan Ässät in Pietari, while recent semifinal loser Kalevala IFK is to play against Tapanilan Leijonat, promoted after last season from the Second League.

The starting season is significant not just for the sport itself, but also for the fact that it will be the first season of the All-Fennian Hockey League that is to be televised by the Union Public Radio. Though an experimental TV broadcast of the All-Fennian Stars game was seen already in 1951, the 1952-1953 season will be the first to feature regular television broadcasts of the games after the All-Fennian Hockey Association and the Union Public Radio agreed upon dues paid to players, teams and the association itself over the television broadcasts. As a result, public television halls throughout the country will likely be packed to the brim during the opening matches.

Both His Majesty Yrjö I Armfelt-Wettin and Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä will honor the Kalevala Derby with their presence.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Kiosk literature leader Markus Niskanen is topping national book sales ratings just a week after the release of his latest detective novel, Sword and the Hammer and Sickle throughout the country. The eight installment of the popular Inspector Palmu series will see the hero, Kalevala murder detective Jukka Palmu, investigate the mysterious death of a prominent airplane engineer and uncover a conspiracy by communist Havenite spies to steal the designs of a latest jet fighter in development with the Union Air Force. While more serious literary critics were not particularly impressed by the release - our paper's own resident reviewer Nikolas Rosenberg described it as "fanciful and fast-pace in its plot turns and chases occurring in rooftops and alleys of our nation's capital, but unfortunately lacking in characterisation and literary merit" - the book emerged as a leader of the entertainment category of sales ratings of the literary magazine Kirjallisuusviikko.

On the other hand, National Unity Front official newspaper Yhtenäinen Isänmaa commended the book, lauding it for its "patriotist spirit and the accurate, albeit fictional, depiction of Fennian heroism at the face of danger brought about by a foreign enemy". Niskanen has reportedly been approached by several radio stations with offers to transfer the book into radio programming, and is said to be considering to allow a film adaptation which would be the third film version made on the basis of his releases. Popular entertainment literature, often called "kiosk novels" for their paperback availability in kiosks and newspaper stands in Fennian cities, continues in popularity as the Information Office recently reported an 8% increase this year of approved releases in the category.

- PYHÄ HENRIK, PROTECTED TERRITORIES - Officials in New Fennia have announced their intention to start an anti-alcohol awareness campaign in response to growing worries over an increase of alcohol consumption by local tribesmen in several regions of the Protected Territories. The campaign will be especially directed at locals of Himyari ancestry and be carried out by literature, informational posters and radio broadcasts in Fennian, Swana, Aguju, Daru and other local languages in concert with the Fennian Mission. Protected Territories Health Minister Elisabeth Jokimaa said that the native alcohol problem was becoming a "rather visible sore" in some portions of the protected territories, particularly among the Eastern Territory's River Agujus. For instance, a 1951 Health Office report based on research in the region said that of adult males in the River Aguju population in their autonomous tribal territories up to thirty percent showed signs of serious alcoholism.

In addition to carrying out awareness campaigns, Jokimaa said that the local administration intended to request Kalevala to place additional Vice Police resources to New Fennia. Jokimaa pointed out to reports that the overwhelming amount of alcohol- related problems were caused by drink-serving establishments in violation of their licensing conditions and existing alcohol law, or by illegally sold liquor. However, in rural regions it is believed to be equally common for residents to brew their own liquor in violation of Union-wide alcohol law also in force in New Fennia. The Health Office reportedly intends to pressure local leaders in autonomous tribal areas to do more in combatting such practices, having previously criticized their attitude as uncooperative and hinted to involvement of some tribal leaders in the trade of homebrewed illegal drink in the protectorate.

 

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Haakonsson, Isberg & Kaufmann

As Telora's largest publishing house, Haakonsson, Isberg & Kaufmann (HIK) would like to seek the rights to print and distribute copies of Mr Niskanen's Inspector Palmu series, including translation into Teloran and other Nordic languages. We are sure that his work will emulate its success in the Fennian Union in Telora.

Yours;

Dr. Erik Kaufmann;
Chairman of HIK

 

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Fennian Lehdistö ja Kirjallisuus OY
Fennian Press and Literature LLC

As the representative of Mr. Niskanen in matters related to the publication of his intellectual work in Fennia and abroad we have received an approval from the author to commence negotiation with Haakonsson, Isberg & Kaufman over the sale of publishing rights in Telora to the works belonging to the Inspector Palmu series. We, and Mr. Niskanen himself, are confident that they will be able to attain success and popularity in Telora as well. Our legal representatives contact you in regards to contract negotiations.

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Kristian Voitonmaa
Publishing Manager

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Foreign Minister Kauko Vannas condemned attempts by Europe's communist regimes to generate further political instability after news gained international attention that the Carentanians had commenced a military buildup in communist-occupied territories in former Solaren, thought by analysts to be a prelude to a communist attack against the country of Danmark. Speaking before the Union Congress today, Foreign Minister Vannas said that the Carentanians were behaving with "extreme lack of responsibility" and that their move threatened to expand international tensions at a highly volatile time. "Even as communist aggression in the East has created a destructive war between the Mezhist Union and the Miroslav junta, the Carentanians themselves would see war engulf the West as well with their rash actions", Foreign Minister Vannas said in his address to Congress. The Union Congress passed a resolution condemning the Carentanian military build-up in Solaren.

At the same time, Chief of the Defense Staff General Jouko Heinrichs made assurances that the Fennian military remained capable and committed in ensuring the Union's neutrality in the developing international war and to prevent any communist incursions against Fennia and its neighbors. General Heinrichs visited the garrison town of Nekala, well-known as headquarters of the II Armored Corps, meeting with soldiers part of the unit and reviewing a parade of military machinery including the PsV 45 Karhu tanks entering Fennian military service in increasing numbers. "Peace in the West, for us and for our civilized neighbors, is an objective of our Union", General Heinrich said as he spoke to assembled officers and soldiers of II Armored Corps, "And the Union Army remains committed to its role as the shield behind Western Peace and as bulwark against the forces of instability."

- YRJÖNLINNA, WEST KALEVALA REPUBLIC - The Yrjönlinna University of Technology (YTY) has been commissioned by the National Development Office to enact a comprehensive plan for continuing urban development of major Fennian cities. Dubbed the Five-Year Building Plan, the initiative will rise to the challenge of growing urbanization within Fennia Proper by researching ways to provide affordable development of housing in the developing major cities of our country. According to Professor Mauno Schulman, head of the YTY's Faculty of Architecture, the project envisions model suburbs for construction in major Fennian cities in order to facilitate the movement of more and more people from the countryside into major cities such as Kalevala, Yrjönlinna, Pietari and Kontula. Such suburbs would take full advantage of the possibilities offered by modern automobile and train transportation, aiming to be dedicated fully to housing and to facilitate flexible traffic of their inhabitants to industrial areas of aforementioned cities.

The National Development Office expects the eventual results of the project to manifest significantly in Fennian urban development in form of public housing and housing developed by charitable and private actors over a fabric of cooperation with regional governments. National Development Minister August Viljamaa, meeting with YTY personnel involved in the project, said that pioneer areas for the implementation of such architectural schemes were already being devised in concert with local administrators.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

Reputable news - 1898-1952 - Morning edition five Union Marks, Evening edition eight Union Marks​

NEWS IN BRIEF


- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - The Fennian Museum has inaugurated an expansion dedicated to showcasing the history, present and the future of the Protected Territories. Named New Fennia Hall and housed in the former main office of the Union Bank left vacant earlier this year, the expansion will house a permanent New Fennia exhibition while a currently unoccupied wing is expected to commence a series of temporary exhibitions at the start of the next year. His Majesty Yrjö I Armfelt-Wettin, Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä and other dignitaries including social and political elite as well as foreign ambassadors to Kalevala were present for the formal inauguration ceremony today. The New Fennia Hall is expected to open to the general public tomorrow with free entrance for the rest of its opening week. Hall exhibitions will consist of existing colonial collections of the Fennian Museum itself, several New Fennian museums and as-of-yet unexhibited results of recent archeological digs in the Protected Territories.

Among the most anticipated exhibits will be a private collection of uniforms, medals, personal items and correspondence belonging to Admiral Sakari Helismaa who headed the 1887-1895 Tribal Pacification, as well as recently discovered artifacts from digs in the legendary Swana city of Yenanga. Concerns that the expansion would see what was described as "looting" of the Protected Territories were refuted by Dr. August Reiter-Kaleva, President of the Fennian Museum in an interview with Kalevalan Sanomat. Reiter-Kaleva reminded that it was important to allow the citizens of the Union to experience an important part of recent Fennian history and that institutions such as the Pyhä Henrik Himyari Museum were already in place in recognition of the Protected Territories' history and role as an integral portion of the Union.

- KÖYLIÖNMÄKI, REPUBLIC OF TURUNMAA - The nation's largest contest of marksmanship and military skill gathers Suojeluskunta national defense volunteers to the city öf Köyliönmäki between Wednesday and Sunday. The National Marksmanship Competition, this year hosted by the Turunmaa Suojeluskunta District, will see the Suojeluskunta military volunteers as well as participants of its youth programs compete in a variety of team and individual disciplines including pistol and rifle marksmanship, close-quarters combatives, tracking, escape and evasion as well as survival in the nature. The competition will involve teams in adult and youth series from all Suojeluskunta Districts, notably even from New Fennia in the form of volunteers representing the organization's detachments in the Protected Territories. Traditionally the prestigous awards for success in the competition - the Volunteer Marksmanship Medals in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Classes - have been awarded to their winners by Stateholder General Häyhä on the contests' last day.

Tomorrow's start of the competition will be heralded by a parade in Köyliönmäki downtown made up of volunteers from Turunmaa Suojeluskunta units as well as members of the teams participating in the National Marksmanship Competition. Receiving the parade will be Colonel-General Ahti Muurinen, Suojeluskunta Chief of Staff and chairman of the referee board for the event itself. Conceived in 1928 to promote training of marksmanship and military skill among the Suojeluskunta volunteer units, the National Marksmanship Competition is this year held for the 24th time.

 

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Commissariate for Foreign Affairs

That the Fennians would describe the violent subjugation of an unwilling people under their forceful rule as "Tribal Pacification" reaffirms our assessment of this proto-Mezhist society as fundamentally imperialist.

 

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Ulkoasiaintoimisto
Foreign Office

Fennian Unioni
The Fennian Union

Given the etymology of the word "pacification", to bring peace which is exactly what the Union has done in New Fennia it certainly does qualify for an oddity that in the Carentanian mindset bringing peace and order constitutes an act of imperialism. Whether it is called a Tribal Pacification, the Helismaa Campaign, the Fennian Colonial War or any other of the terms which historians have devised for the acts of incorporation of the Protected Territories, the fact that the involvement of the Union in the region has brought peace, prosperity, development and Western civilization.

This fact cannot be changed, no matter how hard Rijeka would seek to spit upon the graves of thousands of brave men who dedicated their lives to service of the idea of the Protected Territories and created them as they are today.

Regards,
Mr. Kauko Vannas,
Foreign Minister