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

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Interior Office considers establishment of an Union Highway Police


The Interior Office has appointed a committee to consider establishing a new dedicated police force to enforce law among the Fennian growing system of Union Highways. The committee, headed by retired Kingdom of Kalevala police commissioner Emil Airo, commenced work today at the instruction of Union Interior Minister Taneli Välimaa and is expected to present its findings to the Council of Ministers before the end of the year. Currently, responsibility for highway policing is shared between constituent-level police forces.

As the Union Highway network, first chartered in 1939, is growing to encompass more and more inter-city and inter-constituent routes, constituent administrations have levelled complaints over the increasing amount of resources required to enforce the law among the Union Highway system. Interior Minister Välimaa referred to the variety of policing needs specific to the Highways ranging from speed and drunk driving enforcement and monitoring of heavy traffic to the maintenance of toll booths and enforcement of order along resting places, inns, motels and gas stations established to serve traffic traversing the Union Highways daily. "As a result of these requirements and the growing volume of traffic in the Union Highways, we are in need of a dedicated police service to carry out such purposes, or by the very least a new police unit to accommodate for these requirements", said Välimaa.

Options presented previously include the establishment of a new Union- level road policing organization or the assumption of road policing roles by the Military Police Corps. When discussion on the topic arose earlier this year, head of Military Police General Aleksi Linna pointed to his organization as the most logical option for such a responsibility, referring to the MPs' existing role in rural law enforcement in form of the Mounted Military Police and also to the current Military Police responsibilities over the Fennian railway network. On the other hand, civilian law enforcers have objected to such a move even while they remain keen to get the responsibility of policing the Highways - themselves jointly maintained by the Union government and the constituents - off their backs.

The Union's largest constituent, Kingdom of Kalevala, has been a pioneer of traffic law enforcement. In 1931, the Kingdom's Interior Office established a dedicated Traffic Police Service to enforce the law among the Kingdom's inter-city roads, and its model has been widely adopted to develop similar services in the other constituents as well. Indeed, Airo's role in developing the Kalevala Traffic Police was cited by the Interior Office as a major reason behind his appointment to examine the adoption of the so-called "Kalevala model" of separate traffic enforcement agencies in the Union level as a whole.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - The Union Congress passed a resolution today unanimously condemning the Carentanian announcement of initiating a naval embargo against Islamic Republic of the Jurzan, a state which has recently seen growing international tensions with Himyar's most dangerous communist regime. Even before that, the Foreign Office had released a statement expressing condemnation of the maritime embargo in response to claims made by Rijeka of Jurzani territory's use for arms smuggling by claimed terrorist groups in Carentania. Officers from Army Central Intelligence have described the claims as dubious in validity. In a rare public statement, intelligence head Lieutenant General Yrjö Hannula reminded that the information on such terrorism is principally reliant on Carentanian state propaganda, and pointed out to intelligence information suggesting that the incident is largely being engineered by Rijeka in order to exert pressure against the government in the Jurzan.

In his presentation of the condemning resolution to Congress, Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä gave scathing criticism over the Carentanian actions. Häyhä pointed out to Jurzan's abandonment of Carentanian communist influence and the immediate anti-Jurzani campaign initiated by Carentanian forces, saying that it stoods as proof of the dangers of communist influence. "Especially in a time when some civilized nations have neglected the dangers posed inherently by communist ideology, it is due and just to remind that their ideology is solely based on the creation of terror and conflict, and that a communist by definition will have no honor or conscience, for they will come at one with the right hand extended into a handshake, while the left clutches a knife ready to stab you in the back", the Stateholder General declared to five-minute applause on behalf of the full session of Union Congress.

The National Defense Council will assemble this afternoon to discuss the North Himyari situation.

- MALMINLINNA, MALMINMAA - Policemen in the Northern constituent of Malminmaa are on the hunt for a gang responsible for the robbery of a jewelsmith's store in the Malminmaa Old Town yesterday. Söderberg Gold and Jewelry was robbed yesterday evening, just before closing time, by a gang of four men armed with sawed-off shotguns. Officials from the Malminmaa Police said that the robbers forced the store-owner, jeweller Christian Söderberg, at gunpoint to open his safe and proceeded to steal dozens of store items primarily made up of gold and diamond jewellery as well as the store's cash deposits. The police has declined to reveal the exact amount of losses caused by the robbery, but have said that they amounted to a "substantial" sum of money. In addition, the jeweller Söderberg was forced to undergo medical treatment as a result of the mental trauma caused by the robbery.

The robbers were described as Fennian-speaking, but masks worn by them prevented better identification. A car used in the commission of a crime was reported stolen last week from the town of Iittala and was discovered burned in a junk yard on the outskirts of Malminlinna. The police believes that the robbers are hiding in the Malminmaa countryside, and with Military Police assistance have commenced searches in the region. The Border Corps have also been alerted in case that the culprits might attempt a crossing of the Northern border to Agderike. Though the police are said to be without leads at the moment, head investigator Detective Inspector Markus Meling pointed to the possible involvement of the so-called Gold Shotgun Gang, which has been responsible for several bank and jewellery robberies over the last three years. The robbers are considered armed and dangerous, and citizens encountering them should alert the local police instead of any direct confrontation.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - "Carentania is preparing for war", said War Minister, Admiral Mikael Aminoff today to reporters gathered outside of the War Office as he headed to an extraordinary meeting of the National Defense Council summoned to discuss the ongoing tensions between Carentania and the Jurzan. "Army Intelligence has strong indications that the communists are preparing to launch an offensive against the Jurzan, possibly Danmark as well", Aminoff stated, referring to Army Central Intelligence reports and public news reporting detailing Carentanian military movements to Solaren islands in the vicinity of Danish territory as well as news of the so-called Workers Republic conducting preparations to wage a war of aggression against neighboring states. "These actions cannot be construed as anything other than concerted preparations of a red offensive", the War Minister proclaimed.

While Admiral Aminoff remained tight-lipped over the results of yesterday's previous Defense Council meeting, he stated that the Fennian government was currently in the progress of spearheading an international diplomatic initiative to pressure Carentania to abandon its naval blockade against the Islamic Republic of Jurzan. "The Stateholder General and our government as a whole remain hopeful that a diplomatic solution will be achieved, and are committed to achieving that, but at the same time we must be prepared for any eventuality", Aminoff concluded his address to assembled members of the Fennian press. The Union government has been vocal in its condemnation of recent Carentanian actions, describing them as war-mongering and noting that such military action in international waters constitutes serious violations of international convention regarding the freedom of navigation.

- FREE CITY OF KONTULA - The Kontula Institute of Science today bestowed its annual Human Advancement Award to Dr. Jaakko Martinheikki, chemist and founder of Martinheikki Anti-Insect, for his 1939 achievement of being the first in the world to develop dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane- based insecticides. Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, abbreviated DDT, has been produced since then in advancing amounts by Martinheikki Anti-Insect and licensed companies in Fennia and abroad for the use of domestic and agricultural pest removal and disease eradication. The Institute of Science cited DDT's key role in reducing agricultural insect damage in several countries and in Himyari malaria eradication programs in its decision to give Martinheikki the Human Advancement Award. DDT- based insecticides have been used to a limited degree in malaria eradication in New Fennia by the local Health Office, and more extensive use is promised to commence next year.

"I am, of course, satisfied for attaining this reward as a sign of recognition", Dr. Martinheikki, who sold his company in 1947 to a group of investors for significant profit and continues scientific research to this day, said. The Kontula Institute of Science Human Advancement Award is Fennia's highest-valued recognition given for civil achievement, outside of medals bestowed by the Union government. It is granted annually to a person who has contributed significantly to the development of civilization and advancement of human living standards. Those receiving the award are selected by the Institute of Science's ten-man Executive Committee.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - A destructive vandal disturbed the Fennian Museum's New Fennia Hall's free opening week on Saturday as he set upon exhibited portions of the Naval uniforms of Admiral Sakari Helismaa, commander of the New Fennia Tribal Pacification campaign. The perpetrator, identified as one Yakubu Wayas of 24 years of age, is a Protected Territories citizen of Swana ethnicity in Kalevala on a temporary working migration permit and is in custody of the Kalevala Military Police. According to Military Police officers, Wayas who had before the incident removed his overcoat to reveal traditional Swana ethnic garb, smashed the protective glasses of the uniform stands using a hammer and proceeded to smear them with red paint before being restrained by museum officials who proceeded to call a Military Police patrol responsible for protection of the Fennian Museum. Wayas was then transferred to Military Police custody and is being held at the Capital Military Police Barracks.

Officials said that two museum employees and a bystander had required medical attention due to being attacked by Wayas, and that the military policemen had to repeatedly employ their truncheons before being able to pin him down and handcuff him. Wayas was checked by a Military Police medic at the barracks due to injuries sustained as a result of resisting arrest. Captain Timo Loukimo, press officer for the Kalevala Military Police, said that the perpetrator was likely "mentally impaired" due to the Swana language gibberish shouted by him during the act and his frenziest conduct. He is to appear before the Kalevala local criminal court on Monday to answer for the charges of denigration of the Fennian nation, sedition, damage of property and resisting a peace officer, offenses which could warrant a sentence of up to ten years of hard labor.

- YRJÖNLINNA, WEST KALEVALA REPUBLIC - The Navy's last battleship UA Turisas is being brought out of the reserve, announced military officials today in Yrjönlinna, headquarters of the Northern Thaumantic Fleet. Work has commenced at the Tattarinranta Naval Yard, which houses the Turisas along with other vessels mothballed by the navy for recommissioning in the event of a war, to bring the vessel up to full operational capability. The last of the Navy's originally four-ship class of Kekkonen class battleships was put to reserve in 1951 at the conclusion of a service-life extension refit. The ship has been retained in reserve for possible use as a command ship and to provide artillery firepower in support of the Marine Corps for the utility of its formidable main battery of 12 380mm guns and a secondary battery of 27 152mm guns.

At the same time, the War Office announced a limited call-up of reservist personnel from the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps to take place. Connections to the development of international tensions in the Long Sea were dismissed by the War Minister, Admiral Mikael Aminoff, who said that the call-up - and the activation of UA Turisas - was to act in reinforcement of the neutrality patrol being undertaken by Fennian forces to safeguard Fennian territorial waters and to maintain peace in the Northern Thaumantic Ocean. Aminoff said that there was presently no intention to recommission other ships part of the mothballed Naval Inactive Reserve. The Foreign Office intends to announce results of international communications with several major European states concerning the situation in the Long Sea today.

 

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Federal Republic welcomes moves by the Fennian Union to secure the waters of the Northern Thaumantic Ocean for neutral nations and wishes to enquire about the possibility of deploying joint Fennian-Teloran naval patrols to this end.

 

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Sota-asiaintoimisto
War Office

Fennian Unioni
The Fennian Union

We have received the communications of the Teloran government. At the moment, Fennian Naval and Air Forces are conducting operations in Fennian territorial waters and the adjacent littoral of North Thaumantic Ocean along with its vital routes of maritime commerce. A similar operation is also being carried out in the territories of New Fennia, though to a lesser degree owing to the lower amount of tensions there.

The Union accepts the Teloran proposal of cooperation in maintaining peace along our nations' maritime littorals and invites the officials of the Teloran military to coordinate to achieve this to efficiency.

Regards,
Admiral Mikael Aminoff,
War Minister

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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EDITORIAL - How communism became the foremost enemy of European peace
Mr. Kauko Vannas, Foreign Minister of the Fennian Union, Union Congressman


This very moment while I am seated before my typewriter writing this editorial, thousands upon thousands of men are fighting and dying in the steppes of Miroslav and Swiecziema in what will likely be one of the deadliest wars of the Industrial Age, while in the Long Sea a nation of hungry vultures circles above a pack of doves with prey in their mind. At the same time in nations far and wide, others channel their bitterness and jealousy to devise the plots and schemes of cowards they hope will brainwash the masses into destroying the very societies that have brought them peace, order and prosperity. Since the Communist Manifesto was written, the influence of communist ideology has spread to nations far and near, bringing blood and smoking ruins with it to all four corners of the world.

Look at how post-delegationist (in itself another facet of communist ideology in its calls for total rearrangement of society) Boliatur fell to conflict and ruin, and look at how the vulturous regime of Miroslavl instantly seized on the chance to try and incorporate it into its sphere of influence. When the Swiecziemans stood up in resistance of Miroslavl's ambition, ensued a deadly war. Then look at the Long Sea, where the young nation of the Jurzan is being set upon by Carentanian predators. Surely, the Jurzani people are not guilty of anything but asserting their sovereignity and self-determination and their desire to be free of the puppeteering attempts of the regime in Rijeka. That, however, does not matter for the Carentanians who have so brutally accused the Jurzani of involvement with "Mezhist terrorism" - a problem of Rijeka's own creation - and with their imposition of a naval blockade against the Jurzan have engaged in flagrant violations of international convention.

Of course, it should be noted here that the Mezhists are just a convenient deus ex machina for Rijeka. If there were not a single Mezhist on Carentanian soil, the communists would still find a reason to bully and intimidate their neighbors and the only thing different from current Carentanian behavior would be the excuse. I will make an educated guess that no matter how frivolous an excuse would be available, the Carentanians would fully use it to threaten sovereign nations of Europe with slavery and death.

And does it end in Boliatur, Miroslavl and Carentania? Hardly. Let me remind that our own nation together with other civilized and decent peoples such as the Engellexic and the Mergognards share the Northern Thaumantic with the Havenites, another nation in the grip of a clique of death-worshipping red tyrants. Indeed, the Havenite government is openly supporting Miroslavl's campaign to spread death across the East with its recent delivery of military hardware. Any political observer worth his salt should recognize this as an act of affiliation with the communist regime that has implemented perhaps the highest amount of red terror upon its own populace.

The danger of communism does not come solely from the nations that have fallen to the red menace. Fennia itself would've been devoured by red terror fifteen years ago had not the savior of our nation, His Excellency the Stateholder General had the foresight and iron will to deliver us from the communist onslaught created by subversives within our ranks. In other nations that have not had the strength for such measures of national self-defense, communist subversives agitate the meek and the desperate with their promise of prosperity, in itself a betrayal of the highest order akin to those used by gangsters to draw in downtrodden youth as cannon fodders for their crimes. Perhaps the lack of seriousness with which some states have regarded the red menace tells us of their penetration by the communists, again proof of the danger of red subversion.

Of the transnational and internal conflicts currently ongoing across the globe, the overwhelming majority have been the work of communist agitation. There cannot be any doubt that it is the leading cause of European instability and conflict and the leading threat to the maintenance of our fragile peace between nations. Thus it is surely the duty of every single nation daring to claim itself the mantles of civilization and human decency, and indeed of every single Fennian and foreigner claiming himself or herself those mantles, to make sure that the godless reds do not inflict their reign of terror upon any other nation of the world.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Fennia spearheads diplomatic initiative for Jurzani sovereignity


The Foreign Office today proclaimed the signatures of major European states which have united in their condemnation of Carentania's ongoing naval blockade against the Jurzan, a result of diplomacy carried out by Stateholder General Häyhä and Foreign Minister Vannas. The announced Proclamation in condemnation of the Carentanian naval blockade in the Jurzan was signed by states including, of couirse, the Fennian Union itself, Great Engellex, Danmark, Potenza, Eiffelland, Ivernia and Agderike and presented to members of the press today by Foreign Minister Vannas, who was personally responsible for drafting the text used in the final version of the proclamation.

Basis to the proclamation originates largely from the Fennian government's consideration of the Long Sea blockade's illegality. In the early stages of the crisis, Foreign Office staff pointed out correctly that Carentania was acting outside the bounds of its military's legal jurisdiction as defined by its own territorial waters and thus their naval actions in the Jurzani coast are taking place illegally. Additionally, the proclamation criticizes the Carentanians for their lack of willingness to engage diplomatically with the Jurzan, instead choosing to escalate tensions even further in an existing time of fragile peace. Further signs of hostile intentions of the Carentanian government towards the Jurzan were seen earlier this week when Associated Press released leaked information detailing Carentanian invasion plans against the Jurzan, seen by many in the Fennian Union as proof of hostile Carentanian intentions against the Jurzani people as well as others in the Long Sea and elsewhere.

Though the proclamation mentioned consideration of further measures in the event of continued Carentanian aggression, agreement over such measures was left out of its scope. However, the Foreign Office has unofficially acknowledged to Kalevalan Sanomat that the government it has tentatively proposed options for further action to the signatory states in the event Carentanian cooperation is not attained. Foreign Office press spokeswoman Heljä Mäenpää refused to comment further on this topic.

"We have today sent a signal that there indeed are civilized governments in Europe for whom appeasement is not an option", said Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä from Kalevala, "Though I cannot stress enough the continuing perils of the situation in which the nations of Europe are finding themselves in, I do consider this proclamation a strong sign on behalf of its signatories of their moral wealth and desire to uphold the values of civilized conduct among nations against the desires of the predatory, the vulturous and the godless to pervert them." "Against all moral decency the Jurzani now suffer from the communists' desire to inflate their self-importance and conceal the impending failure of their decadent ideology with global political posturing", Stateholder Häyhä commented.

The diplomatic move was shadowed by actions of the Southern communist island of Havenshire, which today announced a deployment of submarines into the Thaumantic Ocean as their state-controlled media and Foreign Ministry engaged in a concerted propaganda offensive against the Union. Coinciding with a proclamation of the Thaumantic as "Havenshire's ocean" by the Havenite media, the Havenite military announced its intention to deploy offensive submarines along trade routes in the Northern Thaumantic, prompting fears that they might be used in acts of piracy or attacks against merchant shipping not akin to those seen in the Long Sea Crisis. The War Office was quick to assure shipowners of the Union Army's capability to deflect any and all communist aggressions against the Fatherland.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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"Daddy", his son spoke at the doorway of their living room. Juho pried his eyes away from the ice hockey game on the television set and looked in the direction of the eight-year old. He could tell that the boy was worried.

"Yes, Niilo?"

"Do the communists want to attack us?", Niilo asked with a quizzical look on his face.

"Yes, they do", Juho explained.

"Why?"

"They hate us Fennians and everything that we hold dear, wanting to take from us this society that we've built."

"Will they do it?"

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Consult your recruitment station or the local office of your reserve branch of service before signing up. Wartime placement in a regular reservist unit or a civilian occupation considered essential to society may prevent recruitment, as may possessing a criminal record or past membership in subversive organizations.

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - The Union government announced today the commencement of a nationwide campaign to encourage economic use of gasoline in response to growing instability of the oil market, sparked by ongoing wars in Himyar and the East. The Information and Transportation Offices will come together to encourage economic use of gasoline and the use of public transportation among the Fennian population in a campaign that will also see the collaboration of constituent governments and groups including the National Labor Front. In inaugiration of the campaign, Transportation Minister Kyösti Sarkola spoke of the importance of adopting alternative modes of transportation whenever possible to save our important national resources. The Treasury and National Development Offices are at the same time pressing for measures of economic policy including reductions of gasoline taxation - to be made up for by an increase in taxation of luxury foods and alcohol - and increasing the size of the National Critical Resources Stockpile.

Much of the combined campaign will take place in form of educational posters, press articles and radio and television broadcasts that'll advise Fennians of the possibilities for them to act in a more economic and responsible manner in their daily transportation.

- YRJÖNLINNA, WEST KALEVALA REPUBLIC - After the Southern island nation of Havenshire, ruled by a communist regime, announced a deployment of its submarine force in the Thaumantic Ocean Union naval officials have calmed worries from maritime merchants by saying that the Fennian military stood ready to protect Fennian and friendly shipping from any aggression in the Thaumantic Ocean. Vice Admiral Johannes Virta, head of the Northern Thaumantic Fleet and of the Combined Maritime Defense Command, said that the Union forces are as a response amending existing naval patrols through the additional deployment of patrol bombers and both surface and submerged naval vessels. Today, Naval Aviation's Patrol Flight Regiment 7 - equipped with land- and sea-based long-range patrol bombers - was given orders by the Defense Staff to relocate from its regular base of Malminlinna to military airports along the Southern coast in case of any Havenite naval incursions against Fennian territorial waters.

"In case any of the rusting hulks that they call submarines will attack ships flying the Fennian flag, their submerged stay shall be a somewhat permanent one", Vice Admiral Virta commented to reporters at the Porkkala Naval Base as he inspected Navy reservists recently recalled to support the patrols along Fennian territorial waters. Havenite military officials in the country's state-sponsored media threatened attacks against Fennian shipping earlier this week, accompanied by a demand to withdraw Fennian naval forces from the areas surrounding the Union, a demand promptly dismissed by the Foreign Office which stated that Havenshire was accepting to impose its rule illegally over the Thaumantic Ocean. Havenite conduct was described as reminiscent of the widely condemned illegal maritime blockade commenced by Carentanian forces against the Jurzani people. The Foreign Office also gave assurances that the Fennian-Teloran naval operations were only carried out in the interests of maritime security and defense of merchant traffic and with respect to the freedom of navigation.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - The Union Congress is debating a controversial proposition to change Fennian gambling law. Under the proposal submitted by Member of Parliament Tenho Vilkuna, the existing policy of banning gambling throughout the Union would be replaced with the institution of a "State Gambling Monopoly" organized on the lines of the Alko alcohol monpoly. Such a gambling monopoly would be permitted to operate traditional casino games as well as slot machines in specific reserved locations throughout the Union, under conditions such as the approval of the hosting municipality and a required age of 21 for all clients. At the moment, organization and participation in gambling is a criminal offense under the statutes of the Union Code, though on-venue sports betting as well as card and dice games between private individuals fall outside of the purview of the gambling law.

Vilkuna proposes that the profits from such a gambling monopoly would be distributed to welfare and charity programs acting to certain standards and in advancement of Fennian and Christian values, and says that such a gambling monopoly would potentially present a serious dent to the profits made by illegal bookmakers and operators of illegal gambling dens, sometimes connected with criminal gangs also involved in smuggling and prostitution activities. The proposition stirred severe discussion in Congress as opponents proclaimed that gambling legalized even under a state monopoly would potentially incur the morally weak into spending their money in the games, and would decay public morale.

- PYHÄ HENRIK, PROTECTED TERRITORIES - After a land dispute in the Eastern Tribal Reserves escalated yesterday in the deaths of five local farmers, the local administration has called for tribal governors to bring the situation under control. Vice Admiral Aleksi Sumuvuori, Governor-General of the Protected Territories, sent a message to the Sub-Governor of the Eastern Territory and to the chiefs of tribal reserves in the Jamare Valley notifying that he would order the Mounted Military Police to intervene unless the administrators would take action to restore order and to remove any illegal firearms currently in tribal hands. Five local farmers from the Ogun Reserve of the Eastern Swana tribe were shot and killed yesterday along the Ogun-Vapaala road with the entirety of their possessions taken by unknown perpetrators. Ogun Reserve chief Idiagbon Obika blamed the neighboring community of the Jamare tribe for the killings. The farmers were reportedly on their way to Vapaala to sell their produce to white food distributors. Tribal police in concert with the Protected Territories Police are in the process of conducting an investigation.

The Eastern Swanas and the Jamare have been feuding for several years over the farmland in the border areas between their reservations after the Eastern Swana made in 1946 allegations that Jamare farmers had illegally constructed irrigation systems leading water from the local waterways to their side of the reserve border. This feud has recently seen escalation into incidents of cattle theft and vandalism in the region, as well as last month's overnight killings of dozens of sheep belonging to Eastern Swana farmers in the reserve border area. Local head of the Protected Territories Police, Major Kustaa Smith-Valkea said that the recent murders were likely an act of retaliation for the aforementioned cattle killings. "Those responsible will be brought to justice", Major Smith-Valkea commented from his headquarters in Vapaala.

 

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Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Union asserts Fennian sovereignity over Malminmaa after Agder territorial claims


"Malminmaa was and is Fennian territory", proclaimed Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä in Kalevala today after the Kingdom of Agderike called for the incorporation of the Northeastern constituent of Malminmaa into their territory. In a speech made by King Haakon V of Agderike to their legistlature, the monarch said that cooperation with the Union could not take place until such a time when Fennia returned Malminmaa to the Kingdom. The constituent of Malminmaa was annexed into the Union after a military campaign in the wake of the Unification Wars, when our Northern neighbor made an attempt to prevent the foundation of the Fennian Union. The Union founding fathers pressed forward the 1873-1875 Northern Campaign of the Unification, which defeated Agder forces and eventually led to Malminmaa joining the Union as a constituent.

The Foreign Office has categorically denied any possibility of making changes to the borders of the Union, expressing criticism over King Haakon's statements in regards to the situation. In a public cable sent to Kristiania, Foreign Minister Kauko Vannas said that "it is of great surprise that the government in Agderike would seek to dent the good relations that have existed between our countries with this rash irredentist rhetoric", describing any territorial changes as unfeasible. Foreign Minister Vannas has summoned the Agder ambassador to Kalevala to the Foreign Ministry to explain the conduct of his government.

In Union Congress, Stateholder General Häyhä echoed the statements made by the Foreign Office. "The Union, or the Fennian people itself, do not intent hostility to Agderike. Rather, we would like to see a continuation of the cordial understanding that has been enjoyed by Kalevala and Kristiania over the recent years especially in the face of common peril in form of the dark forces of radicalism that have surfaced throughout Europe, and which the Fennian and Agder peoples have commonly sought to resist", Häyhä spoke to a full session of assembled Congressmen at the Palace of the Estates, "However, my government remains committed to the maintenance of national unity and territorial integrity of the Fennian state, and it is most unfortunate that King Haakon chooses to reassert such decades-old issues at a time when far greater perils roam against both of our nations."

After the Union Public Radio made mentions of the discussion in Kristiania, several hundred people bearing Fennian flags took to a demonstration outside of the Agder embassy in Kalevala. The group of people including members of the youth organizations of the National Unity Front as well as military veterans and Suojeluskunta members in full dress uniform remain outside of the Agder embassy, where also a band of musicians gathered to play the Fennia-hymn (OOC:national anthem) and other patriotic songs. Elements of the Military Police and Kalevala Police are monitoring the demonstration, which has reportedly remained "very peaceable" as described by Deputy Commissioner Alarik Paasonen from the Kalevala Police.

 

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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 civilized powers must avoid indecision regarding the Long Sea crisis", stated Foreign Minister Kauko Vannas today in an interview with the Union Public Radio. The interview's topic concerned primarily the ongoing crisis in the Long Sea sparked by the Carentanian maritime blockade against the Jurzan, and Foreign Minister Vannas said that though the "extent to which the powers have been involved in the Fennian- forwarded condemnation of Carentania has been commendable", the said powers should now act in the face of apparent Carentanian indifference so for the avoidance of losing diplomatic momentum in dealing with the crisis. According to Vannas, there is ongoing need to negotiate for the further political measures to target the Carentanian government should it not relinquish its policy of anti-Jurzani intimidation. "If there is no indication of Carentanian intent of policy change, then we will consult with the other signatories (of the condemnation) on further action", Vannas declared.

Though the Fennian-championed show of support to the Jurzan has achieved success in mobilizing the civilized powers in acts of diplomacy, the Foreign Office has indicated a need of adopting further measures. Even as a chance for diplomacy and honorable withdrawal of their forces has been mercifully given to the Himyari communist regime, the Carentanians have resumed a policy of threats made against their neighbors - Potenza being the latest - accompanied by an intensification of military movement in the Long Sea. In the course of the interview, Foreign Minister Vannas stated his belief that the communists were engaging in a concerted attempt to incite a World War, citing recent threats made by the Havenite government to attack Fennian shipping in the Thaumantic Ocean as proof.

- MALMINLINNA, MALMINMAA - After well over a week of hunt two men claimed to be part of the infamous Gold Shotgun Gang, wanted for several acts of banditry including the 11th of October's robbery of Söderberg Gold and Jewelry in Malminlinna, have been taken into custody after a gunfight with the Malminmaa Police. Johan Lindfors and Raivo Hentunen were captured in a tolling booth at Union Highway 14 when a detachment of highway police took them to further inspection on account of suspicious behavior. Feigning surrender, the two criminals attempted to shoot their way out of the situation with sawed-off shotguns and revolvers trying to flee towards a nearby forest. However, after Lindfors was wounded by sub-machinegun rounds fired by one of the police officers the two surrendered peacefully. Dozens of revolver and shotgun rounds were discovered concealed in their car together with forged identity documents, maps and several clothing articles likely used for disguise purposes, but there was no sign of the jewelry, gold and money taken by the robbers in course of the October 11th robbery.

The two have been transported to the Malminlinna Police Presidium for the purposes of interrogation, with investigators hopeful that they'll be able to point them into the direction of the remaining two robbers and any other members of the ring still at large, and to the loot remaining unaccounted for from the Söderberg robbery and several others in the Malminmaa region. Investigators believe that those still at large are attempting to evade the authorities in the rural regions for the purposes of eventual flight across the border to Agderike. The Malminmaa Police has stated the commissioning of a reward of up to ten thousand Fennian marks for information leading to the capture of anyone still at large involved with the Gold Shotgun Gang, and a further reward for the discovery of their loot.

 

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The Kingdom remains somewhat disappointed in Westhaven's policies towards other nations that do not share the same ideological straitjacket that it itself is firmly wrapped in giving itself little room for maneouvre. Havenshire had been viewed as the slightly more pragmatic of the communist nations but this view has become somewhat blackened as it seeks to ape the antics of its true masters down in Rijeka who rule the roost in what is an unbecoming scourge that threatens the world order and as they seek to replace it with one in their own guise, a New World Order that would be truly a horrific episode in the annals of the epic of world history.

As Westhaven slavishly suckles at the Rijekan teat, desperate to get a paternal pat on the head from Carentania for 'doing good', it has lost its true calling as a more moderate communist state. The Havenshire airship of state has had its tethers slashed and it is now buffeted by the hot southerlies from Carentania but without an engine with which to steady itself. We only have to take a cursory look at its latest shenanigans in Raigestan as it declares war, war I remind you, upon true moderate states like the Kingdom as we seek to grapple with the scourge of intransigent and tinpot communism that is all the rage in Miroslavl. This eventuality, Havenite intervention in Raigestan, cannot be be entertained.

The Havenites, though, have shown their true red colours once the ground had been set for them by their paymasters in Rijeka, as they now turn their attention to the Thaumantic and seek to wash all our shores in a red scum, the red of the blood of the innocents among we true moderate nations. As such, their frantic twitching at the Fennians and Telorans is but one mere example.

The recent developments of Westhaven's foreign policies outside of the Thaumantic and the spiel frothing from the mouths of blood-lusting communists has driven home to me several important points. One is that no matter how we may attempt to stretch out the hand across the chasm of difference, communism and communists are the True Reactionaries. They make great play about the 'forces of reactionism' and the 'Mezhist-Imperialist Axis' or 'Dano-Mezhist Axis' but we have to remind them that we have not changed. We remain the same and our policies remain unswerveringly solid. It is the communists that react to the real world, a much better world than one that could ever exist under communist slavery and tutelage, and it is only the much more direct belligerency that has taken sway that impels a direct action to thwart it.

The second point is Havenshire's approach to moderate states like the Fennians and Telorans, and as such any state that stands up to the demanding clunking fist of Westhaven. The Telorans share a similarity with the Jurzanis. Both are comparably quiet and inoffensive nations that seek to exist on their own merits. Their only offence is that they do not follow the dictats of Rijeka and Westhaven. Like bawling and screaming brats throwing out their dummies from their perambulators and demanding what they want and they want it now, this is of great affront to the communist regimes. In this light, Westhaven's approach to Telora is accurately viewed. But like a father to the wailing infant, it is necessary to not give it all that it wants and it needs to learn the tough lessons in life. This is for the good of it if nothing else.

The Telorans have a right to exercise their own jurisdiction in their own sphere and if that means closer friendship with that other more 'muscular moderate' state of the Fennian Union, this can only be a wholesome development. It is one that has the full support of the Kingdom. We also have to remind the Havenites that we also have a direct stake in this as the territory of our realm is washed by the shores of the Thaumantic.

We shall watch the blossoming of friendship and cooperation between Telora and Fennia, a friendship deemed all the more essential to ensure the ocean is preserved for the forces of moderacy and we shall also keep a close eye on Havenite movements from Faeroerne island. Naval and air patrols have been ordered to be intensified to monitor the red navy.

In a latter development, we shall hold talks with Telor City and Kalevara to discuss mutual issues.


UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE KING

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HR. HENRIK JOACHIM WESTERVELD

FOREIGN MINISTER OF THE GREAT DANISH IMPERIUM

 

[Serbovia]

Valtionhoitajan kanslia
Chancellery of the Stateholder

Fennian Unioni
The Fennian Union

I, and the Fennian people, share the wise assessment made by the Danish government in regards to this affair. The Havenite government's policies of attempting to antagonize its neighbors in apparent imitation of Carentanian foreign policy are currently the most significant - and only - source of destabilization in the Thaumantic Ocean.

While we suspect this to be an attempt to distract more responsible members of the European community of civilized states from the policies of the Havenites' puppeteers in Rijeka and their growing antagonization of the Jurzan, Potenza and other nearby states, it is still a fact that Havenshire is developing itself into a regional nuisance in its own right. This is sadly unsurprising given that regime's ideological tendencies as their behavior is increasingly consistent with that exhibited by communist regimes in other portions of Europe. It is thus that we consider the Danish assessment of the situation in the Thaumantic Ocean and the policies of the Havenite regime to be an accurate one, and it is thus that we thank the Danish Kingdom of its solidarity with the Fennian nation.

The events occurring throughout Europe highlight the role of responsible states, dedicated to the preservation of stability and the maintenance of our shared values against common perils, such as the Danish Kingdom and the Fennian Union. The torch that we have chosen to bear is one of a great tradition of Western statesmanship. Therefore, the Fennian Union shall accept the Danish proposition of bilateral talks to be held between our two great nations. Additionally, I have instructed the War Office to invite the Danish naval and aerial forces to coordinate their actions in the Thaumantic Ocean with the Union Army given our joint interests of maintaining stability in the Thaumantic Ocean.

Regards,
General Joakim Häyhä
Stateholder of the Union
Commander-in-Chief of the Fennian Union Army

 

[Serbovia]

Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - Vigilance required as the red bandits strike again, this time in our Northern neighbor


The red enemies of European civilization have struck again in their acts of hate and terror, this time on the soil of our Northern neighbor. Prince Magnus, Agderike's heir to the throne and the only son of His Royal Majesty Haakon V, was struck by bullets fired by communist assassins in the country's capital of Kristiania. Crown Prince Magnus himself was mortally wounded in the attack, while his wife Princess Mary of Fey remains hospitalized in a critical condition. Agder government officials have implicated communist bandits and saboteurs for their role in the murder, a claim supported also by Army Central Intelligence.

His Excellency the Stateholder General Joakim Häyhä was among the first international leaders to condemn the attack and express his sympathies for the Agder government. General Häyhä also promised Fennian support to any efforts to capture the culprits of the dastardly attack, and ordered the Border Guard Corps to be in alert in case the perpetrators attempt to make a flight across the Fennian border. However, such an attempt is considered to be unlikely given the high likelihood of the assassins being captured by our stalwart security forces.

In an address on the Union Public Radio (Unionin Yleisradio, UYR), Information Minister Kaarlo Nurmi also condemned the attack and demanded for the intensification of domestic anti-communist measures. "Once more we are served further proof that the movement of international communism plaguing nations throughout Europe is not just a collection of rebellious teenagers and university kids channelling their social frustration and disappointment into misguided idealism", Nurmi said in his firebrand speech which was widely sent by the UYR Saturday morning's television and radio programmes, "This atrocity and homicide of most egregious and scandalous proportions that has been perpetrated in our Northern neighbor reminds us of the inherent danger of communist demagoguery, and of the duty of every man and women daring to call themselves good Fennians to resist the red menace!".

"The struggle for order and unity did not end in 1937, nor it will ever end as long as the red states in closer and faraway countries plot the annihilation of civilized Europe. All Fennia must maintain vigilance at the face of these dangers looming beyond our shores, as must other nations of civilized Europe. Our brave soldiers and policemen serve to protect us from the threat of such terrors, but they require the cooperation of every citizen to achieve their goal, and the fulfillment of every citizen's duty to report such malcontents, demagogues, subversives and saboteurs in our midst to the proper authorities", Information Minister Nurmi proclaimed, "The motto of the day must be denounce, denounce, denounce!".

It is unknown what the news of the latest outbreak of red violence will hold on the continuing international tensions in the Thaumantic Ocean and the Long Sea. The Foreign Office yesterday announced a continuation of related Fennian initiatives in both pursuing talks with the Danish government to discuss unspecified matters of common political interest, and in negotiating with states in the Thaumantic littoral for the achievement of solution to the recent Havenite- sparked maritime tension. Fennian involvement in the developing Long Sea crisis is continuing as well in the form of political defense of Jurzani sovereignity. However, so far Agder investigations have not pointed out to involvement by foreign communist powers even if it is considered to be possible by sources in Army Central Intelligence and the Military Police.

 

[Serbovia]

Kalevalan Sanomat​

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NEWS IN BRIEF


- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - The Foreign Office has received with what was described as "reserved and cautious interest" the possibility of opening diplomatic negotiations with the communist state of Havenshire over the military tensions in the Northern Thaumantic Ocean. Foreign Minister Kauko Vannas confirmed today after reports from the Danish press that such negotiations were set to take place with Fennian, Havenite, Teloran and - possibly - Danish involvement. However, Danish involvement in the negotiations was called to question by the country's government owing to the apparent exclusion of Great Engellex from the planned conference. Foreign Minister Kauko Vannas stated that the Union government understood the objections levelled by the Danes and would welcome Engellexic involvement in such a conference owing the state's role as an important power along the Thaumantic Ocean.

The exact itinerary and agenda of such a mediatory conference remains unknown, but Foreign Minister Vannas - who will represent Fennia - is expected to demand a Havenite apology in response to earlier threats made by the communist regime's military to attack Fennian merchantmen in the Thaumantic Ocean, in addition to calling a public Havenite disassociation from the ongoing Carentanian naval blockade of the Jurzan. The War Office today stated that they were monitoring the conduct of any such negotiations but there was currently no intention to reduce the deployment of Navy and Air Force assets along our territorial littoral. "Though the Union is in support of diplomatic resolutions, at this time given the level of international tension it would be a gross miscalculation to effect any reduction of our defensive footing", stated the War Minister, Admiral Mikael Aminoff to reporters.

- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA - The Trans-Fennian United Railways have announced intent to commence an increase of transportation capacity primarily owing to the growing costs of road transportation sparked by the increased price of petroleum due to the continuation of the Long Sea crisis and the fighting between the Mezhist Union and Miroslavl. The increase will see the introduction of additional rolling stock on the Fennian railways to increase the frequency of inter-city passenger services along with the greatly increased volume of freight transportation between Fennian cities. Transportation Minister Kyösti Sarkola stated that the Union government would provide additional funding to Trans-Fennian, a state-owned railway company with monopoly over all inter-city railroad transportation in the mainland, to accommodate for additional personnel and equipment.

Most bus and road-haul transportation companies have been forced to increase their fares due to the corresponding increase of oil prices throughout Europe, a predicament shared by other countries as well. Though the Foreign Office has announced a conclusion of negotiations with the Jurzan over more beneficial terms of oil imports into the Union - to terms left unspecified due to what was described as "diplomatic and commercial secrecy" - the heightened tensions in the Long Sea and the Thaumantic Ocean conntinue to contribute to European increases of cost both in oil as well as transportation services. Effects on maritime commerce are also expected due to pressure to maritime insurers to increase insurance fees levelled from shipping companies, especially for ships operating in the Long Sea. Transportation Minister Sarkola also indicated that his office, together with the War and War Production Offices, were considering an increase in the Fennian strategic stockpile of resources after similar moves were announced by other European governments.

 

[Serbovia]

Kalevalan Sanomat​

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NEWS IN BRIEF


- KALEVALA, KINGDOM OF KALEVALA/BÀN DAIR CATHRACH, IVERNIA - Foreign Minister Kauko Vannas has set off to the Ivernian capital to spearhead the Fennian representation to what has commonly gained the name of the Northern Thaumantic Conference in the European press. The Ivernian-hosted conference will invite representatives of Danmark, Great Engellex, Havenshire and Telora to the city in order to achieve a diplomatic solution to the ongoing political situation in the Thaumantic Ocean, a crisis started after the communist Havenite regime mobilized its fleet with threats to attack shipping in the Ocean's maritime routes. The Foreign Office has given scarce commentary over the aims of the Fennian government in the conference and over our government's expectations there, and no press conference was given by Foreign Minister Vannas before his departure to Ivernia, even though a retinue of Fennian journalists including those of our own newspaper followed him to the Ivernian capital.

On the other hand, the Havenites were quick to make an attempt to seize the conference - which has not even commenced yet - for their own purposes of propaganda, as the Havenite state press described Kalevala's reaction to their country's provocations as a "misunderstanding" and claim unjustified credit for organization of the conference. Information Minister Kaarlo Nurmi responded in kind today in the Union Public Radio, saying that it was "completely expected, and indeed unfortunate given the potential for the Thaumantic Conference to succeed, that their desperate Red regime would attempt in such a crude way to propagandize this conference for their own benefit." However, Nurmi said that the Union "was willing to extend a hand of peace, even though the onus herein falls on Westhaven, for it is the position of the Union government that Havenshire alone has been the instigator of this so-called crisis."

- PYHÄ HENRIK, PROTECTED TERRITORIES - The Governor-General of the Protected Territories, Vice Admiral Aleksi Sumuvuori, has ordered two squadrons of the Mounted Military Police to the Eastern Tribal Lands after land disputes between the Eastern Swana and the Jamare tribes in the region have resulted in sixteen deaths during the last week. Vice Admiral Sumuvuori has also dismissed Major Kustaa Smith-Valkea, regional head of the Protected Territories Police, citing as reason "his effective and negligent failure in containing this outbreak of most scandalous violence and the impotent response that has so far been seen by the police forces under his command." The role of the 37th and 42nd Military Police Squadrons will be to restore peace in the affected territories along with tribal and territorial police forces with particular regard for the end of local banditry, seizure of illegal firearms and the capture of those responsible for acts of murder and banditry. A reward has been promised for information leading to the capture of perpetrators of the violence, either dead or alive.

The 15th of October murders of five Swana farmers by suspected Jamare tribesmen have been followed over the week in form of reciprocal acts of violence, in what has been described by colonial officials as a chain of vengeance spiralling rapidly out of control. Two days after that killing, a group of armed Swanas attempted to attack a small Jamare hamlet, resulting in an exchange of gunfire that killed three of the assaulters and four defending Jamare locals. Since then, two Jamare and four Swanas have been killed in individual murders in the border areas of the Ogun and Jamare Valley Reserves along with several night time acts of vandalism such as cattle being set free from their enclosures and killings of cattle. Officials in Pyhä Henrik were hopeful that the intervention of the Mounted Military Police would be able to end this outbreak of tribal violence.

 

[Serbovia]

Kalevalan Sanomat​

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KALEVALA/MALMINMAA - Vice Police seeks to curtail cross-border liquor trafficking


In our Northern constituents, Union lawmen including high officials of the Vice Police, the Border Corps, Customs and Excise and the Coast Guard have met with leaders of local law enforcement to discuss new measures to bring to halt the growing trade of cross-border smuggling from Agderike into the Union. As traffic between Fennia and Agderike has grown over the recent years, so has the importation of illegal goods including blackmarket liquor and even completely banned narcotic substances over the border, with our Northern neighbor being named as the single largest source of blackmarket goods to the Union.

A part of the increase is related to Oceanic Cantignia's recent end of its prohibition policies. During the prohibition, it was alleged that Agder liquor merchants operating in the Oceanic region were involved in illegally selling their wares to black market distributors in Cantignia. Now that this source has dried up, the Vice Police believes that the same people are involved in the Fennian black market of liquor. "It is likely that the unscrupulous elements consider the lower profits to be obtained, after all you can sell the drink for a lower price in Fennia where we have the Alko state monopoly rather than a complete prohibition, to be offset by the lower costs caused by geographic proximity", said Jukka Huhtala, Commander of the Union Vice Police.

Police Commander Huhtala reminded that those purchasing their liquor illegally will also support gangsters engaged in arms trafficking, white slavery, extortion and other forms of gangster crime in addition to reducing the money coming in to Alko, which uses the profits made from its sales in support or programs that contribute to Fennian national welfare. High-quality Agder liquor is said to be displacing illegally manufactured Fennian drinks such as moonshine and those sold illegally by legal manufacturers or stolen out of their wares.

The Vice Police in concert with the Border and Coast Guards fights against this menace on the borders by land and air patrols of the long Fennian-Agder land border, as well as extensive patrolling of our coast lines. Small and fast smuggling boats have been particularly prominent in smuggling activities, being less risky than attempting to cross the land border and risk inspection at the crossings or minefields and other hazards involved in crossing the land border illegally. However, the Coast Guard has been active in obstructing such moves in concert with the Union Navy, which has used its smaller torpedo boats and patrol aircraft in these operations. Patrol aircraft may deter smugglers from crossing into Fennian territorial waters, monitor them or even engage them using their onboard machine guns, while the fast torpedo boats - with a top speed of over fourty knots -can catch and disable almost any craft used by smugglers.

As a result of the aforementioned meetings, Union and constituent lawmen are stepping up their measures to combat the rampant acts of alcohol-related illegality. The land border will be propped up through joint patrols as constituent law enforcers are invited to joint patrols along with the Border Corps and the Vice Police, while the Military Police Corps are also expected to deploy at least four squadrons of its Mounted Military Police to allow more frequent border inspections and heavier patrols in case of illegal border-crossers. Local Suojeluskunta volunteers subordinate to Border Corps commanders of their respective areas will also start manning the border. Additionally, the Vice Police has promised an increase to urban policing specifically targeting blackmarket liquor.

A part of the crackdown will also be judicial. In connection with police operations increasing their scope in the Northern border regions, Justice Minister Kristian Holsti announced today that the Union Congress would receive a proposal to increase the maximum punishment for engagement in illegal liquor to twenty-five years with the option of hard labor as opposed to the current maximum of fifteen years. The law covers blackmarket importation and sales of liquor as well as possession of amounts or liquor manufacturing items intended to facilitate profiteering.

However, owing to the crossborder nature of the trade, police officials have also said that more involvement from Agderike in making sure that their citizens do not support gangsterism will be needed. The Fennian ambassador to Agderike, Dr. Raimo Nikulainen, has been ordered to approach Agder authorities in the matter.

 

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Kongens Departement for Utenlandske Krefter Korrespondanse
7. maj-plassen. PB 8114 Dep. N-003
Kristiania, Agder​

Til: Kalevala, Kvenland
Fra: Kristiania, Agderike

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01. November 1952

His Royal Majesty has always been skeptical of the illicit trade of liquor, specifically akevitt, to the Oceanic region of the world. This marks his continued skepticism towards any sort of illegal alcohol trade to Kvenland. Regardless of his suspicions and whether or not they are founded, His Royal Majesty will do his utmost to prevent alcoholism from spreading from the lands of Agder. As such, the border crossing will begin inspections for incoming alcoholic beverages and suspicious transactions and holdings of currency.

Med Vennlig Hilsen,
Solveig Thorsnes

Solveig Thorsnes

Agderikes utenriksminister​

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