File No. 861.00/707

The Consul at Helsingfors (Haynes) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Owing to temporary overthrow interim government no authority existing in Finland. Present bourgeois Diet, which succeeded Socialist Diet dissolved last July by Russian Government, assembled first November. Diet proposes to establish triumvirate of supreme power in Finland. Socialists regard this [as] coup d’état and threaten forcibly to overthrow Diet and assume government. Numerous workmen’s meetings are held versus present Diet, situation threatening.

Haynes