6 JULY 1918, Page 10

The Norwegian papers reported last week that an armed British

steamer was making for Petchenga, on the Murman coast of mussie. and that Finnish and German forces were marching northward to that district, which is outside the borders of Finland. Petchenga lies to the west of the Muiman Railway, connecting the ice-free Arctic port of Kola with Petrograd. It was to be.expected that the enemy would try to block Russia's last remaining winter gateway to the West, but the Germans cannot employ large forces in a country so barren and so devoid of good roads as Russian Lapland.