The time has come the walrus said . . .

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

After capturing Tampere LtGen Mannerheim started moving South. The Senate wanted help from Germany but Mannerheim was against because he thought the Finnish White Army could win the war without foreign help.

The Senate however asked for German aid and on 3rd April 1918 the German Baltic Division under MjGen Count Ruediger von der Goltz arrived in Hanko harbour. (In this Division was a o Swedish Cpt Gilbert Hamilton and German 1Lt Heinrich Schippel which I will present to you in later posts).

The well trained and well equipped Germans cut the Red defences like a hot knife in butter retaking Helsinki 12th April 1918.

Photo: German troops entering Helsinki.