Kalm was not part of the incident and did not know anything about it, as he was engaged in the defense of the Kuhmoinen parish center at the time, against the Red Guards offensive in the direction of Jämsä.
Researcher of political history Jaakko Paavolainen thinks that "it is possible that shots were fired from the sick room, as the Whites have reported, but the claim that the snipers would have retired to the beds inside, is a rather fantastic one.
[4] The "leftist Red Cross" in this story is a completely unknown one, and such a term is not found in any other connection with respect to the Finnish Civil War.
On 8 November 1917, a medical organ named Ensi-Avun Osasto (‘First Aid Department’) had been founded for the Working Class Guards, but its activities proved to be rather insignificant.
In financial and organizational matters, it was subjected to the Red Guards supervisory board, and on 22 February 1918, on the orders of Commander in Chief Eero Haapalainen, it was transferred to the authority of the general staff.
The First Aid Unit wanted to be independent of the Red Cross and of Finnish medical doctors, although in Lahti they were not successful in this.
The relations between the First Aid Units and the Red Cross suffered from the murder of Candidate of Medicine Gösta Schybergson in early February, 1918.
Around 5 p.m. a detachment of White soldiers arrived, led by secondary school graduate Artturi Paimela, accompanied by Sergeant Major of the 1st Company, Master of Arts Albert Gyllenbögel.
He played dead and threw himself on the floor and later fled through a window and went to a near-by barn, where he found laundry hanging, and used it to bandage his wounds.
The report was written by Sergeant Major Albert Gyllenbögel of the 1st Company for the memorial book of the Kalm Battalion.
[8] The reports says that shots were fired from the sick room and that when the Whites arrived there, they found healthy, armed men in the hospital beds, and they were given their sentences without further ado.