THE AALAND ISLANDS.
FORTIFICATION BY FINLAND. NOTIFICATION TO THE LEAGUE. (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. The Helsinki correspondent of the British United Press states that Finland has notified the League of Nations that -she is l fortifying the Aaland Islands. Sweden and Finland asked the League’s approval of this step last May. Russia objected, and the League did nothing. , A Finnish spokesman, points out that the. Aalands are .one of Finland’s most vulnerable points, and any Power seizing them could close the Gulf of Bothnia, enabling Finnish cities to be bombed and isolating the country from the rest of the world.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 47, 5 December 1939, Page 5
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