FORTIFICATION OF ISLANDS
SWEDEN AND FINLAND SEEK PERMISSION
LONDON, December 31.
The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that, fearing a seizure by a stronger Power, Sweden and Finland are seeking permission to fortify (the Aland Islands, hitherto demilitarised under a 10-Power Convention of 1921; to which Russia is not a party. The Aland Islands, about 300 in all, 80 of them inhabited, are in the , Gulf of Bothnia, the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea. They are a department of Finland.
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Press, Issue 22599, 3 January 1939, Page 10
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