PREPARATIONS FOR WAR IN SWEDEN AND FINLAND.
From Crintiania tho news in warlike : 6000 men fire to bo mobilised ; of whom 3000 ore lo bo dent to Stockholm, 1200 to Cristiansand, 1000 to Hor. ten, and the rest to Kaholmen. A division of tbe gun-boat fleet is to be got rpady immediately. Russia neglects nothing in the midst of war in Turkey, and intrigues everywhere, not evpn tbe continued Ruiuificfltion of unfortunnto Finland. Two ordinances hnvn lately been published In that duchy, tho onocommsndinjr all tho scholars in tbo high school* to wear uniform, and the other rendering the present censorship of tho press still more severe. In Finland 100 gun boatn arc to ho got ready, and 60.000 Ruuisn troops ore to occupy tho coasts of theGnlf of Bothnia, the Finnith regiments being prudently sent to other quarters. The visit of tho Grand Duke Constantino to Helsinfors has been postponed.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 99, 21 June 1854, Page 4
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151PREPARATIONS FOR WAR IN SWEDEN AND FINLAND. Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 99, 21 June 1854, Page 4
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