Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-09-01
Recent Occurrences OF interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ON ALAND
Although the Force LIS Small Its Ad-
vent Has Caused Unrest in +.
Parts of Sweden. .A
SWEDEN.


Ania correspondent writes as follows
regarding Sweden's fears OF Russian
Aggressiveness: sin spite of the fact
that Russia is at present SO much oc-
rupied with her internal troubles,
there are people who think that she Is
finding time to look after interests be-
gond her own dominions. therefore 1t
has created a certain amount OF I'M
rest in some quarters that Russian
military force, as yet very small ID
numbers, has been placed on Aland,
the island in the Baltic halfway be-
tween Sweden and Finland. According
to the treaty of Paris, 1856, Russia
undertook not to erect any fOrtitlca-
tons on this island nor to build any
military or naval establishments there
The question which arises now is II
the present military activities on Aland
ran be termed violation Of the treaty.
AS your readers will remember mega
tive answer to a question asked IN the
house of commons has been given by
the English government. AS far as
have been able to ascertain it will be
very difficult to class them as military
or naval establishments which is the
term employed in the treaty and by
which must be understood arrange
ments of more or less permanent
kind. AS yet there are only 800 men
and their housing is of the simplest
and most. casual nature. Torpedo craft
are constantly securing the waters i'll
the neighboring archipelago, but this
is explained by the Russians as we'll
as the troops on shore as a necessary
Drecaution against the continued SNUG
Cling of arms into Finland. Whether
the wireless telegraph station recently
constructed on Aland. can be cOnsid-
cred a military establishment in the
meaning of the treaty or not, is ques-
ton perhaps not so easily solved. Such
a thing. of course, could not have been
foreseen by the signatories in 1896.
A great many sensational reports are
circulated about this matter but | am
able to state, that in leading circles
one does not view these arrangements
with any apprehension or alarm. 1t
would be another thing if Russia
should show any desire to extend them
and make them permanent. 1t is
therefore a matter of course that
everything connected with it is fol-
lowed with the greatest interest here.
1t is also q matter of course that Eng
land must attach the greatest i'm
portance to it and watch over the
Aland incident If Russia really
should intend to create a naval base
on Aland, from which to strike blow
against Sweden, this blow would in
fact only be directed against us as the
shortest cut to Norway and thus an
Atlantic ice-free port. Sweden itself
would be of no great advantage to
Russia. even if it could be TAKEN
which is very unlikely with its pres
ent navy and army, and of Baltic ports
Russia has as good and better than
Sweden. But an outlet on the Atlantic
is another matter
There has been plenty of hot wealth
err in Stockholm this summer and all
who can afford it have made for the
WV
sea breeZes. The royal family is at
this time of year scattered all over the
country. King Oscar is with his yacht
in Marstrand. the most fashionable
watering place in Sweden, where he
gees every summer to battle, sail and
listen to speeches and receive the hom-
age from his faithful subjects. The
I crownprince is in the south of Sweden
somewhere, when he is not playing
tennis at Saro, another seaside resort
at Gothenburg, where also Prince
Charles ard Princess Ingeborg have
| taken up their abode. Princess Mar
garet has gone to England with her
newborn son to visit her parents, the
duke and duchess Of Connaught, and
her husband. Prince Gustav Adolpf,
will soon join her. Prince Eugen, the
artist prince, is motoring in the coun-
| try districts. The heat in Stockholm
has lately been something terrific, the
rain soon comes there will be much
damage done to the crops. which 9th
! erwise promise to be one of the finest
( ever seen in the country.
"No music after 10 o'clock o. m.,'
| is a recent order issued by Stock
! holm's chief of police and as a result
J there will be no open air concerts at
| Berns or Blanche's after that hour
| Music loving Stockholmians are not
! we'll pleased with this ukase and are
| expressing their dissatisfaction on al
sides. The chief has given no reason
for thus depriving the Stockholm pub
lie of it's evening concerts, and natural
| ~ he is very unpopular man il
| Stockholm just now.
/ The chiefs of the dockyards artil
lery and torpedo departments of the
navy have sent a proposition to thu
minister of marine to adopt the eight
hour system Of work. If the plan il
accepted by the government it viii
he the first case of the kind in Eu
rope.