Valdez daily prospector., 1914-04-08
Sweden and Norway Greatly Exercis- ed Over Russian Fertilization on
 the AIand Islands.
Limited Press Service.)

paign that is now on looking to the election of new Riksdag. A good many facts have been brought for ward, which, despite semi-official de- nials from St. Petersburg, tend to support the belief prevalent through out Sweden and to certain extent in Norway, that there is real and i'm minent danger of Russian aggression, and consequently ample justification for an immediate and heavy increase of expenditure for the national de fense.
 Here are some of the charges against Russia that are made by the Conservatives who are supporting King Gustav's program for length ening without delay the term of com pulsory military service as well as extensive preparations for enlarging the navy and improving the land for tifications Finland, just across the Gulf of Bothnia, is now being perm anently garrisoned by the Twenty second Russian Army Division-25,-
 900 men. Two other divisions are stationed just over the Finnish bord-
 CT, near St. Petersburg. from which
 locality they could be drawn and
 thrown into Swed within ten days
 by means of the new military rail
 ways which have recently been con-
 pleted in Finland and which extend right up to the Swedish frontier. Army strategists assert that within three weeks Russia could place 15O,-
 900 men in the field against Sweden
 In the past three years Russia has
 been secretly engaged in building ex- tensive Notifications on the Finnish west coast and is now said to be violating the treaty of Paris of 1856
 whereby the Aland Islands were to remain unfortified. For several months past there has been an un--
 usual increase in the number of Rus
 sian tramps and pedlers throughout
 Sweden, especially along the eastern
 coast in the north. A number of
 these when arrested were found to be in possession of military maps sim liar to those used by the Swedish general staff. It was noted that oth-
 CTS, who professed to be merely wan
 dering Russian peasants looking for
 work, not only bore no signs of
 manual labor on their hands but could Ispeak Swedish fluently. In this con- inection the espionage scandal of last fall is recalled as the result of which lthe Russian minister and his military lattache were compelled to leave the icountry. It was also openly charged {that the former Princess Maria Paw ilovna, wife of Prince Wilhelm, second lson of King Gustav, was particular lily active Russian spy. She, too, has lfed, and the prince is suing for a tdivorce.
 l The Swedish Conservatives are
 making good use ID their campaign
 of the words of Dr. Fritjof Nansen. the Arctic explorer, who, in address ling an anti-government mass meet ing the other day in Christiania, at tackled the Radicals for preferring the promotion of all sorts of social re forms instead of increasing Norway's defenses. and said: Il fear that the day will soon come when Norway and
 Sweden will have to unite against a
 common enemy for the defense of
 their neutrality and independence" In the meantime Russia is doing
 all she can to allay the Swedish sus-
 picions. Says the Novoye Vrenya,
 semi-official organ of the St. Peters
 burg government: If the Swedes
 should exercise little more perspic-
 acity they would readily see that their potential enemy is Germany, and
 that it is from the Wilhelmstrasse
 that their baseless suspicious of Rus sia's ulterior designs against its Scan dinavian friend and neighbor have been fostered. In case of an armed
 collision between Russia and Ger many the latter power would at once endeavor to establish a naval base at acme point on the Swedish coast; consequently it behooves the Swedes to be prepared for such an eventual ity by rendering their coast defenses. as far as possible :npregnable. This | is the precautionary work of the Swedes, instead of uselessly lavishing their treasure on their land frontier 1 defenses.s 4. Furnished Roosts. Mrs. Frank Hoffman has taken charge of the Arizona and has sSv-j