Stockholm, Oct. 13.
'Sweden must hold herself ready' to defend her peace and _tberty, declared the Minister of Defence, 1M, Peter A. Skoeld, in a speech last night at Gothenburg. She was well prepared, he added, with a good army, that "could "be mobilized at short notice, and a navy which tu relation to other Baltic states, was stronger than in 1914, with a' large number of modern destroyers and submarines, The Finnish organ here, the warbetar Bladet," suggests that the five northern countries should enter Into an association like. the British Commonwealth. Joint Finnish Swedish discussions regarding the fortification of the Aaland islands, it states, constituted "a towards military collaboration. Why hold Dbaek, the newspaper asks, when the whole of Finland, including the Aaland islands, is threatened?—Reuter.
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