At Janiskoski the Finns are harnessing the mighty rapids for electric power, and 11,000 men live and work, summer. and winter, in the wilderness.' Besides" this there are the mines; there is even a little gold to be washed from the rivers, and fur= trading is considerable, Rond-building has already enabled buses fo run all the year round to the shores of the Arctic at Liinahamarl, and last summer I walked over the almost completed bridge over the rapids in Kolttakongas. When this is open to traffic and the Norwegian have built a short section more of road it will be possible to drive right through to Kirkenes to join the whole Norwegian road system, Already Finland has done more to develop this region in the 19 years she has possessed it than was done in all the centuries before. All the frontiers between free democratic Scandinavian countries have been open and unguarded, and one passed to and fro over them without question; but now an old bogey, feared and hated through the centuries by all, has once again reared its head.
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