Word: bothnia
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...aground near a naval base at Karlskrona. Ten days later, after a humiliating interrogation of the ship's captain, the indignant Swedes hauled the sub out to sea. Last June, the Swedish navy spent 14 days in futile pursuit of a reported sub in the Gulf of Bothnia. But the latest trespass raised the greatest fears. "This is so far inside a restricted area, so close to our main naval base, that it seems more aggressive and ruthless than anything before," declared Commander Hans von Hofsten, who is in charge of briefing the more than 300 reporters who have...
Frewen was still in good spirits when it came time to leave England. Farewelling boozily with his hunting and gambling friends and with the actress Lillie Langtry, a mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board...
...nickel mines and the Norwegian frontier. Colonel General Lothar Rendulic had two divisions in the far north based on the Norwegian port of Kirkenes (35 miles northwest of Petsamo); three divisions were based farther south on the railroad town of Rovaniemi (65 miles north of the Gulf of Bothnia...
...send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina...
...Soldiers! I have fought on many bat tlefields, but never have I seen your like as warriors. I am proud of you as though you were my own children ; I am as proud of the men from the northern fields as of the sons of Ostro on Bothnia's plain, the Karelian forests, the Hills of Savo, the fields of Hame and Satakunta, the leafy copses of Uusimaa and Sarsinais-Suomi. I am as proud of the sacrifice tendered by the child of the lonely cottage as of the child of the wealthy...