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...Altmark fracas in Norwegian waters were not enough excitement, added to it last week was the incident of Pajala, a Swedish town of 3,000 six miles from the Finnish border, 100 miles North of the Gulf of Bothnia. One morning seven bombers flew over Pajala, dropping 134 explosive and incendiary bombs. Six buildings were burned, telephone lines were cut, 43 big bomb holes were made in Pajala's streets. Miraculously, no one was killed, only two slightly wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Darkening Up Here' | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...sprung up in support of the Social Democrat Party, which had just lost its majority in the Diet. A White Guard was also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim went to Vaasa. Late in January the Social Democrats seized the government, proclaimed Finland a Socialist Workers Republic. Instead of the coup d'état they had planned, they got a civil war. A few White members of the Senate escaped from Helsinki to Vaasa, proclaimed themselves the legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Hit Them in the Belly | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...defend her, were sheets of ice. On Belgium's eastern plateau, where the twelve modern sunken fortresses of Liege guard the route the Germans once took, caked snow crunched under the boots of marching troops. Ice crept out from the shores of the Baltic and the Gulf of Bothnia, where Russian planes bombed Sweden's Kallaks Island (see p. 30). And with the cold came fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEUTRAL FRONT: Winds of Fear | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Turku-Helsinki railroad and the Bothnian railroad terminus of Vaasa. Civilian casualties were small (not more than 15), but many business structures in the smaller cities were in flames, due to inadequate fire-fighting equipment. The planes went as far north as the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks, near Lulea, thereby all but extending the war to Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Bull After Cape | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Police said that one of the bombs struck the island of Kalla, lying to the south of the town, and eight others struck the ice of the Gulf of Bothnia. No one was injured...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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