Word: bothnia
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Dates: during 1918-1918
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...picking a quarrel with Denmark for interning the prize crew of a captured Spanish steamship stranded off the Danish coast. Germany seizes the Aland Islands, which formerly belonged to Sweden and which command the northern entrance to the port of Stockholm and the exit from the Gulf of Bothnia, through which the largest part of Sweden's trade finds its outlet. Germany is reaching out almost to the Pole, demanding of Russia, the abandonment of claims to Spitzbergen and seeking a conference through which it can juggle Norway out of her colonization prospects with a view to developing the island...