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Show ALAND ISLANDERS ASK ANNEXATION LONDON. Feb. 4. King Gustav of Sweden, according to a Stockholm dispatch dis-patch to tiie Times, has received a deputation dep-utation from tiie Aland islands, w'jo presented pre-sented a petition from the inhabitants asking for reunion with Sweden. The Aland island, numuerinsr eichtv, are in the gulf of Bothnia, and have formed a part of Finland. The islands were taken from Sweden by Russia in 1 S'J. The population of the islands is about 23.000, mostly Swedes. |