Show POLITICAL SITUATION IN SCAN thin THE latest news from the scandinavian peninsula to is to the effect that the people are apprehensive of war with russia the mighty giant gant on their eastern border that the situation is gravo grave may be surmised from the fever ish activity manifested by tle the populace in gathering funds for the purpose of building fortifications sad aad men of war even the ladles ladies are forming societies for or this purpose and the children participate in this patriotic labor and the king is regularly asking Biks Rike dagen for money for war ships sweden and norway have enjoyed the blessings of peace and consequent prosperity so long that that this warlike activity is all the more remarkable the russian genius since czar peter the great has been to extend the vast empire in all directions this policy has been handed down to his successors as a sacred obligation and the autocrats of the empire have never neglected an opportunity of acting th in line with it besides this general do de giro for extension exten eion vf if territory at the cost of her neighbors russia has a special interest in obtaining a foothold in scandinavia she needs a harbor for her fleet a place free from ice uch such as the fjord for instance would give her for years russian settlers have been moving into the northern parts of norway buying up lands making homes there while her ships have frequently visited the coasts and maps and charts have been drawn of the various localities among the latest aggressions of t czar has been the stationing of t A in the north and violating the treaty of peace made with sweden in 1800 1809 under the guarantee of th the european powers perhaps this innovation to Is made in order to provoke sweden to take some stop step that could be interpreted as a acom belli and justify the opening of actual hostilities |