[3] The county of Finnmark borders to both Finland and Russia, and during the Finnish Civil War and the Russian Civil War considerable amounts of goods were transported from the village of Skibotn into Finland, and from the village of Karasjok into Russia.
[2] Among the famous incidents of espionage was the arrest and expulsion of the Swedish Baron Otto von Rosen, who operated in Northern Norway as a German agent.
After a long investigation 188 kg of explosives, in suitcases and packing cases, were confiscated at the railway station Oslo Ø.
[5] Due to diplomatic pressure Rautenfels was extradited to Germany because of his immunity as courier for the German Emperor,[3] while other members of the league were eventually convicted and sent to prison.
[7] A series of unexplained fires occurred in 1917, in Horten, Holmestrand, Stavanger, Sørengen, Trondheim and Orkdal, Greaker, Tveitsund, Hurum, Gjøvik, Skien and Tønsberg.