SS John Grafton was a steamship that was used in an unsuccessful attempt by Finnish independence activists and Japanese military intelligence to smuggle large quantities of arms for the Finnish resistance to the Imperial Russian regime in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War. The matter later came to be known as the "Grafton Affair".
SS John Grafton was a steamship that was used in an unsuccessful attempt by Finnish independence activists and Japanese military intelligence to smuggle large quantities of arms for the Finnish resistance to the Imperial Russian regime in 1905 during the Russo-Japanese War. The matter later came to be known as the "Grafton Affair".
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