Morris tribune., 1903-06-06

NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA
Recent Occurrences of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
WARNING GIVEN ExILED flNNs
Courteous Reply Is Received-Their
Presence in Sweden Cannot Disturb
That Country's Neutrality.
WARNING GIVEN ExILED Films
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Since several exiled Films of promi-
nence are seeking refuge from Russian
tyranny in Sweden, the Stockholm
press earnestly admonisheS them not
10 excite any political luminosity be-
tween Sweden and Russia while reSld-
ing in their temporarily adopted coun-
try. A most courteous reply was i'm
mediately Forthcoming, however, signed
by MeSSrS j. NJ Won Born, Jonas Cas-
tren. August Fellman, Vented Hagel-
STAN, Carl Mannerheim, Eugen Wolff,
and II. Wolff. The reply is couched in
the following friendly and grateful
words: I'm the land where we are
now seeking an asylum we, although
foreigners, are protected by just laws.
These are not foreign to us; on the
other hand we respect them, and shall
become subservient to them. And
even if we cannot altogether share the
political apprehensions which are ex-.
tant here, we still sympathize with
you and your fears, no matter how
ungrounled these may be. Just as lit.
tie as we have come here for the pur-
pose of causing you to become lmpl-
Gated with us, just so little do we wish
to give rise to any misunderstanding
which would disturb your present
peace We cannot believe that Swed-
ems neutrality can in any way be dis
turbed because we, as eXiled Firms,
are here seeking an asylum, relieving
ourselves from Russian tyrannical OPP
preston We love to believe that you
have faith in us and that you will not
suspect us now when your kindness
makes our freedom here more sacred
than ever"
Owing to the decision of the Swedish
parliament to refuse to permit the
>Grangesberg Mining company to ac-
quire the Lapland iron mines, the state
is travelling toward a gigantic expert
ment in socialism. Even the first
chamber always a friend of private
enterprise. has advised the govern
ment to prepare a bill establishing
state exploitation of the mines. Ex-
perts state that the government by
economiZing production can force up
prices and conduct a safe iron indus
try for 200 years; whereas, private ex-
ploiters would exhaust the ore in fifty
years. 1t is said that Sweden's min
ing project will be the first socialistic
export business in the history of the
world
According to the L'Europe Paris
the Persian ambassador in CONSTANT
merly Persia's ambassador to Stock
holm and ST. Petersburg is one of the
candidates for the Nobel peace prize
His literary productions comprise me-
morris, sketches of his travels, poems
and an important work which deals
with the reform of the Persian bible
After his return from the disarmament
conference at The Hague he published
an lode to Peace" which has been
translated into seventeen different Ian
guages and has been accorded univers-
al attention in Europe.
The Goteborg's Misunderstanding states
on what it alleges is based on good
authority that Crown Prince Gustaf of
Sweden and Norway will pay visit
to the worlds fair at St Louis next
year. When, however, King Oscars
health is taken into account, it is hard
ly possible that Prince Gustaf could
undertake such journey Especially
in the event of King Oscars death it
would cause complications which no
doubt the Crown Prince is willing to
avoid.
'Lapland Express" is the name of
the new special which will run be-
tween Stockholm and Narvik during
June. July and August. Hundreds of
tourists will no doubt avail themselves
of the opportunity of taking the Lap
land Express which will take them
through some of Scandinavia's most
picturesque scenery.
The youngest physician in Sweden
at present is Lars Flodquist, "a yeaSs
old. who few days ago passed his ex-
aminations successfully at the Ka!0-
linska institute. 1t is qdite an unllsu-
al thing to learn of a physician Ia
Sweden who is less than 80 years old.
King Oscar and Queen Sofia visited
the Helsingfors exhibition last week
and were pl esent at the dedication Of
the new harbor at Malmo May 80. 4
King Oscar is now enjoying compare
lively good health and is travelling
nearly all the time.