The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-08
SPY SCARE IN
SCANDINAVIA
Suspicious Steamers Go Bobbing
Up and Down the
Coast.
Correspondence of The Journal.

Correspondence of The Journal.
Stockholm, Sept. 21.-All interest
here OF late has been conferred in, the
tain small steamers, mostly tramps,
along the southern and western coast
of the Scandinavian peninsula.
The first information of this kind
which was published concerned a small
steamer, Isbiornen, ,(The Polar Bear.
This = steamer, which is owned by a
unknown person for some unknown pur-
pose and for a sum Of money which
was absurd in consideration Of the value
of the steamer itself. r.
IsbJornen would have been overpaid
with 81 ,5OO and was chartered for $40
Dor for orders from the Russian vice
consul at that town. What these or
ders were nobody was able to learn,
altho the vice consul was repeatedly
interviewed. H.. 81.
=. Put to Sea Again.
Isbiornen put to sea again on her
mysterious errand and was sighted sew
eral times along the southern and west
! ern coasts of Sweden. About the same
time several other small steamers were
sighted along the Swedish and Nor.
Weg}lan coasts, coming and going for
no known purpose, without cargo or pas
sengers, touching port here and there.
put always taking orders from the Rus
sian consuls at the different places.
AS far as known one Swedish, one
Norwegian and at least three Danish
little, boats have been pottering about
Tor 1or the last week or SO. One of them,
German flag and with a German crew,
but has been chartered by the Russian
consul in Arendal. Its constant com
ing and going along the Norwegian
coast has created great sensation in
Norway and given rise to rumors that
she was examining the Norwegian, coast
/ TOR the Russian government. ~
r.. Never Again, Says Doe.
But Consul Doe has declared that he
would never lend himself to anything
that would be against the interests Of
his native country. However, this
explanation leaves open the possibility
that the steamer is engaged in some
other Russian interest, for instance, car
rying news and orders to the Russian
Baltic fleet which, it is said, soon will
leave for the far east.
Another steamer, the Tourist, is said
to be chartered by a Russian, Mr.. Har-
tig, who stopped at a hotel in Copen-
hagen several weeks, and who con-
a Mr.: Lutken, a Danish engineer, who
has lived a long time in Russia, and
4 who seemed to be in command on board
the Tourist. This Mr.. Hartig is sup
posed to be Russian naval officer,
Who,sit is said. is the leader Of several
Russian naval officers sent to Denmark
Tor spying purposes.
j ficult to say, but it is very likely that
the Russian authorities, having learned
in the far east what masters the Japs
are in surprise attacks, wanted to guard
their Baltic fleet from anything Of this
kind by keeping strict lookout at al
not the slightest likelihood of any
| Japanese man-of war turning up in these
latitudes-a cruiser couldn It escape de
lection and a submarine would be out
!! of the question:. n IS @7tt"%%7"> y.
g*..~3a Jap Attache Arrested. - = ~
simultaneously the Japanese naval at
tache in Germany is arrested in Den
mark. First he is stopped at a small
) town, Aalborg. The stationmaste1
comes to the door Of the carriage whert
the little Jap is sitting reading his news
are you doing here?'' The answe5
| comes at once: MI am reading a news
| Epaper.' T. S,s<s.. =.
r AS this cannot be classified as a Grim
/ against International law, even by
I Danish russophile, he is allowed to con
! tinue his Journey; But at Skagen, tn
l he is arrested and asked to return t.
: EBerlin. The protracted stay that h
: would have had to make at this place, i
= he wanted to watch the Russian flee
pass out into the North seat, was thu
Ecut short.
He was also forbidden to :dispatcl
any kilograms from Denmark. TIL
s Danish radical press is naturally en-
a ragged over this impolite treatmen
|. melted out by the Danish government
n to the representative Of friendly ma
n ton. On the other hand, the RUSSIA
) newspaper Novoe Vremya complain
t bitterly over that the whole of Scan
i dinavia is overrun by Japanese spies
a There is, of course, not the slightes
s foundation for this assertion.
n