Morris tribune., 1905-07-15
Recent Occurrences Of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
NoRWAY's TILT WITH SWEDEN
Russia the Only Country Which Has
Taken Amy Recognition of
the Coup d'Etat.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

''In declining to recognize the claims
| Of Norway to be an Independent state
President Roosevelt is acting in ac-
| cordance with the action of the great
| powers, though not with that of his
own precedent in the case Of the rec
ognition of the Panama republic. Thus
far the governments of France, Ger
many, Great Britain, Austria and
Italy have absolutely declined to &C
cord any sort of recognition to Nor
way. Russia, the intrigues of whose
agents are regarded as largely respon-
sible for the Norwegian coup d'etat,
| being the only government which thus
| far has maintained a species Of neu-
trail attitude. 1t is understood that in
the same way that the United States
! at the time of he civil war in this
country announced that it would re-
| gard as an unfriendly act-that is to
say a cassus bethany recognition Of
the confederacy, so in the same way
has King Oscar protested against any
recognition of Norway and not until
| the trouble between the sister king
doms has been definitely solved, either
| by war or by negotiations, will there
| be any action on the part of the United
| States and other great powers. Chi
cago Tribune.
| Sweden's resources in time of war
are as follows: Area in English square
miles. 172,S76 (n4ore than $4,000 square
miles larger than England, Scotland
and Ireland together; population, g.
| 100000; army with reserves), 100000;
field guns. 240. Navy-Battleships
modern coast defense vessels, gun
boats, torpedo-boats, destroyers, etc,
seventy-one twelve first class iron
clads. seven third class ironclads,
four fourth class irOnclads, five tor
pedo cruisers, nine first class gunboats,
five second class gunboats, one de-
stroyer, fifteen first class torpedo
! boats. eleven second class torpedo
boats, training ships, etc.; total ton
Cthirty-six heavy, ninety-three rapid
firing secondary weight, 1874 light
guns, all rapid-fring, 100 magazine
guns; officers and men including war
time reserves, 5000.
The fact that Emperor William has
decided not to take his usual sum-
mer cruise in Norwegian waters this
season has caused much comment in
Scandinavian and German papers.
The emperor aboard the ''Hohenzol-
lern'' is now cruising in Swedish
waters and the "Kolnische Zeitung"
remarks that during the recent visit
of the crownprince of Sweden to Ber-
lin, it is believed that Emperor Will
lam was requested not to visit Norway
this summer, owing to the strained re-
lations between the two countries"
At all events it Is not likely that the
emperor will cruise in Norwegian
waters this season, or at least not I'M
til the German government has Of
ficially decided to recognize the new
Norway government.
Henrik Akerman, for a number of
years Sweden and Norway envoy in
Paris, died very suddenly June Is,
aged IS years. Alderman was born in
1910 and began his diplomatic career
as attache to the STRAIGHTFORWARD
legation in Brussels in 1860, where he
remained until 1869, when he served
for one year - the same capacity in
London. In 1877 he was appointed
minister to Madrid and in 1884 he was
removed to Vienna and served there
until 1899 when he was appointed en-
voy in Paris, a position which he held
until his death. Alderman was very
cles and was an ardent advocate OF
maintaining the union between the sis
ter kingdoms.
The Social Demokrater" oppose
war and have sent out 100000 CIR
cuIars in which they urge peaceful
measures. In this circular they take
a fling at Swedish aristocracy and
state Sweden's people are peaceful
and will not go to war with their Nor
wegian brethren.
Tore Svennberg the well known
theatrical director in Stockholm, and
Miss Karin Wiberg were married at
the home of the brides parents June
TO- Miss Wiberg is an actress of
repute and made her debut on the
Swedish stage five years ago.
Hjalmar Johansson and G. Wret-
man, two expert swimmers from
Stockholm. will represent Sweden at
the international swimming contest.
which will take place at Blackpool,
Eng, on the 18th inst.
King Oscar and Queen Sofia pre-
sented Sofiero palace as wedding
present to Prince Gustaf Adolph.
Princess Margareth received diadem
of jewels
Princess Margareth received on her
wedding day presents to the amount
Of 13,5OOOOO crowns, which may GER
kainly be considered record breaker.