The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-26
NORWEGIANS
WILL COPY JAPS
Swedes Afraid Norway Will Be-
gin War Without Previous
-.. Declaration.
They Talk of Peace but Make
Preparations for Clash at
Arms.
BY. w. B. CHAMBERLAIN.

Copyright, 1905, by The Minneapolis Journal.
Stockholm, Sweden, July 6.-The
Swedish riksdag has put in another
day talking about the crisis, but with
out result, except that the proposal to
vote an emergency credit of 100000
900 kronor was referred to a committee
for consideration. The peasant party
in the riksdag is made up Of very hard
beaded men, like our own American
extravaganza. They do not want to
vote money to the government for war
purposes until they are sure it will
actually be needed. They are not lack
ing in patriotism, but they find it diff
fcult to believe that there can really
be war between the brother peoples. /
.---a< War Talk Goes On.
The war talk, deprecated on every
hand, goes on nevertheless, and adds
to the friction. There has been much
discussion of the incident Of which I
wrote you-when the young Norwegian
drilling at Trossnas. The details are
now coming out and his name is used
for the first time. It was Lieutenant
Graft Wang, and while on his way to
Trossnas he wired his brother, who is
a captain in the engineers, to meet him
at a little summer station in Sweden
known as Ottebol. The captain, who
married the daughter of a lieutenant
colonel in the Swedish army, was Wis
home. The lieutenant and the captain
met at the station and had chat
while the train stopped. The captain
should be on the wrong side of the
frontier and in civilian clothes, and the
latter laughingly explained that he had
come over to see the military maneu.
vers and have look at the fortified.
tions. The captain, taking this for q
bit of a joke, advised the lieutenant
to stop off at Trossnas, where the con.
vice the young man accepted-and was
duly arrested while looking on at Tross
mas: He explained that he had come
on his own initiative and his brother e
advice. This made matters still worse
and the result is that not only Lieuten.
ant Graft Wang, but his brother, Cap
tain Graft Wang, and the latter,'s wife
the daughter of a Swedish lieutenant
colonel, were escorted across the from
is seriously compromised. This little
incident very we'll illustrates the state
of tension between the soldiers of the
two nations at least. IT,, 80.
Want War Dogs Trained.
Here is another bit of evidence: In
one Of the Stockholm papers appears 9
solemn appeal to all patriotic Swedish
citizens to buy st. Bernard dogs ano
have them trained for hospital service
on the battlefield. It is pointed out how
valuable these dogs have proved them
selves in retrieving the wounded and II
carrying bandages and medicine to then
! in the Russo-Japanese war. This might
perhaps, be considered a bit 81 hys
terics. But obs.--as they say in Swede1
that it is signed by L. W. Stiernstedt
lieutenant general in command of thu
army; Lieutenant Colonel Hallstrom
chief of the Swedish commissary; DR.. G
Ekeroth Of the hospital corps, and 9th
er well-known men.
The Swedish general staff is appre
hensive Of some sudden act of war OF
the part of the Norwegians, like Jap
an 8 stunning blow at Russia in Por
Arthur. This has cropped out in va
rious precautions that have quietly beel
taken. Today orders are printed b,
the board of pilots to all points i
which they are directed to keep shar7
lookout for Norwegian men of-war an
to report any that are sighted promptl
to the war department.. They are warned
however, against permitting sensational
reports to get started that would ten
to infame public opinion. 49,,
| Norway's Press Defiant.