Morris tribune., 1906-06-09
Recent Occurrences of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
AMENDMENT TO SWEDISH LAWS
Government Aims to Punish Those
Engaged in the Anti-Mili-
tary Movement.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm,


According to the Swedish papers,
the government has submitted amend
ments to the existing laws, with a
view of combating the growth OF the
anti-military sentiment and Furnishing
those engaged in the movement. Says a
correspondent: Public encoura cement
to riots and disturbances is to be
punished with fines and imprisonment
up to four years. The ranking officer
at all places where troops are sta
toned is to have the authority to re-
fuse permission to soldiers to attend
gatherings at which there is likely to
be remarks advising conscripts to dis
regard CONSUMPTION and encoura g1ng
hatred against the army. Such utter
anceS are reasonable, detrimental to
discipline and will have tendency to
ruin the efficiency of the army in the
event of active service. The public
prosecutor has made official complaint
against Hinke Bergegren for his sedi-
tious and incendiary language in the
large massmeeting at Stockholm on
April and also against Axel Holm
strom, the young socialist agitator.'
King Oscar has received from DR..
Sven Hedin, the noted traveller, an in
teresting letter, dated at Nasirabad,
Persia. April Is. With seven men and
fifteen animals he crossed the deserts
southeast of Teheran, drew a map of
the Great and Kayir salt deserts and
traversed the Khur Tebbes and Ba-
habad deserts, the last named having
never been visited by any other
travelegs In the course of the journey
DR.. ! sHedin made 1872 maps and
sketches. 1876 panoramas, 500 photo
graphs and 100 drawings from nature.
He started from Seistan province
April 20 with new caravan. intend
ing to pass through Baluchistan, pene-
trate Thibet and cross the Himalaya
mountains into India. In this letter
DR.. Hedin praises his Russian escort
very highly.
One of Sweden's oldest and most
prominent scientists, Professor ID. G.
Lindhagen, secretary of the Academy
of Sciences, is dead. Mr.. Lindhagen
was born in Ostergotland in 1919 and
studied astronomy at Upsala and Ber-
lin He was for number of years
the director of the observatory at Pull
kova. From 1855 until 1866 he was
assistant astronomer at the UpSala
observatory. when he was appointed
secretary of the Academy of Sciences
in Stockholm. He was conscientious
student and has been for years con-
tributor to many Swedish and Ger
man Magazines and periodicals.
According to the Svenska Dagsbladet
the appointment by Norway of B.
Vogt, as minister to Sweden is a very
satisfactory one, perhaps as salts
factory one as could be made under
the circumstances. At any rate the
Stockholm papers, especially the Dag
bladet. speaks very highly of the new
minister and welcomes his appoint
ment as one who understands the
Swedes much better than the majority
of his countrymen. In many respects
Vogt is a Swede, having spent his
bOyhood days in Sweden and has also
been a student at Upsala.
The International Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and
the International Society Against
Vivisection will hold a congress Aug.
2 to 4 at Helsingborg. Lectures will
be given by Professor Foster, of Ber-
lin. Miss Awson of England, the Rev.
William Allan of Scotland, and NJ.
Ruhl of Belgium. American scientists
are expected to participate in the con-
gress, over which Baron Carl Carlson
Ronde will preside.
The Swedish millers at recent
meeting in Stockholm voted to reduce
their output during the coming year
by 20 per cent. or close their mills for
q period of ten weeks. The employees
will be hard hit by this unexpected de-
cfsion AS an explanation of their ac-
tion the millers say there has been an
overproduction in the past and the
business is not ON a satisfactory basis
in consequence.
Sweden's new naval station will be
located at Marstrand, the famous
watering place where King Oscar has
been so fond of spending his sum-
mers. An appropriation for barracks
will be made by the government and
a training school for 200 boys and a.
training ship is also to be located
there.
Professor Nils Sjernberg. of Up
sala university. has been rendered and
has accepted the chair of political
economy at the Stockholm high school.
Professor Stjernberg is a man of great
learning and his selection for the chair
in question has been hailed with gen.
eral satisfaction.