Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1909-06-26
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NORWAY.
The following may be the last pub
lie utterRnce that Bjornson will ever
make If the dispatches are true that
he is not expected to live. The state
ment that Bjornson made at the time
was in regard to his drama and was
uttered some time ago in Paris, where
he has been spending the winter and
spring months. Said Mr.. Bjornson:
GAS to the title of my work and its
contents you are not going to find out
anything. I have seen that Herman
Bang, who was permitted by my son
of a very comical effect. This I dc
profess to understand. The comic
features of the play lie in it's compost
ton; they rise from the underground
structure, SO to speak, but they do not
wholly break through the surface in
any particular scene. 1t is not q
comedy in the ordinary sense of the
word 1t is not going to be published
until it is played, October next, in the
Scandinavian capitals and in Berlin
At the latter place it is to be put on
the stage by my son, Bjorn. This is
all that I am going to tell you. May
be | better add that among the few
who have read my work have had
joy from it."
King Haakon will soon pay a visit
to the Car of Russia and will then
continue his journey to Rome and
Vienna, where, of course, he will be
the guest at the courts of these coun
tries. This will be the first time
aside from trip to England, that the
Norwegian king has been abroad
The Norwegian king is very unassum
ing in his manners and will not travel
in as expensive style as many of the
other European monarchs. His sim
plicity of manner pleases his country
men very much and they only have
words of praise for their genial man
nered king.
The conflict between the Norwegian
admirals, Navy Chief Spare and
Chief of Staff Borresen, has precip
itated a cabinet crisis, the immediate
cause of which was an Interpolation
in the storthing on the question as to
whether the storthing or the king and
the cabinet should decide the dispute.
The motion was declared inadmissa
Bile by Premier Knudsen, but a vote
will be taken later, probably next
week. The trouble is of long stand.
ing. Each admiral accuses the other
of serious military offense. The case
has about the same Importance here
as in the Schley-Sampson controversy
in the United States some years ago.
One million May flowers were or.
dered from Austria by the Women's
Sanitary society in Norway. More
than 100000 were sent to the country
districts, where they were sold almost
as soon as they were shipped in. The
proceeds from the sale of these
ing tuberculosis.
Dispatches state that Norway's be,
loved poet and playwright, author and
political writer, Bjornstjerne Bjorn
son, is critically i'll and that he has
frequent sinking spells. The novelist
suffered a paralytic stroke June and
is at present confined to his bed at
his home in Lauervik.
Severe storms have been raging dur
ing the past few days in northern
Norway and much damage has been
done to the shipping and the growing
grains. Several lives are reported
lost, but reports in detail are lacking.
Two fishing smacks are reported lost
with all men aboard.
Among the late Jonas Lies papers
have been found very interesting
manuscript for a novel entitled
'Trold" 1t will undoubtedly be pub
lished and it is certain that it will be
read by thousands, for the name of
Jonas Lie is much revered in Norway.