The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-05
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OF INTEREST TO
SCANDlNAvlANS
Recent Happenings IN This
Country and Abroad.
PRAISE FOR SWEDISH RIFLE

! PRAISE FOR SWEDISH RIFLE
English Expert Says 1t Is Better Than
Those Used by the Larger Powers.
| Marvellous Growth Of Norway's Mer.
chant Msrine-Danish Government
to Expend Large Sum in improving
Harbors in the West Indies.
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!! SWEDEN. ''
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At recent banquet given under the
auspices of the London Rife club
most noteworthy utteraace was made
by Colonel Seely, an English army eY-
pert, who said among other things:
eff were asked which gun among the
four greatest nations ofothe world mad
been recognized as possessing the
greatest merit, which myself were to
use in the event that | were to defend
my own life and were to choose from
the smaller nations, | Wonld choose
the Swedish For / am of the hrm
conviction that the Swedish army rite
is better than any in use by any OF the
great powers. I do not believe that
there exists superior rife and since
We have only a small army in England
st should be equipped with these guns,
or one equally as good as they are.
The question of choosing a real sers-
iceable army rifle is much like q horse
race, where one horse rushed ahead
of the other Now little Sweden has
/ taken lead in this particular and ut
is up to the other nations to follow
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Prince BERTH of Halland will be the
official name of the little prince who
arrived in the royal household OF @the
crown prince and crown princess OF
Sweden recently He arrived Feb. %
and the day after the official announce,
1 ment of his birth followed, officially
sanctioned in the presence of King
Gustaf, the minister, of state and the
foreign minister, the Countess I1ewen.
haupt and the British minister to
| Sweden Sir Cecil Spring Rice. After
the proper protocol had been issued
the king held council to determine. a
name for the little prince and it was
decided that his name should be Bertil
Cecil Oscar Carl Eugen, duke of Hal
land, and his first name shall be Ber-
til. A salute of .fofty-tWo guns was
fred when the little prince arrived.
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The Swedish Clergymens associa.
ton has issued strong protest against
using the Sabbath day IN Sweden as
an election day Hitherto the Sabbath
day in Sweden has never been used
as an election: day, but it seems, re-
Gently a proposition to make Sunday
a voting day came up before the Swed.
ish riksdag 1t Is this proposition that
the Swedish clergymen are vigorously
protesting against, declaring that Swe-
den, least of all nations. should thus
desecrate the Sabbath, which has since
time immemorial been set aside as a
lday of rest Undoubtedly the clergy
men will find little trouble in having
their protests in this regard respected.
A dispatch from London says that
British sporting experts are highly de-
lighted over the chancesEof England
annexing first honors at the Olympic
games at Stockholm this year in the
100, 200 and 4OO-yard events with d.
Mcmillan. the long stfiding Cambridge
university runner. In practice he
showed record time and it was be-
lieved that he will defeat any Of the
sprinters, despite the contention OF
Americans that they have the winners
of the big three events bottled up
across the pond. McMillan's best fig
ure for 100 yards is 94s seconds and
the experts believe he viii shave that
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! That there, is. genuine interest be-
ing evinced in. the. Olympic games
which are to be held in Stockholm
this summer can be cleaned from the
i following: When the public sale OF
tickets for the Olympic games in
Stockholm was opened on Feb. 10 it
was announced that the sales UP to
that date had brought over sS0,00Q.
The American committee had ordered
some of the best seats for about $1,000.
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The Swedes of the United States
kindly remembered their friends and
relatives OF the fatherland at Christ
mas time. About AZ 900 money orders
were received from America during
last December, amounting to about
5000 In the same month of 1910
the number of money orders were &C.,
coo.
The Swedish Seamen's society main.
tains stations In London, Westhardle
pool, Antwerp, Rotterdam Kiel, Wis.
mar, Flensburg, Stettin, Copenhagen
johannesburg, Christiania and on the
island of Shetland at an annual out.
lay of 10000 crowns.
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The German crown prince will be
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