Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-06-12
NORWAY.

AoouI S4O,uUU mas been subscribed
to fund for establishing a prohibi
ton daily in Kristiania.
Mrs. F. M. Ovam and Miss Gind
Krog are going to represent Norway
at the women's congress in Budapest
June 1920.
The government has bought a prop
erty In Kristiania known as Peters
borg for 100000. The buildings will
accommodate all the government Off.
ces, which are now located in rented
quarters.
The official newspaper Of the So.
cial Democrats has come out uncon.
dftionally in favor of open agitation
among the soldiers in order to make
them hostile to war under all condi.
ttons. The soldiers are appealed to
mainly by means of red newspaper
brand, Glass Struggle"
Something has happened in the la.
Dor struggles in Norway which has
no parallel In other countries. The
government has drawn up bill COM
Polling the two parties to labor con.
hict to negotiate and arbitrate. As
soon as the contents of the bill be-
came known the executive committee
Of the labor unions and the executive
committee OF the employers union
came together and sent Joint memo
rial to the government, asking that
the storthing take no vote on the bill
for at least year from now. The
common plea Of the employers and
the employees Is that the bill may do
more harm than good in its present
form. A government organ has start.
ed to abuse the employers, as well as
the employees, asserting that the two
parties want to reserve the right to
fight. and, IL possible. to destroy each
other.
Captain Roald Amundsen will spend
three months learning to manage a
hydroplane. The discoverer has ar
ranged for the purchase of two hydro.
planes in San Francisco, where he
will soon begin his lessons. II have
been up in an aeroplane and know
how to manage one," said Captain
Amundsen, the other day, but I want
to become perfectly familiar with the
hydroplane before starting for the
north. ] shall spend three months In
San Francisco, becoming familiar
with the air craft" Captain Amund-
sens vessel. the Fran, is now at
Buenos Ayres. Argentina. It will
come north and go through the Pana-
ma canal on its way to San Francisco,
where the captain will join 1t. "The
National Geographical Society has do
mated 100000 to pay part of the ex-
penses of the seven years expedition"
he said. Much can be learned by
spending that length Of time in the
Arctic regions taking observations"
The following is short statement
of the manner in which DR.. Fridtjof
hansen is spelling the dignity of the
Gulf Stream in northwestern Europe:
A series Of soundings have proved
that there is deep current between
the surface layers and a depth of 500
fathoms, flowing northward from the
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Azores and along the west coast OF
southern Europe. The northeastern
drift-current across the north At
lantic is probably to some extent d.
vided into water masses, flowing partly
northward and partly southwark west
of the submarine ridge, which ex-
tends northward of the Azores. Some
part Of the water masses flowing In
southerly and southeasterly directions
join the northward flowing current
west Of Madeira. while the northward.
flowing water masses northwest of
the Azores find, to some extent, their
way eastward as surface current
across the ridge. and the waters of
this surface current join the deep cur.
rent flowing northward along the
southern west coast of Europe. Thus
arises the warm Atlantic current west
of the British islands, which passes
between the Shetlands and the Farce
islands into the North sea. DR.. Nan.
sen Is preparing work In English, In
which he will describe in full his in.
yestigations of the subject.
The soldiers at the Made drill
grounds were asked to vote as to what
language they want, dialect Norwe.
gian or Norwegian-D Danish, and ass
votes were cast in favor of the latter,
and only 121 In favor of the former.
This result is rather surprising, the
language reformers being particularly
strong in that part of the country.
The government, the king, and the
members of the storthing have been
invited to go with the Kristianiafjord,
the first steamer of the new Norwe.
gian-American steamship line, on its
first trip from Kristiania to Bergen
They will return to Kristiania by rail.
The late f. Lundgren. Trondhjem
willed $13,500 to the Trondhjem So.
ciety of Sciences for the aid of sci
entists who want to study the verte
brates of northern Norway. He also
donated his valuable private library
to the same society. $2.70o to the com.
mercial club, $3.50 to the hansen
fund, and gifts to many other con
Germs In the form OF cash or works OF
art.
Many Danes who came to Norway
to seek work were unsuccessful. and
in some instances the Danish consul
had to assist them in returning tc
Denmark