The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-11-22
important Events In Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting ltanss From. the Three
Great kIngdomS Of the North Sc
iected for Scandlnavians and
Their Descendants.
py MARTIN w. oDLAND.
Sweden.

aroused by fresh example of the ar
bitrary methods which find favor
with the Russian authorities. A work
ing mems soire was to have been held
at Kuopio, but 1t was forbidden by
the police as the program and speeches
had not been previously censored.
Right Of meeting Is secured in Fin
land by the fundamental laws, and the
action Of the police was distinct
violation of these laws. The police
further requisitioned Russian military
to dispense those who had come to
take part in the meeting.
The people went away quietly, but,
as the soldiers left the place Of meet
ing. the bystanders began to applaud,
whereupon the soldiers. acting upon
instructions, drove them away with
the butt ends of their rifles. Fortu-
nately those who were thus assaulted
had the good sense not to offer any
resistance, so that serious develop
ments were prevented. But such in
that Governor General Seyn and his
associates are only waiting for an OPP
portunity to represent the situation
In Finland as SO dangerous that mar
tial law is necessary to maintain or
der
Last month the acting burgomaster
OF Viborg and one of his councillors
were condemned by the st. Petersburg
court to five months Imprisonment
and loss of right to occupy any state
or communal position for three years,
on the ground of resistance to the
equality law. There are at present no
fewer than Is Finnish judges and OFF,
Gals in the st. Petersburg prison, and
within short time there will be many
more.
The bitter feeling in the country is
growing, and sorrow and trouble in
private families also. Their bradwin-
ners are taken away by force. and
when they leave prison they are for
hidden to earn livelihood In the pro-
LESSONS they have chosen. The Rus
SLAMS thought that such punishments
would terrify the Finnish officials, but
they are having exactly the opposite
effect. They nerve Finnish officials
not to finch in their resistance to
and violence.
= Three more judges belonging to the
supreme court of Viborg have been
arrested and taken to st Peters
burg, and similar measures are con-
templated in the case of the Helsings-
fors city council
The military court of Sweden has
sentenced Captain Sagen, the Norwe-
gian army officer, to three months i'm
prisonment. The trial was conducted
behind closed doors, and the outside
world knows but little as to what took
place; but Sagen's defense-that the
notes he had taken were of no mate
rial Importance, and contained no
information other than what could be
obtained iu Swedish newspapers-did
not weigh heavily with the judges. The
evidence tended to prove that Sagen
had been trying to obtain information
which might be dangerous to the coun-
try's safety, although 1t was not
proven that he intended to dispose of
this information to a foreign power.
The industrial week." arranged by
the Industrial association of Sweden,
was very well attended. Professor
Brismen of the commercial high school
of Stockholm predicted in an address
delivered during the week, that Eu-
rope is on the eve of an industrial
decline, and urged caution upon the
Swedish people. although he did not
think the effect of the decline would
be SO marked In the Scandinavian
north as elsewhere In Europe.
The mountain gray army uniform
has now been used by the soldiers of
Sweden long enough to enable the gov
merits. Experience has shown that
this uniform is vastly inferior to the
blue, formerly used, in point of dura-
Sility, but is more handsome when new
and makes poorer mark for the en-
envy to shoot at. 1t is altogether like
ly that the gray uniform will be per-
maneptly adopted
There are 1876 students at the uni
versity of Lund this semester. Ninety
nine OF them are studying theology,
331 law, 1877 medicine, and 718 belong
to the philosophical faculties. The
university of Upsala has 2,419 stu
dents, of whom 1S9 are women.
Baron Cederstrom. the we'll known
Swedish aviator, will not, after all. ac-
company ROAD Amundsen on the lat
ter's north pole expedition. The baron
had entered into an agreement with
the Morse explorer to take charge OF
one Of the two aeroplanes and the
picture machine which will be
taken along, but he announces that
he has changed his mind. He gives
a. his reason that the expedition win
keep him away from civilization too
long, but his friends believe that other
reasons Of private nature had great
" weight With the baron