Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-12-16

no further fears Of a Swedish 1nva-
sion of Finland. Needless to say,
Russia's action has made a decidedly
favorable impression upon the Swed.
1sh people,
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The banking house Of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. and the National City bank OF
New York announced on Dec. 3 a
joint purchase Of $5,000000 worth OF
two-year per cent Swedish treasury
notes, which will be publicly offered
at par and accrued interest. The pro-
ceeds Of the loan, which is the first
to be negotiated In the United States
by a neutral European nation since
the beginning of the war, will be used
to purchase various commodities" in
the United States.
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Captain Amundson, the Swedish
military attache at Paris, has receiv.
ed permission to follow the French
army and has departed for the front.
He will thus be in a position to study
the movements of the French army at
close range and his reports to the
Swedish military commission will be
singularly interesting. Captain Amund.
son stands high in military circles in
his homo country.
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Werner Won Heidenstam, the author
and poet, who has been spending
some time visiting relatives and
friends in Stockholm, has again de-
parted for some Southern European
health resort, presumably in Italy, in
order to regain his health. He but
recently returned to Sweden from
Carlsbad, Germany, where he had
; spent tho last year.
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! There Is considerable dissatisfac
ton among the crews of Swedish war
ships over the fact that the govern
.ment has given no indication when
their enforced military service will
be terminated. They feel that the
danger to Sweden on account Of the
war has passed and that they ought
/ to DO given some assurance Of release
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: NORWAY. 1
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The following utterance in tn
Dagens Nyheter (stockholm) has beer
received with praise and very favor
ably commented on by all norwegian
newspapers Of prominence: 9TH
union is dissolved. But who would II
1905 have dared to dream that within
decade it would develop that Thu
catastrophe, so far from destroyin,
the essential idea of the union, would
on the contrary, lead to much close
friendship and make it more easy 70
Sweden and Norway now to stand tc
Esther shoulder to shoulder in resist
Ing every attack on the liberty and II
dependence of the Scandinavian per
Ursula? There is now in both cou1
tries feeling of closest friendship an
Of JOY over that which happened i
1906"
The Morgenbladet, tho leading col
servative paper Of Norway, says in
recent editorial: Under ever IL
creasing burdens, under even ne,
and more unreasonable demands O
us, we have observed all the rules 6
strict neutrality-plus 4 number 4
new rules made for the occasion eitl
or in Germany or in England-and
would seem that this neutrality ougt
to mean something to us, and this
we cannot allow ourselves to be pusl
ed out of our position without NAL
ing vigorous resistance. The closin
Of the North sea would In its col
sequences be q menace to our me-
trality, and we do not propose goin
blindly into this danger"
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| A recent London dispatch stat
that Lloyd's Steamship agency d
olares that the Norwegian steam'
Ran, which reached Liverpool recon
" from New York, has been take
into custody by the British authorize
and 10 being held as prize. II
steamship Ran was loaded By Barb