Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-12-10
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
Peer Stromme gives the following
account of the treatment of Norwe-
gian passenger steamer by the Eng
lish: "The feeling In Norway had for
some days been in high state of ten
sion by reason of the nonarrival at
Bergen of the Bergensfjord, one of the
two big passenger steamers of the
Norwegian-American line. The steam
er coming from New York with pas
sengers and a full cargo was four
days overdue, and no word had been
received as to the cause of the delay.
Naturally, then, people guessed that
1t might have struck mine and gone
down without even time to send
wireless message. Then in a round
about way came the news that 1t had,
when but three or four hours from,
Bergen, been taken by an English
cruiser and forced to put back to
Kirkwell. The wireless apparatus was
destroyed. The captain of the Nor
wegian liner was allowed to dictate a
telegram under censorship, but the
telegram was not sent. Not until the
ship was released and on its way
again to Bergen was he at last able to
notify the office in Christiania and
relieve the anxiety. Then. when it
became known that the British au-
thorities had removed from the ship,
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rubber consigned to some Norwegian
importers, there was here much indig-
nation. The rubber could not have
been intended for final shipment to
Germany, as all expectation of rub
Der from Norway is prohibited. The
feeling of resentment was increased
by the circumstance that on board the
Bergensfjord were three commission
ers of Norway who had been in the
United States to negotiate loan for
the government, and that these COM
missioners had not been allowed to
communicate with their government.
The whole matter has, for time at
least, caused a severe strain on the
common Norwegian feeling of friend
ship for England. However, there is
not yet any serious fear that the Scan
dinavian countries may after all be
unable to keep out of the trouble"
In the beginning of August, just
after the outbreak of the war, there
was in Norway the fear of an immi-
nent famine. The dealers and farm
ers who had store of grain or -four
on hand refused to sell, until the gov
eminent took hold of the matter and
compelled them to do 1t, and also
fixed the maximum price which they
might charge. And 1t is generally ad.
mitted that the government handled
the matter with great good sense.
From that time to the present there
has been no trouble. Grain and other
necessary food supplies have been
bought In large quantities by private
importers, as well as by the general
government itself, and by the several
authorities. But now thore
Is again something of scare, caused
by the announcement of the British
that all of the North sea is
to be regarded as included in the war
zone. There are heard. and read in
the papers, many expressions of re-
sentiment at what is called the high
handed action of England in thus pro-
her disregard of the right Of
neutral countries to the free use of
the seas.
The Morgenbladet, the leading con-
sentative paper of Norway. says edi-
Under ever increasing bur
dens. under ever new and more unrea-
sonable demands on us, we have OBJ
served all the rules Of strict neutrality
plus a number of new rules made
for the occasion either in Germany or
in England-and 1t would seem that
this neutrality ought to mean some
thing to us, and that we cannot allow
ourselves to be pushed out of our DO
sition without making vigorous resist
ance. The closing of the North sea
would In its consequences be a men,
ace to our neutrality. and we do not
propose going blindly into this dan
GER"
The Norwegian steamer Tyr has
been detained at Glasgow, according
to a dispatch to the Central News.
The correspondent says that 1000
tons of copper ore, contraband of
war. was discovered In the bottom of
the Norwegian's hold. hidden In
cargo of general merchandise.
Norway has abandoned its consulate
at Batum on the Black sea and has
requested the United States
to look after its interests at that
point.
Word that the Norwegian steamer
Fran. which left Charleston October
22 for Nyborg. Denmark. with cargo
Of oil cake. had been seized by the
British government at Lerwick, the
Shetland islands, was received by
Ralph Bullowa, attorney at New York
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