New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-08-12
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SWEDEN WOULD Be NEUTRAL

sweden WOULD BE NEUTRAL
EventuaIIties, However, May Compel
Her to Take Sides In European Con-
f1ict-Norway's Imports and Exports
Show Steady Increase-Party Of
Prominent Americans Marooned In
Copenhagen.
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Just what position Sweden will have
to take in regard to the war at this
writing is problematical. She has an
bounced that she desires to maintain
her neutrality, but the German emper-
or has sent a note to the Swedish for
eign minister practically forcing Swe-
den to take stand one way or the
other. In his note the German en-
peror asked carte blanche whether
Sweden is ''for or against us?" Over
5000 Russians are stranded in Stock
holm and are unable to leave the city.
There also are many Americans and
large number of Swedish-Americans
marooned In the Swedish capital who
will not be able to get away until a
favorable change in European affairs
sets in.
Arvid Lind, a native OF Stockholm,
has after ten years or more of dill
gent experimenting completed mo-
tor which experts say will revolution
lie the aeroplane industry. The motor
Is twice as effective as the Gnome
motor, in that it only weighs one-half
kilogram for every registered horse
power. A f1fty-horsepower motor is
so small that 1t can easily be carried
in an ordinary sized hat. Mr.. Lind
has two motors ready, one 1O0-horse-
power, another of fifty-horsepower.
| The former is to be shown at the Bal
tic exposition. It Is estimated that an
| aeroplane equipped with this style
of motor can make the distance from
Stockholm to Malmo in approximate
~ two hours.
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| Hjalmar Nilsson is chairman of a
committee of Minneapolis Swedes on
which are John Lind, Aaron Carlson
and c. E. Wallerstedt, Swedish con-
sui, which will consider a plan for a
Swedish-American steamship line
which it is proposed to put into op-
Grafton by 1916. Henry Skantze,
financial agent of the company, is in
America. A line direct from New
York to Gothenburg that, with four
ships, would maintain a seven-day
schedule, is planned. It is expected
that $1,000,00O can be raised in the
| form Of subscriptions in the United
States and that Minneapolis, with it's
large Swedish population, will con-
tribute an important part of this sum.
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| A very pleasant little visitor is
spending his summer in Soderhamn.
Each evening about shutdown the peo-
pie living around Enskar, in the skar-
gard OF Soderhamn, are thrilled by
the song of nightingale. These
birds do not usually go further north
than Skane or Blekinge and the is.
lands in the Baltic, and the presence
| of this little music master so far
north as Soderhamn can only be ex-
planned by the supposition that he has
escaped from some passing ship
where he was held in captivity.
"Ekonomoski Tidskrift'' contains
an article by DR.. L. Flodstrom review.
ing report made by him to the min
lister of finance regarding the taxable
fortunes in Sweden. Benevolent in
situations excepted there are in Swe
den 114,399 fortunes amounting to a
total Of 6,172,848,560 crowns. OF
these there are 59,163 amounting tc
between. 10000 and 10000 crowns;
25,964 between 10000 and 100000:
6,349 between 100000 and 100000
and 1904 with over 100000.
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! Ninety million crowns in rent each
year is what the inhabitants Of Stock
holm pay their landlords. There are
about 10,243 houses in Stockholm
With about 100000 Apartments.
Rents have doubled during the las
i've ge4Fs and are higher in Stock
holm than Ia any other city, with tn,
possible exception OF some place wa,
north. The rents in Copenhagen ar,
On the average one-third lower thai
those of Stockholm.
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