New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-11-11
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A press dispatch states that @the
| result of the sharp attacks on the
Norwegian press, both by the Ger
mans and the English, has been to
brighten Norway out of any individ-
| ual opinions of her own. Recently
she has been charged with having
sold her press to England She had
hardly time to defend herself against
this accusation before there appeared
in the correspondence of the London
papers a severe arraignment of the
| Norwegian press for having accepted
brides from Germany In an earnest
desire to give no color to either of
these charges Norway has ssduloasly
cultivated neutrality that is beyond
reproach. Of all neutraliies it is,
outWardly at least, the most perfect
and unquestionable. AS a we'll known
citizen of Christiania remarked, Nor
way is in the position of the man
brought into the police court on sus-
picion: Anything she says will be
used against her This delicacy Of
Norway's, position is patent to any
observer who has been on the streets
of the capital for two hours. Men
before expressing an opinion of any
sort reassure themselves of the iden-
tity of the questioner and then look
guardedly in both directions to see
that they are not being overheard.
Press reports have become content
with statements of purely uncontro-
versial matter and the official state
ments of tie English, French and
Germans. In the Christiania Nor
genbladet there are studiously divid-
ed columns with exactly half Ger
man and half English statements. A
preponderance of one over the other
would Immediately cause trouble, ac-
cording to the statement of the edi-
tor. In the Verdens Gang a greater
proportion of English correspondence
gives the paper at first glance an
English tone, but any inference of
this sort is contradicted in the edi-
torial columns. The statements of
government officials are in the same
way guarded and noncommittal. 1t is
almost as if law had been passed
forbidding expression of anything ex-
cept platitudes. This fear of Of
Tending either the allies or Germany
exhibits the expression of Norway's
real attitude toward the war;
A cunron,o Sn,ro,foroo ~
Norway and Germany now seems
pending. This is the question of
shipping contraband articles into Ger
many. Since the declarations of war
the Norwegian exports to Germany
have noticeably increased and visit
to the steamship lines plying between
Christiania and Stettin shows the inn
portance to Germany of this channel.
Government officials in Christiania
stated that no ammunition had been
carried to Germany by this route and
that the Norwegian government would
not allow it, but at present Norway
is under no injunction from England
not to supply Germany with any ma
terial she may desire. An observer
in Christiania would say that at pres
ent enough herring was being shipped
from Norway to Germany to supply
the whole German army. While citi-
zens Of Christiania would not direct
" state that they expected trouble
from this source there were indica-
tions everywhere that Norway Is now
apprehensive of an English challenge
Of her right to export and transmit
products to Germany.
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Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, president
at tho odelstinx. one Of the two houses