Morris tribune., 1914-12-18

ngnt1ng Germany and Austria. Tnls
action indicates that Russia no longer
regards Sweden as an enemy and has
no further fears of Swedish inva-
sion of Finland. Needless to say,
Russia's action has made decidedly
favorable impression upon the Swed-
ish 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 $5,000,O00 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" il
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 home 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 the 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 be given some assurance of release
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J. NORWAY. :
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The following utterance in tn
Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm) has beel
received with praise and very favor
ably commented on by all Norwegian
newspapers of prominence: 9TH
union is dissolved. But who would il
1905 have dared to dream that within
a decade it would develop that thi
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 TO
Sweden and Norway now to stand tt
gether shoulder to shoulder in resist
ing every attack on the liberty and il
dependence of the Scandinavian pei
insula? There is now in both couI
tries a feeling of closest friendship an
of joy over that which happened i
1905"
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The Morgenbladet, the leading col
sentative 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 {
strict neutrality number {
new rules made for the occasion eitl
er in Germany or in England-and
would seem that this neutrality ougE
to mean something to US, and tia
we cannot allow ourselves to be pusl
ed out of our position without ma
: ing vigorous resistance. The closfp
Of the North sea would. in it's CO.
f sequences be a menace to our ne
8 trality, and we do not propose goin
blindly into this danger"
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A recent London dispatch state
) that Lloyds Steamship agency
clares that the Norwegian steam'
8 Ran, which reached Liverpool recen
, ly from New York, has been take
into custody by the British authorize
and is being held as prize. tt
, steamship Ran was loaded by Barb
&. Co Of New York At their off'