Morris tribune., 1914-08-14
SWEDEN WOULD Be NEUTRR

Eventualities, However, May Compel
Her to Take Sides In European Con-
filct--NOrway's Imports and Exports
Show Steady lncrease-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 problematicaI She has an
nounced 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 a 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 many4 Americans and
a 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.
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Arvid Lind, a native of Stockholm,
has after ten years or more of dill
gent experimenting completed mo-
tor which experts say will revolution
ize 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 fifty-horsepower motor is
so small that 1t can easily be carried
in an ordinary sized hat. Mr.. Lind
has two motors ready, one 10O-horse-
power, another of f1fty-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
ly two hours.
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Hialmar Nilsson is chairman Of q
committee of Minneapolis Swedes on
which are John Lind, Aaron Carlson
and C. E. Wallerstedt, Swedish con
sui, which will consider a plan for 8
Swedish-American steamship lins
which 1t is proposed to put into op
GRAFTON by 1916. Henry Skantze
financial agent of the company. is il
America. A line direct from New
York to Gothenburg that, with foul
/ ships, would maintain a seven-day
schedule, is planned. 1t is expected
that S1,0GO,OOO can be raised in thu
, form of subscriptions in the United
States and that Minneapolis, with iti
: large Swedish population, will con
tribute an important part of this sum
very pleasant little visitor Il
! spending his summer in Soderhamn
Each evening about sundown the pee
9 pie living around Enskar, in the skaI
Y gard of Soderhamn, are thrilled b,
the song of nightingale Thes'
birds do not usually go further nortl
than Skane or Blekinge and the il
lands in the Baltic, and the presenc
of this little music master so ia
north as Soderhamn can only be ez
planned by the supposition that he ha
escaped from some passing shi
where he was held in captivity.
The cordial way in which the IL
members of the Swedish parliamen
were treated at Christiania durin
the Norwegian centenary celebration
is taken in Stockholm as proof of il
creased friendship and understandin
between the two countries. One RI
: suit is proposed visit of King Hat
kon to Sweden next year, althoug
NO plans have yet been made.
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From statistics just issued 1t al
pears that the emigration from Sw'
> den during 1913 numbered 2O,3AS, .
against 10,997 and 1911 during 191
and 1919