The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-09
THE WAR AT A GLANCE

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 The Seryians have won a temporary vic- force. according to a Servian official statement received in London. It is stated that the Teutonic advance guard that crossed the Danube at the Belgrade fort ress has been partly destroyed and partly captured. On the Save the Serbs are said to have pinned the Austro-Germans to the very brink of the river with enor- nous losses.
 Whether Bulgaria will join the conflict on the side of the central powers and attack Servia is the supreme question in the Balkans. It is reported that the ministers of the entente powers have re- ceived passports they asked for and have left the Bulgarian capital The Bulgarian minister to France has been handed his passports
 
 members were accused. of authorship in the war book and voted out of the party. but these were almost isolated examples. They do not in any sense represent the spirit of the party.
 "I cannot help feeling that our mis- understanding with England might have been settled sometime ago if 1t had not been for the fact that the Swedish members of the commission have l., their views. The English members have presented a practical issue and we have answered by references to our traditional rights as an independent nation.
 We have argued that Sweden has a right to carry on an uninterrupted trade with another neutral country like America. Of course, In theory, Swe- den has such right, but some of us are forgetting that this Is not an or dinary situation which can be settled by considerations which would hold in times of peace. England is plain ly interfering with out sovereign rights but so is Germany and if we are to take action against every nation that has in this war committed offenses against Sweden, we must fight the whole world. We have protested against England's interference with out imports and that is as far as We should go. l am sure the Swedish point of view in the whole matter has been toe narrow
 Strictly Neutral
 The Swedish government has played absolutely square on the question of the transit of supplies to the allies and Germany. She has held firmly to the strictly neutral position of treating both sides alike without favoritism. But the trouble has come through the Illicit commerce which has gone on between this country and Germany trade forbidden by the government ana which the government has done all it could to prevent. But by means of Iaisif1ed certificates and other subter- fuges Swedish traders have done A tre- mendous secret business with Germany
 T don't mean to say that our Swe- nish traders are either more or less honest than those of other nations but there are enough dishonest traders ev- anywhere who will yield to the temp latlon of great profits. Most people 10 not realize how great this illegal ouslness has been. l do not refer to 1f'@' 9ihNS Siiie5 Dul tO the misuse Of guarantees, etc Every conceiya ble sub stance has crept into Germany in this Way-most of all, perhaps, copper In the ordinary way I do not think Swe- den has been of material assistance to dermany during this war. but in this secret way has received great deal.
 Concerning the war talk which one hears so much nowadays, the war ele- ment in Sweden does not represent the nation Not even the conservative party itself wants war. have recently spoken with the premier and the for eigh minister and they are both in- oiined 10 discountenance the work of the extreme activista who have been spreading war propaganda. The Swe- dish nation is still inflamed against Russia for the espionage and diplo- matic scandals which she has been guilty of in this country. but it is only 3 small element that believes that we ought now to strike against Russia. taking advantage of Russia's misfor- tunes and forgetting that we would have to reckon with her later"