Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-09-30
IN FAR NORTHLAND
important Events in Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
interesting Items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North &C.
iectcd for ScandlnavIana and
Their Descendants.
by MARTIN w. ODLAkD.
Denmark.

Denmark.
/ A dispatch from Copenhagen an
,onnces the au1a.gamation Of two oil
| The greatest moving picture produc
ton companies In Germany and Den.
mark respectively The capital of the
combined enterprise will be nearly
| S5,o00,000. A number of German pro.
| aIcers have already arrived In Copen.
hagen to arrange the details OF the al.
lianoo. The effect may be far-reach.
ing, as the Danish firm sells It's films
mostly in England. France and Italy.
/ There Is prospect. therefore, that
/ German films, produced in Denmark,
may be shown during the coming
season in London, Paris and Rome.
| Whether the laws of the belligerent
| countries will be made to cover this
/ contingency under the head of trad
Ing with the enemy remains to be
seen.
Einar Nicholson. the Danish ex-
piorer, has returned to Denmark from
| st. Thomas, In the West Indies,
where he has been for some time
with the Danish East India company
| Accustomed to the snow and ice OF
| the arctics, Nicholson was unable to
endure the tropical climate Of the
| West Indies. and returned to Den.
mark to conserve his health. In 1912
| Nicholson was rescued by Norwegian
fishermen from the Ice wastes OF
Greenland, where he had been a pris-
oner for two years.
A census was recently taken of the
cattle, horses and swine In Denmark.
| and IL was found that the number of
each In considerably smaller than 1t
was year ago, due to the war, The
decrease in the supply of swine is 25
per cent, In the supply of horses 7
per cent, and I'm the number of cat.
tie 20 per cent.
Sweden.
The Berlingske Tidende. In recent
issue. printed statements by leading
diyines OF Sweden. Norway and Den.
mark as to the desirability and wis
dom of bringing the churches Of the
three countries into closer relations
by exchanging pastors and by other
means. All OF the divines quoted ex-
pressed desire that the churches of
the three countries be brought closer
together. and believed that the ex-
changing OF pastors would produce
happy results. The recent conference
of the three Scandinavian kings ut
Malmo to discuss the position of their
kingdoms in the war has set the peo-
pie of the three sister nations to
thinking of a closer relation among
the three countries along various
lines
General Hjalmarson has returned
to Stockholm from China. where he
has conferred with the Chinese gov
ernment as to the establishment OF
Swedish gendarmes on China. He
proposed that a corps OF 1900 be es-
tahlished In the province OF Human.
with 90 Swedish instructors. and that
central bureau be established at
Picking, together with a school for of.
ticers and subordinate officers. The
Chinese government has agreed to
General Hjalmarson's plans. and all
that remains for their execution lis the
consent of the Swedish government.
Diplomatic negotiations between the
two governments are now taking
place.
Two important peace meetings were
recently held in Sweden. One was at
stockholm, where vast multitude lis
tened to an address by Granting, the
Socialist leader, who declared that
the Swedish are PRACTICABLE united i'm
support OF the neutral attitude of the
premier and minister for foreign at,
fairs. He also expressed the belief
that the Socialists of Sweden should
be inspired by warmer feeling of
national patriotism. On the same day
Carl Staaf addressed large meeting
at Vermland. denouncing i'm his
| speeeh the war xealots of Sweden, de.
clartng that the Swedish people are
devoted to peace and against policy
partaking of romance and adventure
A movement has been started to
raise funds for the erection of mon.
ument to Richard Dyheck, the author
of the favorite Swedish national HYMN
beginning. "Du gamla. du fria." etc.
He was born in 1911 and died in 1877.
He was iurist by profession. but de.
voted great deal of work to the
gathering OF folk lore, going from one
end OF Sweden to the other for this
| purpose,
The number OF Swedish merchant
ships was decreased by 40 during the
first half Of the present year, and the
aggregate tonnage by aa.4TT. drop.
ping from i.aT5,asa tons to i,aSS.s45
tons. While the number of steam,
ships has decreased. the number oil