Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-12-30
NORWAY.

long strain, the Norwegian ship Sou
verain is in quarantine at Diamond
Point after voyage of 161 days from
Liverpool to Puget Sound The log
of the trip sounds like tale Of q
century ago. Sailing in ballast from
Liverpool June IS. the Souverain
started its voyage for the Columbia
river. coming by way of the Cape OF
Good Hope. In the South Atlantic IL
experienced ~everal hurricanes, but
came through these safely and round
ed Good Hope in 70 days after leaving
Liverpool. A shortage of fresh pro
visions resulted in an outbreak Of beri
beri. Seven members Of the crew
were attacked by the disease and on
November / one of the sailors died
and was buried at sea. On November
8 the Souyerain managed to put into
the port Of Ensenada. Mexico, and
fresh food was obtained. Captain
Svendsen. the second officer. and four
Of the crew went ashore in the ships
boat. A supply Of vegetables and
fresh meat was purchased and placed
in the boat, but when the men were
about to return they were placed un
der arrest, the provisions taken out
and the boat hauled up on the port
pier. Captain Svendsen and his men
were taken to Jail. where they spent
an uncomfortable night and slept with
out bed or covering. No explanations
were offered other than they were re
garded as highly suspicious persons
Next morning the British vice-consul
interested himself in the matter. and
through his efforts the men were re
leased and permitted to take their sup
plies to the ship. The change in food
worked wonders for the beriberi vic
Tins. and they began to improve al
once. The Souverain sailed from En-
senada November Is, reaching the Co
lumbia lightship Thanksgiving after
noon. On that day the Souverain en-
countered a severe southern gale. The
vessel found it impossible to negotiate
the river bar. The wind practically
stripped 1t Of It's sails before 1t reached
its destination.
The other day the American freight
steamer Maumee of New York, with q
cargo made up mostly of American
pork. arrived at Bergen to coal. II
had to leave the place. however, with
out coal, as all the dealers were
warned by British authorities that II
the steamer with supplies alleged to
be destined for Germany, by way oil
Sweden, got bunkers by them, English
coal sellers at once would stop trade
connections with them. England also
has threatened to stop the great i'm
port to Norway Of olive oil from Italy
and Spain, and sheet metal used In
the canning industry, unless the Nor
wegian importers guaranteed that nj
or tin is used. shall be exported to
any of England's enemies, and many
canning plants had to yield to this
The country Is full of mercantile
spies. keeping watch of the export and
import. reporting through their EN-
bassies or consulates or directly home
to the foreign Office. II happens that
old Norwegian firms, who for years
have been trading In England, get let
tiers from their English business con
nections that they cannot do business
with them any longer as q report from
Norway says that they have assist
ed German trawlers"-or something
like that, even though the report can
be proved to have been without any
foundation. The Norwegian press
commenting on this. calls the atten
tion of the Norwegian government to
the way England is trying to control
Norwegian trade and industry and
some Norwegian business men against
selling their right of independence to
England. Even the English paper
Economist, has warned the British au
thorities against this trade policy to
ward the Scandinavians, and also
says that when Great Britain is neu
trail itself the Briton always is the
first to claim the right for neutrals
to do business with each other and
with belligerents and always has pro
tested against an extension of the
contraband list to provisions and raw
materials"
More than 500 Norwegians from
Minneapolis and the northwest sailed
from New York for Europe one day
recently. The delegation is on Its
way to the old homes in Norway with
"Juultide' GREETINGS from the United
States. The delegation from Mime
apolis. which arrived in Washington
d. c., by special train, was taken in
charge of Senator Knute Nelson oil
Minnesota. Senators A. J. Gronna and
Thomas Sterling of North and South
Dakota. They visited the capitol. saw
congress in session, and at noon de-
parted for New York.
Two very unusual deaths are re
ported from Gjerstadt. Bernt Guttorm.
sen Melaas, gravedigger and sexton
and his wife. Kjersti. both died on the
same day from rpoplexy. Mr.. Melaas
was born in 1925. and his wife one
year later. They celebrated their dia,
mond wedding November 10. 1918. and
they were buried on the same date this
fall. A
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a university at Der sons
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