Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-03-03

Britain that the government, which
had requisitioned the copper, would
not use it before a legal settlement
was reached. The attorney general
said the British government, while it
was prepared to act reasonably ir@
the matter, could not give such an
understanding. If the Swedish min
lister desired to make any represen-
tations, he added, he must do so
through the foreign Office. The case
was adjourned on the application of
the attorney general.
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DR.. Henry G. Leach of New York,
secretary of the American Scandina-
Wan Foundation, will lecture at the
University of Minnesota March II
on Scandinavian Culture" DR..
Leach though a native American of
English ancestry, has been a student
of the Scandinavian countries for
many years, having obtained a travel.
ing fellowship from Harvard univer-
sity in 1908 for study in Scandinavia.
He will be in Minneapolis in the
course of q tour which will include
colleges and universities of several
Western states.
Dagens Nyheter, one of Sweden's
leading newspapers, published in
recent issue very significant article
on 'The New Scandinavianism." The
article refers alphabetically to a re-
cent suggestion by a Danish news
paper that a scandinavian Monroe
Doctrine" be adopted, although doubt
is expressed whether the time is yet
ripe for such policy. The article
condemns the idea of an alliance be-
tween a small nation and a great
power, the small nation being simply
vassal of the large one.
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The strengthening Of Sweden's de-
lenses goes on without interruption.
and one of the latest plans is the es-
Enlistment of a flying machine or
aviation station at Malmo. 1t would
be under the direction of the navy,
which has its headquarters at Karls-
krona. Another station for flying ma
chimes is proposed at Helsingborg,
where free grounds and sufficient
funds to defray the cost of estab-
fishing the station are pledged by
private interests.
The Swedish steamer Vasa, which
arrived at Esbjerg, Denmark, Feb. %
from Norfolk, England, according to
London dispatches, picked up in mid
ocean lifeboat bearing thte name of
Theodore Palmer, New London"
The American schooner barge Theo.
dore Palmer of New London has been
engaged in the coal carrying trade
between Virginia and New England
ports.
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A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph company of London from Co.
penhagen states that the conference
between the representatives of the
Scandinavian governments over the
shipping situation was begun Feb %,
but that the questions at issue were
so important that it was prolonged
the following day. The dispatch adds
that 1t is understood the Scandinavia
81 countries are not planning to act
in concert with Holland and the Unit
ed States, as the interests of the lat
ter countries are entirely different
from those of Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
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There may be a fodder famine in
certain parts of Denmark on account
of the failure of Swedish and Nor
wegian ship owners to carry out their
contract with the Corn and Fodder
company" of Aarhus, large importers
of fodder. They were to have from
16 to 18 shillings per ton for the
hauling, but have been offered IS
shillings in other countries, and, al
though they may have to pay a pen
atty of IS shillings per ton for break
ing their contract, the ship owners
would still make good money.
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The Danish steamer Gulfaxe, which
was guaranteed in New York Feb.
%, had arrived there after a stormy
and eventful passage. Captain Peter
son reported that while the Gulfaxe
was passing north of the Shetland
Islands British patrol boat put
shot across the steamers bows. The
Gulfaxe proceeded until another shot
was fired, when she stopped. The
patrol boat, upon learning the identity
of the steamer, allowed her to pro-
coed. The steamer was in a hurri-
cane Feb. 49,.
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The report is in circulation in Co.
penhagen that owing to the necessity
to restrict food consumption the Ger
man government intends to order s..
100000 Germans who possess indie
pendent incomes, and who are in
eligible for military purposes, to
leave Germany for neutral countries.
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A Copenhagen dispatch states that
the Norwegian steamer Regin was
sunk of Dover, Eng, Feb. % by eth
er a submarine or a mine. The
crew of twenty men was saved. The
Regin. which was carving coal. sank