Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-09-01
Harbor Cities of Scandinavia
Show Evidences of Wiling
ness to Trade in Contra
band With BeIIig2entS,
GNDlGNITIES TO FLAG
PRODUCTIVE OF CANT
Everyone Talks of Alleged Of
lenses Against Shipping but
Business in Munitions Goes
BI.tbeIy On
ny IAMrs o'DONNELL RENNETTl

By JAMES O'DONNEIL BENNETT)
,c.nuebt 1916 By The Chicago rribunel
Copenhagen. Denmark. July &c.
lo me great port cities of the Scan-
dInayian peninsula and Of Denmark
you behold the shady side of neutral
INV Everybody solemnly talks can't
about indignities TO our flag and
menace TO our shipping and every
body continues blithely to make
money 10y selling contraband. From
Trondhiem to Copenhagen the traffic
thriyes in the face of enormous risks
+, NE and property Though the i'm
eytable losses are made much of in
public. they are endured in private
with aim equanimity that is more than
resignation.
For these losses. in the final add
iustmcnt Of matters, are borne by the
warning nations. Vessel owners ana
shippers pay heavy rates of insurance,
but these charges are covered by the
extraordinary advance in rates which
they have imposed upon the consum-
er. The insurance companies i'm their
turn stand up under their losses be-
cause they make owners pay in pro-
portion to the risk.
If a vessel has a safe voyage and
delivers its contrahand, the profits for
vessel and cargo owners are well be
yond The dreams of aVarice If vessel
and cargo go to the bottom Of the
North sea the insurance companies
pay. but the insurance companies
have taken fun account Of the chance.
Would PAY Excessive Prices.
Ana if the warning nations-Eng-
land ON the west and Russia ON the
north-receive the material consigned
to them, they are glad TO pay five
times what the value of that material
was a year ago.
A shipping agent who returned to
Bergen from Newcastle a few days
ago said "They told me they could
take an I could possibly send
Particular designation of who
they are was not required by his
hearers
But" he added, turning to a yes
sci owner, your rates are terrific.'
Yes said the owner. but you
know what coal costs in these times.
You also understand better than most
people the risks of the traffic.
The truth is that both men are en-
tirely satisfied with the present ABB
normal conditions, but the protest had
to Ne made as a matter Of business
form
Large as are the profits from com
MERGE with the allies, shipping poo'
pie who are willing to look a little
further ahead than the instant trou-
Bile and the immediate guinea are be-
ginning to be appalled, at their own
thoughts on what the result of the
wearing down policy of The German
submarines must be,
1t begins to be felt" they say. 'and
If il continues many more months It
can have but one resultant that re-
suit win be starvation prices Already
prices for certain goods haze reached
prices never heard of before.
Waste Only Incident.
Incidents like this happen, and it is
indicative of the llunted state of the
public mind that the horrid waste in.
volyed was regarded only as an Incl.
dents A submarine met the Norwe
gian vessel Vega bound from Berger
TO Newcastle, and ordered it to stop
The commander of the submarine
came aboard the Vega and looked il
over with the result that there wen
into the North sea
one hundred and sixty cases Of sal
mon.
-Four thousand cases Of sardines
Eight hundred cases Of butter.
The crew worked from II o'clock n
the morning until throwing the pro
visions overheard.
Within a few hours of this inciden
tho Venus, bound from England t.
Norway, was stopped by a submarine
ana looked over Its passenger list I'M
cuded sixty-five Russians who ha'
been living in Canada and were re
turning to Russia TO Join the army.
Are you going to make prisoners
asked the captain of the Venus.
NO, said the German officer
We viii meet them in Russia soor
enough. We will not bother then
now And he laughed As a resul
'i his decision, the Venus, instead o
neing sent TO Germany with its Rus
sans went on its way to Bergen.
Precisely the same treatment ha
oeen accorded scores Of French am
English passengers faring on Norwe
gan boats across the North sea.
Tell Troubles to Captains.
For some reason everybody seem
10 regard the captains Of merchan
Vessels as being SO thoroughly neutra
mat it is safe to confide everything Il
them The consequence is that thes
good natured, laconic men are the re
cipients Of long accounts Of the anX
le'les hopes, fears and troubles o
many men and women Of many ma
lions.
In the scandinavian and Danisl
ports therefore, a good deal Of inter
esting information on the state Of az
iairs in Russia and England can b
picked up Some Of this information
can be believed; some of il is founde
only on panic or on bravado.
There is a constant stream Of thes