Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-06-03

| A dispatch says tnat Herman Won
E.unthe of Morgenstierne. Norwe-
gian engineer, employed for two years
as craftsman in the Kockum shops
| in Malmo, where many of the Swedish
submarines are built, las been ar
rested as a spy. He had obtained ten
drawings of submarines and two draw
ings of torpedo-boat destroyers and
had sent these home to Norway last
summer. He also had drawings of q
submarine in his private lodging
rooms. He claims that he procured
the drawings for his own personal
study and education, not for sale to
foreign government. Morgenstierne is
is son of Maj. Gen. Wilhelm Won
Munthe of Morgenstierne, commander
of the Bergenhus fortress, and is con-
nected on both his paternal and ma
ternal sides with some of the most
prominent families in Norway. He IL
only twenty-six years old and secured
his position in the Swedish works two
years ago on recommendations of ex-
ceptional ability.
1t has been customary In former
years for the sugar manufacturers of
Shame to import !aborers from Cali
cha, and they planned to do so again
this year, despite the war. They &C.
cordingly applied to- the German au-
thorities for their approval, but the
Germans stipulated that if such APP
prevail was given, the government of
ing the expectation to Germany of
Swedish products. When the sugar
manufacturers asked their govern
ment for this permission, they were
turned down, on the ground that the
unemployed of Sweden ought to be
furnished work before laborers from
abroad are taken care of.
There is general talk throughout
Sweden about certain Swedes who are
suspected of being in the employ OF
England as spies upon their own coun-
trymen, and one of them has been
ordered to leave the country-namely,
Adolph Helander of Nykjobing, who
has served as English vice consul.
He is a prominent and wealthy man.
but the facts in the case seem to point
to his guilt. Because of the informa.
ton furnished them by spies, the Brit
lsh authorities have made black list
of Swedish ships which they suspect
of carrying contraband articles.
The Scandinaviske Listok, the
new Russian newspaper to be issued
in Stockholm, as mentioned recently
in this column, has made it's appear
ance. In the first number the hope is
expressed that the Russian and Scan
dinavian people learn TO know each
other and cooperate for their common
good. The statement is made that
In Stockholm alone there are no less
than $4,000 persons of Russian an.
cestry.
There is a movement on foot to fix
the same hour for meals for all the
people of Sweden 1t Is felt that on
account of the irregular hours for
meals, especially for lunch, much time
is wasted. Too often, in calling at
business offices, one is informed that
the proprietor is ''out for lunch"
At the recent celebration OF the
twenty-first anniversary of the Gen.
eral Defense society of Sweden 1t was
announced that the children attending
the public schools have contributed
zoo'ooo crowns toward the purchase OF
nVe hydroplanes for the use OF the
Swedish navy.
Reuters Stockholm CORRESPONDENT
telegraphs that the Swedish steamer
Hernodia, east of the Soderhamn pilot
station, struck an anchored mine and
sank in six minutes. Her crew of %
men was saved
New cases Of cerebro-s spinal menin-
gifts are reported from different parts
OF southern Sweden. The manner in
which the disease spreads is still a
mystery, perfectly isolated cases oc-
curing every now and then.
A telegram from Hamburg says that
the Swedish steamer Biorn. bound
Tor London with cargo of ore and
1000 supplies, has been seized and
taken to Hamburg.