The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-06
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
With its masts blown ont by gales,
its captain and crew exhausted from
long strain, the Norwegian ship Sou
verain is in quarantine at Diamond
Point after voyage of ISL days from
Liverpool to Puget Sound. The log
OF the trip sounds like a tale of
century ago. Sailing in ballast from
Liverpool June 10, the Sou"erain
started its voyage for the Columbia
river, coming by way Of the Cape IT
Good Hope. In the South Atlantic II
experienced ~everal hurricanes, but
came through these safely and round.
ed Good Hope in 20 days after leaving
Liverpool. A shortage of fresh pro-
visions resulted in an outbreak of beri:
ber1. 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
the Souverain 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 at
once. The Souverain sailed from En-
senada November Is, reaching the Co.
lumbia lightship Thanksgiving after
noon. On that day the Souverain en-
cou1tered severe southern gale. The
vessel found it impossible to negotiate
the river bar. The wind practically
stripped it of it's sails before it reached
| it's destination.
The other day the American freight
steamer Maumee of New York, with a
cargo made up mostly of American
pork, arrived at Bergen to coal. 1t
had to leave the place, however, with
out coal, as all the dealers were
warned by British authorities that il
the steamer with supplies alleged to
be destined for Germany, by way Of
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
weg1an importers guaranteed that no
canned product to which such oil
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 homo
to the foreign Office. 1t 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 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.
ton 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 tho
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 ita
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 OF
Minnesota, Senator'S A. J. Gronna and
Thomas Sterling OF North and South
Dakota. They visited tho capitol, saw
congress in session, and ut noon ds'
| oarted for New York.