The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-24

x Stockholm, Sweden, July 24-While tlauch has been said and written in me United States regarding the Brit ish, blockade and It's effect upon the nestral nations, there still exists here fn Scandinavia a feeling among gov esrment officials and commercial in- terestS~tlaat the American people as < whole do nes fully eemprehead the eituatien. They assert that in tight esslHx Aeft s,slne Of steep' around Ger i many, aHeat Britain has arbitrarily ! pa& the three neAtral countries of 1 norfherH Rarepe "en rahons." The BxdtisA officials in charge of the !! SloeknSlH paarnAit these countries to { have only what the officials think { fHey should, have, hot what the eouh- ] dSes proclaim they need.
 ( m the ease of Norway and Dem | krk, ,ths syratierAs,' basis is maintain I Lh Nv Aereement. In the case of $we- (A it ,is enforced by British sef 1ver, \ by seixure of neutral chips at \ ExA md JletentioA of goods in English
 r6crus Some Scandinavian ships Foutet te Sweden from South Amer } recently haSe been entirely emp ! Id ~, carse Sad cent to their home VI An pAApers of the ocean high z ksrs gre many evidences of in
 tslnx resehtmeat against Great X H ltam e4x the part of the Swcdisht AplN The newspapers arc begin Szn4 to comment naore end naore free- 'l ly 1peA what they say Is a practice s9n s4olsAAoA of all asintsrnakional law < ~ 1jpxxant ns1euxe' of power against n. -~e 3r~nup f Rat1euA.n z swsaish governmene officlals and fuwndtsA nnerphNnts alike dc not hest- EVrfa to xav they have hoped against I hoSe the Un1ced StAtest stwouad take . ! etana In behalf of the neutral coan- I' &r4es wnltA would brlnssabout . more ' }reagouabis achievement of the blook- J ade. Tney AAxe pfetssted In vsan to 3 6treak Bxtta18 And have endeavorcd to V take such ria anAtpgy stops as were At X {swed&nss couamAnd. But they reArze X i.swedea ls ,in nc position and has ~: Ho<<her .xhs fresouroee- nor the military T 1mp6rtancs to gA1n for her protests .f4hpura64e consideration,
 soandlnavaan newspapers and cfn- esals arxue that the Unlted States has 1noek potent weapon to use against VI fho Allaes to ,brine about ' a more Y Iavfnl conduct cf the blockade" They firnnsv believe that if the United /i e)tatsS aovernunent would threaten to 9os6aa tho export of m1nirions of war M md tD declare unlawful any loans to absillxerent nations, England would z quickly be brought to terms It is 7. &A1t her~ that the United States has a nrsat opportunity Tt this tianc to build E y&n a perrnanent trade with the Scan !. dinavi1n. countries, but the blockade, ooupled with the detention and cen ocr1h1p ot neutral malls. Is making , pfogren most difficult
 Ths Srandanavians would be per 4octly winlng, they say, to let America 7 d1ctats the conditions of the block ades they do not feel they should be \ lefk arbitrarily to the will of Great ' BT1t1in-
 There is no attempt hero to deny
 the fact that huge quantities of sup 4 plies were shipped to Germany from SWe<1en after tho outbreak of the war,
 but 1t Is pointed out that Sweden has {. always had an immense trade with AZ Germany, both buying and selling,
 This trade has far outweighed tha, with any other nation But one by v one the Swedish government has pro- X hfbited the export of articles until sinow practically nothing can be sent \ out of the country except by special
 Derrnission- If Swedish merchant dsi is detected violating a guarantee thai
 gpods4impoxted by=him were for ust < dn Sweden and would not be sent ou,
 of the country, the government under.
 takes to punish him regardless of thu K fact that the agreement may have Sf been an entirely private transaction. One effect of the blockade has beer Y to place food supplies in the hand. of speculators who are demanding ex
 orbitant prices for their wares Oddl. z enough great majority of these spec
 ulators are said to be Germans. Man,
 months ago they bought for ship
 ment to Germany supplies notsoeveret
 by re-exporf agreements, but sool
 found prices were soaring to sucl
 high figures here in Sweden it wa 2 more profitable to hold their good
 and resell to the Swedish people 3sl This h particularly true of coffee. N .J people in all the world love their cof fec like the Swedes- Already the,
 arc paying practically double the nor ma1 price for it with quotations dail
 leaping upward There is fear tha
 conditions here may soon approael
 hfhose in Holland which have cause Sa.' 70 many disturbances F
 In long article dealing with '"rh
 Blockade Against Sweden the Stock
 holm newspaper Nya DagIiet Alle
 1hAnda asserts that the more recen
 tightening of the embargo on Swed
 1sh imports is clearly a pressure t s force Sweden to make a trade agree
 ment with Great Britain similar t
 thosA which place Denmark lan a cEqrway satvhe1 mercy. 'ssxs q as
 Such an agreement we hope wi
 never be made by any Swedish gov ernment.' the paper adds "Argu
 ments have been made in favor C
 such a step. but everybody no,
 should see the tendency of Great Bri & tain- There is no longer a questio Z of our needs, but what it pleases Grea
 Britain to give us. There is not tn
 slightest excuse for the b1ockad
 against Sweden--it is merely a dis
 play of power, the pIacrng of f,eav
 burdens upon a neutral and friend 1y people. One cannot but feel ths
 Q nation thus wantonly taking advar < tage of her control of the seas
 working against her own best inter
 ests and inviting eventual destrut
 tfon.'
 There is no doubt that the situs ton between Great Britain and Swt
 den has been aggravated by the pa.
 sage of the Swedish War Trade A.