The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-20
Americans In That COun- try Whose Profits Are
 CurtaiIed Indignant
SWEDEN HAS CHANGE
 TO BECOME WEALTHY
Nation Is Money Mad and Newly Made Millionaires Are Springing Up Every Day Through
 War Profits
Rx EGRERT PAYNE

Stockholm. January 1l.-(Special Core snondence.) -fIyphenated Americans are helping intensity the anti-British feeling in sweden. Business men who. come here to scheme for the delivery of contraband merchandise to Germany via Sweden find their activities curtailed by the British fleet and British spies. and they are loud in thei. demands for a firm stand by the Swedish government against this in- tel ference with international trade.
 Ths relations between Great Britain and Sweden have been seriously affected by commercial disputes, arising out of Brjtain's excessively strict surveillance of all Swedish imports, Pro-German senti- ment, which began by being more anti Russian than anti English, now derives it's greatest inspiration from the resent ment against British trade restrictions, and American agents who suffer with the Swedes lose no opportunity of emphasiz- ing their grievances.
 Germany is in the worlds markets at tf present time for anything she can buy. Foodstuffs metals, fats and oils of all kinds leather, rubber-the list of her requirements is interminable. Her ~drummers roam over Holland, Dem marx ana soMeQGH, fJlthitiS uP W itrlt 5OOOS they can at exorbtant prices and sche1n- ing for their delivery in disguise. Now that Holland has been hedged about with formidable restrictions. Sweden is the iayorite hunting ground for hungry Teu- toric buyers, and they foregather in the three. great professionalism, Gothenburg and Malmo-with the agents of other neutral nations, chiefly American, who have goods to sell-for cash
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 Stockholm firm orders a big consign- n,ent Of pork or woolen goods or maybe leather for boots from America. On it's face this transaction is perfectly legiti- mate. But the ship bringing this cargo across the Atlantic meets British patrol boat and British trade spies in Swed- en give information which results in seizure of the goods Or an unsuspicious tramp steamer carrying an alleged non contraband cargo and manifest may find herself the subject of a search which rev calls valuable merchandise of a con fiscable kind.
 Even a seizure of contraband for Ger rany by Swedish government authori- ties furnishes material for the anti British propaganda. Swedish business men and their American colleagues de- clare bitterly that the government would not interfere if British commercial agents did not denounce suspected car goes and thus force intervention. The government is trying to preserve an of fcial attitude of strict neutrality by pre- venting the shipment of contraband to Germany as we'll as to Russia, but it would not show so much zeal if the emis- saries of Great Britain did not bom- bard the foreign office with reports on incoming cargoes and thus force them to act.
 British trade espionage is we'll organ ized. Surveillance of a suspected cargo begins with the loading in an American port. Swedes here declare that suspected goods purchased in America have been followed step by step from the factory of origin to the port of embarkation, and by the time the steamer containing them reaches a Swedish port full details have been transmitted through British chan neIs to the principal trade spy ir Stockholm. Consequently when the yes sel arrives on this coast, reluctant cus- toms officials and perhaps a torpedo boat or two are waiting to sift her hold with 6 fine comb.
 CASE OF ANDREW WELSH
 The American steamer Andrew Welsh is case in point. The Andrew Welsh cleared from Philadelphia for Swedish port with cargo of beans. After avoid ing the British patrol sne arrived off Halmstad, western Sweden, where tor pedo boat ordered her to anchor for ex- animation The captain declared, that he had beans below his hatches-nothing but beans. Some of the crew who were more conversational expressed the belief thai the bags (which were heavy) might con tain more useful war material
 The British commercial agents con Cf1rred in this view So the Andrew