Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-07-30

lea relations with foreign states niur-
ious TO our country OF dishonesty
rrotitng from the had times"
Establish secret service.
This state OF affairs also led TO tn,
creation In sweden of a British com
merCinl secret service. Swedish mer-
chants say there are several hundreds
OF these agents now In Sweden and
that every imported article is traced
tu the ultimate consumer These
agents also have prepared the Swed-
lsh black lists Tor G:"ut Britain No
swedish concern which ordinarily sells
TO Germany can get any sort of goods
through the English blockade. If a.
swedish manufacturing concern sells
brass lamps tu Germany It cannot get
tin from overseas 10 make milk sep
arators even for Russia despite the
fact that the latter country is an allN
OF Great Britain
Manufacturers assert that the Brit
lsh authorities in measuring materials
TO be- allowed Sweden overlook the
fact that Russia has come into the
swedish market for hundreds Of prod
ucts and manufactures formerly
bought from Germany They claim
TO be seriously handicapped in nlling
Russian and japanese contracts he
cause ENGLAND viii not let the neces-
saIN raw materials out Of bondage
"Mhat Are We Ia DO"
one Of the most aggravated eases
OF this sort has had To do with the
import OF two tons of anthony toI
he used by Swedish manufacturing
concern building paper making ma
yhlneW for Finland Russia aud la-I
pan. This anthony originally was
bought in the United states when
the British legation was applied to for
It license To pass the anthony through
the blockade, the swedish importer
was rather sugEestivcy asked why he
had not purchased the antimouy I'M
Great Britain. He replied that II was
cheaper in America. but believing III
might facilitate matters II he bought
on the British market he cancelled the
American order ana bought at high
er rate I'M London lie then applied
anew for a license The importer,
the manufacturing concern ana the
Russian, Finnish and Japanese firms
for which the machines were intended
all were approved by the British lega-
ton, but the application for the i'm
port license has been pending four
months without any sign Of action.
The Swedish manufacturer submitted
q detailed statement as to how every
ounce of the anthony was TO be used
all for allied nations OF Great Brit
ain.
THUS, YOU see" said this manu-
facturer, If YOU are on the English
blacklist you don't get anything. and
II YOU are not on the English black
list still YOU don't get anything What
are we to do?"
sellers Blacklist
The Swedish importers have also
discovered that the English have a
sellers black list" If the goods are
bought from a firm In North or South
America which also sells to Germany,
they are detained IN Great Britain and
probably will remain there until the
end of the war.
It IN announced here that In the last
six months Great Britain has seized
from one line of Swedish steamers hi
the south American trade 81 per cent
of their Cargoes allowing only IL per
cent to come through. These car
6oes consisted principally OF coffee,
cocoa, hides and wool.
The British have been aide ahso-
lutely TO control all cargoes carried In
! Danish and Norwegian ships by
threats not to allow such steamers
bunker Goals. Also no steamer Is al
lowed to load goods in England fer
scandinavia unless assured of re-
turn cargo.
Roughly, the import situation with
respect to Sweden tand applying al
most similarly to the two other sean
dinavian states) il az follows
Con Sweden tp4btrtg uttat from