The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
SCANDINAVIAN NEWS|
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINGS IN FAR OFF
NORTHLAND.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
IN Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the Scandinavians
in America.
SWEDEN.

Another note from Sweden has been
addressed to the state department in
Washington, through Minister Eken-
gren, appealing to the United States
for cooperation with the Swedish gov
eminent and other neutral nations to
maintain navigation. Following is the
text of the note: "Of late the Brit
1sh authorities have violated the mail
traffic Parcel post from one neutral
country to another is being unloaded
IN British ports and the contents are
being seized. While parcel post is
not protected through The Hague
postal convention, it nevertheless
seems to his majesty's government
that the British procedure, in the form
and extensiveness practiced, would be
invalid in regard to even ordinary
express goods, and that this seems
particularly evident when the seizure
OF parcel post is directed against a
means of conveyance under guarantee
OF sovereign powers. Besides, great
personal Inconvenience is connected
with seizure of this kind. However,
Englands present practice of censor
ing also frst-class mail, sent by neu-
trail vessels from one neutral country
to another, is even a greater violation
OF the rights accorded neutral powers
by the rules of international law. The
royal government therefore now ap-
peals to the government Of the United
States for cooperation for the pur-
pose Of seeking to bring about dis
continuation Of the violations Of in
ternational law, at least so far as the
same concerns first-class mails" The
United States will not take final &C
ton on the note from Sweden until
the submarine controversy with Ger
many is settled.
The dearth of men in England is
proving the opportunity of Swedes
and Norwegians skilled in the use
Of tools to improve their financial
condition. Not week is now passing
without several hundred of Sweden's
ambitious young men, who have
learned trades, going to Great Britain
and Immediately obtaining work at
wages very much higher than they
have ever received. So large has this
exodus become that it has affected the
labor market in the Scandinavian
peninsula, and the newspapers in
Stockholm are telling Of the dis
uuieting conditions facing employers
there The Dagens Nyheter states
that about 100 workmen emigrated
from Sweden alone within .six.Weeks.
The greater number of these are tram
way conductors and workmen in the
metal industry. A committee has been
appointed in Stockholm with the OBJ
ject of endeavoring to persuade the
men to remain in their own country.
and a scheme for the improvement of
their circumstances Is being consid-
cred. The press in Sweden and Nor
way Insist that the government should
take immediate action to prevent re-
cruiting by agents, and an appeal has
been made to labor organizations to
give their wholehearted support to
the endeavor to keep the men in the
country, in the interests Of national
industry.
The Swedish minister of justice has
appointed royal commission for the
purpose of prohibiting the transport
ing along Swedish territorial waters
Of all such goods as are forbidden to
be exported from Sweden. The prohi-
bition is said to be directed against
Danish merchants who are largely in
terested in transporting merchandise
to Russia through Swedish waters.
This step will make the Baltic a still
more closed inland sea, the conditions
being especially aggravated by the
new mine fields which che Germans
have laid at the entrance into the Bal
tic. The Swedish Social Demonkraten
asks whether German m;he laying is
being carried out so IS to permit
small ships, at least, to 30 around the
southernmost point of Sweden. This
newspaper adds that IL expects
Sweden to protest if any intention is
shown Of placing the entire Baltic
traffic under German control.
K. F.. Arnoldson, winner of a Nobel
peace prize in 1908, died, aged seven
ty-one years. In 1908 the Nobel peace
prize was divided between K, F..
Arnoldson and NJ F. Bajer of Den
mark. Mr.. Arnoldson, member of
the Swedish rigsdag, announced at
the time Of the award that he would
devote the money received to the
cause of peace.
Reports from Stockholm" says
the Overseas News agency, "are that
there are in Gothenburg a total of
$4,000 parcels bound for England
which have been retained by the
Swedish government as measure Of
reprisal against British violation of
Swedish nails