The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-28
NORWAY.

last, forbidding submarines to enter
Norwegian territorial waters except
when in distress, led to dangerous
issue with Germany, and to still fur!
Their sharpening Of the submarine cam
paign against Norwegian merchant
shipping. When Germany threatened
to make casus belli of the Norwegian
submarine prohibition her real aim
was to exact commercial concessions.
One concession concerned fish. Nor
way had an agreement to sell England
IS per cent of the fish which she does
not consume at home; and she agreed
to sell Germany the other Is per cent
if Germany supplied equal Values in
the two compensation" products, iron
and coal. Germany, it turned out,
could supply only enough iron and coal
to ''compensate' for two thirds of the
Is per cent. AS consideration for set
Ting peacefully the submarine quarrel,
she demanded the other third without
compensation. Germany is also be-
lieved to be demanding copper from
Norway; and she is negotiating con-
corning iron pyrites, Of which Norway
is great exporter. lSngland's inter-
| ests and Germanys are here diamet-
| rically opposed, and some weeks back
| the British minister in Christiania, Mr..
Findlay, Informed the Norwegian Coal
! Importers association that the export
| OF coal to Norway was stopped, the
| reason given being that NORWAY was
fulfilling unsatisfactory the obliga-
the storthing met in January the
| kings speech omitted the customary
statement that relations with foreign
powers are satisfactory" and substi-
tuted statement that difficulties had
arisen with foreign powers. The gov
eminent made three and half hour
statement to the storthing in secret
| session. This has not been published.
The storthing next appointed a secret
| committee to handle foreign affairs
generally, and great many politi-
| clans, backed by all the conservative
| and socialist newspapers and by some
| radical organs, demand that the con-
| duct Of foreign affairs shall be taken
out of the cabinets. hands and be-
trusted permanently to the storthing
committee.
During the fourth quarter of 1916
| the newspapers of Christiania sent out
986 tons of copies through the mails.
as against 81 tons for the same quar-
ter in 1915. For the whole year 1904
| tons of newspapers were sent out
through the Christiania post office,
! which was an increase of 10 per cent
| on that of the previous year. The city
circulation swelled the total for the
year 1916 to about $500 tons. The
| newspapers of the whole country re-
quire about 1880 tons of paper a
year. The country produces about
10000 tons Of paper of that kind a
year. Thus it will be Seen that Nor
| way produces ten times as much pa
per as the newspapers Of the country
need.
A Christianfa syndicate has bought
25 acres of ground at Ogne, Jaderen;
l
for the purpose of building a factory
for preparing kelp for the market. One
| of the products to be turned out is
called ~Norgin," and is used in the
textile industries; the other is
| s'tangin," a drug used as remedy for
rheumatism and nervous diseases. The
beach of Jaderen is famous for the
large quantities of kelp and other
kinds of seaweeds thrown upon :. dur.
ing storms from the west.
| At
| The mint at Kongsberg is going to-
turn out $4,000 in copper coins Of the
denomination Of five ore "a little over
one and one-third cents). The mine
happened to have some old copper
stored up, otherwise it would have
been very difficult to obtain raw MAJ
| terial.
The new hospital at Lavik, Sogn, ID
practically finished and it will be for
lnally opened July /. It has cost
about 5000, and will accommodate
cine tuberculosis patients end seven