The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-08-08

General resent and Indignation
has been aroused, In Sweden by news
dispatch from Washington giving what
is termed ian official report of the gov
ernment'' on Sweden's exports and i'm
ports: The report declares in brief
that Sweden exported to Germany
great quantities of materials for maxi
ing ammunition, including especially
iron ore, ferrosilicates, manganese,
steel, copper, sulphur, zinc and wood
pulp and imported iron ore from Amer
lea to replace the surplus exported.
Even newspapers most friendly: to
the United States condemn the
charges. The papers call attention to
Americas attitude regarding exports,
and arraign what they term the "gov-
ernment's inconsistency" They de-
clare America repeatedly protested to
England against the same policy which
Washington now threatens to adopt
against Sweden. The Associated Press
received from an authoritative source
the following statement: 'The state
ment that we are exporting sulphur
and zinc to Germany is q ridiculous err
ror. We must import sulphur for our
own use and Germany produces more
zinc than she uses. We import no
iron ore from America. Before the
war we used to import low grade Of
pig iron from England. These imports
have dropped to third Of the normal
and we have been importing from
America to cover the deficit, but the
entire imports are insignificant. We
export pig iron of a higher grade to
both England and Germany Our ex-
ports to England are still nearly nor
NAL. For our industrial life, we must
have dyes, coal and medicine from
Germany, and we have nothing to give
in return except iron ore and pulp,
since the embargo on all provisions.
We get some coal from England at the
risk of our sailors lives and Of their
ships, but it is only small portion Of
what we require. Germany brings us
coal in her own ships, without risk
to us. We do not understand how
America, which insisted on us letting
her cotton through Germany and pro-
tested so vehemently to England
against our effort to interfere with her
trade, can have such an attitude to-,
ward u.s."
The Swedish, Norwegian and Danish
governments have encouraged in
creased agricultural production in
every way. But the unusual warm
weather during May and June has al
ready endangered the crops, and it is
therefore unlikely that they will be
above the average, in spite Of all slim
ulating efforts. In his great expose of
the food situation, delivered some time
ago in the riksdag, NJ. Swartz, pre-
mier Of Sweden, announced that the
Swedish nation did not have to fear
starvation during the next winter,
even if all import of food should be
cut off, but he made this promise de-
pendent upon crop considerably
above the average. The fuel situation
! is at the same time alarming the neu-
trails, which regularly import large
quantities of coal. All the three Scan
dinayian countries have already taken
extensive measures to secure within
their own borders enough fuel for the
coming winter. Wood and peat will,
to a large extent, be used in an effort
to replace coal, and it is used for the
purpose Of cutting and transporting
wood that Sweden and Norway have
mobilized their civil population.
! e
Sweden instructed her minister at
Berlin to lodge formal protest with
Germany against the torpedoing Of
! Swedish fishing vessels.