The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28
NORWAY SUFFERS
 FROM ACTIVITY OF GERMAN SPIES
Many Incendiary Fires Dur ing Last Half of Present Year.

meeting. of the tScandinavian Mon-
 archs and Ministers at Ghristiana this El week lies <: the fear, unfounded H though 1t may, be. of Norway'sr entry into the war and of the *Gefman 1 menace; that, in this case, she should feel called upon to occupy Denmark \ as a counter measure. @
 Il The Associated Press learns from 1 a responsible source that the confer Il ence. which was arranged in conse- T Equencetsof an intimation from Ger sl many that the growth of anti-German t sentiment in Norway particularly | after the sinking of the convoy in i the North Sea by German cruisers, is Ebefng followed with concern by Ger l many and, that it Is feared that Nor l way might be impe1led,- either by ex-
 cited public opinion or pressure from 1 the Allied side, to enter the struggle rat least to the point of granting a I naval base to England and the United f States, in which event Germany
 would feel called upon to seize a
 corresp bonding base in Denmark. ! Upon the. receipt of this informa- I tion at Copenhagen word was hur- .riedly sent to King Gustave of Swe- den, and Denmark's most prorninent
 citizen. Mr. Andersen, president of ! the Danish East Asiatic Co.,, who is : high in the confidence of Berlin, as i, well as London, was despatched to
 Berlin to verify the report, and, if possible. to change the Germany atti- | tude. MT. Andersen conferred with Dr. von Kueh1mann, Secretary for Foreign Affairs at Berlin, ant he con- firmed the report, adding tha, in con- sequence of the Italian and Russian I J~ 4l German elements were again m the saddle in Germany and exertil in- , f1uence against which the Foreign
 Omce, with its more moderate v4ews, found 1t most difficult to contend.
 King Gustave came. to Copenhagen
 and passed 8 day in conference with
 King Christian, MT. Andersen and the Danish Ministers, the subject
 matter of the conferences being cov-
 cred by display of gala perform
 ances, an opera ballet, ceremonial
 banquet and the conventional inter
 change of speeches. As result of
 the conference. a decision was reach
 ed to make every possible effort to moderate the excited Norwegian sen-
 timent and continue the Scandi-
 navian kingdoms in the path of joint
 neutrality. ..
 AluS IuSIdVe returned to StOCk- holm. and launched the suggestion of a conference of the three Kings, ac- companied by the ~Premiers and for eigns Ministers at Christiania, ,.s which was accepted, the Norwegians being flattered with the thought of the first call of Swedish monarch in the Nor Wegtan capital since the separation of the two countries. . @ F: It is difficult to judge how far Ger many was .actuated in its step by gen. uine fear of Norw jan action, how far by desire to force Norway into tontng down it's strongly anti-Ger- man sentiment and wave the !T''big stick" over the three countries during the pending negotiations with ,g the United States and the Entente regard ing the embargo, and thereby get as good bargain as possible for Germany. On the one hand a Dane in high position in the secret, with whom the correspondent discussed the subject, considered 1t utterly out of the ques- tton. that Norway of her own accord would abandon neutrality and said he attached no importance to the spora- die reports of American or British in tention to seize a base in Norway the
 better to combat the submarine. Prominent NorYegians declare that war sentiment in their country is negligible. The same view has been expressed in statements in the Nor wegian Parliament, probably inspired
 by the German warning ii .5.,
 On the other hand Germany is evil
 dently perturbed by the state of Nor wegian public opinion. The German Minister to Norway, Admiral von HintZe, who, it is reported, had been sent to that country as the apostle of the strong hand, has been back to Berlin to report on the. situation. A Danish member of the German Reich stag has just beenin Norway on what can undoubtedly be described as a
 pacifying mfssion,- and a mass of in- spired editorial matter is being tele-
 graphed: from the German press and by the correspondents; in Beerlin in an endeavor toe convince. Norwegians of the unwisdom of extreme anti German feeling and of the benevo- lence of German intentions as respects them. s.-..'a s.... .,-..t s.< ~ =. 4e.s- .s