The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-10
Nation Is FIouted BY Teutons,
Who Rob, Murder and Seize
Ships Whenever They Please
NO ACTION is TAKEN
BY SUPlNE GOVERNMENT
Press and Populace Indignantly
Demand Why Nothing Is Done
To Stop High-Handed Acts
(By The Associated Press)

CIlRlSTIANIA, Norway, July a.
The latest German acts against Nor,
way are being criticised in the press
and condemned by the legislature rs
showing the alleged failure Of the
Norwegian government to uphold the
self-respect OF the nation.
Royal mail boats between Denmark
and Norway, outside of the German
barred zone, with cargo of killed
cattle exclusively for use in Norway
are captured by German Uboats,
brought TO German ports and no sat
isfaetory explanation or satisfaction
given.
A Norwegian steamer, the "ThOr-
UNI, in coast traffic, chartered by the
Norwegian government itself with ear
go of hay to relieve the fodder famine
in the northern part of the country,
was stopped by German U-boat inside
the three-mile line,--that means in
Norwegian waters; the Norwegian flag
was lowered and the German flag was
run up, as the German U-boat chief
declared the steamer German prize
because of lack of special clearing pa
pers. A Norwegian torpedo boat ar
rived, the Norwegian captain declared
that as the steamer was in Norwegian
waters, she was not liable to be seized
by German U-boat, ordered the Nor
wegian flag flown again and the Ger.
man lowered. After some argument,
however. he yielded TO the German
view and allowed the steamer to be
taken as prize to a German port and
the Norwegian flag for the second time
displaced by the German.
German High Handed Acts .s
This happened May 10 and, upon an
Interpolation in the legislature regard
ing this affair which has turned the
whole press and public opinion more
anti German than ever, Minister of
Foreign Affairs Ihlen answered that the
government = protest in Berlin and the
assurance Of. the steamer being q gov
eminent chartered boat had only met
unwillingness to strengthen out the
affair and give q satisfactory excuse.
On the contrary there was no prospect
of the ship being released in the near
future, as the case would be tried be-
fore a prize court. More humiiating
was the announcement that the Norwe-
gian crew now would be brought be.
fore German court martial because
they, according to orders from a Nor
wegian naval officer in Norwegian
waters, had hoisted the Norwegian flag.
, For the first time since the war
broke out friction with one of the
3elligerent nations has been discussed
openly in the legislature. In other
cases the minister of foreign affairs
has kept everything secret and been
unwilling to let the public know what
steps the Norwegian government has
taken TO protect the rights Of their
citizens against the now numberIess
from the German side.
All the leading politicians, in very
strong terms, condemned this last hui
initiation from the German government.
The press requested that the Norwe-
gian crew at once be given their liber-
ty and sent home if the Thorum was
not released, asserting that the crew
acted according to Norwegian law and
should not be punished in Germany.
The only paper that tried to belittle
the affair was the Soeialdemokraten
which expressed the hope that Germany
% will show justice to a small nation
not able and not willing to sustain its
rights by power" 4,
Just German Cruelty ~.
Only few days before this, Ger.
man C-bOats in the Arctic Ocean, off
the Norwegian coast and outside of
the danger zone'' attacked small