The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-10-24

Resume q the Important Happening,
In Sweden, Norway and 4. i: !.
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The price Of milk in Odda, the new
manufacturing city, will be 1875 cents
per quart hereafter. The city has the
reputation Of being the highest priced
place in Norway. i "S.' ~~'".9
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= The British. government has con
/ tracted for large quantity of fish in
Norway. The fish will be distributed
among British canneries and the sup
ply thus acquired will be kept for fu-
ture use as protection against food
shortage. .., .
A hundred tractors of American.
manufacture were purchased by Nor
wegian firms last spring, but on &C.
count Of the difficulty Of getting them
into Norway only 13 had reached their
destination in July, and one of these
was destroyed in the Trondh1em
fire.
The freight charge on coal trans
ported from England to Norway has
been $67 per ton, but has now been
reduced to $51 per ton, and it is be-
lieved that it will be reduced to $40
per ton in the near future. The trans
portation charges have been so high
that the people of Norway had given
up all thought of obtaining coal from
England.
According to copyrighted article
by one Lorenzo, the German subma-
rines manage to reach the Atlantic
ocean by means Of passing inside the
three-mile territorial limits along the
! west coast of Norway. The writer
does not mention the fact that some
German submarines were detected in
side the limits, and the Norwegian
government promptly put stop to it
in spite Of ugly threats from Ger
many.
The print paper manufacturers of
Norway have Cancelled all contracts
with newspapers Of France to supply
them with paper on account of the
German submarine campaign. This
action comes at the same time as the
printpaper manufacturers Of Sweden
also Cancelled their contracts with the
French publishers, and as the latter
have been getting about so per cent
of their paper supply from Scandi-
navia, they will be compelled to reduce
the size Of their publications.
A Christiania lady attracted the at
tention of the customhouse officials by
her peculiar actions just after she
had passed the boundary line between
Norway and Sweden. She carried
valise in her hand, and after long
stay in the rest room the valise
seemed to be very heavy. The matter
had to be investigated, and in the va
lise were found 46 pounds Of tin and a
skirt which had many strong pockets.
She had stripped herself of the heavy
dress as soon as she had crossed the
line and felt safe.
Karl Knutson, former president Of
the Norwegian chamber of commerce,
is out with an interview with a Lon
don paper in which he declares that
the people of Norway feel outraged by
Germany and Sweden as a result Of
the revelations Of Germany's subma-
rine methods by Secretary Lansing. It
is now realized, he says, that the rea-
son many Morse ships have never
reached their destination, without any
thing having been heard as to their
cargoes or crews, is that they have
been ''spurlos versenkt," to use the
classic phrase of the German diplo-
mat, and there is indignation over the
fact that this has been known and
countenanced by Swedish officials.
Sweden.
There are 5000 foreigners in Stock
holm, about the same number as one
year ago.
The government has fixed the price
Of potatoes at about $1.20 bushel.
A higher price may be asked for pota-
toes exported to foreign countries.
Impelled by the present high price
! of coal, a wrecking company has start
ed work in an effort to- recover a
cargo of 1900 tons Of coal that has
lain at the bottom of the Great Belt,
a mile north of Nyberg: for 81 years.
The cargo was that of the steamer
Dorka, which sank in 1888. 1t is be-
Heved that nearly thousand tons can
be recovered. Samples recovered
show the coal to be unchanged