Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-25

law and SnOulu uOl De puniSned Tn Germany.
 The only paper that tried to belittle the affair was the Social Dimokraten. which expressed the hope that Ger many twill show justice to a small nation not able and not willing to sustain its rights by power"
 Only a few days before this German U-boats in the Arctic ocean. off the Norwegian coast and outside of the danger zone," attacked small motor fishing boats, fishing for the Germans and therefore provided with German outfit, sunk some of them in the open sea with small chances for the crews to be saved, and in others destroyed the motors and everything on board. seized what they needed of provisions. instruments and even money.
 Protests Ignored
 Nobody understands what benefit these acts can be to the great war to destroy people working for the ben eft of Germany itself. The foreign minister has sent some messages and protests to Berlin without obtaining a satisfactory explanation. And in those very fishing districts German agents are buying all the Norwegian fish they can, according to the agreement with the government. German boats sail safely inside the territorial line guid- ed by Norwegian pilots with their car goes of fish and provisions for Ger many.
 At the same time from all over Nor way come reports of arrests of alleged German spies who are sent across the Norwegian border. Norwegian citi- zens are being convicted by the court in Bergen as paid spies for the German government and sentenced ito impris- onment for not more than six months, nation to the Germans regarding the sailings of Norwegian ships has caus- ed those vessels to be torpedOed and some of the crews to be killed. In the cases the court acted according to the law. The whole nation was struck aghast that this crime against the country should not be punished more severely. The Germans involv- ed were acquitted.
 Of the Norwegians involved, two were captains on route steamers be tween Newcastle and Bergan, who had been paid to report to the German espionage control in Bergen everything they saw in England and on their way between England and Norway.
 Spies Overrun Norway
 The espionage control was estab- lished, it is charged, by the Antarctic explorer, Lieutenant Flichner, who, before the war, had been very kindly received every where in Norway, and been the guest of the Geographical so- ciety, draw Norwegian men in his net and make them traitors to their own country The whole press condemned Flichner. The whole nation felt ash amed and dishonored by this case, re membering the way the Swedish Bar on von Rosen, with his anthrax and odeoAf was tANoNNN by Norwegian authorities and the way German proved spy, Baumoister, also was allowed peacefully to go back to Germany.
 In the legislature it was strongly de- manded that the police authorities and the department of justice, here after, should see that the nation was ridden of such German pests.
 And in spite of all this. in spite of the nearly unanimous demand to stop export of anything the country needs for it's own citizens, the fish export to Germany still is going on and the export of home made farm products and canned milk is not stopped, al though the prospects for the people in the coming fall and winter are worse than ever.
 Millions Wasted
 Why the government, which week after week suffers humiliations at the hands of the Germans. has not stopped all export on Germany until satisfac- ton is given, Is regarded here as aI mystery. A great many anti-Social- ists agree with the Socialists who cri- ticize the government for having spent S1O0 100000 in three years on the neu- trality guard. The Socialists say iuI would have been better to use this money to relieve the high cost of liv ing, asserting that the naval and army defense is in too poor a condition toI be of any use and that the money isl wasted. Other citizens who believe in armament for the defense of the country now ask, with the Socialists, what the country has obtained for the $1O0, 1000, 900. They indignantly declare that more than 400 Norwegian vessels have been destroyed. with the loss of 800 sailors, by the acts of a so-called friendly" nation, that no excuse nor satisfaction has been given for any of the numerous violations of the inter national law: that Norwegian sailors have been murdered in the life boats; money and private trinkets on board Norwegian ships stolen by German of ficers and taken to Germany; Norweg- ian government vessels in coast traf- fic in Norwegian waters seized and