Scandinavians at Home and Abroad The Norwegian, Swedish and Danish flags fly in all the harbors of the world and their loyal subjects are found in every land. The A. U. Anderson Company of Copenhagen, Denmark, is planning to build a $22,000,000 fleet to be placed under the American flag on the Pacific coast. As in Norway, the war has had a stimulating effect upon the shipbuilding industry of Sweden, and new ships are being rushed to completion at all of the shipbuilding factories of the country. The ships now building have an aggregate tonnage of over 100,000 tons. The receipts of the national railways of Denmark in May, 1916, were 5,930,000 crowns and the disbursements 5,290,569 crowns, leaving a profit of 593,000 crowns. This is a poor showing compared with that of May, 1915, when the net proceeds were 1,519,403 crowns. The month of April, 1915, was also much more profitable to the railways than the same month this year. The Scandinavia is Rich in Natural Resources, but has lacked the coal, population and capital to develop them. These are being supplied. waterfalls take the place of coal for heat, light and power; immigration is increasing and her sons and daughters are returning home and the war is supplying the needed capital. Hence Scandinavia should be prosperous, being located in the midst of the Russian, British and German empires. Like Germany, home development, rather than foreign development is its slogan. The Government of Norway will soon put into operation a line of motor ships between New York and Norway for the transportation of food products which will be sold to the people of Norway at actual cost or stored against future need. The government is leaving no stone unturned to help the people of Norway in the crisis through which they are passing. From the beginning of the war it has exercised rare foresight in the securing of food supplies for the people, and has prevented the consumers from being victimized for private profit by private companies and individuals. Sweden's Trade and Gothenburg Canal. In 1909 Sweden exported 3,196,453 tons of iron ore; in 1912, 5,520,653 tons. In 1912 Sweden produced 360,291 tons of coal, and 31,921 persons were engaged in iron, coal, lead, copper, zinc, gold and silver mining. It has the timber and mineral and harbors for shipbuilding. Its industries and agriculture are developing and its harbors are well located for import and export trade. Stockholm in the center, north and south, faces the Russian empire in the Baltic, and Gothenburg in the center, north and south, faces the North Sea and the Atlantic, Great Britain and North America. The Gothenburg-Stockholm Canal connects the North and Baltic Seas as a highway of travel and traffic, dividing Sweden into two parts, giving both better facilities for shipping east or west. This wonderful canal, natural and artificial, will be an important factor in Sweden's future development. The Feeling of the Swedish People Against England on account of her blockade, of putting the Scandinavian countries "on rations" and interfering with the mails of neutral countries is growing stronger and stronger. Scandinavia thinks far off wealthy America does not do its duty as the strongest and leading neutral powers and does not realize what the people there in the very midst of the war suffer. Its press begins to comment more freely on "the violation of all international law-flagrant misuse of power against the unquestionable rights of weaker nations." Government officials and merchants say they have hoped against hope for the United States to take a stand. 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"In spite of our consciousness of our military and economic strength and our readiness to continue the war (which has been forced upon us) until the bitter end, if necessary, at the same time, prompted by the desire to avoid further bloodshed and make an end to the atrocities of war, the four allied powers propose to enter forthwith into peace negotiations. Want Honor Guaranteed. "The propositions which they bring forward to such negotiations and which have for their object a guarantee of the existence of the honor and liberty of evolution for their nations are, according to their firm belief, an appropriate basis for the establishment of a lasting peace. "The four allied powers have been obliged to take up arms to defend justice and the liberty of national evolution. The glorious deeds of our armies have in no way altered their purpose. We always maintained the firm belief that our own rights and justified claims in no way control the rights of these nations. "Progress Is Threatened." "The spiritual and material progress which were the pride of Europe at the beginning of the Twentieth century are threatened with ruin. Germany and her allies, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, gave proof of their unconquerable strength in this struggle. They gained gigantic advantages over adversaries superior in number and war material. Our lines stand unshaken against ever repeated attempts made by many armies. "The last attack in the Balkans has been rapidly and victoriously overcome. The most recent events have demonstrated that further continuance of the war will not result in breaking the resistance of our forces and the whole situation with regard to our troops justifies our expectation of further successes. "If, in spite of this offer of peace and reconciliation, the struggle should go on, the four allied powers are resolved to continue to a victorious end, but they disclaim responsibility for this before humanity and history. The imperial government, through the good offices of your excellency, ask the government of (here is inserted the name of the neutral power addressed in each instance) to bring this communication to the knowledge of the governments of (here are inserted the names of the belligerents)." Of two warring parties the stronger rather than the weaker party should take the first step to an honorable peace without conquest. This is what the Teutonic Central Powers did when Warsaw was taken, again when Serbia was conquered and now the third time after Bucharest, the capital of Rumania, fell, only 100 days after Rumania had declared war. Each time the Allied Powers interpreted the move for peace as a sign of growing weakness, an effort to court public favor and encourage the Teuton soldiers by placing the responsibility of further bloodshed upon the Allies. Yet, the world knows the Teuton Powers were stronger after Serbia was conquered than when Warsaw fell, and stronger after Bucharest fell and Greece was moving toward the Teutons, than when Serbia was conquered. There being no small nations left on the Eastern front to enter the war, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, whose armies are nerved by victory, can concentrate their forces in one united blow against weakened Russia |