THE MISCHIEF MAKERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 41, 18 June 1915, Page 4

THE MISCHIEF MAKERS.

The German effort to stir up strife in Sweden has, so tar, borne no result favourable to the treacherous Teuton. It will be remembered that German pamphlets were being scattered broadeast through the land urging the Swedes to abandon their neutrality, and attack Russia, and with the fact before us ; an article on the neutrality of Sweden in the "Edinburgh Heview" merits attention. The writer emphasises the fact that careful propaganda work by Germany in Sweden has been going on since the war started and before it. He expresses the view that the Swedish Government is determined to maintain the strictest neutrality at all costs, but he holds that Russia would do well to give back to Finland at the close of the war her constitutional liberties, and thus afford the most perfect proof that she harbors no designs upon Sweden. Tie also thinks that Russia would do well Islands, which were ceded by Sweden to give bark to Sweden the Aland to Russia as an appanage of Finland in the peace of Abo, after the war of ISO!). Russia, he says, does not want the islands. If she gave them back, unfortified, and permanently neutral they would constitute a signal proof of mutual trust. The fear of Russia obsesses Sweden, and is played upon by Germany.