SWEDEN AND RUSSIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 78, 31 July 1915, Page 4

SWEDEN AND RUSSIA.

Recently (says tlir* Christchurch Press) it was stated that military activity was being displayed in Sweden, and those who reealled the distrust of Russia, shown by Sweden before the war, and the activity of German intrigue, might be excused for wonderin*.!: whether at last one of the smaller nations was about to be foolish enough to throw in its lot with Germany. We think any such misgivings are entirely uncalled for. It is true that between Sweden and Russia there have been differences which have reacted injuriously on the relations between the two countries, and that German intrigue lias been busily employed in fomenting these differences. At the end of last May, however, a treaty was ratified in Petrograd between Sweden and Russia, mutually acknowledging the financial, commercial, and industrial interests V)f the respective countries. Negotiations which had been proceeding for some time for the settlement of various questions, such as the linking up of the Swedish and Finnish raiVays. were thus happily brought, if not to a conclusion, yet to a basis of satisfactory settlement.