Sweden

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 79, 31 October 1916, Page 5

Sweden

THE TIES WITH GERMANY. Press Associativa—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. I London, October "'.). The Daily Chronicle's Stockholm correspondent interviewed Heir Wallenberg, Sweden's Foreign Minister, who discerns signs of a probable change, of policy regarding the agreement with Britain as to imports and exports. He said the Swedes had mostly friendly feelings towards England, but he complained of our failure to, trust Sweden, or study her interests; He hoped they had now arrived at the point when the difficulty's world be cleared up. Sweden ccltl rot he forced nor dominated. E> instanced the friendly intentions of > Parliament in voting without discv.ssisn, money to establish a daily gtbamraip service to England after the war. It , was impossible for Sv eden to break with Germany, wlio supplied poods unobtainable from England. The whole of the war material for Sweden sent from Germany would be insufficient to pro-lon-j; the war for a single day. Many S—«dish industries were suffering, especially that of margarine, owing to inability to secure copra.