In Other Countries

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 166, 19 December 1914, Page 5

In Other Countries

SOME KJUIIY INEVITABLE. Times and Sydney Sun Services, Received IS, 5.45 p.m. London, December 18. ' The Times, in a leader commenting on the projected meeting of tlie Kings of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden to con- ; siiler the mitigation of their economic difficulties, says: "We are anxious to prosecute the war with as little hurt to them as possible, but we deplore that, j owing to the ret|iiirements of self-defence, I we cannot avoid indicting injury on them." ATTEMPTED COERCION OF SWEDEN London, December 17. The Daily Mail's Petrograil corre- , spondent says that the attitude of Sweden is being watched with the greatest interest. The (lerman Minister at Stockholm is daily addressing threatening notes to the Swedish Foreign Oilice, regarding the alleged transit of articles, which Germany claims aie contraband, to England ami Russia. The correspondent adds that the systematic attempt to coerce Sweden into I the conflict is led by Austria, wluch recognises that the Swedish attitude of public opinion is more friendly to Russia than at the beginning of the war.

A PROTEST FROM THE NETHERLANDS. Received 18, 10.5 p.m. The Hague, December 18. In the foreign affairs debate in the Second Chamber, Dr. Savormn Lohman, representing the Historical Christian Party, denounced the doctrine that might is right in international affairs, and that the necessities of war justify the violation of neutrality. _ He added: "The whole world is associating itself with Britain's appeal for justice against the invasion of Belgium." Upon the President of the Chamber protesting anainat the remark, Dr. Lohman replied that lie was not saying on wluch side right lay, but that the appeal to right met with general support. Ilerr Loudon supported the President s intervention, emphasising that the l»'l; liferents understood the Netherlands position. Nevertheless, the Government s duty was to be unceasingly vigilant. CHECKED AN EPIDEMIC. "X have been periodically atacked with dysentery," says Mr Thos. Samson, of Sussex street, Grey Lynn, Auckland, NX, "and have never found anj'th"iß to give me the immediate relief that Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy did; it certainly checks the attnjk. on 1 was in the grocery trade, i lound Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy very popular among the Maons, it having done good work m checking an epidemic of dysentery among them. All chemists and stores.