SWEDEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1915, Page 5

SWEDEN.

LEANS TOWARDS GERMANY. HER DREAD Of RUSSIA. Times aJid Sydney Sun Services. London, August 9. The Times' correspondent at Stockholm, in a review of Swedish neutrality, express the opinion that Swedes generally lean towards Germany, as against, Russia. The classes almost exclusively pro-German are those supplying officers of the .Swedish army and those connected with modern education. The young officers, trained in Germany, return greatly impressed with the' perfection of German military methods. Tile traders, merchants, and other numerous classes want Germany to win. At the other end of the scale a numerically insignificant group of idealists definitely favor the Allies. Every Swede dreads Russia, and hatffe the" idea of the combination of England, France and Russia and the defeat of Germany, because they have been taught to regard Russia as a standing menace to Sweden's integrity. In order to meet the grievances of legitimate Swedish traders' also British grievances against Sweden, a British Mission has for weeks been conferring with the Swedish authorities. In view of Sweden's economical situation it is to lie hoped no sentimental considerations will he allowed to stand in the way of practical and prompt settlement, because the moment Is rapidly, approaching, when Sweden will he entirely devoid of certain commodities, of supreme importance to industrial We,