SWEDEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1917, Page 5

SWEDEN.

THE CYPHER MESSAGES. SWEDISH PRESS COMMENTS. STEALING OF CYPHER DENOUNCED. Received Sept. 11, 7.10 p.m, !" Stockholm, Sept. 10. ThV'Conservative journals are silent jw_to the revelations, except the Dag- ! biadt .which tlicia not) attempt to extenuate the breach of neutrality, hut denounces the American agents for steal-' ing the cypher and intercepting the telegrams. The paper declares that if these charges are correct, America's attitude is discourteous, and if Mr. Lansing aims at exposing Germano-Swedish relations, his action appears to be a grave insult ■against our Government. SENSATION CAUSED AT STOCK urv < % ■■ ELECTIONS MAY BE AFFECTED. A GRAVE CHARGE.' Received Sept. M, 7.30 p.m. London, Sept. 10. . The Daily Chronicle's Stockholm correspondent says the revelations have caused an enormous sensation at Stockholm, and the effect on the elections now in progress' will tie profound, perhaps decisive. - M. Branting, interviewed, said there was no need to call attention to the extreme gravity of the charge, and that if Loewen cannot clear himself of assisting the German representative in his amiable business of marking down ships for disappearance, he would be irretrievably compromised, arid would cast a stain on Sweden's reputation as an impartial neutral. TO AVOID_BLOCKADE. LARGE REWARD FOR AERO SERVICE Stockholm, Sept. 10. ' A banker was offered four million kroner to establish an aeroplane route between Sweden and Germany, aeroplane stations being established at Stockholm, Malmoe, and Gottenburg.