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Show Haldan, Ditlex SImonsen & Co., ship owners in Christianla, have organized organ-ized a new shipping company with a capital of at least $50i,OW for the purpose pur-pose of co-operating witli a well-known American firm of ship owners after the war. Rented ships will be used at first; but after the war It is expected that the cost of building new ships will be reduced to such an extent that the company can afford to order new ships built. The name of the company is to be the Norwegian-American Shipping company. SWEDEN. There are now hundreds and hundreds hun-dreds of homeless Stockholm families who cannot afford the rental required for any kind of a home. In proportion to the population, Stockholm has an extraordinary number of hotels, estab-. lished particularly to meet the tourist stream in summer. It Is now often impossible im-possible to get a hotel room in Stockholm. Stock-holm. The guests are placed In bathrooms, bath-rooms, ollice rooms, even in large wardrobes, so as not to be forced to spend the night in the street, and It. happens that even as many as four persons, all strangers to 'each other, sleep in the same room. Still worse is the scarcity of house rooms and tenements. tene-ments. At the end of September those applying for rooms and tenements in Stockholm, numbered 1,030, and the corresponding opportunities were 232. In order to assist the homeless families fami-lies temporarily, the housing commission commis-sion has opened several school houses for them, and the Swedish lied Cross has assisted with equipment. The commission com-mission has also offered premiums to those families, willing to house the homeless in their own apartments. Even the attics and basements are used for lodging. The scarcity of coal in Sweden affects all Industries, all branches of comraranicatlon and home life. Many passenger boats and trains have been withdrawn, with the result that those still running are overflowed with people. A sleeping car ticket must be ordered at leasts a fortnight before the journey. The Illumination of trains and railway stations is considerably con-siderably reduced. Official buildings are not heated more than is absolutely necessary. Churches are warmed only on Sundays. Everywhere the saving policy reigns. During recent years many vessels loaded with coal have sunk before reaching the harbor of Stockholm. Persons now have tried to raise this 'coal from the bottom of the sea, and more than 4,000 tons is reported to have been recovered near Stockholm by this method. One of the coal fishers has earned $4,000 from his "fisheries." SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS HAP-PENINGS IN FAR OFF NORTHLAND. ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME Resume of the Most Important Events In Sweden, Norway and Denmark Of Interest to the Scandinavians In America. FINLAND. Finland's native crops for the year have failed. All hope of relief from Russia has been lost. Fifty thousand tons of wheat and rye contracted and paid for in the United Slates and Canada Can-ada last spring have been commandeered comman-deered for France. America Is Finland's Fin-land's only hope. Dr. Kaarlo Ignatius, special commissioner from that country, coun-try, is In Washington appealing to officials offi-cials in the cause of humanity to release re-lease to bis government the 50,000 tons of supplies purchased before the food law was enacted, but commandeered by Food Administrator Herbert C. Hoover for the allied armies in France. j' After weeks of negotiations with Ad- minlstrator Hoover and the war trade hoard, Dr. Ignatius lias failed to accomplish ac-complish his purpose. He has Ambassador Ambas-sador Bakhmetieff of Ilussin aiding lilm, and also the sympathy of the British government. "I am going to keep up the light," Dr. Ignatius said. "Already our people are starving. If I must, I will appeal to your president, who has declared to all the world that America is fighting in this war for the preservation of the rights of all nations, na-tions, small as well as great. I do hope that the United States, the first nation in the world standing up for the rights of mankind and nations, will save us in this critical hour. Our government gov-ernment foresaw a food shortage last spring and placed orders in the United States nnd Canada for 50,000 tons of . y isrtrfn. After placing these orders we could not get a license from the interallied inter-allied supply committee in Petrograd to import these supplies. The committee com-mittee said Finland could get all the wheat it needed from Russia. Thereupon There-upon our government paid 60,000,000 Finnish marks to the Russian government, govern-ment, which had taken over all food supplies of the country. Russia guaranteed guar-anteed to make deliveries of wheat to our country in August and September. Then came the revolution and Fin- The Stockholm Tidningen says: "America has decided on a policy which, according to President Wilson's nearest adviser in commercial politics, Administrator of Food Supplies H. C. Hoover, would simply place the neutrals neu-trals face to face with the alternatives either of starving or joining the allies." al-lies." Concerning the report of the American announcement that "Sweden has been urged to cease exporting iron ore and other materials to Germany," the Tidningen remarks: "Regardless of the extent to which this demand may be maintained, and even the United Unit-ed States should be contented with the limitations of our iron and mineral exports, ex-ports, the question remains in principle princi-ple the same. Such demands are attacks at-tacks on the right to dispose of and to control one's own products. Thanks to such rights, we have up to now been in a position to maintain our commercial commer-cial neutrality. As far as known, Sweden Swe-den has never given up its right to export ex-port its own products to whomsoever it wished. It Is of enormous Interest to Sweden to reachsome such understanding under-standing with the western powers, that their blockade against us and other Scandinavian countries may cease at the earliest possible moment, but wdth the above in mind one must see that such an understanding is perhaps impossible im-possible to reach, on1 account of the exaggerated demands from their side." Five examples of a new species of the gorilla, hitherto unknown by scientists, sci-entists, have been taken to the Riks museum of Stockholm by Capt. Ellas Arrhenius from the eastern part of Belgian Congo. This new variety, which has been called "Gorilla Berin-gei Berin-gei Mikenisensis," after the mountain Mikeno, where it lives, has a longer skull than the nearest variety, "Gorilla Sabingo." The length is 310 millimeters, while tire skull of the sabingo gorilla shows only 276 millimeters. The nasal-bone nasal-bone and the cheekbones are of a different dif-ferent shape. White markings like that of the chimpanzee probably indicates a crossing between gorilla and chimpanzee. chim-panzee. The new variety also differs in color. "Gorilla Mikenisensis" lives in droves and Is very shy. In order to get the five examples now given to the Stockholm museum, Captain Arrhenius Arr-henius and his men had to creep through the brush to get an opportunity opportu-nity to shoot. The negro population hunts this gorilla for Its skin or for vengeance. At the time of Captain1 Arrhenius' visit a negro shot five gorillas go-rillas because one of his relatives had been killed by one of the beasts. To get food for the horses, the Swedish Swed-ish population has started to harvest the heather, which grows abundantly in some parts of Sweden. They cut off and dry the tops. Experiments have proven that it has almost the same nutrition nu-trition value as hay. A kind of flour also has been prepared from the heather, heath-er, and it has been used for baking purpose. Coffee Is now prepared of everything except coffee beans. Tto-irs of the dandelion are iied. r, highly appreciated. The p.-,r.-h factories fac-tories operate vi!i !': ct S w-uon, w-uon, not from I'.tr-sin. - land got nothing from Russia, not even I r her money back. Besides the revolution, revolu-tion, transportation conditions make it impossible to get supplies from Russia." Rus-sia." i The general strike in Finland was approaching a crisis AVednesday, according ac-cording to a Reuter dispatch filed at Helsingfors on that date. Excesses are reported especially in south Finland, Fin-land, where about 25 men of the propertied prop-ertied class have been murdered. The socialists are armed with military rifles and further excesses are feared. NORWAY. The Christianla Morgenbladet has. shown a strong pro-American bias since the entrance of the United States luto the war. In a leading editorial It says : "America is now the focus of war preparations. The experiences of three years' war on all fronts are be: ing profitably assimilated, and the most systematic military training is being practiced under French and English officers. Special commissions from Europe Eu-rope superintend the manufacture of all that is needed by sea, by land, and in the air. Ammunition making is being be-ing driven on with unheard of intensity, inten-sity, standardization of air machines, experiment with new weapons, new technical inventions in every field. If there Is any place where we can learn things, it is in America today. Norwegian Nor-wegian naval and military attaches should be at once sent to America. In the future Norway will have to obtain more of her war material from the United State?, and It is very important import-ant to strengthen our legation in Washington." Foreign Minister Ihlen, in his speech In the storting, told how England had not only annulled the so-called so-called branch agreement with Norway, but had suspended all such agreements. agree-ments. A Hutchinson, Minn., produce com- . - pany has received an order for butter from Capt. Roald Amundsen, the great . Norwegian evplorer, who is outfitting a ship for another expedition to unexplored unex-plored regions In arctic waters. All provisions on such trips must be of the highest grade. It is because of the reputation for the keeping qualities of Hutchinson butter that the company gets the order, and for the same reason rea-son year after year the company receives re-ceives a contract for a large amount of butter from the United States government govern-ment for the navy, this year's contract being for 50 tons. Oddmun Vik has resigned as food minister. The storthing voted down a motion designed to force the resignation resigna-tion of the whole cabinet. Mr. Vik held his position a little over a year. For several months past he has been severely criticized on account of alleged al-leged mistakes in his food administration. administra-tion. Mr. Vik spent the early part of bis liTo in educational work, and later l;ecame a journalist, lie served several sever-al terms in the storthing, and at the ! lime of his appointment to the cabinet j was governor of Romsdal. 1 v |