Show I I SWEDEN j jIN IN ACCORD WITH U. U S j jI I Steps Taken in Upholding g I Rights of Neutrals and 1 International Law Lav Receive Approval Yal and Support of Government at Stockholm COLLABORATION IS C URGED BY PREMIER Tells How His Country Is Suffering From Trade Interference In and Says Tim Tune TimIs TimIs Is Corning Coming When Then United States Will ill Feel Ill III Effects I MEDIATION I IMPOSSIBLE STOCKHOLM Oct 4 Sweden Sweden L proclaimed her neutrality at the very cry outbreak of the war All AU her actions since that time have borne out that proclamation and all ru rn- rn ru- ru I I I mors mox or accusations that she has as done l or intends to do anything inconsistent ent ht with Yit this attitude are thui cither t to fn failure failure- t to comprehend bend her ber sit I tion or t to some less credi creditable bi rd i- i re 1 son Whenever Sweden has taken taen any nj step displeasing one or other belUr belligerent r- r tnt ent power her action has been dictated solely solly by considerations of ot the kingdoms kingdom's kingdoms kingdom's king king- doms dom's own wn necessities and arid of oC Its Its' future welfare and not by b nn any partisan reason reason rea rca song son We 0 hope sincerely that the belligerents bel bol- bol- bol will not m make ko it impossible for us to maintain this attitude unto the cn end l Thus In effect ct said Prime Minister Dr K II 11 I. I L. L of Sweden to the correspondent of oC the Associated Press in the only Interview he has haJJ granted an any forel foreign n Journalist since thu war began Throughout hout the interview the premier continued to lay stress on his hia governments government's desire to follow rollow unswervingly un un- un- un the policy of or unpartisan unpartisan- ship thus far followed And Anti when you get to know the Swedes es better you ou will I think find that when thc they sa say or promise a thins thinS' I they mean It It said the tho minister 1 Mediation Out of ot lu In a communication issued d September Z 22 32 after the recent conf conference rence of at th tho Scandinavian ministers at It was sad sald that the tho governments hO of ot the three countries consider that under Continued on Page Pago 2 SLAV DRIVE IN I GALICIA PUSHED Russians Cross Zlota Rota Li Lipa pa River but Berlin Reports Advance Clu Checked Continued 11 From p Page JP 1 the River Alt It Is admitted that the Rumanian troops were withdrawn from rom th the tho Jiul valley allo but before falIn falling failing back they destroyed the coal min mines s at Pet Pet- 1 I The Berlin war office admits the re retirement retirement re- re of the Teutonic allies before the Serbians to prepared positions near Lake on the western end of ot the Macedonian l 11 front and also at Nize hill north of oC height on tho the Greek Greck frontiers and that the tho British arc are maintaining themselves in positions they have ha captured c along the river north of ot Lake In this latter region the thc British have added to tt their thelt front the tho town o of kol An unofficial 1 dis dispatch atch from om Paris PallI I says lays the Serbians In addition to defeating de de- defeating eating the Bulgarians on size hill hili have captured the tho Kessall railroad st station station sta sta- tion Tho The Serbian territory r recaptured captured h by the entente allies says the dl dispatch patch now a aggregates 30 square kilometers The Italian troops have recaptured the northern slopes slope of or Col Bricon and advanced their positions there thon accor accordIng according accord accord- In Ing to Rome Home The Tho on tho the Somme front arc are continuing their thrust northward on the thc Peronne road and have captured a n strong line lino of ot German defenses defenses de de- de- de between Mr Merval and the tho SL SU Pierre Plene wood Paris announces today to to- to day The British after aCter stubborn fighting I have mana managed to expel the Germans from the town of oC l' l haucourt aucourt near the Bapaume Pozieres-Bapaume road where their drive toward Is now within v three and one half miles of ot Its objective London today reports Eau Eau- court I entirely In British pos pos- session |