Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-15 | Page 18 | Norway Refuses Germany Credit

I? REFUSES GEIipOIT Scandinavians Remember the U-Boat Crimes, Visitor Asserts. Germany lias but little food and no money and for that reason is imploring Norway to allow her credit for six months in order to get fish and especially es-pecially herring, but Norway is afraid to trust Germany. This is the declaration declara-tion of Mrs. iSigrun Uboe, ivho, with Mrs. Aslaug Haaland of Haugesund, Norway, are stopping in Salt Lake while on a pleasure tour of the United States. Mrs. Uboe says during the early part of the war Norway furnished Germany with great quantities of fish, which increased Norway's trade, but then cash was received in return, Mrs. Uboe said. Later, when Germany commenced com-menced her submarine warfare, and sunk one-third of Norway's merchant fleet, the Scandinavian nation smarted under the blow and has not forgotten and there exists a strong resentment against the Germans, Mrs. Uboe declared. de-clared. Mrs. Haaland is the wife of a wealthy Norwegian shipper, and her father is the largest Norwegian shipbuilder ship-builder in Seattle. She says Norwegian Norwe-gian shipping was somewhat interfered inter-fered with when America entered the war, as the large contracts for ships being be-ing built in America were greatly delayed, de-layed, t-hipping, she says, is slowly coming back to normal again and the exportation of sardines and fish to the United States from Norway is increasing. increas-ing. Mrs. Haaland declares American ships are the best built in the world. In commenting on the high cost of living in Norway. Mrs. Uboe said she thought much of the foodstuffs were higher there Than in tee United States. Rationing was continued to July 1 and is still effective on sugar. Meat is almost al-most impossible to get and many butcher shops are closed, Mrs. Uboe declared. She says though there is more food in Norway now than during the war, meat imported from Denmark and other countries is not great enough to supply the demand. Mrs. Uboe says fish is abundant, and though fishing has not been so good this season, there is considerable herring for export.