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Show I , GERMANY'S THANKS TO SWEDEN. How has Germany expressed its appreciation of Swed- en's friendly service, which involved the degradation of Swedish embassies in Argentina and Mexico and the chs- , honoring of the foreign office in Stockholm? The an- ! swer may be found in the Swedish government's recently published report about the loss of a large part of the na- lion's merchant marine. This report says that since the ; beginning of the war 52 Swedish steamships and 39 sailing H .vessels have been destroyed by German submarines. In addition, 35 steamships have been sung by German mines, ' and eight have been captured and confiscated by the V Kaiser's government. With the loss of these 134 ships should be counted the killing of Swedish sailors by gunfire as they were leaving H torpedoes vessels in lifeboats, for sometimes the subma-H subma-H rine sought to "leave no trace" of its foul work. In the H message from Beunos Aires forwarded to Berlin through H the foreign office at Stockholm, Count Luxburg recom-H recom-H mended such treatment for the tehips of Argentina. The B Seamen's association of the Scandinavian countries pro-m pro-m tested in vain against the murder of these men. m While Germany was sending her ships and sailors to H the bottom, Sweden was diligently supplying the high- m grade iron required in making torpedoes and guns for B ( the submarines. "If you will kindly send the iron," the B Berlin government may have said, "we shall use it to B your disadvantage. In the sinking wrecks of your ocean m ' carriers you will see our thanks for the metal and for your B foreign office's friendly aid." Valuable assistance given B by other neutrals has drawn a similar response, for they B . have lost more than 900 ships, but it does not yet appear B that their service was like Sweden's. They did not supply B raw material, Norway's nickel excepted, for torpedoes M that destroyed their own merchant vessels, or make their fl embassies and consulates secret agents of Germany. |
