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Show TREATY SIGNED WITHSWEDEN NEW YORK, Aug. 22. Terms of the commercial treaty recently signed by the Entente allies and Sweden and which is expected to diminish the sending of supplies to Germany, were made public here today by Axel It. Nordval, head of the special commission commis-sion of the Swedish government to the United Stales. It gives to the allies 400,000 tons of deadweight shipping and 2,000,000 tons of Swedish iron ore. Sweden also agrees to license tho export to the allied governments or I wood pulp, paper, iron, steel, etc., and) to grant to thcallics suitable credit in Sweden for the purchase of Swedish goods during the continuance of tho present unfavorable monetary exchange. ex-change. Sweden, according to Mr. Nordval, has given satisfactory guarantees that no goods imported to Sweden from any nations whose shipping tho allies control will be exported to any of the Central powers. In exchange for these commodities, facilities and guarantees tho allies have agreed to ship to Sweden bread cereals, coke and coal, mineral and edible oils, sugar, rubber goods, cotton cot-ton and cotton goods, hides, leather and tanning material, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, to-bacco, copper, ferro-alloys, tin, tin-plate, tin-plate, nitrate of soda, raw phosphates, sulphur, "and other goods and materials mater-ials necessary for Sweden's economic existence. Signing of the agreement, Mr. Nordval Nord-val admitted, was a virtual acknowledgment acknowl-edgment by Sweden of the Allied blockade. Negotiations had been in progress since May, 1917. The treaty was signed May 9 last. Conditions In Sweden, the envoy stated, were very serious, in fact no foodstuffs of any nature were being shipped out of the country because of domestic scarcity. Previously, ho said, Germany had purchased virtually virtual-ly the entire Swedish output of iron ore mined. Germany would continue to receive some iron, ore from his country, Mr Nordval stated, but In greatly lessened quantities. oo Increase in capital Invested in American Am-erican chemical Industries was up to September, 1917. SC5,SG1,000 over 1916. i 'ihi 'i'iiiiiii n mi 1 1 Hi i ii mse m iiniuBa |