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Show oo NORWAY NOT UNDER NEW BUNKER RULES STOCKHOLM. Wednesday. Feb. 20. Ira Nelson Morris, the American minister, today received from Washington Wash-ington an announcement that the new bunker regulations are not applicable to the 100,000 tons of Swedish shipping included in the proposed agreement between the two countries, It was communicated immediately to the Swedish government as Minister Morris Mor-ris had learned that an attempt to apply ap-ply the regulations to the ships in the agreement would imperil the negotiations. negotia-tions. The announcement from Washington saves for American use the iOO.OOO tons of shipping. The bunker regulations regula-tions aroused the indignation of Swedish Swed-ish shipping companies who contended thai they would enable the United States to control even Sweden's coasting coast-ing trade and compel the cessation of long established trafllc with Lubeck and Stettin, Germany. The Swedish government also was somewhat disgusted. |