OUTRAGED NORWAY.

Evening Star, Issue 16460, 26 June 1917, Page 5

OUTRAGED NORWAY.

AMPLE PROOF SECURED. EXPLOSIVES CAME FROM GERMANY. DIPLOMATIC CLOAK AGAIN. ■ ■ CHRISTIANIA, June 25. (Received June 26, at 8.45 a.m.) ; The explosives seized by the authorities are of German manufacture, and rea'ched „ Norway under cover of diplomatic luggage, foreign State.luggage not being,examined by the. Customs officials. Baron Von Hautenfels pleads that the i y? re intended for Finland, and not for sinking Norwegian vessels. i 1 COPENHAGEN, June 25. Received Juno 26, at 10.15 ami.) Tie Norwegian newspapers have been ...Bent An officio* statement, which they are about to, issue. It -will. prove more ccnsaUonal than M. Fapet’s statement in the Storting. , ' ; , '-.lt is at present biown that over 20 Norwegian ships, with their whole crews have been-mysteriously lost. , AMERICA’S PART. REGULATING EXPORTS. ‘The Times.’ NEW YORK, June 25. (Received June 26. at 9; 15 a.m.) The ‘New York Times’s’ Washington orrespondent states that President Wilson las ordered the Secretary of State, to create fu Export Control Board—including repre- , sentatives of the departments of State, War, Navy, and Mr Hoover, the Food Administrator—for tho purpose of regulating lti6 export of certain commodities necessary w the welfare of the United States and the A '| ies - Gram, coal, ais steel will probably be the most important of all shipments that it is proposed to place under a license.

It is stated that this action will not complete the cutting off of aijy kind of exports to neutrals, but it empowers ihe Governmentto dimihish the exports to any country db taming more than it requires for its own oonsumption. AMERICAN ADMIRAL ■ GIVEN IRISH STATION, ' LONDON, June 25. (Received June 26, at 8.45 a.m.) Ole Admiralty announces that Rearidmiral Sims, who commanded Hie Ameri»n , squadron which • recently, arrived in Sntish waters, has temporarily taken over me Irish naval command. This is the arst time m history that an American AdFket a command i n the British

UNITED STATES ARMY DOCTORS’ HELP.

Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, June 25. (Received June 26, at 9.15 a.m.) reports state that 2,000 United States army medicals have taken over su big British base hospitals. REMOVING MISAPPREHENSIONS. ‘The Times.’ WASHINGTON, June 25. (Received June 26, at 9.15 a.m.) The Committee of Public Informatioh have issued a pamphlet explaining President Wilson’s Note of last December asking the belligerents to declare their wax aims, and the simultaneous statement by Secretary Lansibg that the country was on the verge of war. 'pamphlet says that the United States Government were informed that Germany _ did not intend to keep her pledge, given during the Sussex controversy, that she would not sink merchantmen without warning. The German peace otter did not plainly indicate that Germany would insist on such terms as would leave Central Europe under German domination, thus building up an empiro meuao mg the world and enabling Germany to crush her adversaries. The United States , learned that Germany intended to institute a more intense and ruthless submarine campaign, and would not respect the rights of. neutrals unlest neutrals used their° influence for a peace favorable to Germany. The refusal of Germany to state her terms was an evasion of President Wilson’s request, to- belligerents to state their war aims; while the Entente, on the other land, answered this request frankly. SCHEIDMANN ATTACKS KAISERDOM. AMSTERDAM, June 25. (Received June 26, at 9.40 a.m.) H«rr Scheidmann, majority Socialist ' wr^n ß m ‘Yorwarts,’ denounces Government for not making clear peace He says their vague, clumsy attitude is forcing Russia to continue to ad- • liere to the allied cause, and also made , America declare war. “The wholesale introduction of deniocracy in Germany,” ha says, “is inevit- , able, and it must be done immediately if the Germans are going to escape very heavy losses. - Wo are drifting into the Jourth winter of the war.” N ■ COAL FAMINE ■fM GERMANY AND DENMARK. AMSTERDAM, June 25. , (Received June 26, at 9.40 a.m.) ■ , There is a serious coal famine in Ger*ny. Many of the bakeries are closing, ; id the lighting of Berlin is being cut frown by two-thirds. , A similar coal-shortage exists in Denmark, where 1,200,000 tons of coal- are required, and only 400,000 are available. AUSTRIAN FOOD RIOTS. 20 WOMEN BUTCHERED. - . ■ Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, June 25. - • (Received June 26, at 9.15 a.m.) , 'A telegram »from Milan states that a .\<szech Deputy'has; revealed to the Austrian Parliament'that, the troops fired on a crowd of women' bread demonstrators in -ifront of the Town. Hall at Prossnitz, in t-. Moravia,- killing 20 and .yonnding 40.

BABY KILLER’S DECORATION.

‘ LONDON, June 25. (Received June 26, at 10.5 a.m.) Captain Brandenburg, who commanded the aeroplane squadron which raided LonfcofSler°it' 3) haS bCen aWwde<l the

RUSSIA.

DARK INDUSTRIAL OUT-

LOOK.

“LONDON,' June 25. ■ . (Received June 26, at 9.40 a.m.) ihe ‘Daily News’sPetrograd correspondent states that food is costing five tunes more, than ■ during peace time, and there are the clearest possible signs of a famine later in. the-ycar. « the threat of an Almost total stoppage of industry, due to the shortage of fuel and material. Yet the workmen continually demand enormous increases in wages. There was grave danger of a big railway strike, which a Government manifesto luckily averted ihe Cossack army is displaying vreat sHhn-f °- f cstromists and a? desire Instability in the country. This is of great importance, tho temporary Government being confident that the Cossacks wnUunSe! heir W ° rk ° f creatin e a str °ng united

ARMY DESERTERS RETURN,

DUMA MAY BE DISSOLVED. ANARCHISTS IN FINNISH CHURCH. Reuter’s Telegrams. . PETROGRAD, June 25. (Received June 26, at 10.40 a.m.) ~ numh , el ‘ of deserters are returning to SinK.l&.g'" 5-°“ n I WG P a P er ‘ Novoya, Jisn ’ states S&’LdSW* v “ 10 dls -

After service on Sunday a crowd of Anarchists,. including many soldiers and sailors, invaded Chu/ch at Helsingfors. Ihe ringleader. Bolt, made incendiary speeches i n Swedish. Finnish of d ,W SS T fr( ? m the P ul Pit- The singing Fin-dW in tlon -ri anar . caisfc son gs followed? SuSnS 6 dra^ed o»t the anar,<and arrested several, including Bolt. w ~9,. was sen t to a lunatic asrlum. The Sinai 1 W f 6 ii attac,uxl with ‘ sticks and stones, and three of them were injured. REVOLUTION’S INFLUENCE

SPREADS TO RUMANIA. LAND REFORMS PROMISED,

'The Tiroes.

_ JASSY, June 25. -King Ferdinand of Rumania, when visituig the front, promised his troops that land reforms would be instituted for five million peasants He personally had riven a large area, of Crown land for the pur P? 80 ", asked the Government to introduce a Bill giving land to all peasants who were fighting. informs, however, do not satisfy the bulk of the nation, which has been unsettled fcv the Russian revolution, and by Gasman and Russian Socialist orators Twentv members of the Rumanian Parliament have formed a Labor party, and intend demanding the widest land, electoral, economic, and social reforms. Already they have received strong support. [Rumania possesses the most backward land system of Europe in the matters of virtual sendom and absentee landlordism ] NO COUNTRY TO GOVERN. PARIS, June 25. (Received June 26, at 10.5 a.m.) ; Owing to the resignation of several I members of the Serbian Cabinet, M. Pashitch, the Premier, is forming a new Cabinet. CONSTANTINE SETTLES * DOWN. A CHATEAU IN SWITZERLAND. • BERNE, June 25. (Received June 26. at 10.5 a.m.) Constantine has purchased the magnificent chateau called “ Chartreuse,” near Thun. The castle formerly belonged, to Baron Yob Zedlitz, a German officer. . [Thun is about 16 miles from Berne, and is a favorite summer resort, with many fine villas bordering the shores of Lake Thun.]