STRAWS IN THE WIND

Grey River Argus, 17 February 1945, Page 5

STRAWS IN THE WIND

SWEDEN STOPS TRADE WITH GERMANY. (Rec. 10.30). LONDON, February 16. A Daily Telegraph correspondent in Stockholm stated: Sweden has de facto broken off trade relations with Germany. I have learned authoritatively; that Sweden will not renew a trade agreement which expired on January 1, and all trade between Sweden and Germany has been actually at a standstill since that date. On the basis of th e expired agreement, Germany annually will lose seven million tons of iron ore, eighty thousand tons of paper, 200,000 tons of woodpulp, and timber worth four and a-quarter millions sterling. Five prominent members of the German Legation in Stockholm have been asked to leave because they? were discovered ferreting out names of Norwegian refugees in Sweden on behalf of the Gestapo, so that reprisals could be.taken against their families. Their expulsion is part of a new drive to purge the country of German spies who, under cover of diplomatic privilege, organised an espionage system from one end of the country to the other. Newspapers to-day declared the Allies should not only be given a free passage over Sweden for bombers, but allowed to use Malmo as an intermediary' landing ground. CARACAS, February 15. The Venezuela Government has announced that Venezuela has recognised the existence of a state of war against and Japan. , WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. The Uruguayan Cabinet decided to declare war against the Axis. Chilean, Ecuadorean, Peruvian and Paraguayan representatives have signed documents signalising their entry into the ranks of Ihe United Nations, and accordingly will be eligible to participate in the world security talks at San Francisco.