ANGLO-SWEDISH TONNAGE AGREEMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 9 March 1918, Page 5

ANGLO-SWEDISH TONNAGE AGREEMENT.

CONSIDERED BY GERMANY AS BREACH OF NEUTRALITY.

STOCKHOLM, March 7. The Anglo-Swedjish agreement concerning tonnage hasi occasioned indignation in Germany. The North German Gazette states that according ±o the Declaration of London these ships must be considered enemy ships. The transfer of tonnage is equivalent to direct participation in the economic war against Germany. Neutrals therefore are committing acts I incompatible with neutrality. AMSTERDAM, March 7. Professor Delbruck, interviewed by the Neves W Tiener Journal, a Her; characterising Dr. Bethmann-Holl.weg's j communication of March 3 as.-an act of j the greathest diplomatic chimsiness, ad_ mitted it was not hard to .-how that Germany really did not desire war. The British Government -also t:.ok pietty considerable, if not ;the *•> tmost, trouble to avoid war.