SCANDINAVIA

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 95, 24 April 1917, Page 5

SCANDINAVIA

3>EMONSTB ATTONiS BY WORKERS INS\VEDEN. .

SKRTOUS OUTBREAKS THREAT-

Australian and N.Z. Oabip Association

t lleceived April 23, ,8.10 p.m.) COPteHAGEN, April 22. T wp-nty thousan d .Stockholm work - evs held'a demonstration ovitside Parliament Hou<=*\ The Premier promised a deputation that the food situation would improve , after the _c6m» ple+.ibn of negotiations with\ England. . The. c^brcd :vas- orderly, biit, th^i'p we>-e <^cn=^vn^l' for.; a, vi-evplution SlmilfT clemonstmtions and Ktnkes o^enrrp^ in .several town,B in Sweden. The military participated in" sbrho casog. " • ' " A Socialist newspaper pnbhshea a f:npret order instnicting two regimpiits to >>c in readineoik day and night. An entire regiment at Niorbotten struck -iwiripv fr» the '.small thread ration. -Two divisions have been deprived of their arms and ammunition. Sorions outbreaks are threatened on May Ist/ ' ' ■■"■ ~; ' '■ '" ": "