WITH THE NEUTRALS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13937, 21 July 1917, Page 6

WITH THE NEUTRALS.

GERMAN TRADE WITH SWEDEN. AMERICAN INTERVENTION LIKELY. ' (Australian and N.Z. Gable Association) NEW YORK, July 19. ' The London correspondent of The New York World says" -lie has authoritative information that Germany , lias contracted to purchase a million and a-half tons of hematite from Sweden in the coming; year. Tim ore/is used in the manufacture of machinery and tools and curried across the Baltic in vessels convoyed by Swedish warships. America may be asked to force Sweden to stop this trade by the threat that she will not receive American food supplies.