SWEDEN FEARS HER SONS MUST FIGHT.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 23. Considerable agitation.;, is displayed her,e because of the' -report that - the United States contemplates subjecting, to the draft alien-residents of a military age unless, they leave the country within three months. The American legation has receiyed many; telephone enquiries from agitated parents, some of whom are of pronounced. German sympathies, asking whether-, .their sons In America would be forced to fight against Germany.
A pro-German newspaper: this afternoon printed a strpng ,. protest against the proposed draft, mauitaining. tliat at least 100,000 Swedes of military age are m the United States and tjiat: * omy a)' small proportion. of them could return to their home . country, under ..present ,' arrange-
The operations of the dl'aft.-I'aw have had' the further, effect, of cheeking Scandinavian emigration to ; the. Uliited States. . * ' ' -' -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14448, 7 November 1917, Page 8
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