Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1917 — Sweden’s Rash Act to Tighten Lid On Exports. [ARTICLE]

Sweden’s Rash Act to Tighten Lid On Exports.

While the American government awaited developments Monday following Secretary Lansing’s disclosures regarding the transmission of official German dispatches by the Swedish charge at Buenos Ayres, Washington officials and foreign diplomatists turned their attention to the study of the significance of the act. Two facts stood out clearly in the minds of most observers. Sweden will be compelled to make definite her position as a neutral and the exposure may be taken as indicating mote exactly the intention of the allies to see that Germany shall cease receiving aid from all the northern European neutral countries. Publication of the facts, although disclosing nothing the government’s exports administrative board has not known for some time, reveals to the public that the government is fully cognizant of aid Sweden has been rendering the central powers and intends to cement opinion in support of the absolute embargo put into effect against Sweden, along with the other neutrals, six weeks ago. It has already been ‘declared definitely that no foodstuffs or other supplies will be permitted to go to the neutrals for at least six weeks, to give this government an opportunity to establish precisely their trade relations with Germany.