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SWEDEN, AND BRITAIN. PRESS LAW AND LICENSE.

BY A SWEDISH CORDESPONDENT TO THE

DAILY TELEGRAPH."]

PAPRES OF NO WEIGHT.

THE

RONGKONG

DAILY PERSS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 1918.

POTATOES FED ON AIR

ENORMOUS CROP GROWN WITHOUT MANURE. Do the farmers and allotment holder make a mistake in applying manure to their potažo Belds!

Three

prejudices, and ignorance. The reckless Thus it happens that a few Swedish brutality of the Prussian war methods Press organs have been given undue rented-with great force. The once so weight in this and other Allied countries. powerful, clever German propaganda lost It should be emphatically stated that its induence, as it was bound to do The other day.attention was directed to those organs, which probably are

more because in the long rus no propaganda attacks by certain Swedish papers on

misled, or ignorant, or mentally limited can change injustice, wrong, and selfish England and the British Minister at in their patriotism than pro-German, brutality into the opposite. The Ragian Mr. Sampson. Morgan, who last year Stockholm. The outcome of a prosecu- have from the beginning of the war had shadow disappeared. The German shadow wrote to the Daily Express about hi tion for these attacks was unfavourably very little influence on public affairs and rose in its place. The Baltic; so long wonderful crop of one-pound apples, Compared with the punishment of a public opinion, and have now practically considered mainly a Swedish sen, came grown on trees fertilised only with veget under the complete domination of table gaure, recently sent the newspaper Socialist paper for attacks on Germany none whatever, and do not reflect any many, as did the countries along its east- and the Kaiser. The conclusion was considerable body of Swedish sentiment, ern shares, Sweden's promised trading six "air-grown" giant potatoes.

With their short sightedness, credulity, land for the future. drawn that even judicial institutions in lack of sense of true proportion, and

FEW PRO-GERMANS LEFT.

were kidneys, the largest weighing over Sweden seemed to

What happened on the Aland Islands ene pound; and three were round, the show partiality. Itheir ignorance of England they possess, Neutrality is essentially a State formula: fat least, one good quality although it has and in Finland opened the eyes eten of largest weighing ten ounces. They were been diverted into false action-they are those who would not see what the pan- from the opening of the war men in undoubtedly, above all. Swedish patriots, German plans and actions meant Long grown without any kind of fertiliser. neutral countries have taken sides, efter They are the Swedish counterpart of the before that time popular feeling in except air.

Pan-Germans. In this way, the Swedish Sweden had led to the fall of first one. The basis of my latest discovery in been the case in Sweden, whose attitude of censorship and thus giving the authori-ment, and its replacement by a Liberal Morgan, is the fact that 97 per cent. with great heat. That has particularly Press law, in preventing the introduction and then another Conservative Govern soil dietetics, writes Mr. Sampson during the first years of the war was ties no power to bridle these organs, has Socialist Government, naturally in syn of the makeup of crops cames from the largely determined by her relations to caused undue importance to be given thempathy with the main principles

from that BOUTCC. But although were correct, their presentation without

years old Press law, in its democratic its relations to the belligerents maintain any explanatory qualisations gave a guarantees of the freedom of the Pressing the strictest neutrality. In spite of out of which, the humus had been burned. wrong, impression of Swedish sentiments is that it is very difficult to secure a strong opposition and constant attacks. Then I specially, aerated it, and made towards the Allies and of the apparent

conviction. This

more than any this Government finally concluded partiality manifested in certain judy partiality on the part of judicial institu

a comit perfectly free from any toxic, or acid, mercial agreement with the Allies, secur-condition.. ments in cases of Press offences.

could explain the result of the cases ing supplies of necessaries in exchange

All cases of Press offences are for other services, by which it is hoped .. by a jury of nine members, of that the very severe sufferings of the Early in March I planted medium- the plaintiff selects three, the Swedish people will be considerably resized whole, round and kidney potatoes, defendant three, and the Court three. Alieved, By that measure the present I have just lifted the roots. They yielded finding by six jurors is required to con Government of Sweden has further from sixteen to forty large potatoes each vict, and the decision of the jury cannot strengthened its position.

an average of twenty-eight per plant. be interfered with by the Court.

The

If there are still some people in Sweden most of which weighed from sit to eigh Appeal Court has only to decide whether who show particular hostility, towards the teen ounces each. They have clear skins the legal formalities have been complied Allies, there are now in Sweden very few are finely flavoured, and cool white and with in the lower court. Thus judicial pro-Germans, in the old sense of the word, toury. They represent the most remark institutions, in the sense of courts Most of them have considerably changed ale crop ever grown. administering the ordinary law of the their views. Even among the military. Forty years ago I grew clean culture land, have very little to say in cases con- and in the higher bureaucratic circles the potatoes at the rate of forty tons an cerning Press offences. This extensive tone is now different. The fundamentalere. My clean culture method in Inte and strongly fortified freedan of the questions and the main facts behind the years has given me over a gallon roat Press in Sweden has thus had some seri- war are common property, and the know--At the rate of Bity tons, an arre. The ous consequences during the war. But ledge is decisive. As an illustration. I output of my air-fed potatoes is at the the question is whether it is now a great

Russia, and her apprehension stated rod, as reflecting Swedish hundred those principles within Sweden, while in in the early part of the year I prepared

by the Allied Powers, and tenni, so that the atmosphere is the

When Sweden settled COW after the upheaval of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, she adopted funda- mental laws, based on the ideas of liberty and democracy, which won through in the Franch Revolution: One of them was

Press law separate

giving extensive liberty to the Pres, and guarding that liber against interference from any quarter with extraordinary constitutional guarantees. An alteration of that law is усту

difficult to feet; it can only be done if a decision by the Parliament to that effect is confirmed by a succeeding new Parliament after a general section This is the main reason why it has been found impossible or impracticable to introduce any Press censorship in Sweden

Another effect of that more than a

1 given to dangerous abuse.

me to deal with here from a spurious publican(" The Insurance company, and they had just

source of plant food. With this in mind a bed of soil of very ordinary quality,

CLEAR SKINA.

during the war, however desirable that thing to have been able to maintain thision a significant incident. The rate of sixty-five tons an acre. For five might have been as a temporary measure. freedom intact, in spite of the shelter it who is now visiting England. told me ever, so that the test was a severe one. of a leading Swedish newspaper, years previously the plot had no organic

or inorganic manure or fertiliser what One of the regrettable results of the attacks against the British Minister with a German couple in the train from

that on his way bore he travelled absence of censorship has been that a few

together The soil was fed with air and rain water organs of the Press, for different reasons, nt Stockholm, already mentioned, came Stockholm to Christiania. The man wat

only. which space forbids

little prominent director of a big German importance of nitric acid brought down Mr. Sampson Morgan states that the Fave all through the war attacked the weekly gutter paper Allies, and particularly England very Mirror ), which liver on scandal, and to come from Germany. often using abusive language, and all which no serious person pays any atten. Inment the hostility against Germany earth has never yet been fully recognised Both began to to the soil by rain and absorbed by the along discriminating against the Entente tion, temporary publication of that which, to their great and painful surprise, by scientists, and that the thorough nera in a most partial manner. Some of the kind does not belong to the Swedish Press "they had met with, even in Swedeng tion of the soil is totally neglected in papers have been led in these campaigns in the ordinary sense; it has repeatedly How is it that we seem to be hated present-day farming. If the soil is in by a class of anti-British maniacs, and been convicted, and the judicial authori, everywhere?" they asked. And then they a perfect state of receptivity ample quan- the unfortunate thing is that these so-call- ties are certainly not inclined to deal stated, as an example, that one ing tities of nitrogen will be forthcoming ed pro-German papers have been quoted leniently with it whenever they have they had been dining at the well from the air alone. He affore conting abroad as expressing Swedish sentiment power. Every Swedish journalist would garden-restaurant Hass backen, in Stock time from alty to 100 tons of potatoes to an extent out of all proportion to their decline to have anything to do with a holm, in the summer, the resort of tout and from Bfty to 100 bushels of wheat real influence. Thus the public in Allied paper of that kind. The Swedish Press le monde. When the music played The can be obtained by his method from an

Marseillaise the public rose and joined acre of soil. tion of Swedish opinion.

Through my clean culture," he adds, King" was played But when Die with very few exceptions, remained sit of tests with three different products this was given the public sary and a soil poisoner." The evidence sing. To the German people; an abyss season has satisfied him that farm plants. opened at this manifestation of sentiment and soils can acquire nitrogen from the from a public of which, something quite ir direct in sufficient quantity to mature different had been expected...

perfect crops.

reflec-

countries finally has come to believe that is a whole gives quite & The effects of in; so they also Aid when " God Save the prove that stable manure is unneces they represent a considerable body of Swedish opinion. Much less attention the initial whirlwind of German pro Wacht am Rhein bas in Allied countries been, given to the Far larger part of the Swedish Press which has been guided by a sincere desire to support the loyal neutrality of the State, and to show strict impartiality towards the belligerents.

FOR

pagandabination of despotic Russia with free England and France, have faded out long ago. Gradually, as the war develop ed, the fundamental matters at issue emerged from the fog of mis-statements,

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