Dispute on Mails Renewed

1916

Sharp Exchange of Notes by Sweden and Britain.

LONDON, England. — There has been a further and rather sharp exchange of notes between Great Britain and Sweden in regard to the difficulties brought about by the Entente allied blockade and Sweden's retaliatory seizure of mails in transit between England and Russia. No solution of the problem is in sight. The British foreign secretary, Viscount Grey, insists that as a condition to submitting the matter to arbitration Sweden must promise not to interfere again with English parcels post matter in transit across Sweden. The Swedish government apparently is determined not to make such an agreement.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 3.