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At the same time it was stipu-
lated that no augmentation of prices
would be allowed without a special
permit from the competent public
authorities.
When the Storting meets the Go-
vernment will propose the creation
of a new department, popularly
called the crisis-department. The
new ministry will have four of-
fices: one in charge of rationing, one
in charge of provisioning, one in
charge of what is called exchange
of goods, mainly between the
Northern countries, and one in
charge of shipping.
A partial mobilisation of army,
navy and air-forces was decreed on
the lst of September, and at the out-
break of war between Germany
and England and France the neces-
sary forces for the protection of
Norwegian neutrality were detailed
on land and sea along the coast and
in the air.
At the same time it was made
known that gasoline would no
longer be sold to private indi-
viduals, and that taxies, motor-lor-
ries, busses and motorboats would
only be allowed to take out 40 per-
cent. of their usual consumption.
The airlines have been stopped,
partly owing to a general shortage
of gasoline, partly because a great
number of aviators are mobilized
for military service.
On September 4th, von Hassel,
formerly German Ambassador to
the Quirinal, accompanied by the
German Minister to Norway, Dr.
Sahm, had a conversation with
Prime Minister Nygaardsvold in
the presence of Dr. Koht, the Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs.
Mr. von Hassel expressed the
wish of the German Government
to maintain as far as possible the
normal trade- and commercial in-
tercourse with Norway in spite of
the war that has broken out, m
order to continue the exchange of
goods to the same extent and on
the same base as hitherto, and that
possible difficulties might be solved
by way of friendly negotiation.
The Prime Minister answered
that the Norwegian Government
had the same wish in full harmony
with the strict neutrality pro-
claimed.
C. /. Hambro.
L’union entre U
Norvege et /<*
Suede qui avait
subsisté depuis
1814 a été dis-
soute en 1905 de
fafon pacifique-
II y a 25 ans, il
fut érigé a Eda, sur la frontiére
suédo-norvégienne, un monument
commémoratif de cet événement-
Lors d’une assemblée nordique qul
eut lieu, le 12 aout, devant ce monu-
ment, les ministres des affaires étran-
géres suédois et norvégien ont pr°'
noncé des discours dans lesquels ih