Sid. 8.
THE SWEDISH PRESS
Torsdagen den 6 februari 1941,
.SWEDEN HAS HELPED —
Continued from page one.
■	। tute Norwegian refugees, and 3 । z—w •	e C 9	1 t	K	11
m <>..« a. S ki p per of freig liter Stureholm
! mencan and one Swedish, of to-	* *	&
RYSSARNA FINGC 247
against a German pocket battle-
ship a few weeks ego. i, piclured' FARTYG VID FREDSSLUTET.
pacity of at least 12,000 persons; 2 200 live pigs! 2.000 sewing machines; 3.000 bicycles; other implements, machinery, fertilizers and seed; 1.200.000 kilograms of butter (2.600.000 Ibs.), and right now there is a drive on for 500.000 kilograms of sugar.
And the Finnish people have in an unmistakable way shown their gratitude for the aid, and the happiness over the harmony which exists between the two coun ■tries.
in an artide on the editorial page of the Washington Times Herald of Jan. 12, Mr. Frank C. Waldrop writes: “Sweden has probably received more criticism than any other nation except Ger-many, Italy, Russia and Japan, fcut her help to Finland has been a hundred times greater than that of the United States, in paopor-tion to her resources."
THE HELP TO NORWAY.
gether 300 beds, were sent to ' Norway. Medical supplies to the value of 200.000 crowns were put at the disposal of the Norwegian Government. 130 tons of food-stuffs and 122 tons of clothing were sent over. Since then 630 timber houses have been donated and six children s homes have been estabiished, for which the buildings of the ready-to-assemble type have been sent from Sweden. This gift includes equipment, wa-ges for trained personnel and maintenance cost for one and a half years. These are placed one in each in the towns of Steinkjer, Namsos, Bodö and Narvik, while Kristiansund has received two of them. In all, the Swedish aid given to Norway so far is estimated to have had a value of about 5.000.000 crowns ($1.250.000).
Fran beredskaps-Sverige.
That the sudden invasion of ,	— Sergeant Andersson, jag
Norway put her in a very differ- trivs inte i dom här byxorna.
position from that of Finland — Jag kan inte se något fel på as obvious to anyone. The chief dom!
reasons for the Swedish assistance — Nej — men si dom skaver
<o Norway not having taken on mej i armhålorna . . .
-anything like the proportions of the help given to Finland natural- : ly is that Norway is under the do- I
amination of another power while fmland is a free and independent country. The problems of Norway should rightly be the wor-ries of the wolf who swallowed ker up. But true to his creed he has naturally drained the country of the greater part of its resources And food supplies, leaving the population starving and impover-ished and then making them pay for “protection.”
Sweden has,, however, to allevi-Ate hardships and suffering among this people of their closest i lin, given a very considerable ' amount of humanitarian help. A few days after the invasion the .Swedish Government granted free passage on its railways to desti- ।
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describes rescue of Jervis Bay
te'ling a cousin G. L. M.
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Statistik har nu uppgjorts över
survwors
(From the Montreal Star)
l which rescued 68 members of the ' •"	“*	• n ” sunfc
Capt Sven Olander, skipper of crew of the “Jervis Bay," sunk the Swedish freighter "Stureholm" j while defending a British convoy
battle ocurred. The Swedish skip- I Jarty8> som vid fredsslutet lå-per was loud in his praises of the : å de av ryssarna övertagna om-
bravery of the crew of the “Jervis Bay". He is not very wiliing to tell of his own bravery when he went back to rescue the men from the British ship.
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Sivedish Hero Praises British Gallantry
Capt. Sven Olander makes cf own courage during i aid on convoy.
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His cheeks are red, his eye is | clear and there is courage in his 1 heart. He is Capt. Sven D. Olander, commander of the Swedish ; freighter "Stureholm”, which a few weeks ago braved the deva-| stating fire of a German pocket I battleship to rescue 68 heroes of the “Jervis Bay", British armed 1 cruiser, sunk in the battle.
ISeated in the comfortable of-fice of a cousin. G. L. M. Hellström, high up in the Sun Life Building, Capt. Olander talked of the bravery of the men of the "Jervis Bay"- He said words fail-ed him when it came to describ-ing how proud he was to know ’ such men.
STIRRING STORY.
It was a stirring story that j welbbuilt captain told as he
the de-
scribed the fight which the "Jervis i Bay put up in order that the | ships in the convoy might escape.
Capt. Olander told of leaving ; an Eastern Canadian port in con-i voy with a number of other ships 1 and how one afternoon at 5.50 o clock — he sighted the German ' raider. “It was terribly rough. We had lost all our lifeboats but one. I saw that German and took a
i look over at the
bay’
which was nearby. She had sighted the raider too and was turning fast. In a few minutes she had - smoke just pouring from her fun-i nel and was headed straight for I the Nazi.”
I The skipper described how the । orders had come from the officer । in charge of the convoy to change their positions. “Then the raider started to fire at us. He was about I 2 miles away at the time. When that first shell exploded over our heads. it was so close that the wind banged close all the doors and i got my finger caught." He held up his right hand, showing the blackened nail on his middle finger.
“JERVIS BAY” HIT
"That German was not very far off with the first shot. His second was even closer and h:s third landed right on the “Jervis Bay. But she never stopped. Across that terrible sea she went at full speed. It was certain those aboard could never come out of it alive and the men must have known that but kept on going.
"The order for the convoy to-break up saw ships going south. east and west, but we decided to stav around.
"What did your crew say? the reporter questioned.
"1 called them together and told them of the fight the British were putting up so that the convoy
cou’d escape. That "Jervis Bay" CAF i AIN DLANDEi
held off the German for two hours. My men knew the British
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re eller mindre fartyg på 24,054 bruttoton. Av dessa voro 1 8 ångfartyg. 5 segelfartyg och 91 pråmar. Troligen ha dessutom 128 pråmar förlorats, om vilka ännu ingen anmälan gjorts.
KULTURUTBYTET MED RYSSLAND.
Den kommitté som i augusti senaste ar tillsattes för att uppgöra förslag till kulturellt utbyte mellan Finland och Ryssland har nu inlämnat sitt betänkande. I detsamma fästes först uppmärksamheten vid ett ökande av kunskapen i ryska språket i Finland och föreslås vissa praktiska åtgärder härför. Vidare föreslås utbyte på konstnärliga och vetenskapliga om råden ävensom i fråga om det sociala arbetet.
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of the law, commanded the stri-kers to return to work. They re-' fused, unless the previous wage scale was restored. Then came the , climax. The national government stepped into the controversy and sided with the employers. Additional soldiers were rushed to the scene and surrounded the unarm-ed workers. Six warships anchored in the harbor, with guns trained on the strikers’ camp.
The governor — a tool in the hands of the mill owners — read writs of ejeetment, whereby the strikers were stopped from retur-ning to the barracks. They were homeless and helpless. Physical re-
Stockho m:— Sweden s Ships" । sistance was unthinkable. Seven and admired their bravery so they Officers Society at a meeting re-	laBor leaders were arrested
.„.ik	.k-»	.k~..U cert|y paij tr;oute to the master and sent to prison for mutinous
of the “Stureholm" of Gothen- i conduct; 36 were held as vagrants
agreed with me that we should
stay and help rescue the survivors."
About 7 o clock Capt. Olander swung his ship around and headed for the now rapidly sinkmg "Jervis Bay" five miles away.
"When we reached her it was dark and we had a bard time finding the men we did. One Canadian we picked up was a funny fellow. There he was in the mid-d e of the Atlantic standing on a piece of wood about two feet wide and four feet long. riding it like a surf board and singing away at the top of his voice. He was a brave fellow. that.
"Altogether we picked up four rafts and one boat- But it was 5 o clock in the moining before we picked up the last of the men.
Then came the story of the long journey back to Canada and safety, with three of the men dying and being bur:ed at sea. wrapped in Swedish and Canadian flags. Capt. Olander read the service and saw to it that these heroes had a proper burial.
There were so many men on his ship as it made its way west that s’eeping was carried out in three shifts, beds were always filled.
As the “Stureholm” made its way slowly to Canada, over the lone radio of the ship came a newscast from Germany telling of the “sinking of their ship. Capt. Olander smiled, "we knew that was not true,” and then he burst into laughter.
The "Jervis Bay" exploit is not the first time Capt. Olander has
burg, Captain Olander,
galiant rescue he and his crew performed in saving the survivors of the British Auxiliary Cruiser,
for the an^ the remainder were escorted by the military back to the milis
Jervis Bay." “With pride," the resolution, “w.ll Swedish men remember this deed of fe.lowship of the sea."
says sea-true
to work under compulsion, on the masters" terms-
Palm Became Emancipator-
Thus, in the spring of 1879, the Swedish workingman had no
right to strike for better condi-
and he was considered a
VANCOUVER JRDVINCE: mere
Take for instance Captain Fo-garty Fegen ( posthumous y V.C.) galiant Irish commander of the auxiliary armed British cruiser,
chattel, by the
law.
The millhands had their resentment and time. An emancipator
capitalists’
to swallow bide their wos need-
tangled with the ing the last war officer on a ship doed. It too was Britain.
Germans. Dur-he was second that was torpe-on its way to
On a recent visit to Montreal, the editor of the Swedish Press had the honor of meeting Capt. Olander during an evening at the Scandinavian Club together with Mr. Arne Rutquist of the Swedish American Line. Mr. Olander is a very interesting man. good-hu-mored and congenial- Of his deed he was not anxious to speak. But he did say that his crew thought he had suddenly gone mad, when he suggested turning back, but faithful men as they were. they
approved of the p an when they saw there might be a chance of
of some fellow
saving. the lives seamen. He also said that had it not been for the falling of dark-
ness, they would probably have suffered the fate of the “Jervis Bay”. also that the toll among the convoy might have been greater.
“Jervis Bay," that day last Nov-! ember when thirty-eight ships in convoy with him were faced with destruction by the g ins of a German pocket battleship on the Atlantic.
| Out-armed, out-ranged, out-speeded by the enemy, Fogarty Fegen turned his ship right into the mouths of the German guns, and charged to certain death and destruction because he knew it was his duty thus to do, in order to permit his charges a chance to escape. As result of his magnifi-cent performance only four of the thirty-eight ships of the convoy were lost, slaughter of Capt. Fogarty Fegen, his ship and his equ-ally galiant men having delayed the enemy sufficiently to permit the convoy to scatter.
And take also that magnificent Swede, Capt. Sven Olander. He and his ship, the "Stureholm", an old. slow freighter motorship, were in the convoy and fled to safety. But the "brotherhood of the sea, that glorious bond which ties all seafarers together, brought the Swedish ship back to the very scene of the batt e-
But the enemy had fled and Capt. Olander was able to carry ! out his intentions — rescue of the pitifully few members of the Jervis Bay who still remained alive.
ed, and he came in the person of August Palm, small of stature
and with a crippled right foot, but fired with a zeal that could not be subdued. Palm preached the gospel of the French revolution with its slogan: "Liberty, equality and fraternity." He also repeated the creed of John Hancock and the other American patriots who had declared to be se f-evident the truths that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain in-alienable rights, to life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I I m had very little book learn ing, but possessed the soul of a liberator, and the masses under-stood the meaning of his langu-age and decided thenceforth to act in unison for their econom c and social betterment.
(The next instalment will de-scribe t’ e s*art of the social de-mocratic movement in Sweder ard give due creJit to the early pathfinders, .who b-ilt so we'l for the future.)
And here are a couple of sen-tences from a recount of the battle and rescue. by Leading Seaman
lames Bay."
comes
H. Wood of the "Jervis
Somebody yelled: "Here a ship!" Those were the
sweetest words 1 ever heard. Straining our eyes through the pitch dark we could see a dim outline. It was a ship all r ght. It turned out to be a Swedish ship in our convoy who had turned back. We all started to cheer.
Don" t forget to award a prize to that Swedish skipper. He pick-
lasted until morning. Of the original 250, 65 of us were saved.
AND NOW THE “STUREHOLM” LOST?
A telegram from London Jan. 29 reports a radio broadcast from Stockholm on Tuesday as having said that the' Swedish vessels “Valparaiso and Stureholm were overdue and presumed lost.
ANOTHER SWEDISH
CAPTAIN GETS REWARD.
The Chamber of Commerce of Stockholm recently awarded the prize money for 1940 from the Emile Robins fund to Captain Ericsson, master of the Swedish Orient Line’s ship "Bardaland." who in October, 1939, saved 62
ed us up and without a doubt we
owe our lives to him. 1 don t ! »teamer.
men from a torpedoed British
think any one of us could have ■