Stockholm, Feb, 29.
ERMAN submarines, according to reliable reports, have been ordered to sink any steamer navigating between two neutral ports if she possesses a navicert' from the British authorities, the "Göteborgs Handelstidningen," organ of Swedish maritime interests, announced today. The paper pointed out that an agreement signed last autumn between Germany and Sweden admitted as legitimate all commercial exchanges of the neutrals which correspond to their vital interests, The German Government, the paper added, has given up this clause, and Sweden should feel herself free to refrain from fulfilling the other stipulations of the agreement,—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.