Berne, Jan. 13.
A storm of indignation has been aroused in Switzerland by a sugges tion printed in the German newspaper "Reich," under the signature of the Swiss author Jakob Schaffner, Who fives in Germany, advocating Switzerland's abandonment "of her neutrality and her attachment to Germany.
'The Swiss newspaper "Nationatzeltung' at Basle, order," writes; hhaps think thus In order to throw into the balance her Inst reserves in this war, but we Swise will remain faithful to our Federal idea, to the conception of equal and free states, and {0 conciliation and reconciliation, which must again unite after the war resent enemies."
The President of the Swiss thors Association, M. Felix Mooschlin, "rejecting Schafiner's " proposal, emphatically urged Schaffner to declare himself openly either for Swit= zetland or Germany.—Reuter, Swedish' Freighter Sunk Stockholm, Jan. 12.
'The Swedish freighter Mangen has been sunk by' an unidentified submarine, it was officially announced The freighter was one of a convoy of merchant vessels on their way from Cardiff to Lisbon.—Havas.
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