THE AMERIC AN-SC AN DIN AVI AN REVIEW 
773 
Norway 
€JA commercial treaty between Norway and Spain was signed at 
Madrid October 7 by the representatives of the two governments. The 
tariff war has thus come to an end, the two states agreeing to treat each 
other as most favored nations. The Norwegian government under¬ 
takes to import yearly half a million litres heavy Spanish wine contain¬ 
ing more than 14 percent alcohol. €|A terrible flying accident oc¬ 
curred on September 30 at Kjeller aerodrome near Kristiania, a 
machine with two military aviators falling down from a height of a 
hundred metres owing to motor trouble. The machine was smashed 
and the two aviators, lieutenants Seippel and Crawfurd-Jensen, were 
killed instantly. They were both young men in their twenties. CJ At 
the initiative of King Haakon and Queen Maud, four movable 
lazarets have been bought by national subscription for use in the north¬ 
ern parts of Norway. The lazarets were handed over to the Nor¬ 
wegian Red Cross by the king at an informal gathering at the royal 
palace. His Majesty in a speech expressed his gratitude for the splen¬ 
did response which the people have given to his appeal. €][ At a meet¬ 
ing at Kristiania, October 3, of labor leaders representing all trade 
unions of Norway, it was by 62 to 15 votes decided to withdraw from 
the trade union international at Amsterdam. The question of adher¬ 
ence to the trade union international at Moscow will be decided by the 
labor congress at Kristiania next year. CJ The bolshevist sympathies 
of the leaders are not shared by the rank and file of the workers who 
are showing their dissatisfaction by leaving the trade unions and the 
communist labor party in thousands. The decline in membership is 
simply catastrophic. The total number of trade union members, which 
was 142,642 in January, 1921, had been reduced to 95,950 in January, 
1922, a decrease of 32 percent. In the same year the communist labor 
party lost 40 percent of its members. Norwegian journalism has 
suffered a great loss by the simultaneous death at a comparatively 
young age of two well known Kristiania editors, Ola Christofersen 
and Ove Mossin. Mr. Christofersen was for many years chief editor 
of Aftenjiosten and played a leading role in several press societies. 
Mr. Mossin made his mark as a brilliant political causeur in the radical 
press and as founder and editor of a successful comic paper Karrika- 
turen. He was for some years president of the Journalists’ Club 
at Kristiania and vice-president of the Norwegian Press Associa¬ 
tion. The Norwegian Spitsbergen expedition under the leadership 
of Dr. Adolf Hoel returned to Kristiania in the beginning of October. 
The chief result of the expedition is the discovery of some very rich 
coal mines near Advent Bay. The radio station at “Rundemanden,” 
Bergen, has begun a new activity in forwarding messages to ships 
at sea. This will be a great boon to the fishing fleet. 
