Daily Mail 29 June 1905 page 5
We are authorised to state that Count Lonyay, husband of the ex-Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria, has not been offered the Crown of Norway.
STOCKHOLM, Wednesday, June 28
In the Second Chamber of the Riksdag to-day, two members proposed that the Riksdag should reject the royal proposal as embodied in the Bill empowering the Government to enter into negotiations with Norway, and refuse to aknowledge the illegal resolution of the Norwegian Storthing, and that a credit of five and a third millions sterling be voted to enable the Riksdag to make good the position which it ought to take up regarding the Storthing’s resolution dissolving the Union, should it be attempted to carry that resolution into effect by force. - Reuter
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CHRISTIANIA, Tuesday, July 25
The contents of the report of the Swedish Parliament’s Special Commission to inquire into the question of the dissolution of the union became known to-day.
The Commission unanimously rejects the royal proposition to authorise King Oscar to negotiate with the Storthing as by Norway’s secession, and demands, before any negotiations with Norway, an appeal to the people by a so-called referendum. If the Norwegian people uphold the Storthing’s resolution and request the dissolution of the union, the Commission then recommends the opening of negotiations on the basis of certain specified conditions.
These conditions are in the main acceptable, and only the demand for the demolition of two of the frontier forts is considered to entail difficulties.
The Commission’s proposal to place £5,550,000 at the Government’s disposal will undboubtedly be adopted by the Riksdag on Saturday.
The Swedish Cabinet resigned to-day, and the situation is considered serious.
Must depends on the formation of the new Swedish Cabinet and on the finding of a form of resolution which will not violate Norway’s sovereignty and right of free action and does not disregard the Storthing’s resolution of June dissolving the union.
Oppdatert 24.08.04
Wigo H. Skråmm, Fetsund - Nils
Steinar Våge, Lillestrøm