7 MARCH 1914, Page 1
The Swedish Rikedag was dissolved on Thursday by King Oscar,
who explained that his anxiety for the defenses of the country compelled him to afford the people an opportunity of expressing their opinion by means of fresh elections to the Second Chamber. He added that an extension of the monarchical power was, and always would be, distasteful to him, and that he conceived himself to be merely acting in con- formity with his device " With the People : For the Father- land."
