Reuters' Christiania correspondent says the Storthing has conferred the Nobel Peace Prize on President Roosevelt.

"The Prize was received by Mr. Peirce, the American Minister, in the Storthing, at half-past one this afternoon. The members of the Nobel Prize Committee were seated in front of Ministers. At the invitations of the President of the Storthing and the President of the Prize Committee, Mr Lövland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that the Peace Prize had been awarded to President Roosevelt, who had authorised the American Minister to receive it.

"The President of the Storthing, M. Gunnar Knudsen, in a short speech, recalled the fact that the Norwegian Storthing was the first national assembly to adopt the cause of peace, which was now no longer a Utopia. It was 12 or 15 years ago that the leading statesmen of the world and even the chiefs of States had taken up the cause. The United States had entered the front rank among the advocates of peace, and what had especially awakened the attention of the world was the work of President Roosevelt in ending the bloody war between Russia and Japan.

"In handing the prize to the American Minister, the President asked him to take Mr. Roosevelt a greeting from the Norwegian people, and expressed the wish that Mr. Roosevelt might be able to do further work for the cause of peace in the future.

"Mr. Peirce, in thanking the Storthing for the award, said that any words of his were inadequate to express his deep emotion in receiving this distinguished testimony on behalf of President Roosevelt. He then read a message from President Roosevelt expressing deep thanks for the prize, and declaring that there was no gift he could appreciate more. The President adds that he has decided to use the prize to establish at Washington a permanent Industrial Peace Committee, a righteous peace in the industrial world being as important as in the world of nations."

Distribution of Nobel Prizes

The formal distribution of the Nobel Prizes took place yesterday evening at Stockholm. Each prize this year amounts to £7,650. Professor Thomson's prize was awarded to him for his researches, extending over many years, into electrical matters, and Professor Moissan's for his experiments in the isolation of fluorine, his researches regarding the nature of that element, and for the application of the electric furnace to the services of science. Professors Ramon y Cajal and Golgi are bracketed for the medicine prize on account of their works dealing with the anatomy of the nervous system.