Show MORE QUIET IN TONE German Press Not so Rabid Regard ing Seizures of Ships Berlin Jan ISThe German press adopts a more quiet tone regarding seizures of German vessels by British warships printing with satisfaction extracts of a similar tenor from London Lon-don papers Owing to the prospect of a speed settlement satisfactory to Germany tomorrows Interpellation is expected to be calm and nonsensa tional The Berliner Tageblatt Is informed from St Petersburg that Russian statesmen ore trying to get the support sup-port oC the French Cabinet for calling an international congress to revise contraband maritime law and to classify the idea The owners of the Hans Wagner which was stopped In South African waters on December 19lh by the British gunboat Fearless and ordered to go to Port Elizabeth to unload were informed In-formed that the bark would be released as soon as the search of her cargo had been completed assuming that no contraband con-traband WIt found The papers print a Lisbon dispatch announcing that many Portuguese ships have revoked contracts by the German East African line owing to the seizures They point out that the effect of this is to favor the competing French lested line which has not been mo |