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Show PROBES CENSORSHIP Canont Understand Why American Government Maintains Supervision NhW YORK Aug Count Jo hann von Bernsto ff the erman cm basgador who a ed tie ye!terlay froir Europe a 1 to la he plannel to rema n n Vew York unt 1 Th rsday before proceed ng to Wash ngton The embassador decia ed he wantel to i,et first hand nformat on concern ng the ensorsh p th Un ted states go em n ent s exerc s ng ovtr the German owned w reless stat on at bavin le N and ts refusal to grant the one at Tuckerton Is J a 1 cense lie po ntol out that with the cables to Engl uncensored the representa ves of Great Br ta n n th s country were at 1 berty to forward to their gov ernment nformat on concern ng the movements of German warsh ps or any other mformat on that n ght be deemed adv sable Count von Bernstorff Baid he had formed no op n on vet upon the subiect and wanted to be rully in for ed before even ontemplat ng tak ng up the censorsh p quest on w th the state department at Wash ngton The attent on of the embassador was called to the- publ shed staten ents em anat ng fron Belg an sources that Ger man sold ers had been us ng bumduni or expand ng bullets I refra ned from d scuss ng tho so called ases of cruelt es upon ny ar r val 3esterda he sad fo the reason that I d d not care to be an in strument n creat n" of any II feel ng 6 nee howe er the Belg an government has seen tit to have p bl shed add tional accusations I cannot help say ng that offic al reports fro n L ege to Berlin n for ned us that c 1 ans there had fired at German troops from w ndows and had shot at -doctors and nurses wear ng Red- Cross arm bands and unler the Bed Cross fla Furthermore the, c t zens mut la ted wounded Cerman sol d ers Count von Bernstorff sa d he bel eved there were about twelve German army corps and e ght Austr an army corps along the V stula r ver Germany s first 1 ne of defense aga nst Russ a There are about 800 000 men in these orps The embassador sa d he w shed to re terate for the benefit of the people of the United States that Germany was not to blame for going to war As a matter of fact he said the German govetnment told Austr a to go as easy as she could w th Serv a and that in the meanwhile Germany would try to see what she could do toward qu et ng Euss a Wh le these peace ne gotiations were n progress Buss a mob llized her army What r ght had Buss a to stand up for Serv at The reason she has done so is that she seeks the destruct 6n of Austr a Eevery n an n Germany feels the same as I do about th s matter The att tude of the Soc al sts proves th s and the truth s bound to come out in time The reason the Engl sh went to such lengths to cut the cables between Amer ca and Germany was that they d d not want the truth to be known ' |