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Show OFFENSIVE ATTACHES, j The canard that Count von fierntorfT would demand an apology from the United States because Captain Hoy Ld ' name had been mentioned so frequently in eon nei'tion with the ( ; crma ri bomb I plots is def i ni t p d imposed of by t ho new;! that Secret a ry La using has re qnr-tf'd the government at, Berlin to recall re-call liov Kd and ' uptain von Papon as no longer acceptable to this count ry. The testimony at the trial of Doctor R u en 7, and his confederate made it perfectly dear (hat npfain Hny-Kd was one of the eons pi rat ors who had I a id'-d and a beM o, the ex pend i t nre of more than a million dollars to supply lib-rman warships from our shores, The j I evidence a ga i ret, Vnn Pa pen is per ha ps equally as strong, but. his operations have not, been revealed to the public with such ci i en mst a n t.ia lity as have t lue-e of J '.oy !vl. 'I' be conviction of the eonspi rat ors who work c I under cover of A merica n nent ralit y to keep t be (ieruian raiderw upon the high wah and thu enabled them to capture and destroy fnanv ad .lit if ma I French and Kni.didi h i hat given on r gov it n men I its op port mi i t. y tu d em a ml the i erall of t be two at tadiM'-H. Marl Doctor Huen, and his as nociates been nc-pjiltcd the government would not have been in such a good po Dillon, for then it would have been con I ended t hat I'.nv Kd bad done nothing itei:;,l, even if l,e bad helped the fir-, fir-, i: t-, i a t heir opera t ions. 'I' be re i- fin t her reason f'-r sat i far I i,, i,', I he eon', irt ion of the concur a tors. While then- proliMl.lv in im sentiment senti-ment ninoim Americans for severe pun-i.-lunent, they will feel Mint the atmos-phern atmos-phern has I --n cl.-nre.l and that til" worlil in Kcni-ral and (e-rniany and Austria Aus-tria in particular will lie eiven a bettor un'lerstnieliui; of which side lins niado a practice of v iil:i t i n jf nur nnutrnlity. Tlie chief orfons.'S of this kind have been committed hv (ierninns nnd Aus-trians Aus-trians Mini th"ir hirelings. Hut nil of the violal'inni hne not boon on the (ier-mnu (ier-mnu side. II will be remembered thjit an Knldisli re.resi..ilnt ive In Sim I'm ti -cis'Ti was fined for hi:i Hhari- In securing secur-ing recruits for the lirili-.h iirmv. The (lerninn oulcry ncninst the sale of amniitliition to the nllies should lie Bomewlint tempered bv Ihe Knowledge Unit sevenil million d.. nrs hnvo been expended in this on ii t r v I'V lienniinv nnd Austria In enrrv on operations which were direct violations of law. The sale of ammunition, ammuni-tion, on the other hand, is perfectly Ices Ic-es I. The eovcrnmcut is now eneaecd iu tracking down and arresting those who have been responsible for the dynamit ini; nf ammunition factories, ships car-rvinir car-rvinir liniinunition and docks on which ammunition was stored. Xot all of the explosions in ammunition factories can I he laid at Ihe door of the Cerninn and I Austrian conspirators, but (here is lit He doubt that much of the destruction has been due to them, and it should not Im foreottcn that in some instances the destruction was atlended by loss ol life. |