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Show JAPANESE DRIVE OUT PEIClSTEllTOliS Activities m Sending Cop per to Geimany Given as Cause for Deportations AGENT DENIES CHARGE Japanese Papers Say Ger man Prisoners Are Too Well Treated bpeclal Cable to The Tribune TOKIO Dec 11 Japan s order of de portat on aga nst fi e German bus ness men of okohama wh ch has already been carr ed o t has brought into dis cuss on the ent ro quest on of the treat ment of Gern an civ 1 acs as well as German pr soners n Japan The author t es make no btaten ent n connect on w th the deportat on beyond the declaration that the nen were d s missed f ron the country because ot ton duct detr n ental to the interests of Japan and her allieB Japanese news papers however ope lv allege that four of the Germans namely those conne t ed w th the firm of Utto Ke mors & Lo vere d smissed because they sh jp d copper through neutral countr es ues tned for Germany borne ewsape s say they understood on good authorty that a Japanese opper m ne had actu ally been worked by the company und ts products forwarded to Germany through the Un ted States Much Testimony The deported Germans include Mar tin Por6 manager of Otto Beimers 4. Co II lokkes K. Fischer and C Heit mann The filth German d smissed was 31 1 Bengen manager of Bergmann & Co at okohama The in estigat ons of the pol ce ov ered several months and the evidence in each case s sa d to f 11 more than 000 wr tten pages The ncident s re garded as show n that the author t es are constantly exerc sing a str ct sur e 1 lance over the German civil ans esi dent in Japan The Japan Uazette publ shed at ok ohama, prints a copy of an aff davit which was sworn to by Martin Pors last July at the Amer can consulate at Yokohama The aff dav t declares that the copper bus ness transacted by the f rm of Otto Ee mors & Co in Japan d rect or through others in Japan s nee the outbreak of the war has not been done and is not done w th Germany nor with Germany as the ult mate des t nat on It continues by saying that all the copper shpped by the firm to New York is sold in Ne v York through its agent B P Earle an Amer can c tizen to various Amer can refining establ sh ments The aff dav t was sworn to be fore George H Scidmore who 6ub scr bed himself as consul general of the Ln ted States in charge of German in terests at Yokohama Guard Assaulted Several cases of outbreaks among the German pr soners of war have led the Japanese press to declare that the an thor t es are treating the pr soners too 1 berally The most recent trouble oc curred at the camp at Kurume when a Japanese guard is sa d to have been assaulted by a German prisoner afte he had warned the pr soner to be more careful about smoking and about throw ing live ashes on the floor The t declares that the author t es should eal w th Germany and ts people in a man ner different from that accorded to other nat ons It expresses the op nion that a sharp watch should be kept over the German res dents n Japan all of whom. t th nks should ha e been expellea from the country long ago |