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Show AMBASSADOR GERARD DETHireay kaiser Sends Sensational Dispatches Dis-patches to Minister Egan Regarding Action. By International News Service. XEW YORK, Feb. 8. The New York Times in a late edition today prints the following special eablo: COPENHAGEN, Feb. 7. I am authorized au-thorized by the American legation to say that Minister Egan today received I several sensational dispatches from Ambassador Am-bassador Gerard. The latter telegraphs that the German authorities will not permit Americans to leave Germany at present. He says that he, his staff and all consular officers will be detained until un-til the fate of Count Von Bernstorff and the crews of German ships interned in America has been ascertained. The German authorities are denying Mr. Gerard the right to telegraph in code. All correspondence with the Copenhagen legation is now in plain English. Ambassador Gerard advised Minister Egan that the sailors captured on the Varrowclale will be detained on the same grounds as the other Americans. |