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Show GEEWUW CHARGES 00 ' HOT Iff GERARD Former Ambassador's British Brit-ish Employees Authorized by Berlin Authorities. MADRID, Feb. 22, via Paris, Feb. 2", 12:. jo a.'m. James W. Gerard, former for-mer American ambassador to Germany, j showed no concern to-lay over Herlin i dispatches saying that the German au- thoritics asserted that the American j embassy staff iu Berlin included Eng- lish employees who gave military secrets se-crets to the entente powers. t appears that there never was any doubt auout one English employee and several English girl typists at the embassy, em-bassy, the German foreign office having hav-ing authorized tlieir employment in each case. Owing to the German policy of keeping military in form at ion from reaching the American embassy, it is not understood by the staff of the embassy em-bassy what possible military secrets could have reached the entente. Jn American circles there is rather an inclinat ion to consider that th is may be paving the -wav for a request by the German authorities to examine the American archives left in Berlin. But any such move will bring surprise to lihe Germans, as the big safe at the embassy would be found to contain not a single di pi o ma tic doounien t dated since the beginning of the war, as all such documents were destroyed as soon as relations between the Vnited States and Germany were severed. Xo dispatches containing charges concerning English om ployees of the American embassy in Berlin have been received in this country from Berlin. |