Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-22 | Page 4 | Americans Leave German Territory

Ill II Official Denies Citizens of United States Were Detained. BERLIN". Feb. 20. by wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. Feb. 21. "All these reports about American consuls and consular officers detained by force in Germany are malicious ma-licious inventions, just as were so many other reports we have had during the last few weeks," said a German official to a staff member of the Overseas News agency today. Zl'KICH, via Paris. Feb. 21. 4:40 a. m. A score of United States consuls and ?ov-. ?ov-. eminent agents, with their families, reached Zurich last night after having awaited a week for permission to leave Germany. The arrivals consisted of forty-six persons who had gradually assembled as-sembled in Munich, from which town they departed yesterday morning after the bulk of their baggage and papers had been examined. The party arrived in two sections, the first warmly praising their treatment by the Germans and the second containing members who complained bitterly over the enforced delay in their departure and also of having had to leave behind them papers which the German authorities desired de-sired to submit -to a more rigid censorship. censor-ship. The majority of the travelers, however, how-ever, reported that they had received studiously courteous treatment and declared de-clared that the stringent regulations enforced en-forced were nothing more than what was to be expected. The majority of the consuls who arrived ar-rived here will go to Berne tomorrow or soon thereafter to await instructions from Washington. WASHINGTON". Feb. 21. Germany is Informing the United States, through the S'V'fs government, that it will give every ass'stanee possible to American consuls in Germany transferred to other points. At the same time Germany is understood to expect that the United States will help German consuls in the United Stntes to proceed to new posts to which thev have been assigned. Some time ago a number of German consuls in the United States were instructed in-structed to proceed to points in- South and Central America. Whether the German Ger-man expectations refer to them is unknown un-known here, the British and French s?ov-ernments s?ov-ernments having indicated that German of cials in the L'nited States would be permitted to go only to Germany.