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Show GERMANS MAKE NO DISTINCTION IN THE BARRED ZONE BERLIN, Thursday, March 22, by wireless to the Associated Press via Tuekerton, N. J., March 24. Negotiations Negotia-tions for the release of fifteen Belgian relief steamers now at English ports have failed, but a new effort may be made, according to the German naval authorities. au-thorities. "It is not our fault that the negotai-tions negotai-tions have failed," said a representative of the admiralty today. "We are willing will-ing to provide safe conduct for these ships to Rotterdam, but we must have the names of the ports to which they are bound and the routes; otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to safeguard safe-guard them in the war zone. The British refuse this, such refusal being merely a cloak to the British plan to confiscate the ships, with their seventy or eighty thousand tons of grain. Then they try to put the blame on us if the Belgians starve I "As to the three relief ships lost, the Storstad waa sunk by a submarine within with-in the forbidden zone. We can and will make no distinction within that zone. The Lars Fastenaes and the Tars Kruse must laave been sunk bv a mine. They were not sunk by a submarine." |