Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-23 | Page 4 | Way Found for Germans to Get out of China

If FOUND FOR SHE TO CET OUT JF Clllll Diplomatic and Consular Officials and Legation Guards to Be Sent Back Through the U. S. WASIIIXfiTGX, March 2. China is arranin to send the dismissed German diplomatic and oonsular officials in that country back to Germany by way of tho United States and has secured the consent of the state department to their passage across the continent under safe conduct. Details of the plan are not known here, but it is assumed the allies are to give tho eamo guarantees for the trip across the Pacific and the Atlantic as were given tho United States in the case of Count von Bernstorff and his suite. The arrangement offers a solution to a problem which it was thought at the time of China's severance of relations with tho Berlin government might present pre-sent unusual difficulties. The only neutral neu-tral ground where tho German officials might have gone overland is Siam. So far, it is understood, no safe conducts actuallv have been issued, but formal action ac-tion both by tho United States and the allies is expected shortly. 200 Persons in Party. About 200 persons are to be in the party, including nobody of German sol-diors sol-diors who have acted as a legation guard at Peking. Tho departure of this force is ex-i ex-i pected to remove a source of considerable consider-able irritation in Peking's legation ?uarter, where the proximity of armed orces of the belligerents has led to more than one unpleasant incident. Since tho break between the United States and Germany, American and German troops have come to blows once, and the Germans have had many quarrels quar-rels with tho French and British troops stationed a stone's throw distant. The former German minister at Peking has a suite of about forty, who are ready to leave at once, while forty consuls are. scattered about China. The party will gather in Peking, take passage pas-sage at Tien-Tsin on a Dutch vessel which, it is thought, has been chartered for the purpose, and land in San Francisco Fran-cisco or Seattle. From New York they will take passage on a Scandinavian steamer over tho route traveled by Count von Bernstorff. Way Out for Zitelman. Incidentally, this will afford a way home for the former German consul at Manila. Zitelman, who has been traveling travel-ing the seas for weeks without being able to' find a refuge. Dismissed from the Philippines, he was refused safe conduct in Japan for China, was brought back to Hawaii transshipped to a vessel sailing to China direct, and arrived there only to learn that relations had been broken and he could not land. Besides expelling the German officials offi-cials China has seized all German shipping ship-ping in Chinese ports and taken over the German concessions at Hankow and Tien-Tsin. . 1 Berlin in Ignorance. BERLIN, March 22, 12 m., via London, Lon-don, 9:20 p. m. The German government, govern-ment, as well as the Chinese legation here, has tried in vain o learn the truth of reports received in Berlin that China has broken off relations with Germany. Ger-many. Thus far no news has arrived except press dispatches, notwithstanding repeated requests for information. The Chinese" legation expresses the belief be-lief that official dispatches sent by way of Russia may have been held up in that country as a result of the revolution.