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Show IEUI1S PURCHASED IIS IN U, S. Netherlands Minister Clears Up Allusion in the Von Igel Letters. By Internationa! News Service. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. A "misuse "mis-use of adjectives" in the official expose ex-pose of German intrigue as conlained in the Von Igel papers published on Sunday broiifiht the United States and Holland to the verge of a serious misunderstanding. mis-understanding. Chevalier Van Kap-pard, Kap-pard, Netherlands minister here, today to-day handed to Secretary of State Lansing Lan-sing a protest against the offensive statement and an explanation of the transaction referred to, which Mr. Lansing Lan-sing said was satisfactory. in the expose issued by the committee commit-tee on public information was printed a telegram to Wolf von Jgel from Couut Hatzfeldt, counsellor of the German embassy, em-bassy, in which he approved the ''sale'' of cases of cartridges and powder to the Holland commission. The commission commis-sion on information characterized this as showing a "suspicious" relationship between the Holland commission ana German diplomats. "Jt has long been an open secret," the committee said, "that Holland has been but a way station to Germany." To this Chevalier Van Eappard replied: re-plied: "The only inference in consistence with the wording of the telegram ap-I ap-I pears to be that Carl Heynan. treasure er of the American 'The Bridgeport Projectile company' has been authorized author-ized by the German embassy to sell to the purchasing agent of 'The Netherlands Nether-lands army department' certain amounts of ammunition. "There is no indication of and there never has been any relation whatever between the Dutch agent and any diplomatic official." Mr. Van Rappard then stated that as a matter of fact the proposed transaction transac-tion was never completed and the munitions mu-nitions never bought for the Dutch army. He says that the Bridgeport Projectile company sold much ammunition ammuni-tion to Germany in the first months of the war, which Germany bought to keep it from the allies. This ammunition was. as a matter of fact, the property of Germany and held for her' by the projectile company. It was for this reason that the consent of the German government to the sale of the ammunition ammuni-tion to other parties was required. He savs the Holland commission bought soielv for the Dutch army. |