Show 1 AMERICANS AMERICAN IN MALLORCA OPEN I UP HOSTILITIES Rift Hits Colony Just as as as- asAr Ar Airest Ai Ar Arrest rest Inc Incident dent About to toBe to Be Closed I tv t By IAN FRASER United Press Stall Staff Correspondent PALMA Mallorca- Mallorca July 22 H 22 22 Hostilities till ties lies broke out among A Americans on Paradise island today just as u the incident over the Imprisonment of five lve Americans for striking a civil guard seemed approaching a satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory solution The foreign colony at Port Pollens Pollensa where Theodore Pratt lived until Islanders Is Is- Is slanders s- s landers stormed his house be because ause of ot ofa ota a a derogatory article he ho wrote for an American magazine sent a letter to to- the governor of Mallorca protesting Pratts Pratt's unjust and untrue state state- men merits ments We are most sorry at the bad impression im Ins- the article has produced said the letter We have found the Island exquisite and we like its customs cus ens- uS toms and its people including their honesty and their treatment fl of foreigners Pratt whose passport has been impounded impounded im im- im- im pounded faced a lawsuit or action by officials unless he promised hatto not hot hotto notto to write more derogatory articles tl he made the promise it was said he would be permitted to leave the land American Consul General Claude ClaudeI I. I Dawson sent from his bis post at Bac e. e lona to liquidate the civil guard mcdent incident inci mc- dent protested jointly jointly- with Bri British h Consul General Norman King of M. M I celona against articles published by the Americans Thomas P P. P Leaman and Mrs R. R B. B Toussaint-Leaman Toussaint in their newspaper newspaper Palma Post I Campaigning for months to force lorce I the United States to establish a consulate con I here the Post on July 8 a ru rib rib- an editorial captioned Un States consulate at Barcelona snubs Britain Consulate high hat hal The editorial maintained that Allen British vice consul here had written to Dawson urging action to release the the five five Americans set free on ball bail Wednesday alter after six weeks weeks' imprisonment without trial Dawson and King protesting against the article denied its truth |