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Show GERMAN LAW IS TRAP FOR FOREIGNERS Sometimes Compelled to Boy Articles They Do Not Want LONDON, May S. OuiUv A- Fudikae of Los A nfreW . Cat . . has axri ved 1 n London after ecapin from the clutches of the law officer of tha Qernmn emperor. em-peror. Aa the result pf hts experience In Berlin. Mr. Fudlttar will make a protest to the atate department at Washington nKalnet a German law which haa caused a numher of American tourists to get Into difficulties with tlie authorities The California travaler waa negotiating negotiat-ing for the purchase of some diamond earringw for his wife In Berlin. He waa told that be could have the stones be mant-vj for 11. 000 marks (2T&0l. and an expert assured him that he waa getting a bargain. He told the owner of the Rioneb that If he decided to take them he would have to await the r. ept ot further fund. from home. In Ih m-an-time lie looked at the diamond? again and hecs me convinced that a poorer qualitv had been :uhetltuted. Wan tad Deposit on AD egad Puxchaae The next morning tha Jeweler's assistant assist-ant ra Had at Mr. Fudikar'a hotel and aaked for a deposit on the gems. The American told him he had decided not to take them. The asalstant then resp- ? eared with an attachment against Mr. 'udikar'a baggage. This, however, waa not levied, and the American by quick work succeeded also in frustrating an attempt at-tempt to attach hla cash deposit Id a local bank. At tha American consulate Mr. Fndlkar was Informed that hie only remedy waa a sun In tha civil courts, which might drag for three years. The CaJIfornTau deWded to bnih the dust of Berlin from his feet, but before leaving he learned that many other Americans have suffered similar treatment In Berlin, some of them losing heaviij-. The law permits a merchant mer-chant to force payment on his swearlnit that a customer hsc promlaed to lake certain goods, and the victim haa no re-dreea re-dreea except a suit to recover later, for he la not given an opportunity to anrwer tha accusation. No Large Unclaimed Estate in England The American embassy has been so overwhelmed lately by request n from America by heirs who believe that they have enormous estates lit chancery In Knrland. that it has become necessary to adopt a printed form for the replies to these communications. The only thing the ambass Is per. milted to do in the matter Is la eoggea. a competent legal adviser to Invetllrste the caae. it cannot Itself conduct lnves-tlgatlons. lnves-tlgatlons. It does, however, tell inquirers that there are no large unclaimed eeletee In Great Bittaln. The vaat sums constantly con-stantly spoken of as dormant In chancery or awaiting claimants In the Henk uf England are purely imucinarv and. according ac-cording to the embassy, are too often the Invention of swindlers who obtain money for the prosecution of fictitious claims to thse lit Utfuu fortunes. Kecovary Difficult The funds In t-hewery npen to claim are few. arid atermae leer than IIS"'1 ea. . two rarely appi-oa'-hinK lil.oao. Most of l Hem would '-onetime their own value In the roet of rweovery. The fullest proof of senealosrv Is demanded, and the la-k of data In the United Rtatea for this purpose make the prot-eea very evpenelve Ftirthermore. as the paeaafr. of twenty years and sometimes leee her re.-o,-ery under the Ensiish statute of limitations, the chance of plrkina up an ertate la chencerv le exceedingly email |