Show TRIUMPH FOR AMERICANS German Campaign of Slander Against the Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company Fails Berlin The The long and venomous campaign waged by German newspapers pers pens and rival industrial interests against one of or the German branches of of the Standard Oil on company the company the Deutsche Vacuum Oil company has company has just been brought to a victorious end for the Americans involved A well known Hamburg newspaper for months printed such a series of attacks on the American graft methods methods methods meth meth- alleged to have been practiced by the vacuum company in the conduct conduct con con- duct of its German business that the public prosecutor of or Hamburg felt constrained to make mak an official Investigation Investigation investigation with a vie view to eventual In In- The prosecutor has now concluded his investigation especially especial especial- ly of the work of E. E 1 L. L Quarles American Amer ican manager of the German company's com corn pany's sales department and announces announces an an- that no necessity exists for pursuing the inquiry further No evidence of anything warranting warrant warrant- I lag ing prosecution was found against Mr i ii i Quarles and the costs of the entire Inquiry will be borne by the state The result of the investigation constitutes constitutes con con- a notable triumph for AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lean Interests in Germany It is not the first time that Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans finding themselves unable to compete with Americans on ordinary terms have nave resorted to slander |