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Show HUNS THREATEN IVITH REPRISALS DEMAND IS MADE FOR RELEASE OF BOMB PLOTTER NOW IN PRISON. Secretary Lansing Reminds Germans That There Are Number of Their Countrymen in the Land of the Free and They Should Go Slow. Washington. The German government, govern-ment, threatening mistreatment of Americans because of the imprisonment imprison-ment of the bomb plotter Franz Rinte-len, Rinte-len, has been warned by the United States to remember that such a step will draw swift retaliatory action upon the- thousands of Germans in this country. Germany's threat f nd the answer of the United States were disclosed Friday Fri-day by the state department. In a note presented by the Swiss minister here, the Berlin foreign office proposed pro-posed to exchange for Rintelen, Siegfried Sieg-fried Paul London, a German-born naturalized citizen, serving ten years in prison in Germany for acting as a Russian spy. Notice was given that an answer to this proposal was awaited await-ed before putting into execution contemplated con-templated measures of reprisal against Americans in Germany because of the failure of previous efforts to release Rintelen. i Would Invite Action by U. S. Secretary Lansing replied with a terse communication refusing to consider con-sider the exchange, and suggested that, while the United States does not acknowledge the principle of reprisals repris-als occasioning physical suffering, it would be wise for Germany to consider con-sider that if It acts upon that principle prin-ciple it inevitably will be understood to invite similar action on the part of the United States. |