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Show GERMANS ARREST AMERICANS. Many Visitors to Germany Detained During Outbreak of Hostilities. Washington. Secretary Bryan announced an-nounced on Sunday that the American government now was in communication communica-tion with all its European embassies nnd legations and that every effort was being made to care for Americans Ameri-cans in all parts of the continent. For many days the state department has been unable to communicate with Ambassador Gerard at Berlin, but communication was established through Copenhagen. Mr. Bryan at once telegraphed inquiring about Archer M. Huntington, president of the American Geographical society, end other Americans reported arrested arrest-ed as spies. Official dispatches revealed that many Americans had been arrested or temporarily detained in Germany merely on suspicion, that at the first outbreak of hostilities and during the mobilization period, persons, who talked talk-ed English were under espionage. One dispatch said many American were though to be acting suspiciously because be-cause they displayed cameras and were taking pictures of the troops or scenes incident to the outbreak of war. |