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Show SAYS GERMANY IS NOT DISTURBED Salt Lake Feb. 18. George N. lfft. United States consul at St Gall Switzerland, former well known resident res-ident of Salt Lake aud Pocatello. Ida arrived in the city yesterday for a brief visit. Mr. Ifft, who was at one time a reporter on The Tribune, and who is now and for years has been interested in the Pocatello Trlb une. is here on a strictly business trip and after conferring with his busl- ness associates at Pocatello ill hurry hack to his post. Owins to the fact that ho js a representative rep-resentative of the United States government. gov-ernment. Mr lfft made It plain that he could not discuny tlK- war in any . of itR phases or ramifications. .Mr. lfft has been in the consular service for twelve years He boan at Chatham, Ontario, under an ftp- ' pointment by President Roosevelt, and has since served at Annaberp. Sax-on Sax-on Warsaw, Russian Poland; Nuremberg. Nu-remberg. Germany, and St r.all 3 it zerlnnd. Mr lfft left St. Gall on .January 25 ;ind went to Friedrichshafen. Germany. Germa-ny. From thre he went to Stuttgart, Prankfert, Cologne. Rotterdam, Holland, Hol-land, thence to Flushing, thence across the Fnglish channel to Folk-stone, Folk-stone, England, and thence to London and Liverpool, from which port he sailed for the United States on the steamship Adriatic He arrived in New ork rity on February B, went to Princeton to visit his son, who will be graduated this year, and then to Washington to confer with the consular con-sular department on matters pertain ing to his duties. From Washington Mr Ifft came directly to Salt Lake and is the guest of his mother-in Is 1 and sistr-in law, Mrs Riddle and Mrs. n. K Kllngender al the ri.m-dome ri.m-dome hotel Discussing his trip last night. Mr Ifft yaifl he was surprised at the n ar-normal ar-normal conditions which ho encountered encoun-tered through Germany. The rail-roadft, rail-roadft, he said, were running just about on time and he had no trouble whatever from the time he entered the German onipire until lie left it He also encountered no difficulty at other points he said On the trip across the Atlantic, he added, the passengers pas-sengers were all in a happy mood aud no trouble was anticipated, or experienced. Mr Ifft will go to Pocatello today to hold a conference with his newspaper newspa-per associates Hp will then return to Salt Lake for a few days and will leave on his return trip to St Gall. |