Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-08 | Page 7 | Germany Sends an Explanation

GERMANY SENDS AN EXPLANATION Rome. Jan. 8 2 45 p m The German Ger-man government has sent to the Vati can .ui explanation of the Mercier Incident In-cident in which it ses there is absolutely ab-solutely no truth in the report that the cardinal was ever arrested by the German authorities in Belgium, or even confined to his own palace or prevented from leaving it. Amsterdam, Holland. Jan. 8. ia London, 6:50 p. m. In a dispatcn ftoni Rosendaal. the correspondent of the Amsterdam Tijd. says that M. Dessain, who printed Cardinal Mer-cier's Mer-cier's pastoral letter, has been fine' 500 marks i$125 with an alternative threat of fifty days imprisonment. Continuing, the correspondent declares de-clares that the Vicar of Hemixen was kept a prisoner in the fort at Ho-bokn Ho-bokn from Saturday noon until Sunday Sun-day morning. The vicars of Duffel. Contlch, Brasschaet and Schooten also nre imprisoned. All of these priests are prepared, the correspondent of the Tidja declares, to contradict on oath the Berlin semi-official telegram denying that any parties have been arrested for reading the pastoral let-I let-I ter of Cardinal Mercier.