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Show oo BERNSTORFFMUST IDENTIFY PAPERS Von Igel Documents Will Be Held Until Ambassador Distinguishes Dis-tinguishes Betyeen Official Of-ficial and Personal Matter. "Washington, April 22. Papers seized seiz-ed In New York by the -department of Justice from Wolfe von Igel, former secretary to Captain Franz von Papen, recalled German military attache, will not be restored to tho German em-bassj" em-bassj" until Count von Bernstorft returns re-turns to Washington from a week end trip. The German embassy has been Informed the documents will be sealed and retained meanwhile by the state department. State department officials offi-cials reiterated today that Count von Bcrnstorff will be asked to distinguish between the official and personal matter mat-ter in tho documents. It- wa&-atbeUwrs1o6jBsywtlja4. tiia, German embassy would agree to this procedure, contending there is no au thorlty for the removal of papers of any kind from the person or possession posses-sion of a diplomatic agent.. Embassy Officials Disturbed. Embassy Officials are disturbed at the idea that the department of justice intends to keep photgraphic copies of the papers and it was said today that Count von Bernstorff would demand not only the originals, but all photographic photo-graphic copies, plates and a catalog of the documents which is understood to have been made by the department of justice. Ambassador von Bernstorff Bern-storff is understood to be awaiting instructions in-structions from Berlin. Tho documents arrived at the department de-partment of justice today from New York. They comprise the contents of two portfolios and several letter files. Some of the documents were said to have passed between Count von Bernstorff and Captain von Papen, tho withdrawn German military attache, at-tache, dealing with matters affecting American neutrality. Von Igel's immunity from prosecution prosecu-tion as an employe of the German ombassy was not accepted by department depart-ment officials. Immunity, it was said, was Interpreted as extending only to tho ambassador and his household servants. |