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Show DUTCH MINISTER CLEM A NOTE WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. A "misuse "mis-use of adjectives" in the official expose ex-pose of German iritrigue as contained In the Von Igel papers published on Sunday brought the United States and Holland to the verge of a serious misunderstanding. mis-understanding. Chevalier Van Itap-pard, Itap-pard, Netherlands minister here, today to-day handed to Secretary of State Lansing Lan-sing a protest against the offensive statement and an explanation of the transaction roferred to, which Mr. Lan,-slng Lan,-slng said was satisfactory. In the expose issued by the committee commit-tee on public information was printed a telegram to Wolf von lgel from Count Hatzfeldt, counsellor of the German Ger-man embassy, In which he approved the "sale" of cases of cartridges and powder to the Holland commission. The commission on information characterized char-acterized this as showing a "suspicious" "suspi-cious" relationship botwe'en the Holland Hol-land commission and German diplomats. diplo-mats. "It has long boon an open secret," the committee said, "that Holland has been but a way station to Germany." To this Chevalier Van Reppard replied: re-plied: "The only inference in consistence with the wording of the telegram up-pears up-pears to be that Carl Hoyman, treasurer treasur-er of the Amorican 'The Bridgeport Projoctilo company has been authorized author-ized by tho German embassy to sell to the nurchaslnc acent of 'The Nether- lands army department' certain amounts of ammunition. "TJiere is no indication of and there never has been any relation whatovor between thq Dutch agent and any diplomatic ofTlcIal." Mr. Van Rappard then stated that as a matter of fact the proposed transaction transac-tion was never completed and the munitions, mu-nitions, never bought for tho Dutch army. He says that the Bridgeport Projectilo company sold much ammunition ammuni-tion to Germany in tho first months of tho war. which Germany bought to keep It from the allies. This ammunition ammuni-tion was. as a matter of fact, the property prop-erty of Germany and held for her by the projectilo comjuny. It was for this reason that tho consent of tho German covernmont to tho sale of the ammunltlon to other parties was required. re-quired. Ho says the Holland commission commis-sion bought solely for the Dutch army. |