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Show oo BERNSTORFF IS MUCH WORRIED IyONDON. March 13, 10:54 P m i In an interview granted to the Copenhagen Cop-enhagen r orr-spondent of the Berlin Tageblatt, says an Exchange Tele graph dispatch, Count von Bern-storfT, Bern-storfT, interrogated as to whether he thought there would be war between be-tween Germany and the United States, replied: "That depends on our U-boat warfare. If xe sink an American ship wc shall get war. If' not I suppose we can avoid it " 'And if." asked the correspondent, "Germany sinks British ships with American citizens aboard" To that Von Bernstorff replied: j "That is not the same." Leaves for Berlin. COPENHAGEN, via London, March 13, 9:30 p. m. Count von Bern-storfT, Bern-storfT, former German ambassador to the United States, and his party left Copenhagen on a Kpecial tram nt 7 4." p m.. for Berlin. It is un-1 certain when the train will arrive because be-cause of ice conditions which made all ferry traffic highly unsatisfactory'! for the last week. Talks of Mexican Plot. LONDON. March 13. 7:48 p. m. The Hamburger FYemdenblatt, according ac-cording to Reuter s Amsterdam cor-respondent, cor-respondent, prims an interview its represent at ive had at Copenhagen, in which Count' von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United i States, expressed proud joy at tho j way the German people are bearing; with their heads held high the re-! suits of the breach in relations with American which he (Bernstorff) so long prevented. Count von Bernstorff ig quoted as saying that he was keenly affected by the news which he received fori the first time at Chrlstiania that instructions in-structions which had passed through bis hauds to the German minister in : Mexico had come to the knowledge, of the American government It is natural that its publication Caused the greatest sensation in America. Count von Bernstorff said, declaring "We always strictly declined de-clined to mix ourselves in the poll-tlcu poll-tlcu of the American continent." All American assertions about euch intrigues In Haiti, Cuba and Colombia aro fain.' tales. Von Bern storff is quoted as saying, and added that positively bo long as he was ambassador at Washington he was never aware of the slightest indica tion that the German government tried to influence the policy in Cen ' tral and South American states in, any tense hostile to the United States. "We even sometimes subordinated! great economic interests, which we have in all of those countries, to spare the sensitiveness of the United 8tatee," he declared. Tho Interview concludes with the I declaration from Count von Bern-i Bern-i storff that from instructions to the German minister in Mexico it was clear that the Mexican government, If the United States did not declare war un Germany, would never have heard of Germany's Intentions from ' a German mouth "I believe it Is hardly possible to have acted more correctly," be said. |