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Show without heat and, when it stemed to bo at Its height, a member of tho am-! I bassador's household wished to pass the disputants. The tax collector protesting that he waa an official, refused to stand a.ido. The report to the state department ; aays the men "engaged in an uncivil conversation of no importance," which resulted in tho tax collector seeking tho arrest of the porter for personal ioaulL The German foreign office then asked the ambassador to nerve the porter. The two governments attempted to effect a compromise, the German foreign for-eign office suggesting that the tax collector col-lector would receive an apology and the American ambassador suggesting his porter would mako one. Tho committee com-mittee met and Instead of apologising there was further altercation, neither being willing to yield dignity. The wbolo business was Anally closed up when the porter went outsldo the embassy em-bassy grounds nnd accepted service. The report does not say how tho court concluded the argument. IMMUNITY OF TBIEEMBASSY Washington, July 20. While it has long been understood that International Internation-al customs guarantees an ambassador against arrest, a case which Involved the immunity of several of bis household house-hold developed at tho American embassy em-bassy In Berlin not long ago. It ended end-ed by tho ambassador being instructed instruct-ed to preserve the immunity of tho embassy and to see that the service of. the papers upon the servant took place outside its precincts. A porter at the embassy, it seems, answered the ring of a tax collector who did not know he was at the embassy. em-bassy. The porter chlded the official for hie Ignorance in seeking taxes at the home of a diplomatic agent. The argument which developed was not |