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STORY OF WAR WITH GERMANY
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Ambassador White Emphaticaily
Condemns the Yarn-Germany Is
Not Treading on Uncle
Sans Coat Tails.

BERLIN. Dec 30-An I official ~nte
published this evening says the negotia-
tions between Venezuela aand Germany
continue and that the. German minister
is still at Caracas.
LONDON, Dec. 3O-A dispatch to the
Central News from Berlin says: 1T is
believed to be certain here tfat an
ultimatum will be issued within olree
days, and that an attack on Venezuela
will follow directly after. In EDITION
to the Vineta, the Fake, two training
ships and the cruiser GaZelle have been
ordered to La Guayra. An agreement
has been reached between Germany ard
the United States in regard to the Ger
man course of action in Venezuela.
BERLIN, Dec 3O.-The Tageblatt this
afternoon prints a double-leaded cable
dispatch from Washington setting forth
that the principal military and naval au-
thorities there consider that war between
the United States and Germany, sooner
or later, is inevitable.
ambassador White is Emphatic.
The United States minister, Andrew
White, informed the German newspaper
men who called at the embassy today
that the reports of the possibility of war
between the United States and Germany
were 1.-The thinnest kind of sensational
nonsense
Not one of the authorities referred to
in the Tageblatt's dispatch, he added,
would under any circumstances disclose
such an opinion, least of all when the
relations between the two countries are
so good as at present
Moreover said Mr.. White, "Pres1-
dent Roosevelt, the commander-in-chief
of the army and the navy, it is weli
known, entertains not only official, but
personal predictions for Germany,
which have been known, not only otT1-
cially to the German government, but
among his friends. He studied in Ger
many, reads and loves Germany litera-
ture, and has a most sincere personal
respect for the German emperor. Any
utterance of, the kind alleged, by an
officer of either service, would be stern
ly rebuked by President Roosevelt
In official circles here it's pointed out
that the additions to Germany's naval
force in the Caribbean will mot be suffi-
cient to give rise to suspicious among
the people of the United States that
Germany meditates anything beyond the
collection of claims due German SUBJ
jects.
Venezuela Wants KnoOp Recalled.
CARACAS, Dec. 30.-Ihe5 venezuelan
government has sent a request to Ber
lin that Herr Knoop, manager of the
German railway, be discharged 1t IL
believed that Manager Knoop will be ex-
PEELED.
The official gazette published today
contains a resolution of the Venezuelan
government setting forth that Herr
Knoop is unfit any longer to deal with
the government, as he is an accomplice
in the present revolution and must be
discharged The resolution further says
Herr Knoop will probably. be expelled
from Venezuela.
Traffic over the German railway con-
tinues to. be suspended. sl
1t can be said upon excellent authority
that Germany's contemplated naval dem-
onstration against certain Venezuelan
ports will be postponed until the termina-
ton of the present revolution against
President Castro.