The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-22

of which is to prepare difficulties for
 the German government in their rela-
 tions with the government of the Uni
 ted States and they are obviously based
 on malicious invention.
 "The criticism directed against our negotiations which were to prevent the export of liquid chlorine to the allies. through buying the output, appears to be conspicuously without Justification
 when one bears in mind the fact that
 the British government since the be-
 ginning of the war has made agree
 ments with this country. under which,
 firstly, every American manufacturer of India rubber and woolen goods can only receive raw material and raw
 wool required in his business on con- dition that he sell the whole output
 through British agency. and Is pre-
 vented from selling to Germany or Austria Hungary. or from doing busi- ness with neutral countries otherwise than through a British agency; second ly, producers of copper In this coun- try are forced to proceed in the same manner with regard to their output of copper; thirdly, the. great manufactur. ies of preserved provisions equally are forced to refuse to supply their goods to neutral countries unless Great Britain, through her own agents. al- lows them to carry out their contracts
 fourthly. attempts are being made at the present time to acquire the whole cotton crop in the same way
 "As soon. however, as the German government try to obtain control of
 the output of single factory this per-
 fectly lawful proceeding Is branded
 far and wide as a propaganda which 'entangles the United States In the European war and involves flag rant breach of the spirit of the Amer ican antitrust law
 II c6A allow himself to be deceived by these transparent manifestations of blind partisanship, unfairness and insincer- ity. I doubt that the world has ever
 seen a press campaign or secret serv-
 ice that can compare in extent, 1n- fiuence and efficiency with that which
 our enemies carry on in this country Did Not Instigate Strikes "To the false suggestion, based on
 certain letters, that I or someone else who has relations with the German stigation and forwarding of strikes In munitions factories can only say that such assertions and insinuations are groundless.
 The ambassador says that he has re- ceived countless letters to which he has never given the slightest consid- eration and address.
  can be laid to our charge from these letters consists in the fact that we have preserved them instead of throw ing them into the waste paper basket. Count Won Bernstorff declares that no agents or representatives of Ger man government ever had control or an advisory voice in the publication of the Fatherland adding: "Dr. Albert made it clear to Viereck (editor .oi
 the FatherlandD that we were not ID agreement with his attacks on the ad- ministration, especially on the Presi- dent Much that he published appeared despite our energetic and persistent opposition."
 | Concerning the so-called German news | service, the ambassador says that all | newspap pers were notified on it's founda- tion in October that this was in order to 1 counteract the partisan news service re- ceived by England. The letter concludes ''The efforts were undertaken with the fullest publicity and will be continued despite the discouragement arising out of this last attempt to misrepresent Ger ! many's motives and attribute evil inten- | tions to her legitimate and praiseworthy undertakings For every dollar that Ger many has paid in order to obtain thil praiseworthy end, 1t is certain that our
 enemies have spent thousands of dollars | gubventiOning sources of informa ton