El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-02-15

lHoboken, N. j., Feb. 1.-THE Scan
dinavian.America line steamship
Frederick VIII, carrying Count Won
Bernstorff left her pier today shortly
after 4 o'clock and started on her
Voyage.
The ambassador and his party ar
rived here at 6:05 o'clock this morn
ing. The count and countess did not
leave their special train until 1897
when they appeared on the ear plat
form and posed for five minutes for
the camera-man Police lines and
government secret service mel
guarded the Hoboken railroad yards
and the steamship pier. The party
was scheduled to sail at 2 o'clock
this afternoon ON the Frederick VIII.
for Copenhagen.
Asserting he had a letter which
he must give Count Won Bernstorff,
a young man was arrested by the de-
coy guard which protected the depart
ing ambassador and his staff as he
tried to approach the party at the
steamship pier. He gave his name as
Alfred Hopkins, 10, and had a letter
on his person together with a horo-
scope and writings upon astronomy.
He was detained. Shrill blasts from
the whistle of river craft, resounded
the ship got under way while the
crews of the great German liners tied
I'D here climed on the rails and
waved a farewell. Along the shore
hundreds of sightseers watched the
vessel swing down the river.
The former German ambassador
and his party stood at n of the
rails of the liner and waived responses
10 the farewell demonstration. /
Prior to his arrival in Hobokeh
Count Won Bernstorff outlined on
occasions to a representative
the Associated Press, his personal :
Jews on the situation. |
"You ask me-" he said, about my /,
rip. Well I will get home all right? !
Well, you never can tell. OF course, {
We will get through the British AMI {
french blockade and there should be 6
danger from our own submarines.
However, whether get home :
eally does not make much difference. 1
have had my fun: / have had my
lay at politics.: / have enjoyed my
elf and | am no longer as young as =
once was. The only danger so far
s I a see that Is attached to this
rip is that we may strike a mine. I,
Ready TO Go II
"But, If we do hit a mine and 60 e.
own, I am ready to go. too. After 8,
II, what difference will it make? II a
has to come it will come, that's all. Il,
is quite probable that my official n
areer is finished. l may retire for Fl
God. I have been turned out by r
our government for something over r
4hich I had no control and no blame fe
to me personally. Perhaps Ell
lis is a good time to step down. W
[owever, | am a German and my III
Ians may be changed by the wishes tt
my government" q,
In regard to- his views on the posi- be
lily of the United States entering
le war 1t should be explained that re
,yeral times in the days immediate w
following the severance of diplo- w,
attic relations he indicated his be- IN
ef that 1t was only o question OF OF,
,urs before some overt act would
ing about hostilities. AS the days ne
used, however, and no overt act APP ON
Jared to have been committed the no
rmer ambassador became more AMI NJ,
ore optimistic, finally saying: iv
May Avert War ~
maybe 1t is possible that war may an
averted. The president is repre-
nted in the newspapers as having ~
ade It clear that the next time he ~,
ent to congress It would not be to o.,
k for war, but In connection with 10,
election to American shipping. he
hat does that mean? To me per-
nally that could mean but one w,
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