The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-25
MORE DETAILS OF EXCHANGES
 AND WARNINGS
ReprisaIS Threatened by the German Government and U. s. Government
 Made a Reply.

WASHINGTON, June 25.-The re- change Captain Rintelen in the face of threatened German reprisals against Americans, has resulted in considerable exchange of correspond once:
 On April 20, 1918, the minister of Switzerland in Washington presented to the Department of State the fol lowing translation of note verbale from the German Government.
 "On December 20, 1917, the mer chant and interpreter, Siegfried Paul London, citizen of the United States, was condemned to death by court martial at Warsaw for war treason as a spy. The governor gen. eral of Warsaw, exercising judicial clemency, on January g, 1918, com muted this sentence to 10 years penal servitude. According to facts published at the court-martial, Lon lon obtained citizenship in the year 1887. He is married to an American :itizen, Mary Leonhardt.
 London was found guilty because, 'or the period from the beginning Of he war until about May, 1915, he served the enemy as spy. He was ,rrested on that account as early IS August 27, 1915. He succeeded, however, in escaping, but was recap .ured on September 24, 1917. For his reason the chief proceedings against him took place only recently.
 The Rntelen Case
 up to the present time, the eff 'orts of the German Government to effect an improvement in the situa- ion of Capt. Louis Rintelen, who passed into the hands of the Ameri. ean authorities by reason of acts of he British Government, contrary to international law, have been unsuc- :essful The attempt to bring to a lalt the criminal proceedings against him in America, and to secure his release, has likewise been without result In order to lend greater em- phasis to the protests which have been lodged with the American Gov. ernment, the German Government con, .emplates some measures of repris- Il. It would, however, prefer to lvoid the contingency that persons De taken and made to suffer be- cause the Government of the United States was apparently not sufficiently cognizant of it's international obliga- ions toward German subject.
 Exchange Is Proposed
 Before making definite decis- on, the German Government believes t should propose to the Government of the United States that Capt. Lieut.. Rintelen be set at liberty by exchange for the American citizen Siegfried Paul London, who was condemned to death for espionage, md who since was later commuted to 10 years penal servitude, and that Capt. Lieut. Rintelen be per -mitted forthwith to return to Ger many. Should the Government of the United States agree to this pro. posal, the German Government would take steps that London's un- completed term of imprisonment be remitted and that he be set at lib erty in order that he may immed- iately leave the country"
 Secretary Lansino's Reply
 On June 4th the Secretary of State, in reply, sent the following to the Minister of Switzerland:
 "Sir: have the honor to ack- nowledge the receipt of your memor- andum of April 13, 1918. communi- eating a translation of note yer bale from the German Government, transmitted by the Swiss political department, proposing the exchange of Capt. Lieut.. Franz Rintelen for