Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-06-08
j, s, WARNS KAISER
AGAINST REPR|SALS
Lansing Reminds Huns OF Prison
ers Here Who Can be
Punished.


,,,ys,,ment has threatened rcprisals
AGAINST Americans in Germany unless
the United States government releases
Cantain Lieutenant Franz RIntclen, the
Ceyman naval officer 0ne-trmc banker
and intimate of the German tTown
Prince. in exchange for Siegfred Paul
London. an ALLEGED American. whom the
Germans have had IN custody IN war
saw.
That the United States has defied the
German government III the matter re-
fused to release Rintelen, and has warned
the Berlin authorities that II reprlSaiS
were taken against americans III 'er-
many. the government might take siInilar
reciprocal action against the great mum
bers of German subjects IN tins country
was disclosed this afternoon by Secretary
Lansing.
PROPOSAL MADE ~ tPMi.
Cermanv's proposal for the exchange
of London for Rmtelen was made on
April 20 last, when the SWISS Minister
here presented TO Secretary Lansing "
note verbale from the German govern
ment On June Secretary Lansing S'h'
this governments defiance ct the '''rh'""
threat of repriSai
Rintelcn is serving a term in The Nicr-
osr county U J. Pen'chll1 tN ="
>onxicton al conspiring With David
Iauar and others IL iomen' strikes ~
American munitions factories " hcu
he finishes that sentence he Is scheduled
10 serve a wear and day Al At9ula
upder his convection II fraudulentlN
obtaining 4 State Department paSSpori
I'm 1918 inst before sailing FOR Europe
After that he must serve twelve months
rnder his recent CONVECTION " tou>plrinA
reo DESTROY food and munltinn >hpS 81 thr
E,ntept., Allies by placing tire homhS n
their cargoes.
AMERICAN HELD IS spy
For some time Germany has been try
mo ~ have Rintelen treated as prisoner
of var rather than as criminal he
man for whom the German government
nropsed 10 have Rintelen exchanged
london. was horn III Leipzig Germany.
IN 1862 went 10 New \ ork IN lSS2. lived
the-e until 1902. was naturallzcd hv the
Court If Common Pleas IN New ORR
N 1887 and since 1908 has been living ln
Warsaw lis naturallzed American cI'l-
xenship j. doubtful on the score q long
and continued residence shroad. tic wa
arrested IN Warsaw Poland. Aug "a.
1915 charged with being spy. tie vas
Nod in January. 1916. escaped and was
resrreSted in September, 1917 lie waS
sentenced To death December 20, 1917
and in January, 1918 thus sentence va
committed 10 ter year- imprisonment
In demanding Rintelens release, the
note concludes:
.'In order 10 lend greater emphasis p
the protests which have been lodged with
the American government the German
government contemplatcS some appro-
pirate measures OF rcprlsal II world
however. prefer Ia avoid tho contingency
that persons be taken and made 70 suit
fer because the government 81 the nitcd
States was apparently not sufficiently
cognizant Of Its international obligations
toward German subject
The latest records 81 the War Depart
ment show that q total Of i35 American
soldiers have been located AZ German
prison camps There also ar Fl" \merl
can civilians Including ealj Isl who
are interned in Germany
5000 GERMANS INTERNED HERR
About 5000 Germans are interned il
this country This includes $40 prisoner
OF war at Fort Mcpherson. Georgia. mos
OF whom were seamen ON German ships
S39 at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. 432 8
Fort Douglas. Utah. and between 2,uf
and $500 prisoners taken from German
merchantmen al Hot Springs. \ ~ q
present under the Department OF Labor
Five hundred Germans informed i
this country are being sent 10 ARM
camps To aid ia cultIvatlng gardens
One hundred OF them 90 70 Camp l'eNens
100 to Camp Grant. 100 TO amp Sewer
100 to Camp Wadsworth, and 100 Z
Camp Sherman.