Evening star., 1941-06-19
Reich and IfaIy
Ask Removals
By July IS
Express Company
Employees Included
In German Order
BY the Associated Press.


BY the Associated Press.
Germany and Italy ordered
the custer of United States con-
sular officials today in retalia-
tion for similar American action
against Nazi consuls in this
country.
Berlin directed that all such off,
cials, and those of the American
Express Co. as well, must leave Ger
many itself and the occupied terri
tories of Norway. Holland. Belgium.
Luxembourg, Occupied France.
Serbia and Greece by July Is.
Italy, adopting the same dead
line, reserved the right to close the
American Express Co. All con-
sulates in Italy itself. its territories
and Itahan-occupied areas must
close
The German action was taken
in a Foreign Ministry note to
Charge d'Affaires Leland Morris
three days after similar action
against Germany in, the United
States by President Roosevelt.
Conduct Objectionable"
The American order also required
the closing of the German Library
of Information and the Railway
Tourist Bureau and the German
Transocean news agency. German
consular officials were accused Of
engaging in activities harmful tu
the United States.
The conduct of consular and
travel agency employees for long has
been highly Objectionable" was the
explanation of DNB.. the official
German news agency.
The American representative.
DNB. said, had been Furnished
with a list of activities by United
States officials declared to be in
furious to the state" and outside
the legitimate information service
of the American consulates.'
German Accusations Listed.
/ The allegations of activities in
furious TO the state" which DIN B.
said came from a responsible
source, included charges that:
l. The consul at Frankfurt Am
Main, Sidney Redecker. in the fall
of 1889. delivered addresses in sup
port of propaganda unfriendly to
Germany and passed on informa-
ton concerning militarily secretive
war and economy problems"
( 2. That Consul Orsen Nelson and
Consul Roy Bower in Munich dur
ing the course of the year 1910 were
active in hostility toward Germany
in that they in the presence of
German personalities made disap-
proving observations about Ger
many and the German govern
ment."
5. The consul general in Cologne,
Alfred w. Klieforth. in the autumn
of 1889 and in the spring of 1910
carried on espionage against Ger
many by using key words under
arrangement with the Belgian con-
sui general in Cologne for reports
intended to concern themselves with
Germans marching into Belgium,
Holland and Luxembourg.
4. Vice Consul Ralpn c. Getsinger
of the American consulate general
in Hamburg in the spring of 1941
carried on espionage against the
German Reich in that he prepared
sketches of railroad networks and
principal connecting lines of indi-
vidual railroads of Hamburg as we'll
as writing a report on military ia
cilities in the Hamburg vicinity and
tried to pass on this material
Anti-Nazi Propaganda.
'5. A former employe OF the
American Consulate General in Oslo.
Ivan Jacobsen. at the beginning of
December. 1910, on trip from Oslo
to Moscow had numerous docu-
ments, as was established on the
Norwegian-Swedish border, in which
German occupa ton measures in
Norway were described and which
apparently we're taken along in
order to conduct anti-German prop
aganda abroad
Furthermore. among his docu-
mentS was a report regarding the
transport of German troop units to
Northern Norway as well as other
German military measures.
Jacobsen admitted that he OBJ
tanned these papers from a former
employe of the American Consulate
General in Oslo, DR.. Frank Nelson,
who drew up the papers
Sheltering of Briton Charged.
IS. Consul Cecil Cross and Consul
Leigh w. Hunt in the course of
the autumn of 1910, sometimes in
dividually and sometimes together.
sheltered a British citizen and en-
ploye of the former British consul
late in Paris, Sutton, in their Office
for months until Sutton was ar
rested outside the building. Sutton
engaged in espionage against Ger
many while staying in the American
Office and now has been sentenced
to long Imprisonment
Besides, Cross and Hunt took
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