Berlin, Nov. 3.
The German press attacks on the United States were continued today by the "Berliner Tageblatt" which took: indignant exception to an article in the "New York Herald Tribune" advising the establishment of naval bases in the South Atlantic to protest United States interests in. South America. Declaring that the time was not far distant when Germany would have naval and air bases on the African west coast, the American paper called atten tan to the alleges menace which these would constitute for the South American countries.
Declaring that this article was "ob-Viously inspired", the German paper writes that "it is a popular but not always upright method of the democratic systems to introduce their own selfish interests or political aims by sensational assertions that their interests are being threatened by other powers. This casting of suspicion on Germany serves the purpose of providing election propaganda in the United States and of justifying the enormous armament programme to the American public.
"It is nothing less than insolence to use Germany as excuse for placing naval bases in South Atlantic waters for the purpose of increasing United States influence in South America and no policy can be carried out today when it is accompanied by such destructive methods. Such tactics only serve to create tension and we should be pleased if we were omitted from utterances which can only be interpreted as offensive."—Trans-Ocean.
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