Brussels, Nov, 5.
The case of the City of Flint constitutes a striking "demonstration that Germany is entirely powerless onthe high seas, the Socialist organ, "Lo Peuple," declares in an editorial today, The German fleet did nothing to protect the seized vessel after she left Murmansk and that the German prize crew was instructed to put in a Norwegian port, thus seeking in a neutral country the protection which the German navy could not afford. The only way in which the Third Reich may make its presence felt on the seas is the inhuman activity of its submarines, the paper coneluded.—Havas, marck, Attache to the German Chamber of Commerce in New York and said to be a member of the family of the "Iron Chancellor." The Reich Consulate here admitted Herr von Bismarck was aboard the Asama Maru but could not explain why the N.Y.K. office does not have his name on the passenger list. The New York Chamber of Commerce declared that it was known that Herr von Bismarck was in California but the trip to Japan was "not official"—United Press.
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