The German Government, the note of protest emphasized, rejected accusatibns by Washington' that the employees of the German Consulates and the other German agencies affected by the American order were "active in an inadmissible manner."
The text of the note of protest follows:—
"The United States Government A warning was issued that those paying debts or handing over US.
and stocks in their possession to U.S. citizens will be liable to three years imprisonment and a fine five times the value of the debt or such property. In any case, the fine will never be less than 10,000 lire.
Accomplices in any transaction: will be liable to six months impri sonment and a fine of 3000 lire.
AIL persons failing to report to the Bank of Italy their holdings, in U.S. property and stocks and debts owed to U.S. citizens will be liable to three months imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 lire. They will be liable to six months imprisonment and a fine of 6,000 lire if false reports are made.—United Press. handed a note to the German Charge d'Affaires in Washington on June 16,! in which it demanded that the German Charge d'Affaires order the German Consular officials within their exterritorial districts, as well as members of the German Library Information Office in New York, the Transocean News Agency and employees of the German Railway Office, to leave the United States.
"The reason was given that these above-mentioned offices were active in an inadmissible manner.
"The Reichs Government rejects these accusations as unfounded and arbitrary action and makes a sharp protest against the American procedure which is contrary to agreement,
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