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...Otto Wiedfeldt, German Ambassador to the U. S., left on board the steamship Bremen for Berlin, to which city he was officially summoned. Ad interim the German Embassy in Washington is under the direction of a Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. H. H. Dieckhoff. It was said that Dr. Wiedfeldt would be absent for only a month; but it was also said that he would not return; that Herr Cuno, now in the U. S., would be asked to take his place in Washington...
Just as the active bird catches the early worm, so the Government has apparently caught the Baltic-American, Ward, Fabre and Greek steamship lines. Each of these is owner of a ship which came into the U. S. territorial waters from six minutes to 15 seconds before Sept. 1. As a result the immigrants aboard the four ships arrived after the August quotas were filled and too "early" for September quotas (TIME, Sept...
...press regarded the ruling with favor because hardship was removed from the immigrants. However, the condition of transatlantic shipping is not such as to make steamship lines inclined to pay large fines without passing on the hardship, in one form or another, to the passengers for whom it is incurred. A law which teaches ships to race for the first of the month, and then assesses fines of $100,000 or more for an error of 15 seconds in navigation, will doubtless react to the hardship of immigrants, no matter how administered...
Last Spring she slipped quietly abroad under the misleading but accurate name on the steamship lists of M. Kiskadden. She took her plan to Kipling. He immediately raised two objections but Miss Adams anticipated them before he could put them into words. They were...
Nine judges agreed that Germany had no right to refuse passage through the Kiel Canal to the British steamship Wimbledon, which was carrying munitions of war to Poland. The German Government was declared to be under obligation to pay damages estimated at 140,749 French francs to the French Government, which had chartered the boat. The remaining four judges, including Professor Schucking, the German judge, dissented from this decision...