Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1917 — GERMAN PEOPLE APPEAR CALM [ARTICLE]

GERMAN PEOPLE APPEAR CALM

No Demonstrations Upon Learning of America’s Declaration. Copenhagen, April 9.—(Via London.)- —Reports received here from Berlin indicate that the German public received with calmnese the news of the culminating steps in the rupture with the United States and the actual declaration that a 1 state of war exists, having been prepared for the outcome since the convocation of congress. The Germans have long since passed the stage of outbursts of fury such as marked the opening of hostilities with Russia and Great Britain. The news is treated more or less as a matter of routine in the German newspapers. The only outstanding feature of the comIment in Saturday morning’s papers received here was the expression of satisfaction over reports that Austria would sever relations with the United States. No word has been received here of the German government’s intentions regarding American citizens who are still in Germany. It was announced some time ago that the government would observe in principle the specifications of the old I Prussian-American treaty permitting free departure of nationals , with their property, in case the United States reciprocated. It is not improbable, however, that an attempt will be made to Jhoid . some Americans in retaliations for arrests of Germans reported in dispatches from America.