People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — NOT RETALIATION. [ARTICLE]

NOT RETALIATION.

Germany Disclaims intentions of Getting Even with Uncle Sam. Berlin, Oct. 29. —On receipt of the news of the prohibition by the Hamburg and Lubeck senates of the entry of American cattle and fresh beef at these ports inquiries were made at the American embassy and the German foreign office respecting the political aspect of the prohibition, and it was said, both at the latter bureau and by Ambassador Runyon himself, that the measure was in nowise intended to be a retaliatory one and was adopted only as a sanitary precaution. At the foreign office the correspondent, was told retaliation against the American sugar tariff would be resorted to only as a last expedient.