Notes

Charges that the Pope was interfering with German politics reached such a stage that Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State, wrote to Germania, journal of the Catholic or Centre Party:

"The Vatican categorically denies the interpretation, given by the German conservative papers, that expressions appearing in the Osservatore Romano concerning Socialism are to be construed as bearing on the German Presidential election or that the Holy See has expressed itself as being opposed to the election of Dr. Marx. The Holy See does not intervene in the national politics of Germany, nor does it propose to do so."

The Post Office Department at Berlin announced that it proposed to permit advertising matter to be distributed, unaddressed, through the mails to various classes of people. Thus, advertising for lawyers or doctors may be sent to the mail in lots of not less than 1,000 copies merely marked: "For Lawyers" or "For Doctors."

The German Alpine Association announced that it would send, on July 2, a German expedition headed by Captain von Peiser to ascend Mount Everest in the Himalayas.

Germans underbid the U. S. in making locomotives for the Sao Paulo railway in Brazil. Although the money being used was borrowed in the U. S., the latter received orders for 29 locomotives to Germany's 50.