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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 310, 31 December 1914, Page 6

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UNFOUNDED ALLEGATIONS REGARDING DUMDUMS. [United Press Association.] (Received, 1.45 p.m.) Washington, December 30. The State Department officially • investigated Count Bernstoff’s allegations that the United States had supplied dum-dum bullets for the Allies’ use. The Department -discovered that the samples of dum-dums submitted by Count'Bernstoff would not fit any rifle used by the Belgian, Russian, French or British armies. A polite reply was returned that Count Bernstoff’s allegations were unfounded. A PRO-GERMAN’S VVEWs/ * (Received 1.45 p.m.) Washington, December 30. Representative Vollmer, addressing the Foreign Relations Committee of • the House, said , .the United. States could easily end the war if she cut off the supplies of all .belligerents. In conjunction with Representative Bartholdt, Vollmer endorsed the ra- ! solution to prohibit the export of supplies. Representative Vollmer declared there was only onq nation whoso lines of national interest were hopelessly at variance with the United States, namely, Japan. He predicted Japan would not merely hold Kiao-Chan, but also all the islands now occupied in

the Pacific. “Some day,” he said, “this issue must he tried out in the Pacific, and it may, he to the interests of this country to have a powerful friend at her side.” i Bartholdt and are strongly pro-German.