HOW AMERICA RECEIVED THE GERMAN NOTE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2477, 2 June 1915, Page 5

HOW AMERICA RECEIVED THE GERMAN NOTE

DEEP DISAPPOINTMENT YET ANOTHER OUTRAGE ON UNITED STATES SHIPPING (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Washington, May 81. Deep disappointment is expressed at the German reply to the United States Note regarding the sinking of the Lusitania. A prompt rejoinder is being prepared, pointing out that the Germans are wrong with regard to the facts while ignoring the American demands. The Press vigorously condemns the German reply, and is demanding, in view of the seriousness of the situation, that there should be no delay. A POLL OF PRESS OPINION GERMANY MUST BE BROUGHT TO HER SENSES. London, May 31. Eeuter's agent at Washington says that the situation is considered grave. New York newspapers say that Germany's reply is temporising and insincere. The "New York Herald" says: "Gefmany proposes delay while reserving the right to back-hand us. The United States t holds a brief for civilisation, and must not be diverted from its duty by quibbling." The Philadelphia "Public Ledger" says: "The reply is a confession of avoidance. Germany must'be brought to her senses. The United States cannot argue when the question involves the lives of Americans who have been brutally sacrificed by a Government repudiating the law and humanity." The Chicago "Herald" says that the reply does not relieve but inoreasea the tension. The "Providence Journal" states that unless Germany accepts America's demands nothing is left except to sever diplomatic relations. (Rec. June 1, S.oO p.m.) Amsterdam, June 1.... The Berlin journal "Vossiche Zeitung" says:—"lf America allows American citizens to risk England's recklessnoss and then blames Germans, she is no longer neutral." MORE ABOUT THE GERMAN NOTE CLUMSY SIDE-STEPPING ABOUT SAFETY APPLIANCES. Washington, May 31. Germany's reply to the United States further contends that it is impossibls to settle the question whether proper opportunity was given to place tne passengers and crew of the Lusitania in safety until it is determined- whether the regulations adopted after the sinking of the Titanic for the proper supply of boats and watertight bulkheads wero incorporated in the American law, and observed in the Lusitania's case. (Rce. June 1, 8.50 pm.) Washington, May 31. The text of the German Note has been published, and confirms the cabled summary. The Note avers that Germany does not intend to attack neutral ships in the war zone, and is not guilty of hostile nets, German officers had repeatedly been instructed to avoid such attacks, and if neutrals suffered it was due to mistaken identification, in some cases attributable to Britain's abuso of the neutral flag, together with the suspicious or culpable behaviour of tho mastora of ships. FRESH FUEL TO THE FLAMES ' ANOTHER ATTACK ON AMERICAN SHIPPING. London,, May 31. Tho American steamer •Dixaama was torpedoed and sunk off Ushant, west coast of France, after several shells had been fired. The crew narrowly oscapocl. They took to the boats, and a Greek steamer picked thorn up and landed tliem at Barry, Wales. *Nnt mentioned in Lloyd's List. SHELL PLUNGES THROUGH THE KXGIX K-IiOOM. (Ret-. June 1, 10.15 p.m.) London, June I. A shell passed through the Dixiaiia's engine-room, and narrow],? missed upsetting the boat. Splinters badly injured the jerond mnt=. TJiuDlxUua WUJi deceived hv a submariue usUw; sails.

THE CASE OF THE GULF LIGHT

(Reo. June 1, 8.60 p.m.)

Washington, May 31. Mr. Gerard (United States Minister at Berlin) lias reported that the American vessel Gulf Light was torpedoed by the Germans in mistake.

WHITE STAR LINER'S NARROW ESCAPE

PURSUED 60 MILES FROM QUEENSTOWN.

London, May 30. The White Star Company's steamer Megantic (14,878 tons), bound for Montreal, crowded with passengers, met a submarine 60 miles south of Queenstown. She wirelessed for help and steamed at full speed a zig-zag course, the submarine pursuing. Subsequently the Megantic wirelessed that the submarine had disappeared, and orders for assistance were cancelled. ARGYLLSHIRE RETURNS UNDAMAGED. Dunedin, June 1. The local branch of Messrs. Turn hull, Martin, and Company has received cable advice stating that the liner Argyllshire (which was attaoked by a submarine) has reached Havre undamaged.

DANISH STEAMER TORPEDOED,

(R<o. .Tune 1, 10.15 p.m.) London, Juno 1. The Danish steamer Soborb (2148 tons) has been torpedoed forty miles north-eastward of the Tvne. Ihe crew was saved.

ENEMY'S' OUTPUT OF SUBMARINES INCREASING. London, May 31. The naval correspondent of "The Times" says: "It is improbable that there is the slightest truth in the American reports regarding the suspension of attacks on merchantmen, because Germany is increasing her output of submarines."

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER INTERVIEWED

"IT IS ENGLAND'S FAULT, NOT GERMANY'S."

(Rec. June 1, 8.30 p.m.) New York, June 1., The German Secretary of State foi- foreign Affairs, Herr Ton Jagovr, in an interview with an American correspondent in Berlin, stated: "From the outset, Germany was willing to abandon submarine warfare on merchantmen if England raised the embargo on foodstuffs and- raw material on the conditional contraband list. It is England's fault-, not Germany's, that America's well-meant proposals have failed. "The question of foodstuffs and raw materials was not a question of necessity for Germany, but of principle. Germany had shown that she could not be starved out. She might be short of some particular foodstuffs, but she had enough to live on and continue the struggle, and similarly with regard to raw materials. "Germany would be able to get along even if her imports were cut off, but Germany objected to Britain's cool assumption that, when she was unable to defeat the German armies legitimately on the battlefields, slip was entitled to force the nation to her knees by economic pressure, disregarding all the accepted precepts and regulations. "There is no precedent for a siege on the civilian population of a whole nation in its own land, with no possibility of escape. Germany will fight such an unjustified method of war with all the means at her disposal." Herr von Jagow said he was unable to tell how Germany's Note would be received, as he had no means of communicating with the Ambassador in Washington. Germany has no cables, while our wireless would be read, cr interfered with, by the British. We are practically cut off from America, and are working in the dark,"