The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-23
President Awaits Affidayits
From the American
Passengers.
WASHINGTON THINKS
BREAK is INEVITABLE
Only a DisavOwal by Berlin
of Submarine Attack
Can Avert 1t.
$500. .OOO. 900 NEEDED
TO DEFEND NATION
Congress May Be Asked for
Immense Appropriations
for Army and Navy.

WAsHfNoroN. Aug. eff Washing
ton officials had any doubt that the
Arabic received the customary warning
prior to the attack that doubt was dis
PEELED to-day when the state Depart
ment received long despatch from AM
bassador Page in London in which he
said that the Arabic was not warned by
the German submarine. lis message was
confirmatory Of dispatches from Con-
sular officers
The President and Secretary Lansing,
however, are still waiting for detailed
Information from Ambassador Page and
from the American Consul at Queens.
town. rntil that information Is at hand,
the President will not be ready to decide
upon u course OF action. Not until all
the details OF the destruction OF the
White Star liner are known will the
President even instruct Ambassador
Gerard at Berlin to call the incident to
the attention of the Berlin Foreign Of
ace.
What the State Department officials
are waiting for most anxiously are the
affidavits and detailed statements Of
Americans and other survivors which
were obtained by the United States
agents Advices from London indicated
that some of these statements had been
given to the cable company for trans
mission last night.
While the United States authorities
! are thus marking time II Is daily be-
coming more apparent that a severance
| of diplomatic relations between the
| United States and Germany is the
! course that the President and his ad-
visers have in mind in the event of sc-
ton becoming necessary. The feeling
. has grown almost to a certainty among
members OF the Administration closest
to MIR. Wilson that break with Ger
many must come If the circumstances
OF the sinking of the Arabic are such
az they now appear TO he and II Ger
many fails to disarow the act OF her
submarine commander.
The sevcring of the diplomatic ties
between the two Governments would not
| IN t>elt ne an a'' o' war ana "oulu
NOT necessarily lead to a more serious
rupture. Indeed. there IL good reason
10 believe that President Wilson will
take every possible step to prevent the
break from going further
y. n,,r.~ C.rmapx
II the President recalls Ambassador
,,crarJ and hands Count Won Bern
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| S'''" "'' -,
purpose OF rt'oru'hs "'''e ''o ""
the fact that the United states regards
,,,,,,,,,,, ~ on outlaw among the ma
,i,,,, and does not therefore feel able to
continue diplomatic relations with hsr.
II Germany shou'" con',nur "e' euu-
na''ne ,s, ,ha Tinted states. az
has IN III" past I"e '"'..u SS "a
| Washington views WV ~ ~,.',a
nav" nIi"'u'N ''' ,o,., ,,o,a sero,,.
ton from ueNe''P'"h INV
Pru,'o' ''',s'' ,o ,irarerce Of oninIon
1here u 8o',' - 1t,io,,,,,i, hr.a,r
her" as 10 no" "a, VI. pt,,I', he int,ad
'o'l, "o"'" ",,ta - Amhassador Gerard
10 lnr 'r'""'hs and secretarIes OF the
an" "'o ~ pariin and the dismissal of
'"'""Ho .r,hossador al Washington
''' ,t,,.s,, ''', statY
"'r ,u'e oy limiting "A break to the
Stniona,ic officers probably would
'i,' ",,"" ,trnneh the feeling that would be
a,,,,seI in GERMANY against the United
S,at.s A. action of that character were
,olcn The wlthdra wal of the American
Ambassador from Berlin would mean