Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-05
Is Ready to Pay Damages for
AIT Which Is Held to Have
Been Necessary When CON-
mitted by Prinz EiteI,
AGREES TO AMERICAN
PLAN OF ARBITRATION
Amount of Damage Is to Be
Fixed by Experts One From
Each Country Prompt Pay
mo1t to Follow,

Washington. Aug 4.-Germany is
uyeldng i'm her refusal To concede
that the sinking of the American ship
William p. Frye by the auxiliary
cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich in the
south Atlantic last January. was a
violation of American rights under
the INSTRUMENTATION treaty or in
ternational law.
In reply to the last representations
of the United States, the German for
egn office i'm note made public here
tonight by the state department reit-
crates a previous justification of Ger
many. declares again her willingness
to pay for the ship and accepts a pro-
posal first advanced by the United
States-that the amount Of damages
be fixed by two experts, one to be SCI
lected by each country
viii Pay Promptly.
Such "a sum the German govern
ment pledges itself to pay promptly
with the stipulation, however, that
the payment shall not be viewed as a
satisfaction for violation of American
rights should that method be unsat-
isfactory Germany invites the United
States to arbitration at The Hague
The unofficial view here is that
reparaton by a commission of experts
probably viii be satisfactory to the
United States with the express provi-
sion, however that it is not a waiver
Of treaty rights for which the Ameri-
can government contends, but applies
only to the matter of damages
II is practically certain that if the
United States allows the dispute to
so to The hague for Interpretation Of
the treaty provision or continues the
academic discussion of principles
through the channel of diplomacy it
will insist that meanwhile, Germany
refrain from violation Of what the
United States contends are its rights.
Involves Treaty of 1893.
The entire dispute revolves about
article thirteen Of the Prussian
American treaty Of 1899 which was
revived and included in the treaty of
1898 That article, the United States
contends specifically protected the
William p. Frye from being sunk, al
though it did not protect a contra
band cargo. Germany takes precisely
an opposite view, contending that the
article only obligates her to pay dam
ages Furthermore, Germany replies
mat as the Fryes cargo Of wheat des-
shin was iiarlo ~ confiecafion and
that AS an ottennt n take Inc prize
into a German mort would have inn
perilled her cantor tha destruction of
The Frye was according to general
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plIuolples OF lhlerhaloidl Jaw
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siillda Interpretation OF the dispu 'eu
,to5 PROVISION contehdlhB lIat ~
'",elt Is To establish reasoIlaple
mp oilse between the mllliaiS III
Wfests of the belligerent contracting
party and the commercial interests Of
'"e neutral party
German Interpretation.
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r ne pelllgerent party IS 70 nave tHe
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