The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-07-15
INTENSE DISAPPOINTMENT FELT
Ar WASHINGTON OVER FAIL
uRE OF BERLIN TO CON-
PLY WITH DEMANDS
OF WILSON.
GIVES NO DISAvOWAL;
OFFERS NO PREPARATION
Imperial Government Makes Counter
Proposals Which 1t is Said Cannot
Possibly Be Accepted BY Amer
ica-Complete Text May
Not Prove as Unsatis-
factory as Report.

Washington, July IL. - While the
German reply to the protest of the
United States government against sub
marine warfare upon merchant vessels
bearing noncombatants has not been
received by the state department, the
text OF the note, as contained iu press
dispatches is before administration Of
ticials. No attempt is made to conceal
the intense disappointment felt over
the failure of Germany to comply with
the demands of President Wilson i'm
mediately after the destruction OF the
Lusitania by a German submarine.
These demands were:
/. Disayowal Of the acts which the
government of the United States com
pliined.
2. Reparation so far as reoaration
is possible for injuries which are
without measure"
8. Immediate steps to prevent the
recurrence Of anything so obviously
subversiye Of t he principles of war
fare.
Germany has given no d~isavowaI and
has offered no reparation. Instead of
taking immediate steps tt cease the
submarine methods to which this gov
eminent emphatically objected, she
has made counter proposals which it
is said cannot possibly be accepted by
h American government.
To Continue Submarine Warfare.
The big fact stands out from the
German response that the Kaiser's
government intends to continue sub
marine warfare irrespective of the pro-
tests of the United States. Thus the
country is again, it is feared, facing
the issue of broken relations with the
German empire.
President Wilson is due back in
Washington In time to discuss the
note with his cabinet at a regular
meeting Tuesday. Until the official
tex arrives there will be no comment
made. Hope prevails that the COM
plete text, carefully translated, will
not prove as unsatisfactory as the Ca
bled report, but officials here, it is
known, are not optimistic over the
prospects.
Text of German Note.
Berlin, via London, July 10.-The
text OF the German note follows:
Berlin, July S.-The undersigned
has the honor to make the following
reply to his excellency, Ambassador
Gerard, to the note of the 10th ultimo,
re the impairment of American inter
ests by the German submarine war.
The imperial government learned with
satisfaction from the note how earn
estly the government of the United
States is concerned in seeing the prin-
ciples Of humanity realized in the
present war. Also this appeal finds
ready echo in Germany and the i'm
perial government is quite willing to
permit its statements and decisions In
the present case to be governed by
the principles Of humanity just as it
has done always.
Recalls Principles Of Humanity.
THE imperial government welcomed
with gratitude when the American
government, in the note Of May Is,
itself recalled that Germany had al
ways permitted itself to be governed
By the principles OF progress and hu-
mainly in dealing with the law of
maritime war. Since the time when
Frederick the Great negotiated with
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and
Thomas Jefferson the treaty of friend
ship and commerce OF September 9,
1855. between Prussia and the republic
Of the west, German and American
statesmen have. in fact, always stood
together In the struggle for the free
dom OF the seas and for the protec.
ton Of peaceable trade. In the inter
national proceedings which since have
been conducted for the regulation of
the laws of maritime war, Germany
and America have jointly advocated
progressive principles, especially the
adjustment of the right to capture at
sea and the protection Of the interests
of neutrals.
Would Spare Enemy Civilians.
Even at the beginning of the pres
ent war, the German government i'm.
mediately declared its willingness. in
response to proposals OF the American
government, to ratify the Declaration
OF london and thereby subject itself