The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-06-11
GREAT BOURBON.
GAM i CONFORM.
TO STAND TAKEN
.BY HIS SUPERIOR
Chief Executive Regrets Retire.
ment Of Premier But Insists
Position Regarding Submarine
Raiding Must Be Sustained
COUNSELOR LANSING '.. 'o
is ACTING SECRETARY
tAssocIated rro7s y Federal wirelOss.)

w Disagreeing with the pol
icy of President Wilson in regard
to the attitude to be assumed to-
wards Germany over the sinking
Of the liner Lusitania and other
violations Of the rules of war by
the German submarines, William
Jennings Bryan, secretary of
state, yestsrday rendered his third
letter of resignation within three
weeks. The third tender Of his
resignation has been accepted and
from today Secretary Bryan be-
comes private citizen again.
In presenting his resignation, Secre-
tar Bryan wrote:
The issues involved in the policy
you have der ided to adopt are Of SUI h
moment that Tor mo to remain as
member Of your cabinet would be as un-
fat to you as it would be to the cause
which Is nearest my heart, the cause Of
the preservation Of peace"
PRES INT REGRETS ACTION
In his letter accepting Mr. Bryan s
resignation, the President says:
IT accept your es:gnation only be-
cause you ms st upon my accepting it.
accept It with plu h more than deep
regret, with feeling Of personal SOL
roL'.
1--WE are not separated in the object
we est h seek, but only in the method
by which we seek it. We shall con-
tjnue TO work for the same causes, even
though we eaC h do our work in our own
Wa~''
Following the announc ement from the
White House Of the resignation Of the
secretary Of state came q statement that
Robert Lansing, counselor Of the state
department, viii become secretary ad
interim. ~ D.. ~ Z, hEi": .s. q,
LANSING MAY SUCCEED I
1t is regarded as altogether probable
that Mr.. Lansing will be asked to enter
the cabinet as secretary Of state and
that his ad interim status will be OF
short duration.
Mr.. Lansing is an authority on inter
national law and has represented the
government in the settlement Of nun
Der Of International questions. He ha'
been associated with the state depart
ment as counselor, succeeding JOIN
Bassett Moore, who resigned through in
Fh'lity TO agree with Secretary Bryan I
Mexican policy.
In the drafting Of the first note o.
protest sent to Berlin following tn,
sinking of the Lusitania, on May IS, tn
first radical Disagreement in the cabi
net, between the secretary Of state ant
the President, was intimated, sine,
which time Bryan has twice offered t,
rrsign, in each instance being per
suaded to reconsider his determination
EFFECT OF RESIGNATION
The rupture between the Presiden
and the sec rotary and the correspond
ente in connec ton with it which ha
been made public intensiftes the imp-es
sion that the President will take tn
strongest possible grounds In his deal
ing with the German AmeriC an situa
ton. Many interpretations as to tn
effect Of Bryan's resignation upon tn
international situation are offered, bu
the general belief Is that 1t win be tn
American policy now to assert that tn
United States intends to defend Re
full rights in any events and Is deter
mined to enforce upon Germany the d.
mands made in the original note Of Pre-
tart, which declared that the Unite
States exported from Germany a decls
ration that the sinking Of unarmed, III
wrrned mere liant shipping would Ceas'
BERLIN MAY DEFY WILSON
A sinister hint Of the attitude to b
taken by Berlin is conveyed in wor
which has reat he'd here from Shangha
China, which states that the refugee
there from Using tao, numbering VI
wcrds of hundred have been notifie
from Berlin to remain where they NJ
and not to attempt to return to Gel
many by way of the United States. Tn
instrut ton sent the refugees is to n
main indefinitely in Shanghai.
It is the general impression here tina
the severance of diplomatic relation
will follow Immediately should the repl
of Berlin to the note TO be transmitte
today prove unsatisfar tory. Such
breaking of of diplomatic relations wi
not nee essarily mean war with Ge
many, but 1t Is admitted that mut h gri
yer complications would follow II an
further attacks be made upon Amer
cans. such as the affair of the Gulhigl
or the Nebraskan, or II American live
are lost in any continuance Of the Ge
man submarine warfare upon unarme
mere hantmen.
TBUToNICs ARE UNEASY
In Austro- German quarters here, u
rGslgnation Of Bryan for the reason Al
rounCed has caused decidedly uneat
feeling.
Vesterdav IL WAS announced that ~
department of jusice had conducted
scare hing inquiry into the cirCumstanc
surrounding the sailing Of tho Lusita
ia and had reached a conclusion that l
ia