Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-08
President Wilson DiSpleaSed
With Forecasts Published
Regarding Demands Upon
Germany,
CHIEF AIM IS TO BE
ABSOLUTELY EXPLICIT
Law Officers of State Depart
ment Go Over Document
With Minute Care and Sug-
geSt Certain Changes,
tsY sosn,no JouNn.L SPECIAL lSAsso mssI

Washington, June 7.-presidcnt
Wilson let it be known today That
the note which the United States Is
10 send to Germany with respect to
submarine warfare, had been pre-
pared with the utmost expedition and
had not been subjected to an hours
unnecessary delay since il was first
drafted.
The presidents desire to have the
document state explicitly the position
of the United States so that it can
not be misunderstood abroad or. in
vite protracted discussion on the
fundamental issues involved is chief
Is responsible for the fact that the
note has not yet gone forward.
Suggests Some Changes.
Legal officers of the government
examined the note with minute care
today and sent il back to the presi-
dent with some changes. II may re-
quire further consideration by the
president and his cabinet tomorrow
and high officials did not know to-
night Just when it would be cabled.
on the highest authority, however. IL
was stated that as soon as the presi-
dent regarded the communication as
satisfactory i'm phraseology, ii would
be transmitted to Ambassador Ge-
rard.
Questions Of such serious moment
are involved in the wording Of the
new note that the president is anx-
ious that the note not only shall meet
his own wishes, but should he unim-
peachable from the point of view OF
the experts in international law.
Ilusitania Was Unarmed.
While the president has been at
work on the document, special agents
OF the government have. by their In
vestlgation, corroborated in every
detail the statement made in the
first note--that the Lustania was
unarmed.
At the same time Myer Gerhard,
personal envoy of Count Won Bern
storff, the German ambassador, has
been voyaging nearer to Germany,
carrying important messages from
the German embassy concerning the
American point OF view on submarine
warfare. The later circumstance,
however, was declared in high official
circles, to have been merely a coinci-
dence and in no way TO have intlu-
enced the progress of the note.
German View Hopeful
To what extent the German view
tween the United States and Germany
is the same as that held at Berlin is
not clear as yet. But certainly the
general view in German quarters at
the capital is that the recent trend Of
events gives hopes of friendly ad-
iustmtnt This is based not alone on
the probable course of the German
side of the negotiations, but also on
the American course, which is re-
garded as developing along lines
which will permit of a satisfactory
conclusion.
The most promising solution of a
formula Of the German point is one
which would combine an agreement
of the status of the Lusitania as arm
ed or unarmed; also, general agree
ment guaranteeing immunity from at
tack hereafter to all unarmed ships
carrying passengers.
AS to the Lusitania, the German
position thus far has been that she
was an armed ship, but did not as
sert the principle that unarmed pas
senger ships should be similarly sunk.
IT is maintained, therefore, that the
principle of immunity to unarmed
passenger ships is one which could be
accepted by Germany as consistent
with her attitude up to this time, and
would give the largest measure Of
protection to Americans in the future
Such an agreement on the status OF
the Lusitania and the principle to
govern unarmed passenger ships it is
generally admitted would pave the
way fer a much wider adjustment Of
all the various conflicts which have
arisen over American ships and the
safety of the seas and the hope is ex-
pressed that this larger adjustment
might even in turn lead to the su-
preme question of bringing the war
ring nations to peace.
No Intentional Delay.
Officials familiar with the situation
dissipated the notion that any influ-
ences had arisen to delay the sending
OF the communication One of the
closest advisers declared that there
mad been no intentional delay but
lhat the note had required much
scrutiny and careful consideration.
When the document finally is made
pubic, these officials stated, ii would
not only satisfy American public
opinion, but would place sduarely
before Germany the issue as to
whether the imperial government in
tends to adhere to the hitherto ac-
cepted principles of international law
on maritime warfare.
Forecasts Displcasc President.
The president has been displeased
by the numerous detailed accounts
that have been published of what the
note would contain when he himself
mad not yet settled finally on its con-
tents. He is axious that misconcep-
uons of the position of the United