The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-05-28
NOTE INSISTS UPON ABSOLUTE
CESSATION BY GERMANY OF
SUBMARINE ATTACKS ON
SHIPS BEARING NOM
COMBATANTS.
TO LEAVE NOTHING UNDONE
TO PERFORM SACRED DUTY
Communication States That Rights of
United States and Its Citizens VIII
Be acknowledgements Elk
.pectatFon Imperial Government
May Disavow Acts.


Washington, May 15.-The Unite
States government has cabled Ambas
sador Gerard for presentation to tn
German government note calling at
tention ''to the grave situation which
has resulted" from violation of Amer
lean rights on the high seas, culminat
ing in the sinking of the Lusitanis
with a loss of more than 100 Ameri
can lives.
Germany May Dsavow Acts.
The communication expresses the
confident expectation of the United
States that the Imperial German gov
eminent may disavow the acts Of
which the government of the United
States complains, that they will make
reparation SO far as reparation is pos
sible for injuries which are without
measure and that they will take i'm
mediate steps to prevent the reoc.
currence of anything so obviously
subversive of the principles of war
fare for which the Imperial German
government in the past so wisely and
so firmly commended"
u. S. to Uphold Rights.
In its conclusion, the note states
that "the chief imperial government
will not expect the government of the
United States to omit any word or
any act necessary to the performance
of its sacred duty of maintaining the
right of the United States and its citi-
zens and of safeguarding their free
exercise and enjoyment"
Text Made Public.
The text of the note made public by
the state department, is, in part, as
follows:
Department of State. Washington.
"The secretary of state to the
American ambassador at Berlin.
please call on the minister of for
eign affairs and after reading to him
this communication leave with him a
copy
''In view of recent acts of the Ger
man authorities in violation of Amer
lean rights on the high seas, which
eliminated in the torpedoing and sink
ing the British steamer Lusitania on
May z, 1915, by which over 100 Amer
lean citizens lost their lives, it is
clearly wise and desirable that the |
government of the United States and |
the Imperial German government |
should come to a clear and full under
standing as to the grave situation |
which has resulted
'The sinking Of the British passen-
ger steamer Faiaba by German sub
marine on March 2S, through which
Leon G. Thresher, an American citi-
zen, was drowned; the attack on April
% on the American vessel Cushing by
German aeroplane; the, torpedoing
on May 1 of the American vessel Gull
flight by a German submarine, as a
result of which two or more Ameri-
can citizens met their death, and,
finally, the torpedoing and sinking of
the Lusitania, constitute a series of
events which the government of the
United States has observed with grow
ing concern, distress and amazement
Sanctioned by Germany?
Recalling the humane and enlight-
ened attitude hitherto assumed by the
Imperial German government in mat
ters Of international right and par
ticularfy with regard to the freedom
Of the seas; having learned to recog- ]
nize the German views and the Ger
man influence In the field of interna- !
ionaI obligation as always engaged s
Upon the side Of Justice and human
ty; and having understood the in t
,tructfons OF the Imperial German g
to It's naval commanders
% be upon the same plane Of humane r
lction prescribed by the naval codes @
II other nations, the government of Y
he United States was loath to believe O
1t cannot now bring itself to believe C
that these acts, SO absolutely con- n
rary to the rules, the practices, and II
he spirit of modern warfare could n
ave the countenance or sanction Of u
hat great government. 1t feels it to
e its duty, therefore, to address the v
imperial German government con- Z
erning them with the utmost frank a
ess and In the earnest hope that 1t is IT
o. mistaken in expecting action on ri
he part Of the Imperial German gov Ct
rnment which will correct the unfor- e.
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