The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-07-14
NOTE TO Come soon
Won JAG0W SAYS IT MAY BE
DISPATCHED ANY TIME
same FORM AS DRAFTED
Minister Declines to Comment Upon
it in Advance But Tells Of Diff
culties Under Which Negotiations
Have Been Conducted-England
Has Throttled Communication.

Berlin, via London: The German
reply to the American note regarding
the Lusitania and submarine warfare
according to information obtained II
Berlin, probably will be delivered or
Saturday, July 10.
The general tenor and motive o!
the government behind these pro-
posals may be communicated conf.
dentially to the leading representa-
tives of the press FRIDAY, but it is
understood that publication Of the
text in Berlin will be deferred until
the afternoon of the day on which il
is presented at Washington.
James W. Gerard, American am
bassador in Berlin, conferred with
DR.. Alfred Zimmerman, the German
under-secretary of foreign affairs, re-
garding the German reply to the
American note on submarine warfare
The conference was for further dis
cussion of the German tentative pro-
posals.
The fact that the American gov
ernment will not enter into prellmi-
nary negotiations respecting the
forthcoming note was communicated
Thursday to DR.. Alfred Zimmerman,
under-secretary Of foreign affairs, by
James W. Gerard, the American am
bassador. The note will go forward
to Washington in approximately the
same form as drafted.
The outlines of this draft were
submitted to Ambassador Gerard and
forwarded to the state department, in
the expectation by German officials
that the United States would suggest
any changes that might be deemed
advisable
Although, according to some unof-
ticial dispatches from Washington,
the note is considered "unsatisfac-
tory" it is believed that it is far less
so that when the exchange began,
and it is hoped it will lay the basis
for continuing the negotiations.
The German minister Of foreign af-
fairs, Gottlieb Won Jagow' has inform
ed the Associated Press that the dis
patch Of the note is Immediately i'm
pending. A few changes, he said,
perhaps would be necessary, after
which the reply would be delivered
to the American ambassador.
Herr Won Jagow asked to be ex-
cused from commenting in advance,
but discussed the difficulties under
which the note had been conducted,
owing to the slowness and the in
of communications and
"the obstruction to the free exchange
Of news between the German and
American press and public
He called attention to the fact that
Germany had proposed to the United
States the direct cable between Ger
many and the United States be re-
paired, the former country to bear
the expense, but that Great Britain,
which had had the cable cut at the
of the war, had taken no
notice of the proposals. Herr Won
Jagow then added:
"Great Britain apparently does not
want the people of the neutral coun-
tries to be informed in an impartial
way on the events of this great war.
The reasons are not far TO seek. That
is how Great Britain could mould
public opinion in way suiting her
own purpose. America has been mis-
informed about Germany's motives.
This would not have been the case
had Germany been able to present
her case to the American public.
"In what way" asked the corre-
spondent, "have the present nego-
tiatiors been hampered by the abb
sence of cable communications"
Think only of the slowness Of it
ALL" replied the minister. "Why we
seem to have even returned to the
days of the middle ages, when sover-
eigns had to send special ENJOYS back
and forth between the courts to ex-
change views and keep in touch with
one another's wishes and attitudes"