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Ignores Principle Wilson Said
"No Word or Act" Would
Be Omitted BY u. S. to
Have Observed.
NEW CLAIM ON LUSITANIA
Berlin Government Refuses to
DIsavoW Act or Accept LA
biIity For Loss of 100
American Lives.
OFFERS NOT SATISFACTORY
Unyielding Attitude Brings Dip
lomatic Negotiations to a
Crisis-No Action Is Ex-
pected Before Tuesday,.
OFFERS NOT SATISFACTORY

Washington, D. c., July 12.-
A serious situation, fraught with
extremely dangerous possibilities,
once more confronts the govern
ment and the people of the United
States as the result of the evasive
and disappointing reply of the
German government to the second
Lusitania note.
Though avoiding public COM
ment on the reply today, high of
ficials did not attempt to conceal
their feeling that the reply was
utterly unsatisfactory. Filled in
the predatory part with assur-
ances of high regard for America,
it fails to meet the issues raised
by this government.
1t fails to meet alike the chief
issue concerning the conduct of
submarine warfare with due re-
gard to the Legitimate rights of
neutral citizens, and it seeks to
shift the responsibility for the
Lusitania outrage.
Counter proposals, inueed, the Ber-
lin government makes, but when sim
mered down they amount, in fact, to no
concessions at all. since they say in
effect that Americans will be safe on
American ships and on neutral ships.
Moreover, Germany seeks as a return
ooroacr;~~ g., 40. -. II,
American government see to it that
American passenger ships shall not
carry Contraband.
Germany Yields Nothing.
Reading of the German reply makes
1t plain that Germany has no intention
of abandoning in principle her policy of
making submarine warfare on passen-
ger and other merchant shipping of
belligerents as she wills, regardless IF
whether neutrals on board those ships
go to their death unwarned. Not only
that, but 1t appears, too. that Germany
is no nearer to indicating a purpose
to make just PREPARATION to this gov
for the Lusitania horror h
she was on the day that vessel went
to the bottO.
With the real Issue involved in the
Lusitania case and the greater case
OF the of submarine warfare
as HIucIl III dispute as ever, the GuGS-
ton once more cur
What is the United States go
ing to do about it?"
1t lis the same old question which
stuck up before the nation before the
May 10 note and before the June 8
note. 1t is as remote from a settle
ment as ever.
No Immediate Break.
Belief here today is that there
will be no open break with Ger
tory state of the diplomatic ex-
changes, but that the situation is
loaded with dynamite in that the
unwarned torpedoine of passenger
ships Of beIIigerents having Amer
lear citizens on board may be re-
sumed at any time.
If, while refusing to accept the Amer
lean position in principal, Germany, in
practice. refrains from further out
RACES, it is thought here that this gov
eminent will not seek to break off rela-
tons. Whether. as the diplomatic ex-
changes proceed, Germany will do so
is a matter on which there is some diff
ference of opinion. The prevailing be-
lief here today is that while Germany
is insisting on a stand which this gov
cannot tolerate, on the other
hand there is nothing to show that the
Berlin government is trying to draw
this country into the war. That view
was much more pronounced here some
weeks ago than it is today.
War Prospect Dimmed.
Deep as is the feeling of disappoint-
ment over the German reply today it
is pgtent the feeling that a clash with
Germany may come out of it is far less
pronounced than it was for several
waakc a ftpr the 1J1Cjt9n mia sunk
Providing the German naval authori-
ties do not p~recipitate a new crisis, the
probabilities are the diplomatic note
writing business will run along for an
indefinite period. Diplomacy, on both
sides in this controversy, following it's
usual course. seems to hope Ia as
time passes the sharp outlines of the
issues will grow DINNER in the mind
= of the public.
The Probable Course.
Speculation is rife today concerning
the nature of the next American note.
President Wilson is expected to be back
in Washington early in the week and
the tenor of the third Lusitania docu-
ment from this government to Berlin
will be discussed at the cabinet meet
ing Tuesday. Enough is known of the
urpose of the administration to say
with assurance that this government,
while it will not put an ultirnatum up
to Germany, will stand firmly by its
previous notes, will demand that assur-
ances be given that neutral rights be
protected, as asked on June 8, and will
insist that the Lusitania sinking was
absolutely unjustified and Germany
through diplomatic methods, must
make a proper settlement.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, D.. c., July 1o.-Al-