Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-08
Note to be Terse
 and Explicit
AND NOT SUBJECT TO UNNEcEs-
 SARY DELAY.
CAREFULLY CONSIDERED
Officials Say It Will Not Only Sat
 isfy American Public Opinion, but Will Place SquareIy Up to Ger
 many Decision on Maritime Warfare.

Washington, June '. = President Wilson let it be known tonight that the to Germany concerning submarine warfare has been prepared with the utmost expedition and had not been subjected to an hours unnecessary de- lay since 1t was first drafted.
 The presidents desire to have the document state explicitly the position of the United States government, so that it cannot possibly be misunder- stood abroad or invite protracted dis cuSsion on the fundamental issues in- volved, is chiefly responsible for the fact that the note has not yet gone.
 Examined With Great Care.
 Legal officers of the government ex- amined the note with minute care to- day and sent it back to the president with some changes. It may require further consideration by the president and his cabinet tomorrow, and high officials did not know tonight just when it would be cabled. On the high est authority, however, it was stated that as soon as the president regarded the communication as satisfactory in phraseology it would be transmitted to Ambassador Gerard.
 Legal Phases of Communication.
 Questions of such serious moment are involved in the wording of the new
 
 the communication not only shall meet his own wishes but should be unim- peachable from the point of view of the experts in international law. While the president has been at work on the document, special agents of the United States government have their investigation corroborated in every de- tail the statement made in the first American note-that the Iusitania was unarmed. At the same time, Meyer Gerhard. personal envoy of Count Von Bernstorff, 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 latter circumstance, however, was declared in high official quarters to have been merely a coinci- dence and in no way to have inf1u- enced the progress of the note.
 No Intention of Delay.
 Officials familiar with the situation adfssipated the notion that any inf1u- ences had arisen to delay the sending of the communication. One of the presidents closest advisers declared that there had been no intentional de- lay, but that the note had required much scrutiny and careful considera- ton.
 Will Satisfy Public Opinion.
 When the document is finally made public, these officials stated, it would not only satisfy American public opin- ion but would place squarely before Germany the issue as to whether the imperial government intends to adhere to the hitherto accepted principles of international law on maritime war fare.
 The president has been displeased by the numerous detailed accounts that have been published of what the note would contain when he himself had not yet settled finally on it's contents. He is anxious that misconceptions Of the position of the United States shall not be cabled abroad and that the Ameri- can people shall suspend judgment un- til they read the text of the document.