Evening journal., 1915-05-15
MAY
END Threatened
GERMAN BREACH.
Meanwhile United States Is
In Suspense Over Sub
marine Warfare
WASHINGTON silent
Until KAISER replies
BY JOHN EDWIN NEvIN,
United Press statf Correspondent

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WASHINGTON, May 15.-Suspense
concerning Germanys attitude toward
Americas uncompromising opposition
to submarine warfare except as ap-
piled to warships. will continue at
least a week. Officials today pointed
out that it would be useless to look
for an answer short OF that length Of
time. II may be longer. however, the
principles involved being so far
reaching that the Kaiser and his ad-
visors may be depended on to exam
inc all precedents before framing any
reply.
So far as this government is con-
oerned, there will not be a single Of
fetal utterance on the subject in the
meantime In the case of the Presi-
dent and his cabinet this policy Will
/ be complete. other officials who are
watching the situation do not feel the
same obligation though, naturally,
they canot talk for publication.
Opinion seems about equally d.
vided as TO the outcome.
Officials devoted to the so-callod
"big army and big navy" movements,
, openly assert that Germany must con-
temptuously reject the American de-
mands They say the President erred
in leaving an optional clause in his
note. Others do not take this pessi-
mistic view Among them are men
who have been closely following the
overseas development They say that
Germany has It in her power II she
Wills. TO settle the rights Of her posi-
tion for all time. Their view is that
because OF the intimate friendly re-
lations between the two countries,
Germany can be expected TO exhaust
every means TO prevent an open rup-
ture and point out that the prccedents
America has established will at we'll
into Germanys plans If this is her
desire. Here Is the solution that most
OF these officials suggest j.
Germany can accept the concrete
American suggestion. She can an
nounce that in the interests of friend.
ship. and because she feels she is
right. she will suspend indefinitely
. her submarine warfare against all
passenger-carrying vessels. Then she
I will demand that all issues raised by
the United States be submitted to a
competent arbitration court. The
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is on record as declaring first that,
There can be no last word between
friends" and secondly. that There
can be no justification in refusing
mediation and arbitration when that
course is honorably open" On that
record, these officials believe, the
United States will be compelled to
consider arbitration, should Germany
ask it.
In submitting the whole submarine
warfare problem, insofar as it affects
neutrals rights to arbitration, most
p international experts think Germany
will have the advantage, They sa
the German position has been thai,
nearly every passenger liner bound
: for British ports has her holds jam
med with war munitions and that TO
insure this contraband's safety, pas
D ngers-women and children prefer
e red-are carried 1t has been felt that
these passengers made the vessels
safe or as man close to the German
embassy today put it.
Germany has been accused Of plac-
. ing non-combatants, especially WON
en- and children, in the front ranks to
protect her troops This we deny.
But We have claimed. and we do
claim. that the allies have made II q
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