Arizona republican., 1915-06-08
President Let's It Be Known That Message Has Been Prepared with Utmost Expedition and Not Hour Unnecessary Delay.
IS MAKING TT
 MOST EXPLICIT
Desires to Have Document State Exactly Position of United States So It Can not Be Misunderstood Abroad.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcHi


 WASHINGTON, June 7-The pres ident let tt be known that the note the United States is to send to Ger many with respect to submarine war fare has been prepared with the utmost expedition and has not been subjected to an hours unnecessary de- lay since it was first drafted. The presidents desire to have the docU ment state explicitly the position of the United States so it cannot be misunderstood abroad or invite pro- tracted discussion on fundamental issues involved is chiefly responsible for the fact that the note has not yet gone forward.
 Legal officers of the government examined the note with minute care and sent it back to the president with some changes. It may require consideration by the president and his cabinet tomorrow, and high of ficials did not know tonight just when it would be cabled On the highest authority. however, it was stated that as soon as the president regarded the communication satis- factory in phraseolOgy it will be transmitted to Ambassador Gerard.
 Questions of such serious moment are involved that in the wording of the new note the president is anx- ious the communication will not only meet his own wishes but that it should be unimpeachable from the point of view of experts in interna- tional law
 While the president has been at work on the document. special agents of the government by investi- eation have corroborated in every detail the statement made in the first note, that the Lusitania was unarmed At the same time Meyer Gerhard. personal envoy of the Ger man ambassador is voyaging near Germany carrying important mess ages from the German embassy con corning the American point of view on submarine warfare. The latter circumstance is declared in high of ficial quarters to be merely q coin cidence. and in no way to have an influence on presenting the note.
 To what extent the German view point here regarding the situation between the United States and Ger many is the same that is held in Berlin is not clear yet But cer- talnly the general view in the Ger man quarters at the capital is that the recent trend of events gives hopes of a friendly adjustment This is based not alone on the probable course of the German side of the negotiations, but also on the Ameri- can course, which is regarded as developing along lines which will permit of a satisfactory conclusion.
 The most promising formula for the solution, according to the Ger man viewpoint, is one which will combine on an agreement on the status of the Lusitania as an armed or unarmed ship, and also a general agreement guaranteeing immunity from attack hereafter of all unarmed ships carrying passengers.
 As to the Lusitania, the German position thus far has been that she was an armed ship, according to in formation in her possession. But when the United States government states definitely that it's official in formation shows the ship was un unarmed, it was then suggested that the Berlin authorities would be in a position to accept this as a posi- (Continued on Page Three)