Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-13
NOTE DECLARES THAT
 GERMANY IS JUSTIFIED SINKING LUSITANIA
Won JagoW'S Answer to the Note of the United States Declares That Presence. of Americans Does Not Protect Ships.

The text of the German note fol- lows "The undersigned has the honor to make the following reply to his excellency. Ambassador Gerard to the note of the tenth ultimo in re impairment of interests by the Ger man submarine war The imperial government has learned With satis- faction from the note how earnestly the government of the United States is concerned in seeing that the prin- ciplcs of humanity are realized in the present war. Also this appeal finds a ready echo in Germany and the imperial government is quite will ing Go permit it's statements and de- cisions in the present case to be gov erncd by the principles of humanity just as 1t has done always.
 "The imperial government welcom- ed with gratitude when the American government in it's note or -day 15 it- self recalled that Germany had ai. ways permitted itself to be governed by the principles of progress aad humanity in dealing with law and maritime war Since the time when Frederick the Great negotiated with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson the treaty of friend ship and commerce of Sept. 9, 17S5, between Prussia and the republic of the west, German and American statesmen have. in fact, always stood together in the struggle for the free dom of the seas and for the protec- , ton of peaceable trade.
 'In the international proceedings, which have since been conducted for the regulation of the law of maritime war Germany and America have joint fly advocated progressive principles. IU the principles which should be ideal
 of the future have been transgresset more and more the longer its dura ! ton the German government had no guilt therein
 "It is known to the American gov ernment how Germany's adversaries ! by completely paralyzing peaceable traffic between Germany and neutral countries. have aimed from the very | beginning and with increasing lack ot
 consideration at the destruction noj SO much of the armed forces Gs the life of the German nation, repudiating
 in doing SO an the rules oi uJernation al law and disregarding the rights oi neutrala. On Nov @, 1914 England |declared the North Sea a war area by Iplaciug poorly anchored m:ues and by the stoppage and capture Of vessels made passage extremely dangerous and difficult for neutral shipping so i thereby actually blockading neutral
 coasts and ports contrary to all inter. national law. Long before ,ne begin. ming of the submarine war England practically completely intercepted Legitimate neutral navigation Co Ger
 many also. Thus Germany Was driv- len to her submarine war on trade. i "Ou November 14,l914, tne English Ipremier declared in the House of Com Imons that 1t was one Of England's principal tasks to prevent food for the lGeman population from reaching IGermany via its neutral ports. Since | March l, England has been taking from neutral ships, witnouJ further . formality. all merchandise proceeding
 to Germany as we'll as all merchan
 disc coming from Germany even then neutral property Just as it was also with the Boers the German people are now to be given choice of perishing from starvation with it's women and children or of relinQuishing its inde
 pendence.
 While our enemies thus loudly and
 openly proclaimed war without mercy until our utter destruction, we were
 conducting war in seu Gerense foI our national existence anc TOT sake oi - peace and an assured permanency
 We have been obliged to adopt tho lsubmarine warfare to meet the declar
 ed intentions of our enemies and the , method of warfare adopted by then | lin coutravention of international law With an it's efforts in principle to pro tect neutral life and property iron b damage as much as possible the Ger b. Iman government recognized unreserv
 edly in it's memorandum or Feb. that interests of neutrals might suiteI l. from submarine warfare.
 V However, the American govern
 Iment will also understand and appre
 ciate that in the fight For eNstenc' e which has been forced upon German! ,- by its adversaries and announced b.
 them, 1t is the sacred duty or the i'm x peral government to do all within y it's power to protect and save tn ,f lives of German subjects. If the i'm -. lperial government were derelict il
 these, it's duties, it would be guilt
 befor God and history of violation O It those principles of the highest human , ity which are the foundation of ever
 national existence.
 y "The case of Lusitania shows wit If horrible clearness to what tne ieopai '. dizing of human lives by the manne
 of conducting war as employed Dy ou l- adversaries leads. In the most direC p Contradiction of international law, al
 distinction between merchantmen an
 was vessels has been obliterated b tl the order to British mercnau,men ( n arm themselves and ram submarine