Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-05-29
GERMAN REPLY
IS DELIVERED
Now Being Translated and
VIII Reach Washington
Monday
OUTLOOK IS GLOOMY
OUTLOOK IS GLOOMY
Believed Kaiser's Reply Will be
Piecemeal and in the Main Any
thing But Satisfactory.

Berlin, May 29-The German re-
ply to the American note regarding
German submarine warfare was de.
livered to Ambassador Gerard this
morning.
Berlin, May 90, (via the Hague
The embassy staff is preparing to
work all night, translating and cod
ing Germany's answer in the Lusi-
tania and similar cases. The reply
will be telegraphed first to the Ameri.
can legation at Copenhagen, then
forwarded to the American embassy
at London and cabled to Washington
1t is not expected to reach Wash
ington until Monday, when its con.
tents probably will be made public
here.
Washington, May 29-With news
from Berlin this morning that the
German reply to the American note
probably will reach here Monday and
that it will be temporizing and un-
satisfactory, along with other deve-
lopments, Washington today took n
gloomy and pessimistic view of the
outlook for an adjustment Of diff
culties with Germany
The delay in answering the note,
the disclosure that Berlin will reply
piecemeal and will first seek to bring
abort IN agreement is TO. The fact-
of the Lusitania case; the growing
evidence that the Nebraskan was tor
pedoed, the admission that German
submarine did torpedo the Gulfiight
the defiant tone of part of the Ger
man press all these things and
more are not calculated to reSassure
those who hope for a pacific under
standing with the Kaiser's govern
ment.
Berlin, May 29--The main points Of
the German reply to- the American
note on the sinking of the Lusitania
probably are known to the Admins
tration in Washington now, so the
note itself, which it is expected will
be delivered today, will not come
as an absolute surprise.
The American Ambassador has had
daily conferences at the Foreign Of
fee, where terms of the German ans
wer were discussed. Admiral Beh-
ncke, acting chief of the Admiralty
staff, called at the American En-
bassy yesterday to explain certain
technical details of Germany's posi-
tion relative to submarine warfare.
The torpedoing of the steamship
Gulfight is now established as due to
a German submarine, the report OF
the commander of the submarine in
question having been received by the
Admiralty. The commander stated
that when he first saw the Gulfiight
she was being conveyed by two pat
rol boats, and he concluded that she
must be a British vessel or was car
rv;np contraband. The presence OF
the patrol boats, the commander re-
norted made closer investigation dan,
gerous.
The Foreign Office and the Ad-
miralty are still without news con-
corning the reported torpedoing of
the American steamship Nebraskar
and deprecate all discussion OF pos
sible effect on German-American ne,
potiations pending an authoritative
confirmation of an attack on the ship.
German newspapers have printed
nothing about the Nebraskan incident
since the first Rotterdam dispatch re-
porting that the ship had been tor
nedoed and that she was still af1oa'
with the crew safe in her life boats
London, May ga wireless dis
match from Berlin gives what pur'
norts to be a telegram sent by Count
~, pa,nstorff German ambassador
at Washington, to the foreign Office
in Berlin. The telegram as thus giver
saws that the American press is "Get
ting impatient about the delay in the
answer to the American note" ano
states that "the tension has been IN