The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-23
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/ tain whether or not the admiralty ha1
heard ANYTHING from its submarine
commander No reply to this query
had been received. The delay in Sc
curing Arabic survivors statements
was attributed to the fact that many
left Queenstown shortly after LANDING
and Vice Consul Thompson Was nav
ling trouble finding them.
Just why the state department seem
ed doubtful concerning the national1tJ
lof Mrs Josephine Brugufere and 1t:
Woods. the two supposed Americans
who lost their lives when the Arabic
was sunk, was not clear
1t was merely intimated that ther
seemed to be some uncertainty and II
. they were not American citizens. the
situation might be decidedly modfhed
as q practical proposition, though IN
principle, the case would remain the
same inasmuch as there were AmeH'
cans on the ship.
The Mysterious M. p.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.-Identity
OF the mysterious an. Pr who, ac-
cording to a newspaper article. de-
clares he discussed freely with Prest
dent Wilson and Secretary Lansing
the inner secrets Of German-American
diplomacy, was Washington's great
est puzzle today.
The M p" mentioned In the New
York Worlds expose of alleged Ger
man activities In the United States
could have belonged to only very
small group On the other hand.
none of the members OF this group.
by the greatest stretch of the imagin-
alton, could be accepted as possibili-
ties in the role Of IN. p"
Who M p" could be, aroused
much more interest here than any
thing his alleged conversations with
the president discloses. The essence
of these conversations, which, accord
ing to the World. dealt with the prest-
dents protest against German subma-
rine methods and against British acts
against American methods, revealed
no views that the administration was
not generally known to have held.
These included the statements
that
.The American protest to England
would go regardless of Germany's at
tItude toward the United States.
THE dragging out OF the submarine
warfare controversy was embarrass--
ing the administration In dealing with
the British.
"The British tentative proposal to
buy up the American cotton crop was
not satisfactory to this country-be-
cause. though this, was not mentioned
in the NJ. p disclosures, 1t would
leave the British to fix the price.
.-The president hardly looked for .
positive German pledge to discontinue
submarine warfare-it WAS tacftly I'M
derstood that the administration was
interested rather in the way 1t was
being put in effect.
That such statements should have
been made to M. p assuming him
to have been acting in. any, sense for
the German goyernment-was diff
ferent matter. however. The state
m ent that the president would blind
himself to carry his British protest
TO the "uttermost" If the Lusitania
case were ABUSED satisfactorily With
Germany, was also deemed a most
surprising form of expression.
The same view was taken Of the
statement that the president "indi-
Gated his willingness to discuss the
note to Germany-the note sent July
21-with NJ. p and eventually to 80
influence 1t that there will be an
agreement for its reception And
also to be ready to Influence the
press through a wink.
A statement from the white house
records showed it must have been be-
tw cen July 10 and % and between
these dates, the presidents callers
were:
Secretary Lansing; H. H. Clark, OF
Los Angeles; Senator Bankhead;
Representative Tribble; Miss Jane
Adams, Secretary Daniels, Assistant
Secretary of State Philips: ex-Rep-
resentative A. Mitchell Palmer, At
torney General Gregory, Trade Com
missioner Davies. Senator Lewis.
Postmaster General Burleson, Editor
Rathom Of the Providence Journal;
Dudley Field Malone, Judge Mehaw,
of Pittsburgh and Directors Devol and
BickneIl, OF the Red Cross.
Woods Was American.
GAINESVILLE, WIS, Aug. 23.-DT.
Edmund E. Woods. lost In the Arabic
disaster. was a naturalfzed American
citizen. Court records here show
that DR.. Woods took out his second
naners making him a full citizen, De-
cenber 90, 1896. He was born in Eng
land.
Net Discussea by Cabinet.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-The cab.
met has not adopted any policy for
the American government to- pursue
in case the German government u
shown to have been guilty OF de
Iiberately unfriendly act,' said Attor
new General Gregory today. THE
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