New Britain herald., 1915-07-10
'DEA1LUC BET NI|E'EN
 5. AND GERMANY

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 opment of the American attitude be-
 lieved that, having stated it's position
 and asked for assurances which have
 been refused, the only course left
 open for the United States seemed to
 bean announcement that 1t intended
 to assert its rights as established
 under the rules of international law \ This would nleani in effect that the United States would await a violn~
 ton by Germany before taking action
 Ito compel respect for the rights sas-. serted. #
 There was revival of talk con
 cerning the severance of diplomatic
 relations 1t being recalled in ofhcis1
 circles that in the now famous cab-l inet meeting of May II, when the
 sinking of the Lusitania was first
 considered there was an informal un~ aderstanding that if the negotiationA
 Of the United States to secure repar-
 ation from Germany for the destruc- ion of American lives in that tragedy
 failed, the American governnn ent
 might be Justified in disseminating dp-
 lomatic intercourse with Germany, K sGermany's complete evasion of lia ' bility for the loss of American on
 the Lusitania has revived the subJecr
 most acutely, according to we'll in formed persons. s,s,
 Undertone of Disappointment.
 For several days there has been an, undertone of disapp ointment and ap-
 prehensfon over what Ambassador
 Gerard informed the state depart X nnent that the German note would
 contain. The feeling has been, how- ever, that nothing formal or official could be said concerning the Ameri- can position until the official text arr rived. President Wilson has been e eiving quiet consideratona to the character of the reply and some or, hiss Advisers have already been makiny suggestions xwith reference 10 the course that Bhould be pursued
 Analysing the German answer to- day. officials found little on which 1t akpeared that the negotiations coold be further prolonged. The United States had devoted it's attention to the principle that Americans should be able to travel on the high season un- armed and unresisting belligerent merchant ships of any nationality in. gaccordance with previously recog- nized principles Of fsinternational law. Assurances had been asked that be- fore any destr uction would be att tempted, the visit and search Of peaceful vessels and the transfer Of messengers and cr& Wv to place of safety would be- accom- pIished. It tlwas recognized that Germany In its latest note had igiprsd this vital question and had shifted ,now empha sizing the condit Hons qurld ST. which 8 it would promise compae e immunity from danger to4 Aneric fis ling even on Ar1ef1 1gan ships, as ton which since aaIar n0te with ref erenceA fo m ets tTal vessels received on May had not been called into 1t,lestip ssss. .ss x ssss: s N Destroy American Ships
 {: f Iis ex M pr ression kby Gernany of N X yd1hf fide ent hn pe,,a that the United States will assume to guarantee that those vessels have no contraband on board. details Of arrangements for tho sunhampered passage of these vessels to be agreed upon by naval authori- ties Of both sides, left the inaplica- Stfon in the minds of many officials that Germany was. prepared to de- istroy American passenger ships 1f < t1aay were found to be carrying cont traban n nds Ever, though passengers afid crsw of a neutral ship were found to be carrying ontraband has been held bys the United States to be in violation of kinternatioT law ex- cept in aan extreme case. With ref ', erence to Destruction of American ships, such destruction has been held
 specifically to be in violation of the Prussian- American treaty of BPS. IL was recalled that in the last note which Germany sent on the Frye case. this treaty was given a new in terpretation in that the right to stop
 American ships carrying contraband and even to destroy them was de- clared for the first time to be nat rral inference from the language of I the treaty. s4
 The eferenee m the new note tc. the Lusitania tfaEedy createa aa pro~| the United States in the first place t6
 consider that the Lusitania was in
 reality an armed auxiliary cruiser and
 carried high explosives. which the 1 American government in it's note I ontradictcd with official Information the German goyernment.s it now
 seemed. had formally Justified the ae- l ton of the submarine comrnander in 4 sinking the vessel, thereby refusing 7I to disavow the act as the United
 States had requested The statement sI that the German submarine comman- I der could not have halted the vessel
 without submitting his boat and
 crew to danger of destruction and the
 assertion that it was not expected that
 the Lusitania would sink immediate 1 ly after being torpedoed, but would