New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-24
Deliberately Unfiendly," Wilson Warns
Kaiser, If Another American Is Injured
Full Text of Third Note to Germany

principle, not upon expediency and the prin-
ciples are immutable. 1t is the duty and OBJ
legation of belligerents to find way to adapt
the new circumstances to them.
The events of the past two months have
clearly indicated that it is possible and prac-
ticable to conduct such submarine operations
as have characterized the activity OF the I'M
perial German Navy within the so-called
war zone in substantial accord with the ac-
cepted practices OF regulated warfare. The
whole world has looked with interest and IN
creasing satisfaction at the demonstration
of that possibility by German naval COM
manders. 1t is manifestly possible, there
fore, to lift the whole practice OF submarine
attack above the criticism which it has
aroused and remove the chief causes OF Of
fence
In view OF the admission OF illegality made
bv the Imperial Government when it pleaded
the right of retaliation in defence of its acts,
and in view of the manifest possibility OF con-
forming to the established rules of naval
warfare the Government OF the United States
cannot believe that the Imperial Government
will longer refrain from disavowing the wan
ton act of its naval commander in sinking
the Lusitania or from offering reparation for
the American lives lost, so far as reparation
can be made for needless destruction OF
human life by an illegal act
The Government of the United States,
while not Indifferent to the friendly spirit
in which it is made, cannot accept the sug-
geston of the Imperial German Government
that certain vessels be designated and agreed
upon which shall be free on the seas now
illegally prescribed The very agreement
would, by implication. subject other vessels
to illegal attack, and would be curtalment
and therefore an abandonment OF the prin-
ciples for which this government contends
and which in times of calmer counsels every
nation would concede as Of course.
The Government of the United States and
the Imperial German Government are con-
tending for the same great object, have long
stood together in urging the very principles
upon which the Government OF the United
States now so solemnly insists. They are
both contending for the freedom OF the seas.
The Government of the United States will
continue to contend for that freedom, from
whatever quarter violated, without compro-
mise and at any cost. 1t invites the prac-
tical cooperation of the Imperial German
Government at this time when cooperation
1.~t,,, o,,I
object be most strikingly and effectively
achieved.
The Imperial German Government ex-
presses the hope that this object may be in
some measure accomplished even before the
present war ends. 1t can be. The Govern
ment OF the United States not only feels
obliged to insist upon it, by whOmsOever viO-
lated or ignored, in the protection OF its own
citizens, but is also deeply interested in see
ing it made practicable between the belliger-
ents themselves, and holds itself ready at any
time to act as the common friend who may
be privileged to suggest way.
In the mean time, the very value which
this government sets upon the long and un-
broken friendship between the people and
Government OF the United States and the
people and Government OF the German nation
impels it to press very solemnly upon the Inn
perial German Government the necessity for
a scrupulous observance OF neutral rights in
this critical matter. Friendship itself
prompts it to say to the Imperial Govern
ment that repetition by the commanders OF
German naval vessels OF acts in contraven-
ton OF those rights must be regarded by the
Government of the United States, when they
affect American citizens, as deliberately un-