New Britain herald., 1915-02-25
United States May Cut or
 Supplies From Belligerents
In Event of an Absolute Rejection of the American Plan for Ameorating Situation Is Talk
 in Washington *
in Washington.

may investigate the truth or falslty of the reports.
 Berlin Favorably Impressed.
 Berlin, Feb. 14. Via London, 10 D. m.-The American identical note on maritime warfare, sent by the United States government to Great Britain and Germany is now in the hands of pr. Von Bethmann-Ho Hollweg, inn perial German chancellor, and Got tleib Won Jagow, the German for eign minister who are examining carefully the various proposals con- tained in it. The German govern ment is not yet ready to make q statement regarding the contents of the note, but it is said that they may be regarded as the basis for further negotiations. Certain of the pro poSalS for example, the remo oval of the mine fields around England, probably will be unacceptable to Ger many may make concessions on other points. It cannot be said however, that there is any great optimism in German diplomatic quarters though they will accept any of the pro- posals permitting the importation of foodstuffs into Germany. The Ger
 
 counting on such concessions
 The Lokal Anzeiger says it learns that the American note is cordial in tone and that it presents a workable basis for further negotiations. Washington" the newspaper adds, now takes up the suggestions ,, outlined in the final passage of Ger many's answer and makes proposals h oioh o1 h to Germany and Great Britain" No Word From Conference. Berlin, Feb. 25-Nothing has been made known up to the present time i of the conference of the German l statesmen last night to discuss tho | American identical note on marine
 warfare and the feeding of civilian 1 populations, sent by the United States
 government to both Great Britain and
 Germany This meeting was held ir
 the residence of Dr Won Bethmann- i Hollweg, the imperial chancellor 1 Among the statesmen present Wal l Gottlieb von Jagow, the foreign min i iSter.
 1 No further details have been giver
 out in Berlin of the reported sink
 ing of a British transport by a Ger
 man submarine. It is being eX l plained here that the under sea boa | in question sent only a brief wireless. l announcement and that details of tn, | occurrence probably were not knowr | even to her crew because Of the linn ited field of observation of submarin, l periscopes Furthermore. the sub
 marine may have had no other op
 portunity to use its wireless apparatus
 Evelyn's Crew Safe.
 The crew of the American steame | Evelyn which went down in the Nortl
 sea as a result Of striking a mine l apparently all have reached Bremen.
 haven, the second boat having beer
 picked up by a German steamer. Neither the American embassy nol | the German admiralty has as yet re- ceived a detailed report concernine 1 the loss of the American steamer { Carib, which struck a mine and sunk 1 the afternoon of February 22, off Helgoland in the North sea. The cir cumstances under which these two ships were wrecked are being investi- gated thoroughly. The American | consul at Bremerhaven is taking the deposition of the master of the Evelyn, whose Statements will deter l mine the responsibility for the Evelyn being off the course described as safe by the German admiralty. The German announcement that a British troop transport had been sunk by a submarine has not been verified from London, where it has been said that this report doubtless referred to the torpedoing of the British steamer Branksome Chine, a government col Her, which was attacked the after noon of February 23 in the English