The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-07-23
INTENSE DISAPPOINTMENT FELT
AT WARRINGTON OVER FAIL
URE OF BERLIN TO COM
PLY WITH DEMANDS
OF WILSON.
GIVES NO DISAVOWAL;
OFFERS NO PREPARATION
Imperial Government Makes Counter
Possibly Be Accepted BY Amer
ica-Complete Text May
Not Prove as Unsatis-
factory as Report.

Washington, July IL. - While tn
German reply to the protest of tn
marine warfare upon merchant vessel
bearing noncombatants has not beef
received by the state department, tn,
text of the note, as contained in pres.
dispatches is before administration of
ficials. No attempt is made to concea
the intense disappointment felt ovel
the failure of Germany to comply with
the demands of President Wilson i'm
mediately after the destruction of the
Lusitania by German submarine
These demands were:
| l. Disavowal of the acts which the
government of the United States com
planned
2. Reparation so far as reparation
is possible for injuries which are
without measure"
3. Immediate steps to prevent the
| recurrence of anything so obviously
subversive of he principles of war
! fare.
Germany has given no disavowal and
has offered no reparation. Instead of
taking immediate steps to cease the
submarine methods to which this gov
eminent emphatically objected, she
has made counter proposals which it
is said cannot possibly be accepted by
the American government.
To Continue Submarine Warfare.
The big fact stands out from the
German response that the Kaiser's
government intends to continue sub
marine warfare irrespective of the pro-
tests of the United States. Thus the
country is again, it is feared, facing
the issue of broken relations with the
German empire.
President Wilson is due back in
Washington In time to discuss the
note with his cabinet at a regular
meeting Tuesday. Until the official
text arrives there will be no comment
made. Hope prevails that the COM
plete text, carefully translated, will
not prove as unsatisfactory as the ca
bled report, but officials here, it is
known, are not optimistic over the
prospects.
ext OF German Notc.
Berlin, via London, July 10.-The
text Of the German note follows:
Berlin, July S.-The undersigned
has the honor to make the following
Gerard, to the note of the 10th ultimo, |
re the impairment of American inter-
ests by the German submarine war. |
The imperial government learned with |
satisfaction from the note how earn
estly the government of the United |
States is concerned in seeing the prin-
ciples of humanity realized in the
ready echo in Germany and the i'm
perial government is quite willing to
permit its statements and decisions in
the present case to be governed by |
he principles of humanity just AZ it |
las done always.
Recalls Principles Of Humanity.
1.-THE imperial government welcomed
With gratitude when the American
government, in the note of May Is,
tself recalled that Germany had al
ways permitted itself to be governed
~ the principles of progress and hui
nanity In dealing with the law of
maritime war Since the time when
frederick the Great negotiated with
'ohn Adams, Benjamin Franklin and
thomas Jefferson the treaty of friend
hip and commerce of September 9,
1856, between Prussia and the republic
t the west, German and American
tatesmen have, in fact, always stood
ogether in the struggle for the free
ON Of the seas and for the protec-
lon of peaceable trade. In the inter
ational proceedings which since have
cen conducted for the regulation of
be laws of maritime war, Germany
nd America have jointly advocated ]
rogressive principles, especially the ]
bolishment of the right to capture at
ga and the protection of the interests
[ neutrals.
Would Spare Enemy Civilians.
Even at the beginning of the pres |
Mt war, the German government i'm
lediately declared its willingness, in !,
ssponse to proposals Of the American {
overnment, to ratify the Declaration {
London and thereby subject itself Y