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RESPONSIBILITY OF CONTINUING
OR BREAKING FRIENDLY RE.
LATlONS BETWEEN TWO
COUNTRIES PLACED
UPON BERLIN.
FURTHER VIOLATIONS TO
BE HELD AS "UNFRIENDLY"
Communication Reiterates Insistance
Upon Rights Of NeutraIs Upon the
High Seas and Plainly Warns Teu-
tons that Offense, Such as Sink
ing of Lusltania, Must Not
Be- Repeated.

Ouly ~.
backing down, and withdrawing not
one whit from his position originally
taken, President Wilson has placed
upon Germany the responsibility of
continuing or breaking the friendly
relations between the two countries.
In the American note addressed to
the imperial German government and
just made public, Germany is fatty
warned that a repetition Of the Of
lenses of which this country COM
plains will be regarded as "deliber-
ately unfriendly."
The words deliberately unfriend-
ly," as used in diplomacy, constitute
polite and suave method of warn
ing, which amounts to an ultimatum.
While the Interpretation of the words
rests with the President, there seems
little doubt but that the executive has
substituted them for the words "strict
accountability" and as he has with
drawn from consideration of these
words, it seems hardly possible he
can ignore the plain intention of the
ones used in this last note.
Strongest Note BY Far.
1t will be regarded rby the country
as a document filled with the grav-
est possibilities. The President, dur
ing the deliberation he has given it
at his home in Cornish, in conjunc-
ton with the aid given him by Secre-
tary Of State Lansing, has apparently
come to the conclusion that the time
for parleying has passed. The note
does not necessarily call for an an
swer, except so far as it is suggested
one would be acceptable relative to
the Lusitania outrage and also in re-
lation to the suggestion that the
American government is interested in
securing the freedom of the seas"
Stripped of all it's diplomatic verbiage
1t is a repetition of the American ex-
preston Of adherence of the German
action in sinking the Lusitania. 1t
reiterates the American insistence
upon the rights of neutrals upon the
seas. 1t does not insist upon repara-
ton for the sinking Of the Lusitania,
but plainly warns Germany that
whatever public avowal or disavowal
the German government may make,
the offense must not be repeated.
Must Not Repeat offense.
The document is by far the strong
est expression that has come from
this government in the course of the
correspondence between America and
the German government. The lang
uage is forceful, courteous, convinc-
ing and almost tart in places.
If Germany should repeat the of.
tense it will constitute an "unfriend.
ly act" and in diplomatic language
this means the breaking off of diplo-
matte relations and possibly war;
With such a declaration of the
American position, this country will
sit back and wait for Germany to
speak, but more specifically to act.
The President apparently feels
there is nothing more for this govern.
ment to do and has returned to his
summer home in Cornish.
Text Of Third American Note.
Washington, July 26.-Following ia
the official text of the latest American
note to Germany regarding submarine
warfare, which was delivered to the
foreign Office at Berlin by Ambassador
Gerard:
THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO
AMBASSADOR GERARD,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
You are instructed to deliver texual
ly the following note to the minister
Of foreign affairs:
The note of the imperial German
government dated the 9Th of July
1915, has received the careful consid
Grafton Of the government of the Unit
ed States. and it regrets to be Obliged
to say that 1t has found 1t very UNI
satisfactory, because it fails to meet
the real difference between the two
governments and indicates no way II
which the accepted principles Of Law
and humanity may be applied in the