New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-04
LuSitania Case Data
Reach President
on His Train.
GERMAN NOTE
is DUE TO-DAY
Berlin Has Not Made
Full Compliance,
Capital Hears.

from s,sr Corrsponder, q Tie Tribune.
On Presidents Train, Feb. "a bun
die of dispatches from the State De
partmcnt. some Of them IN cipher, were
received by the President on the train
this afternoon. He spent several hours
working over them and it was evident
that he regarded them as of extreme
importance They are supposed to bear
on the Lusitania case.
The President was evidently not dis
turbed by whatever information the
dispatches contained. Us he took nap
soon after reading them.
Washington, Feb Dispatches on
the Lustanis situation from Colonel
House. for President Wilson, are be
lieved to have been delivered to the
President to-day on his special train.
Colonel House discussed the situation
with high German officials, informing
them of the position of the United
States, and receiving in return first
hand information OF their viewpoint.
Details were not disclosed in such dis
patches as have been received here, but
they reported Colonel House found II
unnecessary 10 remain in Berlin as long
as he originally had intended
Colonel House is said to have dis
cussed other subjects than the Lusi-
,ania case with the German officials,
but the Lusitania situation occupied the
major portion of his dispatches to the
President
The latest communication 10 Count
Won Bernstorff, it WAS said at the en-
bassy. had not arrived in Washington
tonight. 1t is expected tomorrow;
unless present plans fail through de-
lay in delivering the dispatch 10 the
German Ambassador, the tentative
form Of settlement, as now suggested
by the German government, should be
in Secretary Lansing's hands before the
President returns TO Washington to-
morrow, or soon thereafter.
The semi-ofiicial statement Of the
Foreign Office forwarded TO this
country that there "was reasonable
hope that communication which had
been started 70 Count Won Bernstorf
would prove satisfactory to the United
States" is taken in official and diplo-
matte quarters 20 mean that Germany
has not accepted the tentative form Of
proposal exactly as il was submitted
The opinion and hope were expressed
by diplomats in position TO be
familiar with the status of the negotia-
tions that the cardinal points set forth
in tho tentative form approved by
Secretary Lansing remained.
1t was said here that there are GER
tain words which the Berlin officials
believe could not be included j. the
final settlement Of the controversy be-
cause of concern for German public
opinion II was thought certain that
this phase has been explained to Colo
mel House. and that he in turn has
conveyed the explanations 10 President
" Wilson.
reports Tonight talu lnab tHc IAN
guage in the tentative form Of proposal
submitted 10 Secretary Lansing last
week in regard 70 Germsny's expressed
hope that the United States do every
thing possible toward obtaining free
dom Of the seas had been revised con
slderably, because il was considered
that the words used might have con-
veyed the impression that Germany
was making that question a condition
Of settlement. This, il was explained,
WAS in no wise the intention OF the
German government.