New Britain herald., 1916-04-20

Washingto April 20-The full text of the note to Berlin, addressed to Ambassador Gerard, follows:
 ssYou are instructed to deliver to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs a communication reading as follows:
 did not fail to transmit imme- diately, by telegraph, to my govern ment Your Excellency's note of the 10th instant in regard to certain at tacks by German submarines. and particularly in regard to the disas- trous explosion which on March 24, last, wrecked the French steamship Sussex in the English Channel. I have now the honor to deliver, under in- structions from my government, the following reply to Your Excellency:
 Sussex Case Established.
 Information now in the possession of the Government of the United States fully establishes the facts in the case of the Sussex, and the ref erences which my government has sfrawn from that information it re- gards as confirmed by the circum- stances set forth in Your Excellen- cy's note of the 10th instant. On the 24th of March, 1916, at about 2:5O o'clock in the afternoon, the unarmed steamer Sussex, with 325 or more passengers on board, among whom were a number of American citizens, avas torpedoed while crossing from Folkestone to Dieppe. The Sussex had never been armed; was a vessel known to be habitually used only for the conveyance of passengers across the English Channel, and was not following the route taken by troopships or supply ships. About eighty of her passengers, non-com- batants of all ages and sexes, in se1uding citizens of the United States, were killed or injured.
 A careful. detailed and scrupu1ous- ly ysimpartial investigation by naval and military officers of the United States has conclusively established the fact that the Sussex was torpedoed without warning or summons to sur render, and that the torpedo by which she was struck was of German manufacture. Tn view of the Govern ment Of the United States these facts from the first made the conclusior that the tornedo was fired by Ger man submarine unavoidable. It now considers that conclusion substantial ed by the statements, of Your Excel lency's note. A full stateme ent of the facts upon which the government of the United States has based it's con- clusion is inc1osed. < AThe Government of the Unitedr states, after having given careful con- sideratfon to the note of the Imperial l Government Of the 10th of April, re- | grets to state that the impression 1 made upon it by the statements and proposals contained in that note is that the Imperial Government has failed to appreciate the gravity Of the situation which has resulted not , alone from the attack on the Sussex but from the whole method and chara acter of submarine warfare as disclosed by the unrestrained prac- tice of the commanders of German undersea craft during the past twelve month and more in the indiscriminate destruction of merchant vessels of all sorts, nationa1ities and destina- &jons.
 Sussex Not Only Case.
 If the sinking of the Sussex had been an isolated case the Govern ment of the United States might find 1t possible to hope that the officer who was responsible for that act had Wilfully violated his orders or had been criminally negligent in taking none of the precautions they prescrib- ed, and that the ends of justice might be satisfied by imposing upon him an adequate punishment, coupled with formal disavowal of the act