Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-04-28
WILSON WARNS
KAISER SUBSEA
WAR MUST stop
Note ForeshadoWs Break Unless
Teutons Cease U-Boat
Attacks.
DEMANDS IMMEDIATE ACTION
President Notifies Berlin Government
That Diplomatic Relations viii Be
Severed II Present Methods Of
Submarine Commanders Are
Not Abandoned at Once.

Washington.-The note to Germany
demanding immediate cessation Of il
legal attacks by submarines on pas
senger and freight steamers carrying
neutrals was given out by the state
department simultaneously with its
receipt by Ambassador Gerard for de-
livery to the German foreign office.
The note is regarded as essentially an
ultimatum, although not given that
technical designation by the state de-
partment The note follows:
ITO Ambassador Gerard:
you are instructed to deliver to
the secretary of foreign affairs COM
munication reading as follows:
4 did not fail TO transmit immedi-
ntely by telegraph to my government
your excellency's note of the 10th in
slant in regard to certain attacks by
German submarines. and particularly
IN regard to the disastrous explosion
which on March "a last wrecked the
French steamship Sussex in the EGG
lish channel
Il have now the honor to deliver, un-
der instructions from my government,
the following reply to your excellency:
Information now in the possession
OF the government Of the United States
fully establishes the facts in the case
OF the Sussex. and the inferences
which my government has drawn from
that lnformalion II regards as con-
nrmed by the circumstances set forth
m your excellency's note of the 10th
instant
ION the gath OF March, 1916. at
about $3.50 o'clock in the afternoon.
the unarmed steamer Sussex, with
s25, OF more passengers on board.
among whom were number of Amer
ican citizens. was torpedoed while
crossing from Folkstone to Dieppe.
The Sussex had never been armed !;
Ras a vessel known to be habitually
used only for the conveyance of pas
scngers across the English channel.
and was not following the route taken
b. troop ships or supply ships.
About eighty Of her passengers,
noncombatants of all ages and sexes.
including citizens OF the United States,
were killed or injured.
German Submarine Blamed.
"A careful, detailed and scrupulous-
ly impartial investigation by naval and
military officers of tho United States
has coRclusively established the fac
that the Sussex was torpedoed withou
warning or summons to surrender anC
that the torpedo by which she wa.
s,-lck was of German manufacture. Ii
view OF the government Of the United
States. these facts from the.frst mad,
the conclusion that the torpedo wal
fred by German submarine unavoid
able
1T now considers that conclusion
substantiated by the statements o
your excellency's note A full state
nnent OF the facts upon which the gov
ernmeut Of the United States ha
based It's conclusion is inclosed.
The government of the Unite
States. after having given careful COZ
Bideration TO the note OF the imperis
government Of the 10th Of April. r,
2 grets to state that the impressio
made upon it by the statements an
proposals contained in that note
that the imperial government ha
faiied to appreciate the gravity of tn
situation which has resulted. not alon
from tho attack on the Sussex, bt
from the whole method and charactt
Of submarine warfare as disclosed b
the unrestrained practice of the cor
manders Of German undersea craft du
ing the past twelve months and MOI
In the indiscriminate destruction
merchant vessels Of all sorts, natio
alities and destinations.
IF the sinking Of the Sussex hs
been an isolated case, the governmei
OF the United States might find it DC
aible to hope that the officer who W,
responsible for that act had wilful
violated his orders OF had been cril
inally negligent in taking none of Il
precautions they prescribed and
hope that the ends Of justice might
satisfied by imposing upon him an ad
quate punishment, coupled with a Z,
NAL disavowal Of the act and payne
OF a suitable indemnity by the 4
perial government.
But, though the attack upon I