Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-20
PRESIDENTS NOTE 10 BERLIN



WASHINGTON, April 20.
Following is the full text of President Wilson's Ger
many
Secretary Of
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now in the possession of the Government the
United States fully establishes the in the of the Sus
and the differences which my Government has drawn from
that information regards confirmed by the circumstances set
forth in Exceeny of the 10th instant On the Oath
Of March, 1916 at about 250 o'clock the afternoon the
armed steamer Sussex with 325 board
among whom number of American citizens toredoed
while crossing from Fokone Dppe The Sussex had
been armed vessel known be habtua used only for
ne conveyance OF passengers the English Channel and
was not following the route taken by troop ships supply ships
About 80 of her of all and
including citizens of the United States killed or injured
The Sussex Torpedoed by German Submarine
careful detailed and scrupuloy impartial investigation
by naval and military officers concusvey
established the fact that the Sussex orpedoed without
ing surrender and that the torpedo by which she
was struck was of German manufacture
In the view of the United these
facts from the first made the conclusion that the torpedo
red by German submarine unavoidable 1t considers that
conclusion by the statements of Eceenc
note full statement of the upon which the Government
of the United States has based its conclusion ncosed
The Government having given
deran the of the Imperial Government of the 10th of April
regrets to state that the
proposals contained that note that the Imperial failed
to appreciate the gravity of the situation which has resulted
marine warfare disclosed by the practice
of German undersa craft during
mnate destruction of of all natnaes
destinations.
If the sinking the
of the United States might find possible
responsible for that wuy crmnay
negligent in taking of the precautions they
by imposing upon adequate punish
indemnity bv the 1mneriaI Covnmn Pu+ +hon tS .t n
Sussex manifesy indenble taga
to make stand forth the terrible
of submarine
it. it unhappiy does
Deliberate Spirit of Destruction
On the contrary the Government
events to conclude that is only instance though the
ana most distressing instances OF the deliberate method spirit
of ndscrim of naontr
quckened and extended
The Imperial when February 1915 it
It's intentions OF treating the waters surrounding Great Britain
and Ireland embraced within the
sge nd warned all vessels neutral as well as bgnt keep out
Of the waters thus prescribed their
policy could papab
of the accepted laws nations
rules founded the principles humanity
lection of the lives nocomants could
be observed by vessels.
1t based its protest the
ownership exposed extreme and int
risks and that right
asserted by the Imperial Government
States based that origin founded upon merely
arbitrary principles set by convention
manifest principles established with the
approval and by the express assent of all civilized
Promise of Precautions Not Fulfilled
The Imperial Government carrying
which had
M d 10 @ s man n OF S submarines and Assuring the Government of
the rights of neutrals and to safeguard
this
Its adar thus announced and thus entered
practices ruthless desru
that the Imperial Gvenm has iound n % ms nave ave gone W
stants upon them as it had hoped and promised .
the Government of the United