The state herald., 1916-02-11
APOLOGY May
END DISPUTE
PRINCIPLES coNTENpEp FOR BY
PRESIDENT CONCEDED IN
LUslTANIA APOLOGY.
GERMAN wARSH|P SUNK
ALLIES POSITIONS ON GREEK
LINE HEAVILY BoMBARDED
FOR TWO DAYS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, Feb. S.--For the word
Illegal which Germany was unwill-
ing to incorporate in the tentative
draft of the Lusitania agreement, the
Berlin foreign office has substituted
q phrase which in the opinion of GER
tain high authorities, In a position to
be familiar with the status of the me-
gotiations. covers all the principles in.
volved in the question OF submarine
warfare. The language substituted
for the Objectionable word illegal" In
tentative communication now being
considered by President Wilson AYERS
that the killing Of Americans in the
Lusitania disaster was without intent.
because the destruction of the Cunard
liner was an act of reprisal, and the
German government agrees that re-
prisals should not be applied to neu.
trails.
From various diplomatic and Off
cial quarters Saturday night came the
information that the outlook is prom
Using for an early settlement.
New York.-Five hundred police
men were assigned Saturday night to
protect the subway system from the
Brooklyn terminal to the Bronx ter
minal and the Hudson and Manhattan
tubes on the strength of report that
a threat had been made to dynamite
the underground roads.
London.-The iong-looked.for often.
siye OF the Teutonic allies against Sa.
lonik may now be on or near at hand
An agency dispatch from Saloniki re-
ports that an artillery duel has been
in progress for two days near Doiran.
Nine hundred Germans and $4,000
OF their colonial troops from the Ger.
man colony OF Kamerun, have crossed
the border into Spanish Guinea, ac-
cording to an official announcement
in Madrid. The troops have been dis.
armed and interned.
An official Bulgarian report, as for
warded from Athens 10 the Temps.
says that 40 men were killed and
more than 500 wounded during the re.
cent attack by French aeroplanes on
Bulgarian camps. The attack Is said
to have been made by seventeen aero.
planes. More than 200 bombs we're
dropped on the Bulgarian camps at
Petrich, In the Strumitsa valley. The
bombardment was over in twenty
minutes.
Berlin reports cases OF sporadic nc.
tivity by infantry. one instance being
La Bassee canal.
In the vosges the German guns
have been bombarding French posi-
tions.
Along the lines where the Au5trlans
and Italians are engaged the deadlock
showr no signs OF beint broken.
Copenhagen. large German war.
ship has been sunk In the Cattegat,
between the island OF Anholt and the
Swedish coast. according to the news.
paper iclsingor Avis.
Washington. Feb. 5.-The one word
Illegal as differently interpreted In
the United States and Germany pro-
trudes from the tentative draft OF the
Lusitania agreement, perfected by
Ambassador Won Bernstorff and Sec
retary Lansing. MS the stumbling
block which has caused Berlin to re-
fer to the negotiations as having
reached crisis and Washington Ia
characterize ,hc situation as grave.
The next forty.eight hours may bring
final action by President Wilson to
force Germany's hand IN the negotia.
tons.
Germany'H answer. presented to
Secretary Lansing by Count Won
Bernstorff, proposes instead OF mn out
nnd.out admission of illcgality OF the
method OF submarine warfare used by
the German naval authorities In sink.
ng the liner. nm acceptance OF lin.
bility for the loss Of neutral lives.
which Berlin hopes will satisfy the
United States and stiil not bind Ger.
many from continuing the submarine
campaign.
u ndon.-Thc Russians themselves
calculate their casualties thus far NJ
5.000.oo and nay 1000 600 German
ana Austrian prisoners have beer
sent to the interior OF Prussia. accord
Ing 10 n Copenhagen dispatch TO the
Exchange Telegraph Company.