The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-24
Comment of the Newspapers
Is on the Whole of a
Temperate Tone
SAYS 1T WILL NOT
ELECTRIFY GERMANY
Claim That Submarine Warfare Cannot
Be Given Up While England Is Try
ing to Starve Germany -. Delay Be
fore Answer Is Given.

BERLIN, April 24.-The American
note is now in the hands of Emperor
William, Chancellor -Bethmann-
Hollweg and Gen. Won Falkenhayn,
chief of the general staff at head
chief of the general staff at general
headquarters. summary of the note
was telegraphed Friday to general
headquarters and a courier bearing
the full text and the appendix was
sent thither by train. The delibera-
tions of the emperor, the chancellor
and the chief of staff will determine
the future shaping of German-Ameri-
can relations. The note appeared in
the newspapers Saturday afternoon.
All is calm at Berlin.
Following the lead of q few mornin1 =
papers in preparing the public as gent
Iy as possible for the American note,
the Berlin Zeitung am Mittag, after
explaining the delay in publication as
due to the length of the note and the
difficulty of translation, declares: - 1t
viii not electrify Germany, as it is re
ported to have electrified America.
Germany has been willing to go to
the most extreme limit to meet the
United States ever since the American
even to make ineffective, Germany S
weapon of necessity. We have, as has
been proved thousand times to every
thinking man, so far guarded the in
terests of all neutrals that not an in
considerable conflict of opinion has
arisen among us.
"'To the last man, however, the Ger
man people are united in the firm re
( solve not to let the submarine be
/ wrenched from our hands as a weapon
! We need it because it has shown itself
/ to be an effective weapon. We use ii
/ according to the principle of justice
! md humanity always invoked in the
/ American notes. and We will use it in
/ she fuc&re because our right and our
! amman consideration for our eXlsteuc>
IS q state and the future of our wives
| and children compel us. Therefore WE
await with calmness and determination
what President Wilson has to say"
The Zeitung am Mittag says that
/ Germany has to acknowledge to its re
greet that the spirit of large numbe1
of the leading American politicians
tor n long time has not been neutra
&c with regret, adds the paper, be
cause every one of us has the wisi
to avoid an unnecessary conflict b,
giving in to the most extreme Emi
and because we believe clash will
America can be avoided unless the in
tention exists over there wantonly t.
bring it about
Germany's answer to the note i
likely to be delayed by some parley
and requests for further information
on certain points, according to tn
Berlin Lokalanzeiger, which says i
learns that the note is decidedly loni
and that it will he examined wit
German thoroughness. The Lokalan
zeiger s prediction is borne out by tn
fact that it has been forwarded t
general headquarters.
The Lokalanzeiger endeavors to tax
fairly optimistic view of the situa
ton, basing this on what it terms tn
almost invariably misleading terms o
English news dispatches. It declare!
however, that as England is endeavol
ing to starve the country, German
cannot give up the right of selfd,
fense.