The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-04-29
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 De
Severed n Present Methods Of
Submarine Commanders Are
Not Abandoned at Once.

Washington. note to Germany
demanding immediate cessation Of IL
legal attacks by submarines on pas
senger and freight steamers carrying
neutrals was given ont by the state
department simultaneously with Its
receipt by Ambassador Gerard for de-
livery to the German foreign ONCE.
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 a COM
munication reading as follows:
II did not fail to transmit immedi-
ately 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 Eng
lish channel.
II have now the honor to deliver, I'M
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 differences
which my government has drawn from
that information 1t regards as con-
firmed by the circumstances set forth
in your excellency's note Of the 10th
instant.
"On the oath Of March, 1916. at
about $3.50 o'clock in the afternoon,
the unarmed steamer Sussex, with
325 or more passengers on board,
among whom were a number of Amer
lean citizens, was torpedoed while
crossing from Folkstone to Dieppe.
THE Sussex had never been armed |;
was vessel known to be habitually
used only for the conveyance Of pas.
sengers across the English channel,
and was not following the route taken
by 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
" impartial 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 surrender and
that the torpedo by which she wal
struck was Of German. manufacture. II
view of the government OF the United
States. these facts from the first made
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
ment of the facts upon which the gov
eminent of the United States hal
based It's conclusion is inclosed.
THE government OF the Unite.
States. after having given careful con
sideration to the note of the imperia
government OF the 10th of April, re
grets to state that the impression
made upon 1t by the statements an,
proposals contained in that note 4
that the imperial government ha
failed to appreciate the e-a IS OF N
situation which has voc ~.
from the stack D. -. bu
from the whole method aad rharacte
Of submarine warfare as disclosed b
the unrestrained practice OF the CON
manders of German undersea craft dul
Ing the past twelve months and NOR
in the indiscriminate destruction q
| merchant vessels of all sorts, nation
alities and destinations.
III the sinking OF the Sussex ha
been an isolated case. the governmer
Of the United States might nnd It DO
sible to hope that the officer who W
Irresponsible for that act had wilful]
violated HIS orders or had been erin
inally negligent In taking none Of u
precautions they prescribed ana
hope that the ends OF justice might /
satished BY imposing upon him an I'd
quate punishment. coupled with Z "a
, NAL disavowAl Of the act and PAYNE
Of suitable Indemnity BY the Il
, psrial government.
but. though the attack upon Il