The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-02-22
State Dept. Officials So Re-
gard the Submarine Con-
troversy with Germany
UNITED STATES
is DISSATISFIED
Feels That the Assurances of
Berlin Do Not Cover
the Case

Washington. Feb. 22.-State depart
ment officials said yesterday they con
sidered the submarine issue with Ger
many still in a grave state because the
Lusitania agreement, in the light OF the
newly announced submarine policy of the
Germanic powers, contains no assurances
for the future.
The situation created by the an
nounced intention OF sinking armed mer.
chant ships without warning after Feb
20, officials said, was still in the abstract
and was being considered as SUCH but
the Lusitania agreement itself as II now
stands, they explained, merely treats OF
the past and although it gives all in that
respect for which the United States has
contended officials do not feel that it
clearly guarantees against another such
disaster. because while it refers at the
outset to the assurances that German
submarines would not sink unresisting
liners, it does not reiterate them.
Secretary Lansing already has told
Count Won Bernstorff, the German am
bassador, that assurances that the pre-.
vious declarations will not be abandoned
in the new campaign are highly desir'
able.
1t was demonstrated that the Lusi-
tania was wholly unarmed but the
United States has since taken the posi-
tion that it considers ship armed for
defensive purposes only and a ship carry
ing no guns in the same class. The Ger
man contention is that under the new
conditions of naval warfare brought
about by the advent of the submarine,
merchant ship to be immune from attack
should carry no arms whatever.
American officials now are waiting to
go over the appendices attached to the
German Austrian announcement giving
allegations of instances in which British
merchant ships have attacked subma-
rines, and the so-called secret orders of
the British admiralty to merchant ship
captains to war on the submersibles
The submarine issue and the Mexican
situation viii be aired in the Senate dur
ing the week.
Senator Stone will lead the Democrats
in presenting the administration view
point of the situation
The Democrats have determined to
meet what they term an effort on the
part of Republican senator's to make
partisan issue of the diplomatic contro-
versy.
Republican senators are planning an
attack on President Wilson's report on
Senator Falls resolution asking for in !
formation concerning the Carranza gov
eminent.
The president and Secretary Lansing |
withheld diplomatic correspondence re-
lating to political conditions in Mexico, |
which led up to the recognition of Car
rama.
The Senate yesterday adopted reso-
luton by Chairman Stone of the foreign
relations committee asking President I
Wilson to submit the correspondence be-
tween the United States and Korea when
Japan occupied the hermit kingdom dur
ing the Russo-Japanese war. Admins
tration leaders, it was said, want to use
the information in reply to Elihu Roots
attack on the president because no pro-
test was made against the occupation of
Belgium.
Representations were made to the
state department yesterday by the Ger
man embassy against the presence OF E
United States deputy marshals on the
steamer Appam and contending that the
provisions of the Prussian- American
treaty bar such an admiralty proceeding
Is has been brought against the captured
British liner, now a German prize in
Hampton Roads, with the object of re-
turning the ship to her British owners.