The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

naval station at Toulon, but that American officers actually found If pieces of metal which they have identi- fled as parts of German torpedoes. Four of them. steel, parts of the war head'' Of the torpedo. stiil bear the dstinctive red paint common to German war heads"
 NO WARNING GIVEN
 Besides this evidence, the note con- tends, every circumstance, either ad- mitted by Germany in her disclaimer or proved by affidavits of persons on the destroyed liner, prove beyond ques- tion that she was torpedoed without warning.
 In short the United States presents the evidence as the capstone to an accumulation of evidence extending over a period of months which is held to prove irrefutably that Germany's assurances to the United States have repeatedly been wantonly violated Copies of the American note were sent to representatives here of neutral nations on the assumption that they are as much interested as the United States in the protection of neutral rights. The document was not given to any of the belligerent diplomats, as the controversy is regarded as being sole ly between the United States and Ger many
 WILL NOT COMPLY Count von Bernstorff already has re- |iterated to Secretary Lansing that un- der no circumstances will Germany give up the submarine as a weapon of warfare, because she contends. 1t
 is retaliation for Great Birtain's food blockade. The ambassador has declared, however, that his government will att tempt to bring their operations within the law of nations This the United States is willing to discuss, after Ger many had abandoned her present meth ods--not before
 Against that possibility stands the declaration in the American note that the United States has considered from the first that the employment of sub marines for destruction of commerce is by its very nature utterly incom- patible with the principles of human ity, the long established and incontro- vertible rights of neutrals and the So. clcu luHitleS or nOncOWDdtdnIS. The crisis now resolves itself into the waiting stage during which Ger many will have opportunity to acceds to the American demands. Before an- other week begins settlement of the long standing issue either will be as- sured or Count Von Bernstorff prob ably will have his passports and Am bassador Gerard will be leaving Ber- lin.
 TEXT OF NOTE The text of the American note to Ger many, signed by Secretary Lansing and addressed to Ambassador Gerard at Ser lin. follows:
 You are instructed to deliver to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs a communi- cation reading as follows:
 T did not fail to transmit immediate- ly, by telegraph, to my government your excellency's note of the 10th instant in regard to certain attacks by German sub- marines, and particularly in, regard to the disastrous explosion which on March 24. last. wrecked the French steamship Sussex in the English channel have now the honor to deliver under instruc- tions from my government. the following reply to your excellency: <
 '1nformation 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 info,- nation 1t regards as confirmed by the circumstances set forth in your excel-