Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-03-10
YIELD NO RIGHTS
HONOR Is At STAKE, PREslDENT
WILSON WHITES TO SEN.
AToR STONE.
letter Announces that Executive VIII
Hold Germany 70 Promises FOR
Safety Of Amssfcsns on
the High Seas.

Western Newspaper Dnion New Service.
Washington. President Wilson on
Thursday night, In a letter 10 Senator
Stone explicitly declared that he VIII
not consent 10 barring OF American
citizens from armed passenger ships
as proposed by resolutions before
Congress aud that " any nation de-
MICS the right OF Americans 10 safety
on board such vessels the United
statea has In honor no choice" ny 10
what It's course should be.
The curse which the central POW.
ers are pursuing IN their order TO
sink without warning after March I
all armed ships seems for the mo-
ment to threaten "lnsupcrable obsia-
cles," the President wrote, but addict
that, because OF previous assurances.
he must believe explanations putting
a different aspect on the situation
soon will be made.
white House, Feb. "a, l01G.-My
Dear Senator. ! very warmly appTe-
ciate your kind and frank letter ~
today and feel that " calls fog an
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