Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-02
LESS APPREHENs|vE OVER
GERMAN-AMER|CAN| ISSUE
Deliberations at Headquarters Con.
cluded and Gerard Starts
for Berlin.
REPLY TO U. S. ALMOST READY
Considered Undesirable That Prelim-
mary Indication OF Nature OF Note
Should lie Published Abroad.
Little Comment in Newspapers.

BERLIN, via. London, May 1.-The
future German American relations
probably can be looked forward to with
| less apprehension.
The Associated Press is permitted TO
| make this statement. although dis
patches bearing on the nature OF the
German reply 10 the American note
respecting submarine warfare. have
| bean stopped by the censorship.
\ The deliberations at great headGlar-
/ tors have been concluded and ambas-
sador Gerard will leave this evening
] for Berlin, arriving here on Tuesday
| afternoon.
The German reply is expected with
little delay, but It is considered undo
| sirablc that preliminary indications of
| the nature OF the note should he pub
lishcd abroad.
Discussions over the answer to the
] American note continued Sunday at
great headquarters without a concIu-
sion being reached. according to ad-
vices TO the I.okal .tnzeiger.
NEWSPAPERS GENERALLY
REFRAIN FROM COMMENT
The newspapers, for the most part
still refrain from comment. Theodore
Wolff. in the Tagnblatt: George Bern
hard, in the Fossschc ZeitunS, Count
Won Rcventlow, in the TaGes Zeitung
| and the Taglische Rundschau. however
give some consideration to the sub
ject.
Herr Won Bernhard considers the sit
uation still grave and voices a warning
| against too great optimism. lie de-
clares that the final decision rests
solely upon President Wilson.
There would be no greater mistake"
he says, than the expectation that the
! American Congress might reach Diff
ferent decision than ,he President The
time for exercising influence on the
American people and their representa-
tivcs is past. II is not doubted now
that Congress stands behind President
| Wilson The German leaders who have
the task of framing the German answer
must remember this
I'VE could understand any decision.
no matter what ii is. under the self
understandable condition that 1t pre-
serves Germany's dignity"
NO HALFWAY MEASURES,
SAYS HERR BERNHARD
But there must be no halfway
measures" says Herr Bernhard and
INC ueclSlOn reached must create 4
hnal and enduring status" He refers
to the fact that the offensive has been
the guiding spirit Of Prussia's and Ger
nanys military operations since the
time OF Frederick the Great and con-
cludcs
And If our statesmen. In reaching a
decision in the light OF their inforrna-
ton on all the conditions involved. be-
lieve that they must do so in the face
OF the uncertainty as TO what the mr.
poses OF the other party are, they will
have to take into consideration tho
question whether in such cases it ia
not wiser to take tho lead themselves.
rather than be forced to play TO the
lead of the other leader"
Herr VOLTS article refers again to
the hopes OF Germnny's enemies OF -
rupture between the United States and
Germany and TO the dissenting voice OF
Gustave tierve, tho French antimilitury
agitator, whom he quotes as saying that
Frances only hope is Germanys thick
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