Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-10
Preparing to Resume Sub.
marine Warfare More
Ruthlessly Than Was
Lusitdnia Sinking.
By IiERBERT RAYARD SwOrE:.
Special STAN COrrrspundrnt New York
NNnrI,l

Special Stan Correspondence New York
World.
'CopyriSht 1916. by the Press Pub
i'shins Company. The New York
Norld--Special wireless dispatch i,
ON BOARD STEAMSHIP FREDERIK
VIII. 'via Siasconset. Mass.), October
Sit can be stated positively that
Ambassador Gerard, who is on board
the Frederik Will. arriving in New
York on Tuesday, carries no message
from Germany to President Wilson re-
Iuesting his good offices to make peace.
such reports are wholly false, and
are probably the outgrowth of a stock
Jobbing plot having its origin in Cop
enhaEen. and being imposed upon the
United States. The ambassador re-
sents the effort. to use the President
and himself. especially as his visit is
frausht with such seriousness that a
miSconstruction may add TO the Erav-
ity of an already delicate situation
MIR. Gerard Is making his first visit
TO America i'll three years to report 10
President Wilson in person on mat
ter vastly more important to America
than the subject of peace. important
as that is. fIc comes TO describe tho
heavy black cloud hanging over Ger
man. American rcla in the form OF
the submarine menace. which is grow
Ing day by day. and which, even the
most friendly German statesmen agree.
will break open after election unless
the unexpected occurs and peace in
tcrvcncS,
Mr.. Gerard will report that Germany
is nurturins no false hopes or de-
iusions on this point. She does not
believe peace is a likelihood or will
be probability FOR long time so
she is concerning herself with means
Of war. ignoring the plans for peace
Therefore, il is proper TO say the dip
lomat's visit has to do more with the
war and the possibility OF our bccom-
ing involved than il has TO deal with
peace through our agency.
II is, OF course, true that the am
bassador has received a communication
from the Kaiser and the members OF
the German government on the sub
jcct Of ending The war. but these arc
all indefinite and formulated in plans
lacking any immcdiacy.
DIi.IBERATE: PREPARATIONS
TO RESUME WARFARE
On the other hand | am able to state
tourney j. To present to the admins
tration in concrete form what intclli-
gent visitors to Germany recently have
hecn impressed blythe sure and rapid
weakening Of German opposition TO q
"ruecksicst slosc" U-Doat campaign, and
the deliberate preparations being madn
To resume The practices objected to by
Americ;. in the cases of the Lusitauia.
,
three OF the most prominent instances.
Ia the ainha ssador's opinion. il
would be doing Germany "a great in
Justice TO say she is ready TO sue for
peace, as such thoughts are far from
the German mind. She is ready. even
anxious for honorable peace" but her
ideas on that point are so far removed
from those Of the allies that it is
proper to conclude she is not permit
ting peace thoughts to enter her pres
cmt calculations
"Durchal,cn" is her motto. ana in
cludcd ~ the word is her intention OF
employing the most ruthless forms OF
warfare which she juustities on the
ground that her very existence as e.
nation is threatened.
For two months have been in close
"
and was fortunate enough to have
opened to me in many cases. the same
sources of information on which MIR.
Gerard is depending for the reports IL.
is making, and to my Use Of which he
does not object Naturally his posi-
tion Is such ,ha, he cannot talk, hut
the menace in our relations with Ger
many is to-day so obvious that its cx.
istence requires no specific admission
or confirmation from him.
In the face Of opinion and sentiment
that no possible weapon should be left
unused the government is preparing
to recedc from the position assumed in
reply to the Sussex note.
1t is no violation of confidence to
say that when tho report OF the Chan
cellor's recent sneech fthat any Ger
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