Arizona republican., 1916-04-20

grown month by month until the omin-
Gus toll has mounted into hundreds
The government of the United
States has been very patient. AT every
stage of this distressing experience of
tragedy after tragedy it has sought to
be governed by the most thoughtful
consideration of the extraordinary cir
cumstances of the unprecedented war
and to be guided by sentiments IF very
genuine friendship for the people and
government of Germany.
R'It has accepted the successive eX
plantations and assurances of the M
perial government as of course given
in entire sincerity and good faith and
has hoped, even against hope, that it
would prove to be possible for the
imperial government so to order and
control the acts of it's naval com
manders as to square it's policy with
the recognized principles of humanity
as embodied in the law of nations
Every Allowance Made
ut has made every allowance for un-
precedented conditions and has been
willing to wait until the facts became
unmistakeable and We're susceptible of
only one Interpretation. 1t now owes
it to just regard for its rights to state
to the imperial government that that
time has come. 1t has become pain
fully evident to it that the position
! which it took at the very outset as in
evitable. namely that the use of sub
, marines for the destruction of the
enemy's commerce, of necessity. be-
! cause of the very character of the yes
sells employed and the very methods of
attack which their employment of
course involves, utterly incompatible
with the principles of humanity, the
! long established and incontrovertible
rights of neutrals and the sacred i'm
munities of non combatants.
IF it is still the purpose of the i'm
/ perial government 70 prosecute relent
/ less and indiscriminate warfare against
| vessels of commerce by the use of sub
marines without regard TO what the
government of the United States must
consider the sacred and indisputable
rules of international law and uni
verSally recognized dictates of human
/ ity the government of the United States
is at last forced to the conclusion thai
| there is but one course it can pursue
| Unless the imperial government SHOULD
now Immediately declare and effect al
abandonment of its present methods o
! submarine warfare against passenger
and freight carrying vessels the gov
eminent of the United States can hay,
no choice but to sever diplomatic re
lations with the German empire alto
gether.
This action the government Of tin
United States contemplates with tn
greatest reluctance but feels con
strained to take it in behalf of human
ity and the rights of nations"
Appendix to Note
The appendix to the note under tn
caption, Statement of facts in SUISSE:
case accompanying note to Germa
government of April 10, 1916" follows
The French channel steamer Sus
sex, employed regularly in passenge
service between the pots of Folkestont
| England, and Dieppe, France, as it ha
been for years (French foreign office
lert Folkestonc for Dieppe at 1925 pm
March "a 1916, with 1925 or more pas
seagers and a crew of SO men. dec
laration of Captain Mouffett. Rea
Admiral Grassett's report) The pas
sengers. among whom were about
, American citizens Telegram, Londo
5 embassy. March %. and Paris EN-