Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 20, 1916, Page 5

| ( WASHINGTON, April 19.—The full text of the American note to Germany fol- lows: You are instrucfed to deliver to the sccretary of foreign affairs a communi- cation reading as follows “1 did not fall to transmit immediately by telegraph to my government your ex- cellency’s note of the 10th inatant in re- gard to certain attacks by German sub- marines, and particularly in regard to the disnstrous explosion which on March 24 last wrecked the French steamer Bus- #ex in the Fnglish channel, 1 have now the honor to deliver, under Instructions from my government, the following re- ply to your excellency: “Information now in the possession of the government of the United States fully establishes the fact in the case of the Bussex and the inferences which my government has drawn from that infor- mation, it regards us confirmed by the circumstances set forth In your excel- lency’s note of the 10th instant. On the 24th of March, 1916, at about 2.0 o'clock in the afternoon, the unarmed steamer Bugsex, with 325 or more passengers on board, among whom were a number of Ameriean citizens, was torpedoed while crossing from Folleston to Dieppe. The Bussex had never bheen armed; was vessel known to be habitually used only for the conveyance of PASSONgers Across the ¥nglish channel, and was following the route taken by troopships or supply #hips, About elghty of its passengers, noncombatants of all ages and sexes, in cluMng citizens of the United States, wers killed or Injured. A careful, detalled and serupulously impartial investigation by naval and military officers of the United Btates has conclusively established the fact that the Sussex was torpedoed with- out warning or summons to surrender, nnd that the torpedo by which it was struck was of German mahufacture, In the view of the government of the United Btates these facts, from the first, made the conclusion that the torpedo was fired by a German submarine unavoldable, It now conslders that conclusion substan- tiated by the statements of your excel- lency’'s note. A full statement of the facts upon which the government of the UUnited &tates has based its conclusion 8 inclosed, German Position Challenged, The government of the United States, after having glven careful consideration to the note of the imperial government on April 10, regrets to state that the im pression made upon it by the statements and proposals contained in that note is that the imperial government has falled to appreciate the gravity of the situation which has resulted, not alone from the attack on the Bussex, but from the whole meothod and character of submarine war- fare, as disclosed by the unrestrained practice of the commanders of German undersea craft during the last twelve months and more in the Indiscriminate destruction of merchant vessels of all #orts, nationalities and destinations. If the sinking of the Sussex had been an fsolated caso the government of the United States might find it possible to hope that the officer who was responsi- ble for that act had wilifully violated his orders and had been criminally neg- lgent In taking none of the precautions they prescribed, and that the ends of jus- tice might be satisfled by imposing upon him an adequate punishment, coupled with a formal disavowal of the aect and payment of a suitable indemnity by the imperial government. But, though the attack upon the Sussex was manifestly indefensible and caused a loss of Ilife #0 tragical as to make it stand forth as ono of the most terrible examples of the fnhumanity of submarine warfare as the commanders of German vessels are con- ducting it, it unhappily does met stand alone, Other Vielations of Law, “On the contrary the government of the United States is forced by reecent events to conclude that it is only one inspance, though one of the most extreme and most distressing finstances of the deliberate method and spirit of Indiscrim. inate destruction of merchant vessels of all sorts, nationalities and destinations which have become more and more un mistakable as to the activity of German undersea vesscls of war has in recent months been quickened and extended. The imperial government will recall than when, in February, 1915, it an- nounced its Intention treating the waters surrounding Great Britain and Ireland & »d within the seat of and of destroying all merchant ships of cmbr war owned by its enemies that might be found within that zene of danger, and vurned all vessels) neutral as well as bel 0 keep out of the waters thus nt proseribed, or enter them at their peril, the government of the United Stutes earnestly protested, It took the position that such policy could not be pursifed without constunt gross and pal pable violations of the accepted law of nations, particularly If submarine craft were to be employed am its Instruments innsmuMh as the rules prescribed by that AW, rales founded on the principlees of humanity and established for the protec W i the lives of noncombatants at - ould not in the natuce of the cane . erved by such ve I8, It baned its protest on the ground that persons of eutral nation y and v els of neutral »wnership we be exposed (o extregie and intolerable riaks and that no right to close any part the high seas eould v fully the Imperial goy v t stances thon exim g, The law of nations in thess mat now the United States based tha test | t recent anded o arbiteary principles se y . ed, on th ! . \ press o dang \ " .l reduoed Prnmises Awy AR ) .t . A and thue . . \ the United States that at least passen- ger ships would not be thus dealt with, and yet It has repeatedly permitted its undersea commanders to disregard those assurances with entire impunity. As re- cently as February last it gave notice that it would regard all armed merchant- men owned by Its enemies as part of the naval forces of its adversaries and deal with them as with men-of-war, thus, at least by Implication, pledging itself to give warning to vessels wbich were not | armed and to accord security of life to thelr passengers and crews; but even this limitation the submarine commmnders have recklessly ignored Vesnels Destroyed, | Nen “Vessels of neutral ownership, even vessels of neutral ownership bound from neutral port to neutral port, ha been destroyed along with vessels of belligerent ownership in constantly | {ncreasing numbers, Sometimes the mer- chantmen have been warned and sum moned to surrender before being fired an or torpedoed; sometimes the passen gers and crews have been veuchsafed | the poor security of being allowed to| take to the ship's hoats before the ship was sent to the bottom. But again and again no warning has been given, no es- cape even to the ship's boats allowed to those on board. Great liners like the Lusitania and Arablc and mere passen- ger boats like the Sumsex have been at tacked without a moment's warning, often before they have even become aware that they were In the presence of an armed ship of the enemy, and the lives of noncombatants, passengers and crew have been destroyed wholesaile, and | in a manner which the government of the United States cannot but regard as wanton and without the slightest color of justification. No lmit of any kind has in fact been set to thefr indiscrim. inate pursuit and destruction of mer- chantmen of all kinds and nationality within the waters which the Imperial government has chosen to designate as lying within the seat of war, The roll of all Americans who have lost their lives upon ships thus attacked and de- stroyed has grown month by month un- til the ominous toll has mounted into the hundreds, United States Most Patlent, “The government of the United States has been very patient. At every stage of zlhln distressing experlence of tragedy after tragedy it has sought to be gov erned by the most thoughtful considera tion of the extraordinary circumstances of the unprecedented war and to be #ulded by sentiments of very genuine friendship for the people and government of Germany. It has accepted the succes #ve explanations and assurances of the Imperial government as of course given In entire sincerity and good falth and has hoped even against hope that it would prove to be possible for the Imperial gov- ernment so to order and control the acts of its naval commanders as to square its policy with the recognized principles of humanity as embodied In the law of na tions. It has made every allowance for unprecedented conditions and has been willing to walt until the facts became unmistakable and were susceptible of only one interpretation. It now owes it to a Just regard for Its own right to say to the imperial government that time has come. It has become painfully evident to it that the position which it took at the very outset i Inevitable; namely, the | use of submarines for the destruction of | an enemy's commerce, is, of necessity, hecause of the very character of the ves- #els employed and the very methods of attack which thelr #mployment of course | involves, utterly Incompatible with the | principles of humanity, the long-estah- | Wshed and incontrovertible rights of neu- trals and the sacred immunities of non THE BEE: the § Full Text of President Wilson’s Note to E Germany; Last Word in Subsea Controversy port the helm and stop the starboard en- gine (declaration of Captain Mouffett) the purpose being to swing the to starboard so as to dodge the torpedo vesse OMAHA, ter collected shows affirmatively pedoed does not agree of the Sussex THURSDAY, X SAW thou ather was fine (E) No warning was glven nor no at mpt to give one Department's comment The evidence no warning was given “(Fy A sketch by the submarine com mander of the steamer which he tor with London Graphic sketch A photograph in the Department’s comment: This by allowing it to pass along the port|APPATently was made from memory of bow on a line converging with the al-[*" observation of the vemsel through A ppsi Nl g s o) iy perincpe. Am the only differences noted by the commander who relied on his Sirikes the Hull, memory were the positions of the smoke Before, however, the vessel could be |stack and the shape of the stern, It s to turned far enough to avold crossing the be presumed the vessels were similar in course of the torpedo, the latter struck |other respects the hull at an angle a short distance| “(G) No other German submarines on forward of the bridge, exploded, de-|that day attacked steamers In that lo stroyed the entire forward part of the|ecallty steamer as far back as the first waters| “Departiment's comment: As no vessel tight bulkhead, carried away tho fore-|ls reported to have been wedoed with mast with the w ess antennae and |out warning by a submerged submarine killed or Injured about eighty of the per-|other than the Bussex, It ix beyond di sons on board, (Declaration of Captain [Cisslon that that vessel wan torfedood Mouffett; report of Rear Admiral Gras-[by the submarine whose commander s sett; deposition of Henry S. Beer.) At|remarked on In the note of April 20, the time no other vessel was in sight, i " (Affidavit of Samuel ¥. Bemis, T. W, Dr' Da;VIS Pl'lZ() Culbertson, John H, Hearley and others.) The approach of the torpedo wat wits Cow May Beat State nessed by several other persons on the vessel. (Affidavite of S8amuel . Bemis, Henry 8. Beer and Getlude W, Warren.) R 0 d f B tt "y "Ome of thess, an American. citizen ecord Ior buttel named Henry 8. Heer, was leaning on the port rall about ten feet behind the | Though he is not saying a word about bridge and gazing seaward when he saw | ((, Dr. B, B, Davis has a cow that If the approaching torpedo about 100 yards|ghe lves the summer througn will be away and exclaimed to his wife and|worth her welght in gold, In fact 1iaht companion: ‘A torpedo!’ Immediately [now-the best butter season of the vear following his exclamation the missile | has not arrived—she 4 adding something struck the vessel. (Depositions of Henry [like $1.25 per day to the doctor's ex 8. Beer and Mrs, Henry 8, Beer.) chequer. The Dr. Davis cow in queation Is a Statemont of. Kngindes. Holsteln-Friesian and (s one of a large “In further corroboration of the faot that the captain saw the torpedo coming toward the vessel is the sworn statement of the engineers on duty that the order to port the helm and to stop the star- board engine was recelved and obeyed, (Report of Admiral Grassett). No rea- sonable explanation can be given of this unusual order than that the captain saw something which caused him to change hin course sharply to starboard. ‘In addition to this evidence, which would in ltself appear to be conelusive that the agent of destruction was a torpedo, is that of Ijeutepant Smith, United States navy, attached to the American embassy at Parls, who, accom- herd on the doctor's Friesland farm Omaha this particular cow produced 447.4 pounds of milk she keeps up the pace that in the state record, butter in the second ever given sufflolent milk fn e to produce thirty pounds of hutter Yankton Retain Commission Form| near A weven-day record shows that of butter. It she she will have passed which ts 118 pounds of thirty days By the way, the cow In and 004 pounds has sot ten days more Holsteln In that has on daya doctor's Nebraska panied by Major Logan, United Btates army, of the embassy, went to Boulogne, f inspected the hull of the Bussex and e : A b )/ 1l (Npecin personally found beneath the mass of T:‘M‘T‘IN‘;H"" 'v'x";.“"‘”ll"','_"" ~(fpscia water soaked debris of the wreck fifteen Hobrhatiia y sulted In the city retaling the pm pleces of metal, which they retained in their possession, as they did not belleve the pleces formed part of the vessel “The Inspection of the hull disclosed that the vessel was wrecked by an ex ternal explosion, the bollers being intact, and that a short distance forward of the bridge was a large dent, showing that the vessel had received a heavy blow, the dint of the impact being from abaft the beam along a line at an acute angle with the keel of the vessel. (Report of Lieutenant Smith, cabled April 1). This evidence coincides with and corroborates the statement that the vessel wan swing ing to starboard and away from the torpedo when struck, Of Different Size, “The pleces of metal which the Amer. fean officers had collected, were com- pared by Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant Commander Sayles and Major Logan with mines and plans of mines In poss séssion of the French naval authorities at Boulogne, Rochefort and Toulon, and our naval authorities at Portsmouth, hese officers are positive in thelr opin fon that these pleces of metal were not of & mine, (Report of Lieutenant Smith cabled April 2.) “Among these fifteen pleces of metal were two screw bolts showing the efs | fects of an explosion, which were stamped combatants, Isane Up to Germany, “If it is stlll the purpose of the imperial government to prosecute relentless and Indiscriminate warfare against vessels of | commerce by the use of submarines with- out regard to what the government of the United States must consider the sacred and indisputable rules of inter national law and the universilly recog nized dictates of humanity, the govern ment of the United States fs at last forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless the im- perial government should now immedi ately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine war fare against passenger and freight carry- Ing vessels, the government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relatlons with the Uerman empire altogether. This action the goy ment of the United States contem plates with the greatest reluctance, but | feels constrained to take in behalf of | humanity and the rights of neutral na tions." The appendix to the note under the cap tlon, “Statement of facts in Sussox case with a 'K' and ‘56 on the faces of the head of one and ‘K and &' on the | faces of the head of the other. On ex amining torpedoes In possession of the French naval authorities at Toulon, and of the English naval authorities at Portsmouth, the American officers found that Identical screws with the letter 'K’ and a number were employed to fasten the ‘war' | ‘Kopf' to the air cham ber. (Lieutenant Smoth's reports, cabled April 2, 5 and Pleces Are Compared, The screws used in French and Eng lish torpedoes have no markings and are of a slightly different aize, (same ports) furthermore the American officers were able by and examination to positively ldentify and locate all the remaining thirteen pleces of metal as parts of & German torpedo follows Fragment three of water rellef valve comparison close part of inner seat of engine valve, Fragments four and five, punto bands of engine room casing Frafments six to ten, inclusive, and | twelve, parts of engine cylinders Fragments, eleven, thirteen, fourteen | and fifteen, parts of steel warhead still bearing the distinetive red paint comm to German torpedo warheads, (Report of m majority. Tammen defe ra’ trial by 268 ts Finnegan for fuslon form after six y the five-year term as commissloner by 19 majority. Ohlman, next high man, will run again next Toesday ngainst Rapalee for the short term, and two low m to en drop out, The city Is wet by close 200 majority. accompanying note to German govern {mont of April 18, 1914, follows Lioutenant Smith, cabled April 15) | The French channel steamer Sussex In view of theso authenticated fact mployed regularly in passenger seryice |there can he no reasonable de hut betwoen the ports of Folkstons, Eng. | !PAt the Sussex was torpedoed and that » torpedo was of German.manufacture land, and Dieppe, Brance, as It has been the tors AR MAanufuctur for years (French €orelgn office), left A® N6 vessel wan seen by any person Folkstone for Dieppe at 1:8 p, m, March | 00 the Sussex, the nelusion in irresit 4, 1916, with 33 or more passengers and | /M@ that the torpedo was launched with a crow of fifty-three men (declaration |OUt Warning from & submarine, whi of Captain Mouffett, Rear AdmiralCras Waa submerged at the time f the attack sel's report), The passengors, among "N remained heneath the surface after whom were it twenty-five Amerioan h® explosiox | taens tel am 1 fon embass r f " March 2, and Paris ombassy, March t belng th W), were of several nationalities and ted by the | iny of them wamen and children and » substantisted early half of them subjeets utra mperial government tates port of Commander Hayles and [hote of Apri According to tho Lile ant Smith, Rear Admiral Gra statemer A A AR aubmarnn wis il ' ARON carcied » wr and it m ’ | ainen ench fovelan office, rep ' . mma and 1 . > ’ roep » A was f LY LA s A v BT X Vravesds Sauth - ’ .l ¥ . . \ . and ing Moar \ " - g e Avech e 1 o e ’ L) . - ] ™ » " vt uf Ma . 2 ’ . e ” o . . LT ] l . . . . Mag Phodriiviie : Suhmarine Subhme F. O. B. Detroit APRIL 20, 1916. Typhus Germs Are | istration of deadly CHARGE FILED AGAINST Found in Blood of Mrs, A, W, Waite ald vehfele It fs belleved this for the admin ition was the germs. SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, Aprl 10.—Ac cording to announcement made here t0-| WASHINGTON, April 10, The Shredded night typhus germs have been found in|\wheat company of Niagara Falls, N. Y the blood of Mrs. Arthur Warren Waite, 1n charged In a formal complaint {ssued wife of the dentist awalting trial In New [ 400 by the federal trade commission ““”‘y';" I'"" - "';’ e l"‘|‘l '::""'““' with unfatr trade methods In the alleged g o oy of Crrmng g 2 dontruc tion of a competitor's busines Waite bAp gona.to & SADIAFINA for treat The company is charged with prevent ment. Her condition, however, Ia not|, = " nietitor, the Roas company, : 'I'::"‘:;"‘""'L"' T rens of Mrm. Waite's | frOM obtaining manufacturing machinery parents in New York, according to a The charge In made that the Shredded Mtory credited to Mrs, Waite, her husband | Wheat company had secret agents spy furnished. not only for her. but alse for |O0 the business of the Ioss company her parents, an atomizer contalning o | bribed rafirond emplayes to diaclose the olutlon with which sha aprayed her | Tmes of persona to whom its competitor throat, This treatment, Dr. Waite said, | Was shipping and indu wholesalors wan to render her fmmune from colds, | and jobbers to eancel orders to the Roms Mr. and Mrs. Peck also used the same | company. 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