Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1915 — UNMISTAKABLE TONE IN NOTE TO GERMANY [ARTICLE]

UNMISTAKABLE TONE IN NOTE TO GERMANY

United States Must Not Be Expected To Omit Action to Secure Compliance With Demands.

Washington, May 18.—The United States government cabled Ambassador Gera.J for presentation to the German government a note calling attention “to the grave situation which has restated” from violation of American rights on the high seas, culminating in the sinking of the Lusitania, with a loss of more than one hundred American lives. The communication expresses the confident expectation of the United States “that the Imperial German government will disavow the acts of which the government of the United States complains, that they will ihake reparation so far as reparation is possible for injuries which are without measure, and that they will take immediate steps to prevent the recurrence of anything so obviously subversive of the principles of warfare for which the Imperial German government in the past so wisely, and so firmly contended.”

In its conclusion the note states that “the imperial German government will not expect the government of the United States to omit any word or act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.” The full text of the note was made public tonight by the state department.