Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1915 — Note to Germany O. K’d at Cabinet Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Note to Germany O. K’d at Cabinet Meeting.

A new American note to Germany, short and to the point, it is said, was approved by the cabinet Tuesday and will be dispatched to Ambassador Gerard at Berlin in a few days. The note, it is understood, was written by Secretary Lansing and approved by the president. The original draft will be rewritten to meet certain ideas advanced by the president and cabinet members, bat the changes will deal only with minor de- - tails and the tentative draft is to remain practically as it was drawn by the secretary of state. No reference, it is thought, will be made to the Orduna incident. The note will probably simply state that Germany must observe American rights on the seas. That the situation is serious, much more serious than at any other time since the beginning of the exchange of notes with Germany, is indicated by the expressed wish of the government that the newspapers refrain from undue comment on the situation and that excitement in the press be kept down. The president, for the first time since the present situation developed, cancelled his usual audience to newspaper reporters.