Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — THINK BREACH WITH GERMANY IS AVERTED [ARTICLE]

THINK BREACH WITH GERMANY IS AVERTED

Assurance Accepted Pending Fulfillment of Promises and Wilson to Study “Official” Today.

Washington, May s.—Germany’s note has postponed if it has not actually averted a diplomatic break with the United States. 'President Wilson will make the decision after he has read the official text, which reached the state department late tonight by cable from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin. It will he decided in time to lay it before the president tomorrow morning. It was stated authoritatively after the cabinet meeting today that if the official text bore out the unofficial version transmitted in today’s Berlin news dispatches Germany’s assurances undoubtedly will be accepted and before taking another step the United States would await the fulfillment of her latest promises. In such case the United States might not reply to the note and would await evidence of the actual abandonment of Germany’s present practices of submarine warfare which is declared. President Wilson is described by those close about him as being in a position where he cannot question the good of Germany’s assurances, which must stand or fall by the future conduct of her submarines.

The Germany embassy view is that the note gives all President Wilson asked for; that it signalizes a return to “cruiser warfare” —the use of submarines as regular naval cruisers intercepting commerce with visit and search, and that inasmuch as it makes no mention of the armed ship question that perplexing feature of the controversy is not involved. Congress took the note quietly andalthough members expressed a variety of views the general sentiment seemed to be in favor of leaving the situation in the hands of the president. On the surface there was no sign of activity in the group which has been working to prevent the president from pressing the situation to the point of a diplomatic rupture.