Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — WOULD END SUBSEA WAR [ARTICLE]

WOULD END SUBSEA WAR

British Commons Hears Vatican Seeks to Persuade Germany to Abandon U-Boats. London, May 19. —Sir Edward Gray, foreign secretary, announced in the house of commons that the government had been Informed by Sir Henry Howard, British minister at the Vatican, that representations have been made to Germany by the Vatican with a View to inducing Germany to abandon submarine warfare. Washington, May 19. —Advices received here from Berlin tell of-a message sent to the German government by the Vatican, but it was described as similiar to the one recently sent to President Wilson when the severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany appeared imminent. The message w’as represented as expressing the hope there would be no break of relations and offering the good offices of the pope to prevent one. Germany's reply expressed appreciation of the sentiment, hut added that the good offices of the pope were not needed at this time.