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WEATHBR ?Y TO l? \V AND TO aaitiY ? I-,,; unllROW: R1S1M! TKMPKRATURE] IIODERATE \ iRlABI E WIND& >v rl oa Nmtymk 2^1 alrtbtttie CIRGULATION Over 100,000 Daily Net Paid, Non-Rcturnablo FlVaTl fo Last ?the Truth: News-Editoriah-Advertisement* V?. lAWI.-No. 25,358. [(opyrlght 191 fi? Thr Trllmne A-a'tv] THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1916. C%\ P t T\T In *'" *rtr*- ' "'? v*a**rk- .?*r?4*>r cn? I'.al. I. I,.l 1 ?,?! H.lxikrn. l.la.wh.re Two Cent*. END ILLEGAL SUBMARINE WAR OR BREAK, WILSON TELLS BERLIN "Unless the Imperial German Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of warfare against passenger and freight carrying vessels, this Government can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the Government ofthe German Empire altogether." CONGRESS STANDS BACK OF PRESIDENT'S DEMAND Some Crilicise Delay, but Only Few Op posc Stand. MANN CALLS HIM flATER OF DUTCH' Demantl 011 Berlin Not l:x pectcd io Prccipltate Hostilities. -? Wai . 1 .pril 19. ? Wilson in the . ? ? : that it twk i ? ng the a IS] i ? thc, \ : much <H ? ?ng a : ? ... .> e hy ican Floor Lata '.???? R. lann, of j Chichc rted thi r-r - ?ian. tch." ? ed repret laat hi ; with Ger.- 4.\a= ibarcd by i Ro p Derrux:.... I tgarloread h\ I'rr.redure. A eoM .-.? - ? p 4 ? ? _ . ? - ..hout ent the note te ? ? As'a .? jeel mat ne el ':???->. I -I - - Iy arnon. . I ? - : I apitol, he read the ' ? ror ' ? ! lo'.l! - return 4 gq.j the ?etare - ,.,-., .ad thc news i . ? ? ?, ? eseargi ara by Bfly of tbe eaeBtatirea wbe ealled ? ., - ?'er of - r ?? "? ? I ? TIP04 ' ' ? ' ? ? -' < partlorolar f.Bf bmi %r> 4 ' '. . leatloa fcfTeetir.ir U : tate 1 ... ? - raaa ' ? ?' ttee, fa 4 ? I a- off armed fr,ntiBr.,^ ?? ,,?{, 4 K.iun. 6 LR.CENSURES WILSON DELAY Nation Is in Dilemma Whether Germany Yields or Not. ? , h I t r de vi n would be proof poi ' ve, i olonel lloor-.\e!t d" clared yi terday, that the sam. ron .'ould have been ohtained when tha " triel Bceouutabillty" note w?. aent; Germany'i rrfur-al would tind the Bl imporent to make1 I threat i.c arai foartaen I "Fourteen monthi apri,'- aad lolonel avalt, "thi- Preaidenta 'atrict ar ' note to Gerrnaay meant, if it meant anything, at laait whgt the prescnt note .^ay*. l'nfor*.ut,a'.r!v. tha T'r-nd.nt'g actioji'a in V?xie? and s. tegarda ather matten had been auch] Germany did not b< evi tha 1 I I red acror.i aii(j thi Preaidenl re] eated notc* ? ? -. wer. ?aeh as . . | to v-I did not j ? e impn Ship After Ship Sunk. .? ? t fourteen mo',*.'''? I ?? ,l many .s 0f noncombatBM'r, including many hundred livei of wom . rei ? hava been laat Germa v doi aa the Prei ident demand?. it will br proof poaltiva . chosen to tal ( tha Bl the time of the btric; ? ,-r Ildren and other , . beei 11 o i ? ? '? Gei ved. "If, on the othei i?' d, Germany ? ? do a. n ed, H 'c well ta ?,. tl a- auch a note a.-. the ar-rjuntai mor.ths ago is unpardonable, aalfl baeked up by the deeds to make thi arordi good. If it ?'?? m'Hnt to be and to get raaalta, it .?.. been aceompanied by Im mediate and thoroaghgoing prepared i a i itter af fact. we ? Itronger by a man or a r a boal Ol a run. Of tha amall ?gmmunltlon we have manu ., parl waa faraished to the -.,., who aaed i* against our , Bnd -nme has been furni-hed *o the CarranalaUB, arha have hkewise aga ? ? i ii troopa Points to Hi" Owa Baak. .... t? ?., 0f tl aia mattere I dla arhat I hava ? ? l-ear ? Take Vour Own Part. '??I ,?., r?!s repeal arbal I Ibaw eoaabined witn .,.,, on one'- ? . to produea paaea, a pol ry o ..,.- ibn ? to orrong produeea a , f Injarica wmrh mui. t?d to, and thia leavea a ean . . , ., peral ?b far moro dar. to peaee than if thara had been , oataai eouragaoui laiUtaaea upon onr'" r Police Ready, but Expect No Disturbances Here Betectivei Ruuhed to Guard Croton Reservoir and Mount Kiaco ( itizena Join in Patrolling Watcrworks?Woo-ii Deniea Plot Mrnacins City a Supply. I '.-'., . . . ... j,- , .?. ?r, r r,f Mr ,. . -. .- .,y l.e. . >.'p peepaw ? .7 asaaaet ae 1.1 4heir aervieea. I . | ? at 1 ' Ifeoad .r V. ooda eroogbly. ? and ???r ?n whieh tvrv aaaa la tbe de nar'r, ^r,4 llvel Ona of them i- Bled rhaath.1 n the r tha captain ia ?k?M preeinct i ? bi hi hoaia k gen ?.| 7\am llMh.d Ueaeh >"?????'?*?; . ,. ,, lh, ,,., waald ba retayaot at ,??.. ?r ,rary maa an th fr,?a !, ar, hour th.- *?*"**}&] DYp.rtai.Bi ?". .1 be ?obellaad ready '?ii tro ? . 4 mm\ -.,.... .f tiaai ' tn ?> * ? '? ' . .^Iaj__ "H V" ?? ' j o aoBaaaeeof ?><? pont t, .?iu?'" ? Text of Wilson's Note to Berlin H TASHINGTON. April 19?The full text of the note to Berlin. addressed to Ambassador Gerard, follows: lar/f of Foreign Affairs a communication reading You are instrnctcd to deliver to the Seere us folloxcs: I did ni,i ia// to transmit immediately, by of the Wth instani in regard t<> certain attacks by disastrous explorion which on March ,!), last, wrecked I have now the honor to delher. under itutructiotU Excettency: Infortmatiotl now in the possession of the Government of tiie ? i state.. fully eatabllahea tho fact.-, in the case of the Suaaex, and tbe inforenres which my Government has drawn from that information it regard.s as confirmed hy the cirrumstanee?; set fotth in Vour Exeellency'i note of the 10th inatant On the 24th of March, 1916, at about 2:60 o'clock in the afternoon, the unarmeii ateamer Suaaex, with 825 or more paaaengera on board, among whom were .\ number of American citizens, was torpedocd white croaaing from Kolkeetone to Dieppe. The Suaaex had never been armed; waa B Known to b? hahitually ui-ed only for the conveyance of pa aengera atnroaa the EngUah < hannel, and was not following the route taken by troopships or aupply ships. About eighty of her pis-cn gers, non-combatants of all ages and sexes. including citizens of tha United State.-, were killed or injured. A careful, detailed and scrupulously impartial tave*ttigatiofl hy naval and military offirrr*: of tbe United States ba eonclualvaly eatabliahed the fact that the Soaaex was torvaadoed without warning or summons to surrender, and that the torpedo by which she wa , Btnich was of German manufacture. In the view of the Government of the United States these facta from the tirst made the conclusmn that the torpedo was fired by a German submarine unavoidahlc. It row considcrs that conclusion nubstantiatcd by the statcments of Your Exeelleney'a note. A full statement of the facts upon which the Government of the United States has based its conclusion II incloaed. The Government of the United State.-, after having piven care? ful consideration to the note of the Imperial Government of the 10th of April, regretl tO Btata that the impression made upon it by tho Btatementa and pronosals cor.tained in that note il t.hat the Imperial Governmeni has failed to appreciate the gravity of the litoation which has reaolted not alone from the a'tack on the Sussox, bu.. from the whole mithod and eharaeter of aubmarine warfare as du; -', ed by the unrestrained pract.ice of the commandcrs of German undersea craft during the past twelvemonth and more in the irdi criminatc de.struction of merchant veaaela of all aorts. nationalitiei and destinationr. If the sinking of the Su*?sex had been an isolated case the Gov emment of the United States might find it possible to hope that tha offlcer who wa? responsible for that act had wilfully violated hil orders or had been criminally negligent in takmg none of tbe precautions they prescribed, and that the ends of justice might be sntisfiod by imposing upon him an adeouate punishment, coupled with a formal disavownl of the act and payment of a suitable indem nity by the Imperial Government. But, though the attaek upon the Suaaex was manifestly inde fensible and causcd a loss of life so trngieal as tn make it star.d forth as one of the most terrible examples of the inhumanity of iub marine warfare as the commander.. of German veaaela are ror.duet ing it, it unhappily does not stand alone. On the i-or.trary, the Government of the United Statea ia forced by recent aventa to conclude that it is only one instance, even though one of the mo.-t extreme and most distrosMnp instanecs, of the delib eratr method and spirit of indiscriminate destruction of merchant veaaela of all BOrte, nationalities ar.d destinations which have becom* more and more unmistakable as the activity of German undersea veaaela of war has in recent months been quickened and extended. The Imperial Government will recall that when, in rYbruary, 1915, it announn-i its int-fJltion of treatillg the waten r-urrounding Greal Britain and Ir.land as embraced within the seat of war and of deatroying all merchant ihipa owned by its enamica that might be found Within that aone of danger, and warned all veaaela, neutral ai arell a belligerent, to keep oui of the watera thua proacribed or to rnter them at their peril, the Government of the United Stat aameatly proteated. It took the position that such a policj could r.,,t ba puraued without conatant grooa and palpabla violationa of tha aeceptod law of nationa, particularly if submarine craft were to ba ..?ii aa ita inatruinenta, Inaamnrh as the rulea prescribed by that law, niles founded on the principlcs of htimanity and e-tab lilhed for the protection of the lives of non-combatantl at sea could not in th.- nature of the case be obaerved by such reeaele. It ba.-ct |1 proteat OB the ground that pcrsons of neutral nationality and of m itral rrwnarahip would he flrxpoeed to Bxtreioe and intol erable riaka; and that no righl to dooa any part of the high sea. lawfully ba aaaartod by the Impenal Govi remaot ia the cir ? ,,r,i-i" then axiating. Th< law Of nations in these matters. upon which the Govern? ment of the Unitad State, based that protr.-t. la not of recent ongin ?r founded npon maraly arbitrary principl.-s set up by convention. |< | bt ,,|, pn the ,'ontrary. upon manifest priririp.es of humanity telegraph, to my Governmeni Vour Excellency's note German submarhtes, and particularly in regard t<> the the French steamship Sussex in the English Channel. from my Government, the following reply to Your and haa long been eatabliahed with *he approval and by tha expreia ? lertl of all civilizad nationa. The Imperial Government. notwithatanding, pcrsisted in carrying out the policy announced, expressing the hopn that the dangers in volved, at any rate to neutral veaaela, would be reduced to a mini mum by the in-tructions which it had iaaued to the commanders of ita iibmarinea and aaauring the Government of the United Statea thal it would take ivery possible prccaution both to respect the righta of neutrala and to aafeguard the livea of non-combatanta. |. par ??? ? ol thia policy of aubmarine warfare againat the commorrc of ita adveraariea, thui aanouncad and thus entered upon in deapite of the aolemn proteat of the Government of the United Statea, the commander-; of th.- Imperial GovenUMut'l underse?. \.s;.|s hava canicd on practiees of BUCh ruthless destruction which have made it more and more evident as the months have gon* by that the Imperial Goverrmen* has found It imprr.cticablo to put any such reatrainl upon them as it had hoped and promieed to put. Again and again the Imperial Government haa given ita Bolemn aaaurancea to the Government of the United Statea thal at leaet paaaenger ship* arould r-,.? ba thui deall with. and yet it haa repeatedly permitted ;' onderaea commanders to diaregard thoaa aaauraneea with entire impunity. Ar recently as Kebruary last it gave rotiie that it arould ref-ard all arme.l meri-h;intmi-n owned by it - ecemies as part of tha armed naval foreea of its adveraariea and deal with them as with men-of-war. thus, at. least by implication. pledging itaalf to giva warning to veaaela which were not armed and to accord secunty of 1 fe to their passengcrs and crews; but even this limitation their r-tibmarine commanders have reckleaaly ignored \, ei ol neutral ownerahip, even veaaeh of neutral ownerahip bound from neutral port to neutral port, have been deatroyed, along with veaaela of belligerent ownerahip, in eonatantly incrca.sing num bera. Sometimea the merchantmen attaeked hava i"-en warned and hummont'il to aurrender before being fired "-i ?r torpedoed; acme times their pasaengen and erewa have been vouchaafed the noor ?' being allowed to take to the ihip' te the ship v;), ieni to the botl an. l; tl again and again no warning ha.. Men given, no eacape even lo the slnp's boata allowed to 'ho.,. on board. (Jreat linen like the Lu-itania and Arabic and mere paaaa iger l.oats like the Suaaex hav.- been attaeked without a moment'a wam Ing, often before they have even become aware that they were in the presence of an armed ship of the enemy, and the lives of non combatants, paaaengera and crew have bee*i de-troyed whole-al-* and in a manner which tha Government of the United States cannot but regard as wanton and without the illghtest color of justification. N'o limit of any kind hasi in fact been set to their ndiscriminate pursuit and destruction of mervhar.tmen of al! idndl and nationalities within the water- which the Imperial <lovernmen*. ha? choser. tO daalgnata as lying within the seat of war. The roll of Americans who have lost their lives upon ships thus attaeked and deatroyed has prown month by month, until the ominou" toll has mounted into the hundreds. The Government of the United .States has been very patient. At every atag* of this distres^np- experience of trapedy after tragedy it ha-= aought to be governed by the most thouphtful eon ,-ideration of the extraordinary eireumatancea of an unpre4*ed?mted war and to i.e guided hy sentiments of very genuine friendship for tha people and government of Germany. It ha- accepted the IUC eeaaive explanationa and assuranees of the Imperial Governmei t, ai of eouraa given in entire ilncerity and *rood faith, and has honed, even againat hope, that it would prove to ba poaaible for the Imperial Govenimeni I ler and control the acti of ita naval comn-.a-..' ri as to aquara ita policy with the recounized principles of humanity as em'.odied in the law of nations. It has ma ie every allowar.ee for unprceedented conditions and has been willlng to wait until the fact hecame unmi-takabie and wi re si-ceptible of only onr* interpretati..n. It now owoa it to a juat regard for its own righta to say to the Imperial Government that that time has come. It has become r ? fully evident to it that the poaition which it took at the very oui al is inevitable, namely. the use of -ubmarines for the destruction '?f an enemy's commerce is of necessity. because of the very eharaeter of the veaaela employed and the very methods of attaek which their emp'ioyment of eouraa involvea, utterly incompatibla with the prin ciplea of humanity, the long-eatabliahed and ineoirtrovertible righta of neutrala, and the aacred immunitiea of non-combatants. If it la still the purpose of the Imperial Government to prose cute ralantleaa and tadiaerioiinata warfare agai I - ? eli of com? merce by the n^v of submarines, without regard to what the Govern? ment of the United States must consider the MCred and indisputable rules of international law and the univer.-a'.'.y recognized dictitc of humanity, the Government of the United States ia at laat forced to the eoncluaion that there ia but one course it can pursue. Unleaa tha Imperial Government ahould riow Immediately deri are leffl ' afl .. ar-.dor.ment of its present aaethoda of aubmarine war? fare againat paaaangar and fradarht-ararrying vea tha '< rverriment of the United Statea can have no choice but to s, ver diplomatic re lations with the German Kmpirc altlXfether. Thii BCtion the Gov ert.m-nt of 'he United States cntemplat- with the graateat re luctance, but t'eels constrained to taka ln behalf of humanity and thi> righta of neutral nationa. LANSING. ANOTHER UNLAWFUl ACT MEANS HHSTANT RUPTURE Outcome Now Rests Entirely with Germany; No Room for Debate, Washington Belief. BERLIN MUST ABANDON ATTACKS ON COMMERCE Even Berlin Disclaimer Proves Sussex Was Torpedoed, Says Appendix to Note Reviewing Evidence. fl-'rom The Trthune Purcaul Washington, April 19.?Ono more iUffftl ?tt?dc on any ship, belligerent or neutral, whether Amerkani ap-4 tboavrd or not, after Germany has had time to transmit new orden t<> her suii marine conunanders, will mean the breakinf nf all relations? this is Washington's view to-night of the President's address to-day to Conprress and note to Berlin. Whether the break comes or not depends on Germany, offi .?ials insist. It has ceasod to he a question of words, and be comee one of deeds. Comment in the Gtpitol foHowing Ihe President's address showa that be will have th'4 Blipport of i"on gress in the course he has mapped out. Germana here in cloee touch with Beriin declan there will be no break?that Germany will meet the President's demands. In Administration circlea thero la far leea optimism, though many Senators and Reprosentatives still believe that the break will be avoided. some COIinting on Germany's conres-ions and some on a modorato interpretation of the statements made in the note and address. The note and address. it is oagreed on all sides, are far itronger and more definite than anythinj? the President has pre viously said on the subject. They are prartieally idontieal, and lawyers point out that they narrow the whole debate down to one issue?what Germany does. SAY BERLIN WILL YIELD Germans in Capital Think Demands Will Be Granted. ?Prom TT-. Tn^una Hura.'J.l WaebiBgtoa, April l* "Germany will meet the demands made. in the Preaideat'a note," it was stated to-r.:j?ht by an officiM in cloee, touch w.th the (;,rman Kmbassy, "thou*h she b th.> fr.ited S'atps is not justitied in makinjr them." Tho German eiorw here ?? *h?>' ? maraly deraandi that Germany make her iBbmarina peliey ronform to the accept.'d priaciplaa ef inter national law. and not that she aban don submarine warfare elteof*th?r. This. It la Biaotoi ?* a!1 that *? !'r' dant eoald poM.ibljr ask, and thia cier many is willmjr to do. (our.4 -.on Bernatoril sent to Berlin to ^.-'h4 a loag dUBBteh ir.terprctir.c ?uaf.on in Washington and mak :.-(.' certan recommendaf.ona. He ia i mteaoa to havo aorriaad hia ?">v arBBBMt that ho beHeved the I'r.'.ted Btatea meaat just what it said -.n Ita submarir.e note ar.d that eometrr.nz wou'.d have to be done ;. thi] ? '? fn-i-dly lalatieaa were to cBtiaaa, Ihe anbassador later aai li "1 ean ma'r:- BO e.BMB.Bt eithet upon the aoMreaa or upon tho eowBfliBBiea? tion vhiell hag boiel ? I I tO my ?,ov err.ment." Mediterranean Derlaration. ? ".-er. hc '?>&? .Btl r I fi.Le.i as ... sed the B ; . ? ?? - -... . ...- - IBt to r.-.Kht that he Bcliered al leaat some such declaru'-ion as tha*. mide re??ard . . ? .- :.e warfare ?,n t/r... M raaaaB Bom should be I'.-vr-i iana llatel* to cover all sub ir.ar-.r.e Mo-dito rrancan declaration was handed to Secretary Lansinor by the roBtlnoed on 4>M* *? eolnmn I i ne queationa of ;aw, of rcsponsi hilify. of diaan w.i! anrl 0f indemnity ha'.o ?!! beoari Mt BM'lr4, and tho Prc*. ident ha" made a finple demand? that submarine outrages ceaao. Tlia fift of his whole por-ition h deelar?d in ho statod in the one bontvcnce: "Unless the Jmperial Government should now immediately derlare and oafioBCt an abandonmrrr. of its present methods of Mjbmarino warfare apainst pa*?eni?i'r and freipht carry ir.aT reaaela, the Government of the ITnHoad Statafl can have no choice but to sever diplomatir relations with tha German Kmpire altojrether." No RiK.ra Left for Debate. Thia, ofTicials point out, la an ulti matum in all but that it fails to nama n BBrlaite time llmit. .'? "n'.es what must be dor.e, and ^bat a folloa f the demand ia dla rerjarded. [( - ? ? loaare room for vThethei a breah aill come, GerrnanB he?a ia) aa the exaet meanina; of thia rassage, ar.d they iea in it a way out of the eri.-s without serioua humihation to eithor nation. But Ad rr. ..?. Itl ..' r I all M ifl the paaiaga a mea: il g rerj n:f7erer.t from that aj put M ? '.rrrr.ar.s. *' "The r ote me.ni that Germany rry-aat ? - aa abaT.Tio-.a.i tho uo*4* ?' submar ? ?? iat comnerce," BrJJO ? ght, *V>r there JP D# t pr ie to use submarrneJ| in future under mternationa! law wo4)4" r.ot be aoceptable. When the noto> ro eat methoota' lt meana tho submar.r.e warfare on merchant ihipi." If ths intorprotatioifl la that of tho Preaideat, Ganaaa oaTiciala say. a break ia rertam. Germany will not abandoa jfl af tho suhmnnne, which she be- J| '..??%?.? '..eapen against -fl . nich she also believea ia ? i, ta conquer Britaia a. I .* : ? .-. But they do not tatioaa. Would Hbe> International Law. Mjra we muat aban don our preeeat methods," aaid ona high autt"r.t>. "Tho?e'methods wera i la repnsa! againat Britaia, and we believe we have a right to ua. them, but we are arilllBg :o give theta up rather thafl break arlth 'he l n'teol Statcs We are wilhng to conduct ouf