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Show PRESIDENT REJECTS ' GERiAlfS PLAN AMBASSADOR EXPECTED TO SUB- l MIT ANOTHER PROPOSAL FOR SETTLEMENT. Germany Said to Have Been Informed That the Latest Representations in Lusitania Affair Are Entirely Unsatisfactory. Washington. The Culled States is understood to have rejected as being partially unsatisfactory Germany's latest lat-est proposal in the Lusitania nego-tiaitons. nego-tiaitons. Secretary Robert Lansing, with the approval of President Wood-row Wood-row Wilson, Is said to have so informed in-formed Count von licrnslorff, the German ambassador, during a conference confer-ence late Tuesday at the state department. depart-ment. The ambassador will confer again with the secretary. It is urn J derstood he will then submit an other confidential tentative proposal for a settlement, having embodied in it the requirements of the United States. After being considered by the president and Secretary Lansing, the matter, unless present plans miscarry, miscar-ry, will be transmitted to Berlin for the approval or disapproval of the German government. Five or six days may elapse before it is known whether the Berlin foreign oflice will assume a view which coincides with that of the administration. It is considered probable that the ambasasdor may forward home rec ommendations with the tentative form of settlement, which, it is said, will contain every point for which the United States has for so long contended. con-tended. In many particulars the suggested form of agreement designed to conclude con-clude the controversy, which was submitted sub-mitted through the ambassador, is acceptable. ac-ceptable. It was stated by excellent authority, however, that the United States insists on holding the German government to "a strict accountability" accountabil-ity" for the loss of more than 100 lives, and desires that the Berlin government gov-ernment admit, in effect, that it is liable lia-ble according to law for the lives of neutrals lost in the commission of an act against a vessel of the enemy. |