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Show LSI DECLARES TIE LOOSE STORY FALSE j No Postscript to Lusitania Note Ever Discussed at Cabinet Meeting, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct 27. Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, in-terior, issued a statement here tonight , den vine the charge made by Senator Henry C'abnt Lodge in a speech at Brockton, .Mass., last night, that President Pres-ident Wilson had added a postscript, to the- second Lusjitania note, informing the German government that the contents con-tents of the so-called ' ' strict accountability" account-ability" note were "not to be taken seriously," and that the postscript had , disappeared after members of the cab- ! inet threatened to resign if it was at- i tached to the note. ! Secretary Lane's statement - follows: I T have been asked whether the I statement credited to Senator Lodge I is true. I was at every meeting of the cabinet whore Lusitania notes were discussed, and no postscript or anything resembling it in an way whatever was brought before us, nor have I ever heard of any such suggestion either from the president or any member of the cabinet. The whole thing is untrue. |