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Show WASHINGTON TO AWAIT RESULTS IN ARABIC CASE 1 Evidence Bearing Upon the Controversy Cabled to Gerard to Present to Foreign Office. K By Intel national News Service. I WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. After a con-I con-I ference between Secretary of State Lan-I Lan-I sing and the president toda. on the case N of the Arabic and other diplomatic ls-I ls-I sura it wan announced for the first time fl by the state depart ment that it had 1 c;i bled the evidence in the Arabic con-' con-' troversy to Knibasaa'lur Gerard at Berlin i for presentation to the German foreign JJ, office. N With this Important announcement it (I was slated also that the United States I had not made any representations to I Germany' on the evidence. It was ex- plained by the highest authorities in the II state department that the object In , t cabling the evidence to Embassador I Gerard was simply that the German for- 1 elgn office nhould have not only its own evldfttcp from its submarine commander, I hut also all the testimony which ha been furnisher to the state department from 'I alt sources on the Arabic. ;j Will Await Effects. Lg This government apparently has de-IjjJS de-IjjJS elded to rest the case for the present I, and will await I he efforts of its evidence on the German foreign office. Secretary 1 1; Lansing will in a day or two go on a I I ten days' vacation, during which period n Germany la exported to consider the 1 1 ease and prepare a communication to Mile i government. It may be delivered by Em-, Em-, hassadoi- Rernstroff to thf state depart-H depart-H ment or may come direct from Embas-, Embas-, ; sador Gerard. 9 In the meantime, tliTP is nothing in the H suggestions of any official competent to ;i speak on thp subject that indicates a de-U de-U nislon on the part. of the administration I to break off diplomatic relations or adopt I any other drastic course if Germany fails i to concede the arguments of the United i States. H The exact points of difference between I I the United States and Germany on the ! Arabic case, which heretofore have been i variously stated, were defined today by I an authority. fl 1 The United States, it was said, holds: I . First, thn t when t he German suhma- II rine commander torpedoed the Arabic I without warning he viola t ed the agree-II agree-II mpnt between the United States and H Germany, as conveyed in all the German gl notes and specifically in the recent letter of Count von Bernstorff. il ; Second, that there is no question of ' fact involved and that, therefore, the Jjjj united States must look upon the incl-I incl-I den I as a violation of a principle. Third, tha't the arbitration mav be con-f con-f starred when the German government has lij.j disavowed the act of its submarine com-4 com-4 mander, as It has done In the recent case ! of the Orduna. The German contentions are: German Viewpoint. jj'J First, that the torpedoing of the Arabic g V 18 a uuestlon of fact as well as of prin-fil prin-fil clple and that the two are separable. Ifi Second, that Germany lias repeatedlv. in Pji formal notes and in the letter of the German Ger-man embassador on the Arabic, reiterat-, reiterat-, fl ed her adhesion to the principle that no II liner shall he torpedoed without warning or the observance of the other resirtc-I resirtc-I lions laid down by international law. j Third, that in view of the clear at-&lj at-&lj titude of the German government on the H question of principle, it is practically dls-gf dls-gf posed of in the Arabic case, leaving to hi be considered the question of fact, name-II name-II ly the justification of the German com-I com-I mander in apparently Ignoring the rigid t jj exactions of the agreement, fjj Therefore, the grave part of the in-flj in-flj cidenl is subject to arbitration. 11 It Is stated that Gcrmanv has. within Tl the past week, reiterated her Mew that .1 the subjects of neutral countries have i no right to travel on the ships of bel- ligerents. The contrary opinion has been I held up by the notes of the United States Officials today declare that they can II see no warrant for the assertions that i . a grave crisis is impending with Ger- many. On the contrary, one of them says that Germany is very llkelv to re-t re-t mind the United States of the "case of ) the William P. Frye as an exact paral-. paral-. j lei to that of the Arabic. It was ob- -served that the United States In that il case charged Germany with a violation I of treaty. No greater "principle" than this could be involved. The state department, de-partment, under the administration of Mr (j.j Bryan and later under Secretary of State Lansing proceeded to separate the ques-, ques-, tlon of principle from the question of ; fact and subscribed to the view that the question of fact might be arbitrated The 1 question of high and basic principle involved in-volved in the case was restored to diplomatic dip-lomatic channels for discussion, where It still remains. . r The state department is now disposed also to accept the conclusions of the German admiralty that the steamship Hesperian was the victim of a mine and not of a torpedo. The department has not yet received the official explanation from the German a1 mi rally. None of the evidence submitted by American Consul Con-sul Frost at Queenstowu has discredited the theory that the Hesperian disaster was due to a mine. The state department has not yet received re-ceived from Vienna an answer to its request re-quest for the recall of Embassador Dumba, nor have any further developments occurred oc-curred In the case of Captain von Papen, the German military attache; James F. Archibald, the bearer of correspondence or any other persons involved in the incident. |