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Show know whether President Wilson has this thought. Likewise we cannot prey en t the pope, through Cardinal Gibbons, from expressing hie peace desires to the president . Wt highly respect the humanitarian basis of this, but we would not like to leave any uncertainty concerning ih-e tact that Germany does not even consider con-sider concluding pence through any agent whatever. He who wants peace with us may come to us himself. No Peace for England. The editorial concludes with the declaration dec-laration thai peace Is possible with every Opponent of Germany except Great Britain, Brit-ain, w hi cli forced on "us the difficult tusk of conducting a world war. We, .:owevtr, wish first a decision and then a peace which shall accord with this decision." BERLIN PAPER JUSTIFIES IE Dili hyyOOibJ Vossische Zeitung Devotes Much Space to Discussion Discus-sion of Situation as Regards Re-gards United States. BERLIN. Sept. 6, via London. 3:20 p-m. p-m. The "Vossische Zeitung: devotes three Columns to discussion of the situation as regards Germany and the 'nited States, under the beading, "The Agreement With America," After impliedly expressing dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion at the message conveyed by Embassador Em-bassador von Bernstorff to the Washington Washing-ton authorities. It declares: Complete unanimity reigns In Germany Ger-many in the wish to maintain unaltered unal-tered peace between Berlin and Washington. Embassador von Bern-storff's Bern-storff's exQlanation must not be taken ta-ken either as an admission of any guilt in past procedures or as an Indication In-dication of fear or weakness. It must be reiterated that the torpedoing tor-pedoing of the Lusltania, no matter how lamentable from a humanitarian standnoint, left no stain upon Germany's Ger-many's lienor. The same holds true for the Arabic. If it ever becomes possible to clear up this case through unobjectionable evidence, it will be shown that the captain of the Arabic himself was guilty of his fate and that of his passengers. It must also be specifically pointed out that submarine warfare against merchant vessels will now as formerly former-ly be carried on. Our admissions to America have restrictions. re-strictions. Our agreement counts only in case British passenger steamers steam-ers do not try to harm our submarines. sub-marines. If Great Britain in the future fu-ture believes it will be possible to deal lightly with the lives of American Ameri-can citizens, she will have to bear the consequences as before. Through our step we have proved to Americans in the most loyal way how highly we value the relations existing between them and us. It is surelv known in leading circles In the United States that even a declaration declara-tion of war by America against Germany Ger-many could no longer do real harm to the German cause. The British press is attempting to alter the case to make it appear that Germany's move was made with an intention to win the American president pres-ident as a peace agent. We do not |