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Show EXPECT i CHANGE II SUIE WAR i Administration Officials Do Not Interpret Chancellor's Speech as a Threat. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 Increasing ai;itatiun in Germany for a complete resumption re-sumption of submarine warfare, Chancellor Chan-cellor vou Bethniaun-lloliweg 's declaration declara-tion before the reichstag that any statesman states-man failing to use Germany s every I weapon, to shorten the war "deserves to be handed,'' and the recent apparently apparent-ly inspired simultaneous publication in German papers of attacks on American neutrality, brought forth today an au-thoi au-thoi itative, though informal, statement from the state department of the American Amer-ican government 's attitude toward the situation. Any action which endangers American lives through the sinking of ships without with-out warning or by failing to provide proper safeguards, it was emphatically asserted, will immediately reopen the submarine question with all its possibilities. possi-bilities. But so far, in spite of what is going on in Germany, there has been absolutely no indication in the official advices that Germany has violated the agreement arrived at in the Sussex case. Reports of the sinking of nearly 300 merchant ships since June I have been received officially, but in no case has it been proved that American lives were endangered. High officials think it unnecessary un-necessary to make any formal statement on the subject, as they feel the American Ameri-can position is fully known both at home aud abroad. However, the possibilities possi-bilities which a change of Germany 's policy might open are so great that every effort will be made to have a full understanding on all sides. All dispatches dis-patches received here by diplomats friendly to the Teutonic allies arc described de-scribed as cloarly indicating that Germany Ger-many intends fully to live up to her assurances. It is acknowledged that there is considerable oppostion in Ger many to this policy. But so far as is known here the opposition to the government gov-ernment 's policv is no stronger than bc-j bc-j lure. 1 I he chancellor s latent speei-h is not interpreted in American official quarters quar-ters as foreshadowing his conversion to i ruthless submarine activity, for it is i pointed out that he may well hold that Germany is now gaining all that can j possibly.be gained from her submarine' weanou. Others, however, are inclined to take the opposite view, believing that the chancellor has been won over to the Von Tirpitz narty. They argue that with the gradual crunching in of the German lines and the increased realization realiza-tion that England is the super-enemy, pressure in Germany will become irresistible irre-sistible to strike in every possible way. |