| Show ERMANY WILL PAY INDEMNITIES FOR I. I LUSITANIA ANIA VICTIMS J p Berlin Ready fo to o Give TT United States Assurances Assurances Assurances Assur Assur- ances That T euton Submarines in the Mediterranean Mediterranean Med Med- w Will 1 1 Not Torpedo Without Warning Privately Owned Vessels of Any Description on Including Liners and Tramps m WASHINGTON Jan 7 Proposals Proposals which l the the he German government government gov- gov believes believe will end the controversy over the Lusitania disaster in a manner satisfactory ct ry to the United States States' were received here today from Berlin Beilin L Count von Bernstorff the German German am ambassador presented presented- to Secretary Lansing a proposal to pay indemnity for Americans lost lostin lostin lostin in th the Lusitania djs disaster ster and there thereby y concu conclude e that co controversy o ersY and nd gave assur assurances es that any G German submarines in tHe trie Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean w would uld not attack noncombatant bata ships of any ch character ra t r without with with- put out warning or destroy them without opportunity noncombatants noncombatants noncombatants noncom- noncom reach of J i Ji to a a place safety t i While off offering ring to p pay y indemnity in in the Lusitania se e Germany Germany Ger- Ger many m makes kes the res reservation valo that hat t it is done one without admission d of wrongdoing No official indication was was given a as to to the ac acceptability t of the proposal but one set of American officials the view that it would eq end the controversy versy The assurances reg sub regarding g j marine warfare m in the Mediterranean are of broader scope ipe than r those given after the Arabic disaster and covering the warfare in the North sea The latter guaranteed only the safety of liners I t Those for the Med Mediterranean cover all noncombatant ships p- p pIt It was also stat stated d with authority today that Germany cirt virtually lly had agreed with th the position of the United States in m regard to small Treats oats not being und under r all conditions a place of safety for pass p aboard a ship about b ut to tobe be destroyed These la last t concessions are aI e understood to contained in n the the last note from Germany re garding th the si sinking of the ship William P P. P Fr Fryc Frye re The fhe tion reached the state department several weeks ago but has been beeh withheld from m publication on on the ground that it had a certain bearin bearing upon the tho Lusitania negotiations Germany is understood to ha have fully agreed viti the American point of view L i The assurances regarding the conduct of submarine warfare iI in 1 the he Mediterranean n. n convey the first first information th that t German jerman sub sub- marH w were r operating ther there In excluding all ships ups except liners from the assurances c covering Yering su submarine warfare in ii in the North sea I the German government was was T represented as considering that no t blY rrth nerS servi service t. t A regular pass passenger carrying It has has' been known f for t some sonie t tithe time 4 that C Count u Von B Bernstorff ff had devised a plan which he believed cr Wo satisfactorily end the Lusitania controversy co He was understood to have submitted the proposition to the B Berlin foreign office before Christmas There was some delay because of adverse sentiment cr created by bythe byth the request requestor for or the dismissal of the German naval an and l military attaches and the demands in the first American note to Hungary Austria-Hungary on the sinking of the Italian liner Ancona J As for the disavowal asked by the United States the German government was represented as considering that the most effective form lorm orm of dis disavowal was assurances that such acts should hould not be committed com corn in the future |
