| Show CAN KAISER EXPLAIN SINKING r OF ARABIC 4 SITUATION IS GRAY GRAVE E Enless U Unless Germany Can Find Reasonable Excuse se sefor for Sending Liner to Bottom Diplomatic Re ReBe Relations Re- Re lations May Be Br Broken ken Off Wilson Will wiH Not Act Until Empire Has Ha Had Opportunity toMake to r Make Full Answer to Inquiry V j J r r MRS BRUGUIERE'S BODY FOUND LONDON ATI Aug 21 An An amended list of passengers loston lost on the Arabic gives a a. total of sixteen which with the ty twenty one 2 e members of the crew who were lost places the number of dead at thirty t 1 NEW YORK Aug 21 The 21 The body of Mrs Josephine t t Bruguiere one of the two Americans lost with the Arabic Arabio has hul been found the White Star line announced today This Thia was was was- wasI I based on a conversation it was said with Mrs Marion Bra Brugui i p t the dead womans woman's law in who was wad quoted as saying she had received a cable message to that effect Y Young o ng Mrs Bruguiere also was quoted by a representative 1 of the line as having said that the body of her mother mother-in mother laws laws law's 1 ws w's French maid Margaret Boudet had been recovered d too Mme Mm I I Boudet of the two maids who sailed with Mrs B Bruguiere ere had Nadi heretofore been listed among the survivors WASHINGTON V ASHING ON Aug 21 It 21 It It was announced at the stat state d de d I today that Ambassador Ger Gerard rd probably will be e ili directed oc ed I Ito to call the German governments government's attention to the sinking of the 1 White Star liner Arabic and to invite any riny explanation This was the first indication from from- any official source that Germany Germany Ger Gen many would have an opportunity to give the reasons for the attack apparently in disregard of President s solemn n warning that tha t such an an act would be regarded as deliberately unfriendly The state departments department's attitude is that if the German g government govern government vern- vern ment has lIas any facts which in its opinion go to mitigate th the circumstances circum stances of the attack the Berlin foreign office should have opportunity opportunity opportunity to present them CAN GERMANY FIND EXCUSE Today's roday s announcement ement mi moreover indicates that before President President P. P si- si dent Wilson takes any action there thele may be sonic some exchange of di diplOmatic diplomatic diplo diplO- P loP lo- lo matic made communications It t t da a athe tuia tit ss P p fie M Y t ls JS to sn w the utmost deliberation consistent with the delicate question and ana to omit no nb opportunity y of avoiding a severance eY r nce of relations relations' with Germany so longas long as there is a reasonable expectation that a sufficient excuse can be g given ven for the sinking b of the Arabic Although it has has been been be n reported that the German embassy had haa evidence that that- Captain Finch of the Arabic had liac been warned and attempted to escape escaJe before the torpedo was discharged it was said at the state stat department that no of that kind had hael be been n received from the G German embassy or from any other offic official l quarter PRESIDENT AWAITS REPORTS Whether the attack upon the Arabic was an act c deliberately unfriendly to the United States against which President Wilson b ga gave ve warning in his last note to Germany apparently depends upon whether the German submarine commander claims that he interpreted as asan an hostile approach the change in the liners liner's course to assist the sinking British steamer which had been torpedoed torpedoed torpedoed tor tor- ne nearby rby This point perhaps cannot be cleared up until Ambassador Gerard at Berlin has ascertained what report the German German German Ger Ger- man government receives from the submarine commander While awaiting the report of ot the submarine commander at Berlin officials here are greatly interested in what Ambassador Gerard has to say as to what may have been heen discovered at the German capital about the attitude of high German officials there SITUATION IS GRAVE Officials here made no attempt to minimize the situation Everywhere the the- possibility of a severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany was discussed as likely if it develops that the Arabic was deliberately torpedoed without regard re regard re- re gard to the question as to whether she made an hostile approach upon the submarine Vice Consul Thompsons Thompson's sons son's latest dispatch to the state department department depart depart- ment from Queenstown confirms the White Star lines line's statement that only two Americans of the Arabic's passengers are unaccounted unaccounted unac unac- counted for They arc are Mrs Irs Josephine Bruguiere of v New NewYork NewYork York and San Francisco and Dr Edmund F. F Woods of Janesville Wis Vis I NEW YORK Aug 21 A A cablegram recci received ed t today day by the White Star line here sta stated ed that the bodies of two victims of the Arabic had washed ashore near Queenstown One body was that of a woman presumably a cabin passenger and the other ther of a steward The bodies lied hud not been identified |
