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Show ARABIC INCIDENT UNDERJSGOSSION GERMANY FAILS TO SATISFY THE REQUEST OF UNITED STATES ON SINKING OF SHIP. While There is No Danger of Immediate Imme-diate Break in Diplomatic Relations, Rela-tions, Case May Bring About Rupture Before It is Settled. Washington. Germany has failed to satisfy the request of the United States that the sinking of the Arabic, with a loss of American lives, 'be disavowed dis-avowed and liability for the act assumed as-sumed by the imperial government. This became known after a conference confer-ence Sunday night between President Wilson and Secretary Lansing, at which the latter submitted a note given giv-en him Saturday in New York by Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador. am-bassador. No announcement was made after the White House conference. Secretary Secre-tary Lansing said merely that it was inadvisable to comment on the situation situa-tion while the negotiations were still confidential. He declined to say what the next step would be, but it was learned later the German ambassador -would be asked to come to Washington Washing-ton soon to receive the view which the American government takes of the last German note. Count von Bernstorff Bern-storff is fully authorized by his government gov-ernment to conduct the submarine negotiations. ne-gotiations. While the situation has improved to the extent that there is no danger of an immediate break in diplomatic relations, re-lations, as the note affords an opportunity oppor-tunity for further negotiations, it was stated reliably that final refusal by Germany to meet the American viewpoint view-point on the Arabic case might bring about the threatened rupture in diplomatic dip-lomatic relations. . |