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Show GERiANY YIELDS CERTAIN POINTS SUBMITS FINAL WORD ON CONTROVERSY CON-TROVERSY OVER SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA. Indications Point to Satisfactory Termination Ter-mination of Negotiations in Torpedoing Tor-pedoing Case Which Has Been in Progress Eight Months. Washington. Germany has submitted submit-ted to the United States, through Ambassador Am-bassador von Bernstorff, another written writ-ten proposal designed to bring about a settlement of the controversy over the sinking of the steamship Lusitania, with a loss of more than 100 American lives. There were indications Monday that the document might bring to a satisfactory satis-factory termination negotiations which have been in progress for eight months. Although the greatest secrecy surrounds sur-rounds the negotiations, it was stated Monday night on excellent authority that Germany finally had agreed to eliminate from the text of the agreement agree-ment any mention of the warning issued is-sued by the German embassy the day the Lusitania sailed on her last trip from New York. Mention of this : warning is understood to have been contained in the last proposal, which ' was rejected after President Wilson had considered it. ' It is understood also that Germany ! has left out her proposed general reservation res-ervation of admission of wrongdoing ' on the part of the submarine com-; com-; mander to which the United States ' objected. Mention of the warning is believed 1 to have been most objectionable to the administration. In effect, It was fc regarded as conveying the idea that " no American lives would have been 'i lost had the warning -been heeded. 1 It was also stated authoritatively ' that in its latest communication Germany Ger-many makes some reference to a de-" de-" sire to see the United States take ac 8 tion in regard to the questions irivolv ing the freedom of the seas. |