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Show CONFERS WITH LANSING. Washington. Aug. 26. Count von Bernstroff, the German ambassador, conferred with Secretary Lansing nearly an hour this morning and, while both refused to discuss their meeting in any way, it was understood under-stood that the ambassador reiterated that it was not the intent of the German Ger-man government that any Americans should be lost on the Arabic Another communication, supplementing supple-menting that which the ambassador translated to the state department Tuesday, is expected from Berlin and pending its receipt. Count von Bern-storff Bern-storff will remain at the embassy in Washington It is confidently believed the next word from Germany will be an announcement an-nouncement that pending further negotiations ne-gotiations submarine warfare on passenger pas-senger ships will be discontinued and that submarine commapders already have been Instructed to sing no more merchant vessels without warning. It is understood that Germany, at the samo time will revive her proposal pro-posal for a modus vivendl for relaxation relaxa-tion of British restrictions on neutral commerce In German quarters, it was said that this step which had been in contemplation in Germany for some time" could now be announced because of the victories in Poland German officials, it was explained, consider that the victories to their arms in the campaign against Russians Rus-sians permit Germany to recede a step on the sea. Count von Bernstorff brought nothing noth-ing to the state department to supplement sup-plement his telegram of Tuesday or the overnight news dispatches containing con-taining the German chancellor's statement state-ment broadly Inferring that a settlement settle-ment of a character satisfactory to the United States probably will be made In the case of the Arabic The ambassador, however, reiterated his previous disclaimer of any intent that Americans should be harmed, and it was indicated that today's conference was arranged by the state department rather than the ambassador No report had been received from Ambassador Gerard but news dispatches dis-patches satisfied officials that the ambassador am-bassador had made inquiry and found that the government at Berlin had no report on the sinking of the Arabic There is a notable relaxation of tension ten-sion at the White House and at the state department. It was made plain at both places today that, while officials offi-cials were much encouraged by the apparent desire of Germanv to avoid a break with the United States, the president will not finally decide on his course until he has before him a definite statement of the Berlin gov-. crnment's intentions. i It seems certain now that there will bo diplomatic exchanges in the Ara-1 blc case In addition to satisfying tho American government in that single sin-gle instance, they are expected to take on a general character regarding submarine warfare and the general rights of neutrals on the sea. |