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Show BAD EFFECT OF FALSE REPORTS Newspapers Have Made Forecasts Fore-casts of Germany's Reply on Misinformation. "Washington, April 25. Secretary Lansing in a conference today with nowspaper correspondents, deprecated tho publication ot reports that official offi-cial dispatches to the state department depart-ment from Ambassador Gerard indicated indi-cated that Germapy might make concessions con-cessions to the United States in reply to the note demanding tho Immediate abandonment of present methods of conducting submarine warfare. He said official dispatches to the department depart-ment from Berlin contained only quotations quo-tations of newspaper opinions, similar sim-ilar in many cases to tho editorial excerpts cabled to this country in pross dispatches, Tho latest message received from Mr. Gerard, Secretary Lansing said, was dated before tho Imperial chancellor, chan-cellor, Dr. von Bcthmann-Hollweg, had returned from a visit to the emperor em-peror at the front, and had conferred with tho ambassador. It Is understood here that one of the objects of the various conferences known to have taken place between officials of the Berlin foreign office and Ambassador Gerard has been to make it plain to the ambassador that there would be no avoidable delay in responding to tho American note demanding de-manding immediate action. It is felt here that stories indicating indicat-ing that Germany might made certain cer-tain concessions and that the German government was willing to go to great lengths to preserve tho friendly relations rela-tions with the United States might find their way back to Germany in distorted form and have such effect upon the German people as to make more difficult the announcement of any policy of conciliation, involving additional restrictions upon the use of submarines. The internal political situation in Germany also is extremely delicate when questions involving submarine policy are under consideration |