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Show ' H t ' ( ALARMING RUMORS FROM H ( WASHINGTON. Hj News from Washington today dis- Hl I jloaes great tension over the submar- H He question and rumor has It that Germany has turned from a policy of H ioncliiation to one of open invitation 1 , I :o allow the United States to be pleas- H :d o displeased, to get in or stay out H if the war. H i 1 . President Wilson is said to be firm H i y resolved to uphold the rights of H Americans to travel on armed or un- H irmed merchant ships, and diplomatic H 'elations are approaching the break- H ng point H ( One evidence of the strained rela- H J Ij1 Jons Is the heavy drop in wheat, H I viu'ch took place at the. close of the H I Chicago grain market today, showing H fl tervousness in financial centers. H J This country is ill prepared for war. H 'I J tut if our dignity as a nation demands H j j in ultimatum, every true American H ) , vlll be found back of the President, H ' ( , 'eady to make the best of an embar- H 'assing situation. 1 " Our alarm of course is over a storm , :loud on the horizon which may dis- tppear in a day. |