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Show on WILSON AWAITS FULL REPORT Washington. May 4. President U-son U-son refrained from comment today on the wrecking oi the American steam er Gulflight bj a German torpedo while awaiting further advices. The i president aaid he expected a full, re port from Consul Stephens at Plymouth, Ply-mouth, England, as well as from Ambassador Am-bassador Gerard at Berlin. When asked concerning the case of I Leon (' Thresher, an American i drowned wh.-n the British steamer Falabn was nnk b a German Bubma j rlne, President vyijson revealed thai ; no representations bae as yet been , made to Germany, but that vers prbb-ably prbb-ably it WOU.ld be treated with the other eases that bad arisen. Barly today the president and Se retary Bran con erred length, but it was said thej did not dis n line of policj in the war zone cases London. May 4, 1 "l p. in The i Americ an embassy began today an investigation of the torpedoing of the I American steamer Gulflight. It is probable that the inquiry win be 1 a rled on principally at Plymouth, where the crew landed. The London afternoon bewspapem comment only in the briefest manner on the ;u!(iiht incident. The Westminster West-minster Gazette asks whether Pn jI dent Wilson "will make food his word o' February" and hold the Gorman Gor-man government to strbt accounta-bjlitj accounta-bjlitj Washington Ma 4. Consul Gen-i erai Skinnei a( London reported to the slate department that the first ' olflcer of the Gulflighl bad stated that the submarine was Bighted 1 minutes before th- torpedo was Hred. The officers of the vessel forward- I ed telegrams to the state department glvlns practically the same infonna- i lion received from other sources and ' jubilee that the i-ompany had no ( knowledge that her caro of xasc- 1 line was for oilier than private con- i sumption. t |