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Show CONCESSIONS 10 BE IDE MINI FORTHCOMING NOTE WILL OFFER TO EXEMPT PASSENGER SHIPS FROM SUBMARINE ATTACK. They Will be Subject to Stoppage and Examination by Submarines in Aces. -dance With Practice in Vogue in the Past. Berlin. There are good prospects that the forthcoming German note, to the United States will go a long way toward meeting the American government's govern-ment's wishes regarding Germany's conduct of submarine warfare and making passenger traffic on the high seas safe. Willie it is stated that submarine action against hostile merchantmen will not and cannot be abandoned entirely, en-tirely, it is increasingly probable that the German note will embody some proposals to exempt ships employed wholly or principally in passenger traffic from submarine attack. Such ships, it is said, would, of course, be subject to stoppage and examination ex-amination by submarines in accordance accord-ance with the practice in vogue prior to the present war, and to capture if carrying contraband, but the regular rules of the prize law, particularly regarding re-garding the safety of passengers and crews, would be observed. It is hoped here that such a solution solu-tion will satisfy the requirements of President Wilson's note. It is hoped and expected here among those who . are working for a friendly settlement of the situation between Germany and the United States that the United States would see that such passenger ships were not used to transport ammunition am-munition and guns nor lend themselves them-selves to attacks on submarines. |