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Show WILLING 10 OFFER AMPLE REPARATION GERMANY BOWS TO WILL OF A IV ERICA CN THE SUBJECT OF SUBMMARINE WARFARE. Had Adopted Before Sinking of the Arabic Policy Designed to Settle Questicn in Manner Desired by the American Government. Washington. Two important developments devel-opments cn Thursday in the relations between the United States and German Ger-man further reduced the tensity of the situation and were taken to foreshadow fore-shadow a declaration from Berlin on the subject of submarine warfare, which would eliminate that source of discord between the two countries. Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, called upon Secretary Lansing and informed him that the statement presented Tuesday by direction direc-tion of the Berlin foreign office saying say-ing there w;is no intent to cause the loss of American lives when the White Star liner Arabic was destroyed, destroy-ed, was intended to imply that German Ger-man submarine commanders had been ordered to attack no moro merchantmen merchant-men without warning. Ai '"assador Gerard, reporting from Berlin the substance of a conference with Foreign Minister Von Jagow, confirmed con-firmed dispatches of early in the day that G-ermany, even before the sinking sink-ing of the Arabic, had adopted a policy designed to settle completely the whole submarine problem. The state department did not make public Ambassador Gerard's dispatch, '.ut the optimism immediately reflected at the state department and the White House was taken as convincing proof that the situation once threatening a break in the friendly relations between the two countries was on the way to a settlement. The more hopeful officials thought the crisis passed and inferred the views which Ambassador von Bernstorff Bern-storff had been urging upon Berlin ever since the sinking of the Lusitania had prevailed with the support of the liberals in Germany, who have been opposing the anti-American policy of the conservatives. Secretary Lansing, while outwardly encouraged, was reserved, re-served, awaiting some definite declaration declara-tion from Berlin, and the same attitude atti-tude was reflected at the White House, where it was indicated that President Wilson, encouraged at the prospect of averting a break, still was keeping his mind open until all the details clearea up. |
