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Show LUSITANIA CASE IS NEAR SETTLEMENT UNITED STATES AND GERMANY AGREE IN PRINCIPLE. BREAK IS NO LONGER FEARED. High Officials at Washington Consider This Government has Achieved Recognition of -Contentions Regarding Re-garding Submarine. Warfare. Washington. In substance the tentative ten-tative communication from Germany, designed to settle the Lusitania case, is acceptable to the United States. High administration officials consider that this government, in prevailing upon Germany to make the concessions conces-sions and agreements, as set forth in the document, has achieved recognition recogni-tion of all the high principles for which it has contended in connection with submarine warfare. While the substance of the proposed communication admittedly is satisfactory, satisfac-tory, minor changes to clarify the wording and in connection with the form which the formal document shall take were 'Suggested to Count von Bernstorff, the German amfbassador, by Secretary Lansing, on Tuesday. The desires of the United States in this connection were mlade known to the ambassador after President Wilson Wil-son had discussed the subject with his cabinet. Count von Bernstorff immediately informed the secretary that he saw no reason why the changes could not be made, 'but explained in effect that, as a precaution, he thought he was justified jus-tified in submitting the entire matter to his government for final approval. He did so in a dispatch sent to Berlin Ber-lin Tuesday night, and within about six days the resulting formal communication commu-nication is expected. |