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Show GERMAN TERMS DO II lyiEETDEWIAND UNITED STATES CANNOT APPROVE AP-PROVE PROPOSALS WITHOUT SACRIFICING RIGHTS. Would Place Restrictions Upon the Sailings of Passenger Vessels, and While Granting Immunity to Some, Deny it to Others. Washington. Germany has submitted submit-ted informally to the United States, "through Ambassador Gerard in Berlin, Ber-lin, a tentative draft of its reply to the note of June 9, which asked for assurances that American rights on the high seas would not be further violated by German submarine Commanders. Com-manders. After careful examination of the contents of the proposed note as outlined out-lined by Ambassador Gerard, which coincides with Berlin press dispatches of the last few days, officials are practically prac-tically agreed that the United States cannot, without sacrificing important neutral rights, express its approval ol the German proposals in their present form. The draft was shown to Ambassador Ambassa-dor Gerard with the idea cf eliciting from him an expression of opinion, and he promptly asked for instructions instruc-tions from Washington as to whether the United States could make concessions. conces-sions. President Wilson has been advised on the situation in several long messages mes-sages sent to his summer residence at Cornish. X. H.. and the impression obtained from reliable quarters was that the American government proh ably would instruct its ambassador w'thin a day or two to decline to express ex-press any view until after the formal reply is -delivered to him. Just what Germany proposes has not been officially divulged. Secre-tiry Secre-tiry Lansing stated merely that there had been no exchange of views or informal in-formal negotiations between Germany and the United States and declined to predict whether there would be. From Berlin dispatches and author itative sources here it is learned, however, how-ever, that the note as drafted by the German foreign office with Emperor Vjniam'g subsequent approval wouTJ jvS uaourances ttiai Americans might travel with safety on the high seas on certain conditions imposed by Germany, Ger-many, such as the marking of belligerent bellig-erent ships carrying Americans, notification noti-fication by the United States to Germany Ger-many of the date of departure and character of such vessels and an inspection in-spection insuring their noncarriage of munitions of war. |