PRES. INSISTS GERMANY
SAFEGUARD U. S. RIGHTS
WASHINGTON.—The text of the
American rejoinder to the German
Government's reply to the note follow
ing the sinking of the Lusitania, signed
by Robert Lansing, Secretary of State,
ad Interim, follows: —
‘“The Government of the United
States notes with gratification the
full recognition by the Imperial Ger
man Government, In discussing the
cases of the Cushing and the Oulf
Ught, of the principle of the freedom
of all parts of the open sea to neutral
ships and the frank willingness of the
Imperial German Government to ac
knowledge and meet its liability
where the fact of attack upon neutral
ships ‘which have not been guilty of
any hostile act’ by German aircraft or
vessels of war Is satisfactorily estab
lished: and the Government of the
United States will in due course lay
before the Imperial German Govern
ment, as it requests, full information
concerning the attack on the steamer
Cushing.
"With regard to the sinking of the
steamer Falaba, by which an Ameri
can citizen lost his life, the Govern
ment of the United States is surprised
to find the Impel la I German Govern
ment contending that an effort on the
part of a merchantman to escape cap
ture and secure ms.stance alters the
obligation of the officer seeking the
capture in respect of the safety of the
lives -of those on board the merchant
man, although the vessel has ceased
her attempt to escape when torpedoed.
These are not new circumstances. They
ha\-e been in the minds of statesmen
end of International Juries throughout
the development of naval warfare, and
the Government of the United States
does not understand that they liave
ever been held to ulcer the principles
of humanity upon which II has insisted.
Nothing but actual and forcible resis
tance or continued efforts to escape by
flight when ordered to stop for the
purpose of visit on the part of the
merchantman has ever been held to
forfeit the lives of her passengers or
crew. The Government of the United
States, however, does not understand
that the Imperial German Government
Is seeking In this case to relieve Itself
of liability, but only intends to set
forth the circumstances which led the
commander of the submarine to allow
himself to be hurried Into the course
which he took.
"Your Excellency’s note, in discuss
ing the loss of American lives resulting
from the sinking of the steamship
Lusitania adverts at some length to
certain Information which the Imperial
German Government has received with
regard to the character and outfit of
that vessel, and Your Excellency ex
presses the fear that this Information
may not have been brought to the at
tention of the United States. It is
stated that the Lusitania undoubtedly
was supplied with masked guns, sup
plied with trained gunners and special
ammunition, transporting troops from
Canada, carrying a cargo not permitted
under the laws of the United States to
a vessel also carrying passengers, and
serving in virtual effect, as an auxil
iary to the naval forces of Great Bri
tain. Fortunately these nre matters
concerning which the government of
the United States is in a position to
give the Imperial German Government
official information. Of the facts al
leged in your Excellency’s note, if true,
the government of the United States
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would have been hound to take official
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ed duty as a neutral power and in en
forcing Its national laws. It was the
duty to see to It that the Lusitania
was not armed for offensive action;
that she was not serving as a trans
port, that by the statutes of the United
States she did not carry a cargo pro
hibited and that, if In fact she was a
naval vessel of Great Britain, she
should not receive clearance as a mer
chantman; and It performed that duty
and enforced its statutes with scrupu
lous vigilance through its regular con
stituted officials. It is able, therefore,
to assure the Imperial German Gov
ernment that It has been misinformed.
If the Imperial German Government
should deem Itself to be in possession
of convincing evidence that the offi
cials of the government of the United
States did not perform these duties
with thoroughness, the government of
the United States slncsrely hopes that
It will submit that evidence for con
sideration.
“Whatever may be the contentions
of the Imperial German Government
regarding the carriage of contraband
of war on board the Lusitania or re
garding the explosion of that material
by the torpedo. It need only be said
that In the view of this Government
these contentions are irrelevant to the
question of the legality of the methods
used by the German naval authorities
in sinking the vessel,
“But the sinking ot passenger ships
j Involves principles of humanity which
throw into thel background any specia
circumstances of detail that may be
thought to altect the cases, principles
which lift It, as the Imperial German
Government will no doubt be quick to
recognize and acknowledge, out of the
class of ordinary subjects of diplo
matic discussion or of International
controversary. Whatever b« the other
facts . regarding the Lusitania, the
principal fact is that a great steamer
primarily and chiefly a conveyance for
passengers, and carrying more than a
thousand souls who had no part or
lot in the conduct of the war, was tor
pedoed and sunk without so much as
n challenge or a warning, and lhat men
women and children were sent to their
death In circumstances unparalleled In
modern warfare. The fact that more
than 100 American citizens were among
those who perished made It the duty of
the Government of the United States
to speak of these things and once more
with solemn emphasis to call the at
tention of the Imperial German Gov
ernment to the grave responsibility
which the Government of the United
States conceives that It has incurred
In this tragic occurrence, and to the
Indisputable principle upon which that
responsibility rests. The Government
of the United States Is contending for
something much greater than mere
rights of property or privileges of
commerce. It is contending for n- th
ing less high and sacred than the rights
of humanity, which every Government
h' nors itself in respecting nnd which
no Government is Justified In resigning
on behalf of those under Its care and
authority. Only her actual resistance
to capture or refusal to stop when or
dered to do so for I he purpose of visit i
could have afforded the commander of
tho submarine nny justification for so
much as putting t-he lives of those on
board the ship in jeopardy. This, prin
ciple the Government of the United
States understands the explicit In
structions issued on Aug. 3, 1914, by
the Imperial German Admiialty to its
cqmmanders at sea to have recognized
and embodied, as do the naval codes
of all other nations, and upon It every
traveler nnd seaman had n right to de
pend. It is upon this principle of hu
manity ns well as upon the law founded
upon this principle that the United
States must stand.
"The Government of tho United
States is happy to observe that Your|
Excellency's note closes with the in
timation that the Imperial German
Government is willing, now as before,
to accept the good offices of the United
States In an attempt to come to an
understanding with the Government of
Great Britain by which the character
and conditions of war upon the sea
may be changed. The Government of
the United States would consider it a
privilege thus to sprve its friends and
the world. It stands ready at any time
to convey to either Government any
Intimation or suggestion the other may
be willing to have it convey and cor
dially invites the Imperial German
Government to make use of Its services
in this way at its convenience. . The
whole world is concerned in anything
that may bring about even a partial
accomodation of interests or in any
way mitigate the terrors of the pre
sent distressing conflict.
"In the meantime, whatever ar
rangement may happily be made be
tween the parties to the war, and
whatever may in the opinion of the
Imperial Geriqnn Government have
been the provocation or their circum
stantial Justification for the past acts
of its commanders at sea, the. Govern
ment of the United States confidently
looks to see the justice and humanity
of the Government of Oermany vindi
cated In all cases where Americans
have been wronged or their rights as
neutrals invaded.
The Government of the United States
therefore very earnestly and very sol
emnly renews the representations of
its note transmitted to the Imperial
German Government on tfoo 15th of
May, and relies in these representa
tions upon the principles of humanity,
the universally recognized understand
ing of international law and the an
cient friendship of the German nation.
"The Government of the United
States cannot admit that the procla
mation of a war zone from which neu
tral ships have been wnrned to keep
away may he made to operate ns in
any degree an abbreviation of the
rights either of American shipmasters
or American ictizens bound on lawful
errands as passengers on merchant
ships of belligerent nationality. It
does not understand the Imperial Ger
man Government to . question those
rights. It understands It, also, to ac
cept ns established beyond question
the principle that the lives of, non
combatants cannot lawfully or right
fully be put in Jeopardy by the cap
ture or destruction of an unresisting
merchantman and to recognize the ob
ligation to take sufficient precaution
to ascertain whether a suspected mer
chantman- is In fact of belligerent na
tionality or is in fact carrying contra
band of war under it neutral flag. Tho
Government of the United States
deems it reasonable to expect that tho
Imperial German Government will
adopt the measures necessary to put
these principles into practice in re
spect of the safeguarding of American
lives and American ships and asks for
assurances that this will be done "
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