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PRESIDENT WILSON’S NOTE TO
GERMANY.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Washington, ^May 13, 1915.
The Secretary of State to the Amer
ican Ambassador at Berlin:
Please call on the Minister of For
eign Affairs and after reading to him
this communication leave with him
a copy.
in view of recent acts of the Ger
man authorities in violation of Amer
ican rights on the high seas, which
culminated in the torpedoing and
sinking of the British steamship Lu
sitania on May 7, 1915, by which over
100 American citizens lost their lives,
it is clearly wise and desirable that
the Government of the United States
and the Imperial German Government
should come to a clear and full un-.
derstanding as to the grave situation i
which has resulted. '
The sinking of the British passen
ger steamer Falaba by a German sub
marine on March 28, through which
Leon C. Thrasher, an American citi
zen, was drowned: the attack on Ap
ril 28 on the American vessel Cush
ing by a German aeroplane: the tor
pedoing on May 1 of the American
vessel GulfUght by a German sub
marine, as a result of which two or
more American citizens mei men
death; and, finally, the torpedoing
and sinking of the steamship Lusitan
ia, constitute a series of events which
the Government of the United States
has observed with growing concern,
distress, and amazement.
Recalling the humane and enlight
ened attitude hitherto assumed by the
Imperial German Government in mat
ters of international right, and par
ticularly with regard to thp freedom
of the seas; having learned to recog
nize the German views and the Ger
man influence in the field of inter
national obligation as always engaged
upon the side of justice and human
ity; and having understood the in
structions of the Imperial German
Government to its naval commanders
to be upon the same plane of humane
action prescribed by the naval codes
of other nations, the Government of
the United States was loath to be
lieve—it can not now bring itself to
believe—that, these acts, so absolute
ly contrary to the rules, the prac
tices, and the spirit of modern war
fare, could have the countenance or
sanction of that great Government.
It feels it to be its duty, therefore,
to address the Imperial German Gov
ernment concerning them with the
utmost frankness and in the earnest
hope that it is not mistaken in ex
pecting action on the part of the Im
perial German Government, which
will correct the unfortunate impres
sions which have been created, ana
vindicate once more the position of
that Government with regard to the
sacred freedom of the seas.
The Government of the United
States has been apprised that the
Imperial German Government consid
ered themselves to be obliged by the
extraordinary circumstances of the
present war and the measures adopt
ed by their adversaries in seeking to
cut Germany off from all commerce,
to adopt methods of retaliation which
go much beyond the ordinary meth
ods of warfare at sea, in the procla
mation of a war zohe from which they
have warned neutral ships to keep
away. This Government has already
taken occasion to inform the Imperial
German Government that it cannot
admit the adoption of such measures
or such a warning of danger to op
erate as in any degree an abbrevia
tion of the rights of American ship
masters or of American citizens bound
on lawful errands as passengers or
merchant ships of belligerent nation
ality, and that it must hold the Im
perial German Government to a strict
accountability for any infringement
of those rights, intentional or inci
dental. It does not understand the
Imperial German Government to ques
tion those rights It assumes, on the
contrary, that the Imperial Govern
ment accept, as of course, the rule
that the lives of noncombatants,
whether they be of neutral citizen
ship or citizens of one of the nations
at war, cannot lawfully or rightfully
be put in Jeopardy by the capture or
destruction of an unarmed merchant
man, and recognize also, as all oth
er nations do, the obligation to take
the usual precaution of visit and
search to ascertain whether a sus
pected merchantman is in fact of bel
ligerent nationality or is in fact car
rying contraband of war under a neu
tral flag.
The Government of the United
States, therefore, desires to call the
attention of the Imperial German
Government with the utmost earnest
ness to the fact that the objection
to their present, method of attack
against the trade of their enemies lies |
in the practical impossibility of em
ploying submarines in the destruc
tion of commerce without disregard
ing those rules of fairness, reason,
justice, and humanity which all mod
ern opinion regards as imperative.
It is practically impossible for the
officers of a submarine to visit a mer
chantman at sea and examine her pa
pers and cargo. It is practically im
possible for them to make a prize
of her; and, if they cannot put a
prize crew on board of her, they can
not sink her without leaving her
crew and all on board of her to the
mercy of the sea in her small boats.
These facts it is understood the Im
perial German Government frankly
admit. We are informed that in the
instances of which we have spoken
time enough for even that poor meas
ure of safety was not given, and in
at least two of the cases cited not
so much as a warning was received.
Manifestly, submarines cannot be used
against merchantmen, as the last few
weeks have shown, without an inevi
table violation of many sacred prin
ciples of justice and humanity.
American citizens act within their
indisputable rights in taking their
ships and in traveling wherever their
legitimate business calls them upon
the high seas, and exercise those
rights in what should be the well
justified confidence that their lives
will not be endangered by acts done
in clear violation of universally ac
knowledged international obligations,
and certainly in the confidence that
their own Government will sustain
them in the exercise of their rights.
There was recently published in
the newspapers of the United States,
I regret to inform the Imperial Ger
man Government, a formal warning,
purporting to come from the Imperial
German Embassy at Washington, ad
dressed to the people of the United
States, and stating, in effect, that any
citizen of the United States who ex
ercised his right of free travel upon
the seas would do so at his peril if
his journey should take him within
the zone of waters within which the
Imperial German Navy was using sub
marines against the commerce of
Great Britain and France, not with
standing the respectful but very ear
nest protest of his Government, the
Government of the United States.
I do not refer to this for the pur
pose of calling the attention of the
Imperial German Government at this
time to the surprising irregularity of
a communication from the Imperial
German Embassy at Washington ad
dressed to the people of the United
States through the newspapers, but
only for the purpose of pointing out
that no warning that an unlawful and
inhumane act will be committed can
possibly be accepted as an excuse or
palliation for that act or as an abate
ment of the responsibility for its com
mission.
. Long acquainted as this Govern
ment has been with the character of
the Imperial German Government, and
with the high principles of equity by
which they have in the past been ac
tuated and guided, the Government
of the United States cannot believe
that the commanders of the vessels
which committed these acts of law
lessness did so excent under a mis
apprehension of the orders issued by
the Imperial German naval authori
ties. It takes it for granted that, at
least within the practical possibilities
of every such case, the commanders
even of submarines were expected to
do nothing that would involve the
lives of noncombatants or the safety
of neutral ships, even at the cost of
failing of their object of capture or
destruction. It confidently expects,
therefore, that the Imperial German
Government will disavow the acts of
which the Government of the United
States complains; that they will make
reparation so far as reparation is pos
sible for injuries which are without
measure, and that they will take im
mediate steps to prevent the recur
rence of anything so obviously sub
versive of the principles of warfare for
which the Imperial German Govern
mentt have in the past so wisely and
so firmly contended.
The Government and people of the
United States look to the Imperial
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German Government for just, prompt,
and enlightened action in this vital
matter with the greater conlidence,
because the United States and Ger
many are bound together not only by
special ties of friendship, but also by
the explicit stipulations of the Treaty
of 1828, between the United States
and the Kingdom of Prussia.
Expressions of regret and offers of
reparation in case of the destruction
of neutral ships sunk by mistake,
while they may satisfy international
obligations, if no loss of life results,
cannot justify or excuse a practice the
natural and necessary effect of which
is to subject neutral nations and neu
tral persons to new and immeasur
able risks.
The Imperial German Government
will not expect the Government of
the United States to omit any word
or any act necessary to the perform
ance of its sacred duty of maintain
ing the rights of the United States
and its citizens and of safeguarding
their free exercise and enjoyment.
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Geo. C. Treat, Edmund Smith and
Logan Archibald, plaintiffs, vs. H. E.
Ellis, defendant.—No. 721. Summons.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting:
To H. E. Ellis, the above-named
defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at Val
dez, Alaska, within thirty days after
the completion of the publication of
this summons, to-wit, within thirty
days from and after the 28th day of
June, 1915, and answer the com
plaint of Geo. C. Treat, Edmund
Smith and Logan Archibald, the
above-named plaintiffs in the above
entitled cause.
The said cause is a suit brought
by said plaintiffs against you, pray
ing a decree of this court that you
specifically perform a certain con
tract entered into between you and
the above-named plaintiffs, Treat and
Smith, on the 9th day of July, 1908,
and by which it was agreed that a
certain corporation was to be formed
to be known as “Mystic Gold Min
ing Company”; that after the for
mation of said corporation you were
to deed to said corporation eight cer
tain lode mining claims, situate on the
northerly side of Valdez bay, between
Gold Creek and Shoups bay, in the
Valdez recording precinct, Territory
of Alaska, and known as and called:
The Mystic No. 1 lode claim, no
tice of location of which is of record
in Book K of Mining Locations, at
page 506, of the records of said Val
dez recording precinct, at Valdez,
Alaska;
me Mysuc ino. z ioae claim, nonce
of location of which is of record in
said Book K, at page 505, of said
records;
The Mystery No. 1 lode claim, no
tice of location of which is of record
in Book O of Mining Locations, at
page 452, of said records;
The Mystery No. 2 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being record
ed in said Book O, at page 453, of
said records;
The Mystery No. 3 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being record
ed in said Book O, at page 605, of said
records;
The Parallel No. 1 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being of rec
ord in said Book O, at page 607, of
said records;
The Parallel No. 2 lode claim, no
tice of location thereof being of rec
ord in said Book O, at page 606, of
said records;
The High Bar lode claim, notice of
location thereof being of record in
said Book O, at page 451, of said
records.
Twenty per centum of the stock of
said corporation was then, by the
terms of said contract, to be trans
ferred to plaintiffs Treat and Smith,
and twenty per centum of the said
stock was to remain in the treasury
of said corporation, to be sold by said
treasury as directed by the board of
directors of said corporation, the
money received from the sale of the
said twenty per centum of treasury
stock to be used in establishing a re
duction plant upon said mining claims
and in the development of the said
claims.
Or, that you deed to each of plain
tiffs Treat and Smith an undivided
one-tenth interest in and to each and
all of said eight mining claims. That
the plaintiffs herein be adjudged and
decreed to be the owners of an un
divided one-fifth interest in and to all
tools, machinery, equipment, buildings
and improvements placed upon said
mining claims by the Cliff Mining
Company, a corporation, in the fol
lowing proportions; PlaintifT Geo. Q.
Treat, an undivided one-tenth inter
est; PlaintifT Edmund Smith, an un
divided one-twentieth interest; plain
tiff Logan Archibald, an undivided
one-twentieth interest. That you,
your agents, attorneys and employees,
be enjoined and restrained from sell
ing or removing any of said tools,
equipment or buildings pending this
suit. That you be enjoined from
transferring the title of each and all
of said mining claims pending the
final determination of this suit. That
the said plaintiffs have such other
and further relief as to the court may
seem just. And that plaintiffs have
judgment against you for their costs
and disbursements lnctirred in this
suit.
The order for the publication of this
summons was duly made and entered
in the above-entitled court on the
10th day of May, 1915.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to appear and answer said
complaint as herein required, the said
plaintiffs will take judgment against
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you for want thereof for their costs
and disbursements incurred in this
suit, and will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said com
plaint, as heretofore set out.
The date of the first publication
of 'his summons is tne 17th day of
May, 1915, and the date of the last
publication thereof is the 28th day of
June, 1915.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof, this 15th day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen, and of our
independence the one hundred thirty
ninth. ARTHUR LANG,
(Official Seal.) Clerk.
Lyons & Ritchie and Donohoe &
Dimond, attorneys for plaintiffs.
Publications May 17, 24, June 1, 8.
15, 22, 28.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Anthony J. Dimond, plaintiff, vs.
Rambler Gold Mining Co., a corpor
ation, defendant.—Summons. No. 714.
—Summons. No. 714.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting:
To Rambler Gold Mining Co., a cor
poration, the above-named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at Val
dez, Alaska, within flirty days after
the completion of the publication of
this summons, to-wit: on the 20th day
of July, 1915, and answer to the com
plaint of Anthony J. Dimond, the
above-named plaintiff in the above
entitled cause. The said cause is an
action brought by the said plaintiff
against you to recover from you the
sum of twenty-two hundred ninety
three and 14-100 dollars ($2,293.14).
together with interest thereon from
the first day of January, 1915. until
date of judgment at the rate of eight
per centum per annum, and the said
plaintiff’s costs and disbursements in
said cause. The order for the pub
lication of this summons was duly
made and entered on the 7th day of
May. 1915.
And you are hereby notified that
if you fail to appear and answer said
complaint as herein required, the said
plaintiff will take judgment against
you for the said sum of twenty-two
hundred ninety-three and 14-100 dol
lars ($2,293.14), together with inter
est and costs and disbursements, as
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The date of the first publication of
this summons is the 7tt> day of May,
1915, and the date of the last pub
lication thereof is June 18, 1915.
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Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof, this 7th day of May.
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred fifteen, and of our in
dependence the one hundred thirty
ninth.
ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
CHAS. A. HAND,
(Seal) Deputy Clerk.
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June 4, 11, 18.
Administrator’s Notice.
In the Commissioner’s Court for Val
dez Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Liz
zie Stropp, deceased—Notice of Filing
of Final Account and of Hearing
Thereof.
Notice is hereby giren that E. E.
Ritchie, administrator of the estate
of Lizzie Stropp, deceased, has filed
his final account as such administra
tor, and asked for settlement of the
same; and that Tuesday, July 6,1915.
at 10 o’clock a. m., has been set by
order of court for the settlement of
said final account and hearing objeo
tions to the same. < S
Dated May 4, 1915. \
E. B. RITCHIE. •
Administrator
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