New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 | Page 4

is possible for injuries which are
without measure, and that they will take immediate steps to prevent the
recurrence of anything so obviously subversive of the principles of
warfare for which the Imperial German Government have in the past so
wisely and so firmly contended.
The Government and people of the United States look to the Imperial
German Government for just, prompt, and enlightened action in this
vital matter with the greater confidence, because the United States and
Germany 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 neutral persons to new and immeasurable risks.
The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of
the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the
performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United
States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and
enjoyment.
BRYAN.

THE WARNING AND THE CONSEQUENCE--

THE GERMAN WARNING.
[On Saturday, May 1, the day that the Lusitania left New York on her
last voyage, the following advertisement bearing the authentication of
the German Embassy at Washington appeared in the chief newspapers
of the United States, placed next the advertisement of the Cunard Line:
NOTICE!
TRAVELLERS intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are
reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and
Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters
adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice
given by the Imperial German Government vessels flying the flag of
Great Britain, or of any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those
waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great
Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.
IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY
WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 22, 1915.
Despite this warning, relying on President Wilson's note to Germany of
Feb. 10, 1915, which declared that the United States would "hold the
Imperial Government of Germany to a strict accountability" for such an
act within the submarine zone; relying, also, on the speed of the ship,
and hardly conceiving that the threat would be carried out, over two
thousand men, women, and children embarked. The total toll of the
dead was 1,150, of whom 114 were known to be American citizens.
The German Embassy's warning advertisement was repeated on May 8,
the day following the loss of the Lusitania. On May 12 the German
Embassy notified the newspapers to discontinue publication of the
advertisement, which had been scheduled to appear for the third time
on the following Saturday.]
GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT.
[By The Associated Press.]
_BERLIN, May 14, (via Amsterdam to London, May 15.)--From the
report received from the submarine which sank the Cunard Line
steamer Lusitania last Friday the following official version of the
incident is published by the Admiralty Staff over the signature of
Admiral Behncke:_
The submarine sighted the steamer, which showed no flag, May 7 at
2:20 o'clock, Central European time, afternoon, on the southeast coast

of Ireland, in fine, clear weather.
At 3:10 o'clock one torpedo was fired at the Lusitania, which hit her
starboard side below the Captain's bridge. The detonation of the
torpedo was followed immediately by a further explosion of extremely
strong effect. The ship quickly listed to starboard and began to sink.
The second explosion must be traced back to the ignition of quantities
of ammunition inside the ship.
_It appears from this report that the submarine sighted the Lusitania at
1:20 o'clock, London time, and fired the torpedo at 2:10 o'clock,
London time. The Lusitania, according to all reports, was traveling at
the rate of eighteen knots an hour. As fifty minutes elapsed between the
sighting and the torpedoing, the Lusitania when first seen from the
submarine must have been distant nearly fifteen knots, or about
seventeen land miles. The Lusitania must have been recognized at the
first appearance of the tops of her funnels above the horizon. To the
Captain on the bridge of the Lusitania the submarine would have been
at that time invisible, being below the horizon._
[Illustration: Map Showing Locations of Ships Attacked in Submarine
War Zone with American Citizens Aboard.]
BRITISH CORONER'S VERDICT.
[By The Associated Press.]
_KINSALE, Ireland, May 10.--The verdict, rendered here today by the
coroner's jury, which investigated five deaths resulting from the
torpedoing of the Lusitania, is as follows:_
We find that