GERMANY SURRENDERS TO AMERICA'S DEMANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16013, 3 September 1915, Page 5

GERMANY SURRENDERS TO AMERICA'S DEMANDS.

LINERS TO BE WARNED BEFORE BEING TORPEDOED* SAFETY OF NON-COMBATANTS TO BE ASSURED. Washikotok, September 1. Count Bernstorff, German Ambassador, has notified Mr. Lansing* Secretary of State, that Germany accepts the. American principle that passenger liners must be warned before being torpedoed by submarines. Count Bernstorff gave Mr. Lansing a written undertaking worded as follows: 'Liners will not be sunk by our submarines without warning, and without safety for non-combatants, provided that- the liners do not attempt to escape or offer resistance.'' Count Bernstorff also intimated that Germany's policy was settled before the Arabic incident. The German Embassy admits that the submarine which torpedoed the Arabic failed to return to her base. She undertakes to apologise to the United States. It is understood that Germany is willing to afford satisfaction to the United States for the loss of American lives on the Lusitania. Mr. Lansing makes it clear that the United States will in no case bargain with Germany regarding the British blockade. The press claims that President Wilson has achieved a great diplomatic victory. The New York Herald states that America cannot barter with Germany by promising aggression towards Britain in order to obtain the reshaping of German policy. President Wilson will not recognise the remotest relations between America's controversy with Germany and America's controversy with BritainThe press believes that Germany has lost so many submarines through the excellence of the British counter-offensive methods that she is now willing to concede the United States' demands as a way, out of the dilemma.