24 JULY 1915, Page 1
A Reuter telegram in Thursday's papers, no doubt authentic, states
that the American Note in answer to the German will be despatched on Friday. It will "inform Germany that any further loss of American lives through German submarines, in contravention of the principles of international law, will be regarded as an unfriendly act. The United States assumes that Germany has admitted the principle that passengers must be removed to a place of safety before unresisting merchantmen are destroyed." Germany is further told that it is incumbent on her to make submarine practice conform to the principles of international law. (As we have often said, if there is a conflict between the submarine and international law, the submarine, in the American view, must give way.)
