V.
The situation is easier. Count Bernstorff has declared in an interview that the German Government is prepared to accept the American formula if the word "legality" be substituted for the word "illegality." Germany would thus admit the legality of the torpedoing of the Lusitania and express regret at the death of American citizens. Count Bernstorff points out that Germany has thus gone very far towards meeting the American demand. He hopes and believes that two great civilized nations will not fall out over so small a matter as the use or omission of the two letters i,l, at the beginning of a long word.
VI.
Mr. Lansing has in a polite note expressed himself unable to accept Count Bernstorff's offer as a full satisfaction of America's demands. The sands are evidently running out, and there is serious danger of the negotiations proving abortive. In the meantime a sharp Note has been addressed to England in regard to her interference with American commerce. Six munition works were yesterday blown up. The outrage is attributed to Germans. President Wilson is carefully considering his action.
THE ARMLET IN BORRIBODABOO.
The "Lusitania" Crisis.
"The Vienna Correspondence Bureau emphasises the gravity of the situation, and says that the negotiations are interrupted. This interruption, it is added, is as it came from the cow."
Yorkshire Post.