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Evening Herald

Shenandoah, PA. Friday, May 14, 1915

AMERICA’S PROTEST TO GERMANY

IS A VERY STRONG DOCUMENT

Special by United States

Washington, D. C. May 15 – The following is the note sent by President Wilson to the American Ambassador at Berlin:

Please call on the Minister of Foreign Affairs and after reading to him this communication leave him a copy.

In view of recent acts of the German authorities in violation of American rights on the high seas, which culminated in the torpedoing and sinking of the British steamship Lusitania on May 7, 1915, by which over 100 America 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 understanding as to the grave situation which has resulted.

Evening Herald

Shenandoah, PA. Thursday, May 25, 1915

AEROPLANE THREW BOMBS

Washington, D.C., May 25 – Amidst a hail of shrapnel, shell and lead from machine guns one of a number of German and Austrian aeroplanes which made a scouting raid on Venice May 23, flew directly over the United States Consulate there, the consul reported today.

The raiders made their visit at dawn the vicerage stated. Several bombs were thrown and a number of persons were injured. The consul said there was no sign of a panic among the citizens who rushed into the open and watched the flying airmen as long as they were in sight.

Evening Herald

Shenandoah, PA. Friday, June 11, 1915

AGAIN ASK GERMANY FOR

ASSURANCES OF SAFETY

OF AMERICANS ON SEAS

THE SECRETARY OF STATE AD INTERIM TO THE

AMERICAN AMBASSADOR AT BERLIN:

Department of State, Washington, June 9, 1915,

American Ambassador, Berlin:

You are instructed to deliver textually the following note to the Minister of Foreign Affairs:

The government of the United States notes with gratification the full recognition by the Imperial German Government, in discussing the cases of the Cushing and the Gulflight, of the principle of the freedom of all ports of the open sea to neutral ships and the frank willingness of the Imperial German Government to acknowledge and meet its liability where the fact of attack upon neutral ships “which have not been guilty of any hostile act” by German aircraft or vessels of war is satisfactorily established; and the Government of the United States will in due course lay before the Imperial German Government at its request full information concerning the attack on the steamer Cushing.