— i United States Demands Full Reparation. Message Insists on Damages For American Dead on Lusitania, and Any Hostile Step Is Left to Ger many. The United States government, in a note to Germany, formally demands of the imperial government a strict accounting for the loss of American lives in the sinking of the Lusitania, and violations of American rights in the war zone. It asks an accounting, not only financial, but moral, and a guaranted that there will be ne repetition of un lawful practices of German subma rines. With the plain intimation in it that the United States is prepared to meet any eventuality that may arise from a non-compliance, the communication, phrased in unmistakably emphatic language, was prepared to be cabled to Berlin. Written by President Wilson and approved unanimously by the cabinet, the note was examined by Robert Lan: sing, state department counsellor and the law officers of the government at the state department, to make surd that its phraseology covered every point of law involved. As knowledge of the vigorous course the government was preparing to pursue became widespread, officiald began to shed more light on their plans. They indicated that the situa: tion would grow only as serious as Germany chose to make it and that the United States would calmly stand on its legal rights, taking successive steps to bring the imperial German government to an understanding of the honest purpose of the United States for an abatement of the sub marine attacks on non-combatants and reparation for offenses already com: mitted. The White House officially announc ed the fact that the president had finally determined the course of action to be pursued, in the following state ment issued by Mr. Tumulty, the sec retary of the president, after a con ference with the president: “The course of the president has been determined. It will be announced just as soon as it is proper to publish the note now in preparation.” The president, it was said, realized fully the gravity of meaning in the note and was prepared for any event: ualities that might arise from its pre: sentation. The note does not say exactly what the course of the United States will be in the case of a refusal, nor would the president’s advisers indicate be: yond saying that each step and situa: tion would be considered as it arose. May Question Neutrals. In official quarters, However, the eventual severance of diplomatic re lations was declared not to be impos: sible if there was no abatement of the German practices. One subsequent step being discuss ed was that of conversations with other neutral governments to deter mine what steps they intend to take to protect their neutral rights. While the United States has traditionally been opposed to joint action, it often has acted identically with other gov- ernments. President Wilson, however, is not convinced that the policy which the United States has adopted, need ne: cessarily lead to hostilities. Even a geverance of diplomatic relations does not carry with it such an obligation. The sending of warship convoys with American steamers has been talked of among officials, as well as other protective measures, but the American government, according to well informed persons, proposes to fix the responsibility on Germany for any hostile act. It was learned that the president framed his policy on Sunday night, and that his specific utterances in his speech in Philadelphia on Monday are not reflected in the firm and unequi- vocal phrases of the note. Everywhere in official quarters, as details of the president’s plan of ac- tion became known, there was talk of firmness and a stiffening of the posi- tion of the United States government towards Germany. As for reparation, the United States naturally will seek financial repara- tion, but its protest now is in the name of international law and hu- manity to obtain a guarantee that such tragedies will not be repeated and the "lives of non-combatants sacrificed. While high officials and cabinet of- ficers were reluctant to discuss its contents, it was agreed that the note voiced the intense feeling of the Unit- ed States over the occurrences in the war zone and wanted an explanation of them, as well as a guarantee that they would not be repeated. Reviews Violations of U. S. Rights. The communication lays stress on the inhumanity of the attacks, with- out warning, on merchant vessels. It reviews in a general way every case in the war zone in which the rights of American citizens have been trans- gressed—the sinking of the steamer Falaba, with the loss of Leon C. Thresher, an American; the attack by German airmen upon the American steamer Cushing; the torpedoing of the American steamer Gulflight while flying the American flag, and, finally the destruction of the Lusitania, with the loss of more than a thousand non combatants, more than 100 of them Americans. : The note, while firm and pointed, does not abandon tones of friendli: ness, giving room for a disavowal by Germany of her acts or an abatement of her practices. This is intimated in the suggestion that the German gov: ernment and the German people could certainly not have intended to sacri fice American lives in the pursuit of their maritime warfare. Attention is called to the fact that while advertisements of warning ap- peared in the newspapers, the United States government was never officially informed of it. But irrespective of that, the position is taken that the serving of notice to do an unlawful act neither justifies it nor makes it lawful. The note calls on Germany for an explanation of her past and future course and leaves open the steps the United States will take to compel an acquiescence in its position. 1153 LOST ON LUSITANIA 115 Americans Among Victims of German Submarine. Hope of finding further survivors ol the Cunard line steamship Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German submarine on Friday afternoon on the south coast of Ireland, has been prac tically given up. The death list, as given out by the Cunard offices, stands at 1153, of whom 115 were Americans. The Cunard line’s official report says: “Total number of survivors, 764, in: cluding 462 passengers and 302 of the crew. it “One hundred and forty-four bodies recovered, of whom eighty-seven are identified, and fifty-seven unidenti fied. Identified bodies include sixty: five passengers and twenty-two crew. “Number of persons injured: Thirty passengers, seventeen crew.” Of the survivors, seventy-three are reported to be from the United States. The Central News has received a dispatch from its correspondent at Genoa, who says that a telegram re ceived there from Munich declares the German submarine U-39 was responsi ble for the sinking of the Lusitania. Among the dead are Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the principal hair of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt; Elbert Hubbard, the well known essayist and satirist, and his wife; Charles Froh: man, the popilar playwright; Charles Klein, theatrical manager; Paul Crompton, the - Philadelphia leather manufacturer; Harry J. 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Being the Seip premises which Amos Copenhaver by deed da February 23, 1901 and recorded in Deed Book 90, page 251 ‘granted and conveyed to Anna B. Woomer party of the first part hereto. Seized, levied upon, taken into execution and 40 be sold as the property of Anna B. Woomer. TERMS OF SALE.—No deed will be acknowledg- ed until the purchase money is paid in full. a ARTHUR B. LEE, Sheriff. Sheriff's Office, Bellefonte, Pa. 60-17-4t April 19th, 1915. HERIFF’S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of Fi Fa issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, Penna., and to me directed there will be exposed to pub- lic sale at the court house in the borough of Bellefonte, Pa., on MONDAY, MAY 17th, 1915, at 1 o’clock p. m., the following described real estate, viz: All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the township of Ferguson, county of Centre, and State of Pennsylvania, and bounded and descril as follows, to wit: Be- ginning at the nort-east corner of property now or late of W. W. Feide, formerly known as lot No. 111 on the plot or plan of lots laid out by said Foster Brothers. thence in an easterly direction fifty feet along College Avenue to property now or late of J.C. Krebs, formerly known as lot No. 109, on the plot or plan of lots laid out by said Foster Brothers, thence in a southerly direction one hundred and fifty feet along line of said prop- erty now or late of J. C. 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