Washington, Feb. 11.
The full text of the Notes sent by the United States to Germany and Great Britain has been published.
The Note to Germany reminds her that the sole right of belligerents is limited to visit and search unless a blockade is being effectively maintained, which the American Government does not understand is proposed in this case.
The Note continues: "To declare or exercise the right to attack and destroy any vessel entering a pre scribed area of the high seas, without first determining with certainty its belligerent nationality and the
is an act so unprecedented in contraband character of its cargo, warfare that this Government reluctant to believe that the Imperial Government of Germany, in this case, contemplates it as possible"
The Note reminds Germany that the United Statee is open to no criticiams of unneutral acts "If the commanders of German men-of-war act on the presumption that the flag of the United States is not used in good faith and should destroy, on the high seas, American vessels and the lives o American citizens, it would be difficult for the Government of the United States to view that act in any other light than an indefensible violation of neutral rights, which would be very hard indeed to reconcile with the friendly relations now happily existing between the two Governments, and it would be constrained to hold the Imperial Government of Germany to strict accountability for such acts and to take any steps that might be necessary to safeguard American lives and property.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.