The Archive · 1916

AMERICA'S DEMAND REFUSED BY GERMANY

New York, Feb. 6.

Wall Street is apprehensive of complications arising: between the United Btates and Germany and nes fell sharply on publication of a statement that Berlin has refused to satisfy completely the American demands on the Lusitania incident.

Amsterdam, Feb. 5.- Herr Zimmermann, the German Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in an interview states. that. Germany positively declines. to acquiesce in the American demand that it should acknowledge the sinking. of the: Lusitania to-be a violation of International Law:

Herr Zimmermann hoped that America would accept the alternative formula which Count Bernstorff had just presented, which omitted reference to the illegality the deed. Germany regarded the nation as serious and would go far to accommodate the United States, but she refused to deprive herself of her submarine weapons. New York, Feb. 6.

The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press states that

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