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PROMISES REPARATION. If Error Was Made by Submarine Berlin Government Will Punish. Washington, Dec. 1.?Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, delivered to Secretary of State Lansing today Germany's reply to the American request for information concerning the sinking of the British steamer Marina, with the loss of six American lives. The German submarine commander reported that he attacked the Marina in the belief that it was a transport. The German foreign of fice through Count von Bernstorff asked for the information in possession of this government, in order that the exact status of the vessel might be cleared up, as its information was not complete. Germany also, it is understood, assured the United States that if an error had been made by the submarine commander, full reparation, as well as apology; would be made immediately, without waiting for a demand by this country. It was ber lieved also that the submarine commander would be punished if it is proved that a mistake was made by him. The Marina's record is believed to have been clouded, and it is understood that this government is not in possession of absolute proof of its peaceable character. It was reported in London soon after the sinking of this ship that it was believed to have been previously in the British transPQrt service. After Count von Bernstorff, who asked for the interview with Secretary Lansing, had left the State department today, Mr. Lansing went to the white house, where he submitted the German reply to President Wilson. It was said that the president had no objection to the State department's furnishing Germany with the information sought, and it will be transmitted by Count von Bernstorff immediately to Berlin foreign office. The impression was general in administration circles that no serious crisis would arise from the Marina incident. It was recalled that in the American note to Berlin in the Sussex case Germany was informed that a severance of diplomatic relations would result if she conducted submarine war upon merchantmen without warning. It was not believed then, however, and is not thought now, that mistakes could always be avoided, and it was intimated that proof of Germany's intention not to violate the rules of law is found in the factj that although her submarines have| sunk hundreds of ships since the | pledge was given, there has hereto- j fore been no proof that the promise was broken. Think Germ of Scourge Found. Rochester, X. Y., Dec. 1.?In the laboratories of the famous Mayo j clinic here, a micro-organism has' been discovered which is believed by investigators in the department of pathology to be the crusative agent of infantile paralysis?the dread disease which last summer killed or < crippled nearly 20,000 American ba- ' bies. With" customary scientific reserve, Dr. E. C. Rosenow, who is in charge 1 of the experiments, will not yet assert positively that the germ which!' he and his associates. Dr. E. B. j J Towne, of Boston, and Dr. G. W. Wheeler, of Xew York, have succeeded in isolating, is the germ of in fantile paralysis, but in what he; terms a preliminary note," that hasj| been presented to the State medical! society, it is shown that experiments ' during the past few months all point in this direction. If it be true that the agent of the disease has thus been found and catalogued?and there is no real doubt ' in the minds of the scientists ac- {t quainted with the experiments that ? this has been done?then half of one ' of the greatest battles in modern medicine already has been won. , ' 1 ? >-? *** ? ^ Aa?? mm a V\ /\ i Y~* inert; remains, ui tuuise, tuc imyvi- < tant task of developing a serum or a vaccine, or perhaps both, with which < immunity may be established in liu- ' man beings, but when the germ has been tagged this at once becomes possible. It is entirely within the range of probability that before another summer comes the world may hear that infantile paralysis definitely has been relegated to the category of such diseases as dipththeria. smallpox and other readily controlled afflictions. With the memory of last summer's horror still fresh in the public mind, no more important piece of news could be presented to Americans. Because of the high hopes which the discovery of some mistake or broken link in the present chain of scientific evidence would dash, those interested in the experiments at Rochester are especially restrained in making announcements. Nevertheless. Dr. Rosenow's report cannot hut have the effect of creating intense public interest in the outcome of further experimentation with curative vaccines and serums. It is known that a quantity of these already have been prepared and are employed upon animals at the .Mayo laboratories. What is described as a "peculiar polymorphous streptococcus" has been isolated by the men, often in large numbers, from the throat, tonsils and abscesses in the tonsils of cases of acute infantile paralysis. The same germ has been obtained from the ventricular fluid after death and the blood of a living patient- in one case. The colonies of one streptococci thus isolated after emulsion in the sterile air chamber, are in each instance described as consisting of "fine, slightly green colonies." In different culture, the germ has assnmpH different sizes ADDarentlv it thrives more on some than on others. In some cases it is so small as to be I quite invisible under even the most powerful microscope and easily filter-! able through dense porcelain. In others it is readily discerned and in still others it has assumed a size at least two-thirds larger than that which represents its "lowest visibility," as the naval officers say. Succeeding steps in the experimentation disclose as fascinating a chain of circumstantial evidence as anything ever devised by the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Inoculation of rabbits, dogs and monkeys with the germ taken from human beings has been followed in every case by the onset of what is called characteristic poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis. The symptoms produced in the animals are in every respect the same as those witnessed in human beings. Cultures made from dogs and rabbits dead of the disease, when injected into other dogs and rabbits, have produced instant and fatal attacks of infantile paralysis. Indeed, there is apparently no missing link in the chain between the! "fine, non-adherent slightly green" | colonies or streptococci observed un- j der the microscope and the onset of the disease in animals after it is in- j jected either in the veins or spinal j cord. Furthermore it has been not-; ed by the investigators that young; animals always were found more susceptible to the germ than older ones, just as children more frequent-j ly catch the disease than grown peo-i pie. Summing up the results of their labors the three doctors say: "We have isolated a peculiar streptococcus from throats, tonsils, abscesses in tonsils and from the central nervous system in cases of poliomyelitis. Paralysis has been produced in animals of various species by intravenous and intracerebral injection of cultures of this organism and lesions of the gray matter of the nervous system have been demonstrated. From the nervous system of these animals, the streptococcus j has been isolated in pure culture, while their other tissues were steril^, I it is remarkably polymophorous and j appears to grow large or small ac-' cording to the medium in which it is; grown, even after passage through a Berkefeld filter. "Using the organism in its large form, paralysis has been consistently produced in animals known to be insusceptible to innoculation with material from epidemic polimyelitis as heretofore practiced. After paralysis had been produced in a series of three rabbits, the strain caused characteristic paralysis and lesions of poliomyelitis in monkeys. 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