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Show WARNS GERMANS' AGAINST BREAK ADMIRAL VON TRUPPEL TELLS COMPATRIOTS HOW AMERICA COULD HELP ALLIES. Takes Issue With Them on Subject of Submarine Warfare Against Commerce Com-merce and Points Out Danger of Breach. Berlin. Admiral Oscar von Trumpet, Trum-pet, at one time governor of Kaio-Chow, Kaio-Chow, the German concession in the Chinese province of Shantung, captured cap-tured in November by the Japanese, contributes an article on .Monday to Dei- Tag, warning his compatriots not to underestimate the danger of a breach with the United States and asking them to weigh seriously the question whether the value of Germany's Ger-many's submarine warfare ag.iinst British commerce is great enough to justify a continuance of its present form at the expense of a rupture with the trans-Atlantic nation. The article is remarkable not only for its open statement regarding the wide-reaching effects which the participation par-ticipation of America in the hostilities might exercise on the future course of the war effects which Admiral von Truppel says are greatly underestimated underesti-mated in Germany but also as a contribution con-tribution from a naval officer. All the naval publicists of Germany hitherto heard from have beer, devoting devot-ing their energies to accelerating public pub-lic opinion against any modification of the submarine campaign and endeavoring endeav-oring to prevent or to limit conces- I sions to American 'demands in the coming German note to Washington. Admiral von Truppel discounts the i stories of earlier existing American ' agreements with Great Britain against Germany, explaining that this is most improbable, owing to American diplomatic diplo-matic traditions. ' But it is undeniable." undenia-ble." he says, "in spite of President Wilson's unquestionable desire to reach a peaceful solution of the problems, prob-lems, that the sympathies of a majority major-ity of Americans are on tire side of England and that only a spark might be necessary under certain conditions to kindle this feeling into a hostile oulhreak.." |