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Show Changed Their Stories. j BERLIN, April 19, via London. The foreign office transmitted today to the British embassy a supplementary note in regard to the Sussex containing affidavits sworn to by a Swiss passenger on the Sussex that "the steamship was not torpedoed and also a statement to the same effect from an American passenger. pas-senger. A Berlin dispatch on April 12 men-1 tioned the statement of a Swiss pas-1 senger on the Sussex, given out from official sources, according to which the passenger asserted he was convinced a mine was responsible for the Sussex explosion and that he had so stated after the disaster. He- was represented as declaring that investigating officers had "bullyragged" him into changing his statement, .but that he afterwards repudiated this reversal. |