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Show BERNSTORFF TO FACE WAR LORDS Summoned Before German Assembly Probing Causes of Cataclysm. By KARL H. VON W1EGAND. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. Special Cable Dispatch. BERLIN, Oct. 20. Count Johann Hein-Hch Hein-Hch von Bernstorff, former German ambassador am-bassador to the United States, has arrived ar-rived here from Munich in answer to a summons of the national assembly committee com-mittee investigating the responsibility ot individual members of the old regime in bringing about and prolonging the war, as well a3 for the failures to take advantage ad-vantage of the opportunities to make peace. " Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, former imperial im-perial chancellor; Dr. Gottlieb von Jagow, ex-foreign minister; Dr. Alfred Zimmer-mann, Zimmer-mann, who succeeded him; Dr. Karl HelfCerich, former finance minister; Admiral von Capelle, who was minister of marine, and General Erich Ludendorff, all have been "invited" to attend and give testimony. These men will be confronted by Count von Bernstorff, who alleges that his efforts ef-forts for peace through President Wilson and Colonel Edward M. House in December, Decem-ber, 1916, and January, 1917, were making good headway when Berlin ruined all by a renewal :of the ruthless U-boat warfare, war-fare, and that the government ignored his repeated warnings that such a measure meas-ure would bring America into the war on the side of the allies. There is a great rush for tickets of admission ad-mission to hear the count's testimony. Owing to the smallness of the room, only twenty tickets could be distributed among the eighty foreign correspondents here. I . . |