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Show DANGEROUS EXPEDITION sup Allied Investigators Un-cover Un-cover Secrets Huns Had Sought to Hide; Efforts at Trickery Are Foiled By Aaaoclated Preaa. LONDON, Doc 28 (British Wireless Service). Bearinrr an allied cominixsioii, which inspected in-spected German naval bases and airship and seaplane stations under the trrmi of the armiatlce, the Krltlah battleahlp Hercules haa returned re-turned to her home port. During a trip fraught with peril many German porta were visuca ana preliminary arrange-menta arrange-menta for the surrender of German warships made. A rirumatir episorie of the voyage waa the passage of the Kiel canal on liecember 18. Accompanied by the Hrltish destroyers Verdun and Viceroy, the Herculea eave -the tiermnrnrtonar tha hanks of tha canal their first alght of the British flag since 1814. when light British cruisers passed through. Hermans who watched the nhlpa were, for the most part, indifferently curious, hut not infrequently women and children chil-dren waved their hands. There was not the slightest response from the ships. HUN SAILORS DIRTY. Ijiscipllne on board the Oerman war-ahlps war-ahlps la very low, according to officers of the Herculea They found on the first enemy ships boarded sailors were lounging about the ahips In had condition con-dition as a result of nealert. This waa In direct violation of the terma of the armistice and drastic action waa taken by the Inspecting officer. He notified the Germans that the ships must be cleared of sailors and If his orders were not obeyed he would return to the Herculea and report that he was obstructed ob-structed In his work. Kearful of probable prob-able consequences the German seamen left their ships at once. PLENTY OF CLOTHING. Inspection of airplane and seaplane stations required considerable land frwvil. whlr h permitted the mmbers of the commission to gain information as I to the condition of the people in the Interior of the country. It is reported that everyone encountered In Germany, even In suci an Industrial center ss Hamburg, seemed as well clothed and fed as srs the people of Franca and Kngland. Winter crops, owing to the mild- season, are doing well and the land Is well cultivated and fertilised. Admiral Blr Montague Browning head of the commission, waa acenm- ! panled by the beat men from all silled nations available for the work. They i met Interminable objections, obstructions obstruc-tions and evasions by the Germans, but the commission ultimately was able to induo the Germans to find means to fulfil many points of ti'e armistice which they at first flatly refused to carry out. ONE GOOD SPORT. Admiral Ooette of the German navy seems to be the only senior German officer of-ficer still attending to his duties. Admiral Ad-miral von Hcheer and Admiral von Hipper Hip-per apparently have disappeared Into the same obscurity which hides General Gen-eral Ludenilorff and other former lead-era, lead-era, who have sought safety In "retirement "re-tirement A notable member of the German commission was Captain von Mueller of the first Kmden, to whom the British press paid tribute at the time his ship was sunk, because of "sportsmanship." Unfortunately the Identity of Captain von Mueller was , not, definitely known tu the allied com- mission until after the final confer- ence st Kiel was over - I Discipline at airship and seaplane stations waa better than on ths Gei-man Gei-man wsrshfpa The Nordemey seaplane sea-plane station la said to compare most favorably with any station of its kind In France and Kngland. while the great Nordhots Zepielln depot is declared to be the finest In the world. It was from here that virtually all German raiders bound for Englsnd started. At Warnemunde, where a great experiments! ex-periments! station was established hy the Germans, ths allied commission met with difficulty when It ssked permission per-mission to carry out the Work of Inspection. In-spection. It waa only under protest that the tnemters were Mrmltted to enter, the Germans fearing revelations of what they had accomplished. The submarine commission, under Lieutenant Commander Bower, pushed Its Investigations assiduously at Hamburg, Ham-burg, Bremen and other points, with the result that scores of U -boats, nearly near-ly all near completion and hitherto undeclared by the German, were found and reported. Admiral Goette protested protest-ed to the last against giving up thews submarines, but at a final conference rvmTt-d |