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Show GERMAN REPORT ON FAILUREQF THE WAH AMERICA'S RESOURCES WERE UNDERESTIMATED. 'DECLARES INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. Submarines Failed to Terrorize Neutral Neu-tral Shipping and Proved Unsuccessful. Unsuc-cessful. Military Dictators Being Blamed for Failure. Berlin. Tin1 report of 1 1 u scciiiiii Mihcuiiiuiiiu'o ui Uie ((Hiunii ice of investigation in-vestigation mi President Wilson's peace effort during the w inter of l'.Hii-li'lT, l'.Hii-li'lT, prepared by Professor Sins-beiiner, Sins-beiiner, former Socialist member of the reichsing. draws the conclusion iltat President Wilson's action made peace overtures possible, but that the tierman government, not availing itself it-self of them, instead took a stand for unrestricted U-boat warfare. The report, made available here on July lit, is signed by six members of the different political parlies. It is a grave indictment of Cermany's military mili-tary dictators. The report shows how the economists econo-mists of Chancellor von Bellimann-llolweg's Bellimann-llolweg's civil government, even Dr. Karl llelfferich, then minister of finance, did not believe unrestricted U-boat warfare could insure victory. As the gravest mistake, the report mentions that America's resources were underestimated. The report says it was argued that, the submarines would prevent transportation of American Amer-ican troops "if there were any." It further declares that the submarines sub-marines failed to terrorize sufficiently neutral shipping; that not sufficient attention was paid to the anti-U-boat measures of Germany's enemies, and that when America entered the wal the military authorities failed to make adequate provision for its inevitable lengthy protraction. Thai the German public was grossly misled is a further charge in the report, re-port, which implies that, although the economic "experts" gave adhesion to unrestricted U-boat warfare at the behest be-hest of the military leaders, experts were rabid party men and did not in-cludii in-cludii really first-class authorities. |