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Show I Diplomat Denounces Admiralty I ; Lying to Halt Internal Crisis H . - H (Uy 1KWIN BAKUOUK.) M 'Washington, Sept. 1. Confidential H Information, of ii serious rupture in H tliu Get man go eminent between tho H main block of tho lelcliBtag mill tho H admiralty uutliorltlos ovor tho sub- H marine warfare lias reached Washing- H The situation, described as critical, H followed a violent denunciation of H Admiral von Capelle, head of tho H German admiralty, by Dr. Muthlas H Krzberger, leader of tho centrum, be- H fore the main coiumitteo of tho reich- stag. Dr. Krzberger is the man who brought about thu recent crisis which B resulted In tho overthrow of Beth- B mann-Hollweg as chancellor and led 1 to an Imperial rescript promising tho B democratization of tho Prussian olcc- H (oral syBteui. llo is ono of tho lead- B lug pcaco workers in Gcrmnny. 1 Tho. outburst against Capollo is B only ono evidence, according to thuso H dispatches, of tho growing unrest among tho German masses. Tho ad- B 'miralty chief was accused of falsl- A fylng figures of enemy tonnago losses V In order to keep down the wrath of H tho nermann, which would hnvo B overwhelmed the men who promised B them victory tluough tho suhmuilnc H and then failed to make- good. H Tho dispatches containing details H of tho clash between Krzberger and H Capollo were received by American H special agents. They were received In administration circles several days ago, but no hint of them lias been permitted to bo mado public. According to excerpts today, Dr. Krzberger, during a discussion of tho submarlno situation, flatly accused Admiral von Capello of falsification nnil defied him to deny it. Capollo was unable, to innko a satisfactory answer. Nor could ho gie tho method meth-od by which the figures had been arrived ar-rived at showing a largo destruction of Kngllsh tonnage, which ho had presented to the main committee. Krzberger then described the method meth-od of the admiralty In drawing up figures of Ilrltlsh lossos for dissemination dissem-ination to tho public. Ho declared they wero "ridiculous" and a plain falsehood. When any ship was sunk, ho said, tho admiralty had been In tho habit of giving, not tho registerod tannage of the ship, but tho dead weight, and, in addition, adding tho weight of the cargo to the tonnage of the ship. In other words. If a 3000-ton ship wero sunk and it carried 2000 tons of cargo, the admiralty would count It G00O or more tons of shipping de-stroyed. de-stroyed. In addition, Krzberger charged, the admiralty, to innko tho people boliovo heavy inroads wero being made into the Kngllsh mercantile mercan-tile fleet, was listing all tonnago destroyed de-stroyed as Ilrltlsh. No matter whether wheth-er a torpedoed ship was French, Italian or even neutral, It was added to tho Ilrltlsh tonnago lost. This Information and similar other dispatches of growing distrust and disturbances against tho German military and naval leaders is said to have played a large part in determin-in determin-in gtho attltudo of President Wilson toward tho.popo's peace proposal. Officials hero oxpressed the opinion opin-ion that the estimate of 2,600,000 tons as the amount of shipping which would bo destroyed in tho first year of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany was In consonance with figures so far at hand. This is In contrast to tho German boast that 800,000 to 1,000,000 tons a month would bo destroyed. It was pointed out nt tho navy department de-partment today that tho losses through submarines have" been cut in half since March. American destroyers destroy-ers have played n great part in this result, It was declared, the addition of n large squadron of tho American ships to the allied fleets nlready in tho war zono having operated to keep down tho depredations of tho undersea raiders, to which tho destroyer de-stroyer is the natural cnomy. Figures reaching hero indicato thnt Germany is producing two and a half to three submarines a week and that she lias more than 2G0 in nctivo service. ser-vice. Most of them nro of tho 800-ton 800-ton standardized type. |