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Show 11 GERMANS AGAINST BREAK ADMIRAL VON TRUPPEL TELLS COMPATRIOTS HOW AMERICA COULD HELP ALLIES. Takes Issue With Them on Subject of Submarine Warfare Against Commerce Com-merce and Points Out Danger of Breach, Berlin. Admiral Oscar von Trup pel, at one time governor of Kaio-Chow, Kaio-Chow, the German concession in the Chinese province of Shantung, captured cap-tured In November by the Japanese, contributes an article on Monday to Dcr Tag, warning his compatriots not to underestimate the danger of a breach with the United States and asking them to weigh seriously the question whether the value of Germany's Ger-many's submarine warfare against British commerce is great enough to justify a continuance of its present form at the expense of a rupture witl the trans-Atlantic nation. The article is remarkable not onlj for Its open statement regarding the wide-reaching effects which the par ticipation of America in the hostilities might exercise on the future course ol the war effects which Admiral voc Truppel says are greatly underestimated underesti-mated in Germany but also as a contribution con-tribution from a naval officer. All the naval publicists of Germany hitherto heard from have been devoting devot-ing their energies to accelerating public pub-lic opinion against any modification ol the submarine campaign and endeavoring endeav-oring to prevent or to limit concessions conces-sions to American demands in the coming German note to Washington. Admiral von Truppel discounts the stories of earlier existing American agreements with Great Britain against Germany, explaining that this is most improbable, owing to American diplomatic diplo-matic traditions. ' But it is undeniable," undenia-ble," he says, "in spite of President Wilson's unquestionable desire to reach a peaceful solution of the problems, prob-lems, that the sympathies of a majority major-ity of Americans are on the side ol England and that only a spark might be necessary under certain conditions to kindle this feeling into a hostile outbreak." |