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Show CHARGE MADE THAT GREAT BRITAIN HAD PLOTTED TO BLOW UP WILHELMSHAVEN. German Newspapers Declare Thai Secret Plans and Code Have Been ' Revealed to England Which Would be of Great Value In Case of War. Cologne. The rthenlsh WestphuU M Zeltung publishes a story of :ii alleged discovery of a plot oti tlif part of Great llillalii to blow up Wll helmshaven. The Zcltiing professes to have re reived Its Informal bin from one ol the bt'st-lnfiHmod officials, who said I that the postal authorities, bocomliiii I suspicious of repeated money orderi In favor of deck officers and chM matea, finally seized some of the let lers. These showed that the plans to the enhances to Wllhelmsliavcn war bar bor. us well as plans of the water sup ply and th, contents of the secret ciide bock, had been betrayed to the Urltlsh admiral')'. The pnper points out that with stiilt Information at Its command. (J i eat Ilrltain could blow up the enhances en-hances to the war harbor at the tie clsivo moment, rendering the burbot utterly us less, and Germany, at thr vu y beginning of war, would be help less to defend herself at sea. To prevent the threatened danger, the Zeltung continues, a G nnan : squadron remained for weeks on pa trol duty. Recent conferences be tween the emperor, the minister 01 marine, the ef of the admiralty I staff and the chief of the marine de partment dealt with this danger. London Discredits Story. Ixmdon. The story that the Hrltlsh admiralty has secured plans of the locks and water supply and the sec. ret signal codes of Wlllieliiishaveli, with tha Idea In event of war ol blowing up the harbor's entranct and thus bottling up the German fleet, I Is regarded her? as a mere romance J |