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Show GERMAN ADMIRAL TAKES VACATION Report of Resignation Denied I n Serious Conflict With j j Chancellor Is Admitted. j 3 CLIMAX IS REACHED j. Sinking of the Arabic Cause of J J Sudden Visit to Emperor I j at the Front. ill! 6 M Amsterdam, Sept. 8, via London, M 9:35 a. m. Reports that Admiral von VtU Tirpitz, German minister of marine, J intends to resign, are inventions, al- mJB though it Is true that he plans to take " fi a brief vacation, according to the Ber- .8 lin correspondent of the NIeuwe Rot- JH terdamsche Courant, who claims to .t! have obtained his information from I 'f. excellent authorltv. ,-B ri A dispatch from Amsterdam Sep- ) tember 3 said it was reported in Ber- i m lin that Admiral Tirpitz would re- I sign and be succeeded by Admiral von t Pohl, now chief of the admiralty staff ' , -1 and, commander of tho Baltic fleet. .B Von Tirpitz In Contention. M It has been persistently asserted J that Admiral von Tirpitz had come m Into serious conflict with Chancellor Jj von Bethmann-Hollweg over the sub- l! I marine campaign which the admiral tl instituted in retaliation for the Brit- Jj ish blockade. Their differences of jjj opinion came to a climax with the tjlB sinking of the steamer Arabic with its jjlfi resulting menace to the friendly Tela- Siu tlons between Germany and tho Unl- 'if ted States. h The chancellor and the minister of marine visited Emperor William at jj the front and the monarch was said J I to have sustained Mr. von Bethmann- i Hollweg in his demands that the sub- jljl marine policy be modified for polit- jlffi ical reasons. j jfc Admiral Is Chagrined. Ijl It was after this conference that it 111 became known that von Tirpitz pro- nt posed taking a vacation and the infers J ence was drawn by the foreign press I If that this was a subterfuge to cover his l retirement by order of the emperor, Ijl or to hide his chagrin at being over- j 1 ruled in a policy which was popular j I I with the German people. jjl I |