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Show GERMANS ARE TOJFJALIATE Berlin, via Ixndon. March 11. 11 20 p. m In naval circles It is declared that a searching investigation will be : instituted Into the report that the I British admiralty intends to withhold the customary honorable imprisonment imprison-ment conditions from Germans submarine sub-marine crows made captives, and that If Groat Britain places such Germans under special restrictions relaliatory measures may he adopted The navy officials say the Investigation will not be made through diplomatic channels, but decline to specify how their information in-formation will he gleaned. They claim that should Great Britain take the ac tion she contemplates, this will not affect, the submarine war plans In the slightest particular nor have anv in fluence on the spirit of the ccrews Announcement was made bv the British admiralty March 8 that the admiralty ad-miralty was not justified in extending honors to captured German submarine crews owinc to their methods of warfare war-fare and that It was Intended to segregate seg-regate them under snecial restrictions pending their possible conviction at the conclusion of peace. The new policy, the admiralty said, applied to tho twenty-nine officers and men of the German submarine U-8 who were rescued when their craft was sunk ..ff Dover. This submarine. sub-marine. It wa8 charged, had been guilty of attacking unarmed merchantmen merchant-men and of endeavoring to torpedo ships carrying non-combatants, neutrals neu-trals and women. Admiral Ird Charles Bedford retired re-tired recently, proposed that the crews of submarines be tried for murder mur-der as pirates. |