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Show I Authorities Suspicious That Wireless Code Betrayed to U. S. BERLIN. Thursday, Nov. 6. Dr Alfred Zimmerman, secretary for for cign affairs during th" war, caused a mild sensation during today's -ersion ' Of the national assembl committee in-1 restigatlng the war when he admitted That tll.- ( 1 r m o n ant hrtrlf inc t-io,l Kr.cn suspicious that their code, which had 'been made known to the American authorities, au-thorities, was betrayed to fhe entente by the United States government. I (This reference is to the special code ' which the American government per-' 'mitted to be used in wireless com 'munieaMons with the Washington em i bassy. a copy of which was furnished; j to the state department) Count voisjsRr.rn.storff when asked re garding these suspicions, said at iir-t ! that he could not swear that these wireless messages had not been com jmunicated b the United state., government gov-ernment to the eniente, but later de-' clared under oath that he had never 'known of such treason. 'J be submarine warfare came into the investigation again. Vice-Admiral Eduard von ''apellc said the U-boats had not been able to get at American (transports. J I Admiral von Capelle did not mention mines or depth charges during his recital He would not admit that the admiralty underestimated the United States as a factor in the war, but declared de-clared if wis known from England's experience with a volunteer army, that ' the United States could not raise many troops in six months and It was thought bj thi time thej were trained the waT would be over. What had been the impression re-garding re-garding the entry of the United I States into the war was then dis- j cussed by the committee Dr. von Bethmann HollWeg declared that any man who read the Lusitania and Sus sex notes of the United States would have known its was inevitable Dr Zimmerman was asked whether he said in a general party meeting, regarding re-garding the entrj of the United Statt in the war. that American aid militarily mili-tarily would amount to "zero. zero, zero." The former foreign minister j - aded i he answer. |