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Show as 1IERS I MANY CHARGES Officer -Tells Senate Probers His Original Criticism Has Not Been Disproved DECLINES TO REPLY TO I PERSONAL ASPERSIONS I Witness Declares He Is Satisfied Satis-fied There Were No Intentional In-tentional Mistakes WASHINGTON, May 27. Rear Admiral Ad-miral Sims, appearing before the senate sen-ate naval Investigating committeo today to-day In rebuttal testimony, declared that "the navy department's witnesses" wit-nesses" had revealed a condition in the navy "even more distressing than I could have Imagined and constitutes a much more severe criticism of the deplorable de-plorable conditions referred to than mjvfelfhavo submitted." Nothing1 Disproved. "A very careful review of the evidence evi-dence submitted by the navy department's depart-ment's witnesses," said tho admiral, "shows that in no slnglo lnstapce. wore, the" thnrl6'ehlTpInts-raIse"d 'by"mo In criticism disproved. On tho contrary, most of them were freely admitted." Secretary Daniels' testimony. Admiral Ad-miral Sims' declared, had been remarkable re-markable "alike for its mlstakos and misinterpretations and for its unrestrained unre-strained assault upon my services during dur-ing the war," Tic Makes It Plain. "I wish to state very clearly and once and for all that In all the comments com-ments I shall have to make," Admiral Admir-al Sims said, "I do not desiie in the ' slightest degree to imply that they wero intentional or that the secretary I was not slncoroly convinced of the falrncas and correctness of his conclusions." con-clusions." , Admiral Sims said ho would make no attempt to answer the "personal reflections and asporsions contained In the testimony of the secretaj-y." 00 |