New-York tribune., 1919-11-13
Testimony of Former Vice
Chancellor Before War
Committee Devoted to
Viification Of America
President Also Is Assailed
MIR. Wilson Is Accused of
Seeking Profit Out of
the Sufferings of Europe

BERLIN, Nov. 12 (By The Associated
Press).--Dr. Karl Helfferich, former
German Vice Chancellor, on the wit
ness stand before the War Investiga-
tlon Committee all morning, began at
II o'clock a long g-drawn-out villifcation
OF the United States, eliminating with
the declarations:
America maintained a mere paper
neutrality, President Wilson was salts
fed to make money out of European
blood and suffering"
This declaration was greeted with
~bravos" from the spectators and many
German newspaper men. 1t aroused
Deputy Cohen, who demanded that
Helfferich be forbidden to use such
expression. But Chairman Wermuth
ruled the method OF expression by wit
nesses cannot be controlled
Deputy Sinsheimer here injected the
question:: "Was not German anger at
America artihcial?"
Bames L. s. for Poison Gas
Helfferich banged the table angrily
and replied: at was genuine from
the very bottom, chiefly because of the
ammunition, barbed wire, poisonous
Easses and food which America deliv-
cred to the Entente"
Admiral Eduard Won Capelle,
former Minister of the Navy, was
bombarded with questions yesterday
before the subcommittee as to why
more submarines were not built so
as to have made the submarine cam
paign successful. Hecklers at the in
vestigation, having failed to get much
information as to why the submarine
campaign was not avoided, changed
their tactics to questioning the former
Minister OF the Navy on submarine
construction
summary of his contribution to
J-boat construction was read by Won
Capelle at the start of the session.
Total of $40 U-Boats Built
Fight hundred and ten submarines
we're built before and during the war"
sid the former Minister Of the Navy.
'9f these 45 were constructed before
the war, 1856 were built during the ad-
NIL tstration of Admiral Won Tirpitz
and $40 were built by me in the two
and g half years I was in office.
Il took Office in April, 1916. and in
tne nine months remaining in that year
ordered built 80 U-boats; in 1917 |
ordered 269, and in the nine months I
was in office in 1918 l ordered 220"
Admiral Won Capelle asserted he had
oeen consulted three times with regard
20 submarine construction by DR.. Won
Rethmann- Hollwee, the first time when
Herr Struve q member of the Reichs,
,as) had presented to the Chancellor
81 morandum urging increased U-boat
construction, which had been signed by
George Gothein (another Reichstag
nlember) the second time VIA, in
a17. the Chancellor wrote saying u
boat construction must not be left out
o. consideration, showing. Won Capelle
said, the Chancellor counted on long
vsr; and, third, when Won Bethmann-
IIollweg telegraphed that Deputy
Fischbeck had expressed doubts
v'hether Germany had enough U-boats,
rhereupon Won Capelle said he visited
tae Chancellor and assured him that
everything was going we'll
Herr Struve wrote TO General Won
rudendorff urging more U-boats. Won
Cspelle added. Ludendorff replied in
his matter there was unanimity on
tls opinion in upper army circles, in
- Admiralty and among the General
SraF.
disable Peace Germanys Aim
Herr Sinsheimer attempted to elicit
he exact purpose OF the submarine
campaign against England whether
j. was the intention 10 crush Engla
or merely TO compel her to agree to q
"usaDle peace"
Won Capelle replied eve believed
We could force England to q 'usable
peace within five months"
"Was the submarine war planned to
make feeding of England impossible
and therefore make impossible the
asked Herr David
food or ammunition could be kept from
England" replied Won Capelle, sar-
castically 1--WE should have been