Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-20
GERMAN MILITARY DICTATORS
 REJECTED PEACE OVERTUREs

Berlin, July 1S.-The report of the second subcommittee of the commit tee of investigation on President Will sons peace effort during the winter ez 1916-1917, prepared by Professor sinsheimSr former socialist member Of the reichstag. draws the conclusion that President Wilson's action made peace overtures possible but that the German government, not availlng it. self of them, instead took stand for unrestricted U-boat warfare.
 The r0port made available in full here today, is signed by SIX members Of the different political parties. It is a grave indictment of Germany mili- tarv dictators at the time. The report shows how the economists of Chancel- Tor von Bethplann- Hollweg's civil government. even Dr. Karl Helferich, then minister of finance, did not believe unrestricted U-boat warfare could en- sure Germany victory. AS the gravest mistake, tNe report mentions the 1act that America's resources were coIn- pletely under estimated
 The report says it sTas argued the submarines would prevent the trans portation of American troops, If there were aI.y'' l. further declares that the submarines failed to terrorlze sui fciently neutral shipping, but not sui fcient attention was paid to the anti U-boat measures of Germanys enc mics. and, finally, that when America entered the war the military authori- ties failed to make adequate provision for it's inevstab ble lengthy protraction.
 That ihe German public was gross Iv rnisled is a further charge in the report, which implies that although the economic '-experts" gave adhesion to lInrcz-s:Cted U-boat warfare at the be- hest oe the military leaders, the experts were raSid party men and did not h. clu6e really fist class authorities, es- pe.,iaily on shipping, whom the report holds should have been consulted.
 In fact, the report goes on, no ar suments against U-boat war were per rnitted to be placed at any time, before the reichstag. The report especially mentions the withholding from public l.row.e.lge of communications from D.. aaniel Von Hainausen, fJ-1nt-r'y course or of the German embassy 8 Washington, Dr. Trans Won PG7en' forrna- military attache to the enii'as- ex and Dr. Heinrich F. Albert, forTn'er cf.mInetciaI attache to the embassy, wno. being familiar with the .A.rieri"an situation. insistently warned aeainst unrestricted U-boat warfare. The re port mentions notably Non Papea message to General Erich Won Falken- hayn. former chief of the German staff If you fail to keep the United States out you have lost the war.
 The capitulation of the civil govern roent.s, misgivings to what now has proved to be the mistaken T,olicv of frightfulness and the fact that the reichstag was kept in ignorance ot inc true situation were, according to the report, the cause of Germany's col lapse. nolitical government is,'' the report continues. that on the vital question of Germany's existence it allowed to happen that which in it's conviction was pernicious to the country. The blarne of the military leadership is' that. knowing unrestricted U-ooat warfare would inevitably entail Amer ica's entry, it played the card.
 Appended to the majority report Is an interesting document glving a marginal note in tn former enipeI: :r hand on a memorial from Admiral EoItzendorff. then head of the Ger an naval general staff, in which the latter suggested refusal Q the pro nasal by the American ambassador at Vienna that to avoid embodiment. American ships going to England should not be torpedoed. The kaiser wrote: q agree. To be declined. An end must be made once and for all 10 negotiations with America. If Wilson yvants war he can make is and hat It.
 4 minority report issued at the same time as the majority report consists mainly of arguments to the enect that President wilson's efforts at the time 1rere moi definite enough and that thera were sufficient reasons to adopt ,rnrestricted U-boat warfare.