WHY GERMANY LOST.
COMMANDER OF CRUISER TRIED FOR CARELESSNESS. LOSS OF SECRET CODE. BERLIN, June 30. Germany is still seeking the man on whom to fix the blame for the loss of the war. Captain Habeniqh, of the cruiser Magdeburg, is now on trial at Goettingen on a charge of having let the Allies obtain a copy of the secret German signal-book at the beginning of the w T ar as a result"of his carelessness. It is charged that this dereliction of duty enabled the Allies to defeat the Germans. The Magdeburg wa9 stranded on the Russian coast on August 26, 1914.
The captain says be burned the code, but the engineer alleges that the captain threw it into the sea. The German General Staff supports tbe engineer's version, declaring: “We bkve reliable inforniatioh frpm Leningrad showing. that the documents and code books were thrown overboard during ' the striding th^. and that they were fished up by the Russians who handed them to the Allies. ” '
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Shannon News, 22 July 1927, Page 3
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165WHY GERMANY LOST. Shannon News, 22 July 1927, Page 3
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