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 and those of our allies on the line in France, and whose perverted intellect did none may know what else of subtle crime "on the honor of a German officer."

Scheele made many revelations which never heretofore have been made public, because they were humiliating and shocking to us, and showed how completely we had been befooled for years. He said: "We knew all you had, everything, and we used all you had. You invented the submarine—and we used it, not you. You invented the airplane—and we used it, not you." (Which is true, as our boys in the Argonne battle would testify.) "If you had had new gases, we'd have got them. We had four men for years in your Patent Office, and you never knew it. We knew every invention useful to us. We had a man in your army secrets, one in your navy."

"But how could you do such things—how could you have men inside of our Government in that way?" interrupted the man to whom he was unburdening himself.

"Good God!" said Scheele, "we've got them in your Congress, haven't we?"

It is enough. And now comes Dernburg and believes that Americans will hail the "new understanding" between Germany and America! He believes that we shall be very good friends, now that the war is over.