Your Majesty is good enough to impute blame to me. Some part of this, I do not doubt, belongs to me. The rest, as is right, I will pass on to poor old Ingenohl and to Prince Henry, and shall ask them to guess whence it originally came.
I am Your Majesty's most humble
Von Tirpitz.
THE BREAKING OF THE SPELL.
STEINBACH, JANUARY 3, 1915.