WAGNER: Yes, I am of that opinion.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Will you tell me how that squares with the submarine rules?
WAGNER: I do not feel competent to give a legal explanation of these questions because that is a matter of international law.
COL. PHILLIMORE: At any rate, that is what you proceeded to do, is it not? You proceeded to sink neutral ships at sight and without warning anywhere in that zone?
WAGNER: Yes; not just anywhere in this zone, but in the operational zones stipulated by us neutral ships were...
COL. PHILLIMORE: But wherever you could—wherever you could?
WAGNER: In the operational zones stipulated by us we sank neutral ships without warning, for we were of the opinion that in this case we were concerned with secured zones near the enemy coast which could no longer be considered the open sea.
COL. PHILLIMORE: And that is what you desired to do at the very start of the war, was it not? That is what you decided to do?
WAGNER: From the beginning of the war we decided to adhere strictly to the London Agreement.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Would you look at the document which was put in yesterday? My Lord, it is D-851. It is put in as GB-451. It is a memorandum of 3 September.