WAGNER: Since there are no initials or signatures on either of these letters; they may be drafts. At any rate, proof that they were actually sent is not apparent from this document.
THE PRESIDENT: Did you give us the page number of it?
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: It was submitted yesterday, Mr. President. It is not in any document book.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I see.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: I now read to you the first sentence from another document which was put to you yesterday. Its number is D-846 and it concerns a discussion with the German Minister to Denmark, Renthe-Fink, on 26 September 1939. I shall read the first sentence to you:
“Sinking of Swedish and Finnish ships by our submarines have caused considerable concern here on account of the Danish food transports to Great Britain.”
Does this report give any indication that these sinkings took place without warning, or were these ships sunk because contraband was captured on them in the course of a legitimate search?
WAGNER: The sentence which you have just read does not show how these ships were sunk. As far as I remember the document from yesterday, it does not contain any reference to the way in which these ships were sunk, so that it must be assumed as a matter of course that they were sunk in accordance with the Prize Ordinance.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: You were asked yesterday whether you considered the German note to the neutral countries of 24 November 1939 a fair warning against entering certain waters and you answered the question in the affirmative. Is that right?
WAGNER: Yes.