Read the excerpt from the dark game.

arthur zimmermann had no idea that "blinker" hall had read his secret message. but now that hall had read it, what could he do with this information? on one hand, he believed that president wilson, faced with the information in the telegram, would declare war on germany. on the other hand, to share the telegram with wilson would surely alert berlin that the british had been reading their secret messages. as he walked back to his office, hall considered ways that he could share the intelligence in the zimmermann telegram and establish its authenticity without letting berlin know that room 40 had intercepted and read hundreds of their secret messages.

why was hall concerned that the germans would learn about the british reading their secret messages?

-the germans would begin reading british secret messages to get revenge.

-reading an enemy’s secret messages is against the codes of war.

-the germans would then find a different way of transmitting their messages.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt