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Show GERMANS CLAIM THE WAR IS WON i New York, Aug 31 Count Johann von Bernstorff, the German ambassa dor. after surveying the European situation sit-uation as revealed in the day s news and in dispatches from Berlin by way of Sayvllle, L, 1 , gave an interview which shows that he believes the crisis for Germany is past. The aims! of the general staff are attained j Prance is defeated and the battle J ground in western Europe is in such a condition that Germany can now recall great numbers of troops lo meet the Russian Invasion, according to Count von Bernstorff's belief A resume of the ambassador's views ' follows: 1 The war is won. The coalition has been defeated in western Europe German defeat on land is now tut of j the question. 2. The aims of the German general I stati have been attained, lne allies have been so badly and so suddenly worsted that Germany I? free to with draw, as she has begun to do, great I numbers of men to ward off the Rus-sion Rus-sion Invasion 3. The defeat on the seas is acknowledged, with the proviso that i the defeat was to have been expected, since the German navy has always I been meant simply to defend the I coast line, and that if the English assumed the growing navy was meant I for any other purpose they labored under a sadly mythical conception. 4 Germany did not begin the war. She did not want the war. She is re;idy for peace at any moment 5. Germany's victory means a great advance of democracy In the empire The nation can never forget how the whole people rtse as one j man against an unjust attack, nor j how the leader of the Socialists made I a speech amid the wild cheers of the Conservative party, which stood up to a man, waving their handkerchiefs handker-chiefs at him oo |