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Show BELIEVES FINAL VICTORY WILL BE WON BY GERMANY AMSTERDAM, via London, Nov. 10. Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg, in his speech before the reichstag committee commit-tee yesterday, expressed the conviction j that Germain' was certain of final vic-; vic-; torv. The chancellor is quoted in re- i ports published here as having said: i "England and France in 1915 guar-! anteed to Russia territorial rule over! Constantinople, the Bosphorns and the I western shores of the Dardanelles with its hinterland, while Asia Minor was to be divided among the members of the entente. The n unexation intentions of our .enemies also include Alsace-Lorraine, which the league of peace is to guarantee thein. Such a policy, of course, cannot form a basis for an effective ef-fective peace union. Germany is ready at all times to join a union of the peoples peo-ples and even to place herself at the head of such a union to restrain a disturber dis-turber of the peace. Not in the shadow of Prussian militarism did the world live before the war, but in the shadow of a policy of isolation which was to keen Germany down. "Against this policy, whether it appears ap-pears diplomatically 33 au encirclement, encircle-ment, militarily as a war of destruction destruc-tion or economically as world boycott, we, from the beginning, were on the defensive. "The German people wage this war as a defensive war for the safety of its national existence, for its free development. de-velopment. We never pretended anything any-thing dse, never intended anything else. Not otherwise can be expected this display of gigantic force, this inexhaustible in-exhaustible heroism unexampled in all human history. "The enemv obstinately wills to war with the calling up of military material and auxiliary forces from all parts of the world. These efforts hardened our resistance to still greater determination. determina-tion. Whatever England can still bring up of strength ami England 's command com-mand of strength has its limits it is predestined to fail before our will to live. This will is unconquerable and wo await the enemy's recognition of this confident that this recognition must come. ' 5 |