Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-31 | Page 2 | Claims Troops Stand Fast on all the Fronts

CLAIMS TROOPS STAND FAST ON ALL THE FRONTS LONDON, March 30, noon. A Renter Ren-ter dispatch from Amsterdam today adds the following to the wireless version ver-sion of the speech of Dr. von Bethmami-Hollweg, Bethmami-Hollweg, tne German imperial chancellor, chancel-lor, in the reichstag: Kegarding the military situation I have little to add to the army reports. re-ports. In the east extensive operation oper-ation are out of the question at present. The season of impassable roads prevents operations on a greater scale. In the west our backward movements move-ments are hoing effected according o plan and lead to daily increasing freedom of movement. The thanks of the entire people are due to the troops and their Bkillful leaders. On all the other fronts our troops are standing with undiminished tenacity. te-nacity. In Macedonia Bulgarian and German troops are splendidly repulsing French attacks on a great scale. Regarding the submarine war the secretary ot the admiralty today mado a'detailed statement to the main committee of the reichstag. Although I would like it best if we could make reform in the franchise fran-chise tomorrow, I doubt whether the moment when we are concentrating concen-trating all our strength in fighting the enemy is the right one for inaugurating in-augurating a new electoral law. We must subordinate everything to bringing the war to a happy conclusion. con-clusion. Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, foreign secretary, sec-retary, speaking on the American situation, situa-tion, "said that the "United States cannot can-not deny our right to seek allies when it, already before war has been declared, de-clared, set the entire world against us." Dr. ZimmermaDn, justifying the procedure pro-cedure of seeking to make Mexico and Japan her allies, contended that Mexico Mexi-co obviously was an ally and that the antagonism between America and Japan was stronger than between Germany and Japan, despite the fact that a state of war existed between them.