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Show WAR SITUATION IS REVIEWED BY VOfipiI Imperial German Chancellor Chancel-lor Declares Arms of the j Kaiser Have Been Uniformly Uni-formly Successful. SAYS U-BOATS ARE WINNING THE WAR Reichstag Applauds and Passes First and Second Reading of War Credit of 15,000,000,000 Marks. BKKI.IN. Nov. Z' ia London. Nov. 30. Rri'-sh admiralty j er W irelc.-s Pre 5. ) - T lie wp.r stl uat ion was .e viowej tiefore the relohsta today by j Count ticorgo V. ou Hertliny, tho new1 iniperUil (i or man chancellor. He de ! oiareri that Gomiany was roadv to t-ntor : into pea.-e nootiat ions as ?oon as the Russian government sent roprc.-M nla tives hi'.-Jo full ; ownrs to Berlin. The ehanceliur said he hoped and wished that the present effort a would l:ike It. finite shape and "bnti peace." German pr:ns, the rha nee Slur aid. have be?u unifurmly succos.-f ul, a.ud the aubniarine warfare will i ?fleh t he aim intenile.l for it. He said the tonnage ut ships sunk will exceed that of those new-J new-J ly constructed. Ho praised the armynd navy, and eulogized the home popula-j popula-j tion for its patience and endurance un der jrreat privations. Political reforms j would be carried out. but the funda-I funda-I mental principles of the imperial constitution con-stitution cannot and shall not be changed. He said in part: "We sre approaching the end of tho year that has been full of far-reach in and decisive events in many theaters of the war. I am proud and thankful to say ihat the arms of Germany and hr-r a 'lies have been successful on h1-mot h1-mot every occasion and everywhere. ' ' Fiandera Battle. lie recaJled that the riandeu- battle had I out inued a lino;? t wit bout inter mp-tions mp-tions siiire duly, and that tin; British army was superior in numhers and thflt several French divisions ha-1 taken part in the fight. Notwithstanding the loss of some villages and farms, the German front there remained unshaken and the enemy was as far as ever from hie ob-jfet ob-jfet i vp as reaching the I'lem ish coast to destrov Germau L'-L'oat bases. He added: " Recognising the failure of their at-tacli at-tacli 3 in Flanders, t hp L-tnt ish are now sjekiii2 nar t'ambrai a decisive result. The hope which Great Britain pl.ifivt upon the wholesale use of tanks has not been fulfilled. They lie destroyed ou the battlefield by successful German counter measures. The initial Britiph success was parried by tho entrance ot our reserves. ''The French also have had local successes suc-cesses northeast of Soissons and before Verdun, but evexv strategical exploitation exploita-tion of these ha-s "been prevented by the German command. Every one remembers the events in the eaat which led to the conquest of Riga and .lacobstadt. "Glorious Advance'' in Italy. "The glorious advance of the armies of Ihe central powers in laly holds the world in suspense even today. Over whelniingly difficult tasks have been accomplished there by the fighting strength of tho German and Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian troops in their surprisingly rapid attack and penet.ratip'v of rough mou n lam rem tor v. Tt aiv s n rmy has lost, a considerable part of its forces and half of its total war material. Jt also has lost stretches of land which provided it "with rich supplies. It has not yet been possible to collect: a'l the booty, calculated jn money value at thousands of millions of marks, which has fallen into our hands. ' Further, t he success of our victories1 vic-tories1 from the Isouzo to the Piavp is an effective relief to our own r western front. In the sump way this victorv also nink' itself felt in Macedonia, as the (luemv now appears to be giving up voluntarily the slight success which he obtained west of f.ake Ohrida. From the Sinai peninsula the British arc operating ag.tinst the Turkish troops in Palestine, and have been able to achieve certain initial successes there. These, however, have no influence on the genera! gen-era! war situation from a military standpoint. stand-point. In tlie theater of war in Asia Minor and in Irak, the situation is unchanged. un-changed. ' ' After declaring that the German war fleet had thoroughly fulfilled the hopes , (Coutinued ou Page Eleven.) WAR 11 jSSl VIEWED BY-BEBIWMI (Continued from Page One.) and expectations p!a.eed in it, the chancellor chan-cellor continued: "The hirh seas IrVt. wim-e eonstnnt activity often Tins been veil-M frum the pnhlie view, dpN"vP5 the thanks of th country. It ha, sim-p its elorious dav off the Skncgcrak. lately ?lio-n anew, after a inne internal, in Mie capture t the ilands of (hesel, )apn and Moon, in typical co-operation with the arm and in its lately sncccsf ul fiht in the German biht in t)io North som ajaint a consirierable su irrioritv of forces, it? constant readiness for baMle. As a support sup-port and reserve it stands behind our submarine boats, it protect thmr places nf support and opens out a w ay for them into the open sea.'' The chancellor then reviewed the submarine sub-marine campaign, which, he said, is the only effective way of battling the power of Germany's enemy and the economic war forced on her. Tie was hopeful of its success and said that the allies were unable to make progress against it by their commandeering neut rat shins or building new ones. Polish Question. Count von 7-1 ert ling expressed the wish that the territories formerly under Russian sway Poland, Lithuania nd ( 'otirland couhl have the risht of choosintr their own governments and could obta i n that pod it ical form which corresponded to their conditions and culture. He said that affairs in this direction were still completely in a state of uncertainty and that reports in the press indicating that a definite a, u'r cement ce-ment had been reached on one point were premature. He referred to Germany and her allies as having; pin ceil them sol ves on t he foundation of the papal peace note of last August, and said that everv ground had been removed for the ''foolish argument," argu-ment," that the object of her enemies was to destroy German militarism which was destroying the peace of nations. He saiil that it has been .shown where, in t rut h, the peace destroying militarism can be sought. He continued: "The Italian minister, Sonnino, in his speech on October LM1, expressly waived t he thought of general gen-eral disarmament ami Premier ( lemeu-ceau lemeu-ceau OCs so fa r in cynicism as to expressly ex-pressly shut out Germany and Austria-H ungary f rom the peaceful community com-munity of nations of the future when right shall take the place of armed force. Premier Lloyd George has de-el de-el a red d i s t i uc t ly that the aim of the war is the destruction of German commerce com-merce and that the war must be eon-tinned eon-tinned until this end is reached. In- deed, the lust of conquest falsely attributed at-tributed to us is now placed before the world through the publication of secret treaties by the Russian government. "Our war aim from the first day was the defense of the fatherland and the inviolability- of its t erri tory. freedom and independence of its economic life. On that account we couhl greet joyfully the pope "s peace apper: i iie spirit in vJ'''h te (li.. nnh- ei ,-pn svill i alive today, but mu li J the enemy nm-t ii'imit -this answer s:-! s:-! nifies no license t'oi the ciiininal lenijth-Vnini; lenijth-Vnini; of the v.y.r. I " ' f"or the coai uiuat inn nf the terrible ! slHMhtry and the dest met itm of irre-I irre-I j'lnccable works of civiliat inn anl for the mad. seSf-inaimiiiiK of K'.irone, the ; eiu rn y alone bisrs the rcspntiMbili t v I and will also have to bear the eone-! eone-! qu pnees. This n ins esper in II y to 'Sonnino (1 la von Sonnino. Italian min- ister nf foreign al'fnirs'i. If the Italinn ; authni it ies who 1 rove into the war j the uri nrt nnat e pnpn la ion of a hean-; hean-; tifnl hinii bound to ns by thousrind-f old 'memories had taken the hanil of jeace held out by the pope, the fright ful i e-feat e-feat of their armies with nil its asso-' asso-' ciaterl enn sequences would rot have taken place. ' ' Ma v 1 taly 's friends accept this as a warning and lend an ear at lust to : the voice nf reason and humanity. Tn conclusion the chancellor said that j Germany's watchword must be ''Wait! j Kndure! 11 old ant ! ' ' The speech was received with ap-i ap-i pln.ise from almost the whole house, I only the extreme right and the ex- treme left not participating. |