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Show Kaiser Issues i Proclamation to i German People AMSTERDAM, Aug. 2. In a proc- S lamatlon issued to the Gorman people, Emperor William. says: I 'iFouf years of hard struggle have ' passed, full of eternally meraorablo I deeds. .An example has been given for I all time of what a people can do that stands In the field for a most just I cause and for the maintenance of its I existence. ' "Gratefully revering the divine hand I which has been gratefully oxtended tj over Germany, wo may proudly say we I were not found unworthy In the trc- h mendous task before which providenco f placed us. ! "If, in the struggLe, our nation was given leaders capable of tho highest 1 achievements it has daily proved by , fidelity that It has deserved to havo such leaders. How could tho army front have performed Its tremendous i deeds if the entire labor at home had not been carried to the highest meas- l ure of personal performance? Thanks I are due to all who, under difficult con- dltions, have co-operated In the task set the stato and community and es- j, pecially to our faithful unwavering of- . ficials. Thanks are due likewise to the countrymen and townsmen and also tho women on whom, In this wartime, i' so much falls." "The war year which Is opening to- r day will not spare the German peo- ,' pie further pTivalions and trials. But, I whnicver may come, wo know that the )! hardest lies behind us j! ""ft bat is attaiacd in the east by j our armies and sarf'gaaidad by peace treaties what is homy completed in I! the west that gives us the firm cer- 11 talnty that Germany will Issue strong a.nd vigorous from this storm of tho Si peoples which has felled to the ground I so many a mighty race. r "On this day of remembrance, we f recall with pain all sacrifices which Hj had to bo made for tho fatherland. I "Wide gaps have been torn in our I families and the suffering of this ter- ffi rlblo war has spared no German home. jj' Those who, as boys in their first en- j thusiasm, saw the first troops depart, Ki stand, themselves, today beside their fathers and brothers as warriors at the front" lj |