IN GERMANY. THE REICHSTAG SESSION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3568, 30 September 1916, Page 5

IN GERMANY.

THE REICHSTAG SESSION.

THE' CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH

ANGLO-FRENCH SUCCESSES

ADMITTED

TIRADE AGAINST BRITAIN,

(Received {September 30, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 29. In the Reichstag, Dr BethroanuHollweg referred to the fighting. He admitted that tho Anglo-F'rencn successes were pressing tho German linos back and inflicting heavy Josses in men and material, but.he asserted that they had failed in their object of rolliug up the German front, and he was confident they would never get through, even as little as the Russians in the east, while the repulse of the Allied attacks in the south-east had frustrated the great Entente plan to sever the oonnecti'of Germany with the Orient by the separate conquest of Turkey, 'Bulgaria, and Austria-rHungary.

The Chancellor declared that the Entente's lust of conquest was responsible for the daily leaping up mountains of corpses. As Germany })«<■■' already declared her readiness for peace, he asked if anyone in Germany dared now to demand peace in face of M. Briand'B declaration ? He indignantly denied that the Kaiser hoc! exercised any influence on the Czar to prevent Russia's development •in the direction of freedom, but denounced Britain for wanting more than booty. '' After" 'bleeding; France to death," he declared,, making hor Allies - financially and economically her,^slaves, and snb 7 jecting European „oritrals to her orders, Britain wants to soe Germany militarily boycotted and condemned to a lasting sickliness, in order to re?»Kthe dream of British world-supremacy.." "Great Britain is,fighting for worldsupremacy with an expenditure of strength unexampled in history, and breaking one international law after another. Great Britain is a most fierce and obstinate enemy, and any Gorman statesman hositating to use agamst this enemy every available instrument to shorten the war should'bo hanged." The Chancellor expressed disgust and contempt for the allegations that all means of fighting had not been employed to tho fullest possible extent.