TRADE BY KAISER'S CHANCELLOR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 104, 5 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

TRADE BY KAISER'S CHANCELLOR.

VAUNTS, TAUNTS, AND TRAVESTIES.

WRITHING UNDER BRITAIN'S SEA MASTERY.

The sitting of the Rechstag as opened on August 19th, with a speech by the President, who said:...

While in the West we maintain unflnchngly our gains, and the Dardanelles and Italian frontier attacks are shattered by the bravery of our heroic soldiers in the East, the second year of war brings us and our Allies successes that border on the fabulous.

A year ago the German people, relying on God and the strength of the Empire, gathered round the Kaiser and the Allied Governments for the purpose of winning in this war, which for every German is a holy war, a peaco which would open the way for the free development of Kultur for all peoples and ensure the future of the German people against all enemies and danger. VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG. The Imperial Chancellor said :... Since our last meeting great things have again happened. All attempts of the French, in spite of their contempt for death and the utmost sacrifice of human life, to breaK our West front have failed against the stubborn pertinacity of our brave troop 6. Italy, who thought to conquer easiij the goods of others which she has coveted, has been thus far brilliantly repulsed, despite her numerical superiority and unsparing sacrifice of human lives.

At the Dardanelles the Turkish army makes an unflinching stand. Wnwt we have assumed the offensive we have beaten and thrown back the enemy. With our Allies we have freed almost all Galicia, Poland, Lithuania, and Courland from the Russians.

Ivangorod, Warsaw, and Kovno have fallen.

Far into hostile territory our present everywhere a solid wall. We have strong armies free for new blows. Proud and fearless and relying on our glorious troops we can look to the future. "LOVE OF HUMANITY." Amidst the horrors of war we recall gratefully tne piactical love of humanity displayed by neighbouring neutral States towards us on the occasion of the return of civilians from hostile countries and the exchange of prisonous of war.

The Netherlands has already twine given ready and devoted assistance to cur severely wounded returning from England. 1 express the heartfelt thanks of tie German people to this nation—(cheers)—and add a word of special thanks to the Pope, who has displayed untiring sympathy with the idea of tin? exchange of prisoners and with so many works of humanity during the war, and to whom belongs the mam credit for their realisation.

" BLOOD-GTjILTIXESS." Our enemies incur a terrible bloodguiltiness bv seeking to deceive their peoples about the real situation. When they do not deny our defeats, our victories serve them to accumulate new calumnies aga'nst us. For instance, that we were victorious in the first year of the war because we had treacherously prepared for this war long beforehand, while they in their rataKtnt hive of peace—(laughter)—were not ready for war.

You remember the bellicose articled which the Russian M'nister of Wa.; caused to be circulated in the spring of 1914, in which the complete prepared - r.oss of thp Russian arhiy for war sv.'.s praised. You remember the frequency provocative language which France Has in recent years employed. You know that Trance, whenever she satisfied Russia's financial needs, made 't a condition that the greater portion of the loan should always be aplpied to war equipment.

SIR EDWARD GREY. Sir Edward Grey said in Parliament on August 3: "We, with.our mighty Fleet, shall, if we participate in the wan, suffer little more than if we re-

mained outside." The man who, on the evo of his own declaration of war, speaks in such a very sober businesslike tone, and who in accordance therew:th alio directs the policy of his friends, can only act so when he know* that he and his Allies are ready, (cheers.)

. The fable that England participated in the war only for the sake of Belgium has been abandoned in the meantime by England herself. It was not tenable. Do the smaller nations still believe that England and her Allies are waging war for their protection and the protection and freedom of civilisation ?

BRITAIN'S GRIP OF SEA

COMMERCE

Neutral commerce on 6ca is> strangled by England, as far as possible. Goods destined for Germany must no longer be loaded on neutral snips. Neutral ships are compelled, on the high seas, to take English crews aboard and to obey their orders. England, without hesitation, occupies Greek islands because it suits her military operations, and with her Allies she wishes to constrain neutral Greece to make cessions of territory in order to bring Bulgaria to her side. In Poland, Russia, who is fighting with the Allies for the freedom of peoples, lays waste the entire land beiore the retreat of her armies. Villages are burnt down, cornfields trampled down, and the population, Jews and Christians, are sent to uninhabited districts. They languish in the mud of Russian roads, in windowless sealed goods wagons Such are the freedom and civilisation for which our enemies fight.

In her claims to be the protector of smaller States, England counts on the world having a very bad memory.— Router.

LIEBKNECHT INTERRUPTS. That same England that, to our proposal to guarantee Belgium's integrity, proudly replied, that "England could not make her obligations relative to Belgian neutrality a matter for bargaining," had no scruple in bartering away to France her solemn obligation" undertaken towards all Europe by the conclusion of a treaty with' France which was to give to England Egypt* and to France Morocco.

In 1907 the southern portion of Persia, by agreement with Russia, was converted into an exclusively English sphere of interest, and the northern porti-a was delivered over to a free-dom-loving regiment of Russian Cossacks.

Herr liebknecht here interjected "Potsdam interview."

I am coming to that later "said the Chancellor). Whosoever pursues such a policy has no right to accuse of warlike aspirations and territorial covetousness a country which for 44 years has protected Europeai. peace, and, while almost all other countries have waged wars and conquered lands, has striven only for peaceful development. That is hypoerasy. (Tempestuous applause.)— Renter.