GERMANY
"HOCH!" ME UND GOTT AGAIN; Received Nov. 1, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, Oct. 31. The Kaiser, in reply to the Prussian Cabinet's congratulatory telegram on the five hundredth anniversary of the Hohenzollern reign at Brandenburg, said: With God's guidavnee our history during the past half of the millennium has been wonderful. Across depths and heights my house has beeai raised from an electoral hat to an imperial crown, from the small mark of Brandenburg to the centre of an empire whose strength has been so brilliantly proved towards friend and foe. In the present war of nations, the greatest of all times, I, with full humility, acknowledge witb the German people that thus far the Lord has helped us. May He continue to assist and guide my people, who, with its princes and free towns, hold together, united and imperturbable, ready for all sacrifices through dark days and severe affliction to the bright sunlight of peace, to a new and vigorous work, to the road destined by Divine Providence.
SHATTERED HOPES. PEACE NOT YET. ' THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. \ r Received Nov. 1, 11.25 p.m. New York, Nov. 1. A report from Berlin states that the weather and the first fall of sndw have killed the premature hopes of excessively optimistic Germans who have been talking of peace bv Christmas, or saying, that the war would not last another winter. There is a strong feeling, which is shared in welVunforraed circle?, that the turning point of the war ha? passed, and that the Balkan campaign is 'bringing peace appreciably closer. The Tageblatt says that the German people are still far from peace, and it is still less, possible to-day to see in what form peace can come. For this and other reasons there i 3 no use in discussing what the responsible factors may be, but the Reichstag must not be passed owr or even, reduced. In the second the German people, after thir immense burdens, havt» more than merely a, written right to throw the whole w<rfght of their will into the : scale? through their chosen reoreeenta* ti vefr
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