Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-06
GERMANY mot
OUR ENEMY
SAYSHOLLWEC
Silliest of All 1mputations"
Says the Imperial Chan
cellor
BELGIUM MUST NEVER
BE ENGLAND'S VASSAL
Lull in Operations About Verdun
and on French
Lines
HOLLAND UNEASY.

London, April 5.-According to
special dispatches from the Hague
printed in the morning newspap-
ers today, the opening Of the Sec
ond chamber of the Dutch parIIa-
ment has not done all that it was
expected to do in relieving the
public feeling Of uneasness over
the military measures in Holland.
The meeting of the chamber
was private and the public and
newspaper correspondents were
excluded. These precautions and
the great secrecy observed, ac-
cording to the dispatches, only
made the Dutch popu!ace more
curious and apprehensive. This
was accentuated by the premier's
admission that recent measures
had been rendered necessary by
facts which it was not in the in
terest of national interest to dis
close. The Dutch newspapers edi.
toriaIIy demands the fact, saying:
"Holland is under no Asiatic
depotism. IF there is anything on
.
danger threatens we want to see
and weigh it. The Dutch people
do not care to be handled like
wooden soldiers"
London. April s. The German I'm
periaI Chancellor, l)r. yon Bethan
HollWegg, in outlinging the attitude
of Germany before the Rtichstag, de
clared that any suggestions of peace
on the basis Of destruction OF the
PEussian military sgsSgcf he, .SermaI
swords impossible. II Germany:
desire to continue the
Of men and the devastation
of Europe, the guilt would be theirs
he said.
He characterized as "lhe silliest oI
all imputations' against Germany, the
report, that at the end of the war
Germany would take measures against
the American continent and attempt
to conquer Canada.
Real Guarantee.
with respect to Belgium, the Chan
cellor said:
''We must create real guarantees
that Belgium shall never become q
Franco.British vassal; never shall be
used as a military or economic forti
fication against Germany"
He declared that Germany must as
sure the sound evolution Of the Elem
ish rule and added that Germany
neighbors with whom collabo
ration could be carried on to theil
mutual advantage.
Quiet About Verdun.
For a moment, the infantry on both
sides is quiet everywhere on the east
ern front in France. On the much
disputed sectors around Verdun, there
has only been intermittent lombard
ment in the region of Doudamont and
Vaux.
On the eastern line in Russia, the
Germans have taken up the offensive
and are heavily attacking with infan-
try and artillery the Russian posi-
ions.
Capture Positions.
uC hDll lLlSl Ill .hCoOpOCdLlid Aiel y
captured a Turkish position at Mu-El-
Henna, on the Tigris river, 20 miles
below Kut-El-Mara. This victory is
in London as giving hope
,or the early relief of British forces
which have beeen besieged in Kut'
El-Mara since last December. The
Russians are also operating against
he Turks in the Cacausus.
Berlin reports the loss during
March of IA German aeroplanes and
ID British and French machines.
of the latter were
brought to earth in combats, accord
ng to Berlin.
Ambassador Page has forwarded
rom London to Washington. metal
'ound on the Sussex, ramaged in the
British channel. The embassy in
london is credited with the belief
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