Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-30
HOLLWEG SPEECH
ENDS TALK ABOUT
PEACE AT PRESENT
Chancellor Says Germany's Po.
sition is Improved and VIC
tory is Sure to
Come.
BITTER AGAINST BRIT0NS
Every Available Instrument of
Battle Will Be Used to the
Limit.
BITTER AGAINST BRIToNS
ROUMANIA IS A TRAITOR

Berling, Sept. 29.-Via London
Germany will persevere until victory
is hers the Reichstag was told yester-
day by Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, according to the full text OF
his speech, which was published here
today. The chancellor said that this
years harvest had made Germany's
position more secure than was the
case last year
In his attack upon Great Britain he
declared that that country was break
ing one international law after an
other and was, above all, Germany's
most egotistical, fiercest and most OBJ
stinate enemy"
"A German statesman" he said,
who would hesitate to use against
this enemy every available instrument
of battle that wound really shorten
this war-such statesman should be
hanged.
The chancellor declared his con-
tempt for those circulating reports
that all Germany's means OF fighting
were not being employed to the fullest
possible extent He added that in
order to disappoint the enemy, who
rs on watch for every breach Of our
inner determination" he would not
give details. s
When in August, 1914" he went on,
1--WE had to draw the sword, we knew
we had to protect our hearths and
homes against mighty and almost
overwhelming coalition. Ardent, and
until then unknown and often ignored
patriotism famed up in all hearts, de-
flying death and certain Of victory.
Today, after two years Of fighting,
struggling, suffering and dying, we
know more than ever before that
there is only one watch word, namely,
persevere and win. We will win,
Last winter there was pusillanimous
anxiety as to whether our foodstuffs
would suffice. They have sufficed.,
This years harvest makes US much
more secure. than was the case last
year"
In concluding his speech the chan
cellor exclaimed;
Germany will not be permitted to
think of peac while her house is burn
ing. She must first extinguish the
fire"
After the chancellor had concluded
the Reichstag adjourned until Octo-
ber 5
Chancellor Flays Roumanians.
| Berlin, Thursday, Sept. 28.-(By
Wireless to Sayville, Sept. 29)-The
following semi-official account of to-
days session of the Reichstag was
given out by the Overseas News
agency:
THE Reichstag opened this after
noon. The galleries were crowded
and the foreign diplomats who are
now in Berlin were present virtually
without exception. President Kaempf
i'll his Introductory speech stated that
the war in its economic and political
as well as military aspects had now
reached climax. On all fronts there
was violent struggle for decision.
Germany's position, the president
said, was satisfactory in every re-
spect. He mentioned the arrival OF
the merchant submarines Deutschland
and Bremen in the United States.
"a news dispatch to Berlin to the
effect that a tug had gone out from
New London, Conn, presumably to
meet the Bremen gave rise to the err
roneous report, generally accepted in
Germany, that the Bremen had
reached the United States.)
The president read kilograms ex-
changed with the emperor on the oc-
casion of the beginning of the second
year of the war and with the presi-
dent of the Hungarian Parliament at
the time Of the fall of the Roumanian
fortress OF Turksi. The presidents
speech was much applauded.
Address of Chancellor.
After the transaction of routine
business Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg arose. Amid a general si-
lence he began his speech, to which
all listened with undivided attention.
The chancellor alluded to the in
trigues OF Roumania and the coun-
try's declaration OF war, saying:
Our relations with Roumania be-
fore the war were based on the treaty
of alliance first concluded between
Austria-Hungary and Roumania and
then enlarged by the accession OF
Germany and Italy. The contracting
parties engaged under the treaty to
assist each other in case of unpro-
voked attack by third party. n
when the war broke out King
Carlos with all his energy stood up
for the idea that Roumania owed to
the central powers thirty years OF
political security and wonderful eco-
| n.aI 4.