Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-11
Premier Herbert Asquith, at Governmental Banquet, Picks Recent Talk of Ger man Chancellor to Pieces.
BELGIUM AND POLAND
 CITED AS EXAMPLES
Calls Germany to Account for the Manner in Which It Has Attempted to Prussianize Countries it Has Taken.
(sy Review Leased wireJ

LONDON, April 1O.-On tEe occa- sion of a governmental banquet to chancellors. deputies and attaches. Premier Asquith took the opportunity to reply to the speech recently de- livered in the Reichstag by the Im- perial German Chancellor. Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg. Those present in- cluded Earl Derby. the Marquise of Landsdowne. Sir Edward Grey. Sir Walter Runciman. Lewis Harcourr. ViscOunt Bryce. A. ]. BalfOur and Lord Robert Cecil. The premier. in proposing the toast. Our Guests. re ferred to von Bethmann's claim to the readiness on the part of Germany to negotiate peace. and declared:
 The German chancellor wants us to assume the attitude of defeated. to a victorious adversary. But We are not going to be defeated.
 The chancellor. first. misquOted my language then proceeds to disturb it's ocvious meaning. and intention. Great Britain and France entered the war not to strangle Germany or wipe her off the map of Europe: not to destroy or mu,iliate her national life: cer- .ainly not to interfere with, to use the chancellor's language. the free existance of her peaceful endeavors- s%~~tAs a result of the war. we In- tend to establish the principle that international peace must be handled by free nations on equal terms be- (, nd har vNt haI no longer be hampered by the over mastering dictatiOn Of a government controlled by a military caste That is what l mean by the destruction of the military domination Of Prussia nothing more. but nothing less"
 Referring to the fate of Serbia and Montenegro the premier said: We are in the struggle. the champions not only of treaty rights but of the in- dependence and freedom of weaker countries and free evolution along the lines of their mother tongue and na- tional individuality. Apparently their principle is to be applied. l suppose. on approved Prussian lines both In Poland and Belgium"
 Contendins that the Poles have had
  man ideas of a free evolution of this kind. Mir. Asduith continued:
 The attempt to Germanize Poland has been for the last 20 years al once the strenuous purpose and colossal failure of Prussian domestic policy. Nobody knows that better than the chancellor. for he has been one Of it's personal instruments IL is with this record that the chancellor sheds tears over the fate of what he calls the long oppressed Flemish race. won der what the Flemish race itself thinks of the prospect of the chancel Tor opening the door.
 ''The chancellor says that after the war there must be new Belgium. which must not be a Franco-English vassal. but in whose place will 3e the Germans. who burned their churches. pillaged their towns. trampled their liberties. the collaboration Of neigh borS.
 My answer is a very simple one. The allies desire and are determined fo see once again the old Belgium. She must not be allowed tO suffer the wicked invasion of  her redeamorS.
 The allies are prepared to justly he legality of all the measures they have taken as covered by the prin- ,iples and snirit Of international law lpplied to the developments Of mod 'rn war These have been carried out with the strictest regard to humanity. md we are not aware of single in stance of a neutral life having been ost hv reason of the allies blockade"
 Remarein- that the Gern'an camD- ,isr a-sinst merchantrcH had devsl- 1ned lowe before their e-der in conn .il ot March. 1915. as shown by the 'inkin< of the Dutch steamer Maria 'rd the American sailing vessel W. ?. Frye. and Geruany's declaration of Continued from page 3)