The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-10
DEBATE WORLD
PEACE COURT IN
GERMAN FORUM
Socialist Member Endorses
ChancelIOr's Declaration.
Germany Ready to Cooperate
to Eliminate War.
TEUTON VICTORY CERTAIN
Won Bethmann HOllWeg Spurns
Allies Peace Plan.
Conquest for Destruction OF
VatterIand Must Fail.
TEUTON VICTORY CERTAIN
Won Bethmann HOllweg Spurns
Allies Peace Plan.

Berlin. Nov. 1O.-The speech OF
,,,-os..aiio, Won Bethmann-HoliWeg
bafoY-e the reichstag main comm =,
so-te,-7sx- in which he announced Iei
ranv's willingness uhoel go 70
conditions to cooperate III ello 1900 -
form an international ieasue " a.
aftar the war. was followed py
go 81 The chancellor's remarks'
Turing the discussion menpeT U -
Socialist nartv said that IN an couA
tries the idea that there shouiu w.
end TO war was gaining grouiu- -
chancellor was correcI IN sties re- nre-
the cry for international treaties 70 ~ =
vent recurrence of war would pecollis
60 strong that eventually 1t must leau
to results. s,o,1,, Cor
many had attached less lhlpOl 'e -
than France and Enslahu 70 IN had
81 arbitration, The chancelior ma
eS,nressed fear that England woulo
frame 2. peace coalition in accoroailce
with her own desires. NeVerln ':l.'s
the principle ought to be recoshlzeo
as right -. tho 60
s3aIist member continued, that the
chancellor never had spoken OF the
onnexation of Belgium as essential;
(+ernanv was at war for defense anu
not for conquest, he SAID, anu II Wou Ii1
be of advantage if Germany snoulo
take the loaQ III q
prevention of war
Assurance of victory.
Amsterdam. Nov. 10, via London
f.hanceUor Won Bethmann-Hollw eX-
messed the conviction that germany
was certain of final victory IN ms
speech before the reichstag committee
|,festerdav. according to reports OF the
session published here. The chancel-
Tor is quoted as having said:
ENGLAND and France, IN 1912
granted to Russia territorial rule over
zr,onstantinople, the Bosphorus and the
western shores of the Dardanelles WIN
its hinterland, while Asia Minor was
to be divided among the members OF
tho entente The annexation 1nten-
.tions of our enemies also lnclude
lAlsace-Lorraine which the league OF
peace is to guarantee them. Sucn
policy. of course, can not form basis
for an effective peace union. Ger
many is ready at all times to join
union of the peoples of the world and
even to place herself at the head OF
such a union to restrain a disturber of
the peace. Not in the shadow of
aPrussian miIitarism did the world live
before the war but in the shadow OF a
policy of isolation which was to keep
Germany down.
On Defensive From Start.
against this policy, whether it APP
pears automatically as an encircle-
L.
ton or economically as a world boy
colt, we, from the beginning, were on
the defensive. The German people
wage this war as a defensive war for
the safety of their national existence
We never pretended anything else
never intended anything else. Not
otherwise can be explained this dis
May of gigantic force, this inexhaust-
ible heroism unexampled in all human
history.
q THE enemy obstinately wills to war
with the calling up of military ma
-terial and auxiliary forces from all
parts of the world. These efforts
harden our resistance to still greater
denominations. Whatever England
can still bring up of strength-and
EngIand's command of strength has
its limits-it is predestined to fail Le-
fore our will to live. This will is I'M
conquerable and we await the enemy
recognition of this, confident that il
must come