The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-05
CHANCELLOR SAYS GERMANY IS SURE
 TO GAIN VICTORY
Tells Reichstag, In Review of War, That Nation Is
 Still Gaining.

Berlin, April 5.-In the Reichstag to- day the Imperial Chancellor, Dr. Won Bethmann- -HoIlweg, made his most com mprehensive speech of the war. He reviewed the military and political sit uatton, the use of various means of warfare and German relations.
 The chancellor, whose address was delivered to crowded house, also spoke on the questions presented in relation to the principle of nationality, considering the Polish, Lithuanian and Livoniar Belgian and Flemish prob 1ens. He insisted upon the necessity of guaranteeing the peace of Europe after the war and also of obtaining this result by giving to these races opportunity of free evolution along the lines of their natural individuali- ties and mother tongues.
 At the conclusion of his address the chancellor elicfted great applause by saying:
 The spirit of union shall lead us, as it shall lead our children and grand children, through the struggles of their fathers, toward a future of strength and lberty''
 The Chancellor began his address with a review of the military situa- ton. He stated since his last, speech in the Reichstag the Dardane1les en- terprise had ended as a failure; that the Serbian campaign, with the assist ance of Austria-HunEaria and Bull garia, had been brought to a.victorious conclusion and that Montenegro and Albania likewise were now in the hands of Germany's allies; that, the British attempt to relieve Kut-EI- Amara, in Mesopotamia, had been vain; that the Russians. although they had succeeded in occupying Erzerum with superior forces, had found their. ie-I1 forces; that Russian attacks against the front in East Galicia and Italian attacks against the Isonzo positions had been beaten back.
 MorbveF, he said, the Russians had driven new columns against the Ger man lines but their assaults had broken down before Field Marshal von Hindenburg and his forces. The Chancellor declared that the reports of the enemies of this nation that the German military forces had been expended, were erroneous as the Verdun battle has proved that where operations are prepared with great foresight and where the bravery of German troops is called into play one advantage after another is obtained.
 The chancellor then expressed the nations thanks to the soldiers and their leaders.
 Discussing attempts which he said
 
 pr. von Bethmann- Hollweg contin- ued:
 '.I understand that in 1915 our ene- mics would not give up this hope but do not understand how cool heads, after the experiences of 1915, can cling to it. Our enemies forgot that, thanks to the organizing powers of the whole naton, Germany is equal to the task of distribution of food supplies.
 Our enemies forgot that in cases in. which there is a. real shortage the German nation is able to make use of moral reserves which enable us to lower our standards of life which have risen remarkably during the last dec- ades. What would it mean; for in stance, if the consumption of meat should temporarily be lowered to the level of the '7O's? should say our | adversaries would remember how strong was the German race of those days