New Britain herald., 1917-11-30
GERMANY WOULD WELCOME
 A PEACE WITH RUSSIA
Chancellor, in Reichstax, Says He Is Ready to Enter Peace Negotiations as Soon as Possible.
HOPES CONFERENCE
 WILL HAVE RESULTS

V Adds That If Italy Had Not Entered
 the War That Country Would Not
 Have Lost Considerable Part of Its
 Forces and at Least Half of;s,1ts
 Total War Material-An Ministers
 Hear Speech.
 Berlin, Nov. 29, via London--Via Wireless Press-The war situation wal reviewed before the Reichstag today by Count Georg von Hertling, the new imperial German chancellor He de-s clared that Germany was ready to enter into peace negotiations as soon as the Russian government sent reprc- N sentatives having full powers to Ber- lin. The chancellor said he hoped 1 and wished that the present efforts would take definite shape and bring us peace.' Se
 German arms, the chancellor said. have. been uniformly successful and the submarine warfare will reach the aim intended for it. He said that thess tonnage of ships sunk will exceed that
  praised the army and navy and eulo- gized the home population for it's pa- tience and endurance under great pFt-g vations. Political reforms would be carried out, but the fundamenta1s. principles of the imperial constitutions cannot and shall not be changed.
 Reichstag Packed.
 The Reichstag was packed when tho 2 11o ~1I~ h 11i 1ie,f %1a HArS new state secretaries, the new Prus- { sian minister, the new Bavarian pre- < mier, the members of the reigninR German houses, the Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian ambassadors and ali the neutral ministers were present. z The imperial chancellor opened hia l speech, after personal reference to his l assumption of office. by asking the 1 loyal cooperation of the Reichstag. He continued:
 l We are approa ching the end of the X year that has been full of far-rea china l and decisive events in many theaters of war. I am proud and thankful to say that the arms of Germany and her allies have been successful onf almost every occasion and everywhere"
 He recalled that the Flanders bat tie had continued almost without in- terruption since July and that the British army was superior in mum bers and that several French divisions had \ taken part in the fight. Notwith- standing the loss of some villages and [. farms, the German front there re- mained unshaken and the enemy was as far as ever from his objective of reaching the Flemish coast to de-# stroy German U-boat bases. He added:
 French Successes.
 Recognizing the failure of their at tacks in Flanders, the British are now seeking near Cambrai a decisive re- suit.
 'The French also have had local successes northeast of Soissona and be- $ fore Verdun, but every strateKical ex- ploitation of these has been prevented < by the German army command. Every one remembers the events in the east which led to the conquest of Riga and Jacobstadt.
 'The glorious advance of the armies of the Central powers in Italy holds the world in suspense even today. Overwhelmingly difficult tasks have been accomplished there by the fight ing strength of the German 9pd Aus < tro-H Hungarian troops in thear sur prisingly rapid attack and penetration or TOuBn 11OuuCd1H L0TE4LOIy. AL01y g army has lost a considerable part of E it's forces and at least half of it's total "a war material It also has lost stretches of land which provided 1t with rich supplies. It has not yet been possible to count the booty, cal- culated in money value at thousands of millions of marks
 The success on the Italian front, he @ 'aid, had been ''an effective rel1ef' to he western front, and "th1s victory ! llso makes itself felt in Macedonia"
 The British operating against the Turkish troops in Palestine, he said, lad achieved certain initial successes, put they had no influence on the gen. ral war situation from a military ,oint of view.
 After declaring the German war eet had thoroughly fulfilled the hopes nd expectations placed in it, the hancellor continued: x ''The high sea fleet, whose constant ctivity often has been yelled from x he public view, deserves the thanks If the country. It has since it's gloP- ous day off the Skaggerak, lately hown anew, after a long interval, in he capture of the islands of Oesel 'ago and Moon, typical co-operation 'ith the army. and it's lately sVfcesstul ght in the German Eight sn the forth Sea against a considerable su- eriority of forces, its constant read less for battle. As support and re- @ erve 1t stands behind our submarine oats it protects their places of SUD- ort and opens out way for them ito the open sea-"
 Submarine Campaign.
 The chancellor reviewed the sub- larine campaign which, he said, Ia