THANKS GOD FOR RUSSIA'S COLLAPSE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 8

THANKS GOD FOR RUSSIA'S COLLAPSE.

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AMSTERDAM, March 11

•According to the Berlin: Lokai Anzieger the: German Emperor, replying to a message from 1 the- Bremen Senatej telegraphed as follows:— . V

"In the long years of' struggle the German people m .arms, led by ideal generals, have broken the Russian power and won the safety of the Empire- m the East. -Moreover, we are finally. ablf to respond to the call for help >by the hard-pressed ' Germans and- border peoples of Russia/ who were strjving for. free development, and to secure for s .theni a guarantee of new and better times. « ' '.'When we, look back over the events of these years aiid\grasp the significance of the peace gained in' the- East ;which means, the. bursting of the ring the enemy laid) around us, we must look up to Almighty God with heartfelt thanks —rwho. has 50 gloriously directed everything. We will draw from this fact strength aiid confidence that the end of the world; war will open a happy future to our beloved German Fatherland." ' Replying to a message homage from the East Prussian Diet," Emperor William^ according, id? , the ". Tag^blatt of .Berlin/ telegraphed :— \ . ] "The Province of, '"'.' East Prussia is especially dear to, me, /In this war ft has made great sacrifices, atocl, . therefore, it/will more gladly acknowledge the hand of. God as now shown m the East. We owe our victory, largely * f^o the moral and spiritual treasures 'whion the great philosopher. of Konig^burjg bestowed upon our peopled" ; '•> The, great philosopher of Konigsburg, referred to, by Empterpr \ William, was Immanuel Kant, who was 'born at Tfonigsburg m 1724 r