| Show KAISERS CHO N 15 BERLIN ENGULFED IN POLITICAL STRIFE BETWEEN militarists AND german empire in throes of gravest crisis of its history imperial throne being stake of political battle now raging amsterdam lt it has been learned arneil le here that political chaos engulfs berlin A gap apparently yawns between the militarists and the anti annesa zionists so wide and so deep that it seems unbridgeable there was the strongest indications that the kaiser faces the inescapable choice between two courses F first arst to aut authorize hortze a complete by the central powers on the russian demand to evacuate all occupied territories and thus renounce every every vestige of veiled annexation claims that would mean it Is reported the immediate rebii resignations nations of lundenburg and ladendorff Luden dorff in incalculable depression among tile armies and a possible ps ible pan ger nian man uprising second to take up the challenge of the socialists and liberals for a finish fight on the annexation issue by standing pat on the brest litovsky li peace terms that would mean a breakup of the majority bloc the reunion of the whole socialist party parti and a possible rising of thu the masses to force peace A crown at stake there area are those who smiled skeptically at the suggestion that the imperial throne Is one ot of the stakes per babe the principal stake in the political battle now raging in the empires capital but their skepticism was belied by dispatches upon dispatches from berlin berila telling ot of fin an unflinching determination upon the part of the socialists reinforced by large sections of tile liberals to fight this battle through to i i finish vague as they were after careful doctoring by the german censors these advices advises showed convincingly that hat the empire 1 Is 13 3 jn in the throes of the lie braet gra et crisis in its history thus Geri peace offensive which was to have pierced the home hoine fronts of her adversaries has rebounded after strengthening them the recoil sped by lloyd george lias has cracked wide open the eni empires pires own internal lines now comes tile lie cable from america with the full text of brej president s dent wil axons war aims aim speech the effect tills this momentous utterance with indirect challenge to the to assert ass ert itself will have upon the hie situation in ili berlin and brast litovka is beyond estimate |
