Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-01 | Page 27 | Urge Dethroning of Hohenzollerns

NfGE dethroning If HOHENZOLLERNS Mysterious Pamphlet Exer-j Exer-j cising Police of Swiss City. LONDON-, March 31. Acrordin to a din pa toh r 0,0, o.i vod hre from Zurich a mynterious pamphlet urging the diacard-' diacard-' ing the hoiiMe ot' Hohfii.oliern as rulers ol' Germany and the seating of the Bavarian Ba-varian Wirtelshachs in their stead is creating inijieh discussion. The present utate of (rcrmany in compared com-pared to that of I'rancc in 1814-15; just a Napoleon retired from the direction or affairs and waved France, so must the kaiser, vacate "the throne of Germany. Ger-many. A Win for the central powers is, affirms the writer of the pamphlet im-po88ible; im-po88ible; and the feeling is gaining ground in .Germany that a change of dynasty dy-nasty will. smooth the way to peace. The entente powere, it is argued, have mado known their reluctance to negotiate nego-tiate with the Hohenzollernfl, and parti par-ti cularlvvith the kaiser and crown Plhe removal of the Hohenzo!-JMis Hohenzo!-JMis would also lead to the end of vFruHHian hotfemony, and would make for f the establishment of a KTQ&tor Germany, ' too. The co-operation of the Germans in Austria lu dtmianded, especially as the dual monarchy is hastening towards its end, and such a union would bo greatly facilitated by tho elevation of the house of Wittelribach to the supreme position in tho lnnd. Commenting on the pamphlet, the Volksrocht pointu out that it cannot be an entente prod not ion ; hatred of tho entente is too plainly dinplayod in tho document, it is apparently an echo of the Bavarian movement to give that state predominance in the German empire. em-pire. There is a deep-seated suspicion that members of tho Bavarian royal family cannot be entirely unconcerned with its production, since the author so insistently insist-ently nres their elevation. If tho author's aim has been merely to suggest the formation of a central empire of German states, he would surely sure-ly have designated the Austrian Emperor Em-peror Carl as the ruler most likely to be accepted.