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Show SUSPECT Mil PLOT AGAINST ENTENTE Plan to Provide for ex-Emperor's ex-Emperor's Return and Restoration of Old Regime Re-gime Is Rumored. Uncertain Situation Is Made More Doubtful by Active Teuton Propaganda Prop-aganda in Many Places. i i J LONDON, Nov. 19. A Stockholm j dispatch to the Central News says German troops have occupied I Minsk, In Lithuania. Half a million mil-lion released war prisoners, the dispatch dis-patch adds, are advancing through the Ural mountains. Arrangements Arrange-ments are heing roade to supply ""theni with food and clothing. LONDON, Nov. 13. The rumors that William Hohenzoilern. the former German Ger-man emperor, may possibly return to Germany, Ger-many, as supported by the Berlin Lokal Anzelger's hint that he would not be refused re-fused an entry to that country, have created cre-ated a considembie stir here. They are featured by several of the morning: newspapers news-papers as creating an uncertain situation which is Tendered more doubtful by accounts ac-counts of the activity of German propagandists propa-gandists In several countries. The fear mainly is th&t the former emperor em-peror would sooner or later become the center of a reactionary movement in Germany Ger-many when the present revolutionary storm has blown over. On the other hand, the fact of the for- '. mer ruler's placing himsalf or hting placed i in tho hands of the new rulers of Germany Ger-many would he welcomed in other c;uar- j tert:. These rulers, the Morning Post argues, ar-gues, should be able to execute judgment j upon him and in po doing would only be J acting as fitting instruments of justice. SOCIALISTS DEMAND WILLIAM'S DEPORTATION. There is everywhere, however, agreement agree-ment in the idea that the ex-emperor's presence in Holland is intolerable, and it insisted that he must somehow be made impotent, to do further mischief. The reports re-ports from Holland show that the uninvited unin-vited guept is becoming daily more unwelcome un-welcome tiiere. Belated advices from The Hnue show that the Dutch Sof.-lallsts reiterated in parliament on Friday, last, their objection objec-tion to his presence and demanded that he be deported. A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Tho Hague reports that the German scldierB' council at Antwerp on Thursday, lost, adopted a resolution that the soldiers' and workmen's council In Berlin demand extradition ex-tradition of the former emperor nnd the former crown prince as well as certain genera Is. The resolution expresses belief 'hat ih;; ex -ruler forms the center of counter-revolutionary intrigue. POSSIBILITY OF PLOT TO TRICK THE ALLIES. The Daily Express sees the possibility of a p'ot to trick the allies and create a federal ion far exceeding in strength and resources the torir.er German empire. Thin newspaper contends that I be former emperor is back of Chancellor JKberi, former for-mer Chancellor Mftx ir.iilian. of Baden and Klt-ld Marnbal von ITindenburg and it Iny.s emphapis upon the fsict that the. emperor pigued no formal abdication and issued no va led ictorv me'sagp. A number of leading ? Hied diploma ts and statesmen, including ho-d Robert t'e- ' cil. unders.jrrev.i y of state for foreign i affairs, believe that something is brewing j In Germany ir. tho dii ection of s o'.ot t o i trap t-ie. allies, the iiLx press declares. ! Tho farts appenr io indicate, ir adds, j the exiten."-e of ;i pin; io provide for the I evfniu:il rc'-urn of the former emperor to1 Germ.my. the restoration of thp ohl reqime ! and the formation of a greatly citeniJed German fcd"ia tion. Surh a federation, with Wihinm J-lclin-zoilern at its head, tho E. press argues, would carry the seed of another wor 1 d war. It insis'a that the former emperor must he seized and his activities prevented. pre-vented. Oenn.iny tvants the terms of the anii-h-tice modified th,:t she ca n have economic eco-nomic intercourse with ihi if rritory ort the left bank cf tiie Rhine as before the (Continued on Page Ten.) SUSPECT HUH PLOT 1S1ST ENTENTE (Continued From Page One.) armistice, Dr. Solf, the foreign secretary, says In a wireless dispatch received here. The message is addressed to the governments govern-ments of the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy. Tn view of the close economic relations between the country west of the Rhine and the remainder of Germany, the preservation pres-ervation of which is necessary "to the continued peacefid development of Germany," Ger-many," Dr. Solf asks the modification of some dozen points concerning this region. For instance, he asks permission for German owners to exploit as heretofore the coal, potash and iron ore mines and the general free use of the Rhine for transport within the old boundaries of the German empire. For Free Navigation. The foreign secretary also asks permission per-mission for free navigation by way of Rotterdam rind he coast for the provisioning provision-ing of Germany; the continuation of industrial in-dustrial pursuits on the left bank of the Rhine and free railway traffic i: occupied occu-pied territory. The old frontier of the empire, including includ-ing Luxemburg, Dr. Solf suggests, is to be regarded as the c us terns boundary and custom duties are to be levied by Germany. f Dr. Solf declares that without these modifications Germany will "advance toward to-ward more or less Bolshevist conditions which might become dangerous to neighboring neigh-boring states." He repeats the previous protest against the surrender of means of .transport and protests against "continuation of the blockade." The foreign secretary, concludes con-cludes by saying ihat attempts by German Ger-man delegates to discuss these matters ut Spa had been unsuccessful because the representatives there of the allied countries coun-tries lacked the necessary powers. |