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Show w . - 1 1 . 1 . ,. . , ... . JUH5EIT lAuftTES Abdication of Enemy Monarch Is Now Offi- cially Announced by Imperial Chancellor. Prince Maximilian Is Mentioned as Regent, Pending Establishment of New Form of Rule. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9. (Havas' Agency.) Prince Maximilian of Baden has teen appointed regent" jy-f the empire, the Berlin newspa-t newspa-t j-rs semiofficially announce. y- AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9. (Reu-. (Reu-. ter's.) It is semiofficially report-5t report-5t ed in reichstag circles that Prince Maximilian will be "appointed re-. re-. giit of the empire, according to Berlin advices. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9. Orders liare heen given for the arrest of Archduke Max, brother of Emperor Charles, according to the Vienna newspapers. Archduke Max left the imperial Hofburg recently with heavily-laden trunks. PARIS, Nov. 9, 6:15 p. m. The abdication of Emperor William is officially announced from Berlin, according ac-cording to a Havas dispatch from Basel. Tlie Havas agency, which transmits trans-mits the announcement of Eiuperor William's abdication from Basel, is the semi-official French news agency. By The Associated Press. WilHain llohenzollcrTi, German emperor em-peror ami king of Prussia, lias decided to renounce the throne. This declaration is made in a decree issued at Berlin by the German imperial im-perial chancellor, Prince Maximilian, of Baden.' The German crown priucc will also renounce the throne and a regency will b set up. Prince Maximilian will hold office until matters connected with tho abdication abdi-cation of the emperor are settled, and BMedrich Kbert, vice-president of the soual Democratic party, "ill replace "tju" as chancellor during the regency. ARRIVES WITH PEACE, LEAVES IN DEFEAT. Thirty years and almost five months utor he ascended tho imperial throne, William I lolien.ollern, his armies do-foateil do-foateil in the Held, forced to sue for armistice terms, and the German people rising in revolt, gives up his power, llg came into authority with his country t the threshold of an era of peace fad material progress; ho loaves it torn Dy revolution and suffering from the hardships and sacrifices of more than four years of war virtually ruined. Brnest August, Duko of Brunswick, son-in-law of the emperor, also has abdicated abdi-cated and renounced the rights of his heir. With the passing from power of William Wil-liam Iloh naoUern, nil tho beads "I" tho ftovorn incuts of the central powers hen they entered- the war have died r lost their thrones. lOmperor Francis Joseph ami the Sultan of Turkey riied : 1 before their countries agreed to allied Wmistice terms, ami Ferdinand nf Bui Abdicated to he succeeded by his BBiT. ulitj jjave up the throne when people rose auai nst li i in. The ol her L tturopean emperor at Hie beginning of A I !) yv- Vhf !:is li'orna.i.'lV, ;. 'ft :tiiiued on Page Three. kaiher mes jffljjj THRONE (Continued from Page One.) posed in 'March, 1917, and murdered in July, 1918. Germany has not yet made reply concerning con-cerning the armistice terms presented by Marshal Foch. It is reported the German courier bound to German headquarters head-quarters had difficulties in crossing the battle zone and probably was not able to reach Spa until Saturday afternoon. The first twenty-four hours of the seventy-two hours given Germany have expired ex-pired and the second twenty-four-hour period is passing rapidly. The red flag of revolution is waving over a continually increasing area of Germany. The revolt has spread from the northwest along the North sea and Schlesvvig-Holstein, south westward into Westphalia, and Cologne, on the Rhine, is reported affected. In Berlin the situation sit-uation evidently is serious, as the banks have .stopped. payments.. |