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Show OFFICIAL WIRELESS MESSAGE TELLS OF KAISER QUITTING LONDON, Nov. 3. (British Wltetesa Service.) A German wireless message received re-ceived in London -this' afternoon states: "The German imperial chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, issued the following follow-ing decree: " 'The kaiser and king has decided to r.enou.nqe .the throne " "The imperial chancellor will remain In office until the situation connected with the abdication of the kaiser, the renouncing renounc-ing by the German crown prince of the throne of the German empire and of Prussia-and the setting-up of a regency have been settled. " -For the regency he intends to appoint Deputy Ebert as imperial chancellor and he proposes that a bill shall be brought in for. the establishment of a lavy providing for the immediate promulgation of general suffrage and for a constitutional German national assembly, which will settle finally the future form of government of the German nation and of those people which might be desirous of coming within the empire. " 'Berlin, November 9, 1918. " 'THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR." ' Deputy Egbert, who, according to the German wireless message, is to be appointed ap-pointed imperial chancellor, is Fried rich Ebert, vice president of the Social-Democratic party and president of the main committee of the reichstag. Elbert's election to thefclatter office in June of this year was talcen to mean at the time that the Socialist minority in the reichstag had either been reclaimed by the military government or that the Socialists So-cialists had gained the. ascendency. Later events have proved that the Socialists were in the saddle. Ebert quite recently declared in the reichstag that the German people would no longer permit themselves to be without the right to decide their fate. - It was he who informed the reichstag of the release of Dr. Liebknecht. A telegram received from Copenhagen from Brunswick by way of Berlin asserts that Emperor William's son-in-law, the Duke of Brunswick, and his successor have abdicated. The reigning Duke of Brunswick, whose abdication is announced in a telegram from Brunswick by way of Berlin is Ernest Er-nest Augustus, a son of the Duke of Cumberland. Cum-berland. On May 24, 1913, he married Princess Victoria Louisa, the only daughter daugh-ter of Emperor William. They have three sons, the eldest, Ernest Augustus, whose right to the throng also has been renounced, re-nounced, being born March 18, 19 U. Just before X'rince Maximilian of Baden offered his resignation as imperial chan- cellor he issued an "appeal to Germans abroad," In which he said: "In the fifth year (of hostilities), abandoned aban-doned by Its allies, tho German people could no longer wage war against the increasingly in-creasingly superior forces." The text of the chancellor's statement reads: "In these difficult days the hearts of many among you, my fellow countrymen, who, outside the frontier of the German fatherland, are surrounded by manifestations manifesta-tions of malicious joy and hatred, will be heavy. Do not despair of the German people. "Our soldiers have fought to the last ! moment as heroically as any army has ever done. The homeland has shown unprecedented un-precedented strength in suffering and endurance. en-durance. "In the fifth year, abandoned by its allies, al-lies, the German people could no longer wage war against the increasingly superior supe-rior forces. The victory for which many had hoped has not been granted to us. But the German people has won this still greater victory over itself and its belief in the right of might. "From this victory we shall draw new strength for the hard time which faces us and on which you also can build." |