Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-06 | Page 2 | Pan-Germans Ask for Expulsion of Armistice Signers

PAN-GERMANS ASK FOR EXPULSION OF ARMISTICE SIGNERS BERLIN, Tuesday March 4. (By the Associated Press.) The German assembly, assem-bly, or the Kbert government, is in honor bound to furnish a safe retreat on German Ger-man soil for Emperor William and his wife, according to a proclamation adopted adopt-ed by the Pan-German league at a meeting meet-ing held at Damberg, Bavaria. The proclamation proc-lamation further demands that political responsibility for the "suicidal armistice" of November 11 bo definitely fixed and the guilty parties expelled from the public pub-lic service. The proclamation of the Pan-German league begins with the accusation that the collapse of Germany was due solely to traitors "among our own people, who are openly boasting of N their achievements," achieve-ments," and also to lack of courage on the part of the men at the head of the national government who failed to stem the lido of revolution. The Pan-Germans announce that they have no confidence in tho new government. govern-ment. The proclamation states that the faith of the Pan-Germans in (he realization realiza-tion of a league of nations is as slender as their belief in "eternal peace." The Pan-Germans gave General Ijii-dendorff, Ijii-dendorff, former chief assistant tof -Field Marshal von Hindenburg, a vote of gratitude grati-tude and absolved him from blame for the "momentous measure he was forced to adopt at the end of his military career." ca-reer." The declaration is signed by well-known well-known Pan-German political, industrial and military leaders.