Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-28 | Page 4 | Prince Accused by Pan-Teutons

IPHINCE ACCUSED By PMUT0N5 Charged With Treachery Toward Former Kaiser in Abdication Parleys. f '.Kill AS. July 27 (Rv the Awsonated Pr ess. i This morning's pan-' Jerman 1 newspapers of Herlln make a feature of a 1 five column expf.se of occurrences in connection con-nection with the outbreak of the German revolution lat. November, including a .struggle taking place at German great hea J'iu:i rt e--s at Spa, November !, lasting tie;v r n ent v-fnur hours, to induce Kui-peror Kui-peror William to abdi'-ate. Material is adduced to show that Prince. .Maximilian of Haden. then imperial chancellor, fmallv took the initiative and gave to the Wolff bureau an official statement that the emperor em-peror had u bd ica t ed as emperor and k i ng of Prussia, although it is averred he had done neither and hud never renounced the t hroue of Prussia. Prince. Maximilian, it is declared, took this step out of misguided patriotism in an attempt to subd ue the revolutionary movement, which was rapjdly getting out of hand, and by it forced the emperor's advisers to hurrv him away to Holland. The pan-Germans now charge the former chancellor with treachery. All doubts as tn William Hohenzollern's abdication as (Jerman emperor and king of Prussia were considered to have beep settled when Merlin advices November :i0 last told of the issuance by the new German Ger-man -government of the former emperor's act of renunciation,' described as having been executed and signed hv William J fohenzollern at Amerongen, Holland, on November 2S. VIIONNA, Saturday, July 2fi. ( Hy the Associated Press.) Dr. Otto Hauer, Austrian Aus-trian foreign minister, resigned the foreign for-eign portfolio today. He retained, however, how-ever, the post of minister of socialization in the cabinet. The foreign ministry will be taken over by Dr. Karl Renner, the chancellor, in addition to the chancellorship. chancellor-ship. Representatives of the allied powers, as well as Austrians of the well-to-do order, are said to have been attempting for months past to bring about Dr. Panor's resignation because of his supposed Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki affiliations. ST. G P. RM A I N - F" X -T A YK . July 27. Dr. Karl Renner. Austrian chancellor, and head of the Austrian peace delegation, arrived ar-rived here today from F'eldklreh, near the Swiss border, where he conferred with Austrian governmental representatives from Vienna. Dr. Renner at once formulated a readiest re-adiest to the peace conference for an extension ex-tension of the time accorded Austria to reply to the second part of the peace terms, communicated July 20. The Austrians Aus-trians were originally given fifteen days within which to make reply.