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Show PROSTRATE FOE BEGS MERCY "Fearful" Conditions Require Softening of Harsh Terms, Dr. Solf Telegraphs President By AMOCIaU Prmmm. DEKEATKI) on the battlefield, deserted by their emperor and aubjeeted to term tanta- j mount to unconditional aurren- j der, the German people have mad an appeal to lreldent Wllaon. Condition deacrllied aa "fearful pre- j vail, and Dr. W. 8. 8olf. tha forl I aecretary. aays in hia appeal that mil- linnr mea 'mummim 11 ma ai'ie iini not take steps to overcome the dan- f ger. j Mutinous aallora. who are In control of moat of the units of r.ermaJiy'a j navy, may even at thta late date rtak battln against the allied fleets rather than etirrender their vessels under the! Term Of IMS miilsilus. WiiHini niee- i I aagea to tha various units have been j ' picked up. calling upon the sailors to ! "defend the country again at thia un- 1 heard Of presumption." The tneaaage directed that the units aseemhle Iq Haaanlta harbor, on the east coast of j the Island of Huegen, off the Prussian , coast. ' INTERN KAISER. j Holland is aald to bo preparing to Intern William llohenxollern and Ma son, the former crown prince, aa well j as other military officers who sought i refuge with , them by eroaalng the j Ihitch frontier. This action may pre- ; vent the former emperor from return- j Ing to Oermany. ahould eventa take a sudden turn, and following; tha example exam-ple of .Afxlern In 116. Allle1 warships have entened the I Dardanelles and British navaL forces have occupied Alexandrelta. i HINDENBURQ A REBEL? ' " Field Marshal von Hlndenburg. who i wis reported to have fled to Holland with his royal master, has olned tho f j revolutionary forces. He has asked' the soldiers and workmen's council to send delegates at once to main h-n,l-J i (IHariris.1 , Kvery where In Germany ths momentum mo-mentum of the revolution which awept the old regime out of powr seems to le Increasing. The great Hhenish Weatphallan Industrial region la In the handa of the Keda, while I'otadam and Ioehertti have surrendered to ths forces which have taken over control in Berlin. FRICTION EVIDENT. There are evidences of friction between be-tween the military authorities and ths soldiers' and workmen's council in many towns In northern Germany, the authority of the latter being questioned ques-tioned It la reported that civil administrations ad-ministrations have been provisionally organised where there Is any danger of a conflict between parties. British forces reached Mons. Belgium, Bel-gium, before the hour for the cessation cessa-tion of hostilities. This city has sentimental sen-timental interest to all British subjects, Tor it was there that "Kitchener's contemptible con-temptible army" had Its first real baptism bap-tism of firs in 1914. YANKS TAKE STENAY. The Americans closed the campaign In Franca by capturing tha village of Htenay, It la announced that, by a supplementary supple-mentary declaration to the arm let ice, I It waa agreed by Germany that. In case tha vessels stipulated In ths srmiat.ee were not turned over within ths specified time to the allied powers, the Island of Heligoland might be occupied oc-cupied as an advance baa to enable them to force the terme of the agree-menL agree-menL LINES OF BATTLE. When the last "hot was fired the allied battle line from ths fhitrh border bor-der to Swltserland wss approximately as follows: Ths frontier of Holland north of Selsaete to Ghent to east of Audenarde to (inunmont to east of Mons to east of Maubeuge and thence weat of the Franco-Be Ig lan bord er to nort h of Hocrol. Thence the line waa along the Meua to Meslerea to Sedan and across ths river In ths region of fits-nay. fits-nay. Then eoutheeat ward south of Montmedy and northeast of Verdun to ths Moaell near Fagny, northeast of Poru -a - Mouason. Ths line than paralleled ths Lorraine frontier to west of Marklrch, where It entered Alsace, whence It ran southward to Swltserland Swltser-land on a line about twenty mile west of ths Rhine, Franc had been entirely cleared of strip of territory from the Mouse to ANnco |