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Show FRIEDRICH World War Ends When Teutons Admit Defeat and Accept the Terms Proposed by Allies. Deserted by nil her fiMt military machine In ructMi ef destruction by onslaught tin allies armies ; her emperor a fugitive la Holland, with his drenin of rudely shattered, vorlit dominion lemum; has at last conceded defeat sad the uerid war which has ruged for fo'ir fears la at an end. The liana have surrendered unconditionally to General Foch. The war eaded Monday morning. Noo'clock. Washington vember 11. at arm-letlrUme. 11 o'clock Paris time. The as al gni.nl by the dertnan at 2:50 o'clock Monday . uorO'Dit and fliialio.1 all over .ho cun-07Tlie result waa a demonsirnllon was jo every wrtloa of America that hours. continued for The terms of the armlHtlce, It waa annmimvd. will not be niude public until later. Military men here, however. regard It aa ccrtuln they InWanhington. e in Saxony la not clear from the dispatches. Germany's total population K roughly, 70,000.000. The populations of the three revolutionised kingdoms are: Prussia, Bavaria, 7.000.000; Wurttein-berg- , 3,000,000; total, 51.0UO, 0O0. Of the remulnlng Inhabitants of the empire. It la safe to aay, on the strength of all dispatches, that the majority has Joined the revolt. Late dlsputches report the king of Saxony Is also about to abdicate, tf he hns not ulready done so. He Is Friedrich August II, whose personal life was exposed some yeurs ago by his divorced wife, the Princess Louise of Tuscany. WOODROW WILSON clude : Immediate retirement of thi German military forcea from France, Belgium tod Alsace-Lorrain- DlNirming and demobilization German armies. of the Occupation by the allied and American forcea of auch strategic polnta in reGermany aa will make Impossible a new al of hostilities. Delivery of part of the Herman high seas fleet and a certain number of submarines to the allied and American naval forces. Disarmament of all other German alwarships under supervision of the lied and American nuvlea, which will guard them. Occupation of the principal German aava! bases by sea forcea of the victorious nations. Release of allied and American soldiers, sailors and civilians held prisoners la Germany without auch reciprocal action by the associated govern- EBERT A83UMEI REINW AND OUTLINES PLANS IN PROCLAMATION. the CuMnhugen. Friedrich Eln-r- t lender, has been appointed Imperial eltuneellor. He has Issued s proclamation saying thut ho plans to form a people's government which w 111 eudeavor to bring alniut speedy pence. Chancellor Eliert said he would endeavor to continue the freedom which the people hnd won. He begged support In the hard work ahead and apIn the country pealed for and cities In Uie problem of provision lag. Ilerr Eliert In Ids prochimaUon said that Irince Maximilian of Baden had to biro, transferred the all the secretaries of state having given their consent. The new government, he added, would be In agreement with the various parties." It Is officially announced from Berlin that the war ministry has placed Itself at the disposal of Friedrich Ebert, whose apolntment as Imperial chancellor wns forecast Sundny by the decree of Irince Maximilian. This urtlon wus for the purpose of assuring the provisioning of the army and assisting In the solution of denioblllza-Uo- n problems. The prologue In the greatest war In tlstory began w ith the assassination of the Austrian Grand Duke Ferdinand , while bo was visiting Burajevo, The assassin, Juno 28, 1914. tool of Prlnzip, believed to be fanatics, fled to Serbia, ti which country Austria sent a drastic ultimatum on July 23. This accused Serbia of ermlltln and furthering Intrigue against Au tria, demanded the dissolving of certain societies of a patriotic nature, and the prosecution of certain officers and officials, as well as a limitation of th privileges of the Serbian press. To this ultimatum Serbia replied promptly, agreeing to all conditions, but questioning the right of Austrian officials inquiries Into Serbia which that country suggested should be referred to The Hague for arbitration. In this very temperate and reason able reply Austria found cause for sufficient umbrage to declare war, stating Hint the Serbian answer wns vessel Serbian unsatisfactory." were seized almost immediately and on July 29, 1914, Belgrade was born ba riled. Thus begun the world war with a seemingly trivial lueldent which students of the situation now believe to have been part of a curefully prepared plot to embroil Europe with the aim of world dominion on the part ol Mittel Europn. July 31, Germany sent an ultimatum to Russia, demanding demohlllzattoa which the czar's government huughtlly Ignored. The following day Germany declared war on Russia and Invaded Luxemburg. August 2 German troops entered Belgium, despite an acknowledged treaty to safeguard the neutrality of the latter nation, which the German premier later spurned as ' scrap of paper." This Invasion brought an ultimatum to Germany, August 4, demsM-Inthat Belgium's neutrality be r spected. Germnn troops attacked Lleg and President Wilson Issued a proclamation of neutrality. The following day, Its demands having been Ignored, England declared wai on Germany. August 7 the German entered Liege, and the French Invaded southern Alsace. Italy declared neu- Socialist eham-ellorshl- Count Reventlow Fleet to Denmark. von I .onion. Count Reventlow, whose writings have during the war In the Tages Zeitung of Berlin, has fled to Ien mark. He declared to a at the frontier that the situation would be much worse in Germany when the soldiers returned from the front. General anarchy could be expected. corri-iqvonlei- n German Emperor. Vacates Throne and Seeks Sanctuary in Holland When Peace Terms Are Submitted. Students of Situation Bellevo This ts Have Been Part of Plot to Embroil Europe with tho Aim of World Dominion. n There was no Information aa to the circumstances under which the armistice waa signed, but since the German courier did not reach German military President Wilson, who has been a headquarters until 10 oclock Sunday was genbig factor In the peace negotiations, momla, French time, It and whose terms have been accepted German the that assumed here erally had by Germany. envoys within the French lines been Instructed by wireless to sign the William Hohenzollern, the former terms. of Germany, who began the emperor Korty-sevehours had been required world and who abdicated vlen wur, for the courier to reach German head- he was convinced that Germany must several quarters, and unquestionably surrender to the victorious allies, has hours were necessary for the examiIn Holland, and Is now at the arrived nation of the terms and n decision. It town of Desticg, near I'tretcli. where however, was regarded as possible, he hopes to escape further punishthat thedoclslon may have been made of the nations he trans- ment at the hands at Perils and Instructions wronged. so has grievously mitted from there by the new German Desteeg Is on the Guelders Yssel. an govern men L arm of the Ilhine river, about forty Up to Sundny there were four king- miles east of Utrecht and twelve miles doms In the German empire, namely, border. The chateau ana from the Germanwhich the former emSaxony Bavaria. Prussia, to Mldduchten, Wurttemberg. All but Saxony are now peror is reported to be proceeding, kinglcs and throneless. The situation to Count William Frederick Charles Ilenry von Bentinck. He Is a GEN. FERDINAND FOCH member of the Prussian guards, and before the war was attached to the German embassy In London and a member of the English Turf and Royal Automobile clubs. lie Is 38 years old. He belongs to the famous house of Bentinck, the cont ' w v tinental branch of the .amlly of, the Duke of Portland. Middachten castle dates back to the year 1097. The former German emperors party, which Is believed to Include Field Marshal von Ilindenburg, arrived at Eys-deon the Dutch frontier, at 7:30 :r-- 4 dock Sunday morning, according to Daily Mull advices. Practically the whole German general staff accompanied the former the ; and ten automobiles carried were bristling automobiles The party. with rifles, and all the fugitives were armed. was In uniform, ne The at the Eysden station and alighted a cigpneed the platform, smoking DUKE FEROINAND. Declares That Hs Plans to Form a People's Government Which Will Bring About Speedy Settlement of Problems. Wilton Asked to Aid Home Rule. London.' The Irish Nationalist party Is sending to Presldcn A'llson a maul' festo spiraling for his assistance In settling the Irish question. The document quotes at length from President Wilson's "great utterances on this war which we hold Justify ns to enforce the demand we have mude for our nation on the British government." ments. GERMANY FOUNO EXCUSE IN THE ASSASSINATION OF GRAND Woman Killed at Celebration. Boise, Idaho. Tbj peace celebration was quieted at Twin Falla, when Mrs. Amos A. Wright, aged 50 years, was killed while Joining in the hilarity. A portion of the streets had Just been roped off for dancer and para dors, when an automobile crashed Into the taut rope ana broke It. In the recoil the snapping rope hit Mrs. Wright and threw her against another automobile. Her skull wus fractured and she died within ten minutes. Boa-nln- n con-luettn- trality. These were the opening movement of the great con diet which, little bj little. Involved practically the entire world. Each day was crowded with rails. Tit expected haa happened. I form of government of the German na. William Hohenzollern, German emper- - lion and of those people which might or and king of Prussia, has abdicated, he desirous of coming within the mill Is now In Holland, where h hopes plre." who, according to the Deputy Elx-rt- , that he may lie safe from his enemies y he German wireless message, s to t and escape the punishment that I pointed Imperial chancellor, la Frieddeserves. main f the vice rich th renounced Eliert. haa president The crown prior I committee of the reelratag. throne and n regency will h set up. This declaration Is made In n de- - Ebert's election to the latter office In tree Issued at Berlin by th Gentian lm-- June of this year wss token to mean at In portal chancellor, 1rlnc Maximilian, of the time that the Socialist minority I the Itndcn. relchstag had either been reclaimed rrinee Maximilian will hold office by the military government pr that th until matters connected with the abdl- - Socialists had gained tho ascendency, cation of the emperor are nettled. and latter event have proved that the of the clallid were In the saddle. Ebert, Social Democratic party, will replace I Eliert quite recently declared In the him as chancellor during the regency, relchstag that the Gennun people would with-sfte- r longer permit themselves to be Thirty years and almost five months Uo I It fate. decide their to throne, out the ascended the he Imperial right Wlllluin Hohenzollern. Ida armies de-- 1 was he who Informed the relchstag of feated In the field, forced to sue for the release of Dr. Llebknecht. A telegram received from Copen-risin- g irmlstlce terms, and the German people e In revolt, gives up hla power, lie hagen from Brunswick by way of I son-it t William that Emperor Info authority with hla muniry lin asst-rthe Duke of Brunswick, and his the threshold of an era of peuce hu.iaw, ind material progress; he leave It torn I successor have abdicated, I by revolution and suffering from the I Uullke hi grandfather, who more than of Ids chancellor, the ed pius-i- f and sacrifices ruined. further enijtcror of Germany, whose al four years of Irnest August, Duke of Brunswick, of the emiwror, also ha abdicated and renounced the rights of hla heir. With the pnsslng from power of William Hohenzollern, all the heads of the fovernnienta of the central power they entered the war have died r lost their thrones. Emperor Francis Joseph and the Sultan of Turkey died before their countries agreed to silled irmlstlce terms, and Ferdinand of Bul gnria abdicated to be succeeded by his ion, who gave np the throne when Ids people rose against him. The other European emperor at the beginning of the war Nicholas Romanoff, was deposed In March. 1917. and murdered In sp-uatl- vice-preside- Ber-cam- ahleld-hardshi- ly vn-ln-ln- July. 1918. The German Imperial chancellor. Prince Max of Baden, Issued tlie following decree on November 0. The kaiser and king bus decided to renounce the throne, The Imperial chancellor will remain In office until the situation connected with the abdication of the kaiser,-- the renouncing by the German crown British pr David . prince of the throne of the Germnn emwho haa alwtya been optimistio mler, and the of and up Prussia Betting plre as to the outcome of the war. of a regency have been settled. to he Intend, tpFor the regency n(Minmi November '.. m,B point Deputy Ebert ns Insisted upon making him- ha always I cellor and he proposes that a bill Hall debates in the of the c?nter be brought In for the establishment of L., hstn an(, among ,lla people, t law providing for the Immediate projlfe, fop Lloyd-Georg- events of International Import. Franc and England declared war on Austria on August 12, and three days Intel Japan sent an ultimatum to Germany which soon drew the former nation lntc Martial Law in Mexican State. El Paso, Texas. Martial law was the martial whirlpool a conflict national assemdeclared In Chihuahua state Friday by marked chiefly by the taking of Tsing-tao- institutional the future will which settle finally Novembly. Asiatic Francisco General colony, Germanys proclamation of Murgula. General Ignacio Enriquez, ber 6, after a long alege. In By far the most Important and basl deposed provisional governor, Is western Chlhuuhua, rallying the home rally Important year of the war wn A forecast of America's entry guards to his side, and hns establishedin 1917. conflict came with the presl Into the Guerrero, at his jtrovlsionnl .npltal dents pence without victory" speech the district of Guerrero. January 22 nnl the pnssnge of th fortification bill by congress Goods. $31,000,000 Americsn Japa to Purchase By February 12 the feeling ovei Seattle, V,r.?h. Japan will spend In warfare' the United States a sum estimated at unrestrained submarine so strained that this coun $2,500,000 annually for a number of had become its try refused to discuss the matter with years for purchase of materials for stateto a Germany. February 14 diplomatic reaccording fleet, battleship lations were broken, and February 2C T. Koduehl, engineer ment here by commander of tlie Imperial Japanese permission was asked by the president to arm American merchantment, which navy. wus Inter granted. In the meantime, however, the world was startled by the GEORGES CLEMENCEAU Russian revolt and th'e overthrow of the Romanoff government. America formally recognized the republican government of Russia. In a swift panorama of martial happenings, all of the greatest Importance, passed the days and months of RJ17, the first vital event after wur declare tlon being the conscription bill of Apr! 28 for the raising of an army of half a million. Then came the espionage bill to deal with the menace of Internal propaganda and Intrigue A general war appropriation of 300,000 and the first $2,000,000,000 wut loan were passed. Herbert C. Hoover arette. was appointed to handle the food sltua the of members the Chatting with tlon. correstaff, the former emperor, the , ; .rr be-lon- gs '' . A'Vr: . f.: In the spondent says, (lid not look later minutes A few distressed. least an Imperial train, Including restaurant and sleeping enra. rsn Into the station. Only servants were aboard. A London dispatch announced that members of the battleship Kaiser, at the Kiel, had mutinied and hoisted red flag. Officers attempting to de Premier Clemenceau of France has fend the German flag were overpow been a tower of strength in upholding two of them, Including the Marshal Foch, the allied commander, ered and morale In France during the dark were wounded, according the commander, of terms chief, who presented the year of the past. Gazette. see to the German representatives. to the Cologne To Aid In Reconstruction. Lord Reading May Not Return. that the Announcement Protect Soldiers on Liberty Bonds. Chicago. Lord London. It is reported that San Diego. To defeat bond scalpers, Cross will, In all probRed American return to who seek Reading probubly will not called on to direct rehabiliheavy commissions for to remain ability, be reconstruction work In the Is ne expected and of Liberty bonds owned by Washington, tation touch with the the declaration of financially pressed soldiers, San Diego In close and constant with the war areas following connection in minister banks have Informed here prime soldier peace, was made here Friday. peace negotiations. win handle auch bonds at par. . Telegrapher to Get More Money. Red Cross Receives Medal. Ammunition Train Wrecked. Washington. An order granting railInTucson, Arlz. Among tho contribuHarbin. It la reported that a train road telegraphers a general wage Red Cross of lu a few with forty-tw- o Issued days be care carrying ammunition, tions received by the will historic crease MeAdoo. Tlie adLandes and twelve Japanese guns, Tucson is a medald rich Indecoration by Director General a Is It about $30 a value. for to said average from la Ilarbla recently patched vance o conferred by the Jfi Volga front, haa been blown ap of carved silver, month r Maxlllan on a Mexican general twea Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk. ' "U, - ' ' dls-Posi- star-shape- Em-ner- mtt pro-Germ- Cancel Contracts Gradually. Washington. Chairman Baruch the war Industries board has author ized the statement that the coming of peace will not result in Immediate cancellation of war supply contracts, but that contracts will be cancelled gradually as requirements ure reduced making it possible to lift curtailments The Emperor of Germany began the and restrictions upon ordinary Indus- war, and now suea for peace, accepting trial activities. the terms submitted by the allies. Watching Australias Interest Maude Adams Near Death. William Australia. Melbourne, New York, Nov. 0. Maude Adams Ilughes, prime minister of Australia, is very 111 In Nashville, Tenn., accord- now In London, will remnln, at the Ing to word which reached here. The request of his colleagues, to safeguard wus stricken early Wednesday Australia's Interests In the peuce nego- while filling an engagement In A tiations. Kiss for Cinderella." f " . waa a vain theatrical youth, consumed with a desire to leap Into the center of things and win for Germany and himself a martial glory with full stage effect Ills one groat desire hus been to emulate the example of Frederick the Great hla ancestor, and carry glory before him with a drawn sword. The lulser Is a man of rapid Impulses, ecd these often came near Involving Germany In serious difficulties. His dream of world domination plunged the world into war in 1914. Upon him and the tremendous military engine of destruction, of which he was tlie embodiment the exponent and the leader, rests the responsibility of deliberately planning and bringing about the grentest conflict the world has ever seen. It did not matter to the world that the emperor's share In the swift events immediately preceding the war had been obscured. The world convicted him of organizing, directing and maintaining at the top notch of efficiency the great German military machine. It will be remembered thnt he signed tlie order for the German mobilization, and he stood sponsor for the terrorl-- m and brigandage which, under the guise of warfare, ravished Belgium, laid waste the cities of France, depopulated and davastuted Servla and sank the Lusitania with the freight of women and children to a grave in the Atlantic. Civilization will never forget that it was the minions of the former emperoc who shot to death the English nurse who befriended the Belgians In American Steamer Sunk. AmerOcean City, Md. The 5000-to- n ican cargo steamer Snetla, bound front a French port to Philadelphia, struck miles off the Marya mine twenty-fiv- e land const and sank twenty minutes later. Nineteen members of the crew are missing. Revolt Spreading In Germany. Latest advices reAmsterdam. ceived thnt the revolutionary move- ment at Cologne Is gradually spread-actres- s jng throughout the entire western part 0f Germany. Thus far the molt ha been orderly. I Bankers' Meeting Postponed. Cotton Conference Meets. Newspaper Man Leads Revolt New York. Indefinite postponement Nov. 9. A special Eisner, a Munich news-Britis-h rarls.Kurt Washington, on account of Influenza in St Louis of mission Is now In conference I paper man, and prominent In Socialist the convention of the Investment with the committee on cotton dlstribu- - circles. Is the leader of the revolution Bankers Association of America, which tlon here devising means of bringing which has broken out id the Bavarian was to have been held there this about a broader utilization of cotton of I capital, It appears from Information month Is announced. received here. the lower grades to British spinner - |