Show Ji 11 1 KAISERS KAISER'S RON GROWN IS GRAVELY IMPERILED 1 1 1 r BERLIN ENGULFED IN IN POLITICAL c- c STRIFE BETWEEN MILITARISTS MILITARISTS' A AND D ANTI German Empire In Throes of Gravest I Crisis of Its History Imperial I Throne Being Stake of 5 S J cal Battle BattI Now Raging It Amsterdam It has been learned Y i here that political chaos engulfs B Ber r. r S 'S lin A gap Jap apparently yawns awns between the militarists and the antl anti so wide and so deep that it unbridgeable There was the strongest g Indications that the kaiser faces the Inescapable choice between 1 two courses First First To To authorize a down by oy the central powers on the he Russian demand to evacuate nil all occupied pled pied territories and thus renounce every evory vestige of veiled yelled annexation claims That would mean It Is reported reported re reo re- re ported porte the Immediate resignations of and resulting i c In depression among th the I armies annles and a possible pan Ger S man uprising Second To Second To take up the challen challenge e 4 of the Socialists and liberals for a n S j-S finish fight on the annexation Issue by S 'S standing pat on the Brest Li Brest i peace terms That would mean a n breakup of the reichstag majority bloc the reunion of the whole Socialist party and a n possible rising of the theS S masses to force peace A Crown at Stake There are those who vho smiled skeptically cally at at the suggestion that the Imperial Impe Impe- rial throne Is one of the stakes stakes- per- per j hape the principal stake In the political political pout pout- ical battle now the empires empire's capital But their skepticism was belled belied by byS r dispatches upon dispatches fro from n Ber Berlin er S S lin un telling of an unflinching determination alion a- a tion lion upon the part of the Socialists 4 reinforced by large sections of the liberals liberals lib lib- to fight tight this battle attle through to 4 1 f finish V Vague as they were after aftel careful doctoring by the German cenS censors censors cen- cen S sors these advices showed convincingly convincing convincing- ly that thai the empire Is In the throes of the gravest crisis in its history J 1 Thus Thus- Germ n Germanys Germany's s peace offensive which ha have hae home was ns to e p the fronts of her hr adversaries has rebounded rebounded re re- re- re bounded after strengthening them The Tue recoil sped by Llo Lloyd d George has S cracked wide open the empires empire's own ownS S internal lines Now comes the cable from America with the full text of President Wilsons Wilson's Wilson's Wilsons Wil Wil- sons son's war alms aims speech The effect this momentous utterance with Its direct challenge to the reichstag's majority to assert itself wilt will have Ilave upon the atlon In Berlin erlln and Brest is 18 IH beyond yn 1 estimate |