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Show A P0P1IL4R III I I Resignation Creates Sensation j ! Cittle Short of What the Kaiser's Abdication Would Cause. AMSTERDAM, Oct! 28 (By the Associated As-sociated Press) Nothing except the abdication of the German emperor or the retirement of Field Marshal von Hindenburg could have struck tho German public's imagination more forcefully than the resignation of the popular idol in Germany, General Lu-dendorff. Lu-dendorff. As the Vorwaerts of Berlin, Ber-lin, The German Socialist organ puts it, the resignation of Ludendorff means that the military element in Germany henceforth is divested of political po-litical influence. The Vorwaerts which has no regret for tho departing army leader, says: "What has happened was bound to happen, even if Germany had won. The German social democracy was determined deter-mined not to permit a German victory being turned into a victory under the old system." The newspaper hints darkly that "much more in the same direction yet remains to be dono." Theodore Wolff in the Tageblatt relates re-lates at length the history of tho past few days. He declares it was Ludendorff Luden-dorff who was at tho back of ho armistice ar-mistice proposal but afterwards recanted re-canted because lie objected to constitutional consti-tutional changes involving the subordination sub-ordination of tho military to tho civil authorities. Then, says Wolff, followed fol-lowed Hindenburg's telegram of Friday Fri-day to tho press conference, to tho effect that the army rejected President Wilson's demands for capitulation. This was tho signal for a general onslaught on-slaught by the Pan-German organs upon up-on tho government, but the government govern-ment stood firm and Chancellor Maximilian Max-imilian of Baden, 'from a sick bed gave clear Instructions that there was to bo no surrender to military dictation, with the result -that Ludendorff departed de-parted "in high dudgeon." Herr Wolff devotes a long and characteristic char-acteristic article to tho dparted army chief, who, he says, ruled Germany for two years like a dictator. For Luden-dorff's Luden-dorff's fall ho blames Ludendorff's domineering personality and overweening over-weening desire to have a finger in ov-ery ov-ery pie. "Nothing," says Wolff, "could bo done in Germany without his sanction. His interference extended absolutely to everything. When any political affairs af-fairs had to be settled, Ludendorff was there." Wolff attributes to Ludendorff direct di-rect responsibility for the downfall of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, chancellor, chancel-lor, and Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann, foreign secretary. oo FUNERAL FUND LOST IN BANK'S FAILURE SALT LAKE, Oct. 20. The death yesterday from Spanish influenza of R. G. Moody, elevator operator at the city and county buildin, developed tho fact that money he has saved to defray de-fray his funeral expenses -was wiped out bjjLthc failure of tho Merchants' bank.Jf Moojy had been an invalid for most of recent years, suffering- from rheumatism. rheu-matism. He had saved something over $300 with tho specific intent that it should bo available for defrayment of his funeral expenses in caso of death at any time. Last spring ho was induced in-duced to draw the money from tho local lo-cal bank where he had kept, the savings sav-ings account and deposit it in the Mer-chants' Mer-chants' bank. Spanish influenza attacked and took him off before he could again accumulate accumu-late a saving equal to his purpose. |
