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Show CROWN COUNCIL HEARS LUDENDORF General Makes Gloomy Report Re-port Germany May Be Invaded In-vaded Within Few Weeks. BITTER REPROACHES Commander Tells Superiors He Has Lost the Game and I Cannot Hold Out. LONDON, Oct. 19. Interesting par-I par-I ticulars are now available concerning I the recent happenings In Germany (leading up to the sending of the German Ger-man reply to President Wilson's ques- tions. I According to the Essen Zeltung, the decision to reply affirmatively was j taken at a dramatic meeting of the crown council in Berlin where General Ludendorff made a gloomy report on the military situation. In the presence of Emperor William land all the federated precincts the general, according to this newspaper, I declared the situation was such that I Germany might be invaded within a I few weeks. i Ludendorff Bitterly Reproached, t In view of his great promises of last i spring he was made the subject of bitter reproaches. Prince Maximilian of Baden, the imperial im-perial chancellor, said the war must be stopped at once. King Ludwig of Bavaria sharply criticized Ludendorff, while King William of Wuerttemburg declared a heavy responsibility rested rest-ed upon the emperor. The grand duke of Hesse complained of military inter-' inter-' ference In political matters. The chancellor chan-cellor finally cut the recriminations 1 short, the newspaper adds, by propos-1 propos-1 ing submission .to President Wilson's j terms. j Indications that General Ludendorff i probably was correctly represented In , his attitude by the Essen newspaper is contained in a message from the Ber-'lin Ber-'lin correspondent of the Danish news-I news-I paper Berlingske Tidende, -who reports j that at the end of September, Luden-j Luden-j dorff declared he had lost the game , and could only hold the west front for a fortnight. At the same time Bulga- ria gave in and concurrently with Lu-j Lu-j dendorff's declaration of his defeat I there came an ultimatum from Aus-j Aus-j tria-Hungary stating that Germany I should request peace, as otherwise the dual monarchy could not take any further fur-ther responsibility, a Czech revolution being expected, the correspondent adds. It Is held that Baron Burian's i speech on President Wilson's last note j also is in the nature of an ultimatum to Germany peremptory in character, although similarly masked in courteous cour-teous phrasing. It is considered plain from this speech that for Austria-Hungary the war is over, that she cannot go on any longer and that if Germany failes to satisfy President Wilson and the allies then the only alternative of the dual monarchy is a separate peace. It Is felt that Ujis must have its influence in-fluence upon the German mind as well as the expectation in Berlin, according accord-ing to the Berlin correspondent of the Danish newspaper previously referred I to, that Turkey will comply with the demands of the allies for surrender. |