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Show Oll'S CITIZENS CELEBRATE . A11IEHT Of KAISER'S ABDICATION OF THE THRONE The receipt of the official notification that Kaiser W.ilhelm had abdicated abdi-cated was received by The Standard over the Associated Press virc at 1:34 o'clock, within five minutoc from the time it was received in New York. Immediately upon the receipt of the news The Standard communicated with Foreman Stone of the Southern Pacific shops and the ministers of the various va-rious churches, who proclaimed the good news to the people by the blowing of whistles and the ringing of bells. Within five minutos from the time the announcement was received that the Hun ruler had quit his throne, several hundred people gathered in front of The Standard's bulletin board. Within fourteen minutes from the time the news was received The Standard extra was being sold on the streets by one hundred newsboys. This number was increased to about 150 boys within a few minutes. As the whistles were blowing and the bells ringing employes of the! Southern Pacific Shops quit work and started celebrating. The store salesmen, sales-men, shoppers and people upop the street rushed to The Standard office where they could see the glad tidings themselves. The crowd was so dense at the office that tho newsboys could not move fifty feet avay from the building build-ing before they had sold out. The receipt of the news at the John Scovcroft & Sons' company was a signal for the cessation of work. The firm's drum corps headed by a squad of gun men, paraded the streets with the men and women' employes marching march-ing on foot, with several autoo filled with citizens. Everywhere in the city the joyous Thanksgiving spirit was shown and the rejoicing was the greatest great-est of any shown liere in years. The people are prepared to hear of the good nevs of the ending of the war which will undoubtedly follow within a few jhoux ( ( he possessed a divine mandate to rulo. that the almighty was his "uncondi- j tional and avowed ally." It is not en-1 Urely clear whether such outgivings were the product of a disordered brain or were due to unbounded egotism and an effort to impress his subjects with the idea of reverent and unquestioning unques-tioning submission. His speeches to I his armies in which he asserted he and they were "instruments of divine judg-1 ment upon Germany's enemies" were regarded by many outside of Germany as pieces of rhetoric, intended only to deceive his own people. William's claim to close affinity with! God was tho burden of dozens of his, speeches long before as well as after' the beginning of the war. Of these,, perhaps, none moro clearly defined his i claim then his notorious "diviuo right" speech delivered at Brandenburg in 1890, in which he said ho regarded the German people as "a responsibility" conferred upon him by God and that It was "my duly to Increase this heritage heri-tage for which one day I shall be called upon to give account. Those who try to interfere with my task I j shall crush." j In all this the world saw before the war not a menace but a comedy, it laughed with the then Captain Joseph B. CoghJun of the United States navy when, returning from the Avar with Spain and lolling of the clash with (he commander of the German squadron' at Manila bay, the captain recited the famous poem, "Hoch Dor Kaiser." In this the concluding refrain was, in thej suppositious words of the emperor: i "Gott pulls mlt me and I mit him MEINSELF Und Gott." Few statesmen realized then that tho deluded emperor in his "shining armor," mauoeuvcriug his armies and his fleets, building up the German military system ui, cementing the Central Cen-tral empires and Turkey, and fostering foster-ing the preaching of tho supremacy of autocracy was erecting a machine that one day would make war upon all civilization. civ-ilization. ! Yet the world was warned by some far-sighted men that the emperor would one day bring catastrophe upon the nations. These men saw in him then and see him now as a mad inventor inven-tor given in his youth tho most dan- gorous of all toys his army and navy. They were his playthings. He developed de-veloped them throughout the years to the point where ho had to put them to n test. Like a crazed Inventor, he feared fear-ed the end of his reign would iind his inventions untried; so grasped the first opportunity to wage a world war. . Meantime the German war party grew with William as its head, and rhe scheme of world dominion awaited V the hour to begin its attainment. It came with the assassination oT tho Austrian ArchdukeFrancis Ferdinand, and his wife at Sarajevo. Recalled from a yachting trip, Will-lam Will-lam presided at a conference at Potsdam Pots-dam of representatives of the German and Austrian armies, navies and commercial com-mercial interests. There, according to the best Information obtainable, the' decision was reached to mako the as- j sassination of the archduko n pretense for the world war for which Germany I had long prepared. j In tho diplomatic exchanges between Germany and Austria on one Hide and (Great Britain, France and Russia on" the other William posed as one wlsh-i wlsh-i Ing for peace but driven to war. He' signed the order for the mobilization' I of the German army and from that1 moment war was Inevitable. There-) There-) after he drove on his armies relent-. : lessly in the mad campaigns for -ic-i tory, encouraging them with every device de-vice and sometimes appearing on thei I front to be proclaimed .as personal) j commander in a great offensive. i I Publication or the "Willy-Nicky" j correspondence in 1S17, placed the German emperor in the light of an unscrupulous plotter. The telegrams disclosed that Emporor William had induced Emporor Nicholas of Russia to sign a secret agreement to which he was 'to force the adherence of Franco in the perfection of an offensive and defensive alliance against England. The treaty was discovered and repudiated, repu-diated, by a. Russian minister. Failing iu his attempt, the German emperor set upon himself, the task of i drawing England to his side against . France and Russia. How well he 1 thought he had succeeded in this may be gathered from a letter he wrote to President Wilson in 1914 in which he said King George had promised Prince Henry of Prussia, on July 29, 1911. that England would remain neutral in I a war involving the Central Powers I with France and Russia. ! Perhaps the most direct and author-I author-I itative of the accusations against the : Gorman emperor and the pan-Germans are contained in the published secrot I memorandum of Prince Charles Max I Lichnowsky, who was German ambassador ambas-sador at London at I he outbreak of 1 hostilities. The Prince unequivocally placed the blame for the Avar on Germany, Ger-many, and for his frankness Avas im-1 im-1 prisoned in a Silesian chateau, permanently per-manently expelled from the Prussian House of Lords, Avhlch action jvaasan-ctioned jvaasan-ctioned by the emperor, and. finally? Avas exiled to Switzerland. Emperor William s domination over Gorman statesmen, diplomats and the high command of the German army Avas emphasized by Dr. Wilhelm Muehlon, a former director of the! Krupp Avorks, the great German mu- nitlons factory-, in his book on "The, Devastation of Europe." In this he nolj only, laid blame upon Germany for bad) faith and criticized, the German army ( for its brutality but asserted that in, the German foreign office "only hej who did the emperor's bidding Avasj alloAved to remain. They could not do belter," he declared, "because of the character, tiie power, the vacillation of and continued interferen.ee by the kaiser." It Avas Dr. Muehlon avIio asserted as-serted the authenticity of the statement state-ment that Emperor William slates all a meeting of German army officers I that he had plenty of prisonei-3 and! that lie hoped the ofilcers Avould see that no more prisoners Avere taken. Maximilian Harden, a German liberal lib-eral leader, declared the German ruler brought on the Avar because of his desire de-sire "for something like Avorld rule." William often proclaimed his innocence, inno-cence, and endeavored to put the onus: of the war on the shoulders of the En-1 tente allies. In his speech from thej throne after the Avar began he said: j "In pursuing its interests the- Rus-( sian empire stepped In the Avar of Austria -Hungary. Our duty as an ally called us to tho side of tho Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary. Tho situation arose not from temporary conilicts of Interests or diplomatic dip-lomatic combinations but is the result of ill-Avill existing for years against the strength and prosperity of the German empire." The emperor,, despite his previous expressions of good will for America gave vent to his anger against tho United' States' Avhen it became eA'identj no official action would be taken to stop the shipment of munitions and supplies to the Entente Allies by declaring de-claring to the American Ambassador James W. Gerard, "I shall stand no . (Continued on Page 9) j Kaiser's Dream Fails j and His Kingdom Falls i I (Continued from Page 1) i nonsense from American after the war." William's designs to spread German i dominion in Asia found expression in his famous visits to Constantinople when he was proclaimed as protector j or the Moslems. In this the world saw j a cunning step toward achievement of I the German ambition of German dbmi-I dbmi-I nation from Berlin to Bagdad. Frledrich Wilhclm Victor Albert was j born January 27. 1859, and became Emperor William II on the death of his ! father. Friederlch III. June 15. 18S8. He came out of the University of Bon fully prepared to cuter tho school of statecraft. Set to work in the government gov-ernment bureaus, he was early taught the routine of official business under , the tutelage of the great Bismarck. At the death of his father, the im-' im-' perial throne devolved upon William II who was then but twenty-nine years of age. Bismarck continued as Chan-I Chan-I cellor but not for long. Though the ; great statesman had made every ef-I ef-I fort to instill his young pupil with his own ideas of government and diplomatic diplo-matic policies, the new emperor soon found that he disagreed with his grandfather's former close adviser in many important respecls. In 1S90 the disagreement of the two men reached a crisis, a rupture came and Bismarck I went. The relations between the two i men remained strained for several years, but before Bismarck died peace was made between them. With the passing of Bismarck the j emperor's real reign began. As a mll-! mll-! ilary man he was a stickler for effl-. effl-. ciency, discipline and the observance of etiquette to tho last detail. And of tho details of all these components of army life and training he was familiar to the smallest point. It is related that during military reviews he was able to detect the slightest imperfection in imc equipment or training oi a regiment regi-ment or squadron and called attention to the dereliction sharply. With the principles of tactics and manoeuvers, too, he was thoroughly acquainted. Besides being well versed in army matters, the emperor wos thoroughly familiar with naval affairs, having a technical mastery of tho details that go to make up the efficiency of a fleeL Study of naval problems was one of his pet occupations. His iufluenco was potent in fostering the development of German commerce, art and science. His Interference In these affairs as well as in statecraft often embarassed German leaders and evoked from them admonitions to leave diplomao to his chancellors. In everything he was described as thorough and, withal, one of the hardest hard-est workers in the empire. His rising ris-ing hour was six o'clock sharp and a long day's Jiard work, which frequently frequent-ly extended v. ell into the night, followed. fol-lowed. Stated hours were devoted to the task of informing himself on the progress of events at home and abroad through reading of the principal Ger-"man Ger-"man and foreign newspapers. Before the war Emperor William often of-ten professed friendliness for America. Ameri-ca. He encouraged tho foundation of exchange professorships by which prominent German educators visited this country aud lectured in the colleges col-leges here while American college professors pro-fessors similarly filled chairs In German Ger-man institutions of learning. lie was an enthusiastic yachtsman and despite his withered arm was able to take personal command of his racing rac-ing yachts, and sail them with considerable consid-erable success. He spent much Hmo at his palatial hunting lodges and is reputed to have been the champion hunter in the world In the point ol game killed. It was stated that the emperor had killed 61,730 pieces ol game, more than -1,000 of which were stags. He was a great reader his private library in tho imperial palace at Berlin Ber-lin before the war was becoming on of the most Interesting collections of books in the world. He posed as a dictator in music, painting, poetry and acting. At one time it was announced that he had composed the libretto of a ballet to be given in celebration of his birthday. A private performance of one of his musical efforts 1s said to have been given in the Potsdam palace pal-ace without notable effect upon the musical world. Physically unimpressive he was short and inclined to stoutness William Wil-liam was fond of being photographed while striking a military posture though taking good care to veil the deformity de-formity of his left arm, a disflgure- ment with which he was born, and of ! which he was extremely sensitive. He blamed his English mother for living a life of self-indulgence and cursed her repeatedly as being responsible for his deformity. No description of the emperor's personal per-sonal appearance will be complete I without mention of his full, bristling i mustache. His photographs, which Iih ; distributed with a lavish hand, showed it with ends twirled up at belligerent ', angles. j He married Augusta Victoria, oldest old-est daughter of Grand Duke Frederick I oi" Schleswig-'Holstein - Sonderburg-j Sonderburg-j Augustenburg on February 27. 18S1. They had six sons and one daughter of whom tho crown Prince Frederick is the eldest. With the crown prince, his father clashed frequently and on one occasion virtually exiled young Frederick to Dantzig but soon recalled him and restored him to favor. Germnn mothers vjfjoj wrote' to the eniparor of the deaths' of Uielr sons killed in battle elicited rrom him no word of sympathy. He regarded their deaths as "glorious," Yet his own six sons, though holding high commands were so protected that the imperial family stood practically alone in all Germany in warding off the clutches of death. j oo |