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Show Emperor Must Abdicate Very Soon Says Press BASEL. Nov. 8. The abdication of Emperor William and the renunciation of the throne by Crown Prince Frederick Fred-erick William, before noon today, were demanded in an ultimatum sent by the managing committee of the German socialist party at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon lo Prince Maximilian of Baden, the imperial chancellor, according ac-cording to the Correspondence Social -istc, the ofllcial organ oLJhe Socialist party of Germany. The managing committee of the Socialist party considered the entire political situation and its decisions were embodied in the ultimatum which Philipp Scheldemann. socialist member mem-ber of the German cabinet without portfolio, sent to Chancellor Maximilian. Maximil-ian. These decisions were: First: The right of public assembly. assem-bly. Second: The military -and police must be ordered to exercise great reserve. re-serve. Third: The immediate transformation transforma-tion of the Prussian government in conformity with the views of the majority ma-jority in the reichstag! Fourth: Greater socialist Influence in the reichstag. Fifth: The abdication of Emperor William and the renunciation of the throne by the crown prince. The imperial chancellor was asked to reply before noon today, accepting the conditions. Otherwise, the socialist social-ist declared they would withdraw from the government. BASEL, Nov. S The Berlin Gazette announces the Inter-Party committee of the reichstag has taken no decision respecting the question of the abdication abdica-tion of the German emperor, but that j the majority recognizes the imperious; necessity of an early solution of the problem. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 8 Emperor William of Germany has declined to accede to the demands that he abdi- , cate, says a German wireless dispatch picked up here tonight. To the ultimatum of the Socialists ; the emperor replied through Minister" of the Interior Drews that he refused to abdicate voluntarily on the ground , that he could not at the moment of peace undertake the terrible responsibility responsi-bility of handing over Germany to the entente and delivering up the country to anarchy. |