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Show PRINCE MAXIMILIAN NAMED IMPERIAL GERMAN CHANCELLOR Heir to Throne of Grand Duchy of Baden and Leader of Ger man Moderates Is Advocate of Anglo-Saxon Peace and Is Called to Do His Best to Stabilize JH German Situation. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 3. Prlnco Maxl- mllian of Baden has been named Ger-j man imperial chancciror, according to the Zeitung Am Mittig of Berlin. A council meeting took place at the chancellor's palace in Berlin last evening, eve-ning, according to advices received here. Emperor William presided and j the meeting was attended by Field Marshal von Hindenburg who had come to Berlin with the emperor. Former For-mer Chancellor von. Hertling, Vice Chancellor von Payer and several ate .secretaries were in attendance. Prince Maximilian is heir to tho throne of the Grand Duchy of Baden. He. was born July 10, 1S67. For some years ho has been recognized as the I leader of the Delbruck group of Ger- flH man Moderates and upon the fall of- ''jH Imperial Chancellor Michaelis, Noveni- !iH ber 1, 1917, he was put forward as the i'jH Moderates' candidate for the chancel- lorshlp. His name, however, did not mH go before the emperor as Prlnco Mar- imilian objected to dynastic reasons. IH Earlier in the present year Prince jH Maximilian gave a semi-official review ijH in which ho outlined his vews on Ger- f manv's peace terms. His statement SH was "a rude shock to the Pan-Germans ijlH in that he advocated the abandonment MH of German plans of conquest. He ad- vocated an Anglo-Saxon peace, in which the Gorman empire must serve tH as a bulwark in protecting the west- JH on Prince Maximilian Named Imperial German Chancellor (Continued from Page 1) ern nations from the spread of Rus-1 sian Bolshevikism. His mother was former Princess Ma-' rie, Duchess of Brunswick-Lunenburg and bears the title of princess royal of Great Britain and Ireland. Prince Maximilian of Baden has ; Oeen named German imperial chancel- lor. It is reported from Amsterdam. 1 Prince Maximilian is a man about whom tho anti-militaristic elements of the empire may gather in an effort to bring about peace. Wtlh their lines broken in many places and held to-jgelher to-jgelher only by superhuman efforts at nearly every point in the active sectors sec-tors from the North sea to Verdun, the Germans appear to have reached the limit of thoir endurance and are beginning begin-ning "to retreat. Outflanked and imperiled by the advance ad-vance of the Anglo-Belgian armies east ' of Ypros, the enemy is now rapidly retiring re-tiring from the La Bassee sector.. It ' is reported that Menin and Roulers are ' burning, that the Belgians are within two miles of Turcolng and that Lille is being emptied of its civilian nonuia- tion. Around St. Quentin the fighting continues con-tinues but it has taken on the aspect of a rear guard engagement. Near Rheims tho Germans are dropping back before the advance of General Berthelot'g army. In Champagne the enemy is slowly giving ground as General Gen-eral Gouraud moves northward. In the Belgian sector the situation is seemingly most critical for the Germans. Ger-mans. This retirement from La Bassee Bas-see would appear to make necessary the abandonment of the district of Lens to which the enemy has clung ' with persistence since 1914. if Lille I ako falls the whole German line for a I long distance southward may bo rolled up, If there is not a prompt re-location ' of the enemy's forces. There are re-1 ports of tho Germans moving their heavy guns back from the western Flanders' coast and rumors come from Holland that the whole coast may bo evacuated. British, American and French forces soem to have definitely broken the Hindenburg line between La Catelet and SL Quentin. They arc across tho Sommc river, which was the strongest line of defense In this sector. Ahead of them is rolling country over which vim '"Uh iu ujiun wanare and then comes the Oise river with its lino of railroads which affords tho only direct di-rect means of escape for the Germans holding tho front from-La Fere south- ward to the Ailette. Before the Olsc lis reached tho Germans must either i bring greater power into the line or ' must hurry forces out of the St Go-bain Go-bain sector to avoid envelopment' North of Rheims the French threaten threat-en to reach tho open country Thev have carried the hill positions which afforded excellent defensive positions and seem ready to bound forward across the lowlands to the east of the Aisne canal. If they succeed in car-rying car-rying out tills drive they Wiu compel the enemy to the west and east of them to retreat. fh!V ?hamPaene and the Argonne wrt o ?h aml AmerIcana are fighting hard and progress seems to be verv slow but the strategy of Marshal Foch saw that the drive north of Rheims ?rWv55uea? CISC rC,atin Vm thnt |