Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-04 | Page 9 | Berlin Confirms New Chancellor

i Prince Maximilian and Several Socialists Selected to Bolster I Up Next Peace Campaign. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 4. Prince Maxl- milian of Baden has been appointed German chancellor, says an official announcement an-nouncement received from Berlin. 1 Deputies Groeber, Wentrist and Scheldeniann, majority Soclal-Derao- W crat, have been made secretaries of M stato without portfolios. Iiue ouiciai suuement adds also that Prince Maximilian has been named Prussian foreign secretary. He will announce an-nounce his program at a full meeting of tho reichstag, October 5. Official announcement of the ap- pointment of Prince Maximilian of Baden as imporial chancellor confirms newspaper reports to the same effect emanating from Germany in the last few days. He has been known as a moderate in Gorman politics. His wife is related to the British royal family. Adolph Broeber Is one of the lead-era lead-era of the Social -Democratic party in tho reichstag. Recently, before the man committee of the reichstag attacked at-tacked Count von Hertling, the leader of tho Centrists. In the reichstag in! March, 1918, he defended Germany's method of making peace with Russia ! at Brest-LItovsk. Philipp Scheidemann is vice-president of the reichstag and a leader of the majority Social -Democrats. He has been a consistent supporter of Germany's foreign policies, t Scheidemann has been called a tool of the Pan-Germans.