Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-07 | Page 1 | Imperial Regime Waited Tool Long

IMPERIAL REGIME WAITEDTOO LONG Kaiser Delayed Action to Put Down Revolution Until Whole Cause Was Lost. FEARED DISLOYALTY Entire Army Could Not Be Defended Upon to Fight Civil War. BERLIN, Saturday, April 5. (By the Associated Press) While admitting there was a difference of fighting io maintain the imperial regime in November, No-vember, Count Schulenberg, commander comman-der of a Guars regiment, maintains in an article on the abdication of Emperor Em-peror William published in the Frei-beit Frei-beit that there were enough loyal troops to have marched on Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne and put down the revolution. The count says that Field Marshal von Hindenberg and General Groener, Prussian war minister, minis-ter, would not assume fhe responsibility responsibil-ity for such a move, however, argu- I inrr h -j t V Inffo V, A rrnnn tnrt fnr xTr that only the abdication of former Emperor Em-peror William could save the situation situa-tion The emperor, he says was em-iphatlc em-iphatlc in declaring he did not desire la civil war and that he would not call upon the army to engage in such a I conflict. Internal conditions becoming worse. William at length agreed to Count Schulenberg's advice to abdicate as emperor, but not as king of Prussia. ; Field Marshal von Hindenburg endorsed en-dorsed the course but in the opinion of General Groener it was too late, although al-though it might have saved the situa tion two weeks earlier. In the mean- i time there came rumors from Berlin I Of the imminence of civil war and s'treet fighting was actually begun there Finally the imperial chancel-, lor telegraphed that civil war might break out at an moment if the ubdi- cation was not announced at onces Emperor Holds Hurried Conference Hurries' conferences were held by! 1 1 he emperor, the crown prince and the leading generals, the article says. One I Of the commanders asserted there was .i feeling among the generals th.it the entire army could not be depended, I upon in case of civil war. To this I Count Schulenberg says he replied ' "No soldier would break his oath to the colors." "The (jatJi to the colors and the supreme su-preme war lord is only an idea," was the rejoinder of General Groener. At this moment Admiral von Hintze. the foreign minister, entered with a menacing message from Berlin and tendered his resignation. Wilhelml then consented to abdicate as einper- j or but insisted upon retaining his of- ( fice as king of Trussia and head of the army. The imperial chancelor had In th meantime, however, announced an-nounced the abdication without waiting wait-ing for the emperor'1- formal declaration. declara-tion. HINDENBURG MAKES COMMENT. COPENHAGEN. April 7. A statement state-ment bv Field Marshal von Hindenburg Hinden-burg on the article written by Count Schulenberg, circulated by the semiofficial semi-official Wolff bureau of Berlin, says that the article has "one-sided tendencies tenden-cies and is not objectively correct ' ' It contains material errors and Inaccuracies In-accuracies regarding the views and utterances ut-terances of the persons concerned," tie- statement adds, "and proves that Schulenberg was not. adequately informed in-formed on the real sftuation "