| Show K I 1 er W I 1 ab to cate 21 9 9 mills am E feat WHEN ilu MINE 11 MEET german emperor vacates throne thron e and seeks sanctuary in holland when peace terms are submitted paris the expected lins has happened william german clisper emperor and king of prussia lins has abdi abdicated catel ile he Is now in 1 10 holland iland where lie hoefs S th that it it lie may be safe front from his L enemies s and escape the he it that ile he justly deserves the crown prince has renounced the alie throne and a regency will be set up this declaration is made in ili a decree issue issued it at berlin by the gennin imperial chancellor prince of baden prince maximilian will hold ia office until mutters matters connected with tile the abdication of tile the emperor are settled and friedrich ebert vice alce president t jf bt tile social democratic party will replace him as chancellor cliance llor during the regency thirty years and almost five months after he ascended the imperial throne william ills his armies defeated in ili the field forced to sue for armistice terms and the german people rising in revolt gives up lip his power he came into authority with his country at the threshold of an era of peace and material progress it he e leaves it torn by revolution and suffering stiff from alie ti ie hardships and sacrifices oh more than four years of war virtually ruined ernest august duke of brunswick r pon on ln in law of the emperor also lia has abdicated all and renounced the alie rights of his heir with the passing from power of william all the be heads ads of the governments of the central powers when they entered the war have died or lost their thrones emperor francis joseph and uie the sultan of turkey died before their countries agreed to allied armistice terms and ferdinand of bulgaria abdicated to be succeeded by his son who gave up the throne when liis his people rose against lihn him the other european emperor at the beginning of the w war ar I 1 nicholas romanoff ivas was deposed in march 1917 and murdered in july 1918 the german imperial chancellor prince max mas of baden issued the alie following decree on november 9 the 1 miser kaiser and king has decided to renounce the throne the imperial chancellor cliance llor will remain in ili office until the situation connected with the abdication of the kalser kaiser the renouncing by the german crown prince of the throne of the german empire and of prussia and the setting up of a regency have been settled 0 for the regency he intends to appoint deputy ebert as imperial alian chancellor and lie he proposes that a bill shall be brought in for the of a law providing for the immediate promulgation mul gation of general suffrage and for a constitutional german n national dit ional assembly which will settle finally the future X the em emperor germany began the war and now sues for peace accepting the terms submitted by the allies form of government of the german nation find and of those people which might light be desirous of coming within the tha empire pire deputy ebert who ne according cording to the german wireless message is to be appointed imperial Imperl nl chancellor Is friedrich ebert vice pres president beut deut of the main committee of eberts Elief ts election to the ilin latter oace in ill june julie of tills this year wax wag taken laken to mean at tile the tittle time that the socialist 1111 minority bority iu in the had either been reclaimed by the military government or that tile socialists had gained the later events have proved that tile the socialists cia lists were vere in the saddle ebert quite recently declared in ill the reichstag that the german people would no longer permit themselves to be without the right to decide their fate it was lie who informed tile reichstag of the release of dr liebknecht A telegram received from copenhagen from brunswick Brunsw lck by way of berlin asserts that emperor williams son inlaw in law the duke of brunswick Brunsw lck and his successor buc cessor have abdicated unlike his grandfather who he shielded himself behind ili hiis chancellor cliance llor the former emperor of germany whose all ab DAVID LLOYD GEORGE e i 4 david lloyd george british premier who has always been optimistic as to the outcome of the war di cation was announced november 0 has always insisted upon making him scalf elf the center of alic thc deb debatis ites tn in thc jhc reichstag and among his people born with a lust for military life imbued with an obsession of arms lie he was a vain theatrical youth consumed with a desire to leap into the center of things and win for germany and himself a martial glory with full stage effect his one great desire has been to emulate the example of frederick k the great his ancestor and carry glory before him with a drawn sword the kaiser is ig a man inan of rapid impulses and abd these often canie near involving germany in serious difficulties his dream of world domination plunged the world into war in 1011 L upon him and the tremendous military engine of des destruction traction of which lie he was ans the embodiment the exponent and the leader rests the responsibility of deliberately planning and bringing about the greatest conflict the world has ever seen it did not matter to the world that the emperors share in the swift events immediately preceding the war had been obscured the world convicted him of 0 organizing directing and maintaining at the top notch of efficiency the gre great it german military machine it will be remembered that lie he signed the alie order for the german mobilization and lie he stood stood sponsor for the terrorism and brigandage which under the guise of warfare lavished ravished ravi shed belgium laid waste the cities of france populated depopulated de and devastated dava stated servia and slink sank the alie lust j tania with the freight of oc women and children to a grave in the Adap tic civilization will never forget that thai it was the minions ot the former emperor who shot to death the nur nurse c who befriended the belgians in brussels GEORGES clemenceau ANN premier clemenceau Clemenc cau of france has been a tower of strength in up upholding bolding the morale in france during the dark years of the past |
