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Return of Soldiers
CMitlnuKl from rare One
Workers." Such councils Indeed nrc lilo.
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iBTirtolsq clnsic?, liming nomenhat re-
atupcfnetlon, nrc
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Ej, to do their best to nld the new Clovern-
k w, , aiviik Kir jjicoci ic j.tn iiin uiuci,
&&.
Many Councils I'lirmliiR
t Today the newspapers tell of n coun-
4bllof the stock exchange men, Including
.mere employes, of n council of aende
mlclqn.'embraclng students and profes
sors alike; of a council of the reformed
Liberal parties , of a cnuncll of Ifcrlln
Employes, h council of gardeners and
peasants, and many others
"Soon we shall hear of n council of
jurdcert or oen a council of abdicated
prlnes," remarks an Irrepressible Jester
But, Joking aside, the Centrist party,
led by, the Archbishop of JIunlch, and
even Conserxntho organizations bae Is.
iued this morning requests to members
to aid the present Omcrnment, lnstlng,
however, that a national contention be
called as soon as possible for the recon
stltutlon of the State This Chancellor
Kbcrt promised, shall bo comtnrd In the
beglnntg of January .
It Is only just to state that the pres
ent Government is extremely fair In
its attitude toward the rmplojcs of
the former regime ltnlng as raiinv as
possible In their old positions Perhaps
too 'many, the extremists claim, since
there Is the danger of laying a lpcr
OH one's own bosom for there cannot
be any doubt that many of the nld offi
cials, especially of the higher rinks,
would rejoice In the failure of the pies,
ent Ooernmcnt, no matter at what cost
to their own countrj
Things Going Smoothly
But, despite all thise tremendous dif
ficulties, things are going astonishingly
smooth, considering the appalling diffi
culties. What seemed the most Inmu - I
dlate danger to the l.bert gou-rnmi-nt, i without me
jmmely, the rupture of he two larger Xe-irU M , Gcrm , ,m ,,,, .,
groups of Socialists whkh support It. prlnt.ellnKS ,,.ll0 1(,8iKllcd Un1y
has hnppllj been molded by their, ,,rlnc0 Wnldeck ! nnont bad to he de
making common cause pose(1 tl(,cauM. he r(1fse( to ,,Rn his
Th? Spnrtncus group, which formed abdication He Is now In the custody of
a small part of the Independent rioci il- , a soldiers' council until he changes In.
lsts, now threatens to secede from It, , ulnil
becauso It Is dissatisfied with the Oo- I
n niacin a conserMitlve pollcv I,ist
night the Spartaeus group c.illed a
little nstonlshmcnt nntl mirth, when they
raced for the first time along the
crowded Uoten Linden (lied Lindens) as
ithat famous street t niler den Linden
that was Is named now '
I Vov IT The fierman peoplo cncc
life curiosity as to the state of
their former rulers, and the prent(?o
ernment, which Is busy with pressing
nuestlois has not found time for con
spiration of Its attitude toward the
future fate of the ex-Knlser and his
family At any rate, this has not et
I been the subject of anv official delibera
tions, anil no memuer or tne (iovernment
I believes himself Justified In making a
statement at present
However, a ery large number of
people reail with great srtlsfnctl'in In
( the newspapers this morning etiae'p
from the Tlmrs's Interview with fcirnu r
mhnssador (lerard There are large
circles here who share C.erard s opinion
and believe the secret archives ought to
I bi searched for evidence ngilnst Wll
helm Ilolienrollcrn and his son
Hnlieninllr rn V omen In Pntsilnm
The e-Knlsers wife win has ob
tained permission In inln his ele, Is
still In the N'eue Pal.tst at Potsdam,
where she vvll have to wait until the
nresent rallwav congestion caused bv
the demobilization permits her de
parture The ex-Crow n Princess and
her children and also the wives of cither
Hohenzollerns Prlncts August Wllhrltn
, and Kltel 1'rledrlch, are with their
mother at Potsdam All are under the
eustodv of the I'otsd-ini Coun.il of Sol
diers and Woikets The n port that the
wife of the cx-KIng of Ilavnrli died
during her HUM from Munich was un
true, she is still alive
Hupprerht the Bavarian i-Crmvr
I'llnci, who his Hot vit i enounced his
right to the thtoiie Is at Hruss, Is, where
he will await the Belgian King who Is
his brother-in-law
The form- King of Snxonv has re
tire 1 to his private iatl n ar Ihesdin
A deputation of the soldlu' council
pressed him to sign the abdication lie
v.ied angrv ' but flnalh signid th
document, saving lhcie vou are, now
don t bother me with jnur busnuss anv
more If vou think vou 11 get on letter
circles, for the pan-German alms. Bui
from other sources, too, ho had dravvti
many millions to be used In corrupting
newspapers' and for other sinister pur
poses. The Bavarian King alone paid
him li.OOft OOO marks to bo used In
popularizing the Idea to embody Alsace
orriilno Ina I.orrnlne-Bnvnrlnn King
dom Perhaps 00 per cent of tho peoplo In
flermnnjv) today demand that ho be
court-martlnllcd for the part ho played
In the t'-boat nnr.
On account of the railway congestion,
i i airplane mall service has been Initi
ated between FranKfurt-on-the-Maln
nnd Berlin, as well as between Berlin
ind Warsaw, Tho first riving mall from
Kiankfurt arrived In Berlin late v ester
lay afternoon
llv HAROLD WILLIAMS
pieial Cable to V.vcmng Public Ledger
dpyriuht, 19IH, hy .rti 1m. Timrtt Co.
(iCltevil, ov 2'i
The rierninn revolution, as seen from
here certulnlv demands a suspension of
ludgment It Is extremelv unllko the
Russian revolution no exultation In
ibertv, no paitkular Indlgnntlon ngilnst
tin authors of the national misfortune
no recognition of the wrong done by
iermany to the world, not the faintest
lgn of national repentance The over
brow of the Of i man monarrhs Is te
ended with Ind iff unci or scarcely
ir cei led itgnt, and tlieie Is no hint of
anv disclosures regarding responsibllltv
en the war, no publication of secret doc
uiri nts
The hostile attitude to the Allies Is
unchanged, or rather Intensified, by the
sonse of humiliation mused bv the con
ditions of the armistice for which we
are apparently consltlertd to bl urn , not
the fierman rulers w hn trii d to vv reel;
civilization The pirsKtcnce of the ar
rogant and exilusive ilermin spirit
umlei the new mndltinns Is mo-t re
ii trkahle
Perhaps when communication is re
stored and the truth comes home, a
more conrlllatorv spirit will appear, but
is vet the revolt has iffMtrd no i hinge
of heart in (brmanv ii tin iIIm ipllne
yof the flermnn pi ople Is rurpr!lng It
nppaiently submits to the new authority
as readily as to tho old and Is only
concerned to adapt Itself to the new
conditions.
Tho prevailing anxiety Is l m"ln
tain order, In lcvv or the dcmobllUatlon
nnd the Bolshevist danger Tho Soviets
if soldiers nnd workmen, though work
ng clumsily, seem on the whole willing
. ..ii in ih maintenance of public
discipline The bouigeolo Is gradually I
recove.-lng from tho shocK nna iormmgi
councils of business nv n olllcinls and
tnlellcctuiW. which seek representation
In the central Soviets
1,'berals are tr Ing to form a united
liberal inrty on a n publican nnd demo
Tat Ic basis and appear to have definitely
broken loose from Ihe conservatives!
who arc orginlzlng apart
The sanctity of private property Is i
belmr rmnhiisized with monotonous ro-!
iteration Capital punishment Is not
ibnllshed nnd a number of marauders t
iv In en shot I
The demobilization Is rather disorder
'v In the reserve di puts and tho Palat-'
inte nnd Baden p irtieularly, are sufTcr- j
ng from the ravages of deserters Tho
lovlets of Co' igne, Colilentz nnd May-'
nee have iMabllshid a, cordon to hold!
,iek the Hood Bavaria, under Kurt '
Isner, seems to be the healthiest pait
f (.ermanv But In Berlin, where Lleb
.necht's agitation among the soldiers
ems to be stronglv Influencing the In- '
lependent Socialists, the situation Is
ilghlv uncertain and recalls certiln
stages of the Ituslan revolution. Schelde
n.inn keeps In the background find will
-ibvlously Jump to the left, If necessary
ivcral Saxon -ov lets are violently,
lolshevll; nnd while the majority of
he Socialists urge a speedv convocation'
f the constituent a-sembl.v. the Inde
pendents nrc inclined to agree with the
extremists, who dimind an Immediate1
llclatorshlp of the proletariat i
It should be noti d that there has not
'urn published a single manifesto from
m.v (lermnn monarch, Including the
Kaiser, announcing ,i f rmal categorical
bdlcatlon It Is absurd to sa there Is
ithlng spontaneous In the Oertnan rovo-
Mtlon, but certainly ,t Is to a large cx-
ent a grudging acknowledgment of the
. tushlng military defeat It 1ms not jet,
however, the impel t of a heartfelt re
antittlon of (lermnn lniprrfallsin, I
meeting to formally separate from its
old associates, but both Its leaders,
lilebknecht and Sarah (Hosa') Luxem
burg:, being absent, no decisive step was
taken? The reason for their absinre
was that a squad of armed men bid In
vaded the Lokal Anzelger s editorial
printing room In order to suppress that
N'ov ID According to the Frank
furter Zcltung, former (Jraml dinlral
von Tlrpitz hns maniged to escape to
Switzerland He left (iermanv verj
quietly short! before tho revolution
broko out and somehow crossed the
Swiss bonier Your correspondent Is
Informed that Von Tirpitz had kit-h
lived at Baden-Baden, whleh phec In
ii.iu icit on tne elay l'rlnce .Max was
paper and publish In its stead tlielr own I appo nted chancellor
organ. Die Bote Fahne They hid done Tlrjiltz came to Berlin where, as
this two days before the revolution, but usu illy ,e stopped at a small hotel In
hnd been persuaded to evacuit- again
Their second ntttempt nlso proved futile,
because tho Socialist printers refused
to work for Die Boto Fahne, and the
,Ebcrt government gave orders this
nbrnlng that they must leave at once or
mb
-take the consequences.
The attitude of this small group Is no '
longer considered dangerous, because
the Council of Soldiers refuses to recog
nize It and It Is losing what little back
ing It had.
With more apprehension, however, the
public and present Government regard
the swrclllng tide of uniformed humanity
Jhat la; beginning to How back from the
-western frontier and has alrendv Inun
dated Westphalia Within a week It
will probably have reached Berlin
Everything imaginable Is being done to
prevent another catastrophe and to lead
.this great llooel Into proper channels,
but the question Is, Will the Impover
ished ami exhausted people and this ter
ribly handicapped Government be able
to accomplish tills To this end supplies
yfiro being scraped together wherever
..".round. Toscivlllaiif. all dlstart travel Is
barred; everj locomotive, everj cai Is
reserved for homecoming soldiers tho
former Grown l'rlnce' palace and the
House of Lords, In which the people's
fate used to be decided, are prepared
for the reception of those who cannot
find room in already overcrowded bar-,
racks and whom the war has deprived
of their own homes Around Cologne
Berlin and other great titles cordons of i
soldiers are being formed to divert the
threatening flood Into harmless channels
if possible.
Xevertheless, everybody's heart Is
heavy, with apprehension of what the
next few dajs may bring
Mnch Done for Municipal Reform
Much, too, has been done for re
form In municipal government In Berlin,
Hamburg arid all other cities. Bvery
where the old form of. election for city
parliaments has been replaced by a
secret, universal ballot In Berlin the
people's new police president, Klchhom,
has abolished the much hated political
branch and also abolished the hated
name of "Schutzman" ("Protector"),
which has been replaced by "Watch
man." The wntchmtn no longer carry sabers,
but go unarmed until they can be fur
nished with rubber clubs Meanwhile
they are aided by members of the coun
cil of soldiers, who are carried through
the streets on autos formerly in the mili
tary serv Ice They carry rifles and ma
chine guns and are the terror of house
breakers and plunderers, with whom
they make very short work.
Considering the circumstances, how
ever, there have been nstontshlnglv few
cases of robbery and similar crimes
Among the autos now employed In pa
trollng the city are some that formerly
belonged to the ex-Kalser, and their
horns, sounding the "Zuetlon Hasecat, '
familiar to all Berllners, created no
the Potsdamerstrassc He was said to
have had sever il interviews with the
ex-Knlser at Castle Bellevue, and It Is
probnbly due to his Influence that the
ex-lvalscr his'talid in signing his ab
dication The last time be was seen at
Number 30 Vlctorlastrasse, the head
quarters of the fatherland party, his ap
pearance had greatly altered The long
flowing whiskers th.lt distinguished him
significantly had been close!) cropped
Tlrpitz had collected enormous fund
especially from the Ilhenlscli industna
Platinum Mountings
The Government again per
mits us to use platinum, and
we aic now prepared to re
model old jewelry into mod
ern platinum mountings.
Our skill in this work is un
excelled and our suggestions
original. Designs and esti
mates cheerfully submitted.
S. Kind & Sons, mo chestnut st.
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