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* -XXXVI I- No. 24S 12 PAGES °"S.SSS*S! JfJlSit S®Tl." RK&S'" HARRISBURG. PA.. SATURDAY EVENING. NOV KM HER V. 1918 'WcW NIGHT EXTRA '
KAISER ABDICATES AS
DEFEA 7 OF HIS ARMY
GROWS TO DISASTER
Uream of World j
Dominion That
Started War Is
Forever Gone
PARIS, November 9. 6:15 P.M.
Ihe abdiction of Emperor Will am is
officially announced from Basel.
London, Nov. 9.- - A German wireless message
received in London this afternoon staes:
"The German Imperial Chancellor, Prince
Max of Baden, has issued the fololwing degree:
y " 'The Kaiser and King has decided to re
nounce the throne. The Imperial Chancellor will j
remain in office until the questions connected
with the abdication of the Kaiser, the / enouncing
by th Crown Prince of the throne of the German
empire and of Prussia and the setting up of a
regency have been settled.
"'For the rcgrnrv In- intends to appoint Depute F.hort as:
imperial chancellor and lie propose*. ili;i' .1 hill -li• 11 l>e brought.!
in for tin- ("itahlislinio.it of a law providing for the immediate
promulgation •>I general suffrage and for a constitutional ' icrmau .
national assenihlv. which will -ettle Imallv ihe future of form "p
government of the < lerman nation and of those peo|)les which j
might h.. desirous of coining within the empire.
*' llerlin, N'.nemher r K I'MS."
"the Imperial Chancellor."
\ nt of world dominion obsess
ng 110- mind of Kni po mr William j
plunged H<*' world inl• • war. I'poii
ami 11 ml the tremendous military <*n- i
(• 111- i.r |||-|| notion of which he was!
|lii> ••nili.-lini. nl, till' exponent ami III*.
eailci renin the responsibility of •
iliiiriilrtv planning ami bring about ■
lie greatest conflict the wot hi has j
It iliil mil mailer In llm win lit '
.but I>••• Kinperor's personal in
lie mviff events immediately pre- ,
■ ding fin \iar huil In-en nlnfcured.
"lie world convicted hiin of organisi
ng. diris-ting "nil maintaining at the,
• •!• notch of elfieiencv the ureal Gor- i
nan mllitari machine. It remember- '
•ii 1 tin I hi- sign-sl llin order for Ihi- !
ji-riiinn moliili/atinn. It rewemhcreil i
hat In' aio.nl anon nor for tin terror- i
mil noil brlgnitdtigc which, under the i
• llae of warfare, ravished lU'lgiuni, i
a d waste lh< cities of Krauce, de
populated ami outia gel Serbia and i
ienl the l.iisllania with her freight:
it women and children to gruvo in '
lie Atlanta .
Miniiiio Kill I'tililh < nvrll
<*i\ jli/.at ion u ill nevei forget that 1
T WHS the minions of the Kuipernr j
villi offieiall' shot to death Kdit.li ,
ravell. the ICnglish girl who befriend
il the Belgians in Itrussels
Against these his civ I did nol will !
he war" availed as nothing He fore |
In- loir of hnmaniiy William was ad
udged guilty of the greatest crime j
Ince the crueifixion. In him human- J
tv saw the Inst of the autocrats, the i
itinl Car-sal Assertions that he was!
•.t healt peaceful, so persistently eir-[
ulateil foi years as to give litem]
lie stamp of German propaganda, be
ame branded as certainly false. He i
vho had long proclaimed himself the
irinee of peace stood revealed as hu- !
nanity's scourge, and against him 1
ml all that lie represented rose the I
IOW world of democracy and freedom, j
Many doubt whether William was ;
ilttirol.v sane. He said repeatedly that !
IO possessed a divine mandate to
tile that tiie Almighty was his "un- 1
onditionui and avowed ally." It is ,
mt entirely clear whether such out
fivings were the product of a disor- 1
(••red bruin or were due to unhouml- I
•I egotism and an effort to impress '
lis subjects with the idea of reverent j
m rid unquestioning His j
w peachy to his arnn.-s in which he i
i.-sertetj lie and they were "instru
lients of divine judgment upon Ger- •
nany's enemies" were regarded by
tiany outside of Germany as piece's !
if rhetoric, intended only to deceive '
lis own people.
I lain.S \fflnity With fiod
William's claim to close affinity ,
ritli God was the burden of dozen's i
if his speeches long before as well
is after the beginning of the war. i
)f these, perhaps, none more clearly j
leflned his claim that his notorious
•divine righth" speech delivered at
irandenliurg in 1890. In which lie said I
ie regarded the German people as "a i
•esponsibility" conferred upon him I
- God and that it was "my duty to
ncrease this heritage for which one
lay I shall he called upon to give
iccnunl. Those who try to Interfere
srlth my task I shall crush."
In all this the world saw before
he war not a menace but a eomedv
t laughed with the then Captafn I
loseph B. t'oghlan of the Cnited
Maus Navy when, returning from
J-e war with Spain and telling of th
f clash llit- commander of the Gel -
| 111.11 l siphidrun ill Manila Bay. the
! i uptaiii ic-.iieil tlu- famous poem.
11...h Iter Kiiiaei." In this the mm
• eluding refrain was. in the supposi-
I til.ll.- wonts I.f the Kmperor
'Gotl imlls mil tin.' —and I not him
MIiINSKM-"—L*nd Gott
l-Vw statesmen tializtd then that
tie deluded Kmperor in his shining
arm.ii, inanucuvermg his armies and
: Iris fleets. building up the German
'military system, cementing the l>n
-1 trill Kmpires and Turkey, and foslei •
i ing the iiri ni hing of the supremacy
i.f autocracy was erecting a machine
i that one day would make war upon
all civilization.
World llnil lleeil W iirneil
, Vet tin- world was warned by some
i-far-signied men that the Km pel or
would one iluv bring catastrophe upon
i the nations. These men saw in Him
then and see him now as a mad in
, veil tor given in his youth the most
dangerous of all toys his ariny and
na v.\ They w ere his playthings, lie
! developed them throughout the i ears
, to the point where lie had to put them
to a test l.ike a crazed inventor,
ne t.arril the end of his reign would
tind his inventions untried: so grasp- j
ed the lirst opportunity to wage a '
world wur. |
Meantime the German war party
grew with William as its head, and I
' the scheme of world dominion await- I
cd the hour to begin its attainment !
i it came with the assassination of the j
i Austrian Archduke. Pruncis I'erdin- ;
• ami. and his wife at i-arajevo.
i Recalled from a yachting trip, Wil
i liain presided at a conference at !
I Pot ad ant of representatives of the •
: German and Austrian armies, navies i
'and commercial interests. There, ac- •
(cording to the host information ob- |
1 tainable. tlie decision was reached to
. make the assassination of the Arch
duke a pretense for tlie world war i
| for which Germany had long pre- i
i pared. *
Driven to W nr. lie Sny
In tlie diplomatic exchanges be
tween Germany and Austria on one
side and Great Britain, l-'iaiu - and
Russia on the other William posed
as one wishing for pearg but driven to
war. He signed tlie order iar the
j mobilization of the German nrmv ana
; from that moment war was inevitable
j Thereafter he drove on Ins armies
• relentlessly in the mad campaigns for
j victory, encouraging .yheni with every
! device and sometimes appearing on
, the front to be prucluimeil as p. i.unat
. commander in a great offensive
! Publication of the Willy-Nicky
correspondence In 1H, plated tlie j
German Kmperor in tiie light of an i
j unscrupulous plr.tter. The telegrams .
I disclosed that Kmperor William had •
j induced Emptor Nicholas of Russia
, to sign a teciet agreement to which '
i lie was to force the adherence of!
, ir ranee in the porfeclon of an offen- '
isive and defensive ailiame agninst i
England. The treaty was discovered 1
and lepudlated by a Russian minis-'
ter.
I K " ' I ure England
•Jailing in his attempt, the German
! Emperor set upon hims-lf. the task I
of drawing Knglund to his side
against Prance and Russia. How 1
well he though he had succeeded in !
this may lie gathered from a letter
he wrote to President Wilson in 19U I
in which he said King Georg.- had 1
promised Prince llenrv ..f Pi ussfa 1
•on July 28, 1914 that England would!
remain neutral in u war involving
| Russia" 1 ' 01 PoWers w,th aSS j
ERSTWHILE KAISER "BILL"
The ' iceman 'butcher whos epower fur evil the Allies have
; stripped awayi
INVADING ARMY TO
BE PUSHED OUT OF
FRANCE BY NIGI IT
British, French and American Ar\.lies
Breaking Grip of Enemy on Last Bit
of trench Soil by Hard Blows
While the German government is
considei ing the Allied armistice
terms, the British. French and
American armies are carrying on ;
successfully the task of freeing :
French soil from the invader.
On the north the British nave cap- 4
tured the fortress of Maubeuge and j
dnven the Germans back into Bel
gium in the region between Mau
beuge and Mons. Along the Scheldt
In Belgium where the British hold
part of Totirnai, Field Marshal ;
Haig's men have crossed the river on
a nine-mile front north of Tournai. j
French Strike ll:trl
General Petaln's armies, who hold
the center of the Allied advance con
tinue their march toward the Bel- ,
gian frontier south of Maubeuge.
The French have driven the Ger
mans from nearly all the natural de- |
tenses west of the Franco-Belgian j
border and 11 their advance main- 1
tains the pace of the last few days. '
288 DRAFTEES TO
LEAVE FOR CAMPS;
GO NEXT WEEK
140 Harrisburg Registrants Go
to Camps Meade, Crane
and Greenlcaf
Two hundred and eighty-eight i
men from Harrisburg and Dauphin
county will leave for three camps in
the five-day draft movements begin- :
mng Monday. Prom the city, 7u men I
will go to Camp Greenleaf, L.vtle. .
Ga.; 27 to Camp Meade. Admiral, !
Md., and 43 to Camp Crane. Allen
[Continued on I'age 2.]
THE WEATHER
Knr Marrlahum and vlrlaltyt tn
arttled. pruhahly occiiMlonnl
lluhl mine thin alteration, (o
nlKhi and Sunday) colder Sun
day.
■> the French should reach the border
j at same point before nightfall.
Fast of the Meuse. on the Allied
I right, the American troops are ad
; vancing toward Montmedv and the
j Briey iron fields. The forward move
i ment is on a front north and south
t of Dantvillers. Farther north toward
i Sedan there has been only artillery
. and machine gun lighting.
Kaiser Hangs On
Reports from Germany are that
! the revolutionary movements con
; tinue to spread, especially In the
; northwest.
Emperor William, while refusing
I to aiidicatc, also has asked Prince
Max, the chancellor, to retain ottlce
until the emperor reached a decision
\ on ni tu:ure course. Apparently the
! emperoi fears the reaction that
; might result should ihe chancellor be
permitted to resign while the urun
| slice conditions are undei considera
tion and the uovcrnment be left
' without a head.
ASH COLLECTION
CONTRACT TO BE
LET BY THE CITY
Hasslcr Says Present System
Satisfactory Although
• Slow
! Council will be asked in a week
or two to take acMon to provide for
, ash collections next year. Comniis-
I sioner S. F. Hasslei sulcf to-day. The
| present ameement with a private
| company ends December 31 and a
contract must be arranged or some
other method decided upon to pie
I vent a repetition ot the conditions
1 which ex sted in the cl<y last win
; ler
j According to Dr. Hussler bids roi
, collection 01 aslies and refuse will
I be asked before lhe end of the pres
ent month. The preaenl urrunge
[ Continued on I'age 2.]
KAISER'S ANSWER
TO ARMISTICE IS
TO ARRIVE SOON
Heavy Censorship Placed On
Terms of Armistice by
All Countries
Ir'REwCH EXPECT GERMANY 10 j
SO AR-ND-R BEFORE HOURSE'I 1
i
Ha AiMtattil I'tesi
Paris, Nov. 9.—5.45 A. M.—Germany will
capitulate between now and Monday. French I
1 opinion is unanimous in this view .
! Germany's answer to tjie Allied terms for an armistice : s not
i expected to reach Marshal FoCh's headquarters until the middle
:of this (Saturday) atternoon, at the very earliest. The courier
left tor Spa. the German headquarters immediately after the terms
were delivered and the enemy had been given 72 hours in wnich
to send his answer.
Details of Armistice Withheld
hew details of the term* have hecn divulged, nor have ativ ol ]
the diaiuattc elements ut the scene at the Allied dcommander-in-
J chief's headt|Uarters been repotted Nothing hut the bn-iest
dispatches have told ol an event the consequences of which will
affect the whole subsequent lustoiy o( civilization.
Havana lias been declared a republic and the Wittebhacli
dynasty, headed by King Ludvvig 111, is deposed. Emperor Wil-
I liam s abdication has heen demanded hy the Socialists, but h.is I
; been met with rclusal front the emperor who tears to quit office
] at such a critical juncture in ilie histoiy of (iertueny.
Ihe revolution is seemingly rapidly spreading through the
great industrial and mart time cities ol Prussia, Essen, the site
'jot the gieat hiupp munition works, being the latest place reported
i to be disaffected.
Prince Henry ol Prussia, the emperor's brother, who visited
j.\i. erica in has l lev. iroui Kiel under fire troni mutinous
i!guards
Prince Max, of Baden, the German chancellor, is reported to
i nave resigned, Put the lias ueen no acceptance ol Ins resignation.
1 Prince ,\iax, it is indicated, to-day will communicate the terms
i il .the armistice to a committee ol Reichstag party leaders.
\ irtually all . North Sea coast and part of the Baltic
uttorai now is in tlu ii-nds ol the revolutionists.
Entire German Empire in Peril
Not only has ihc German army been crushed in the nravv of
>i ,v;.r, but the whole ucture ol the German empire seems about
, j ,o be engulled.
Conditions in Austrja apparently are in a wildly chaotic
condition.
Bolsi.evk resistance in Eastern Siberia seems to be broken,
j'l ot.io announces.
Paris, Nov. 9.—Germany's armistice delegates were received;
; by Marshal Koch yesterday morning at nine o'clock in a railroad!
j car, in which the corumander-iii-chiel of ihe Allied forces has his
; headquarters accotding to the Petit Journal. When the Ger-!
•nans' credentials had been opened and verified, Maihias Erz-J
I betgei, i- ader ot the enemy delegation, ipeaking in French, an-J
j notinced that the German government had iieen advised l>v Presi
dent Wilson that Marshal Koch was qualified to communicate to
! them ihe Allies" conditions and had appointed them plenipoten-1
tiaries to take cognizance of the ernts and eventually sign an
j armistice.
i Realize German Defeat
j Marshal Koch then made the tenns in a loud voice.' dwelling i
upon each word. The Germans were prepared hy semi-official;
communications for the stipulations, as a whole, hilt hearing set'
forth in detail the concrete demands semcd to bring to them for
the first time lull realization ol the extern ol the German defeat, j
I hey made a lew observations, mciely pointing out material
difficulties standing in the way of carrying, mil some quite sec
-1 ondaiy clau.es. Then Krzhcrger asked loi a suspension of hos
tilities in the interests ol humanity. This request Marshal Koch
! flatly refused.
' •
Foch Advices Clemenceau
I lie delegates, having obtained pet mission to send a courier j
to Spa and communicate with thai place by wireless, withdrew'
Marshal Koch immediately, wrote an a. count ul the proceedings!
and sent them by an aid to Premiei (. lenienceau. who received)
. them ai noon.
' Ihe German delegates are lodged m a country mansion atj
Relhoiides, si> miles ea-i ol Coinpiegue and thirty miles Irom
: Marshal Koch's headquai lets. . 1
With the coniniamlei-in-chief ai ihe nnie of the interview
were Major General Maximime Weygand, his assistant; and Vice
l Continued on I'agu g.]
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