GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1918, Page 1

GERMANY WITHIN.

■— rAUSTRALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] (GERMAN NEWS. COPENHAGEN, Nov 3. The “National Tidendc’s” Berlin correspondent states the German people will probably be asked to declare then wishes of the Kaiser’s future. “Germania” says the Kaiser is pledged to them most, drastic domestic reports. The Kaiser’s power will be analogous to King George’s. A INDICATION CREDITED. PARIS, November 3. News from diplomatic and military sources shows they agreed the Kaiser signed an act of abdication before an assembly of the Confederated German Princes in Berlin on Wednesday. The announcement was delayed, not only because of its effect on the public but owing to possible divergent views relative to the succession. 'llic assembly did not admit that if the Kaiser abdicated, the "HolionzolJerns should retain the Crown. PESSIMISM 'IN GERMANY. LONDON November 3. Renter’s correspondent at French Headquarters says: A captured German officer states the Kaiser is su«rounded by a crowd of pessimists of the Cbiedmaim type, who constantly point the situation in the blackest, colours. The Kaiser spends whole days in a crisis of pessimism, reading the biblo and praying. The same spirit of pessimism seems to have seized the whole of Germany, and the people want peace, immediately at any price. The order of the day throughout south Germany is. “Break away from Prussia.” The officer, however, emphatically declared the German armies are not beatien. He opined that they still will be able to obtain a favourable peace. ABDICATION OPPOSED. COPENHAGEN, November 3. Tn order to maintain the unity of the German Empire, most of the Reichstag Parties now oppose the Kaiser s abdication. Some of the Socialists also oppose the leaders. Schiedmaini’s, demand for abdications. The “Lokal Anzoiger” of Berlin, says: The Reichstag parties do not support- Scbiedmann’s demand for the Kaiser abdication. The Centre Party has decided that the Kaiser and the Holicnzollern dynasty must remain as energetic symbols of Germany’s unity. Otherwise the Empire’s downfall would immediately ensue. A forced abdication would be equivalent to the establishment of a Republic. Only a small section of the Liberal People s Party favour abdication. The South German Socialists, particularly those of Baden, oppose Sehiedmann’s demand. A KAISER DECREE. AMSTERDAM. November 3. On the occasion of the German Constitutional reforms coming into force the Kaiser issued a decree endorsing the decisions of the Reichstag, and avowing his determination to eo-oporate in the full development of the reforms adopted. GERMANY’S FLEET. LONDON. Nov. 8. Some newspapers are discussing the possibility of tlie German Fleet coming out. Some writers consider the concentration of the submarines indicates important activities. Commander Bellnrcs states Germany mav act before tbo ' ul-u Fleet is released from duty’ in the Mediterranean. Another writer says the bulk of Germany’s ono hundred and fifty submarines are already back at their bases for a possible naval sortie. When these were returning they’ avoided British ships. Archibald Hurd believes a Black Sea naval battle improbable, owing to the Allies great superiority. Other writers estimate Germany’s Black Sea. Navy consists of the Goeben, two or three cruisers, a dozen destroyers. and seven or more submarines. GERMAN INTENTIONS. LONDON, Nov. 3. The “Weekly Dispatch” Hague correspondent says: “Well informed neutrals from Berlin report a general expectation that Germany will throw all her power into a great fight before accepting dictated terms. Though the uselessness.of such a step'is recognised, a dread of civil war and Bolshevism overshadows everything. Many cling to Kaiserdom as the only hope of avoid ing chaos.” KAISER AND REFORMS. (Received This Day at 8.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, November 4. The Kaiser in ratifying the Reform Act, says the old period of inherited an thority, bad made Germany’s wai efforts possible but the aspiring populai forces may now justly claim fuller pow ors. The Kaiser’s duty was to serv< the people and he will co-operate ii the new system, hoping to win a hriglr future for Germany. A GERMAN PROPOSAL. NO LIKING FOR REPRISALS. 'ReeeiroA TliG Dav at 9.3 U« m • i AMSTERDAM November 4. A Berlin correspondent states Gci many, through Swiss Government ha proposed to the other belligerents tli I cessation of aerial attacks on the ref zone, on the ground of humanity ,an preservation of monuments of eivilisi tiou. It says that German aviator wore ordered to cease attacks at tl beginning of October.. GERMAN RECRTMTNATIOjL (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 8. Recriminations are raging in Ge many in regard to handling the r finest for an armistice. Pan-Germai assailed twelve nonentities in the Cabi et for sheltering behind a letter whi admittedly General Lndondorff wrot demanding armistice negotiation Lndendorff’s friends excuse the lett on the ground that he was always su ject to extremes of optimims or pes mism. and became a nervous wreck f ter the second Battle of the Marne, l peatedly being sick. Pan-Germans a placarding General Hindenburg’s opi ion that the German armies are keepi: in close touch, and the Fatherland u be able to hold out, and even eventha take the