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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1918, Page 3

GENERAL COMMENT. INSURRECTION SPREADING. (United Service' Telegrams). LONDON, Nov 10. No 0110 doubts that the Kaiser’s abdication moans the end of the war. Whether it will save Germany from a mU- ( ricidal conflict, perhaps bloodier for months than anything in the past, dopends on tho Crown Prince s part} > which with everything to lose by a revolution. urges a final bid for the Army’s support. A dark pall of tragic events overlings the defeated country. The army is breaking and fleeing, abandoning guns and supplies. ... , Insurrection is overwhelming tne western and southern territories. It is almost bloodless and orderly. According to the leaders proclamation, they loathe bloodshed and ordain a scaled xespect for human life, but a tempestuous feeling concerning Royalties is abroad. Revolutionaries have seized Cologne, from which they are gradually spreading through the Rliine-land. Reports came that Landsturmers arc standing to their arms. Their commanders have still some authority, but the flame is like a consuming bush fire. Brunswick has gone and Madgeburg appears , to be going. A Soviet is established, but the” garrison is remaining Royalist. - The Soviets rule throughout the Indus- } trial districts. i The methods of rising are always similar. Royalists declaring a secret Bolshevik organisation is working through the Russian embassador Joffc, who has been smuggling arms and plan

ning this celebration for the anniversary of Lenin’s coup d’etat. The real centres remain at Kiel, and Hamburg, whence trains, crowded with soldiers, and sailors go to Occupy tho traffic centres of selected cities, removing the local authorities. Copenhagen reports that Dutch residents in Germany are hastily departing. The garrison at Oldenburg remained neutral whilst a Socialist deputy led. a great demonstration, arising like a mushroom, through the city and proclaimed the Soviet. Perfect orderliness prevailed. Considerable fighting occurred at. Hamburg where harsh discipline was imposed by the Soviet announcing that, anv one abroad during the dark would be shot. A similar fate was ordered for those found bearing arms. Extraordinary quiet marked the rising in Hanover. The military commanders wer seized but no excesses were committed. Members of the Reichstag are admonishing the crow'ds. WHY KAISER WENT j LONDON November 10'. It seems unlikely that Marshal Foch s terms had reached the Kaiser before he decided to abdicate. The London newspapers opine that., the abdication was influenced softly by the internal turmoil and the Socialists ultimatum. ■ The Crown Prince’s sou William (12 years old), is next in the order of sUc- J cession, but a Repnblie may come. , In many quarters it is considered that- the Regency may soon make room | for a Republic. J

FUGITIVES IN HOLLAND. J LONDON November 10. 1 Tho “Daily Telegraph’s” Rotterdam | correspondent states: The ex-Kaiser | and the ex-Crown Prince have reach- | ed the Dutch frontier in motor cars | and they are at present awaiting the permission of the Dutch Government | t'o proceed to Meddachment where Count | Bentinck has offered them a castle. j GERMAN NOBILITY FRANTIC. j COPENHAGEN November 10. | Everywhere the German nobility are | panicky and are taking flight. Some- J times they are disguised. J Count Reventlow has escaped across j the border. Subsequently, when in- | terviewed, he declared that the situ a- j tion would become worse when the sol- ; diers returned from the front. , The majority of the Prussian State j Ministry has resigned. j The Oommnjndant of Brandenburg . lias resigned on finding his order pm- | hibiting the Soviets contemptuously dis- J regarded. j Generally the officers are permitted j to retain their swords and epaulettes ’ and to remain in command of the soldiers. The revolutionaries respect tlieir j old superiors in the services and are 1 merely grasping at political power. BOLSHEVISM OR REPUBLIC. NEW YORK, November 10. The Kaiser’s abdication has caused great satisfaction throughout the city Jthe general feeling being that the Kaiser’s abdication will make Germany’s acceptance of the armistice terms more certain . The “New York Times,” says, editorially, “The Kaiser built up a vast power of which lie made a most wicked uso. His misuse of power wrought ruin on Germany. His armies have been defeated in the field and terms of surrender have been presented to his representatives by Marshal Foch w itbin the last few hours for acceptance. NEW YORK, November 10. All the newspapers publish long biographical sketches of the Kaiser and the House of the Hohenzollerns. The general tone of the editorials is That the punishment of the Kaiser for the sufferings ho has inflicted on humanity must he imposed. One newspaper reproduces under the heading “Lest we Forget” a series of German pictures of Bismarck inflicting humiliation on France . Other papers describe the abdication as an act of cowardise at the eleventh hour and point out that while the Hohenzollerns are at large the peace of the world cannot bp assumed. With the Kaiser eliminated, there is speculation as to whether Germany’s drift towards Bolshevism can he prevented and as to whether the. new government will bo a republican one. LONDON CHEERS ABDICATION LONDON November 10. London is high-spirited over the au nouncement of the abdication of thi Kaiser. A buoyant crowd thronged th streets until late at night. There wa tremendous cheering and patriotic nut bursts in the theatres and cinemas who the news was announced from tho stag bavarian royalties FLEE. BERNE November 10. According to the Munich papers tl King of Bavaria, acompanied by h son, Prince Rupprecht .(the Germs Army commander) and daughters fle n t midnight from Munich. Thei whereabouts are unknown.

| jSOHuES'VnCr INDEPENDENT. COPENHAGEN November 10. Schleswig has hastened to be proclaimed an independent, republic. Both i factions of the Socialists joined hands and have formed a Workmen and Sol- " diers’ Council to maintain, order.