Starvation, Raids and Defeat.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 November 1918, Page 3

Starvation, Raids and Defeat.

COLOGNE ui'i!,i;uii;u TO DESPERATION. WTLD SCENES OF TJISORDER. INTENSE HATRED OP HOHBNZOLLEIINS. Received this ditv, 11.55 a.m. The Hague, November 8. Starvation, daily air raids and diefeats on the battlefield, combined with the collapse of Germany's alii.'-, reduced tli i people of Cologne to desperation and they nave got completely out of hand, displaying intense hatred of military commanders. As a result of the calling of recruits from factories, thirty of them were shot in one instance for mutiny. A grenfe meeting of workmen passed a resolution in favour of a revolution unless the Kaiser abdicated within a fortnight. Subsequently they marched in procession through the streets shouting for the revolution. They broke into the museums and cut tflie portraits of the Hohenzollerns to ribbons. . Soldiers refused to attack them and threw down their rifles. The officers were helpless and retired. The mob hoisted the Red Flag on public buildings. The police were largely sympathetic and did not interfere.

The turbulent day ended with an air raid which killed and injured many and caused great damage. [Dutch observers say it is impossible to check the anti-Kaiser movement. The Crown Prince is certain to Share his father's downfall as nobody is morP detestedi in Germany. Germans declare the Kaiser has gone to Belgium 111 order the more eapJly to slip across the Butch frontier and seek an asylum in the event of a revolution.

GERMANS C VTTfiHT IN THE ' BALKANS.

Received this day. l'l a.m. Amsterdam, November 8. The King of Serbia entered Belgrade on TTiumsday. Maekensen hap agreed to the withdrawal of German troops from Roumnnia. General d'Espercy (Allied commander in the Balkans) announced that undo rno circumstances would the passage of aTmed troor>s be allowed. If the Germans did not depart within a fortnight they must be interned. A mob' at Rostock pulled down the Kaiser'* flag and hoisted the I?ed Flag.

GERMAN TROOPS- TN AtySTOIA

Amsterdam, November 8. German troops have entered the AllsTyrol to defend Bavaria from Invasion. Austria has protested.

AN ATR>M AN-ITFvRO.

Received this day, 11 a.m. Tjondon. November 8. The here of the air fight with 50 Gorman machines was Major W. G. Barker, a. Canadian, who holds the D.S.O. with two bars, the Flying Cross and the Military Grass oMi oar.