Wily Wilhelm.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 3 December 1918, Page 3

Wily Wilhelm.

PLOTTING FOR GERMAN THRONE. [blbctrio telmraph—copyright.] (Per Press Association). Received this day, 9.10 a.m. New York, December 2. The London Express' reports a plot to restore Wilhelm to the German throne.

COLLAPSE OP THE PLOT.

BIG COUP ATTEMPTED. this day, 12.12 p.m. London, December 2. The plot to restore German Imperialism lias collapsed owing to secret service men overhearing a conversation on the telephone; Many arrests have been made in Berlin andl other cities. The Government has a long list of .suspects who planned to seize the members of the present Government. No direct evidenoe of the ex-Kaiser's connection with the plot has 'been found, but it is believed that the outline of the plot was brought to Berlin by two of his suite, who visited "the c|ity ostensibly for the purpose of talcing the mat tea- up. Lient. von Brthlen, a relative of the Krupps, controlled the financial arrangements. Mackensen is reported to ihave attempted to have induced Hindenburg to join, but the latter refusedi saying that he intended to retire after the demobilisation. The whole of the Prussian Court is allegedly in sympathy with the plotters.

Danger of Disruption.

» SiHAKY GERMAN EMPIRiE. Received this day 11.30 a.m. Amsterdam, December 2. A'chiedmann, in an article in Vorwaerts, says the danger of a disruption of the Empire iis increasing daily. He says there has been a conference with the French command at Strassburg with a view of the creation of a South! German Republic. The Executive of Berlin Soviets has ra-olved to welcome the Russian Bolshevist delegation to the Soviets' Congress at Berlin on December 16. London, December 2. Hungary has interned; MaCkensen's army.