TURMOIL IN GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1918, Page 5

TURMOIL IN GERMANY

THE TORCH OF REVOLUTION, Like a Consuming Bush Fire.

Sweeping Over Germany.

Armies Breaking and Fleeing. Received Nov. ill. 5.5 p.m. J London, Nov. 10. No one doubts that the Kaiser's abdi- j cation means the end of the war. Whether it will save G<arinany from fratricidal conflict—perhaps bloodier for months than anything in the past—depends on the Crown Prince's pany, which, with everything to lose by revolution, urges a final bid for the army's support.

A dark pall of tragic events overhangs tihe defeated country. The army is breaking and fleeing, abandoning its guns and supplies.

Tlio ins rrection is overwhelming tlie western and southern territories. It is almost bloodless and orderly. According to the leaders' proclamations they loathe bloodshed and ordain a sacred respect for human life, But a tempestuous feeling concerning the royalties is abroad.

The revolutionaries seized Cologne, from which, the revolution is gradually spreading through the Rhineland. Keports come that the Landsturmer' are standing to arms. The commanders have still some authority, but the flame is like a consuming bush-fire. Brunswick is gone. Magdeburg appears to be going. A Soviet has been established, but the garrison is remaintag.

Royalist Soviets rule throughout the industrial districts.

The methods of rising are "vlways similar, owing, *he Royalists declare, to a secret Eolshevik organisation, working through the Russiau ambassador Jofl'e, who had been smuggling |n arms and planning 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 and occupy the traffic centres of selected citieß, removing the local authorities.

Copenhagen reports that Dutcto residents in Germany as hastily departing. Th° garrison at Oldenburg remained neutral whilst a Socialist deputy lea a great demonstration, arising like a mushroom, through the city and proclaimed a Soviet. Perfect orderliness prevailed.

Considerable lighting occurred at Hamburg, where harsh discipline is imposed by tiiie Soviet announcing that anyone abroad during dark will be shot.. A similar fate has been ordered for those found caiuying arms.

Extraordinary quiet marked the riding in Hanover The military commanders were seized, but no excesses were committed, members of the Reichstag admonishing the crowds. REVOLUTION SPREADING. WARSHIPS THREATEN BOMBARDMENT. Received Nov. 11. 4.40 pjn.Copenhagen, Nov. ZO. The revolutionary movement, n-hich began in the north of Germany, has now spread over the greater part of the south. Sis German warships, anchored outside of Flemsburg, threaten to bombard the revolutionaries.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ESSEN SEIZED. KRUPPS ARRESTED. Received Nov. 11. 2 p.m. London. Nov 10. The revolutionaries seized Essen and arrested Krupps.—United Service. THE NEW SUFFRAGE, EBERTS 'APPOINTED CHANCELLOR. Received Nov. 11. 5.25 p.m. London. Nov. 10. & German wireless message says: The Majority Socialists have decided upon equal, direct, and secret suffrage and proportional representation for the Reichstag, both sexes over 24 years to have a vote. Socialists postponed the period for the Kaiser to abdicate, in view of the present discussion respecting the armistice. Herr Eberts has been appointed Chancellor.—Aus. Cable Assoc. FURTHER OUTBREAKS. [ ABDICATION OP DUKE OE BRUNSWICK. Received Nov. 11. 7.30-p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 10, Further revolutionary outbreaks occurred at Frankfort and Cologne, also Hanover and Magdeburg. It is reported that tbe Duke of Brunswick fan dbdjsjts&rdtofc. &Z. ftrtte Asaoa. ■■■■ ■•WSBBSr ■