AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1918, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

WURTEMBURG'S DEMOCRATIC MOVE. i ACTION OF SOVIETS. i j PROCLAMATION AT BERLIN. Received Nov. 12. 10.15 p.m. Copmhagcn, Nov. 11. The King of Wurtambirg, in a proclamation, states that the new Cabinet , will hold an election in secret on equal suffrage, ufter which a convention will be given to the State. "In the new democratic constitution my person will never be a hindrance to the development desired by the people." The Dusseldoi ff Soviet, in a proclamation, states that public security and order will be maintained by the police. Plunderers and thieves will be shot. It appears that the Dusscldorii' revolution was bloodless. At Dresden the civilian authorities are co-operating with the Soviet. In Berlin, the Soldiers' Council issued a proclamation announcing it ihad taken over the military administration, adding: "Comrades, we have stood together in the field and bled in the battle. United we lead Germany to a happy future." —Times Service.

FLIGHT OF KING OF WURTEMBURG.

LANDSmiBI SOVIET AT WARSAWTROUBLE WITH POLES. Received Nov. 12, 10.15 pm. Copenhagen, Nov. 11. When the armistice was signed, the King of Wurteiiburg did not wait for tie election, but fled from Stuttgart. Owing to the hostile manifestations, the officers of the German Landstrum battalions at Warsaw have formed a Sovipt

Th-> Poles are refusing the Germans perni:?-iox. to dem' ; and thcia is fighting in the strets-—'United Service. CLIMAX IN BERLIN.

SOLDIERS AND WORKERS TAKE CHARGE.

Received Nov. 12, 10.15 pjn. London, Nov. 1L Excitement in Berlin reached its climax on Saturday afternoon, when a large number of motors, carrying *rmed vorkm«n and sailors ana soldiers, stopped ail H\en in uniform and cut off their iron crosses and Imperial They occupied the telcgTaph office. The police forthwith disappeared. Civilians, wearing red-and-white armlets, kept order .*. general strike has now commenced. —Aus -N.Z. Cable Assoc.

THE KAISER'S ABDICATION, FINAL ACT OF THE DRAMA. STUBBORN TO THE iLAST.

Received Nov. 12, 10 p.m. London, Nov. 10.

The Daily Chronicle's Aiusterdam correspondent sttvtes that the Kaiser's visit to headquarters was intended to rally the army round him, but only the officers, chiefly Prussians, placed taemselrjgs at his disposal.

He conferred for several hours with tiit Crown Generals Hindenburg and Groener. Both generals advised his abdication-

Hir.deuburg said that delay wouM nave terrible consequences in the armjf.

The Kaiser was undecided when the conference ended, but made up his mind an hour later, after receipt of, a communication from Berlin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assoc.

SCENE AT THE SIGNING.

THE KAISER SHIVERS.

Received Nov- ,13, 1.45 a.m.

Amsterdam, Nov. 10. The Kaiser signed the abdication on Saturday morning in the presence of the