GAINING MOMENTUM.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1918, Page 5

GAINING MOMENTUM.

BAVARIA, SAXONY, AND BADM REPUBLICS. TROOPS JOIN THE REVOLUTIONARIES. ESCAPE OF THE ROYALTIES. Received Nov. 12. 10 p.m. / .' Amsterdam, Nov. 11. Telegrams from Bei-lin show that the revolution is hourly gaining momentum. The whole of Prussia is now involved. Bavaria. Saxony, and Baden, have proclaimed republics. Scores of big towns are in the bands pf the revolutionaries, mostly gained without bloodshed, as the troops quickly threw ia their lot with the rebels.

All the German guards on the Dutch frontier were downed and left -their posts, this enabling the Kaiser, Kaiserin, the Crown Prince and their suite to reach Holland without misadventure. Some German royalties were less fortunate. The Prince and Princess Henry, the former of whom was wounded in, tihe arm, are hiding in Schleswig, near the Danish frontier, with the Princess Adalbert and her children, while Prince Adalbert is taking refuge in his yacht, of Which the crew remains loyal The fate of the King and Crown Prince of Bavaria, who fled from their palace at 1 a.m.. and also the fate of the Kings of Saxony and Wurtemburg, is still uncertain.

It is now established that the primary outbreak at Kiel was due to an order to certain warships to put to sea. The sailors and stokers believed this meant that the fleet was ordered out to commit harikari at the hands of the British and American navies.

The revolt soon assumed a political character, the rebels demanding the control of all the public services and industries, an eight houra working day, and State support for all unemployed and needy people. Revolutionaries everywhere are picking off the German eagle from their helmets, anyone refusing to remove the eagle risks being shot A soldier also Is strictly prohibited from wearing the Iron Gross.

THE KAISER REACHES REFUGE REVOLUTIONARY SUCCESSES. SOLDIERS JOIN THE "MOVEMENT. Received Nov. 12. 10 p.m. London, Nov. 10. The Timea Hague correspondent, telegraphing on the 'loth, states that the Kaiser, with a suite of ten gentlemen and two court carriages, passed the Dutch frontier at Maastricht on Sunday morning. The greatest secrecy was observed. Midnaohten is a popular summer resort. The Kaiser's seclusion is zealously safeguarded. Hanover, Offenbach, and Augsburg were seized alter a little resistance. The soldiers removed their cockades, donning the red and announcing their decision to obey only the Soviets.—-Times Service.