The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-11-14
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EVENTS IN EUROPE
RUMORED DEATH OF GER
MAN CROWN PRICE NOT
CONFIRMED.
Bn The Associated Press.

Reports OF the utdln OF OIOWl
Prince Frederick William OF Ge--
many. have not been confirmed. it
was said that he was shot and killed
Monday morning by frontier guards
while he was trying to make his way
into Holland where his father has
taken refuge.
Similar reports are current in
Paris, but there is as vet no official
announcement making it certain
that the crown prince was the first
OF the German royal family to meet
death in the revolutionary outbreak
that swept the Hohenzollerns of the
throne.
Turning from war to peace, so
suddenly that the transition has been
almost beWldering, the nations
which have been embroiled in the
great conflict are hastily taking
stock OF the situation and planning
measures to meet the problems OF
the future. which appear to be no
less serious than those OF the past
Solf Insists on Early Confab.
Germany is insiStent in its de
mands that the peace conference be
held at once. Dr. W. ). Soil, the
foreign secretary, says that only an
early settlement OF the questions
arising out OF the cessation OF hos
tilities can save the German people
from famine.
In the INTERN. the Germans are
deprived OF even civil administration
in the Rhineland regions which have
been taken over by the allies until
the final adjustment OF the results
of the conflict. Allied and United
States military authorities will gov
ern the country from which Ger
many has agreed to withdraw her
defeated lcgionS. This new supple
ment to the armisticc agreement, I
is announced, is accompanied by the
surrender by Germany OF all her
submarines. Under the original ar
mistice agreement only 100 U-boats
were to be turned over to the allies.
Grim Specter of BolsheviSm.
The grim specter OF Bolshevism
has appeared out of the turmoil oi
revolution in Germany and has re-
ceived recognition at Berlin. This
would seem to indicate that the true
socialist movement has taken a new
movement. the strength OF which is
so great that it cannot be ignored.
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shevikiSt element was so small in
Germany that it appeared to be neg
ligible.
To guard against disorders in Rus
sian provinces occupied by German
troops. the allies have agreed that
Germany need not call these forces
home until it is considered safe to
do so.
1t has been officially announced at
Vienna that Emperor Charles has
abdicated. This confirms cable ad-
vices received yesterday that he had
given up the sceptre. The latest
OF the minor rulers OF the German
states to quit his throne is Prince
Heinrich. NNNII OF ReusS
Kaiser Poses AS Private Citizen.
William IIohcnzollerS. the former
German emperor, now is in Holland
and has been visited by an official
representative of the Netherlands
government. His status has not
been definitely settled as yet, but it
appears that he is posing as private
citizen OF Germany instead OF the
war lord.
According to advices from Bre-
men. the revolutionist sailors of the
German navy have seized all the
warships of the empire and have es-
tablished their control of Helgoland.
What effect this will have on the
agreement of Germany to surrender
certain number of vessels to the
allies cannot as yet be determined.
The training ship Schlesien is said
to have been sunk by revolutionary
warships.
Bolshevikist forces in the Lai:e
Baikal region in Siberia have been
defeated by the Czecho-Slocak and
allied forces operating there. 1t is
reported that Bolshevist resistance
in that section has been broken.
1t is reported that the new Ru-
manian government has declared
war on Germany.