Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-02
DECLARED AGENTS
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Won MACKENSEN
Plan Was to Urge Ex-Kaiser
to Make Triumphal Re-
turn to Berlin. .
SCHEME is DISCLOSED
WHEN WIRES ARE TAPPED
Practically All Officials of the,
Old Regime Said to Be
Involved
DECREE FORCED BY HOLLAND
Fearing Trouble With Allied Nations,
Dutch Demanded Definite Word
From Former Emperor.
SCHEME is DISCLOSED
WHEN WIRES ARE TAPPED
DECREE FORCED BY HOLLAND

i>oN NDON, december IA gigantic
Prussian plot to Jail the whole pres
ent German government and esta blish
provisional government under Field
Marshal Won Mackensen has just been
nipped in the bud by the Ebert gov.
ernment the Daily Express learns
from its Amsterdam correspondent.
fWire-tapping" by Ebert's secret
service operatives led to the discovery
OF the plot. 1t was this discovery that
gave rise to the report that two days
ago counter-revolution led by in
fucntial generals including Won Ar
MIN. had broken out. 1t now appears;
that conspiracy was frustrated in the
eleventh hour
The plan was to urge the ex-Kaiseri
to make triumphal return to Ber-
lin immediately after establishments OF
the provisional government" ft.
The chief figures behind the plot
were Won Mackenson. whose possible
role as German Kornilofr" was fore
known as the German retreat sps,
cialist," and General Sixt von Arnin,.
w9S n,s commanded Ian.,I the Flanders army &
ton Of the demeSsiisa lon. poR hs sompts-
other otGn mantiehs aaassd baaoss
ed large sums. since they are chiefly,
Interested In seeing autocracy return
The eN-Kaiser the whole former.
officials ,ans Of the old regime. the navy
men like Prince Won Bueiow and es-
Chancellor Michaelis are said to have
Msrsha Sfen IN sy@pathhy vop is ne Plot Ee,s
join the nsttators. the Amsterdam dis
patch says. ''
ton with the plot.
HOLLAND FORCED ACTIoS
IN ABDICATION, DECREE
News reaching here from Amster-y
IAN nha, To-Day indicates that the Kaiser's
request of the Dutch government. The
many rumors and reports representing
10 toe the bGEmperor Gernpen Tha as plotting TO return
GtrIahus government in the embarrass-
ing position of apparently shelterinr
nbe feeinR fhiemy n OF Ha,and ae alieq b.a Ga'ion
and 1t is believed that The Hague gov.
the .'eni eX.kaisse sfssed Virtual ultinatum on
tatlon ,;nI. or the decree. though ostenta-s
,nond r,ouSiy I came in response to a de-
IS pointed out here. however. that the
aocument ts not countersigned by
tbs tbpims,ere imneria, ,German statesman. Under
al DEGREES OF the Kaiser must be cnmn :,
,.s,S ter,sSlsned by the Chancellor to ba.
lutionarY l'io Snoula nnf one Of the counter-revo-
up a new government in Prussia ana
make himself Chancellor. he could then
ton decree was arsned nn1 shat sna the the abdca
Mas lor prncs not eopNntersigned by ex-chaneeis
,6en would be toe to tefi sfnsifal fba procedure.
his MS aoalcation POI was not accepted and to
'e Khile nim no % ona return in as, as Emperor.
here looks for any such eventn.is,,; uIiasr.ers IS
Is Is pointed out that the German sitn,al ,l
camt;nn c;um Is So unstable INST and uncertain that
ana the general verdict may be s,,mmni
tirf,, up IN me warning: One can't be too
William Hohenzollern finally .,u.s
the abdication decree, IL is said sf.er
eorsHat eorsuatatlon ion With the Kaiserin. whose
RsaanF Fha Is Df!syea 70 hays
herlin throughout the overturn Of the,
autiocratIc t regime and went to Holland
@ theyefore eeT 70 'ayT teiI ;Sn nso She was able
rminss ,, about the temper of the Ger
oeneVed from any one else
FORMAL ABDICATION
sURrnIsEs ENGLAND
The formal abdication Of the German
emperor caused surprise in Engiand y
of of hha ,aa eeen supposed on the strength
MaXimlian OF Baden. while Chanceiior
ana the reports Of the Berlin councii
that ohfs Wiia ana hM9rkmsns Sdelesa,s
land NY iof :aoi-
The, abdication OF the former Car
ii.an tro"n prfnce was accepted here
as last on the same basis. but il is
now now believed that ,FrederIck wiliianl
thron mas not rssiinquished s his claims to the
msmto sr speaks for himself only. =" :
The Netherlands government ha,.n-
poston when hGssSn tha formsr ie rep95a
peroE occupies In Holland The 'reia.
iI1omShip Or the Dutch governm emf 10;
snecting William ) Hohenzollsrpsse se re- re-
msss'on niso ON, to ,. and his stay in Holland,
prssIo MISSION consista Of B. G. ]! Lodaer.
Alex. ~" ""o -. e. 81
SOLE GIVEN CREDENTIALS %
TO PEACE COSEERESCEs
Dispatches from Berlin to-night saw
mat Dr. Hartmann to-day handed To
ior. W. 5. Solf. the German Foreign
secretary credentials to the peace
conference as Representatives OF: the
herman Austrian republic. Dr. Soif on
receiving DR.. Hartmann said he wa,.
deeply Impressed by the decision I, Or.
.;erman- Austria to join Germany rs
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Messages received to- might from ca 81
harest Is burnins. Pe.eant reyoits