The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-19
Want 10 Know How Long
Scandal Goes On.
LONDON PAPERS IN The STIR
they Are Uncertain as to
What Is Due.
Fear Former Emperor Will Be
in Plot Soon.

Inc hague, NOV. III he dcTIIldu
workmen's- and soldiers council at
Antwerp is reported to have proposed
Thursday to the Berlin council that
the former kaiser. crown prince and
other military officials should be ex-
tradited from Holland to Germany.
Paris, Nov. 1s.-FrencA newspapers
insist that more light be thrown on
the status of William Hohenzo1lern.
L'Intransigeant wants to know
whether the Dutch scandal will
keep up.
1T is certainly revolving to see the
man responsible for everything COM
fortably adapting himself to purely
political .abdication'. says L1ntran-
sigeant.
TT is also revolving to ind Hol-
land Offering facilities to an ex-ruler-
who thus is admirably placed to con-
duct intrigue and propaganda Tor
again seizing power"
Clear Up Affair.
The Temps insists that the affair
needs clearing up. 1t points out that
Prince Max of Baden did not state
the kaiser had abdicated; that he had
decided to abdicate."
The German press calls Williams
sojourn in Holland 'idyllic."
From London Papers.
LONDON, NOV, lJ."In6 lIldl
William Hohenzollern, the former Ger
man emperor, may possibly return to
Germany, as supported by the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger's hint that he would
not be refused an entry to that coun-
try. have created a considerable SUR
here. They are featured by several
of the morning newspapers as creating
an uncertain situation which is rem
dered more doubtful by accounts OF
the activity of German propagandists
in several countries.
The fear mainly is that the former
emperor would sooner or later become
the center of a reactionary movement
in Germany, when the present revolu-
tionary stonm has blown over. and the
advocates of this view consequently
fear his return to hfs former empire.
On the other hand, the fact of the
former ruler placing himself or being
placed in the hands of the new rulers
of Germany would be welcomeo IN
other quarters. These rulers, the
Morning Post argues, should be able
to execute judgment upon him and in
so doing would only be acting as tit
ting instruments of justice.
There is everywhere, however,
agreement in the idea that the ex-em-
peror's presence in Holland is intoler-
able, and it is insisted he must some
how be made impotent to do further
mischief.
More UnwelcOme Daily.
The reports from Holland show that
the unlimited guest is becoming daily
more unwelcome there, notwithstand-
ing his quiet retirement. Belated ad-'
vices from The Hague show that the
Dutch Socialists reiterated in parlia-
ment on Friday last their objections
to his presence and demand that he
be deported.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
The Hague reports that the German
soldiers council in Antwerp on Thurs
soldiers and workmen's council in
Berlin demand extradition of the for
mer emperor and the former crown
prince as we'll as certain generals. The
resolution expresses belief that the ex-@
ruler exercises too much influence in
Holland and forms the center of coun-
ter-revolutionary intrigue.
Wilhelm Backs Ebert.
The Daily Express sees the possibil-
ity of a plot to trick the allies and
create a federation far exceeding in
strength and resources the former
German empire. In the course OF a
long article, this newspaper contends
the former emperor is back OF Chan
cellor Ebert, former Chancellor Max
imilian of Baden and Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg. and it lays emphasis
upon the fact that the emperor signed
no formal abdication and issued no
valedictory message.
A number of leading allied diplo-
mats and statesmen, including Lord
Robert Cecil, under secretary of state
for foreign affairs, believe that some
thing is brewing. in Germany in the
direction of a plot to trap the allies,
the Express declares. The facts ap-
pear to indicate, it adds, the existence
of a plan to provide for the eventual
return of the former emperor to Ger
many. the restoration of the old regime
and the formation of a greatly extend
ed German federation.
Another World War.
Such a federation with william Ho-
henZollerE at it's head, the Express ar
CUES, would carry the seed of another
world war. 1t insists that the former
emperor must be seized and his activ-
tiles prevented.
The Daily Chronicle in an editorial
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