Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-27
WILHELM LEADERS
REPORTED FLEEING
FOR THEIR LIVES
Assembly to Arrange Make
Up of New Govern
ment Soon.
MAJORITY FAVORS REPUBLIC
SIMILAR TO UNITED STATES
Others Prefer Network of Soviets
Such as Exists in I
Russia. 81
SAYS BERLIN INCITED VIENNA
Socialists Demand Members of Fo:.
mer Regime he Sentenced and
Punished ms Traitors.
MAJORITY FAVORS REPUBLIC
SIMILAR TO UNITED STATES.
SAYS BERLIN INCITED VIENNA

AMSTERDAM. November es.- rhe
conference of representatives OF all
German states at Berlin adjourned to-
ton OF 4 constituent assembly, to he :
held at Frank fort on the Main, at the
earliest possible date. That assembly
is to decide the future Of Gernany.s3
1T is TO determine whether there
shall bc one great republic OF Ger
many. absorbing the various former
kingdoms, grand duchics free cities and
Srincipalitics as federated stutes.,'
similar to the United States. or whether
shall continue as such. but form a great
federation of republics. ~
If the m,oderates have their way f;ari
revolution Il federated republic. mitch
IikG america. # the radicals, under
former empire will become. like RUS
sia vast network of Soviets. A. Z
at'the Berlin conference was decidedly /
against. the Liebknecht plan. All Ger-
man advices indicate. moreover. that
The situation. therefore, is once once more J
Identical with that which prevailed isn
husa,a Sn at eorreSpEnaing
itself-.to'sa race between tie radicaIss
and the convocatlon of the assembly,
convocation OF the assembly, can spread
his doctrines successfully among the
the Sns f9r ehef
and exploiting the food shortage. bring
them into IA frame OF mind where they
his rule the -proictariat" platform.
then he is expected to do what the sl
Russian Bolshcvili did: send the as
move against the Soviet regime.
While l.iebknccht has won the first
step toward his plan by placing chief
workmcn's council ut Berlin, the last
twenty-four hours have shown that he
nine and Trotzky had in Russia
AZ the Berlin conference of delegates
knech1s influence appears to have been
cquivocal opposition TO Llehk necht's
lied as the theories of Bolshevtkism.{
The South German states. through
the Bayarian Premier, Kurt Eisner,
completely from Prussia and North
crn Germany if the reds are given
free sway. The Ebert. government,
sponsible authority for the former en-
pire. found itself in much the same
situation in which Kerensky and his
sane" element. the reds and the vari-
Gus separatist movement.
The moderates worked with might
and main for the constituent assembly.
ated republic in which they see the sole
50 alvation Of Germany.
Foreign Secretary Solf made a spe enil
bitterly denouncing the allies for not
modifying the srmistice terms and for
not rushing food into Germany.
Our opponets," he said, show ia
bare faced desire to destroy u.s. He
added that this alleged desire coupled
with the senaratist movement. rendered
the situation desperate.
Dir. Matthias Erzberger the Centrist
Leader. reviewed the armistice negotia-
lions, at which ne officiated in Ger
many's behalf
Kurt Esner. who rose to the Bs-
varian premiership from position as
radical journalist. launched a TRADE
he denounced as hold overs OF the i'm
perialistic regime.
Ebert made a renewed nlea fora
modification OF the armsticc terms,
saying under present conditions Ger
many is faced with sure starvation
and consequent anarchy and chaos.
Norwaerts. the Chancellor's mouth-
piece. has begun n campa gn to expose
the war iutrisues of the German gov
ernment. No discriminating documents
appear to have been found as Yet in
closures made by the new Bavarian
government regarding the circun-
stances leading up to the war tend
III nower At Berlin In 1914.
that Berlin melted Vienna Wilhelm
an infamous lie F S
Sentiment appears to be crystallia-
ing throughout Germany for the
prosecution of the cN- Kaiser and his
hcnchmcn. Members Of the old regime
are renorted fleeing from Germany by
the dozens The Socialist organs de-
mand that Dr. Won Bethmann- -HollweE,
the former Chancellor: DR.. Won 5JagoW,
cN-Foreign Minister and his successor.
DR.. Alfred Zimmcrmann. be sentenced
az traitors.
NORwAEItrS ATTACKS
FORMER GOVERNMENTS
The bittercst denuncat;on OF the for
ncr German government for the crime
OF planning and piunging tho world =
into war comes from Berlin The Sor-
waerts. commenting on the Bavarian q
revelations, says: ~ Fl
we were told the German govern
mont did not know Of the Austrian 4
ultimatum beforehand. II Is a lie. we Z
were told that Berlin had expected W. 4
emma TO exercise modcration. &. Il, ss
a l!c E ~
Berlin: on the contrary. incited VI.
chua. Wilhelm declared. in a prociA-
ma ton. th.t the enemy attacknd IN IN q
ucep peace. That is an unfoundtd, 4
harcfaccd, infamous, shameless 6Ifessan6
this gang of miserable, mass murder-
ers. w)Eo during the revolutions. awiBk y
TO theN>scople's generosity. have got OF !
cheaply, Sre still planning the re .se.
OF their bloc dstaiued hu,s, &
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