The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1918-11-15
Kaiser Wilhelm Seeks Sanctuary
Holland After Being Convinced 7he
His Dream Of World Dominion
Would Never Come True.

Washington.-Desert by oil her
allies Ter great 'litarv machine in
process Of destruction by onsiau.a.s
of the allies armies; her emperor a
fugitive in Holland, with his dream OF
world dominion rudely shattered,
Germany has at last conceded defeat,
and the world war which has ragged for
for years Is ut an end.
The Huns have surrendered uncon-
ditionally to General Foch.
The war ended Monday morning, No
vember IL, at 6 o'clock, Washington
tinre, II o'clock Paris time. The arm
istice was signed by the German rep
resentatives ut 2 $50 O'Clock Monday
morning and flashed all oves The ccun-
try. The result was demonstration
in every section of America that was
continued for hours.
The terms Of the armistice, 1t was
announced, will not be made public
until later. Military men here, how
ever, regard it as certain they III
clude:
Immediate retirement of tn. German
military forces from France. Belgium
and Alsace-Iorraine
Disarming and rehabilitation OF the
German armies
Occupation by the allied and Amer
lean forces of such strategic points III
Germany as will make impossible re-
uewal of hostilities.
Delivery of part of the German high
seas fleet and certain number OF SUD-
marines to the allied and American
naval forces.
Disarmament of all other German
warships under supervision OF the al
lied and American navies, which Will
guard them.
Occupation Of the principal German
naval bases by sea forces OF the VIC
torous nations.
Release Of allied and American sol
diers, sailors and civilians held pris-
oners in Germany without such recip-
rocal action by the associated govern
ments.
There was no information as to the
circumstances under which the armis-
tice was signed but since the German
} courier did not reach German military
headquarters until 10 o'clock Sunday
| mornin, French time, 1t was gen
orally assumed here that the German
: ENJOYS within the French lines had
} been instructed by wireless to sign the
terms.
Forty-seven hours had been required
for the courier to reach German head
= Qaypr11
: hours were necessary for the exami-
1 nation of the terms and a decision. 1t
I was regarded as possible, however
: that the decision may have been made
a at Berlin and instructions trans
I mitted from there by the new German
z government.
: Up to Sunday there were four king
I doms in the German empire, namely
+ Prussia, Bavaria Saxony and
Wurttemberg. All but Saxony are now
kingless and throneless. The situation
/ in Saxony is not clear from the dis
e patches. Germany's total population
; Is, roughly, 7OO00,000.
}, The populations of the three revoiu
l. tionized kingdoms are: Prussia, Al,
G 100000; Bavaria, 100000; Wurttem
berg 5000 600; total, 51,O0O,OO0.
:. OF the remaining Inhabitants Of tn
e empire, it is safe to say, on TIL
d strength of all dispatches, that the ma
r jority has joined the revolt
d Late dispatches report the king o
c Saxony is also about to abdicate, |
n I he has not already done so. He |
X Friedrich August II, whose persona
y life was exposed some years ago b
L. his divorced wife, the Princess Louis
4 of Tuscany
n William Hohenzollern, the forme
l. emperor of Germany, who began til
n world war, and who abdicated whe
4. he was convinced that Germany mus
l. surrender to the victorious allies, ha
II arrived in Holland, and is now at tn
1t town Of Destieg, near utretch. wher
y he hopes to escape further punisl
L ment ut the hands of the nations h
Id has so grievously wronged.
Desteeg is on the Guelders Ysscl q
ut arm OF the Rhine river, about fort
rs miles east of Utrecht and twelve mile
ID from the German border. The chatea
ID Middachten, to which the former er
H. peror is reported to be proceeding, b.
~ longs to Count William Frederic
1t Charles Henry Won Bentinck. He is
le member of the Prussian guards, ar
I'd before the war was attached to II
I'd German embassy in London and
of member of the English Turf and Roy
tc Automobile clubs. He Is 3S years oil
I'd He belongs to the famous Anglo-Dutc
81 German house of Bentinck, the co
i'd tinental branch of the family OF Il
Duke of Portland.