Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-11
REVOLUTTONISTS HOLD GERMANY

of provisional Soldiers and Work
mems Council.
A dispatch to the Wolff Bureau
from Munich says order prevails in
the Bavarian capital. Provision
ing of the city," the dispatch adds,
sis assured. Trains are running
into the city. The administration
has been recognized. Former minis
ters have turned over their offices
to their successors. The attitude of
the middle classes has not yet been
clearly defined. Efforts are being
made to conciliate the peasants,
without the aid Of whom the city is
destined to famine"
The German eagle has been picked
off all Prussian helmets and mill
tary decorations, Any soldier who
refuses to remove the eagle risks
being shot. In all Government offices
pictures of the Kaiser and Lu-
dendorff have been removed, whereas
those of Hindenburg have been
allowed to remain.
| I.eipsic. the largest city in SaXony,
| Stuttgart. the capital of Wurtcm-
| berg, and Cologne and Frankfort have
| oined the revolution, according to re-
| ports from the Danish frontier, tcle-
| Eraphcd here by the Copenhagen cor
| RESPONDENT Of the Exchange Tcle.
l s.,xl. Gn1ninrE'
llt Stuttgart. Cologne and Frankfort
have decided to proclaim republic,
A train filed with soldiers has been
sent out rom Bremen for the purpose
Of persuadlng other towns to join the
revolution.
II is stated that Hugo Haase, n So
cialst leader in the Reichstag, has
the situation at Hamburg In hand.
In some places notably In Anhalt
Hesse Darmstadt and Mecltlenburg
Schwerin. the princely houses arc
cooperating with the reforming par
ties In establishing new order OF
things
ITp to the present the most serious
conflict has taken place In Kiel. The
soldiers and workmen's councils In
most of tho large cities appear to he
deVoting their first efforts TO organi2
ing the food supplies. foreseeinC that
any lack Of provision in this respect
Will prove n fruitful source of dis
order. Complaints already have hoer
heard in Berlin that the press censor
ship is being exercised as arbitrarily
by the new as by the old regime.
J Amsterdam, Nov. 11.--Among tn,
latest towns to come under the contro
of the WOrkmens and Soldiers Coun
ellis are AiX.la .Chapellp, Cassel. Nurem
berg, Mannheim. GladbaCh and Muen
ster A general strike has been pro
claimed in Nuremberg and Mannheim
Order has been restored at Hamburg
where the police have been permitted
to resume their duties under the direc
tion of the Workmen's and Soldiers
Council, and places of public amuse
ment have been reopened.
At Cologne the whole garrison sidet
with the workers council, whose pro
gram included, according to the Co
logne Gazette, the abolition Of all Ger
man dynasties, the annulment of wa
loans, with special consideration fo
the subscribers from the poor classes
J the liberation Of all political prisoners
J and the abolition of saluting.
The Rhenish WestfaelisChe Ieitung
of Essen, announces that Eutin. TIL,
capital of the prinCipality of In, lecle
is in the hands of the Soldiers Coun
, Gil Many persons, both civilians ant
military, have been shot
Among the incidents of the revolu
ton Is the remuneration by the Crane
, Duke of SaXe.Weimar and his famil!
of the right of exemption from taxa
ton. At Lubbock a lawyer was charged
with treason because he acted with
: out authority from the Workmen'
and Soldiers Council in liberatinl
DrisOnprS,