Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-10
ENGLISH WOMEN
. DEMAND FORMER
KAISER BE HANGED
Candidates for Parliament
Express Their Views
on Punishment.
GERMAN MANUFACTURERS
FACE CHARGE OF TREASON
Arrested at Mulheim-am-Ruhr,
They Are Hurried to ,''
Berlin.
FEAR NEXT L. S. CONGRESS
Berlin Paper Says That Empire
Could Not Expect Wilson Princi-
pies to BE Carried Through. ~. 4
FEAR NEXT U. S. CONGRESS

LONDON. December 9.-"Hang the
kaiser"' is the cry of virtually all
women candidates for Parliament In
the present election campaign A sym.
postum follows:
Miss T.. Ihipps-"The Kaiser should
be tried by u jury OF British, French
and Belgian women and men. After
being found guilty, he should be SEN
fenced TO undergo a period OF treat-
ment similar TO that which Germany
inflicted on our prisoners. Then he
should be taken to Louvain and
hanged" I,4
Mrs j. AIacEwan-"If convicted by.a
properly qualified court, the kaiser de-
serves capital punishment after long
period of extreme mental and physicaI
discomfort; but suggest that he be
nTt MOT II, Immediately tel; hanged. as Germany
Mrs Dacre Fox-"There Is danrer
that the Kaiser may escape through
bunal. lie should be be- unreservediy ,I1'e%n. al,
handed over to France. who | am con-
hdent' will decide that hanging is too
Mrs How Martyr--."He should be
tried tried publicly. by a tribunal appointed
MISS T.. Murray-"He must be tried
Mrs; nn / O. q s. sssrashey-"The Kaiser should
gerous proximity of Germany" ~
GERMAN MANUFAC CTURERs e,
FACE TREASON CHARGE
Advices received here from Basef,
Swi,zerland, tonight announce the
leading manufacturers of Germa ny. and
2 nNmbsr Of other manufactn rers Srf:
pnesssldortf. On charges of,highstraa-i
| son: The arrests We're made Saturday
at Mulheim am Ruhr. Besides August
| Thyssen. those arrested were: Fritz
Herr WIrtz, DR.. Kuechen. a commercial
counselor. and Herr Stenz, mining
engineer. Nm
After being examined for several
hours by the Socialist council of hrui-
helm, the manufacturers were sent to
Munster, whence they will he taken to
them. fat5
August Thyssen has been known m
the owner of vast coal and iron mines,
and leading manufacturer. The
s:.:""Ia family also Is prominent in the
tercSts. 49,
This is. the first report from Ger
anv action PeiIisis tha have nahen
August Thyssen incurred the mo-
William last January by publishing an
article in German newspapers accusing
the Emperor of blackmailing German
business men before the war.
TO CONSIDER EXTENSION
OF ARMlSTICE LIMITS
y message from Berlin tonight says
that Matthias Erzberger; head of fhe
German Genn.1 ARMS armistise delegation an
ernment has requested the Gcrma n
army command to designate plenipo-
tentiaries to confer regarding the pro;
lcngation of the armistice. The dele
gates will meet at Treves. in Rhenish
Prussia. December IL and IS.
Relative to the commission appointed
Ky arm naNf L.
out a plan for economic socializatton.
dispatch says that the first session
has been held. but beyond organizing.
been adopted. The Berlin Bourse and
banking and industrial circles, so far
as the correspondent has been able to
ascertain do not expect the mediate
enactment of radical measures. The
impression prevails that the Ebert
Haase government is convinced that
he present political and economic sit
.ation is inauspicious. This seems sto
have been confirmed by recent utter
ances Of the leaders of both wings of
the Social Democracy.
GERMANS EMPRESS FEAR
OF NEXT U. $. CONGRESS
date which interests the whole
German people says the North German
Gazette. of Berlin, a date by which our
national assembly must at all events
be convoked, is the date of the meeting
of the new American Congress, with
it's extreme anti-German Republican
German people could no longer reckon
on that Congress to carry through
President Wilson'S principles.
Considerable .obscurity marks the
latest reports from Berlin regarding
the situation there. The outstanding
piece of news is that Chancellor Ebert
combat threatened new outbreaks
engineered by the radicals.
The latter. generally referred to in
the Berlin dispatches as the Spartacus
group. created a sensation at yestcr-
days Soviet meeting by charging the
Ebert government with having sup
iul counter-revolutionary garrisons at
Berlin and Potsdam. consisting mostly
OF men formerly belonging to the
Kaiser's guards.
the bud the radicals attempt last FRI
day TO overthrow the Ebert governs
they would. the Spartacus chieftains
themselves were arrested. f
1t Is also announced from Berlin that
the German government has recognized
the republic OF Esthonia. one Of the
Russian Baltic provinces.
FOOD SITUATION GRAVE
IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM
reports received from france. to-
nisht say that the liberated people5in
regions Of Northern France and Boil
Ginn' S urgently nced American help.
This report is based upon investiga-
tons made by French newspapers The
population Is said TO lack food and
clothing and that pneumonia and
tuberculosis are rampant st
During the past thirty-two days.I,,y
wife ana have eaten nothing but beet
SOUP man from Lille told visit
ing Paris deputation. The conservative
newsnaper Figaro says: III
Thysically our liberated populations
suffer to-day almost as bitterly as be-
f0OdstuffS In Lille, shoW}np fthat nm !