New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-11-15
HOHENzOLLERNS
HAVE ADVOCATED
KAISER QUITS, CROWN PRINCE
RENoUNCES THRONE As
REVOLT SPREADS.
EBERT IS CHANCELLOR
OEPOSED RULER SEEKS SAFETY
IN DUTCH CASTLE IN
HOLLAND,

HOLLAND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Zurich, Nov. 11.-Because Of the
troubles in the interior Of Germany.
Prince Macmillan of Baden and all
the Bourgeois ministers have resigned,
says . dispatch from Berlin. Fried.
rich Ebert, the-German Socialist lead
er. has been appointed as imperial
chancellor.
William Hohenzollern. German en-.
peror and king Of Prussia, has alb.
dicated. Official announcement Of
this fact was sent out by wireless
from Berlin. 1t is announced also
that the crown prince has %renounced
his rights and that a regency will be
instituted. Thirty years and almost
five months after he assembled the i'm.
perial throne, William H~ohenzollern.
his armies defeated in the field, forced
to sue for armistice terms, and tho
German people rising in revolt, gives
up his power. He came into author
ity with his country at the threshold
Of an era of peace and material prog.
ress: he leaves it torn by revolution
and suffering from the hardships and
sacrifices of more than four years of
war-virtually ruined.
With the passing from power Of
William Hohenzollern. all the heads
of the governments of the central pow.
ers when they entered the war have
died or lost their thrones.
Emperor Francis Joseph and the
sultan of Turkey died before their
countries agreed to allied armistice
terms, and Ferdinand of Bulgaria alb.
dicated, to be succeeded by his son,
who gave up the throne when his peo-
pie rose against him. The other Euro.
pean emperor at the beginning Of the
war. Nicholas Romanoff, was deposed
in March, 1917, and murdered in July,
1918.
London.-A German wireless mes
sage received in London Saturday
afternoon states: 1.-THE German i'm.
perial chancellor, Prince Macmillan
of Baden, issued the following decree:
The kaiser and king has decided to
cnounce the throne. The imperial
chancellor will remain in office until
the situation connected with the alb
dication of the kaiser, the renouncing
by the German crown prince of the
throne of the German empire and OF
Prussia. and the setting up of a re-
gency have been settled.
For the regency he intends to
appoint Deputy Ebert as imperial
peoples which might be DESTROYS Of
shall be brought in for the establish
ment of a law providing for the I'M
mediate PRONUNCIATION of general suf-
frage and for u constitutional German
national assembly. which will settle
finally the future form of government
of the German nation, and of those
peoples which might be desirious OF
coming within the empire.
1.-THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR.
Berlin, NOV. y, 1918.
A telegram received from Copen.
hagen from Brunswick by way of Ber-
lin asserts that Emperor Williams
son-in-law, the duke Of Brunswick,
and his successor have abdicated.
The soldiers councils at Stuttgart,
Cologne and Frankfort have decided
to proclaim a republic.
London, Nov. 1.-THE former Ger
emperors' party, which Is be-
lieved to include Field Marshal von
arrived at Eysden, on the
Dutch frontier, at 1880 o'clock Sunday
morning, according to Daily Mail ad-
vices.
Practically the whole German gen
pral staff accompanied the former EN-
peror and ten automobiles carried the
party. The automobiles we're brist-
ing with rifles and all the fugitives
we're armed.
Wilhelm H.. ~reigning king Of the
monarchy of Wurttemberg, is declared
have abdicated Friday night. and
haven't that the grand duke Of
Jesse, ruler Of the grand duchy Of
Iesse, has decreed the formation of a
OF state to take over the gov
there. Every dynasty in Ger
many is to be suppressed and all the
princes exiled, according to Swiss ad-
ices.
Peoples governments have been es-
ablished in the greater part of Berlin
nd in other cities of the kingdom and
mpire. Leipzig. Stuttgart, Cologne.
and Frankfort have Joined the
In Berlin there has been
ONE fighting between the revolution
SITS and reactionaries, in which sew
raj persons were killed or wounded.
he palace of the crown prince has
cen taken over by the revolutionists.
Reds Take krupp Gun Works.
London.-Essen, where the great
srupp steel works are situated, is re-
'orted to be in the hands of the revo-
say a dispatch from Am
terdam to the Exchange Telegraph