Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-01
PART OF PROGRAM
| TO RALLY AROUND
HER SMALL POWERS
Premier Eisner Charges Ber-
lin Caused War and Is
FOmenting Revolt.
FORMER EMPEROR SIGNS
THE ABDICATlON DECREE
Renounces All Rights to Crown
and Releases Military
Forces.
WOLFF ANNOUNCES PARTY AIMS
Declares That New Federation Seeks
Only to Make Germany Demo-
cratic Nation.
FORMER EMPEROR SIGNS
THE ABDICATION DECREE
WOLFF ANNOUNCES PARTY AIMS

ZURICH (via Paris), November so.
Kurt Eisnerr the Bavarian Premier,
has announced that lie will open negor3
tiations for a separate peace. ,atssfss,
This is new and important step
in Bavarias program to rally around
her all the newly formed German re-
publics, including German Austria. and 1
replace Prussia as the dominant pow-i
er within the shattered empire. mals-%
ing Munich tho capital, instead or y
Berlin. tSls
In speech at Munich Premier sEis-s
ner declared Berlin caused the war;
! and that the Berlin Foreign Oficeswaa 4
now fomenting counter-revolutoh:
Eisner to-day appears the strongest
individual leader anywhere in Ger
stable, The former newspaper report
er, who rose to the premlership ips OF
the former Kingdom overnight. plans
virtual isolation OF Prussia which+ine4
brought about. sssSs
Munich for the rupture OF dipiematssiea
| relations between Bavaria and Eerlfn5
is that Eindenburg refused to accsdeS
70 Bavaria's demand, to resign, amos
| that the Berlin government refussds
to: o9st Dr. Matthias 'llrzbereet.sa a,sds s,s:
the soa antls Tie of ,Ye ela
| The EX-kaiser's formal and signed
| abdication decree, which was publishod9
to-day, failed to calm the troubled diva q
ters as 1t had been expected toE,dG.
William Hohenzollern in the denres
! signs away forever" his right to tha;i
srown Gro Of prussIa IND the rashtsssss1 s,1
FORMER KAISER SIGNS $50 KS q
DECREE OF ABDICATION@
The abdication decree, according rtos
tho message, expressed the hope that
the new new regent would be able to pro-:
archy, starvation and foreign suprefn-s5
acy. sSsssSy Il
The use of the word regent in theS
possibly significant.
The text of the former German yEni-&
issued by the new German goVsrn-
ment, lin order to reply to certain sInia-4l
UNDERSTANDINGS which have arisenjysiths
regard to the abdication," follows.
'By the present documents. LEE
nounce forever my rights TO the croNnA 4
of Prussia and the rights to the Cor
same time all the officials OF the sGer-s
man empire and Prussia and aisoE
officers. noncommissioned officers and
soldiers OF the Prussian navy and atn,y
and of contfngcnts from confederAtel
states from the oath of hdelityX they.
Rn RHs sasfR ana supreme me a. chef .her
II expect from them until snsW
orEanization Of. the German empMe8
effectively hold tho power in Cor,
many TO protect the German people
against the menacing dangers ofsSan-5
arehy. famine and foreign dominat,en,
Made and executed and signed by
our own hand with the imperial seal
at Amerongen' tsieysa1 Neys%ber !.yR 2si si11.Mws
DECREE APPARENTLY FAILS
TO STRENGTHEN EBERT;
There has been nation-wide and
In fact world-wide clamor forSathis
former monarch was done with ihes
crown and with all intentions to res,
seize it. But now that /; has sbecn
to have given little. IL any, strength!
TO the Ebert government. The crucial
struggle now on is that between Bava-s
affected by the abdication decree;
The all overshadowing fact issthat
ria and the other south German states
| determined that Prussia shall never;
again rise to. a dominating position In I
the affairs of Germany Some of5sthe
sympathy with this aim. and In tho
almost almost, general support, outside &;
strength OF Eisner's position.
MAJORITY SOCIALISTS
ARE CHARGING: TREASON
Majority Socialists Of Germanyi
with the imperialists and is piottins
treason against the Socialists. accord =
ing to statements printed in Vorwaertss$ :.
IT is stated that because Of his efforts
in aid of the imperialistS, Eisner, WHO Il
has been "a newspaper writer. wasEre-S Il
warded with a post in the erma n Sy az d
Ottice early In the war. 1t is said lie
used every means at his command 10 y
persuade the Socialists to support tps
military partya program, and urged y
his followers to subscribe to tho, q sr-
man war loans. rs ytsts N
Or. Alfred zimmermann. former For s
eiGn Secretary, replying to the chargaA x
of Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian Prenier, 4
that the government at Berlin was te1~
sponsible for tho war, declares In tho i;
DcutSche Zeituny: ..sSll59sss y IN ttE
we did. In fact. consider that ,sith
the crime of Serajevo Austria-EuhAg!
gnry's hour of destiny had struck ~ s.
did not prompt Anstrla-Hungary, TO her.
action, but expressly advised & hcssS
against 1t. The Vienna ultinlatmn.a Y
which we considered too severe, eEaaS4
communicatedto TO us too late for an oi, .ssf
deavor to mitigate IT, = !, Sfs
TO INTERN IACI<ENSEN,S ~
ARMY OF 17O, 600 HIsSy,
Messages received here Tonight from 4
Copenhagen declare that the tHungagisSs
an government has decided TO siyitern !,
the whole OF Field Marshai Won Aiaaks = y
ensen's army of 10000. In accordance q
with demand made by the sFe4ficdss:
government. Won Mackensen is rsport ss
cd to have yielded TO Sths decIsIop 8 lse e
w From Berlin NJ e. W