The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-28

, tered the palace, the window clos
ing Immediately behind him
The Amazon addressed the men in
the armored automobiles that sur
rounded the palace.
Fire upon us il you like. Our
ranks are close and you will kill
many. But not one of you will live
to eat rat sausage tomorrow morn
ing. Now disarm and march to the
guard house
The contemplate little army OF the
Kaiser, hypnotized as much by the
glare as by this solid mass of vim
dictive females singly so negligible-
shrugged their shoulders, surrender
ed their arms, and marched off under
guard.
After all. they would have a bless
ed rest, however brief. before the
great generals sent back a few brig
AIDES to execute summary vengeance
upon these presumptuous women,
who had used their incidental supe-
riority in numbers so basely.
Allies Deliver Combined Blow.
But nothing came from the front
but frantic orders by wireless to the
stanch but impotent pillars of the
old regime. The British, French, and
American forces, convinced at last
that German women actually had ef-
fected a revolution-God knew howl
attacked every point Of the line
from Flanders to Belrort, and their
aviators dropped newspapers con-
tanning the extraordinary but verified
story, into the German trenches and
back OF the lines.
The destruction OF the railways
e. he
pire. as well as all the rolling stock
within three miles OF the frontier,
baked any attempt to rush supplies
in from the east. and in two days
Austria was in the throes of a revo-
luton far more devastating inter-
nally than Germany's, for that excit-
able and llarassed people. long on the
verge Of despair. merely caught the
revolution microbe and went mad. }
To supply either the army oppos-
ing Italy or that in Roumania and
Gallicia, TO say nothing of that in
the northeast, was no longer even
considered. The young Emperor
sought only to come to an under
standing with his people.
1t was q matter OF days before both
ammunition and food would be ex-
hausted on the two fronts, and
neither had a super1uous man to
send to Berlin or even to repair the
tracks. ;
By Friday there was no longer any
doubt of the complete success of the
revolution. Britain, France, Russia,
Italy, the United State. with a prompt
and canny statesmanship, remarkable
Ia governments had formally ac-
knowledged the German Republic and
offered terms of peace possible for an
opahFffNFta k,,N
beaten people to accept.
At all events there would be no
commercial boycott, and the young
republic would be given every assist
ance in restoring the shattered
finances of Germany and its economic
relations with the rest OF the world.
. The good German people were fiat-l
tered in phrases that they rolled on
their tongues. Even those too
schooled in lies to believe the states
men OF their own OF any land re-,
hected that. after all. the enemy al
lies had demonstrated they were
sportsmen, that German prisoners
had been well treated, and that before
the war there had been no restric-
lions upon German commerce save in
insidious reiterated words OF men de-
termined upon war at any cost.
As a matter OF fact, Germany had
been absorbing the commerce OF the
world. and Britain had been repre-
hensibly supiae.
As the Socialists now did all the
talking, and unhindered, 1t was not
difficult to persuade even the reluct-
ant minority that the military party
had precipitated the war in a. sudden
panic at the rapidly developing power
OF the proletariat.
Night flyers dropped millions OF
leaflets in the vicinity Of the armies
on the eastern and western fronts,
signed lat the pistol point by the
most powerful names in the former
as well as by the we'll
known Soclal-Democrat leaders. con-
tanning the details OF the revolution
and proofs of its success.
The empire had fallen. 4 republic,
by the great powers of
the world, was established.
Would the soldiers stack their
arms and return to their homes?
II the generals or under officers at
tempted to restrain them IL was to be
that the soldiers were
as a hundred thousand to one.
The women felt no real apprehen-