The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-09
Practically ALI of Nation is
Reported to be Seething
With Revolt
Today.
R1oT1NG AND MUT1NY
insurgents Said to Have Seized Berlin
and Set Fire to the Postofffce
and City
Hall.

lOulLeQ FIeSS Leased wire Service.
LONDON, Nov. 9.-Practically all
of Germany is reported to be seeth-
ing with revolt.
Dispatches received here today in
dicated that important cities In all
parts Of the empire are in the hands
of the revolutionists.
Following reports that the council
of workmen and peasants in Munich
had declared Bavaria republic. 1t
was announced that the revolltionists
are believed to have seized Dresden,
capital of Saxony.
A dispatch from Stuttgart, capital
of Wurtemburg, said the cabinet of
that state had resigned.
4 Workmens and soldiers soviets are
reported now to control Lockstadt,
Eckernforde and Brunswick. Rioting
is reported in Essen, seat of the great
Krupp gun works.
Other important cities said to be
held by the revolutionists are Ham
burg, Kiel, Bremen, Tilsit, Schwerin.
Bremerhaven, Wilhelmshaven and
Flensburg.
Practically the entire German navy
with the possible exception of the
third squadron, has been taken over
by revolving sailors.
A wireless despatch from Berlin
says that Chancellor Macmillan Sin
view Of the altered parliamentary
situation" has sent In his resigna-
tion.
1t has not yet been accepted.
Apparently the chancellor's last
official act before turning in his
resignation was to send out the fol-
lowing proclamation to Germans
abroad;
1.-The victory for which many
hoped has not been granted us, but
the German people has won a greater
victory, for it has conquered itself
and its belief in the justice of
might"
Dresden. city of 500 600 is located
100 miles south of Berlin. Munich.
also city of half million, is nearly
$50 miles west of Vienna, Stuttgart is
about 120 miles northwest Of Nun
ich. 1t has population Of 100000.
Brunswick is thirty-flve miles south
east Of Hanover. Its population Is
10000. Essen is twenty miles north
OF Dusseldorf. 1t has a population
of 100000. Erckernforde is ten miles
southeast Of Schwerin.
klet CanaI Blocked.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 9-The work
mems and soldiers council has
blocked the Kiel canal by throwing
warships lengthwise across 1t, ac-
cording to dispatches received here
today.
The revolutionists are reported to
haven and Lubbock
Demand kaiser's AbdicatIon.
/ BASLE, Nov 9-The workmen's
and soldiers council at Munich has
adopted a resolution demanding alb
dication of the kaiser and deposition
Of the Wittelsbach dynasty, accord
ing to a dispatch received from that
city.
Munich Is the capital Of Bavaria
The Wittelsbachs have been the
ruling family of that state for more
than eight hundred years.
Berlin In Confusion.
THE HAGUE, Nov. AN uncon-
firIned report was received here to-
day that insurgents have seized Ber-
lin, setting fire to the postof11ce and
city hall.
Chancellor Has Resigned.
PARIS, Nov. 9.-(11:10 a. IA
dispatch rom Zurich today purported
to affirm that Prince Maximilan, the
German chancellor, has resigned.
Trotsky Reported Resigned
ZURICH, Nov. 9.-Leon Trotsky
war minister and former foreign min
lister to the Russian Bolsheviki gov
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