The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-30
WILL NOT STAND i
FOR SoCIALISTIC
REPUBLIC There
So Says General Won Elsa Of
German Army.
The Soldiers Want Wilhelm
Back ON the Throne.
WILHELM RENoUNCES 'RIGHTS
Comes After Report That He
Was Planning Comeback.

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And Would Return to Germany
To Rule Once More.
Amsterdam. Nov. 30.-General Won
Elsa has announced that the German
ist republic. and wants the kaiser
! back, according to dispatch from
Brunswick received today.
Papers In Berlin.
Berlin, Nov 30.-The Abenblatt
says 1t understood that the documents
in which the kaiser abdicated have
reached this city.
Signs His Abdication.
London, Nov. 30.-Former Emperor
William signed his abdication at
! Amerongen. Holland. Friday, accord
ing to Wolff bureau OF Berlin trans
mitted by the Exchange Telegraph
correspondent at Copenhagen.
The abdication decree, according to
the message expressed the hope that
THE new regent" would be able to
protect the German people against
anarchy. starvation and foreign SUI
premacy. The use of the word regent
in the message is commented upon
| here as possibly significant.
Washington, Nov. so.-state depart
reported that Admiral Won Hintze.
former head Of the German navy. was
in Holland to obtain from the former
kaiser a formal proclamation of alb
dication.
Releases Officers.
Amsterdam, Nov. 30.-William
Hohenzollern has definitely renounced
all future rights to the crowns of Prus-
| sia and Germany and has released all
officials and officers from their oath
of fealty. according to the text of a
document signed by the former en-
peror. which is quoted in a telegram
| received here from Berlin.
| Has the Flu.
| Amsterdam, Nov. 30.-The former
German emperor has the influenza.
4 according to report and was unable
to greet his wife on her arrival at
| London, Nov. 30.-Count William
Hohenzollern will be given full op-
portunity to answer the charges
against him. Attorney General F. E.
Smith declared in a campaign speech.
III he is returned to Germany, or
is held in detention, the coalition gov
| ernment will insist upon the personal
accountability of the former kaiser
for the crimes for which he is chiefly
and personally responsible said
Smith.
THE coalition is determined to give
him an opportunity to answer the
charges"
Smith intimated that no attempt
would be made to punish the former
kaiser until after the British elections.
Amerongen, Holland, Nov. 3O.-It is
understood here that William Hohen-
zollern has been awaiting the arrival
of his wife before going elsewhere:
Germans in his suite believe he will
return to Germany and are optimistic
enough to think he will resume the
throne.
member of Count Won Bentinck's s
household said today that the former
wife arrived and seemed particularly
delighted. One of Herr Hohenzol-
lern's servants is reported to have said
that his master was "much brighter"
and to have added, things are looking
better for U.S."
Not All Thru Yet
New York, Nov. 30.-Reports from
| Berlin that the kaiser has signed a
formal document renouncing the
!, throne and absolving all officials from
! their oath of allegiance to him, do not
mean an end has been made to the
, conspiracy to return the HohenZollerns
, to power.
Having broken his word to civiliza- :
! ton, Hohenzollern would not hesi-
: tate to recall his remuneration oath II
conditions warranted. The fact that
German officials have been relieved
,, OF their pledge of loyalty to the head
! CT the Hohenzollerns is valueless In
!; view of the inbred antagonism of the
German official class to popular rule
The most favorable factor in the
situation for the return of Hohenzol-
lern to Germany is the continued re.
tention of their positions by the same
old reactionary officials who were ap-
pointed under the former regime. This
c part of the German population is moi
e in sympathy with the curious socialist
d experiment in conservative govern.
Y ment now being undertaken by the
Berlin politicians. The army itself 1.
commanded by the same ultra-mili.
q tarists who gave their military oaths
! of chains and iron bars that sounded
4 to Hohenzollern and who have beer
: ineradicably educated in the doctrine
r of imperialism.
Eight with Her.
: Amerongen. Holland, Nov. 30.-Tht
former empress was accompanied Il
| Holland by a party of eight. Ths
party comprised Countess Won Keller
a a lady of honor; Prince Won Solms
former chief court chamberlain; Coun
1 Rantzau, a court physician, thre<
maids and a valet
!, London, Nov. 30.-The meeting o.
Z former Emperor william and the for
: mer empress at Amerongen is de
q scribed by a Dutch correspondent oi
e the Daily Express.
$ The gates were thrown open. ths
d drawbridge was lowered with nois'
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