Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-05
ARMISTICE URGED
BY LUDENDORFF
Macmillan Harden Dates
German Collapse From
August Last
TELLS OF REVOLUTION
Plan to Send Out Navy to
'Die in Honor" Started
Revolt
TELLS OF REVOLUTION
Special Cable 10 Erenins Public Ledger
& copp,ioht. 1918 bV Nctr YorJ: Times Co.
London, Dec, ..

.H
issue of Naximilian TIarden's Die lu-
Skunft of November 9S n speech which
Il Harden delivered a few days before,
containing an account OF tho revolution
Harden dates the German collapse from
August and adopts the common version
+ of the sudden military loss OF morale
ana the complete breakdown of the
whole system Of lies ana artificial op-
,inisms.
He says that Albert Balm Was called
In by one of Ludeudorir's satellites in
August as the only man who could tell
the Kaiser the truth BaIltn. who in the
first weeks of the war had been ban
ished from the sun because he recon-
mended immediate peace negotiations.
At that time, according 10 Harden,
.lthere was a terrible scene and ladys
ian threatened the cheek Of the ship
owner, the only German who had de-
foated England in his world field and
,yet had won and kept British conf
dence."
In August Ballin Travelled to VIII
hal,nshoe but the Kaiser would not see
hi,n alone: The conversation took place
+; II .hn pressnce OF the chief OF the, En-
,eror's civil cabinet, Herr Won Berg, ana
Baiiin went away with nothing done
Iudepdorff's next move was TO tell
ADMIRAL Won Hintze, then Foreign Sec
re.ary that he must make peace, out
weeks went by without HintHe naNihg
anv nrogress. In September the num-
y
growing, and il became ever clearer that
,he morale of tho army was breaking
down.
Iudendorff Demanded Armistl'e
suddenly LudendorH's demand that
germany should ask for an armistice
broke upon the Reichstag and the peopIo
with the violence Of an uneApecte1
Thunderstorm" The miltary "oIlu
yenerally did not know that the proposes
t,.ayae from Ludendorf and attributed II
70 .'cowardly bourgeoisie' ana Jews tl,u ti.I
20 Matched a plan OF seniong Out ZIG
6eet $50 fall upon the English and' II
seed be, ITO die in honor
Harden then describes this ndVai
sobe,ne as the definite beginning oil 'le
revolution. He states that no politIoal p'
re,tv had anything to do with planning
The revolution, and he proceeds:
IT had occasion in the first week OF
N,oyenber to see and hear the only ii1el'
who could have been suspected ot
stirring up the revolt, and can pear
witness that they had not the shghtes'
sss,aea OF what was in the making. NO
,sny,t,c,an had any share in it. The
sA,Iors were told that q revolution move
rnert was being prepared. .
sTt ia not true that the plan OF at
tack was discovered through any
striking preparation. The suspicion OF
ri,e sailors first was aroused when they
noticed that in spite of the Importance
which was to be attached to the coming
operation. many older officers, especially
married ones, had received leave for the
period of the revolution
sailors Refused to Attack
son the Narkgraf and Baden the
hu,aiac1<ets put their heads together and
whispered, What is up? Tho stewards
overheard conversations which confirmed
Their suspicion that the navy was to
stack and go under. Then the resolve
was taken: We will neither oppose the
will of tho Government nor let our lives
be thrown away for cause which can
no longer be saved in this way. We will
do eyerything that is necessary for de-
tense of the coast, but we will not make
s,, attack which the civil authorities re-
rard as no longer necessary and even
harmful and which would be bound 10
befor afresh the aim of getting peace"
Harden, after describing how the sail
s,rs obtained control and the sparks OF
feyoiution spread inland, continues:
..when the flame had spread and news
4 zane of Bavaria's nobly stubborn rising,
when earthquakes marked the coming
collapse of the military monarchy, the
a
edge, but then was seen the wonderfully
,.omforting fact that even at such fever
heat these men were ready to stake
everything IL German soil was really to
be threatened by tho enemy.
at may have been n false rumor or
Il may have been tactics which one can
almost call brilliant, but suddenly the
cry was raised: The English are COM
ing. Between II and IL o'clock Kiel
Will be attacked. Their ships have al
ready been sighted
Ready to Protect Fatherland
tThc whole picture was changed. All
st once they felt themselves again the
protectors of German soil-sailors, Of
iicers and signallers, All hearts beat
ii harmony. At Wilhelmshaven and
Hiel the greatest secrets were packed
up and sent to Berlin.
{" English attack! No. my boy, that
must not be. That is contrary to the
arrnistice, contrary 10 all good faith
and we should be rascals if We stood
it'
'.The mutineers' Of yesterday now
cried Hoch" for our German father
land. and since then the sailors, includ-
= ing q thousand in Old Berlin castle
have been the pillars of the order which
WAS created by the revolution"
Most Interesting are Harden's rehec.
lions of the sudden conversion Of the
bureaucracy. He says:
.Shame, where is thy blush? Mobiles
Who. during the French revolution laiG
down their powdered heads with smile
n before the executioners, were more
&orthy of respect. Converts OF today
a rs as vermin. Let everybody take of
his hat TO those who rendered technica
.serVice 10 tho old order, and now be
,.auso they love their country and theil
pecpie. gladly place their technical skill
III tho service of the new which the.
may not have welcomed; but can fec
~ respect for those who sat in pres
o6lccs and sent truth abroad ant
.,nntied the warehouses of truth. SOM
WHO sought 10 befog us more and NOR
.,,ifh their verse and their prose nov
+ t,;4ce the Same tricks and intrigues a
.>i1e rervice Of a system that has beel
fundamentally changed.
eyVhere are tho honest mobiles of Il 81
VINO would rather die than throw OF
their opinion like a dirty shirt? Al
round US are nothing but democrats
4oou fhere will be nothing but republi
TT win name no names point 10 n
i <Fticular professions or particula