The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-07-30
THE EVENTS
At CITY Of SPA
Just Before the Arnistice Was
Signed. German Cen
erals Urged
THE KAISER TO ABDIcATE

THE KAISER TO ABDICATEl
Berlin, July 27-AI the reaction
ary papers today publish an .'auth-
entic history of the events of Nov.
9, at Spa,, signed by Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg, Count Plosseni,
Former State Secretary Hintze, and
Generals Marschall and Schulen
burg.
There is collective effort to
white wash Wilhelm Hohenzollern
in the '"history," which contains
nc new facts, but is inended to serve
two significant aims. First, it is an
attempt to try by the confirmable
testimony of all the notable persons
present on that occasion to establish
beyond doubt the fact that Wilhelm
never abdicated as King of Prussia,
but only as German Emperor, and
that when it became known at Spa
that Chancellor Max had already
proclaimed his abdication as both
Kaiser and King, Wilhelm signed
a protest against this action of the
Chancellor
! After consultation with those ar
ound him, however, Wilhelm decid-
ed not to make the protest public,
but to deposit it for use at--the prop
er time with Hindenburg, Perhaps
the signers mentioned above
thought that the proper time had
arrived, but they could not forsee
that the storm brewing at Weimar
farainst the .eactfonaries would spoil
lThatever plal they hal
The fact that Wilhelm has since
signed his abdication as King and
Kaiser at Amerongen does not in
fluence these men, who have already
repeatedly declared that the Amer
ongen document is Invalid because
it's signature was extorted.
Il Second. the authentic history" is
INTENDED to convince the German
people that the fight to Holland was
not a cowardly act, but was dictated
by the KaiseF's high sense Of re-
/ sponsibility and his wish to save
his people from any further blood
shed.
This might be considered by some
as very timely manoeuvre, for all
efforts to enlist the German masses
in the campaign against the trial
of the ex-Kaiser and other eulprits
have so far failed significantly This
new attempt, it is predicted, will
: Ibeccme another failure for it con-
, tains not line disproving the gen.
orally accepted version that Will
helm. who sacrificed millions OF
lives for his vain glorfousness, fled
: at the first moment when. the pos
? bility that he might lose his own
3 life occurred to him.
In summing up the authentic his
tory says:
Until ! November 9, his majesty
the King and Kaiser, believed firm.
ily in the loyalty of his army and
hoped to have sufficient military
forces at his disposal to suppress
tif necessary, local revo1ts. But the
surprising progress of the revolution
and the disintegration of the mill
|tary bodies induced the command
: jag generals on the morning. o
e November 8, to tell the Kaiser tha
: lit was impossible to reconquer ths
0 Father1and with the army, and the,
r also declared against the possibilit,
g of the Kaiser returning home peace
It fully at the head of his troops, be
+ cause ecen that might provoke fight
i ing.
: But the Kaiser wanted to avoi.
d civil war in all circumstances Tha
: is why he decided to leave his coun
try. and until the last moment hi
> one thought was how best to sery
st the Fatherland
= Even in this summary IT is mad
- quite plain why the Kaiser refraine
from reconquering the Fatnerlant
= It was simply because his general
said that the army would not figh
for him, and If he did not return 9
the head OF his army n was bs
cause his generals said that the pei
. pie did not want him
lo The authentic history leaves ,
tcontinusd Onspage Eishto