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EX.KAISER
PLANS TO.
RETURN TO.
GERMANY
Field Marshal Won Hindenburp
Acting as Intermediary
for Hun War Lord;
Ludendorff Back.

Paris, Jan. 29.-(Havas. )-Fieid
Marshal Won Hindenburg, according
to the Echo de Paris, is endeavoring
to bring about the return of former
Emperor William after the meeting
of the national assembly. Leading
German manufacturers in West
phalia are said to be interested in
the plan.
The newspaper adds that tile
former emperor wrote to Premier
Ebert that he would accept whatever
residence in Germany was assigned
to him. Ebert is said to have re-
piled that only the national assembly
would be qualified to decide the
question.
Ludendorff Returns to Berlin.
London, Jan. 29.-General Lud-
endorff, former chief quartermaster
general of the German army, has re-
turned to Berlin and is living in a
small village in the Grunewald dis
trict under an assumed name, ac-
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Amsterdam, because
he fears popular demonstrations.
The general is said to have placed
his services at the disposal of the
government. which. it is added, de-
clined them with thanks.
Max to be Candidate.
Amsterdam, Jan. 29.-Prince Max
of Baden, the former German inn
perial chancellor, will be nominated
by the German social democrats and
the German democrats as their can
didate for the presidency of the Ger
man republic, according to a Berlin
dispatch printed in the Neues Jour
nal Of Vienna.
German Circles Disputed.
Berlin, Jan. 29-(By Associated
Press.)-President Wilson's speech
of Saturday last before the peace
congress contains the following sem
tence as transmitted to Berlin and
here re-translated from the German
"The United States would have a
feeling that it could not take part
in guaranteeing these European adj
justments unless this guaranty in
cluded the permanent surveillance
of the world peace by the associated
nations of the world"
This sentence, together with the re-
ported decision of the supreme coun-
Gil at Tuesdays session that the
German colonies must not be given
back to Germany, has disquieted
some German circles. The Moursen
Zeitung, for instance, says:
"If President Wilson is correctly
reported, he confesses openly that
he, too, like Premier Clemenceau
and Lloyd George, does not desire
Germany in the future community of
nations as an equal among equals,
but as nation watched by overseers.
= The president cannot won
der if people in Germany gradually
begin to form the opinion that the
hopes they placed in him are TO Be
disappointed"
Fear Allies Action.
The socialist newspaper, Vor-
waerts, in commenting on the re-
port regarding the division Of the
German colonies among the allied
nations, says:
The league of nations is making
a lovely beginningl The decision
OF the western powers to take the
German colonies for themselves Is
born of a spirit diametrically op-
posed to that proclaimed by Presi-
dent Wilson. 1t appears more and
more as If it were the intention of
the western imperialists to leave 10
Mr. Wilson the merely musical and
declamatory roles of the perform
ance and to reserve to themselves
the business end of the show. %se
We Germans would prefer an honest
policy of stand and deliver. TO
policy of imperial aggrandizement
adorned with ethical and oratoficsi
phrases. But since America has nor
yet agreed to the pact we shall later
see whether America can do aay-
thing except make speeches
The official text of the passage in
President Wilson's speech of Sat
urday alluded to in the foregoing.
as transmitted from Paris SATURDAY.
night, reads as follows:
Ut (the United States) would
feel that it could not take part 4
guaranteeing those European set-
Elements unless that guarantee in-
volved the continuous superintend-
ence of the peace Of the world bv
the associated nations of the world