The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-27

night to send our declaration to the foreign governments.'
 At o'clock the liaison officers confirm the preceding declarations. Baron von Grunau adds:
 My impression is that everyone here has lost his 'self-controp."
 He goes off to the Emperor, who agrees with him that. in order to take steps for peace, 1t is necessary to await till the new government has been formed But General Luden- dorff insists:
 We are still in honorable posture But our line may be broken through at any moment and then our peace. offer will arrive at the most unfavor- able moment. I have the sensation of playing game of chance. At any moment and at any point, a division may fail in its duty"
 At o'clock that night he demands that to the offer of peace shall be added a request for the designation Of the point of meeting for the nego- tiation of the armistice He even goes so far as to give the names of the men who will form the armistice com mission including an Austrian and Turk. At midnight he reiaterates;
 The offer of peace must be trans mitted immediately from Berne to Washington. The army cannot walt another 4s hours"
 Panic reigns. Events prove this; for the army. which Recording to the general cannot walt another AS hours will continue to fight with out letup until November II. This panic seems to be. due to three req sons. The first is that the military situation, although not hopeless, Is bad. The second is that the general staff, so overbearing three months ago, is anxious to share it's responsi- biiity with civilians. The third Is that. like many Germans. the great general staff cherisnes extraordinary llus.ons about the terror Germany in- spires, the weS9hess of President Wilson, the divisions among the allies, and the nature of the terms 1t will be possible to obtain, Prince Max of Baden--who that very evening had become chancellor of the empire and head of a cabinet chosen with the ap- proval of the Reichstag-vreceive an avalanche of alarmist teiegrams on taking up his duties. He becomes in- dignant and insists upon getting in- formation before taking action. A representative of the great general Stan-Major von dem Bussche-ex- plains the situation on October g. He is less pessimistic than his chief, but reserved and embarrassed, on the whole far from reassuring. Among other things he says:
 The entente, by attacking along the whole front obliged us to scatter our reserves. Of the divisions on the eastern front which were intended for the western front, seven were mobil- ized by the events In Bulgaria. The enemy has placed in action a great many more tanks than was expected. The German troops have fought well. But the strength of our battalions has fallen to $40 men-and that despite the breaking up for replacements of 22 divisions. equal to 66 regiments. No endorsements are In sight. The allies, on the contrary, thanks to the Americans, are in a position to make good their losses. The German army is still strong enough to withstand the enemy for months, to win local successes and to force the entente to make fresh sacrifices But the high command believes, as far as man can judge-there is no longer any possi- bility of forcing the enemy to make peace"