PAA PE STI TN 12 PAGES YEAR 85. En ------ NO. THE W KINGSTON. x. ONTAX Rid MONDAY, Nov EMBER 11, Che Daily British Whig 1918 » PAGES 9-12 SECON D SEC The Huns Routed and Driven Out of France by the Allied Armies Under Foch The German Empire Broken (Canadian Press Despatch.) Londan Nov, 11, --The Kaiser of Germany and the Crown Prince have abdicated. On Saturday afternoon this wireless message was received from Berlin: "The German Imperial Chancellor, Prince Maximilian of Baden, has is- "gued the following decree: "The Kaiser and King has decided to renounce the throne. The Imperial Chancellor will remain in office un- til questions of the abdication of the Kaiser, remouncing by the Crown Prince of the throne of the German THE EMPEROR WHO RUINED GERMANY. GERMANY NO LONGER AS AN EMPEROR The Kaiser ind the. Grov tion Prince Renounce the Throne And Say Good-Bye to the German Army---Socialist Leader Is Appointed Chancellor. Mighty Fat Empire and of Prussia, and setting up of a regency, have been settled. For the regency he intends to ap- point Deputy Ebert as Imperial Chan- cellor, and he bill Pshall be brought in for the establish- ment of a law providing for immedi- ate promulgation of general suffrage and for constitutional (German na- tional assembly, and will settle finally!' the future form of government of the German nation and of those peoples desirous of ¢oming within the Em- pire." or proposes that a Ernest Augustus, reigning Duke of Brunswick and son-in-law of the Kaiser, has also abdicated. Several ion, on Saturday. He . 7 ag | RSSEN IS IN THE HANDS OF THE ministers of Maximilian Government havo resigned, Ebart Is Chancellor. (Canadian Press Despatch) Zurich, Switzerland, Nov. 11.--Be- cause of troubles in the interior of Germany, Prince Maximilian of Ba- den and all bourgeois ministers have resigned, says a despatch from Ber- lin. Friedrich Ebert, German Social- ist, has been definitely recognized as Cliineellor, Simply Couldn't Do It. (Canadian Press Despatch) London, Nov, 11.--Before Prince Maximilian offered his resignation as Imperial Chancellor, he issued the following appeal to the Germans abroad: "In the fifth year of hos- tilities abandoned by its Alles, the German people cpuld no longer 'wage war aginst increasingly superior forces." ~ i Kaiser Bids Army Good-bye, (Canadian Press Despatch) Amsterdam, Nov. 11.--The former Kaiser and Crown Prince took leave of the German army on Saturday morning, after signing the abdica- tion, but néthing further is known of them. Nearly all the kings and dukes of the German Empire have now abdi- cated, There is a general strike all over Germany and the situation is serious as' the result of the stopping of food trains. Disposal Of er Estate. Syracuse, N.Y., Nov. 11.--Bequests to charities aggregating between $30,000,000 and $35,000,000 are in- cluded in the will of Mrs. Russell Sage, native of this city, according to {ntimations expressed by H., J. Slo- cum, Jr., her grandnephew, who came here to make arrangements for the' burial of Mrs. Sage in the family plot in Oakwood, ~ The balance of the estate, estimat- od at a total of $70,000,000 to $80,- 000,000%4ill go to Mrs. Sage's bro- ther, Col. J. J. Slocum, it is believed. BERLIN TAKEN BY THE "REDS" The Corman Revoulonisls Captured Oe " Capital After Severe Fighting. FRA KRUPP NDE ARREST Land and Sea and in the Air (Canadian Press (rspaich) Copenhagen, Nov, 11.>-Berlin wi nia's Rayarament Which. will endeavor 'who started the greal war, the Allied nations, THE LATEST PORTRAIT OF GENERAL FOCH The Commander-in- Chief Germany. x eight o'clock Saturday night and a violent cannonading was heard from the heart of the city. The Red forces of Germany are in possession MARSHAL HAIG saying that he plans to form a peo] . of the Alied Armies, whose ' brilliant gefleralship caused disaster to the armed legions of of thé German capital sons were killed -and wounded fore the officers surrounded. forces are in control and have re- stored order. Strong guards are marching through. she streets, The Crown Prince's palace has been seized hy the revolutionists. The people are shouting "Long live the Republic" and are singing the ""Mar- seillaise." May Not Prevent Armistice, be- Red | repudiatés the present armistice gates, ft is thought here the. spreading through Germany will not prevent Marshal Foeh from accept- ing the signature of the envoys and putting the armistice into effect. and low, { Many per- : tarot tes mn and rich people All national cock- ades and eagles are removed and re- placed on the German soldiers' hel- mets by red bands. The wearing of iron crossés hy German soldiers is prohibited by the 1 new council The Kaiser Aimed To Teutonize World Throughout his reign of a quarter of a century the Kaiser had but one ambition--to "Teutonize" the world He subordinated everything else, or made everything else fit in with his ambition. In 1871 Germany had no navy or merchant ; marine worthy the name, It was through the Kaiser's demands that both were raised to second place among the nation It same with the German army. The vasit German military machine was aetu ally the child of the Kaiser's ambi tion, Becanse ho taught: and the theory that only through tary and naval supremacy could Germany arrive at "a place in the sun," the Ka became known as the "war lord Although he forced out Bismarck, the "iron. chancellor," the Emperor followeldl Bismarek's teachings that only by the "mailed, fist" conld Germany live and grow His oft-repeated insistence that he ruled by divine right aided him in carrying out his policies. It tend od to make hig subjects, both high wus the practised mili more subservient to his de- Thon h Revolution---The Once herland Perishes by the Sod It Unsheathed. . d whims As the German from «a population of 47,000,000 to 67,000,000, and to a place in the commercial workl sur in some lines even Great influence and power ins mands an Empire grow yKalser was born Jan. 27th, In saving his "inother's life n he was born the main nerves of fils deft arm were so strained that the arm became shrivelled, and has TONE weelesd aver shiver Blnoe chila- hood he has had to use a specially. made fork with a heavy edge that served as a knife ag well, One reason for his well-known dis- like for his mother, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria of Eng- land, was laid to the operation which resulted in the loss of the use of his arm, ------ Steel's Gentrous Gift. New York, Nov. 11---The Steel Corporation's contribution of $5,000,- 000 to the United War Work Fund is equal to nearly one per cent. on the common stock, In voting the gift, it is noderstood, the directors acted with full confidence that stock holders would approve the applica- tion of so substantial an amount of earnings to Americans in France and the homre-camps: A strong protest against recent Orders-in-Couneil debarring strikes, prohibiting newspapers and declaring the Social Democratic party to be an unlawful association, has been put on record by the Greater Toronto Labor party, : A i AA A A A A A A EX~-CROWN PRINCE WILHELM, ne Foe change to rule the Sald buon of F luis ugtoeratie f who Tas mt enerebitag over ar. rough ; Rl EE ET Bb a i