BAVARIAN PLEA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 4

BAVARIAN PLEA

"WE CONFESS OUR. GUILT."

Amsterdam, November IS. Addressing a mooting to celebrate the revolution in the National Theatre in Munich, which was attended by representatives of the Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants' Councils from all parts ot Bavaria and members of the Government, Herr Kurt Kisuor, the Premier, according to a Munich, telegram, saiup "The past, is dead. Woe to any who attempt to revive this accursed past \\ o call to peoples who wore only yesterday our enemies. Wc confess our guilt, and thereby open for enemies the way to a close 'understanding and leconciliation. This has been the last war, and if we removed those responsible for this world crime and put them entirely aside with a consideraiton which they iii'.d not deserved we showed that we r.re men We beg von for your help. We greet thora who'were our enemies. We send our greeting to the peoples <f France, Italy, England, and America. We desire jointly with you to build n new era."—Kentor.

Fifth Avenue, New York, from tbo Flatiron' Building to the lower end of Central Park, was recently transformed into the "Avenue of the Allies." Block after block the thoroughfare displayed the flags of the twenty and more nations which were fighting shoulder to shoulder to protect (ho world from the Prussian ojrre- mile after mile the Allied banners, a block for each ally, defied the Hun ond celebrated the union of civilised nations against a common enemy.. Anyone who ' saw tho snectnele would hardly _ acain think of New York as chiefly a frivolous and commercial city.