KAISER’S ABDICATION

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 79, 27 December 1928, Page 15

KAISER’S ABDICATION

THE STORY RETOLD. “If you send me a paper asking for my abdication I will write to you and give you an answer with machine guns on the pavement, even if I myself fall in the act.” With these words the exKaiser refused to abdicate the throne on November 3, 1918, when the whole Government of Berlin wanted to see him dethroned, and sent the Minister of the Interior, Dr. Drews, to ask him to resign. The details of their conversation at Spa are now published in an interview in the "Berliner Tageblatt.” "What!” cried the Kaiser. “You —a Prussian Civil servant, a subject of mine —dare to come to me with such a proposal!” The Minister m ule no reply, and bowed. “My sons have spoken to me,” continued the Kaiser, “and they deciare that none of them will take my place if I go. With me. therefore, the whole house of llohenzo]lern resigns. What do you think would be the result?” “Chaos," replied Drews. “I will tell you how this chaos will come about,” said the Kaiser. ‘I retire —and my whole house. That will be the end of the whole German dynasty. The army has no leader. The front will collapse. Traitors will band together to hang murder and blunder, and the enemy will lioln them. For those rnnvons Ido pot even consider Abdicating T do not oven thin’-' of deserting my eountry on account of a counle of hv.nd’-od J -vs end two then sand workers You >-an fe’l Hint to HuMinisters of Berlin.”—.Central News.