KAISER’S ABDICATION

Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 6

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 tho whole Government of Berlin wanted to see him dethroned, and sent the Minister of tho Interior, Dr Drews, to ask him to resign. The details of their conversation at Spa are now published in an interview in the ‘ Berliner Tagcblalt.’ "What!” cried tiio Kaiser, lou —a Prussian civil servant, a subject of mine—dare to come to me with such a proposal!” Tho Minister made no reply, and bowed. “My sons _ have spoken to me,” continued Ibo Kaiser, “ and they declare that none of them will take my place if I go. With me, therefore, the whole house of Ilohenzollern resigns. What do you think would be the result? ” “ Chaos,” replied Drews. “ I will tell you bow 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 plunder, and the enemy will help them. For these reasons I do not even consider abdicating, I do not even think of deserting my country on account of a couple of hundred Jews and two thousand workers. Yon can tell that to tht Ministers of Be,rlin.”