REPORTS OF GERMAN STRIFE
POSITION OF THE KAISER, ABDICATION DENIED. BITTER ATTACK IN PRESS.' (Received 7.40 p.m.) Renter. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 15. It is semi-officially denied in Berlin that the Kaiser intends to abdicate. (Receivod 7.40 pro.) Router. AMSTERDAM. Oct, 15. Herr Delbruck, the former Homo Secretary, has been appointed chief of the Kaiser's civil Cabinet. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.40 p.m.) BERNE, Oct. 15. The German newspapers aTe extraordinarily outspoken in discussing internal affairs. The Schwabcn Tagewacht says: " In future we will speak with much less respect concerning Wilhelm, for the spirit of tho German peoplo is daily becoming movo anti-monarchist." Many journals, formerly pan-German with annexationist sympathies, are now demanding that the authors of the submarine warfare should be made publicly responsible for the crime and the blunders which caused tho American entry into the war.
SOCIALIST RESOLUTION. PUNISHMENT OF LEADERS. .(Received 7.10 pm.) Router. BERNE. Oct. 13. A meeting of the Bavarian Socialist Party passed a resolution urging the Reichstag to appoint a State court to try all, even the highest, who are guilty of frustrating peace efforts, and also demandin" self-government for tho German States. PAN-GERMAN PLOTTING. PLANNING DICTATORSHIP. A. and NZ. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 15. Commenting on the pan-German antiGovernment campaign the Socialist paper Vorwarts declares that the pan-Germans are planning a coup de main with a view to overthrowing the Government and tho Reichstag and establishing a dictatorship which would continue during the war.
The Socialist congress at Munich unanimously demanded the abdication of both the Kaiser and the Crown Prince.
SUGGESTED EVACUATION CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION. . AMSTERDAM, Oct. 16. A manifesto issued by the German Conservative Party denounces the suggested evacuation of France and Belgium, ,and adds that Germany will be defended' to the bitter end.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16983, 17 October 1918, Page 5
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