CHEAT GERMAN REVOLTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17006, 13 November 1918, Page 8

CHEAT GERMAN REVOLTS.

ALE PEUSSIA INVOLVED.

SOYALTIES FLEE COUNTRY.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ißtti. 1.40 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 11. Telegrams from Berlin show that the revolution is hourly gaining momentum. The whole of Prussia is now involved. Bavaria, Saxony, and Baden have been proclaimed republics, and scores of large towns are in the hands of the revolutionaries. Most of them were gained with* out bloodshed, as the troops quickly threw in their lot with the rebels. All the German guards on the Dutch frontier threw down their arms and left their posts, thus enabling the Kaiser, the Kaiscrin, the Crown Prince, end their suite, to reach Holland without misadventure. Some of the German royalties were less fortunate. Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia, the formes, wounded in the arm, are hiding in Schleswig, near the Danish frontier, with Princess Adalbert and her children, while Prince Adal-

Bert has taken refuge in his yacht, the crew of which remains loyal. The fate of the King and Crown Prince of Bavaria, who fled from the palace one morning, also the fate of fche Kings of Saxony and Wurtamberg, aw still uncertain. It has now bsen established that the primary outbreak at Kiel was due to an order for certain warships to put to sea. The sailors and stokers believed this ' truant the fleet was ordered out to commit ' harikari at the hands of the British and JAcjerican navies. The revolt, noon assumed , ft. political character, the rebels demanding control of oil the public lervices and in- • ouatnes, an eight houre' working day, aid State support for all unemployed and • Ww.people. The revolutionaries every. < MMW' picking off the German earia . from helmets, and anyone refusing to re- /. move the eagle risks beinj; shot, Tfyy . ,■ nave also strictly prohibited the wearing of vm CNIBM,