BRITAIN DEMANDS PUNISHMENT OF KAISER'S GRIMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17007, 14 November 1918, Page 5

BRITAIN DEMANDS PUNISHMENT OF KAISER'S GRIMES.

GERMANY TO EXPIATE THE DEEDS SHE APPLAUDED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, Nov. 12. The downfall of the Hohenzollerns and their ignominious flight is the absorbing topic of the newspapers. The fate of Xerxes and Darius is recalled as a parallel to ruin more immense and sudden than Europe ever witnessed. Columns are published of extracts from the braggart and blasphemous utterances of the Kaiser, and the hope is expressed that the Imperial criminal will not escape the punishment of his misdeeds. That the nation he misguided as Kaiser has gone for ever is regarded as certain, but it is pointed out that there is a danger of a reaction in favour of Kaiserism if the people, through his disappearance, escape the penalties for the crimes they applauded. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that the Kaiser's visit to headquarters was intended to rally the army round him, but only officers, chiefly Prussians, placed themselves at his disposal. He conferred for several hours with the Crown Prince, Generals von Hindenburg and Groener, his Chief-of-Staff. Both generals advised abdication. Von Hindenburg said that delay would have terrible consequences in the army. The Kaiser was undecided when the conference ended, but made up his mind an hour later after the receipt of the communications from Berlin. General von Linsingen, the Military Governor of Berlin, has resigned. "