GERMAN ROYALTIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17007, 14 November 1918, Page 6

GERMAN ROYALTIES.

BANISHED FROM THRONE.

MANY SHARE KAISER'S FATE. Australian and N-Z. Cablo Association. (Reed. 2 a.m.) LONDON, Nor. 12. Amsterdam messages state that the actual abdication of the Kaiser took place on Saturday, November 9, in a small villa at Spa, in the presence of Dr. Solf, Herr Delbruck, General Ilindenburg, the Crown Prince, and others. The Kaiser lost no opportunity of haranguing those present before signing. The episode, which ended the rule of the Hohenzollerna, be;; at midnight and lasted 45 minutes. The Kaiser reached Maastricht with a party totalling 41. He was wearing the uniform of a Prussian general, with sword. He spent the first night of his exile in tho train at the little station of Eysden. Some reports say that the Kaiserin accompanied her husband to Holland, others that she iB still in bod at Berlin.

Hie whereabouts of the Kaiser's younger sons are unknown, beyond that they also have taken refuge in Holland. The fate of the other German royalties may thus bo summed up: The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, dethroned, and a republic proclaimed. The Grand Duke of Hesse, arrested. The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, abdicated. The King of Wurt«mburg, abdicated. The King of Saxony, fled. The Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, abdicated and fled. Deputations from the Soldiers' and Workmen's Council came to the Duke of Brunswick's Castle on Friday, and handed Vw Difae a document renouncing the Throne. The Duke signed after a fow minutes' consideration. He shortly goes to Blankenburg Castle.