DISORDERLY GERMAN RETREAT FROM WESTERN FRONT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17011, 19 November 1918, Page 5

DISORDERLY GERMAN RETREAT FROM WESTERN FRONT

* LEADERS ENTIRELY LOSE CONTROL OF THEIR TROOPS.

|; BAVARIAN CROWN PRINCE DRIVEN INTO SHELTER. £ Australian and.N.Z. (Bwafred 7.80 pjn.) SAMS. Nor. if. jh The Germans are conducting their retreat from the western front in the greatest disorder. The leaders of the army have entirely lost p., ; control of the. troopß. & ''•■ ■' ' f .'• •' • -.• • "■•.•<■> ;•' ■ . -■ > ft?"' tTnited *><***<*•. '••■;■, CBecrfrad 19.18 •»«.) . . LONDON, Rot. 17. RJ" ■ ■.; American correspondents in Brussels describe wild scenes which £• took place when Prince RuppreehV Grown Prince of Bavaria, who. commanded one of the German armies on the western front, was forced 5'- v i* 0 take shelter in the Dutch and then in the Spanish Legation from the lawless German soldiery. '■ vV\v.-;- ; '■'.';'< v -. '[ ■•■'■■••: /The Kaiser's Prince \Eitel, was recently in refuge in a house •in Louvain with 100" loyalists.' Both he. and Prince Rupprecht are ;:^' t believed to have escaped to Holland. : ;.V, ;• -|. ; v." '-.' ->af]-' A Soviet ie sitting in the Senate at Brussels. It is a most mixed assemblage, unwashed privates fraternising with monocled general^ >. .../the latter including Nurae Gavell'e murderer. c •';..:>