GERMANY PREPARED FOR GREAT EVENTS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14891, 14 October 1918, Page 6

GERMANY PREPARED FOR GREAT EVENTS.

CJKX3WN COUNCIL SUMMONED.

taUMOURS ABOUT THE KAISER

IMPERIAL HOUSES IN THE -, \..[' ba'lange;' V::

CTHe Times;""'

(Received Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m.)

Berne, Oct. 12

The Genruti'i nev/Kp?!.ptriv.s nrr- preparifig the people for a t0t4?,l ovacuation of tlio West. They declare that it President Wilson's, fourteen points -are accepted there vnll oe no need to fear a resumption of hostilities

It is reported from Vienna that Oiiarles lias proclaimed Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Croatia,-and.Slavo-oia a, united single State.

' Eeutor says it may be a mere coinci■'donee that the rumours of the Kaiser's intending abdication are synchronising; witli the summoning of a council of Crewman monarehs, "but if he intends to : abdicate such a council is almost a no-, teesaary preliminary. Tlie well-informed ' • KJsntrist newspaper, "Germania," in this connection makes the significant obser-' v-atkm that nothing in more uncertain ■ afe this moment than the future of tho, 'House of Hapsburg, and also of another! Berlin semi-official messages assert j that the question of evacuation depends i on the high command's opinion, whether ' tlio Allies will agree not to overstep thf.. frontier^ wliethev France will evacuate 1 j v'^Jjpper Alsace, and .whether the troops ' ■arc incapable of lighting '-.in 'the impvobaMe event 01 the breakdown of the ncgibiations. ; V The solemnity with -which .-the. con-1 ' ferenco between Ludendbvif, who "- was