KAISER'S CIVIL CABINET.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14894, 17 October 1918, Page 5

KAISER'S CIVIL CABINET.

DELBRUECK APPOINTED CHIEF

WIDE GULF BETWEEN BELLI-

GERENTS

SHAM AGREEMENT WITH MR

WILSON.

INTENSIFIED SUBMARINING

PROMISED

(Reuters Telegrams.)

(Received Oct. 16, 7.40 p.m.)

Amsterdam, Oct. 15

Herr Delbrueck, the former Home Secretary, has been appointed chief of the Kaiser's Civil Cabinet.

Owing to Germany's acceptance of President Wilson's fourteen points, the Prussian Poles have issued a manifesto demanding a united and independent Poland with access to the sea. In this connection the "Lokalanzeiger" cynically comments that the Government will Know how to reply to this newfound courage.

The German press comments' on the reply to President "Wilson reveal how wide is the gulf between the belligerents, despite the Germans' avowed agreement -with President Wilson's terms. The newspapers' comment is l "Armistice first and evacuation afterwards."

The papers foreshadow lengthy pourparlers, after which, if they are unsuccessful from the German viewpoint,

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Germany will not be defenceless, even after evacuation. .

The statement that Germany is preparing for intensified submarinism is confirmed by various announcements in Germany. For instance, the "Reinische Westfaeli she" assures its readers that submarinism will reach its climax during the winter, and will produce an economic crisis in the Entente countries of unexpected dimensions.

Captain Perseus, writing in the "Tageblatt," speaks of an impending great increase in submarines, to which Germany confidently looks should ±he Entente refuse peace.