THE CENTRAL POWERS

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13888, 14 October 1918, Page 5

THE CENTRAL POWERS

THE KAISER'S REPORTED ABDICATION. (ReuterY Telegrams.) Received October 13, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, October 12. It may be a mere coincidence that the rumours of the Kaiser's intending abdication synchronise with the summoning of the Council of German Monarclis, hut if he intends to abdicate, sucb a council is an almost necessary preliminary. The well-in-formed Centrist newspaper, the Germania, in this connection makes the significant observation that nothing is more uncertain at this moment than the future of the House id' llapsburg, also that of another House. MILITARY POWER ENDED. SUBORDINATED TO CIVIL CONTROL. Wireless, per Admiralty Press.) Received October [;i, a.r> p.m. LONDON, October 12. German official: lli-rr Erzberger, in an interview, said the new Government's first steps hail been to subordinate military power to civil control. The War Minister, General von Stein, and two commanding generals, who were considered to re iody militarism, had been removed, and the commanding generals in the mterior had been ordered lo submit their 1 decisions to the local civil authorities. .Militarism in Germany had ended for ever.