Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1919 — FORMED CROWN PRINCE ESCAPES [ARTICLE]

FORMED CROWN PRINCE ESCAPES

Frederick William, Son of the Former German Kaiser, Flees Holland. ALLIES FEAR A HUN TRICK One Hundred and Eighty-Five Slain In Hamburg Riots—Disorders Increase In Berlin—Troops Sent to Hamburg. London, June 27. —With the first evidence of a new revolution in violent outbreaks in Berlin and Hamburg, coupled with generally credited reports that the former crown prince, Frederlch William, had escaped from exile at Wierlngen to Germany, London believes that a well organized attempt is being made in Germany to thwart peace on the allies’ terms. 185 Dead in Hamburg. It was reported by the Exchange Telegraph that the dead in the rioting at Hamburg total 185, while the disorders in Berlin are reported to be increasing, with many streets barricaded and serious engagements between government trodps and mobs. Order is reported temporarily restored in Hamburg, with the city under rule of a council of twelve, members Include communists and independent socialists. Though the British foreign ministry had received no official confirmation of the report that the German ex-crown prince had escaped from Wierlngen to Germany, the London press accepts the report as authentic. It is stated the ex-crown prince’s staff officers nffio were with him at Wierlngen accompanied him on the flight. Officials, however, were inclined to scoff at the report, it being claimed at Downing street that the foreign ministry would have heard of it were It true. Troops Sent to Hamburg. With the restoration of order in Hamburg, representatives of industrial councils are sitting In the town hall, according to advices from Berlin.

General von Lettow-Vorbeck has been ordered to Hamburg with strong forces. The Stock Exchange building at Hamburg, it is added, was damaged seriously in the fighting for possession of the town hall. The Industrial commission reported in control there consists of 12 men. In military circles in Berlin, the dispatch adds, it is asserted that a counter-revolution will begin as soon as a communist revolt against the government is started. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, in reply to a request from Minister of Defense Noske concerning the allied rejection of German reservations in the peace treaty, said that Ln the event of a resumption of hostilities, according to a Berlin dispatch, the Germans would be able to reconquer Posen and maintain the frontiers to the east, but hardly would be able to reckon on success in the west. The field marshal is said to have added: “A favorable issue to our operations is, therefore, very doubtful, but as a soldier I must prefer an honorable fall to an ignominious peace.” Groener Quits Post. General Groener, who succeeded Von Hindenburg as German chief of staff, has tendered his resignation to President Bauer, but has agreed to remain at his post until t he situation ih the eastern provinces becomes stabilized. Three presidents of eastern provinces of Prussia have Issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of their districts, expressing the deepest grief at the unconditional acceptance of the allied peace terms, but adding that the people “must not under the circumstances prevent the government from fulfilling its word to the enemy.” “Regard for our compatriots whd would have to bear the consequences of such action,” the proclamation says, “makes it our hard duty to refrain from fighting for our right of self-de-termination and honor and bow to the decision which has been made.”