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r GERMAN EMPEROR ABDICATES ABDICATESThe The abdication of Emperor William is officially announced from Berlin according to a Havas dis ¬ patch from Basel was the message flashed over the country late yesterday aYternoon by the Asso cialcd Press Thus ends the rule of the most de ¬ spised monarch of modern times and the one man upon whom together with the tremendous military engine of destniction if which lie was the em iKidinicnt the exponent and leader rests the re spYmsibility of deliberately planning and bringing about the greatest war tlie world has ever seen Civilization will never forget that it was he who signed the order of German mobilization and andthat that he stood sponsor for tho terrorism and brigand age which under this guise of warfare ravished Belgium laid waste tlie cities of France depopu lated and outraged Serbia SerbiaNeither Neither will it forget that it was the minions of the emperor who sent the Lusitania with hundreds of women and children to the watery depth of the Atlantic Before the bar of humanity he was ad ¬ judged guilty He who long proclaimed himself the prince of peace stotnl revealed as humanitys scourge and against him and all that he represented rose the world of democracy and freedom There uo xorrow over his downfall the whole world even his own people rejoice So ends for all time Kaiser Wilhclm
