It now appears that the German Emperor did not abdicate
on November 9th, as Prince Max of Baden gave the world to under- stand, and that when he took refuge with his Dutch friends he was still Emperor and War Lord. A Berlin telegram gives the text of his abdication, which is " given under our own hand and our Imperial Seal, Amerongen, November 28th." He renounces his Imperial and his Prussian crowns, and releases the officials and soldiers from their oath of fealty to him. The document may be genuine, but it may also be as deceptive as Prince Max's statement of November 9th. His suggestion that the Crown Prince was making a similar renunciation has now been contradicted by the Crown Prince himself. The Hohenzollern will maintain their traditions of bad faith and trickery to the end. The Emperor's alleged deed of abdication, however, proves that, like other German deserters, he ought to have been interned by the Dutch, instead of being treated as an honoured guest.
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