More rulers out in Germany

November 11, 1918

The Associated Press is reporting that King Friederich August III of Saxony "has been dethroned."  The AP's report is based on an official telegram from Berlin.
It is "reported that the garrison at Dresden is in the hand of a provisional Workmen's and Soldiers' Council."
The Grand Duke of Oldenburg has "also been dethroned," and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg has abdicated, according to "dispatches from Hamburg.
A local newspaper, the Hamburg Nachrichten, says the Workmen's and Soldier's Council has also formed a government in Mecklenburg.
A  Wolff Bureau dispatch from Berlin has "confirmed the report that Hesse-Darmstadt has declared itself a free Socialist republic, until a German republic is established."
A revolution in Germany is "to all intents and purposed, an accomplished fact.  The revolt has not yet reach all of the former empire, but "fourteen of the twenty-six States, including all four kingdoms," are now under control of Socialists.
Grand Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg was born in 1852.  He succeeded his father in 1900. The Oldenburg house dates back to 1088.  The Grand Duke's eldest daughter, Sophie, is married to the former Kaiser's second son, Prince Eitel Friedrich.
Grand Duke Friedrich Franz of Mecklenburg-Schwerin "has been on the throne since 1901."  He was born in 1882, and is married to Princess Alexandra of Cumberland, sister of the Duke of Brunswick and Princess Max of Baden.