Chancellor Michaelis resigns and is succeeded by Count
Hertling--Empire honeycombed with sedition--Count Lichnowsky's
memoirs--Another Chancellor crisis--Socialists consent to enter
a coalition government--Bulgaria surrenders--Hertling admits
desperateness of situation--The German front begins to
disintegrate--Prince Max of Baden becomes Chancellor, with the
Socialist Philip Scheidemann as a cabinet member--Max requests
an armistice--Lansing's reply.