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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.