ten o'clock
In the course of the morning there were hundreds of these aviators darting about Bavaria , descending to tell the peasants or shop-keepers of the small towns that Germany was in revolution , the armies deprived of all support , and that the Republic had been proclaimed in Berlin . The Social Democrats had possession of the Reichstaggebäude , and every official head still affixed to its shoulders was as helpless -- a fuming prisoner in its own house -- as if those arrogant brains had turned to porridge . Every royal and official residence throughout the Empire was surrounded by an army of women with fixed bayonets , and before noon every unsubmissive member of the old régime would be in either a fortress or the common prison . This news Gisela heard at ten o'clock when she returned to the wireless station on the Maximilianeum . The Berlin news came from Mariette . In Munich the old King had been returned to the Red Palace which he had occupied during the long years of his father 's regency , and it too was surrounded by an alert but silent army . The other royal palaces were guarded in a similar manner , but the women had no intention of killing these kindly Wittelsbachs if it could be avoided .