Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-13
HAVE PUT PRICE
ON KAISER'S HEAD
Cologne Soldiers Offer $4,000
for the Staying of Him and
His Son, the Crown Prince.
AUSTRIANS TO TRY EMPEROR.
New Proof Of AbdIcation of GermaR
Einperor-Act of Remuneration
Has Been Issued by the
German Government.

, Parls.-Persons who have just coma
! from the Rhineland through Holland
report astounding occurrences.
At Cologne crowds have been clam
oring against the former Kaiser and
the former Crown Prince. Posters
placarded over the city and signed by
| the Executive Committee of the SOL
| diers' associations offer q reward
equivalent to $4,000 to whoever will
kill "these arch-criminals in Holland"
or bring them back to Germany to be
sentenced by their own people.
William Hohenzollern can be extra
dited, in the opinion Of Professor Bar
thelemy of the Paris law faculty, who
explains that his guiding principle Is
that when there is an apparent con-
flict between law and common sense
the solution is always found by follow
ing the latter.
The theory that a political crime Is
any crime inspired by purely political
motives the professor declares, has
long been abandoned. He notes that
Belgium, in 1856, classed regicides
among common law criminals. Crimes
such as the assassinations Of President
Carnot Of France and King Humbert
Of Italy were inspired by political mo-
tives, he says and yet the authors OF
them were executed.
The atrocities ordered by the one
time Kaiser, the professor continues,
are condemned even in state Of war
by international law and constitute
common law crimes. To maintain that
they are not because the object for
which they were committed was politi-
cal Is, he argues, an absurdity.
The Vienna government intends to
bring to trial all persons responsible
for the war, including Count Berch-
told, Austro- Hungarian foreign minis
ter when the war began, and Count
Czernin, foreign minister at a later
period according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Copenhagen.
Charles, formerly the Emperor, the
Austrian grand dukes and number Of
generals are also to be tried, according
to these advlces.
The Vienna correspondent Of the
Vossiche Zeitung says recent reyela-
tions have been made, in effect, that
Charles, formerly Emperor Of Austro-
Hungary, had secretly drawn 100000
crowns ($300,000) on the army ac-
count. Charges involving Archduke
Frederick and other high officers In
connection with army contracts are
also to be looked into, the correspon-
dent writes.
Text of the KaIser's Abdicatlon.
Berlin.-The former German En-
peror's act of renunciation- has beer
issued by the new German government
ain order to reply to certain mlsun
derstandings which have arisen with
regard to the abdication." 1t reads as
follows:
BY the present document l renounce
forever my rights to the crown OF
Prussia and the rights to the German
imperial crown. | release at the same
time all the officials of the German EN-
pire and Prussia and also all officers,
noncommissioned officers and soldiers
of the Prussian navy and army and of
contingents from confederated states
from the oath of fidelity they have
taken to me as their Emperor, King
and supreme chief
I expect from them until new Or
ganization Of the German empire eN-
lists that they will aid those who eff
fectivaIy hold the power in Germany
t, protect the German people against
the menac,1g dangers Of anarchy, fam
Inc and foreign domination.
Made and executed and signed by
our own hand with the imperial seal
at Amerongen, Novembe' %.
WILLIAM.