Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-12-06
HAVE PUT PRICE
ON kAISER'S Head
Cologne Soldiers Offer $4,000
for the Staying of Him and
His Son, the Crown Prince.
AUSTRlANS TO TRY EMPEROR.
No Proof of Abdication of German
Emperor-Telegraphic Message TO
Berlin Said to Be Only Record
of Wilhelr's Action.
AUsTRIANS TO TRY EMPEROR.

Paris.-Persons who have just come
from the Rhineland through Holland
report astounding occurrences.
At Cologne crowds have been clam
oring against the former Kaiser ana
the former Crown Prince. Posters
placarded over the city and signed by
the Executive Committee Of the SOL
diers' associations offer a reward
equivalent to $4,000 to whoever will
kill these criminals in Holland
or bring them back to Germany to De
sentenced by their own people.
William Hohenzollen can be extra
dited. in the opinion Of Professor Bar
thelemy of the Paris law faculty, VINO
explains that his guiding principle IS
that when there is an apparent con-
dict between law and common sense
The solution is always found by follow
ing the latter.
The theory that political crime is
any crime inspired by purely political
motives, the professor declares, has
long been abandoned. He notes that
Belgium, in 1855, 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 a state OF war
by international law and constitute
common law crimes. To maintain that
they are not because the object Tor
which they were committed was pol1tl-
cal is, he argues, an absurdity.
No official documents exist in Ger
many of the Kaiser's abdication. Inc
authorities endeavor to explain this by
the fact that he abdicated so suddenly
that the transaction had to be carried
out by telegraph.
This does not alter the situation that
the Kaiser has never formally abdi-
Gated. and so Is still King of Prussia
and Emperor of Germany, with the adj
vantage if he returns to Germany that
he is the only King, as the other Kings
have abdicated. Thus he would be
still more powerful.
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 advices.
The Vienna correspondent Of the
Vossiche Zeitung says recent revela-
lions have been made, in effect, that
Charles, formerly Emperor Of Austro-
Hungary, had secretly drawn 100000
crowns ($30O,000) on the army ac-
count. Charges involving Archduke
Frederick and other high officers In
connection with army contracts are
also to he looked into, the correspon-
dent writes.
The German-Austrian National Coun-
Gil is negotiating with the Hungarian
and Czech governments to obtain their
cooperation in the publication Of dip
lomatic pre-war documents and In an
investigation into the responsibility
for the conduct Of the war.