Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-20
MUST PUNISH KAISER:
BLAMED F0RATR0gIT!ES
Ihroats of Men, Women and
Children Must be Cut. He
Wrote Emperor Karl.

Paris, Jan. 20.--Some points in tn
report to which Premier Clemenccau re
'efred on Saturday when he said he hat
consulted two eminent jurists on tb,
pehai responsibility of the former Ger
ma man emperor were made public yesterday
ne report was drawn up by Ferdinane
Larnaude, dean of the Paris Law Fac.
uity, and DIR. 4. G.. de LapradelIc. pro.
lessor of rights of nations in the Same
| faculty.
The object Of the inquiry was TO inves.
tigate from purely judicial point al
view II the crimes committed by the
herman government and army involved
The penal responsibility of the former
herman emperor, what tribunal should
] Judge HIM and whether his extradition
| could be demanded
nc authors of the report give a long
argument against the bringing of the
ex-emperor before tribunal of com
mon law, because his will commanded
but his hand did not execute. They saw
that he was not the principal offender.
and that therefore he could only be pun
ished as an aecompIice.
An international tribunal consequently
must be found. They consider The
Hague arbitration court, founded at the
iS99 conference, incompetent 10 try the
emperor, as the court WIS meant for
cases whore no penalty was 10 be an
plled They argue that an entirely new
jurisdiction must he created, which should
be the hrst instrument of n League Of Ma
tons and in which should appear ex-
ciusIvcly the States which fought Ger
many
The authors of the report begin by
establishing that no penalty is possible
against nntlon, any more than against
company but that the manager or
director OF company can be punished
The emperor, in the first place.
says the report, MS King of Prussia. |
is President of the confederation. by |
virtue Of special law in which human |
viii docs not enter The German SOW |
"reign depends only ON God and the |
sword. With such conception Of power /
It would be unIuridical TO the highest |
degree 10 allow the emperor to escape |
responsibility for his action-tbe de /
cision belonged to him alone-his re
sponsibiity for violation of Belgian
neutrality, which was wilcd by him
for acts of terrorism bv
DIS troops, which he wilIed and ordered
The report quotes letter from the ey-
emperor To- the emperor of Austria in,l
he early DAYS of the war, in which the
tcrnan emperor wrote.
My soul Is torn asundcr, but every
hing must he put To fire and blood
The throats Of men and women, children
md the aged, must be cut, and not a
rec nor house left standing.
With such methods Of terror. which |
lone can strike SO degenerate a people
s the French, the war will finish pe
ore two months, while, If use h,Irnani-
arian methods. il may prolong for ,
cars Despite all my repugnance, have
ad 10 choose the first system =
The words Il" and My in the
'tter are italicized in the report
Modern law" the report continues.
DOES not recognize irresponsible au- !
lorities, even at the summit of hier- |
rchy. II brings a State down from its
celestial and makes 1T submit to the rule {
the judge
There can. therefore, be no question !
saving from the Judge a man who Is /
the summit of hierarchy, either by +
le application of internal law or of in '
law"