The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-01-30
HOLLAND REFUSES
TO YIELD WILHELM
DUTCH REPLY TO ALLIED DE-
MANos SAYS ExTRAplTion
rs NOT POSSIBLE
WOULD GIVE HIN 70 HUNS
" Germany Wanted Kaiser. That
Weud % Different. Of ee-
Hticai Refugees Must be ne.
spected, Says Answer

entente powers that iioilnnd deliver
M 10 them former Emperor william
of Germany that he may he tried ''for
= supreme offense against interna'
tionai morality and the snnetity III
treaties" has been refused by Holland.
In note delivered yesterday to the
foreign office by the Dutch minister,
Holland takes the ground that the
Dutch government Is not a party to
the peace treaty which condemned
william Hohenxoliern, and that II can
not recognize ms national duty the
necessity 10 associate itself with this
act Of high International policy of the
,sowcrs."
II declares also that the constituent
laws u The kingdom aud the tradition
Of the country. always ground for
refuge for the vanaulshcd IN inter
national conflicts. VIII not permit the
government 10 defer go the wishes ~
the ent-nt. hs withdrawing from the
former emperor the benefit OF It's laws
and traditions.
The declaration " made that the PEG
VhF III fiF sNtAufEttWnN tNDiot
the faith Of these who have confided
themselves 10 Hollands free institutions.
After reyicwin. the allied demand,
the answer Of Holland says:
''fbe queen has the honor Ia observe
first. that obligations which for Ger.
many could have resulted from Article
2ss ~ the treaty nf peace. cannot serve
10 determine the duty of Holland.
which IN not party to the treaty.
'.rhe government Of the queen.
moved by lmprescrlptble reasons.
cannot view the question raised by the
demands ~ the powers except from
the point ~ view Of It's own duty. II
origin OF the war and has maintained.
and not without difficulty. Its neutral
iry 10 the end II finds Itself. then.
face 10 face with facts of the war Ia a
position different from that OF the
powers
1T rejects with energy all suspicion
~ wishing Ia csser with Its sovereign
right aud It's moral authority viola.
lions Of the essential principles Of the
solidarity of nations. hut II cannot
recognize an international duty To us.
soeiate itself with This net of high In,
ternaiionai policy ~ the powers
III In the future there should be IN.
stltutcd hy the society Of nations au
international Jurisdiction competent IL
Judge ia case Of war needs. qualified
aS crimes and submitted Ia It's juris
diction by statute ante,lntlng The act'
committed, II would he II, for HOLLAND
to associate herself with the new
regime.
'"rhe government OF the queen can
not admit. In the present ense. an,
other duty than TINT imposed upon 4
by the laws nf the Kingdom and ma
tionnl extraditiou.
sNow. neither the constituent law
of the Kingdom. which are hased upon
the principles Of law universally rec
ognixed nor respectable secula
tradition which has made this coantr.
always a ground Of refuge FOR m,
vanqulshrd In international conflicts
permit the government af Holland I,
defer Co the desire Of the powers b.
withdrawing from The former einpero
the benefit OF Its law and this tfa
ditinn.
Justice and national honor. q
which respect liz sacred duty. or
poxe this. III. Netherlands people
moved BY The sentiments tn which Il
history the world has dome JnStie.
could not h-tray the faith II those Win
have confldesi themselves to their frs
Institutions
THE government Of the queen
pleased To believe that the powers vii
recognize the gts,d grounds of thes
considerations which rise above an
consideration of personalities an
which ss~n To II sa per.mptory tha
they could not reasonably give rise |
wrong interpretations"