Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1920-01-27
HOLLAND REFUSES
TO YIELD WILHELM
DUTCH REPLY TO ALLIED DE-
MANDs SAYS EXTRACTION
is NOT POSSIBLE
WOULD GIVE HIM TO HUNS
II Germany Wanted Kaiser, That
Would Be Diffcrent.-Rlghts of Po-
itcal Refugees Must be Re-
spected, Says Answer

Paris. Jan. 24.-The demand Of the
entente powers that Holland deliver
up to them former Emperor William
OF Germany that he may be tried 'for
q supreme offense against interna-
tional morality and the sanctity of
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 party to
the peace treaty which condemned
William Hohenzollern, and that It can
not recognize as a national duty the
necessity to associate itself with "this
act of high international policy of the
powers"
1t declares also that the constituent
laws of the kingdom and the tradition
of the country, always a ground for
refuge for the vanqulshed In inter-
national conflicts, will not permit the
government to defer to the wishes of
the entente by withdrawing from the
former emperor the benefit of It's laws
and traditions.
The declaration Is made that the peo-
pie of The Netherlands cannot betray
the faith of those who have confided
themselves to Hollands free institutions.
After reviewing the allied demand.
the answer OF Holland says
The queen has the honor to observe
first, that obligations which for Ger
many could have resulted from Article
228 of the treaty of peace, cannot serve
to determine the duty Of Holland,
which is not party to the treaty.
THE government of the queen.
moved by imprescriptible reasons,
cannot view the question raised by the
demands OF the powers except from
the point of view of it's own duty. 1t
was absolutely unconnected with the
origin OF the war and has maintained.
and not without difficulty, its neutral
lily to the end. 1t finds itself, then.
face to face with facts of the war In a
position different from that of the
powers.
1T rejects with energy all suspicion
OF wishing to cover with its sovereign
right and its moral authority viola
tons OF the essential principles of the
solidarity of nations; but it cannot
recognize an international duty to as
sociate itself with this act of high in
ternational policy of the powers.
IF in the future there should be in
stituted by the society of nations an
international jurisdiction competent to
Judge in case of war needs, qualified
as crimes and submitted to it's juris-
diction by statute antedating the acts |
committed, it would be fit for Holland |
to associate herself with the new |
regime.
THE government of the queen can
not admit, in the present case, any
other duty than that imposed upon it |
by the laws OF the kingdom and ma.
tional extradItion.
Now, neither the constituent laws
of the kingdom which are based upon |
the principles of law universally rec |
ognized, nor respectable secular |
tradition which has made this country
always a ground Of refuge for the
Vanqulshed IN international conflicts. |
permit the government of Holland to
defer to the desire of the powers by
Withdrawing from the former emperor
the benefit of It's law and this ira
dition.
Justice and national honor, of
which respect is a sacred duty, OBJ
pose this. The Netherlands people.
moved by the sentiments to which In
history the world has done justice,
could not betray the faith of chose who
have confidsd themselves to their free
The government Of the queen Ia
pleased to bslievs that the powers will
recognize the good grounds OF thsss
which rise above any
consideration Of personalities and
which seem to 1t so peremptory that
they could not reasonably give rise TO
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