Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-17
HOLLAND AGAIN IS
 ASKED ID GIVE UP
 WILLIAM ID ALLIES
Dutch Conception of Duty, Shown by Refusal, is
 Called Narrow
SAFETY OF EUROPE
 HANGS IN THE BALANCE
Former Emperor is Severely Arraipp- cd as Being Responsible for Deaths of 100000
 Men

London, Feb. Is. Following is the text of the note sent by the allied powers to Holland regarding extradi- ton of the former German emperor:
 "The immense sacrifices made in the general interest by the powers during the war entities them to ask the Netherlands to reconsider it's re- fusal. based on the weighty but en- tirely personal considerations of q state which held aloof from the war and cannot perhaps appreciate quite accurately all duties and dangers of the present hour
 The obligations of the powers toward other nations, the gravit, of the question concerned, as we'll as the very grave political effects to which relinquishment of the claims of justice against the ex-emperor would give rise, all constrain them to upheld and renew their demand.
 "The powers do not ask the queens government to part from it's tradi- tional policy, but to consider that the nature of their which does not in their opinion depend solely, or even mainly, on Dutch municipal laW-has not been ade- ouately appreciated.
 "No question of prestige is at stake and the powers pay as much heed to the conscientious sentiments of state with limited interest as to the mature decision of great powers, but cannot wait for creation of 2 world tribunal competent to examine international crimes before bringing to trial the responsible author of the catastrophe of the great war.
 "It is precisely the thing contem. plated, which would prepare the way for such a tribunal and demonstrate the unanimity of feeling animating the conscience of the nations of the world. The powers wish to point out that the league of nations has not yet reached state of development sufficient to allow any application to it, or to tribunal of any kind created by it, meeting with that prompt satisfaction which Is surely essential.
 (Section missing).
 Arraign William.
 "It does not appear to consider that it shares with other civilized nations the duty of securing the punishment of crimes against justice and the principles of humanity crimes for which William of Hohen- zollern undeniably bears heavy re- sponsibility.
 "The note of January 15, was sent in the names of the allies, 25 in. number, who were signatories to the treaty of peace and the collective mandatories of majority of the civilized nations of the world. It ia impossible to disregard the collect i've force of this request, which the expression not only of the feeling of indignation of the victims but of the demand for justice made by the conscience of humanity as whole.
 "The Netherlands government surely has not forgotten that the act ions of the man required for judge ment by the powers have cost the lives of approximately 10000, GOO men, murdered in their prime, and have been responsible for the mutila- tion or shattered health of threa times as many, the laying waste to and the destruction of millions Of square miles of territory in count tries formerly industrious, peaceablS and happy, and the piling up of WIT debts running into billions, the yi6- tims being men who had defend6& their freedom and incidentally thak of Holland.
 "The economic and social existehee of all these nations has been thrown into confusion, and they are nov jeopardized by famine and want tle terrible results of that war of which William II. was the author.
 "The allies cannot conceal their surprise at finding in the Dutch reply no single word of disapproyal of the crimes committed by the emperor, crimes which outrage the most elementary @sentiments Of hu- manity and civilization and of which, in particular. so many Dutch nationals have been the innocent victims on the high seas. To help bring to justice the author of such crimes plainly asscrts with the ains of the league of nations.
 "How can.any enc fail to be ip- pressed by the reactionary mani&64s tations which have followed tho IF fusal of Holland, and the danfefou1 encouragement to all those who m opposing the just chastisement 0t the culprits and their exemplary con demnation, whatever their speiN] position?
 Request Renewed. S sS
 Holland, whose history tells o1 long struggles for liberty, who haj suffered so grievously through dis' regard for justice, could not plAel herself by such narrow conception of her duties outside the comity oj nations. A duty which none e6l avoid for national reasons, how0vef weighty they may be. is to unite n order to mete out exemplary pun}ph| ment to authors of the disaateru m aboninations of the war, and endeav' or to revive conceptions Of solide& ity and humanity in the Gernan IT tion. which is still unconvince of t) falsity of the tenets of ita RQvq
 ment, who professed that might
 right and success condoned crime sss x l "It was from tkis point of Ni(V |and not exclusively from nAtiopS Istandpoint that the poWere reau49tl1 I the government of tho queen VI knll lover William of Hohen1olf TT from this point of view tRev 1S l. v V. Z. . xszS xS