The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-01-28
HOLLAND PROTECTS
FORMER KAISER
Refuses to Surrender Him
NOT PARTY
TO TREATY
NOT PARTY
TO TREATY
Holland Takes the Ground that It is
not a Party tc the Treaty which
Condemned the Kaiser and Cannot
Associate with the Powers in Their


Condemned the Kaiser and Cannot
Associate with the Powers in Their
Policy.
Paris, Jan. 23.-The demand of the
up to them former Emperor William
of Germany that he may be tried "for
a supreme offense against internation-
al morality and the sanctity of trea-
| ties" has been refused by Holland.
In a note delivered this afternoon
to the foreign office by the Dutch
minister, Holland takes the ground
that the Dutch government is not q
party to the peace treaty which con-
demned William Hohenzollern and
that it can not recognize as an inter-
national duty the necessity to asso-
ciate itself with this act Of high in
tcrnational 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 vanguished in interna-
tional conicts, will not permit the gov
ernment to defer to the wishes Of the
entente by withdrawing from the
former emperor the benefit Of its laws
and traditions. The declaration is
made that the people Of The Neither
lands can not bctray the faith Of those
who have confided themselves to Hol-
lands free institutions.
Following is the reply Of The Meth
erlands government to the entente:
"By verbal note, dated January Is,
| 1920, given to the envoy of the queen
at Paris the powers, referring to arti-
Gle 227 Of the treaty Of Versailles, de-
mand that the government Of Holland
give into their hands William of Ho-
hcnzollern, former emperor Of Ger
many, SO that he may be tried
Supporting this demand they OBJ
serve that if the former emperor had
remained in Germany the German
government would, under the terms
of article 22S Of the treaty of peace,
have been obliged to deliver him.
''In citing as premeditated viola
| tions of international treaties, as well
as a systematic disregard Of the most
sacred rules Of the rights of man, a
number Of acts committed during the
war by German authority, the powers
place the responsibility, at least NOR
ally. upon the former emperor.
"They express the opinion that Hol-
land would not fulfill her International
duty II she refused to associate her
self with them within the limit Of her
ability, to pursue or at least not to
| impede, the punishment Of crimes
committed.
They emphasize the special charac-
ter Of their demands, which contem-
plate not a juridicial accusation by an
act of high international policy and
they make an appeal to Hollands re-
spect OF law and love OF justice not to
cover with her moral authority vio-
lation by Germany of the essential
principles Of the solidarity Of nations.
"The queen has the honor to OBJ
servo, first. that obligations which for
Germany could have resulted from
article 22S Of the treaty of peace can
not serve to determine the duty of
Holland, which is not party to the
treaty.
"The government OF the queen,
moved by mprescriptiblc reasons,
can not view the question raised by
the demands of the powers except
from the point Of view OF its own
duty. 1t was absolutely uncOnnected
with the origi nof the war and has
maintained, and not without difficulty.
its neutrality to the end 1t finds it.
self 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 wish to cover with its sovereign,
right and its moral authority viola
tions Of the essential principles of the
solidarity OF nations; but it can not
recognize an international duty to as
sociate itself with this act of high in
tcrnational 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 deeds quali-
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