The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-01-30
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 Different.-Rights Of Po-
iitical 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
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 IA ground for
refuge for the vanquished 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:
1.-THE queen has the honor TO observe
first, that obligations which for Ger
many could have resulted from Article
DDS of the treaty of peace, cannot serve
to determine the duty of Holland.
which is not a party to the treaty
1.-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 its own duty. 1t
was absolutely unconnected with the
origin of the war and has maintained |
and not without difficulty. its neutral |
ity to the end. It finds itself, then, |
face to face with facts of the war in a |
position different from that of the |
powers
st rejects with energy all suspicion |
of wishing to cover with its sovereign |
right and its moral authority viola |
tions of the essential principles OF the |
solidarity of nations; but if 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
stitutef by the society of nations an
jurisdiction competent to
judge in case of war needs. qualified
as crimes and submitted TO its juris-
diction by statute antedating the acts
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
Dy the laws of the kingdom and ma
rional extradition. ,
Now, neither the constituent laws
If the kingdom, which are based upon
he principles of law universally rec
,gnized, nor respectable secular
tradition which has made this country
ranquished in international conflicts,
,ermit the government of Holland to 3
Iefer to the desire of the powers by
from the former emperor
he benefit of its law and this ira
ition.
Justice and national honor, of
which respect is sacred duty. OPP +,
ose this. The Netherlands people, h
moved by the sentiments to which in i
istory the world has done justice, =
Guild not betray the faith of those who o
ave confided themselves to their free
1.-THE government of the queen is r
leased to believe that the powers will 5!
ecognize the good grounds of these l.
which rise above any q
of personalities and 81
hich seem to it sc peremptory that
ley could not reasonably give rise to c ~
rong interpretations" vi
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