Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1920-02-25
YIELD To GE RMANY
ON vANDAL TRIALS
Allies Agree to Let Germans Try
Own CuIpritS.
TO SEE THAT NONE ESCAPE
Insist That Guilt for War Rests on
the Teutons-Reserve Right to
Judge Whether Justice Is
Melted Out by Court.

London, Feb. 1.-THE allied reply
to the German note of January %,
Which proposed as an alternative to
extradition that persons accused by
the allies be tried at LeipSic, states
thar Germany's proposal for such trial
at Leipsic is compatible with article
228 of the peace treaty. The allies,
the note says, will abstain from inter-
vention in the proceedings of that
court
After stating that the allies have
carefully considered the German note
of January Is, the reply says:
"The powers observe, in the first
place, that Germany declares herself
unable to carry out the obligations
imposed on her by articles 228 and
$50, which she signed. They reserve
to themselves the power to employ in
such measure and form as they may
judge suitable the rights accorded to
them in this event by the areaty.
Accept Offer of Real Trial.
"The allies note, however, the Ger
man governments declaration that
they are prepared to open, before the
court of Leipsic, penal proceedings
without delay, surrounded by the
most complete guarantees and not at
fected by the application of all judg-
ments, procedure Of previous decisions
of German civil or military tribunals
before the supreme court at Leipsic,
against all Germans whose extradi-
ton the allied and associated powers
have the intention to demand.
''The prosecution which the German
government itself proposes immediate
Iy to institute in this manner is COM
patibIe with article 22S of the peace
treaty and is expressly provided for
at the end of its first paragraph.
Faithful to the letter and spirit of
the treaty, the allies will abstain from
intervention in any way in the proce-
dure of the prosecution and verdict
in order TO leave to the German gov
eminent complete and entire respOn-
sibility.
Must Pass on Verdict.
"They reserve to themselves the
right to decide by the results as to
the good faith of Germany, and recog-
milton by her of the crimes she has
committed and her sincere desire to
associate herself with their punish
ment
''They will see whether the German
government, who have declared them
selves unable to arrest the accused
named on the above list and deliver
them for trial to the allies, are actual
ly determined to judge them them
selves
CAT the same time the allies, in the
pursuance of truth and justice, have
decided to entrust TO a mixed inter
allied commission the task of collect
ing, publishing and communicating to
Germany details Of the charges
brought against each of these whose
guilt shall have been established by
their Investigations.
Treaty Terms Skill Stand.
FINALLY, the allies, formally empha-
size that procedure before a jurisdic-
ton such as it proposed can in no way
annul the provisions Of articles 22S
to go of the treaty.
1.-THE powers reserve to themselves
the right to decide whether the pro-
posed procedure by Germany which,
accused all guarantees of justice; does
not, in effect, bring about their escape
from the just punishment of their
crimes. In this evens the allies, would
exercise their rights to their full ex-
tent by submitting the cases to their
own tribunal"