Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-01-19
STRONG PLEA
ITO HOLLAND
FOR WILLIAM
Entente Note Says Interna-
tiOnal Duty Demands Sur
render of Former
Emperor.
CRIMES ARE CITED
Holland Asked to Deliver
Fugitive up for
Trial.
(By The Associated Press. J

(By The Associated Press.)
Paris. Jan. 19.-HOlland is told in
the allned note demanding the extra.
dition of Former Emperor William
that "she will not fulfill her interna.
tional duty il she refuses to associate
herself with the entente powers in pun
ishing the Germans for crimes commit
ted during the war
The text of the note follows in part:
Paris. Jan. Is.
I'm notifying the Netherlands gov
ernment and queen of the text of Ar
ticle 227 of the treaty of Versailles,
which came into force Jan. 10. the pow
ers have the honor to make known at
the same time that they have decided
to put into execution without delay
this article. (Article 227 publicly ar
raigns William III Of Germany for su-
preme offense against interna tional mo
rality and the sanctity Of treaties and
declares the allies and associated pow
ers will address q request for hiss1o".s
render.) .---sss - : - - 3, --,si =
Onkcial Demand.
Consequently the powers address to
the Netherlands government an official
demand to deliver into Tleir hands
William of Hohenzollern, former em-
peror Of Germany, in order that he
may be judged.
individuals residing in Germany.
against whom the allied and associated
powers have brought charges are to be
delivered to them under Article 228
Of the peace treaty, and the former EN-.
perOr, If he had remained in Germany,
would have been delivered under tho
same conditions Of the German govern.
ment
The Netherlands government Is con-
versant with the incontrovertible prin.
ciples which imperiously exact that pre-
meditated violation of international
treaties as well as systematic disregard
Of the most sacred rules Of rights Of
nations should receive. as regards ev-
eryone including the high placed per-
special punishment provided
by the peace congress.
Crimes Cited.
THE powers briefly recall among
so many crimes the cynical viola
ton Of the neutrality of Belgium
and LuXemburg. the barbarOus and
pltIlcSS SSSttul III uOStuScS,
tation ell masse. the carrying OF
of young girls from the city Of Lille
who were tom from their families
and delivered defenseless to pro-
miscuity, the systematic devasta-
ton of entire regions; the subma-
rine war without restriction in
Guiding the inhuman abandonment
of victims on the high sea, and in
Vulnerable acts against n0n-com-
batants committed by the German
authorities in violation of the laws
of war.
Responsibility. ut least moral, for
Ill of these acts reaches up to the su-
,reme head who ordered them. OF who
made abusive use of his full power to
llow infringement upon the sacred
egula tiOns of human conscience.
The powers cannot conceive that the
would regard with less re-
than themselves the immense
esponsibility weighing upon the ex-em-
'eror Holland would not be fulfilling
Ter international duty if she refused TO
ssociatc herself with other nati"ns
ar as she is able, to prosecute. ~ 1t
east not impede. the punishment II
rimes committed"