The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-13
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 Oifferent.-RiQhts Of Pc.
liticai Refugees Must be Re-
spected, Says Answer

Paris. Jan o4.-The demand Of The
entente powers that Holland deliver
up to them former Emperor William
Of Germany that he may he tried for
4 supreme offenSe against interna-
tional morality and the sunctity Of
treaties" has been refused by Holland.
In a note delivered yesterday to the
foreign office by the Dutch minister.
Holland takes the ground that the
Dutch government is not Il party 10
the peace treaty which condemned
William TlOhenZOlicrli. and that it cam
not recognize as II 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 ground for
refuge for the vanquished in inter
national conflicts. will not permit the
government TO defer 10 the wishes Of
the entente by Withdrawing from the
former emperor the benefit Of its laws
and traditions.
The declaration is made that the peo-
pie of The Netherlands cannot betray
the faith of those who have confidet
themselves to Hollands free institutions.
After reviewing the allied demand.
the answer Of Holland says:
THE queen has the honor to observe
first. that obligations which for Ger
many could have resulted from Article
2:.S of the treaty of peace. cannot serve.
to determine the duty of Holland.
which is not Il party to the treaty
1.-THE government Of the queen.
moved by impre>criptible reasons.
cannot view the question raised by the
demands Of the powers except from
the point of view of its own duty. Ii
was absolutely unconnected with HE
origin of the war and has maintained.
and not without difficulty. its neutral
ity to the end. 1t finds itself. then.
face to face with facts of the war in IL
position different from that of the
powers.
1T 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 it 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
stituted by the society of nations an
international jurisdiction competent to
Judge in case Of war needs. qualified
as crimes and submitted to it's juriS-
dictiOn by statute antediating the acts
committed. it would be fit for Holland
to associate herself with the new
regime.
''rhe government Of the queen can
not admit, in the present case, any
other duty than that imposed upon i,
by the laws of the kingdom and ma
tional extradition.
Nov. neither the constituent laws
of the kingdom, which are based upon
the principles Of law universally rec
ognized. nor respectable secular
tradition which has made this country
always ground of refuge for thu.
vanquished in International conflicts.
defer to the desire of the powers by
withdrawing from the former emperor
the benefit of its law and this trn-
ditiOn.
Justice and national honor. NJ
which respect is sacred duty. OPP
pose this. The Netherlands people.
moved by the sentiments to which in
history the world has done Justice.
could not hetray the faith of those who
have confitled themselves to their free
institutions
"The government of the queen is
pleased to believe that the powers ws,
recognize the good grounds of ,heS.
considerations. which rise above any
consideration of personalities and
which seem to it so peremptory that
they could not reasonably give rise 10
wrong interpretations"