Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-02-20
GERMANY WILL
TRY WAR CHIEFS
Allies Yield, but win See That
None of the Accused
Escapes.
GUILT RESTS ON TEyT9Gs
Note Sent to Berlin Promises 10 Re.
Train From intervention in Trial,
but Reserves r shs 10 Judge
of Justice.

London, Aug. 1s.-The allied reply
to the German note Of January Is,
which proposed as an alternative 10
extradition that persons accused bs
the allies be tried at Leipsic. states
that HeFnanys proposal for such trial
at Leipsic is compatible with article
22S of the peace treaty. The allies.
the note says, VIII abstain from inter
vention in the proceedings of that
court.
Alter stating that The allies have
carefully considered the German note
OF January %, the reply says
Ihe powers OBSERVE, in the first
place, that Germany declares herself
unable to carry out the obligations
imposed on aer by articles 22S and
30 which she signed They reserve
to themselves the power to employ in
such measure aud form as they may
judge suitable the rights accorded to
them in this event by the areaty.
The allies note, however. the Ger
man governments declaration that
they are prepared 10 open, before the
court of Leipsic, penal proceedings
without delay. surrounded by the
most complete guarantees and not af-
fected by the application of all iudg-
ments, procedure of previous decisions
OF German civil or military tribunals
before the supreme court at Ielpsic,
against all Germans whose extratli-
ton the allied and associated powers
have the Intention to deIaand
THE prosecution which the German
government itself proposes immediate
ly to institute in this manner is com
patible with article Us Of the pence
treaty and is expressly provided for
at the end of IFS first paragraph
Faithful to the letter and spirit of
the treaty, the allies win abstain from
Intervention in any way in the nroce-
dure of the prosecution and verdict
in order to leave to the German gov.
ernment complete and entire respon-
sibility.
"They reserve to themselves the
right to decide by the results rs 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
meni.
''They will see whether the German
government who have declared thefH-
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.
eat the same time the allies, In the
pursuance OF truth and justice. have
decided 70 entrust TO mixed inter-
allied commission the task of COLLECTS
ing, publishing and communicating TO
Germany details of the charges
brought against each of these whose
guilt shall have been established by
their investigations.
Finally, the allies formally empha-
size that procedure before Il jurisdic-
ton such as it proposed can In no way
annul the provisions of articles 22S
to go of the treaty.
'grhe 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 event the allies would
exercise their rights to their full e1-
tent by submitting the cases to their
own tribunal"