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Show WILL GIVE -1EIRD OF . $20101 TO ) ASSASSINS Posters About Cologne Offer Pay to Those Who Will Kill "Arch Criminals in Holland." Paris Sentiment for Return of Erstwhile Rulers to Justice Is Now Growing Rapidly. (Xew York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable Copyright.) PARIS, Nov. 29. Persons -who have just come from the Iihineland through Holland report astounding occurrences. At Cologne crowds have been clamoring against the former kaiser and the former crown prince. Posters placarded over the city and signed by the executive committee com-mittee of the soldiers' association offer fca reward equivalent to $20,000 to who-ever who-ever will kill "these arch criminals in Holland," or bring them back to Germany Ger-many to be uentenced by their own people. Tire feeling is growing here that the time has como to have done with the stupid farce being played by the German Ger-man government and the cx-emperor with the assistance of the Hutch authorities, au-thorities, and that tho ail tea should make- up their minds at once to let both William and his Berlin accomplices know they do not Intend to stand for any further fur-ther nonsense. CRIMES MONSTROUS; PUNISHMENT DEMANDED. If there is ono point on which the French mind is absolutely niudo up, so far as unofficial France is concerned, i it is that tho former emperor must be j definitely punished in his own person i for tho monstrous crimes ho has been guilty of. On this point tho average Frenchman and the average Frenchwoman will not tolerate any hairsplitting: or shilly-shallying. As every Frenchman ai gues, the fact that Germany is now a republic, or rather jL serlefi of republics, is no reason whatever why she should not pay a heavy indemnity to recoup in part the loss sho has caused. On tho same line of argument, tho fact that tho kaiser has been guilty of mur- dcring millions is certainly no reason why he should bo ullowed to escape what would naturally befall a man who deliberately tools tho life of a single fellow creature. The allies of a hundred years apo sent Napoleon, who was guilty of far less hideous crimes, to impend tho rest of his Mfe in droary ox lie on a lonely island. Hoes William 1 f it is asked here, imagine im-agine the allies of today will for :t moment mo-ment consent to allow hijn to livo the easy lifo of a wealthy country gentleman, safely comfortable a few miles went of tho German frontier, where ho is free to Plot and plan for a triumphal re-entry into Berlin as soon as conditions arc such that he can go home and start plotting against tlio world's peaco all over again? DUTCH OFFICIALS ARE EMBARRASSED. When yon catch a mad dog you cither shoot him or hang him. The only objection objec-tion felt here lo such methods being np-plied np-plied to the former kaiser is lhat they would be a more merciful ending than he . deserves. The problem of catching German mad ! clops is now engaging t he close attention atten-tion not only ut" the general public, but j the government itself. Tho French judi- i c'al authorities have already sought the j . advice of leading experts on interna- I tloiuil law in Paris as to the possihtli- ties of securing the extradition of the Biiilty emperor, and it is reported here that the Dutch government has also been indirectly sounded on the question. The situation of the lUUeh authorities In the matter admittedly is extremely difficult. " Not only is the queen married to a German prinrehu, but the upper classes of Holland are notoriously pro-German pro-German :0 per cent of hem probably from fear of what Germany might do r to them if they acted contrary to her interests, and the other .10 per cent Flm- jm pjy because their personal inclinations! f lead them to take the German view of j things. 'It is pone rail v admit t ed hero tha t it will be difficult." if not impossible, to seen se-en rn an extradition of t lie f n-niep emperor em-peror under the ordinary provisions of (Continued on Page Three.) GERMANS ASK 1 KAISER'S LIFE i (Continued from Pago One.) j Interna tional law. Legally the Dut'di I have not a leg to stand on in their plea that the emperor was no hmger in the German army when he entered .Holland, and ' therefore is not liable to be interned in-terned and consequently ought to be handed ovt with other intorned prisoners, prison-ers, according lo the conditions of poaoc figrocd upon hot. ween t hi adversa riori. It ( is it Vi'c-ortain Quarters here thai, an I attaok hy the allies on the. position taken ! by the. Initeh governnu-nt on tills poiit i nHrf-rs a good prosjiect of successful re- j suits. ! Maitre Robert, leader of the Paris bar i and one of tiie greatest jurists in Krance, offered a strikingly original and effective ' solution of the difficult y. ( Is Master Outlaw. j I "The law," he said, "must treat the j ex-emperor as an outlaw for, by the verv I magnitude of his crimes against the hu-I hu-I man ratio, he has put him.seir in a situa-! situa-! tion which can::-t be ruled by unv exist- ing cm.oi.s. Win. nut viniMtmg any law. I without infringing on any of the." rules , of right and justice, this iiion-'truus. erlni-i erlni-i ina! can lie inado to appear before a supreme su-preme tribunal of the free natinn:-. "He bTt 'Germany like a thjr-f. AV.j know where be is We know that evorv day )ii remains there lie js e;i(ruigo)-ng , the future p'-a.ce of th- world. The blood of our de;id, it sei-ms to rn is more than puffioient a yignaturo to warrant , his arnr;t." WILL SOON ABANDON ARMY TENT CAMPS WASHINGTON. Nov. 2?, The sixteen socalbd tout camps originally eonstrurlo, as training oeuters for national guard divisions di-visions will be abandoned as sorn ;ks practicable. prac-ticable. General ila.ro h, chief of staff, an- nounccd today in n. war department circular. cir-cular. No additional tents or supplies will be sent to these camps, nor v. ill any further fur-ther construction bo undertaken at (hem not absolutely no-esary for th' rare "or the troops now there or to be sent, there for demobilization. The only exeppimn will bo t)io l-.;,.o !itnls at the eanipH, which the circuiar declares de-clares is Til lie niaintainef. The aniioimceinent, it as lo.arno.i H( the department, does nor. me;iu tb:n the sitps have been definitely rejected possible pos-sible locations for permanent milli-irv posts. On tho contrary at least one' o-i o-i hem fa lnown to bo under consideration in this connectlou. |
