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Show HUNS' APPEAL TO jraLLArairifl i . Text of Prussian Plea in Behalf of ex-Kaiser Is Made Public. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. The com- plcte text of the appeal of the officers J of the Prussian army and German navy to the Queen of The Netherlands and the states general not to surrender William Wil-liam Holieuzollern to the entente powers pow-ers was received here today through official of-ficial channels. It reads: 4 ' Berlin, June 1 . 1P19. The former royal Prussian army and the imperial navy have been in the field and have fought chivalrously against their enemies, en-emies, together with the remaining German federal contingents, for four and one-haif years, under the leadership of their supreme war lord and of their officers. 11 Treasonable machinations in its own country, not the enemies' armed power, ultimately broke the army's force; our beloved, never-to-be-t orgot-ten orgot-ten supreme war lord, the German emperor, em-peror, and king of Prussia, to whom we shall adhere until death with the old steadfast loyalty, took refuse in The Netherlands, in consequence of the revolution, rev-olution, where, as the highest of the Prussian otlicers, he must be considered interned, according to the laws of waf. ' ' Jn addition to other crushing peace 1 terms, our enemies, devoid of all chival-1 chival-1 rous feelinp-. have inside tho humiliat-! humiliat-! ing and dishonorable demand that the j German people should surrender our emperor and king to their jurisdiction; !a man of whom every educated person knows that, with his deep religious nature na-ture and pure heart, he personally is guiltless of all blame for this: war. "A section of our fellow country-! country-! men, impelled b- tear for life anfl 'property, hive shamefully agreed to the above demand made by their dishonorable dis-honorable foes, who are only actuated by a desire for revenge, and who know perfectly well who has been :i t t he (Continued on Page 2, Column G.1 HUNS' APPEAL TO HOLLAND'S HOLER (Continued Prom Page One.) bottom of the di-cat and tcrrihle war. "Tho officers of the Prussian army and of tho imperial navy disassociate themselves entirely from these fellow countrymen, from whom they are divided di-vided by an unbridable frtilf. " Aa t hey are unable personally to protect their supreme war lord, nothing remains for these officers but to appeal to your majesty and the states general 's high office and sense of justice, definitely defi-nitely to refuse ynur consent to tho enemy en-emy entente's demand for the surrender surren-der of his majesty, the German emperor em-peror and king of Prussia. "German blood flows in your majesty's ma-jesty's veins. Old ties of blood unito the houses of Orango and llohenzol-lern; llohenzol-lern; as ruler over an ancient, brave people, whose army and officers havo sworn allegiance to you, your majesty will know how to appreciate, the feeling feel-ing of the officers who make this ro-quest. ro-quest. "We beg the states general to to-member to-member the centuries-old, unclouded friendship between the honest Dutch people and the former German people, and, sustained by the unimpeachable sovereignty and th. distinct right of the Dutch' nation, duly to reject any presumptuous interferences on the part of our enemies in the question of surrendering sur-rendering our emperor and king. "Confident as the officers are that their request will be fulfilled by Holland's Hol-land's noble queen and by the high states general, with a sense of their dignity these may be equally confident of the inextinguishable gratitude of the officers of the former royal Prussian army and former imperial German navy. ' ' |