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Show DEMAND MADE ON DUTGH FOR KAISER SUPREME COUNCIL SENDS A LETTER DEMANDING EXTRADITION EXTRADI-TION OF FORMER EMPEROR. Allies are Determined That tho Responsibility for World War Shall be Fixed by Courts and the Guilty Subjected to Punishment. Paris. The supreme council's letter to the Dutch government, demanding the extradition of former Emperor William, Wil-liam, lias been sent to that government. govern-ment. It was forwarded officially Sat-: urdaj' night, January 17, it has been' learned. The answer of the Dutch government1 to the request of the allies to turn over to them for trial the former emperor, em-peror, who Is blamed for the recent terrible war and the death of millions, besides the wanton destruction of everything within the path of the ad-' vanclng Huns, will be awaited with interest. in-terest. It has been rumored that the Dutch government will decline to permit the extradition of the former kaiser, claiming claim-ing that he has sought sanctuary as a private citizen, and not as ruler, ln a country that was neutral during the war, and that the government can not consistently surrender him to his enemies for a trial in which he will, no doubt, have but little chance of escap-: ing punishment. On the other hand, the allies ara equally insistent that the former emperor em-peror be placed on trial, and if convict-' ed, punished for his crimes. William Is blamed by the allies for the war.-He war.-He is charged with full responsibility for the beginning of the terrible con-: test which resulted so disastrously to; all concerned. At the beginning of the war both1 sides- disclaimed responsibility, each insisting in-sisting that it acted In self-defense.; The allies have maintained that posl-l tion ever since, and those who sympa-! thize with the cause of the allies are convinced by the proof offered. On the W:her hand, all the distinguished distin-guished literary men and high religious officials of Germany contend just as. strenuously that their country was the: country attacked, and that theirs was; a fight of self-preservation. The claim of the allies is that thoj trial of the kaiser will finally fix the responsibility for the needless warfare,; and the allies are determined that ths former kaiser shall be brought to triaLi Ferdinand Bonn, at one time the most popular actor in Germany and a' protege of former Emperor William, has offered to substitute himself for Count Hohenzollern and go to London, made up as the former monarch. "Not so much for the sake of William Wil-liam as for German honor would I do this," Bonn declared. |