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Show Prof. Barthelemy De-i dares Bill Hobenzollern i Can Be Extradited. J MATiows condemn Atrocities Ordered by! Former Emperor Are Common-law Crimes. j i . LONDON, Nov. 28. The Berlin government .uiit.nds.'' to bring; to trial all persons responsible for the war, including Count Berchtold, 'Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, minis-ter, when the war broke out, and j Count Czernin, foreign minister jat a later period, according to an ! Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen today. ' Former Emperor Charles, the Austrian grand duke, and a num-jber num-jber of generals are also to be tried, according to these advices. I PARIS, Tuesday, Nov. 26 William Hohenzollern can be extradicted, In the opinion of Professor Barthelemy of the Paris lav faculty who explains that his guiding principle is that when there is an apparent conflict bctveen law and common sense, the solution is always found by following the latter. lat-ter. The theory that a political crime is any crime inspired by purely political motives, the professor declares, has long been abandoned. He notes that Belgium in 1856 classed Regides among common law criminals. Crimes such as the assassiation of President Carnot of France and King Humbert of Italy were inspired by political motives, mo-tives, he points out, and yet the authors auth-ors of them were executed. The atrocities ordered by former Emperor William, the professor con-tinues, con-tinues, are condemned even in a state of war by International law and constitute con-stitute common lav crimes. To maintain main-tain that they are not because the object ob-ject for which they were committed was political Is, he argues, an absurdity. absurd-ity. oo |