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Show OOESTIOi DIRECTLY 1 OP TO TEUTONS. IS I COUNCIL'S BECISf! Astonishment Caused in Paris by Alleged Lack of Interest In Britain VmmU LONDON DECLARED TO wLm FAVOR MODIFICATION i Premier Millerand Says Troops Wmmm , Remain Until Berlin Fulfills Treaty Terms i jH PARIS, Feb. 7. Delivery to tho I 'H German government by the French ' ' wWM charge in Berlin of the list of Germans , IH whose extradition is demanded by the IH .allies is the proper course to pursue In the existing circumstances, the , IH council of ambassadors decided today llffiH Its action was made Icnown through I' IbH 'an official communique. u is understood that in the discus i . IH sion of the question today the ambas- ' sadors took the view that tho entire ' mWM question now is up to Germany that ' further steps by the allies should iH await the action of the German author ' jH The fact that the communique wa silent regarding the covering note was i taken to mean that no note was con-Isidercd con-Isidercd necessary tb accompany the The revival by the council of tho , i H 'practice of issuing official commit niqucs provoked considerable com 1 ment. It was taken as indicating that ll there was to be a restriction upon the 1 sources of information of the council's doings. i Astonishment has been caused in , (French circles by a change of attitude :on ihe"; part of the British government regarding the extradition of Germs-jia ''iH iaccused of violaiionsof ihelaws of JwM I Let Others do It. JWM While it was understood that Great ll .Britain wus the most Insistent of all powers represented at the peace con-Iference con-Iference in demanding tho trial of for- mer Emperor William and other prom- innt Germans, information has been iil received that the British now an; 'showing a tendency to leave the Ini- fhH tiative in the process of extradition to ll It was said yesterday that Baron Birkenhead, lord chancellor of Eng- i land, is understood to have made it clear the British government favored l a radical modification of the ltst in or jH Ijder that an agreement with Germany I might be. reached. !) Premier Millerand declared in the I chamber of deputies last evening tho I , allies would not evacuate the left bank i . of the Rhine until Germany had ful- "l filled all the terms of the Versailles ! treaty. I NOTABLES WANTED. BERLIN, Friday, Feb. 6. Twelve ' admirals, two high seas fleet com-manders, com-manders, thirty U-boat captains and numerous other active officers of tho German navy are included in thc.lst of Germans whose extradition is de manded by the entente powers. The names of virtually all the officials on , the naval home and high seas staffs are found in the list. Admiral von Mueller, chief of the se-cret se-cret naval cabinet, among those nam-ed, nam-ed, was permanently attached to great headquarters where he was counted , among former Etaperor William's per-sonal per-sonal confidential advisers. In addi- ' tion the allies demand Admiral 'son Tirpitz, Admiral von Capello and Au- 1 jH miral von Trotha, who were succcs-siv?Iy succcs-siv?Iy secretaries of the navy. Admiralty officers who will discuss jH the list charge that tho wholesale dc- mand for German naval officers indi- , cates the entente's desire to ''perma- j ncnlly paralyze German naval aspira ll tions and the presence of names like ' those of Admiral von Tirpitz and Ad i miral von Mueller is ridiculed." ) IH Out of a total of 500 German subma vine commanders the' entente povei have called for only SO who, prcsum-ably, prcsum-ably, arc suspected of having exceed ed ihcir legitimate Instructions. These comprise all the prominent U-boat op orators. The admiralty admitted los ing 200 U-boats and it is estimated 1G0 were left at tho close of the con Commander Boeker is a naval off! cor who attempted a sensational Zev pelin flight to the German colony in jH the heart of Africa. Officials are uu H able to -account for the absence of thr J names of Zeppelin commanders whe J bombed London, in view of the fact that naval officers were demanded chiefly by England. iH Captain Nergcr, whose name wa& H included in the list, was commander of the German commerce raider Wolff. Few parliamentary leaders in Berlin would venture any opinion as to what action would be taken, but were in- ciined to be skeptical in regard to the ' seriousness of tho allied demand for H exrradition. They were inclined to be- H lieve it to be the prelude to a demand ill for a staggering indemnity, or an allied ll move in some other direction. H |