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Show ALLIES WAftIT ACCESS TO AlL D0C1EITS INGEIAWK f Desire Information of Assistance Assis-tance in Prosecuting Men Wanted for War Crimes REPLY TO SURRENDER DEMAND IS DELAYED, . i Swiss Government not in Favor of Its Trying Accused ! Teuton Officers i BFRLIN. Fob. D. Decision as to whether the German national asseni-j blv will be called to consider Ger-j I ninny's answer to the allied demand for the extradition of Germans accused of violations of the laws of war is ex-, pected soon. The cabinet met yesterday and con sideied the list of men whose surrender surren-der is desired and the allied covering note, but nothing was mado public as to the conclusions reached. The allied; powers demand access to archives and npsse'B&Ion-r:-QCvaJl.Gor-. maSocdMSffiry evidence so that prosecution may be facilitated. The; covering note is understood to declare th allies do not purpose to. grant am-'nestv am-'nestv to men not named in the list ibut will reserve the right to prosecute them should they be apprehendeu on: entente soil. j Wait for Reply. ! It seems improbable that a reply to the entente demand for the surrender of the Germans whose names are contained con-tained in the list will be sent until a response is received by the German government to its note of January 25. (In this note Germany asked the allies al-lies to renounce the execution of the extradition article of the peace treaty, the alternative proposed being a trial of the persons involved to be held in Germany with the participation of allied al-lied representatives.) The newspapers declare unanimously unanimous-ly that the attitude of the government toward tho extradition question is unchanged. un-changed. The Association of German Regular Soldiers carried out a big demonstra-tion demonstra-tion here yesterday against acceptance accept-ance of the extradition demand. Similar Simi-lar demonstrations were held in the provinces. Woman on List. Miss Elsa Scheiner, the only woman whose name appeared on the list of Germans demanded by the allies, is a daughter of a prominent professor of Berlin university and had charge of the women's concentration camp at Valenciennes during the Avar. The Nlowe Rotterdamsche Courant prints a letter from a contributor -who asserts that Miss Scheiner incurred the enmity of allied women spies who were imprisoned at hoi camp. Me de-' elates, however, that letters to Professor Profes-sor Scheiner showed the daughter had many friends among the prisoners and that she did not approve of German policies. Secret Meeting Held. A secret meeting of army and navy leaders a month ago compiled a set of regulations for common action. These instructions, which are signed by Generals Gen-erals von Heerlngen, von Kluck and Falkciihayn, as well as others, declares de-clares that it is a violation of honor for one to place himself outside the pale of seizure by his own government or tho entente. Therefore, they must refuse to surrender, refuse to recognize recog-nize the legality of a foreign court and do nothing in tho shape of personal defense, de-fense, oi otherwise acknowledge such court, but make the following declaration declara-tion in the Gorman language: "I have merely done my duty as a German soldier. As such I refuse to recognize a foreign court and also decline de-cline to make nny further statement." Swiss Are Opposed. ZURICH, Saturday, Feb. 7. Swiss newspapers publish this evening what apparently is an official or semi-official note saying tho government would refuse to have Germani acpused of war crimes by the allies tried in Switzerland Switz-erland in the ovent this Is proposed by Germany. Tho view Is held here that Germany may suggest this in reply to the entente's en-tente's note. |