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Show liilADET 1 DUTCH FOR KAISER SUPREME COUNCIL SENDS A LETTER DEMANDING EXTRADI- TION OF FORMER EMPEROR. Allies are Determined That the Responsibility for World War Shall be Fixed by Courts and the Guilty Subjected to Punishment. Taris. The supreme council's letter to the Dutch government, 'demanding the extradition of former Emperor William, Wil-liam, has been sent to that government. govern-ment. It was. forwarded officially Saturday Sat-urday night, January 17, it has been learned. Holland is told in the allied note demanding the extradition of former Emperor William that she will not fulfill ful-fill her "international rTuf-v" if slip re- I fuses to associate herself with the en- I tente powers in chastising crimes com- J mitted by Germans during the war. The powers briefly recall, among so many crimes committed by the Germans, Ger-mans, the cynical violation of the neutrality neu-trality of Belgium and Luxembourg; the barbarous and pitiless system of hostages, deportations' en massetiie carrying off of young girls from the city of Lille, who were torn from their families and delivered defenseless to the worst promiscuity ; the systematic system-atic devastation of entire regions without with-out military utility; the submarine war without restriction, including inhuman abandonment of victims on the high seas; and Innumerable acts against non-combatants, committed by German authority in violation of the laws of the land. Responsibility, at least moral responsibility, for all these acts are laid at the door of the former emperor of Germany.. A dispatch from The Hague says that the Dutch government has asked the former kaiser to surrender himself to the allies, in the hope of avoiding complications between Holland and the entente. The allies' request for the extradition of the former emperor for trial is reported to have caused agitation in Dutch ministerial circles. The claim of the allies is that the trial of the kaiser will finally fix the responsibility for the needless warfare, and the allies are determined that the former kaiser shall be brought to trial. 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. |