Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1918 — ALLIES DEMAND KAISER’S DEATH [ARTICLE]

ALLIES DEMAND KAISER’S DEATH

BRITAIN INSISTS THAT ALL TEUTON, RULERS MUST \ STAND TRIAL. 1 X London, Dec. s.—(By British Wireless Service. —Sir Auckland Geddas, president of the Local Government and Minister of National Service, in a public address said that the policy advocated by the coalition government was a peace which, so far as the enemy powers were concerned, should be based on stern justice. He “declared that so far as these men who planned and started the war were concerned it should be founded on justice of the nature meted out in* tiie highest courts of the land. Such mein as the former German emperor, Enver Pasha and the former rulers of Bulgaria and Austria would trial, and if found guilty their lives would be the forfeit. “Men guilty of unspeakable atrocities upon our prisoners and upon the civilian inhabitants of the invaded lands,” he continued, “must stand trial, and if they are Condemned must suffer death.” lit had to be proved hqw far the commanders of submarines acted under orders which they had to carry out under pain of death, or how far they acted on their own-volition, he pointed out. But if the atrocities at sea were committed on the volition of individual cofhmanders, he declared, they, too, must suffer thef extreme penalty. , “Today is the day of reckoning for our enemies,” said the minister, “and they will have to pay to the uttermost farthing what it is possible to bring out of them. A German physician summoned frorp Berlin Tuesday iby the former German emperor arrived in Holland today on a special train, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. Three of the former emperor’s staff, the dispatch adds, have left Amerongen for Berlin. They are carryng many documents concerning the former emperor’s private property. A delegation from the Berlin Soldiers and Workers’ Council has arrived at The Hague, Holland, says a Berlin telegram, for the purpose of controlling the negotiations concerning the former German emperor at the legation. A Berlin dispatch of December 2 announced that a number of the Soldiers and Workers’ councils in Germany had requested the government to have the ex-emperor tried by a German tribunal. It was added, however, that the government would submit the question to the National Assembly, which body is not yet in being. During the debate in the Netherlands upper chamber yesterday Deputy Marchand expressed the opinion that should the presence of the former German emperor in Holland give rise to difficulties abroad the government must request him to return to Germany.