Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1918 — BRITAIN ASKS KAISER’S DEATH [ARTICLE]

BRITAIN ASKS KAISER’S DEATH

All Teuton Rulers Must Stand Trial, Says Minister of National Service. I TO DE HANGED IF'GUILTY Ex-Kaiser’s Physician Arrives in Holland From Berlin on Special Train—Tlirco Members of Former Emperor’s Staff lieove Amerongen. Amsterdam, Dec. 6.—Documentary evidence of the ex-kaiser’s guilt in urging and planning the war has been found by the Berlin government In Its search of the Imperial archives of the Berlin castle, it Is announced from Berlin. London, Dec. o.—Sir Auckland Geddes, president of the local government and minister of national service, in n public address said that the policy advocated by the coalition government was peace which, so far ns the enemy powers were concerned, should be based on stern justice. He declared that so far as those men who planned and started the war were concerned It should bo founded on justice of the nature metfed out In the highest eoyrts of the land. Such men as the former German emperor, Enver Pasha and the former rulers of Bulgaria and Austria would be placed on trial and if found guilty their lives would be forfeit. Justice for Atrocities. “Men guilty of unspeakable atrocities upon our prisoners and upon the civilian inhabitants of the Invaded lands,” he continued, “must stund trial, and if they are condemned must suffer death,” It had to be proved how far the commanders of submarines ucted under orders which they hud to curry) out under pain of death, or how far they acted on their own volition, he pointed out. Hut if the atrocities at sen were committed on the volition of Individual ■commanders, he declared, they, too, must suffer the 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.”

Kaiser's Doctor Called. A German physician summoned from Berlin Tuesday by the former German emperor arrived in Holland on a special truln, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. Three of the former emperor's staff; ftie dispatch adds, have left Amerongen for Berlin. They are cnrrylng 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. May Ask Withdrawal, A Berlin dispatch December 2 nnrequested the government to have tha and workers’ councils irt 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 Deputy Marchand expressed the opinion that should the presence' of the tyrraer German emperor In Holland give rise to difficulties abroad the government must request him to return to Germany. Trial Must Be Held. London, Dec. C. —A monarchical revolutionary plot headed by the exkaiser’s brother, ex-Prince Henry of Prussia, is taking on large proportions, and the German radicals are demanding the ex-prince’s arrest, the Daily Express learns from Jts Amsterdam correspondent. " David Lloyd George, the prime minister, in the election campaign, gave a of his policy. In it he declared that the men responsible for the war cannot escape because their heads were crowned,