RIGHT OF SANCTUARY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 69, 16 December 1918, Page 5

RIGHT OF SANCTUARY

DUTCH PREMIER'S PLEA FOR THE KAISER THE DEMAND FOR HIS EXTRADITION By Teleerapli-.Presß Association-Copyright (Bee. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) Tho Hague, December. 13. In tho Lower Chamber the Premier said that tho Government would have preferred that the Kaiser had not chosen Holland as his place of refuge, but he came us a private individual, after'renouncing his throne, and without direct or indirect notification of his intended arrival. There could bo no question of internment. Neither could the Kai!*r's return to Germany be demanded, in view of the immemorial tradition of the right of sanctuary. Tho 'Netherlands Government could adopt no line of conduct except granting the right ol sanctuary, and accepting it as a fact accomplished. The Government must repudiate every effort, to.f-ce in this step an unneutral attitude. Nevertheless, the Emperor's stay in Holland was regarded us. only temporary. Up to the present no power had protested.against his visit, but any .eventual demand for extradition must pass the test of law and treaty. The Government would not allow the Kaiser to exercise any influence in another country.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-lieuter.

ALLIED NOTES TO HOLLAND SERIOUS SITUATION EXPECTED. (Rec. December. 15, 11.40 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 14. ' The, AT.ies have sent separate Notes to Holland regarding tho ex-Kaiser. The "T'elegrnaf" anticipates, a serious situa*jii, because it expects that Holland will refuse to .hand over the Kaiser. A Ministerial crisis is already threatening over the complications arising out of the Government's foreign policy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . KAISER'S EXTRADITION NEW. GERMAN GOVERNMENT WILL NOT OPPOSE IT. Amsterdam, December 13. It is expected that Dr, van Karnebeok, Foreign Secretary, will resign, owing to difficulties with Allied Foreign Ministers, who have learned from Berlin that' the existing Government has expressed its' determination not to oppose the Entente Powers'demand for tho extradition of the Kaiser.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Reuter. . THE ACTION ByII MOTHERS OF LILLE LEGAL MACHINERY IN MOTION. Paris, December 13... Legal, action against the Kaiser has been commenced by an organisation of Lille mothers. .;.The. charge alleges that the German commanders in April 'of 191 C directed, that young girls be removed from their families and forced into contact with notorious women. Thereis a charge of "abduction against the officers under tho command of tho Kaiser.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ( JUST PUNISHMENT,FOR WAR PLOTTER PRESIDENT WILSON'S VIEWS. (Reel' December 15, 5.5 p:m.) Paris, December 14. President Wilson, in greeting President I'oincure, said that the thoughts of the United States were not merely bent on ■winning thu war, but on winning it in such a manner as would ensure ' tho world's peace. Never before had thero been a war so terrible, or illicit ambitions more debasing. Men must learn that such could not bo indulged in without just punishment—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. SIDELIGHTS ON POLICY OF CENTRAL POWERS AN INTERVIEW WITH COUNT CZERNIN. Washington, December 11. Advices from Vienna state that Count Czernin lias explained to an interviewer that /Liidendorff prevented peace. Whenever the Allies wore winning Britain refused to consider peace talk, and whenever the Germanic Alliance was winning Ludendorff refused to consider peace. Austria offered Galicia to Germany, if Germnny 'would give Alsace-Lorraine to France, .but the German militarists refused, because they said the 'German people would never understand the giving up of land for which they>had shed so much blood. General Smuts visited. Switzerland last March, and Uensdorff met him on tho Austrians' and' Hungarians' behalf, but with an indefinite result. Germany assured Count Czernin that no definite terms had been received from Britain, and he believed this to be true. Britain always seemed to be ready to crush Germany, and only President Wilson seemed ready to give her reasonable terms. The Kaiser did not want war, but did not know ho\v to get out of assenting to it. The war started through too much bluffing, everyone, wanting the other felloiv to give way.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.'. ■:.