THE EX-KAISER.
EXTRADITION DISCUSSED, WBLL HOLLAND OPPOSE? Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and! Reuter. LONDON. December 3. The Attorney-General declares: Our right to press 'for the ex-Kaiser's extradition on legal grounds is merely subsidiary. Wo"huve a much stronger moral claim." Holland must realise that the country which shelters the criminal is acftToely entitled to inclusion in the Leaguo of Nations. The 'Dailv Express.' referring to the Alilas' domahd for the surrender of the ex-Kaiser bv the Netherlands, says the opinion is held that the Netherlands will not put difficulties in the way. Wilhelm s position will be analagons .to that of a pirate or slave trader, who is not granted sanctuary bv n-nv country. German advices state that the flight of the ex-Kaiser is condemned in many quarters, and particularly among soldiers. Dr. Steinager, professor of ]aw,_ writing in 'DerTag.' says that no criticism is too strong, because the Emperor's action was unkindly, unsoldiorly, unmanly, and served to giro the death-blow to monarchlal ideas in Germany. A monarch cannot run away like a schoolboy. If ha thought himself incapable of retaining his position the battlefront offered * him an opportunity of at least making a kingly and dignified exit.
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Evening Star, Issue 16909, 5 December 1918, Page 3
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198THE EX-KAISER. Evening Star, Issue 16909, 5 December 1918, Page 3
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