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Hohenzollern, peror,. will be gland in a British ship the Tower of Lon- the allies Sol : 5 life to a Te- nal trial court ad the former emperor | He D ily Mail says, but it is at the former crown prince ill also be arraigned be- te to Holland requesting 'the the former German em- erstood, will be signed German emperor's cording 'to the Daily Mail espondent, and his staff has been Lieut-Gen. Von Estorff for Berlin. ~ Well-informed es at The Hague, this correspon- says, do 'not believe that Hol- ; ] will give the ex-emperor up to allies. They are b¢ the opinion "he wilt remain in Holland for the rest of his life 3 Paris.--The officers' corps of the Prussian army and German navy, ac- cording to a Berne dispatch to the avas Agency, have sent a lengthy ppeal to the Queen of Holland not y permit the extradition of the for- German emperor. Winnipeg Strike Solved Nothing Wi nipeg.--The Western Labor ews says: "After nearly nine weil of strike 1d strife the metal shop workers we nt back to work. That is, the strike is off, though some men are not re- tated and some others refuse to go on the conditions offered. ? 'three employers are still opposed to collective bargaining, as understood by tr i PAS askatoon and the Regifia theatre, gina, for the fair secks there will be offered. thee os each day one of Pantages : These will comprise some 20 the premiere vaudeville art- the day, offering, in conjunc- ith movies, a two-hour show ould be a welcome added at- action to he already strong fair Getting Rid of a Few Charleston, -S.C--A trainload of ermans, formerly interned at Fort thorpe, embarked on the _trans- Princess Matoika for Rotterdam repatriated. vaudeville | Bagi Rate ne way Patriotic Demonstration wy in Parlia- ment. in Course of Pro- Ca ceedings Brussels. ~The = Belgian foreign riser introduced bills i in the cham- ber ratifying the treaty with Germany {and the agreements connected with the treaty. The president of the cham- ber read a letter from King Albert congratulating the chamber and the country on the victory achieved after the horrors of war and exhorting the country _ 'to be united in the 'efforts necessary to: the work of restoration and reorganization. ; The reading of the letter was grected with a great patriotic demonstration. The senate passed bills providing for due 'expression 'of the 'nation's homage to "those killed in battle or Pyochted during the war. IN "4 Huge Conladt Reconstruction. Is Started By a Big| Outlay in. France Paris =A vast reconstruction pro- gram for the whole of France at an estimated cost of 40,000,000,000 francs was announced in the chamber of de- puties by M. Bedouce, budget repor- ter, during the debate on public works. The plan includes reconstruc- tion of railroads, some of which will be electrified, and large projects for building canals and improving har- bors. New. York.--A edntrden for rebuild- ing of the war ravaged Nancy dis- trict of France has been awarded to the Vulcan Steel Products company of New York, at an estimated hgurc of $250,000,000, it is learned in finan- cial circles here. " Cossacks Break Through Ekaterinodar.--The Don Cossacks have occupied Millerovo and broken ovo. In their successful advance the Kuban Cossacks put to route four in- | fantpy and two cavalr the Bolsheviki-foi regiments of | 'West of Ekat- Lerificdar, the Bolsheviki have been de- feated on the Kertch peninsula on the castern end of the Crimea. "Black. Watch" The Best Black Plug Chewing Tobacco on the Market Revolt Stalks in Berlin Berlin.--The communistic leaven has again arrived at the fermenting stage in Greater Berlin, and there were indications that the - strike movement may develop into a. politi- cal insurrection. The candor and boldness with which the independent Socialists and their Communist henchmen are playing their cards shows they feel more sure of their footing than during the March revolt. orkers Have led To Attain Obje icy of making permanent "of; Spectr] smployshy he nt ctoria; L. Pick- the relat of © the Silvertz, ¢ 'with a 'modification of the 1 Ukrainian prisoner ont Pierced and Bolshe- Forces Repulsed Every- ! where ys Paris--The Polish forces have started a counter-offensive along the whole Galician-Volhynian front, ac- cording to advicZs from Warsaw. The Poles claim that they have everywhere broken through the Uk- rainian forces, and that the Lem- berg- HaliczStanislaus railway line is again in Polish. 'hands. The enemy suffered Severe casualties, 3,000 pris- oners, 30 'machine guns and huge stores being. captured. Ss It seems that the Ukrainians were everywhere taken by surprise and | gave® way at all points... The Poles occupied - Brody, _Pluchow, Pomor- zany and Brzezany, taking 1,000 ad- ditional prisoners and much booty. The Lemberg message says that the Poles have pierced the "Ukrainian front at several points. Crowds of s. are arriving at Lemberg and the population' of the | evacuated regions are, returning. Vik = rf Bot forces began an attack on the Polish front, but were everywhere ! repulsed. one ate Refused t to Change Vote has voted] the Bolsheviki front north of Miller-| "I'senate 'appointed several days w istration' mie 2 Lough ; Ris bh gi protests at Price of Food of Serious Nature Forli, Italy. --After a great meeting here, 1 in "which a vast crowd protested against the 'high cost of living, the people, excited by inflammatory spee- ches, attacked, sacked and destroyed many shops which refused to sell commodities at lower prices. Soon the fury of the mob made no distinc- tion and had no limits. All the prin- cipal shops were plundered and the mobs controlled the entire city. They took possession of lorries and trans- ported all kinds) of goods. and "food supplies from the pillaged shops to the chamber of labor. On the walls of the harbor hin wrote: "These goods are. at the dis- posal of the people." The situation grew worse dt the day, assuming a _ revolutionary character, and the mob continued to | loot and destroy all kinds of property. | {drew before Kolchak's forces. The food riots here, however, differ fundamentally from those at Spezia early in June. ® At Spezia the rioters looted for their own advantage, while at Forli most of the wheat taken from the shops was transferred to the care | of the municipality or the chamber of labor to be distributed to the people |or sold at low prices. The value of the goods Stored ty the municipality was estimated at 8,000,000 lire. The ofwners of those shops which escaped sacking brought their keys to the municipality, which 'is composed of socialists and republi- cans, and they ordered that the shops be 'reopened and the goods sold for half price under the supervision of representatives of the demonstrating masses. = "Despite, this apparent return to order in the riotous moment, the losses are enormous owing to the de- struction of shop fittings and commo- dities which could not be easily transported, such as gasoline, which was burned in great quantities. _ Peace River Coal Leases Cancelled Smoky RES Denves | Were Subject of - Investigation By Senate Committee Ottawai--As a real of hee | gation by the select"Committee of the ago to enquire into the: question of certain valuable coal leases in the Smoky River district of the Alberta Peace river, some 200 miles north of Ed- monton, leases have been cancelled by orders of Hon. Arthur Meighen, min- ister of the interior. As a conse- quence the 'application for the right ; to build a railway to be known as the | Athabasca, Grande Prairie and Ver- milion railway will go no further than its present stage. Officials of the geological survey | branch have testified before the sen- ate committee that the coal area in question is probably the - richest in Candda, and that if developed and connected with the main lines to the south it would be able to supply the whole of the west with a coal almost equal in quality to the Pennsylvania anthracite. : Ufa, Mr. most past 'bodies were found in the woods, he | Hoover Resigns As ration : : _ resignation of | thert Hoodor as chairman of the board of directors of the food admin- grain corporation and re- organization of the corporation under] The | the name "United States Grain Cor- poration" was announced at the an- nual meeting 'of stockholders here. Hoover's place as chairman will be filled by "Julius Barnes, wheat direc- tor, who also is president of the cor- poration. It was said Mt. Hoover would continue 'as a director, but that | his resignation of the chairmanship marked the first step toward his re- tirement from public life. Builders Are Bock Winnipeg.--Members of thirteen building trades unions, who have been on strike for the past nine weeks, have retured to work. : With the rcopening of work con- tractors began to 'rush plans for con- struction that was in prospect this spring, and whose. on donment has not .been forced by the shortness of] the remaining building season. Lord Raleigh Dead . London.--Baron Raleigh - (John William Strutt) has passed away. He was known as the "peer shopkeeper," having established a chain of milk shops in London which' were supplied from his own farm. He was born in 1842. i r Ra ) RIL a Lope, if you must, int oi Yeh today. | : : Thi oT Teor I Russia Women and Children Are Slain By| the Bolshevik New York.--A graphic story of a reign of terror in Bolshevik Russia is recited by John A. Embury, United States consul at Omsk, the seat of the Kolchak government, who has arrived here on a leave of absence. Mr, Em- bry declared no language could ade- quately picture the scenes of murder, violation of women, arson and theft which he had seen personally or had described to him by credible eye-wit- nesses. . 'Mr. Embry backed his story, par- | ticularly that of the ravage of 'city of Ufa, by photographs, of which he declared he had taken himself, and = which record appalling instances of wholesale butchery of women and children. Mr. Embry said he had visited Ufa immediately after the Bolshevik with- He learned from survivors. of Bolshevik occupation, he said, that the shevik soldiers had looted the entire city and then organized a '"govern- ment" consisting of committees. One of these committees, he said, was called the extraordinary committee on executions. This committee, he declared, had all members of the city government rounded up, and ordered virtually all of them:shot. The head of the committee, he said, had personally executed the president of the coun- cil, who was brought before him on a stretcher. A few days after his arival in Embry said he followed a crowd of residents . into a nearby wood, where they came upon scores of bodies of women and children, disclosed by the melting snow, who had been driven into the woods and brutally slain. He exhibited a photo- graph showing twenty of these vic- tims, the bodies of many mangled al- recognition. About 200 said. Pupils at the Ufa high school, he said, had been lined up and "ques- tioned as to their sympathies, all who did not profess sympathy for the Bolsheviki were shot or put to work of the most degrading charac- ppm aernsyt TRE pene At Ossa, a city of about 30,000, Mr: Embry declared 2 ,000 bodies were found on fhe outskirts when the snow melted. He displayed photo- 'graphs of some of taken by Col. Teusler of the American Red Cross. Pensions Bills = 24 Up For Discussion New Measure Considered Satisia tory By Major Williams, M. P, Vancouver--"A new pensions' bill will-be brought in parliament this ses- sion. It will not please everyone. It does not meet entirely with my ap- proval, but I want to tell you that it undoubtedly meets the most general * of Commons. the many. Bol-| and, 'which he described: as these victims London. --Rt. on: George, the premier, had a good re- David Lioyd i ( ception from all sections of the House Ley His speech was largely impromptu and discursive. He told |; of the peace conference's efforts to prevent wars in' the future, and re- viewed some of the striking restric-|, tions. put upon Germany in the treaty signed at Versailles. : ; Discussing the determination of the allied and associated powers to place on trial William Hohenzollern, the former German emperor, as the man chiefly responsible for the war, he declared that if such a course had been followed after other wars "there would have been fewer wars." It was the intention to 'make such an example of Germany as to dis- courage others from "ever again at- tempting to repeat this infamy." There was a significant passage when the premier first mentioned the league of nations. Many of the mem- bers cheered, but seemingly nearly an equal number burst into laughter. "I beg of you to try it. tested. Proceeding, he declared: horrors of war, it would be 'achievement.", a great One member shouted, "Nobody wants it." ~The premier paid special tribute to the work of the British expert ad- 'visers, which, 'he said, had been the object of the admiration of the na- tions at the conference, and ended with an appeal for the victory loan, with one of his typical dashes: "Don't demobilize the spirit of patriotism," Speaking of the territorial terms Sr the treaty, he said the territory taken from Germany was a matter of res- toration. It was restoration of Alsace Lorraine, he said, taken forcibly the land to which its population was deep- ly attached; it was a restoration of Schleswig-Holstein, the taking of "the meanest of Hohenzollern frauds, robbing a helpless cotintry. in the pretence they were not doing it, and then retaining the land against the wishes of-the po- pulation"; a restoration. of "Poland, torn to Bisby Russian, Austrian and Prussian autocracy and now reunited under the flag of Poland." And, he added, "they. are all territories swhich ought not to 'belong to Germany: The British: delegation, the pre- aid, "has taken a stand reso- 0 ing any attempt to put a population I beg of you|' to take it seriously," the premier pro-| "1g 'the world could be saved from the scattering and : allies had 'Testored the sponsible for ho this kind are to "It was an exceptional co it is*a pity | it was, y peennse, ha -- an inter- allied. one eho ; Londén for the Th "of the "Those guilty of rages ought to be pu officers should know t be held personally offences against th Premier Lloyd Ge rence of the war, 2 i an example of Germany courage smbifions rules a this er 'The Gorman § proved the war, and- "therefc essential in the terms to sho tions committed any aggressio ainst their. neighbors; what li store for them." "The premier's reference to ted States and England agrecing aid France if she should be 2 was loudly cheered. After .to guarantees in the. treaty, disarmament, which : he i should not be a "scrap of pa premier spoke on' 'the bill the United States and Bri antecs in the event of an attack on France, sayir suppose any "section of the it would 'be fool- would: oppose that. Seats May Regina.--Secats PET by mail at provisions of any pensions' bill in the | gin: world," drews, speaking as ° V.A. conventi said Major fee of a loag i comprising ne fewer than potions, in 'had been incorporated, and which it was hoped that the Dominion conven- tion would endorse. 1 Help In Time Ot Trouble Britain a States to Act i i Cc _ in Aiding France ; Paris--The ' Franco- British Franco- American treaty, the Journal says, provide that the intervention of Great Britain and the United States on behalf of France against Germany | shall be endent. Great Bri- Rhine territory is pine France from ( Tt ; tlers in the bus !named Olsen properties are in flames are Sprea wind. FRane 'the desires of the) veterans as set oul In a large: number | of resolutions from various branches nd to a the 'times, ond will be - Mound to comprise some of the very | best vaudeyillians of the day. It is [suggested that you drop a line to the o 'manager : of either of these theatres stating your wishes, and you can rely sary to speak times it isn't: all. : on 'prompt and courteous attention. Paris. -- Premier Clemenceau, For- eign Minister Balfour, State Lansing, Foreign Minister Pi- chon, Baron Makino and - Viscount | Secretary of At Chinda of Japan, and Foreign 'Minis- | tier. ter Tittoni. of Italy, decided to con- | stitute a new "council of five. 'council of five will have as its mem bers Foreign Minister Balfour, S retary Lansing, M. Pichon, 'Foreign t 3 Minister : Tetons and Baro Ma i This | in