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OBSERVER-STAR, i London --It is possible that fore mperor William may not be tried London, according to an announce- rent made in the House, of Lords 'Earl Curzon, government leader | In the. course of discus-| Bryee deprecated ding the trial of the former: Ger- n Emperor at London. NE Baron Buckmaster said there were rave reasons - why the government ght" not to pursue any further] the ob 'Tt was certa inly hE he eclared, to ask an: 'English judge to it on such a tribunal to administer me i does' not know by proce- | | has never been: defined, in a Sng 'he does not control. In his reply, Earl Curzon said he thought the kaiser in exile in no way mparable with Charles L 'or Na- oleon. He was unable to imagine hat a man who ignominously fled his country could be turned into a martyr or a hero by a trial, while his continued presence near the Ger- 'man border - might be a political danger. = Tt might be, however, that the tel] would be held in London. No final "decision has been "reached, and the ~ chances of the trial becoming a spec- tacular show and disturbing public _opinion and the daily national life © important considerations. Even if the trial were within the sBhere of Britain, if by no means followed "that London would be the place se- lected. i Resume Trade With Germany Traders of World Rush i in With First * Raising of the Allied x © Blockade ~ Berlin--The first results of the ising of the blockade, says the] Deutsche 'Allgemeine Zeitung, is the . flooding of Cotogs 'with foreign goods. "French firms," th; newspaper | adds, "are offering hundreds of thou- 'sands of kilograms of cocoa powder, - chocolate, coffee, ox fat, pork fat, macaroni and toilet soaps. German imports companies have been 'offered ~~ large quantities of corn starch and cocoa, hundreds of carloads of white beans and Chinese yellow peas, and raw coffee and chocolate in huge quantities. "The American offers include ba- con, olive oil, rubber coats, steant turbines, automobile machinery, 'v var-| "jous oils and vaseline. © "An Anglo-Japanese firm offers the direct importation of. borax, paraffin, resin, flax oil, shellac and soap." Cutting Wheat Near Brandon 'Brandon. + Robert Roddick, farmer, of Brandon Hills, is cutting wheat. He commenced on a field that was sown on April 15. It is said to be the finest crop since 1914. Tt is 30 # years since wheat was' cut in this particular district during July. Wheat fields in the Assiniboine River Val- doy 'are ripening fast. . Paris Honored Victim \ Paris-- Paris honored the memory of 'Sgt. Paul Mannheim, of the French army, who was murdered in Berlin on July 13. The burial of Sgts Mannheim took place at the Pere La- chaise cemetery. = Great crowds fol- lowed the funeral procession, -in 'which President Poincare and - Pre- Lieut. W. R. Cross and Wife of 'result of a nose dive made by- his | Lieut. the degree were Admirals Fatal Airplane Accident - Aviator Kerr Instantly : © Killed . Portage La' Prairie--Lieut. W. R. "Buster" Cross and Mrs. S. P.. Kerr are dead and Lieut. S. 1 Kerr, of the Veteran Airplane company, of Win- nipeg,_ is: in the Portage general hos- pital in a precarious 'condition 'as the machine about two "miles north of this city. How the" accident happen- ed cannot be learned except 'from those who. saw the 'machine come down, and they state that the engine stopped of a sudden, the nose of 2 machine turned earthward and + 'came down with a crash. Lieut. Kerr and party arrived here from Winnipeg with their machine, and had arranged to proceed to the Brandon exhibition. 'They made. an early start, but had some kind of trouble west.of the city and were forced to land in # plowed field; ne- cessitating assistance in getting out. 'Nothing more was heard of them un- til they were observed flying north of the city, heading evidently for the landing place used during the visit 'here exhibition weék. They were flying at an altitude of about 200 feet, when of, a sudden the engine stopped and the plane came down on the farm of the Home for Incurables. eh It is surmised that, flying so close to the ground, Lieut. Kerr, who was running the machine, did not have time to straighten out before the crash came. The nose of the ma- chine crashed into the ground and drove the engine in on top of Mrs. Kerr and Lt. Cross, who were in the front seat, and when taken out they were crushed almost beyond recog- nition. 'When the machine struck, Kerr, who was in the back seat looking after the control, bounc- chine, but he was unconscious when picked up, and rushed to the hospital. Parts of the machine had.-to be torn away to get the bodies of Mrs. Kerr and Lieut. Cross wreckage, but there was no sign of life, and they must have been in- stantly killed. : The machine was what 'is known as 'the L.W.F. war type, 145 horse- power, and has 48-foot wing span. Honorary Degree Recipients Given to Leaders in War BY Cam- bridge University: Cambridge, England.--General Sir Arthur Currie, commander of the Canadian forces, wads among those who received the honorary degrge of Doctor of Laws from. Cambridge University, The ceremony took place in the senate house, which was erow- ded mostly with undergraduates dressed in military and naval uni- forms for the occasion. The vice- chancellor of the university, Dr. Ar- thur E. Shipley, of Christ College, presided. : Among the various recipients of Sturdee and Wemyss, and Generals Rawlin- 'son, Birdwood, Wilson, Herne, Monass, the Earl of Cavan and Gen. Pershing. : The vice-chancellor tained the party at Christ College walked through the rain, the students following and cheering. Gen. Bird- wood was carried shoulder high by then luncheon enter- in mier Glossina were Toppesutind the youths. . London. -- Chitin Shi in fditerent parts of the country have been as destructive as anything 'com- mitted by the military. At Swindon gangs, of "youths and discharged" im- emises and burned the flagstaff outside the municipal buildings. At where the town hall was . further 'disturbances were quelled by police charges. Men and four women were arrested, and fur-{ ther arr sts are. imminent, At Cov- shops were pitied; 40 Civ ian Disturbances rial seldiers ISoted twenty business | ver England Would Exclude : ~ (Canadian Cattle Fears Expressed in England Tha - Animals Are Exposed to : Disease, " London.--Farmers of England are 'opposing the efforts being made 16 | 7 on the importation.of Canadian store cattle. The council of the chamber of agriculture has adopted a report urging that there be no relaxation in - [the restrictions, not because of dis- ease. which is admitted to be non-ex- 3 mn Canada, ba heen se Can- = Proclamation. {Ottawa in Thode of Doubt as to that a state of war no longer exists. ed out and landed clear of the ma-|; out of the} tthe war and the War-Measures Act. 'hall, to which they | remove the long-standing prohibition clare still | scouring the woods between | Port Arthur and Wild Goose Point. } . Of Peace At Ottawa ~ When War Measures Act : Expires Ottawa.--Parliament will be In ses- sion again before the War Measures Act expires, and with it the race track betting, prohibition and 'other war= time orders-in-council passed under its provisions. , Such is' the under- standing here, and was the. under- standing "when parliament, prorogued |. a fortnight ago. At that time the final complete text of the peace treaty with Germany had not been received in Ottawa, and therefore could not be submitted to parliament for rati- fication. ~ Drafts . as prepared had been: received and changes made are cabled from Paris. It was not till the arrival in Ottawa' of Hon. C. J. Do- herty, who with Hon. A. L. Sifton signed the treaty for Canada, that the text as signed at Versailles' was avail- t { able. The understanding with the British government when Sir Robert Borden left .Londod was that there would be no proclamation of peace by Britain for some time, and at any rate not till the Canadian parliament had full opportunity to ratify. Since then, however, greater neces- sity has apparently arisen in Great Britain for.- an early proclamation |, It is understood that the government here is in communication with the imperial authorities on the subject and that stress is being laid on the necessity for full opportunity being given to the Dominion parliament for discussion of the treaty's terms be= fore formal proclamation of peace by the King. Notice has already been given of a special session in the fall for ratification. While the question has not been discussed in cabinet as yet, it is pro- bable that the date of opening will be advanced a week or two to avoid any unnecessary: delay. But that peace will be officially proclaimed before the Dominion parliament can be sum- moned is regarded here as extremely unlikely. The point/raised by Sir A. B. Aylesworth that the war time orders- in-council, notwithstanding their own provisions, will not be opera- tive after expiry of the War Meas- ures Act is generally conceded. A similar opinion was given by a com- mittee of legal experts in Great Britain with regard to .orders-in- council passed under the "Defence of the Realm Act. It is pointed out -that under the treaty with Germany peace cannot be proclaimed until after ratification by Germany and by three of the principal "allied and associated pow- ers. The principal allied and associ- ated powers are defined i in the treaty as U.S. British Empire, France, I Italy and Japan. Ratification of the treaty with Germany alone is not regarded as being sufficient to end There will be also need to be ratifi- cation of peace with Austria. Peace with Germany would be merely a partial peace. But whether ratifica- tions of the peace with Bulgaria and Turkey first would be necessary in- so far as the termination of the War Measures Act is concerned is regard- ed as somewhat doubtful. There is little likelihood, in actual practice, of much difference in time between the proclamation of- peace in Great Britain and its proclamation in Can- ada by the governor-general. Canadians Sentenced =" England End of Trial of Seven in Cotlnagtion . With Death of Epsom Policeman = f.ondon. --At the Surrey assizes Bugler Robert Todd and Private E. A. McAllan, of the Canadian Fores- try Corps, were found not guilty of manslaughter in connection ayith the death of Police Sergeant Green at Epsom and discharged. Privates F. H, Wilkie, 102nd Canadian Battn.; J. Connors, 113th Canadian Highlan-|. | ders; A. McMaster, 3rd Canadian Re- serve, and D. Yerex and A. Masse, of found guilty and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard la- bor. k No Trace of Nipigon Man | Fort William, Ont--Another day' s sun has set and still the second man implicated in the murder of Constable 'parently there has, been no sign of him, although the search: of Inspec- tor Symons, Sergeant Burleigh and members of the local police forces, Mounted Police, Dominion, provin- cial and relat police, has been ceaseless in the vigilance for him and Srkers On Trial PQ At Vining - ed a meeting the day before the first the Canadian Forestry Corps, were! Armstrong at Nipigon is at large. Ap- Winnipeg Strike Leadera" Laugh © Evidence Tendered on Con. spliracy Winnipeg --A: secret service whose ramifications extended even into the carefully-guarded precincts of the la- bor temple was named as the source of evidence of an actual revolution by Sergt. A. E. Reames, chief of the Manitoba Royal Northwest Mounted inary trial of eight labor : Teaders charged with seditious conspiracy. The accused, R. .B. Russell, W. M., Ivens, W. A. Pritchard, R. J. Johns, Aldermen A. A. Heaps and ,John Queen, George Armstrong and R E. Bray, maintained the attitude they adopted at the first sessions; they laughed outright at some of 'the evi- dence and continually passed laugh- ing whispers. > "Reports I had from welinbll agents were to the effect that there was a revolution in the making," Sergt. Reames declared, under cross-ex- amination by E. J. Murray. He reit- erated quotations from speeches by Wm. Ivens and Geo. Armstrong which counselled revolution. He said he believed the speeches were contri- butary causes to the general strike. "I was not surprised that the strike was peaceful at first," he said. "It would have remained so if the strike committee could have retained con- trol of everything in the city under the labor temple - permit system, They wanted peace for a purpose." Evidence of an independent wit- ness, Joseph T. Hill, who had attend- riot, brought out the' fact that Wm. Ivens had told a large gathering of ignorant foreigners that their homes were in danger of viglation by the special police. Mr. Ivens told a story of a special policeman stealing money from a striker's wife and children un- der threat of his baton. When the special police had been attacked the next day, the witness had thought it his duty to report Ivens' speech to the police. He said he believed it was contributory to the riots, and was "vicious and that its effect at that time would be particularly bad." He said he had been shocked and horrified at the thought * of a man having .so little sense that he would make such an inflammatory address to Spl an audience. Political Landslide In Prince Edward Island Charlottetown, P.E.I. -- Liberals swept the province in the general elections, capturing 26 seats out of 30. ] The only Conservative! survivors of the _debacle. were Hon. Arsenault, premier; Hon. James A. McNeill, commissioner «of public works, and H. F. Murdock Kennedy, without portfolio, and J. D. Stewart McKin- non, 'commissioner of agriculture, was defeated. This was the shost. one-sided clec- tion since Confederation, with / the exception of 1911, when the Liberals won only two seats. When the house dissolved, the parties stood: Conser- vatives, 18; Liberals, 11; and one seat vacant. The Liberals elected are: Bell, Lea, Gallant, Metherall, Sanders, Dennis, McLean, McArthur, Crosby Hughes, Lepage, Brodie D. MacDonald, Nash, Irving, Higgs, Duffy, D. C. MacDon- ald, Acorn, Cox, McIntyre, Johnston, Dewar, Sutherland, Butler and Hes- sian. Such a sweeping victory was un- expected by both sides, although the result of the federal elections, "when four Liberals got a majority of home votes, afterwards changed by the sol- diers' votes, foreshadowed a Conser- vative defeat. The returned soldiers did not take an active part in" the contest, but it is evident that a maj- ority voted Liberal. Fine weather brought out a large vote. There was a big turnover in Charlottetown, the Liberals capturing both seats by large majorities, labor going with the opposition. J Dissatisfaction with the administra- tion of the public works- depart- ment, especially the neglect of roads, with 'the administration of: the agri- cultural department, and with proposal of the ° government to levy additional taxation told against the Conservatives. - People also looked with disfavor-upon the highway bill, {fearing that payment of the sixty per cent. "asked for by the «© federal government would be too heavy a burden. Lr The French government has con- ferred the Medaille. Militaire, its highest. decoration for an enlisted man,¢ on 2a negro corporal of the 372nd Infantry, who was formerly a waiter in a Boston restaurant. Ho 0 ism, as the war has abundantly shown; has fiothing to do with r ce, color or previous condition of: se Police secret service, at the prelim-| | Prince will go to Washington for a the Lesine Wats Peace 'With Rumania oT; ; Concessions for Bho itin But: Ties Serious String to : ~~ Proposals has arrived at Kishineff with 'an offer of peace to the commander of the Rumanian troops on behalf of Nikolai 'Lenine, the Bolsheviki premier, ac- cording to a Berlin government wire- less dispatch. " _Lenine offers to cede Bessarabia to_Rumania on condition that Ruma- nia shall' prohibit Ukrainian citizens and bands of Admiral Kolchak; head of the all-Russian = government at Omsk, from crossing the Rumanian frontier. An armistice to last" eight days has been concluded on the Bessaragian front, and the delegation has gone to Rumanian headquarters. = Victory For Clemenceau Great Success of Premier Clemenceau When He Won a Vote of : Confidence « # Paris,--All newspapers, excepting those distinctly hostile to the gov- ernment, comment upon the great success of Premier Clemenceau when he won a vote of confidence in the chamber of deputies. Some papers make-the point that the result shows the vote, in which the government was in the minority, was not aimed at the government, but was intended to obtain a more energetic policy de- signed to end the high cost of liv- ing, which, it was declared, threaten- ed to paralyze the country. The pa- pers express pleasure that Premier Clemenceau had pledged himself to consult | the country soon, through the coming elections. . Prince To Visit White House British Heir-Apparent Invited to Be Guest of United States Government = London.--The Prince of Wales will reach the U.S. next month as the guest of the U.S. government. King George, on behalf of the Prince, has accepted an invitation sent the Prince by President Wilson, to visit-the Pre- sident.in Washington. After his visit to C the few days as a guest of the United States government and later will] make a brief visit - to New York, where he will live on board the Bri- tish battleship Renown in New York harbor, although still a guest of the government. 'King to Unveil Montreal Statue - Montreal=--=Xing George has con- sented to unveil the memorial here to Sir Etienne «gartier by pressing a button at Balmoral. © The Duke of Connaught cabled E. W. Villeneuve, president of the Cartier centenary, of which the former Governor-General was a patron, that His Majesty would unveil the statue by this method on tier's birthday.\ A wire will be run from Balmoral to connect with the Atlantic "and Canadian cable .lines, thus forming a" direct electrical con- London--A Bolsheviki Selegation September 6, the 'anniversary of Caf=T London ~--Eight | ~undret were killed and 1,600 wounded ing the recent disturbances in Egypt, according to dispatches from General E. H. Allenby, Col. Harmsworth, un- der secretary of the foreign office, announced in the House of Com- to Buropean and other Willan were: Killed, 31; wounded, 35. 'The casualties to- the military were: Ch Killed, 2; wounded, 11a. ji 39 natives; Ltontion Yor life, 26. Up- wards of 1,000 were "sentenced to short 'terms of imprisonment. The military courts 'have Kk ispensed with, the sentences Ww "they im- posed Sik reduced by thr e m nths. Germany Would Be hei Friends With Neighbors Advances. Along Path in Expectation of Revision of Peace Treaty « Weimar.--Dr. Hermann Mueller, minister of foreign affairs, speaking before the national assembly, urged the carrying out of the peace treaty to the utmost, while working also for its_ revision. He advocated also the friendliest disposition towards Bel- gium by real sacrifices, thus paring ye the way for an understanding with the Belgian neighbor nations. Dr. Mueller favored non-interven- tion in" Russia and an cffort to pro- mote friendly relations with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, while not for-" getting Germany's former allies, Bul- = garia and Turkey. : -Priests Must Pay Kingston, Ont.--Judge Lavell has issued an attaching order to twelve Roman Catholic clergymen in Kingston archdiocese for the "Cath- edratium," the ten per cent. of the revenue of a parish priest which is payable to Archbishop Spratt from the respective parishes of these men. This step is 'being taken to realize tinder the judgment obtained by Sis- ter Mary Basil against Archbishop : Spratt and Sister Margregie, * of 'the House of Providence, for the sum of 3 000. Germans Must Surrender Livestock Paris.-- Germany will have to sur- render to France 500 stallions, 3,000 fillies, 90,000 milk cows, 100, 000 sheep and 10,000 goats, according to a re- port made to the French mission sitting under the pre id of Rene Viviani, by M. Dubois, econ- omic expert for the commission, i commenting on the peace ee clauses. : 5,000° fillies, 50,000 cows dnd heifers were also to go to B frédm 'Germany. The deliveri ; Cur State-Owned Ships . Ottawa. --By the end of this the government will have ships with a total net tonnage of 110, voyages made fis the s 1 3 already in comni¥s##oh have. been nectiot, Fs RRS very profitable. Trading In Titles © Is Charge .London--The tender spot in Brit- ish political life today is the dis- pensation of titles. These are award- ed, of course, by the King, but on the nomination of the Prime Minis- ter, and the criticism of reformers is time and by various prime ministers for purely party services, and practi- cally bought by somites party funds. The House of Lords has a nhl interest in this matter, because the old "noble" families are jealous of having their caste lowered by the addition to the newly rich and purely 'rich to the orders of nobility. The question was threshed out last year, and there was a general derstanding that hereafter honors were announced the for their bestowal should be lished. "This has been done in form, hat it is. alleged, not. in when ors in the last as "for public : tude. i that titles have been given for a long | to | un- | th; reason | pub- t 5 substance, | a few members in the House o mons, has taken up the quest chairman, Gen. Page C Crof title in return for a | to. party funds, and ey who w after the beginning | scribed shortly large sum of the (