"the It a session of il of Agriculture. n taken Slice in the "in Alberta, In a message sent to ncil strongly urged the Suskatchewar Grain IS association, was 'opportune for calling a ntion "in which the different which 'have taken indepen- litical action would be repge- He said that steps should be toward consolidating the move- , which heretofore has been con- to the provinces, into a federal itation to attend the Liberal jon at Ottawa in August has reached by the council and was consideration. No decision was as to whether or not 'the invi- 'would be accepted. Leaders ome. ~The chamber of labor has. not quite general, ly the Bopels Romane wage board is being se so far as the fixing $12.50 per week to wo- 'and $12 to female help ered approximately 6,000 industry in Winnipeg, and out forty industries. Dr. M lan, ! chairman, sent in his o the government, and it the political action] een held in the | x! The United i shortage in Alberta ; suggested that || gfbe welcome news to many fair- -goers. | | Pantages will offer in the above cities | Francisco, Salt Lake City, Los An- 'and should prove a big added attrac- the coutry to take over the govern- {tic bulletin, 'before Hidden Biarry Be Sent to Ottawa By End = of August wii Ottawa.--Officers and Solifints T Tn = a Winnipeg. --Winnipeg is to be made the military dispersal area for. the. ; West, and no 5 semi- officially an- 'nounced. - The reason given is the comparatively small number Tol troops 'that will have to be handled from now on. This will be so smalt that it is considered = he dispersal work could quite well be done here and that there 'is no longer any necessity for keeping open the dispersal of- fices that have been established west of here. Among the dis- persal area headquarters that 'will be closed under the new regime will be those of Saska- toon, Regina, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Edmonton, Revelstoke, Victoria and Vancouver. The Brandon, Man., office also will be closed up. 'When troops have been dis- charged at Winnipeg they will travel to. their destinations on Jrdinary passenger trains. Many Labor Candidates Labor Party In Winnipeg Will Try - for Victory at the Polls Winnipeg.--At a largely attended meeting of the Labor party, over which S. J. Farmer presided, it was decided to nominate candidates for every seat in Winnipeg and the terri- tory immediately surrounding the city for the Dominion parliament and the provincial legislature, also to nomin- ate candidates for the mayoralty and every seat on the city council and on the public school board. "A convention is being arranged for August. : has already commenced counties, Some sections report failure. on account of the dry weather, grain is heading out at a 'foot and less in height. : Faled To Get Knighthood Pantages unegtalled' vaudeville will! | geles and the largest American cities, tion to the already strong atfractions offered. 3 Some Sidelights on Bolshevism ment were advocated in the anarchis- according to Archibald Stevenson, who produced a copy of the bulletin at the hearing of the Lusk Tov stigeting commission. Urge Peace Quickly Rome --Premier Nitti, in a speech parliament, urged that the peace negotiations be concluded, and that friendly relations with the-allies, ccepted. ; | especially France, be maintained. mans Ratify Treaty With a Voy, Ba Grace he Sheen minis- ng. the government oy, he about |" lo many's liberation would come. assembly, || dent Feh renback of the treaty, fulfillment, and declaring that the day of Ger- testing the injustice the impossibility of its These speeches were grectéd ah uch turbulent applause and hand- clapping that the president of the! Herr Fehrenback, called attention to the fact that hand-clap- "| ping was against the rules, with simi- lar speeches by other members and! similar applause. The national party introduced treaty with the that the! 'cerning articles 227 to 230, and that la court be created to investigate the, ; responsibility for the. war. In the course of the debate Presi- protested against being torn from: He said that the treaty of | - m de good wha had. been | Alsace-Lorraine Germany. © the government régarding his clain to be an inventor of smoke boxes ag- ainst submarine attack. was not found possible to | rendered their Carmania July 5, with and the sailing of the Tunisian on the same day with 268 troops, 255,413 Ca adians have been repatinted sine services whilst prisoners of war interned, are eligible for a reward. least two witnesses. hand knowledge of the case, fore August 31. who are still channels. live. Fall Harvesting Props on the Whole Are Very Poseipolicy on which This Year Toronto.--Fall wheat according Owing to the length of straw, some of the grain has been knocked down. In some sections, fears grain was ripening too fast, yield will be higher. were that but the Winter rye is ready for the binder. Crops on the whole are very poor. practically a The fields are uneven, and Charles Hannan Asserts He Got Nj that the Bolshevik authorities are! Reward for Devi "Mr. Hannan In February he was informed "it include shall again receive consideration." New York --The arrest of Presi-| dent Wilson and J. D. Rockefeller, the coming, and Mr. Hannan now pre- opening of all jails and the formation sents the correspondence to the pub- of soviet organizations throughout jjc. Many Jews Killed der Shows Cruelty London. army, which has said in General Gregorieff, the sympa- $35,000,000 for Six Airships London.--Six rigid airships of an improved type, representing succes-, ceiving the freedom of Newcastle, de- sive stages of development, are under precated the tendency to minimize the construction for the British navy, it, British army's was disclosed in the House of Com- | war. mons by Walter Hume Long, First | Lord of the Admiralty. 000. Hun Mob Releases Prisoners Berlin.--A mob attacked the castle The guatds, it is said, sur- arms without resist- Dosa cance. Some fighting occurred be- sanction of the international law 'ex-{ycen the crowds and government, | perts of repute be first obtained con-! go 1diers. : Troops Overseas Now Total 32 ,000 London.--With the sailing of the. 2,954 troops, To Be Riouted | [Becommendations for Awards Must! of the. Canadian Expeditionary Force 'Toxeth division" of Liverpool, "asked who displayed gallantry while escap- why - the South African government ing or attempting to escape from the had recently placed in the United | enemy, or who rendered exceptional | or 1,000 cars and 250 trucks, and in the nd Canada orders for 70 large An order of the Militia Department locomotives instead of in Great Brit- 1 just issued, states that recommenda- | "ain, in view of the necessity of em- [tions for such reward may now be ployment. of the. people here and of submitted. The facts supporting each' maintaining Britain's export trade. recommendation must be substantiat- ed by statements of evidence from at tary for ¥ who have first-'these orders had been placed before and the armistice had been signed, when should reach militia headquarters be-! Officers and soldiers | to supply railway material. serving should ia, their claims through the usual official | delivery of the The claims of those who have been demobilized should be pre- sented through the officer command- ing the military district in which they Starts In Ontario Against Foreigners R.: BR. Houston, memb for the West | States. orders for 44,000 tons of rails, Jus. He. LC. S. Amery, under-secre- the colonies, said some of Jit was impossible for Great Britain British offers respecting the price and date of 70 locomotives had been so unfavorable that South Africa had been obliged to go further afield. He was glad to say 40 of them had been ordered in Canada. iS of Mr.- Houston's question, which seemed doubtless I imply that it was undesirable that the South African government should purchase material from Canada rather 'than Great Britain, he recalled that a the government of 'Preference Within the 'Empire Only London.--In the house of ene ys Dutch Resent Note ~ Paris.--The council of five re- ceived a reply from Holland in answer to the council's note re- garding the reported escape from the Island of Weirengen of the former German. crown prince. The Dutch note, in what were said to be rather curt terms, pointed out that the ru- mor of the escape was unfound- ed and expressed surprise at the warning given by the council. The Dutch government, the reply added, is conscious of its internatiénal obligations and must be left to exercise its sov- - ereignty as it sees fit. Mr. Amery continued that in view to unintentionally | ; ; ' : Two of Crew Were Killed and Two killed and€wo injured when the Allan liner Grampian, Montreal for Liver- ithe empire were agreed was that of harvesting ' preference in a few | and manufactures of the empire, and to the Ontario not merely of the United Kingdom. crop report, issued by the department of agriculture. ference from ments, countries. stood the South African government actually had done its place orders in Great Britain and had negotiated at length with manufac- turers. Reds Prepare To Allied Powers Will See Kolchak concerted attack upon Petrograd by i . . wi TT Finnish forces and the troops. of the lots his invention | Kolchak government at Omsk, was precisely the same program that plays was adopted, but his stipulation thos [Elven | by the council of five. ,| Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Seattle, San | ihe reward should be a "good old-! fashioned knighthood and pension equivalent," was ignored. | tary attaches of Great Britain, France, United States and Italy at Helsi g- fors, instructing them to support the Finnish government, if it decided to your name in the present honors list, jets > em = Admiral Kol- but whe the next one is prepared «you S'2< to assist im in the campaign. pre z - There is no indication that the al- Hiwever, vo knighthood Se el {lied and associated powers propose to | go further at the time in helping Kol- chak's plan, but their action in sup- porting. equivalent will see the Kolchak movement car- ried through. in contracts for produce Great Britain could not expect pre- other empire govern- except as against foreign Mr. Amery said he under- very best to ER pps bn Evacuate Petrograd Movement Carried Through Washington. -- Definite information g to evacuate -Petrograd has ceived in official circles here. to quit the capital was said been violently opposed by. ements of the government. . Paris. --Approval of a plan for a A joint note has been sent the mili- the Finns is regarded as to assurances that they Helsingfors.--1It is reported that all pool, Cape 'steamer, with 750 passengers and 2a crew of 350, arrived here for repairs. bers of the crew, who were asleep in the bow of the steamer Grampian Strikes Iceberg | Injured St. John's, Nfld--Two men were collided with an iceberg Race Thursday night. off The The killed and injured were mem- when she Warten Th -- er peace port X esi-- dent Wilson i in an 'address accounting y to the country. for his par was born of the con tical statesmen that an concern had become a 'world sity to end the old order and gua = antee civilization. He asserted that in such a concern the world looked confidently to the United States for United States delegation would have > written it, no vital 5 ¢ been sacrificed by the necessary promises. The senate, already. d proposal, received the President with cheers and listened to his words grave silence. ded there was another b office, where ul tal ke with senators who 'wished to - - ask with its 'League of Nations covenant, Re leadership, and added that while the treaty might not be. exactly as the ed in a bitter fight over this league in When he had conclu- ; about specific features of the treaty or of the negotiations. In these conferénces the President discussed {freely such subjects as the i disposition of Shantung, the German indemnities and Irish freedom. In his address, however, there was no | Cape Rea struck. Virtually all the passengers were awake; but although there were more than 500 women and children aboard, there was little excitement and no panic. : That the Grampian did not suffer the fate of the Titanic, with con- siderable loss of life, is believed to have been due to the decision of the captain to strike the iceberg bow on rine," direct reference to many of the ques- tions around which senate debat' has centered, the President declaring he could not construe details of the treaty in a short address. He did not directly mention the Monroe doc- Shantung, or the obligations assumed under article 10 of the league covenant, nor did he allude to the proposal to write reservations instead of taking a glancing blow on the side. ! ¢ large, wa, When it 'it 'was too"! into the ratification... either My services and all the informa foreign . the ship was proceeding slowly. a glancing blow, which would through the ship's side, would her. 'the squarely head on. part of the ship was smashed in above the water line, the stem being driven | back nearly 40 feet. . undamaged below the water line,' how- ever, as the portion of the berg which she struck proved to: 'be an overhang ing shelf. : taking no water and she was headed here, steaming 'against a heavy gale, which caused anxiety among those aboard. When the Grampian arrived, mariners said, she was the most "berg beaten" that had ever come to this port. will take several weeks, and it is ex- pected that the transhipped to another Ukrainian Anti-Bolshevist Comman- foreign embassies, legations and con- sulates in Petrograd have been occu- picd by' Bolsheviki forces. The arch- it, although The captain said he realized that tear: sink was. changed and ; 'struck the berg The entire fore The course: Grampian The vessel was It was found that the liner was through the night Repairs. passengers will be ship. Raising the Giant Flagstaff ; A Douglas. fir furnished a giant flag- tion I possess," said Mr. Wilson, "will be at your disposal and at the dis- posal of your committee on foreign relations at any time, either inform- .ally or in session, 'as you prefer, and fe I hope that you vill ot hesitate to make use of them." : Py souls - United States isolation, the: dent asserted, was ended 20 years ago. when the war with Spain 'put the na- tion in partial control of Cuba and the Philippines. But we have not exploited them, he continued; we have been their friends and have sought to serve them. There can be no ques- tion of our ceasing to be a world : power. The only question is whether =~ we shall accept or reject the confi- derce of the world. The stage is set, the destiny disclosed. It has come about by no plan of our conceiving, but by the hand, of God, who has led us into this way. We cannot turn back. We can only go forward with lifted eyes and freshened spirit, to fol : low the vision. -- Many Jews have lost! their lives in the course of the op- erations between the Russian soviet forces and those of General Gregori- eff, commander of the Ukrainian anti- Bolshevist fighting its way northward from the Black Sea, Cecil Harmsworth, under- | secretary for foreign affairs, | the house of commons in replying to a question. under-secretary said, was stated to be strongly anti-Jewish in his thies. ives have been seized, it is said, and {those in charge have been arrested, and handed over to an extraordinary committee dealing with charges of es- pionage been' ment. "Black Watch"-- The Best Black Plug Chewing Tobacco on the Market British Army Won The War Emphatic Statement By Sir Douglas 'These air- he declared, "but it) ships, he' "stated, would cost £7,000,-! army that won the war; it was Brit- cain that bore the brunt of the fight- ing in the last two years. everyone stick by the fellows®who fought and Ei ; : : suffered and their dependents." and the detention prison at Hanover and released all the prisoners in the HS buildings. samendment in favor of: ratifying the is at his home in Toronto for a few days, stated that reports which "appeared and are appearing press, to the effect that he had been offered and accepted an executive po- sition with some railway corporation! were entingly 3 without foundation and | against the soviet govern- Haig on British Army Achievements London.--Field Marshal Haig, re- achievements in the "It is right to speak of our allies," was the British I hope will realize~ the fact and Has No Plans for His Fitore Toronto.--Sir Thomas 'White, who have in the bank, or life insurance company, staff 215 feet high, weighing 18 tons, 'to Kew Gardens, near London, - which was presented four years: ago by the British Columbian government The mighty flagstaff is at last to be erect-' ed, by Canadian hands. > | Replace. u. S. Troops in: Siberia San Francisco, Cal. --Replacements for American troops in Siberia will be rushed to Vladivostok on a special transport from here July 26, it was announced at headquarters of the western department of the army. Facing Terrible Cost 1 Through High Taxation ; ----_--a Berlin Fire is to quickly re- | turn to a peace time financial system, ! said Mathias Erzberger, vice=chancel- lor and minister of finance, speaking | at Weimar before the German nation- al assembly. Among other things, the | payment of grants to men who are unemployed will be reduced, it was in-| dicated during his address. . "The empire's needs must be di- vided henceforth between "home needs and indemnities," he said. ! "The burdens of taxation will coal] an absolutely terrible height. A float- ing debt of 72,000,000,000 marks is a constant danger, and the removal of this debt is one of our most urgent tasks. There are two ways in which! to do it--either its conversion into a funded loan, or its extinction by big levies and a heavy property tax. I ido not indulge the hope that these [two ays will pth yield the, 1 | } tion will be speedily submitted to the : national assembly, and this reform will represent the completion of the whole work. en : "The world has denied us interna- "tional justice. All 'the more 'passions ately and. energetically wever, will | we work for the home again, and flourishing" in justice, concentrate our care and endeavor upon the poor, 'but just German, ; "One of the Goat Palnivetients re- lative to the restoration of the life of labor is the establishment of ly finances. I will have nothing : with suggestions for the annulment of war loans and a dec aration of gen Tr eral bankruptc to administer justice ation system. The income fr tal must be taxed mu h more heavily than the income dro