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Show Question Under Advisement Advise-ment of British Crown Law Officers Co-operating With French, i German Spartacus Organ Or-gan Demands Revolutionary Revolu-tionary Tribunal Sentence Sen-tence Hohenzollerns. LONDON, Nov. 25. It is understood the question of the extradition of the former , German emperor is being considered by British law officers of the crown, who j arV) working- in close co-operation with the French authorities. Action in the premises prem-ises was taken immediately after the flight of the former emperor to Holland. The Evening" News says it understands V.ho law officers have concluded that the tllies are entitled to demand the extra-" dition of the former emperor, and that this decision applies also to individuals who have committed or given instructions for the commission of extraditable i crimes. U is added that Holland takes the view that she has not the power to surrender such persons without the consent of Germany. DECLARES CANNOT DEMAND EXTRADITION. s The French premier. M. Clemenceau, recently requested of Charles Lyon-Caen, dean of the faculty of law of the University Uni-versity of Paris, an opinion on the possibility pos-sibility of the extradition of "William llohenzollern. Lyon-Caen asked to be given time to prepare a decision. One of the leading French authorities un international law. F.douard Clunet, is reported to have advanced the opinion that it was impossible to demand the one-time emperor's extradition. The former emperor Jias been indicted i Mree times for murder in England In connection with the sinking of the lusi-(anta. lusi-(anta. German aerial raids and the shelling shell-ing by warships of unfortified east coast towns. ASK CONVENING OF TRIBUNAL FOR PASSING SENTENCE f L'KRLrX. Nov. (Hy tho Associated I'I' m.) "We demand the inimedlnto convening con-vening of a revolutionary tribunal for parsing sentence on the 1 Tohonzoherns, father and son, on 'Von Bethniaun-Holl-wog, former Chancellor, and r;ainvmennan, V former foreign secretary," says the lied "lag. the. org;in of Dr. Karl Llebknccht, in commenting on tho disclosures made in Munich concerning tho complicity of Germany in bringing about the war. Tho Snartacus organ also demands a reckoning with the Socialist leaders, l-,)i"i-t, David. Mohkennunr and others for participation in propaganda calculated to; absolve (Ji-rmnny from responsibility for j I'.-Mi-itr.g the w;ir. "W have bcn told that Germany had no know h-dgc of Austria's ultimatum to s.-rhia. I' was a lie." says the Yor-waeris. Yor-waeris. "Merlin was said to have admonished ad-monished Vienna to go slow. It was a lie." Tho organ of the Independent Socialists, Dii- Freiheir. says: "They committed high treason. "We 'annot lay hands on Miliinm and his son. iut ii is to bo hoppd that they will yet lr brought to justice. Dr. von Beth-ma Beth-ma nn - Hollwf g. Yon Jngow and Zinnncr-mnn Zinnncr-mnn (all former German foreign secretaries), secre-taries), who'were their tools, must forthwith forth-with bp arrested and brought into court." Report of lOb of strength betwren iho conservative elements find the Independent Inde-pendent and "Bolshevik" Socialists in various va-rious places In Germany c ntlnuo to indicate in-dicate that as far as mre numbers go the extremists are almost negligible. Fuller reports from Bremen show that t'e movement i nthe coast cities already has turned into a r.io; conservative 'hannel. A meeting of soldiers, workmen's and peasants council, represent ing Bremen, Hanover, Hamburg. Oldenburg. Fknsburg, Osnabrueck. Wilhelmsha ven and a r.uni-hr-r of smaller places in the provinces of Hanover and Schles wig-Hols tein. ..nlopted a resolution declaring that these M ouncils would stand behind the present .W government and demand the convocation of a nationnl assemblv. The resolution f was adopted by a vote "of SI to 2n. There aiso was crushing defeat for the extremists at a meting representing the tenth army corns at Hanover, whereby a vote of H'1 " a resolution wns adopted acaiiiNt (Continued on Pase Three.) CONSIDER POWER TO EXTRADITE EX-KAISER; (Continued from Page One.) : ! efforts to establish a dictatorship and de- 1 manding the summoning of a constituent ; assembly. i Soldiers from the front are beginning to arrive in Berlin and men who have i conversed with them express themselves 1 optimistically as to the effect of their return. re-turn. These men declare that the great bulk of the soldiers reject Bolshevism in all its phases. It also may perhaps be considered an indication of the general public's faith in the conservatism of the soldiers that German Ger-man and Prussian flags are beginning to reappear over all Berlin, after having made way for the red flag since November Novem-ber 10. Only in one of the. suburbs was any objection raised to the flying of the national flags.- Certain elements there tore the Prussian banners from the street cars. .Elsewhere the emblems "were not disturbed. |