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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
7
A group of New Westminster veterans plan to sail on a new French ship built there to visit battle sites in France and Flanders. The report mentions other provincial news including a Burnaby magistrate ruling on barking dogs, and various political and social notes from Vancouver to Belfast.
Col Harold Henderson receives the Royal Victorian Order for his role in the Prince of Wales tour. Mrs Ethel Congdon is missing from Edmonton after visiting friends. Winnipeg civic elections sweep Mayor Gray to a 3000 vote lead with four aldermen from citizens and three from labor. Captain John Olive loses his master’s license after a drunken wreck of the Germanicus on the St Lawrence. New Brunswick farmers urge Sir Robert Borden to oppose a permanent tariff commission. Jacob Runge, 27, missing from Horizon Saskatchewan since Nov 3. Benjamin Hollinger dies at Pembroke after breakfast. Sir Joseph Klavelle rumored to sell his stake in William Davies Packing Co. Duncan Peter Cameron, charged with forgery of $7000, arrested at Edmonton. Temperature reported as 35.
A well dressed man who called himself Arthur Kirst surrendered at Glasgow central police station claiming he was an escaped German prisoner. He served on the Mainz and escaped from a camp in Berkshire on August 1 last year then worked in London and sailed as fireman on a merchant ship twice to France. He chose to stay in Britain. Ardmillan Castle, home of Mr William Morton, was gutted by fire.
Ireland reports the death of Hugh, third Viscount Gough of Goojerat, in a Dublin nursing home after a long diplomatic career. Born 1849, he served as secretary to the embassy in Washington in 1894, then Berlin, and was promoted in 1901 to minister resident at Coburg and Dresden.
Officials from the Netherlands government and William Hohenzollern reject claims of an imminent extradition demand. Residents near Lake Michigan reported tremors from a large meteor fall, mistaken for an earthquake. Alsace-Lorraine deputies prepare a solemn declaration to be read in the Palais Bourbon next Monday by a deputy born after 1870.
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