Canada as Heart of British Empire Aims to Relocate Population
London reports English economist R A Piddington advocates relocating Britain’s population to Canada to form a renewed empire. He proposes a 15 year migration averaging 1,000,000 annually with Canada expanded industries and Britain surrendering most colonies including India and South Africa if needed.
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Canada
British Empire
London
R. A. Paddington
Nually
Great Britain
Piddington
Businessmen urged to study public affairs in Vancouver dinner
Errick F. Willia, Manitoba Conservative leader, told Vancouver junior board of trade that greater public involvement by business leaders would lower waste and taxes. He urged businessmen to know their representatives to judge likely policy actions. Meanwhile Tokyo frets over Soviet threat as forces mass in Manchukuo and on the Korea border amid reports of planned attacks.
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Vancouver
Errick F. Willia
Manitoba
Tokyo
Russia
Japan
China
Manchoukuo
Korea
Foreign Office
Russian
Sakhalin
Vassily Bieucher
Manchukuo
Willis
Maryland Democrat cites panama canal spies alliance
Representative Scott of California told Congress that German Italian and Japanese espionage agents were working together in the Panama Canal Zone. He cited a magazine writer, whom he declined to name, as his source of information.
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Washington
Scott i Democrat
California
United Statees
House of Representatives
Panamma Canal Zone
Californian
Royalty Watches Mimic Battle in Aldershot Display
The King and Queen observed a mechanized army drill in Aldershot England as tanks armored cars and field and machine guns unleashed simulated firepower. Smoke and dust filled the air while observers studied the maneuvers from a distance.
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Aldershot
England
Japanese On Defensive On Wide Front In Shantung
Foreign observers say Japan faces a difficult position as Chinese forces press along a 150 mile front in South Shantung. Chinese claim to have retaken Chufu and to hold surrounding hills near Yihien while engaging Japanese defenders at Taierhchwang and Yihsen. Japanese reinforcements from Shanghai move toward Tsingtao as battle lines widen.
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Shanghai
Shamtung Province
Ton
Shantung
Yihien
Tientsin-Pukow
Yihsen
Taierhch- Wang
Shantung Province
Tsingtao
Feodor Chaliapin Dies After Long Opera Career
Feodor Chaliapin, the renowned Russian bass once a cobbler's apprentice, died at 65 after a kidney ailment. He faded into a coma before death, ending a career that saw him star as Don Basilio, Mephistopheles, Don Quichotte, and Tsar Ivan in world operatic stages. He grew up singing folk songs near his home with Maxim Gorki, later a famed writer.
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Paris
Feodor Chaliapin
Chalhapin
Maxim Gorki
Don Basilio
Tsar Ivan
Operatic Hall of Fame
Meteorological Service Announces 24 Hour Readiness
John Patterson head of the meteorological bureau said a 24 hour service will be ready when Trans Canada Air Lines extends eastward. He stated Winnipeg to Vancouver service is ready but Winnipeg to the east needs organization. Forecast stations will be at Vancouver Lethbridge Winnipeg Toronto Montreal and Botwood Newfoundland.
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Toronto
John Patterson
Meteorological Bureau
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
Vancouver
Mr. Patterson
Lethbridge
Montreal
Botwood
Newfoundland
Social Reforms For Egypt Outlined In Speech
In Cairo the King Farouk addressed the new parliament via Premier Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha. He said an Anglo Italian agreement would be the surest guarantee of peace and that Egypt will rapidly reinforce its air force while defending the nation. The speech also promised a social reform program to raise peasants' living standards.
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Caire
Egypt
Farouk
Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha
Fraser to Lead Canada Bisley Team for 1938
Lieutenant Colonel J D Fraser, commander of the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards in Ottawa, will head the 1938 Canadian Bisley team as announced by the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association. Captain W Worsick of Winnipeg is named adjutant.
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Ottawa
J. D. Fraser
Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
Dominion of Canada Rifle Association
W Worsick
Winniheg
Canadian pavilion at empire exhibition nears completion
A gale in February shredded the Canadian pavilion at Bellahouston Park Glasgow. Timber piles lie tangled as workers rush repairs and hurriedly restructure the structure at the British Empire exhibition site.
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Glasgow
Bellahouston Park
Government issues air raid precautions handbook
The government releases a new air raid precautions handbook urging Londoners to obscure lights clear upper floors and attic spaces and remove items that could ignite from incendiary bombs to reduce fire risk.
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London
Test Planes Winnipeg
Initial test flights of the first two of 10 Lockheed 14 monoplanes ordered by Trans-Canada Air Lines will be held at Burbank California. The craft, fastest on the continent, carry 11 passengers and three crew with 2700 pounds cargo.
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Winnipeg
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Burbank
California
T.C.A
Vancouver
Trans-Canada
Apathy in Government Sparks Labor Leader Speech
A. R. Mosher, president of the All-Canada Congress of Labor, told the eighth annual convention banquet in London Ontario that the congress is attacking the system and government apathy and urged progressive action to remove obstacles to a more abundant life. He denied reports the executive board is urging political action.
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London
Ont
A. R. Mosher
All-Canada Congress of Labor
Mosher
Executive Board of
Congress
Smuggling Probe Ties Navy Vessel to San Francisco Narcs
Federal and California investigators questioned seven men over a narcotics smuggling plot. The case centers on $40,000 worth of narcotics landed in San Francisco from the United States navy transport Chaumont.
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San Francisco
California
United States Navy
Chaumont
Heavy Wheat Buying Signals Storage Drive in London
Baltic exchange dealers see heavy wheat cargo purchases as Britain orders major millers to fill storage space and keep a three month reserve as a national defence measure. Over three days 30 cargoes totaling about 14 million bushels were bought by leading buyers, while prices rose only six cents per bushel. The activity largely involved one miller across many positions, with official government confirmation anticipated.
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London
Baltic Exchange
Children Die in Farmhouse Fire Near Saskatoon
Three Grise children aged eight seven and five months died when a two storey farm house burned after coal oil lit the blaze. Four others escaped or were saved by their mother while mass kept some away. Mr Grise searched for work in Ste Hyacinthe Quebec as the tragedy unfolded.
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Prudhomme
Sask
Ernest Grise
Mass
Daladier Gains Decree Powers in French Crisis
Paris deputies approved Daladier's three month decree rule with a 506 to 12 vote and backed his policy plan with a 576 to 5 confidence result. A 15 billion franc defence loan led government measures amid labor unrest and strikers in aviation plants agreed to return to work under arbitration.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Edouard Daladier
France
Chamber
Senate
Daladier
Unity message from Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett urges Canada focus
In Toronto, Conservative leader Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett urged Canadians especially youth to think in terms of Canada and national unity. He warned provincialism hinders progress and cited unity forged during 1914 to 1919. He announced goodwill trips to Detroit and western Canada to foster national cohesion. Vancouver presbytery opposes Quebec padlock law and calls for amendment or repeal.
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Toronto
R. B. Bennist
Canada
Bennett
Toronto Board of Trade
Nova Scotia
Sir Charles Tupper
Halifax
Upper Canada
Vancouver
United Church Presbytery of
Vanconver
Quebec
Ernest Lapointe
R C M P Reassigns Ottawa Officers to Saskatoon Post
Superintendent W A M Kemp of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters will be transferred to Saskatoon to head the subdivision there. He will relieve Superintendent W Munday who moves to an undetermined post. Several other RiCM P staff changes were announced.
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Ottawa
W. A. M. Kemp
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Saskatoon
W. Munday
Ricm-P
Anglo American Trade Pact Outlined in Birmingham Speech
Captain Euan Wallace, parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade, says the new Anglo American agreement is a trade pact pure and simple not a political rapprochement implying sacrifice by British industry. The remarks were delivered in Birmingham, England.
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Birmingham
England
Euan Wallace
Board of Trade
Cuba Lowers Tariff to Canada
Cuba extends minimum tariff to Canada and applies the maximum tariff no more. For two years the higher rate, double the minimum, has governed most goods imported from Canada.
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Cuba
Canada
Ottawa
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