Britain to pursue bilateral talks for naval arms limit
Britain signals a new approach after Italians refute a four power treaty. London plans bilateral negotiations with the United States and Germany first, then Russia Japan France and Italy, to draft a treaty on annual building information and ship size limits. The four power conference would adjourn, awaiting bilateral results and eventual signing.
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London
Great Britain
Rome
Italy
Russia
Japan
France
British MP criticized for mentioning royal family in debate
Labor M.P. David Kirkwood faced sharp rebuke in the House of Commons after he cited the royal family while arguing for vacation allowances for unemployed trainees. He likened the future Prince of Wales to a "wealthy young man" recalling travels in South Africa and Argentina, triggering a deputy chairman's reminder that the royal family is not discussed in the House.
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London
David Kirkwood
Labor M.P
House of Commons
Labor Ministry
Kirkwood
South Africa
Argentina
Prince of Wales
Royal commission to probe Canada's penitentiaries formed
Ottawa reports a royal commission panel nearly complete to study Canada’s penitentiary system. The three to five member body will inspect conditions at all facilities and hear evidence from each institution. Winnipeg notes Manitoba’s two per cent wage tax raised 1,674,800 dollars this year, surpassing expectations by 24,800.
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Ottawa
Royal Commission
Canada
Winnipeg
Manitoba
E. A. McPherson
Assembly
Travelling Expenses of Canadian Radio Commission Report
Travelling expenses of members and officers of the Canadian Radio Commission from April 1, 1933 to February 21, 1936 totaled just over $60 000, according to a return tabled in the House of Commons in reply to Hermas Deslauriers Liberal MP for St Mary.
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Ottawa
Canadian Radio Commission
House of Commons
Hermas Deslauriers
Lib
St. Mary
League body urges oil embargo to end East Africa war
The executive committee of the League of Nations Union urged an oil embargo on Italy if it would terminate the war in East Africa. The group previously mobilized 11,000,000 votes for league support among Britons.
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London
League of Nations Union
League
Italy
East Africa
Russian Scientist Pavloff Dies at 87 in Moscow
Ivan Pavloff, renowned Russian physiologist, dies in Moscow at age 87. He gained fame for digestive organ research and animal treatment methods and received the Nobel Prize in 1904 for his work in this field.
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Moscow
Ivan Pavloff
Pavloff
Nations In Arrears Reported by House of Commons
The House of Commons said 21 League of Nations members were in arrears on their annual upkeep payments as of last Sept 1. The total arrears amounted to 19,347,987.30 gold francs across these nations.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
League of Nations
Relief Camps Targeted for Closure by Dominion Day
Ottawa aims to shut relief camps by Dominion Day with no new admissions and a stable current strength. The government will employ up to 10 000 men this summer on railway maintenance work and introduce a partial cash and voucher allowance system to support men leaving camps.
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Ottawa
Canada
Norman McL. Rogers
House of Commons
Canadian Railways
Department of National Defence
Labor Department
Dominion
France Opens World Court Case Over Franco Soviet Pact
Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin told the chamber of deputies that France is ready to go before the world court with Germany to determine if the Franco Soviet mutual assistance pact breaches Locarno treaties. He urged ratification of the pact as a step toward collective security and argued it is not a military alliance. He noted Russian arms aided the Marne victory.
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Paris
France
Germany
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Chamber of Deputies
M. Flandin
Chamber
Soviet Union
Edmonton Leads Province in Farm Relief Settlements
Edmonton headed the province in the number of families settled under the $600 farm relief settlement scheme. Since 1932, 295 families were sent from Edmonton, with Calgary 184, Medicine Hat 33, Lethbridge 16, Wetaskiwin 4, plus transfers from towns villages rural districts improvement districts Turner Valley and other local areas.
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Edmonton
Province
Dominion
Department of Agriculture
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Wetaskiwin
Turner Valley
No Canadians Hurt in Tokyo Coup spannend report
Ottawa reports none of its citizens were injured in the Tokyo fighting during the military coup. Sir Herbert Marler, Canadian minister to Japan, cabled the Department of External Affairs with the update and will keep them informed, though further message contents are not released.
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Ottawa
Department of External Affairs
Sir Herbert Marler
Japan
Tokyo
Herbert
Belgian seek renewal of British neutrality guarantees
Reliable sources report Belgium urging renewal of British guarantees of its neutrality similar to those in place at the outbreak of the Great War. The move reflects ongoing concerns over security in Western Europe amid rising tensions.
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London
Paris approves Franco-Soviet mutual aid treaty
The French chamber of deputies ratified the Franco-Soviet mutual aid treaty by a large majority after prior chaos. The session was heated by threats of Far East conflict tied to the Tokyo coup, with rightist and Communist deputies clashing in the floor fight. Berlin warned by Alfred Rosenberg that the pact would menace world peace in Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Far East
Tokyo
Berlin
Alfred Rosenberg
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Japan leaders killed in revolt by war party
In Tokyo a snow storm coup left three top Japanese leaders dead the Liberal premier Okada lord keeper Makoto Saito and military education head Watanabe. Finance Minister Takahashi and Lord Chamberlain Suzuki were wounded as rebels seized public buildings and martial law spread while Emperor Hirohito consulted with officials.
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Tokyo
Japan
Keisuke Okada
Privy Seal
Viscount Makoto Saito
Jotaro Watanabe
Korekiyo Takahashi
Kantaro Suzuki
Imperial Court
New York
Takahashi
Hirohito
Imperial Palace
Privy Council
Okada
Fumio Goto
China
High Seas
Osaka
Protest Over Farm Machinery Prices in Provincial Legislature
In the legislature A R Welch urged Premier Bracken to seek Ottawa’s aid for a 20 percent cut in farm implement costs. He cited 11 price hikes effective February 1 on binders seed drills harrows and other machinery, while Douglas Campbell noted the Canada United States trade agreement lowered livestock prices but raised farm equipment costs.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Dominion
Bennett
A. R. Welch
Turtle Mountain
Bracken
Ottawa
Welch
Douglas Campbell
Lakeside
Choosing Air Mail Bases Ottawa
A Sydney delegation was told by post office officials that test flights over proposed north Atlantic air mail routes will determine bases on this side of the ocean. Tests of the route linking the United States with England will run over the next two years via Newfoundland and a Canadian Atlantic seaboard point.
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Ottawa
Atlantic
Sydney
Post Office Department
North Atlantic
United States
England
Newfoundland
Canadian Atlantic Seaboard
Alberta Coal Output Reaches 1934 Peak
Alberta produced coal totaling 12 440 616 in 1934, the highest year on record. The provincial lands and mines report, filed for legislature by Hon. C. C. Ross, notes the value and confirms completeness of the year’s figures.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Provincial Department of Lands and Mines
C. C. Ross
Poverty Among Indians Ottawa
The Canadian House of Commons reviewed Indian Affairs estimates totaling 4 211 000 as the population rises and more than a third remains on relief. Superintendent General Crerar outlined goals to educate and enable self support while noting tuberculosis as a serious issue and consideration of segregating tuberculous pupils in Indian schools. Conservative Bennett defended overall care despite localized distress and promised potential proposals before the next session.
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Ottawa
Administration of the Affairs of Canadas
House of Commons
Indian Department
Considera
T. A. Crerar
Indian Affairs
Department
Bennett
Crerar
Plan to retire public debts urged in House debate
Walter A. Tucker proposes a debt retirement plan using the Bank of Canada to convert Dominion provincial municipal and public corporate debt into non-interest securities over 24 years at little or no cost. He claims annual interest savings of about 370 million dollars, arguing current debt payments erode taxation revenue.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada and
Public Credit
House of Commons
Walter A. Tucker
Liberal
Rosthern, Sask
Treasury
Rosthern
House
M. J. Coldwell
C.C.F
Rosetown-Biggar
Bank of Canada
Dunning
Canada
Tucker
Dominion
Members propose varied remedies to end unemployment in Ottawa
Private members of the House of Commons debated unemployment relief ideas including a national public works program, higher income taxes, and direct relief. Grant MacNeill urged full government responsibility, while E. H. Brunelle favored a back to land push with land reform and conscription if needed. H. H. Stevens supported reforestation and housing and noted a germ of Social Credit ideas.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Grant MacNeill
Mr. Stevens
Cause Of Japanese Trouble Shanghai
Reliable sources in Shanghai attribute the Tokyo coup to an age old Oriental group called the Showa revived last year by Bosuke Matsuoka as a moral movement. The Showa seeks emperor worship and would oppose capitalism and parliamentarianism in favor of a corporate imperial state.
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Shanghai
Showa
Tokyo
Bosuke Matsuoka
Matsuoka
South Manchurian Railway
League of Nations
Tme
Japan
Prospectors Find Gold In Grizzly Gulch Cranbrook
Prospectors report coarse gold in veins an inch wide in Grizzly Gulch, a tributary of Akamina Creek, southeast British Columbia. staking surged into Cranbrook despite extreme cold as claims were recorded. Grizzly Gulch lies in the Rocky Mountain range near the Alberta BC boundary just north of the international line.
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Cranbrook
B.C
Flathead
British Columbia
Grizzly Gulch
Rocky Mountain Range
International Line
Alberta
Danish Aviators Die in Snowstorm Rescue Attempt
Three Danish aviators were killed when they flew to assist a supposed landing plane in a snow storm. Ground sound clues led authorities to believe a plane was approaching. the fliers’ escort mission lasted hours before it was learned the guiding plane had crashed.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Refusal of Tag Day in New Westminster
New Westminster city council declines to permit a joint defence committee to hold a tag day in the city to raise funds for the defence of relief camp strikers facing trial at Regina.
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New Westminster
B.C
New Westminster City
Joint Defence Committee
Regina
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Labor
Royal
Marne
Clifford H. Robinson
Central Experimental Farm
Dominion Experimental Farms
Dept. of Agriculture
Frank Shutt
Gravesend
Gotland
Tion
Hon. H. H. Stevens
Oriental Organization
Flathead District
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