Britain refuses concessions on reparations plan
Philip Snowden voices firm British opposition to the Young plan at the Hague conference. He says Britain will not accept conditional shares or continued deliveries in kind, and insists the House of Commons would not ratify the plan in its present form. The report outlines Britain’s wartime debt and export concerns tied to reparations.
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Committee of Experts
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United Staes
Young Plan
Young Committee
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Spa
House of Commons
BC Government Considers Sale of Pacific Great Eastern Rail Line
Hon R P Pooley at Saxe Point picnic says government may remove Pacific Great Eastern from public hands. Line owned by British Columbia, survey underway with province Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway cooperating. Potential sale may end provincial control in near future.
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Victoria
R P. Pooley
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Government of
British Columbia
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Break Down Neg Tokyo Despatch on Railway Dispute
Japanese despatches from Manchuria report that Russian and Chinese representatives have been discussing the crisis sparked by China seizing the Chinese Eastern Railway. Memoriations are said to have broken down as talks falter.
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Tokyo
Manchua
Manchuria
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Zeppelins Rival London Seeks Faster Transatlantic Run
Be Zeppeln's Rival London Fay reports from Lakehurst that Graf Zeppelin's America trip boosts talk of a regular air line. British plans hinge on two giants nearing completion, R-100 and R-101, with speed goals and a 60 hour outward 48 return target. Sir Dennis Burney urges a 90 mph cruising speed to beat fast steamers.
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Fay
Lakehurst
America
Dennis Burney
The
Daily News
Resignation of Grain Board Members Prompts New Appointments
Ottawa reports the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada has resigned effective August 15. Minister James Malcolm announced that a new three member board will be named, with four assistant commissioners to be appointed, and the new commission will choose its own assistants after appointment. The resigning chief commissioner L H Boyd KC and commissioners Matthew Snow and James Robinson depart.
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Board of Grain Commissioners For Canada
Grain Commission
James Malcolm
Trade and Commerce
Malcolm
L H. Boyd
Matthew Snow
James Robinson
Britain recalls five Queen Elizabeth battleships to Atlantic fleet
The Admiralty moves five 30 000 ton Queen Elizabeth class battleships from Malta and Gibraltar to join the Atlantic fleet. The transfer marks a major shift in naval policy, concentrating power in the Atlantic with Hood, Rodney, Nelson and other ships, creating the strongest peace time force.
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Mediterranean
Atlantic
Malta
Gibraltar
Hm.s. Hood
Hood
Duke
New Administra Has Assumed Office Took Oath
Chief Justice Francis Alexander Anglin became administrator of the Dominion of Canada after taking the oath in Premier Tolmie's office in British Columbia. A proclamation followed naming P. B. Mignault of Montreal as Deputy administrator with authority to sign urgent documents.
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Victoria
Francis Alexander Anglin
P.C
Jusce
Canada
Dominion of Canada
SF. Tolmie
British Columbia
Dominion
Justice P. B. Mignault
Montreal
Eight Killed In Riots In Calcutta Jute Mills
Daily Mail dispatch reports eight killed and 20 injured in a riot between jute mill strikers, watchmen, and police at Nathan, 240 miles north of Calcutta. A strike has reduced about 12,000 workers idle and forty percent of Calcutta area looms idle during the sixty hour week dispute. Also noted, Canada’s Beothic voyage reaches northern Ellesmere post and proceeds south with Inspector A Joy aboard after a 1800 mile patrol.
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London
Calcutta
Daily Mall
Nathan
Hoover drops freedom of the seas in disarmament plan
A Washington dispatch reports President Hoover has removed the freedom of the seas issue from his disarmament program. He argues it conflicts with the Kellogg anti war treaty and believes naval parity with Great Britain offers the true safeguard of freedom at sea.
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Toronto
Mail and Empire
Washington
Hoover
Great Britain
Per Capita Liquor Sales Top $10 Across Canada in 1925
Ottawa reports Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures showing liquor sales in eight provinces totaled 107,694,384 dollars in 1925, exceeding ten dollars per person. Ontario and Quebec led revenue, with Ontario at 8,130,890 dollars and Quebec at 7,000,000, while British Columbia and Saskatchewan posted above ten million in gross sales.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
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Liquor Control Boards
Saskatchewan
Liquor Board
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Alberta
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Prince Award Island
International Arbitration Panel Named in I'm Alone Case
Ottawa and Washington announce appointments for the I'm Alone case with Eu gene Latieur and Willis Van Devanter named as Canadian and U S arbitrators respectively. John E Reed named Canadian agent. Canadian counsel W N Tilley and Aime Geoffrion prepare pleadings as preliminaries await venue decisions.
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Canada
Eugene Latieur
DCL, LLC
Eminent Counsel
Montreal
United States
Willis van Devanter
Supreme Court of the
Washington
Department of External Affairs
Plan New Air Route To Puget Sound Via Canada
Col L H Britten of Northwest Airways announces a new all air passenger route from Chicago to Puget Sound cities. The plan connects with Western Canada Airways from Winnipeg to Banff and Victoria, extending Northwest to Winnipeg.
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Western Canada Airways
Chicago
Northwest
L. H. Britten
Northwest Airways
Britten
Western Canada Airways, Ltd
Winnipeg
Banff
Victoria
Montreal aviator J H Parkinson heads for Pacific coast
Captain J H Parkinson, noted Canadian pilot of Montreal, left July 12 for a transcontinental air war route. He made 13 stops at eastern cities and plans to visit prairie cities en route to the Pacific coast, carrying aviation notes and aims for a cross country tour.
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Winnipeg
Man
Pacific
J. H. Parkinson
Montreal
Que
Canadian Authoress Mary MacLane Dies in Chicago
Winnipeg born author of I Mary MacLane and Men Who Have Made Love To Me died August 6 in a small Chicago hotel room. She left the public eye years earlier after her books waned in popularity and financial reverses followed. No one was at her side. the death was due to natural causes per an undertaker’s certificate.
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Mary Maclane
Winnipeg
Man
D Sor
Miss MacLane
Wen
Mi Health
Canada to Boost Bid to Halt Liquor Smuggling
The Dominion Government reviews cooperation with the United States to curb liquor smuggling across the border. Premier Mackenzie King signals possible new regulations and swift action after cabinet discussion.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Itan
United States
W. L. Mackenzie King
Anglo-Egyptian Draft Treaty Gains Wide Support
London reports the Anglo-Egyptian draft treaty widely welcomed with reforms seen as a major advance. It calls for British withdrawal to the Suez Canal zone, relief from extraneous rights, and Egypt’s path to League of Nations membership, with approval by the upcoming Egyptian Parliament before British ratification.
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Zaghoul Pasha
Arthur *Henderson
Mohammed Pasha Mahmoud
League of Nations
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Sarwat Pasha
Austen Chamberlain
Henderson
Mahoud
EKYP
Question on women in senate to be decided soon
Ottawa brief reports a Privy Council reference on women sitting in the Canadian senate. Hon. Lane or general notes inquiry concerns eligibility under section 24 of the BNA act. Mr Cannon, away two months, explains he did not appear before the Privy Council. The case was argued by Hon Eugene Lafleur and Hon N W Rowell KC, with judgment reserved.
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Privy Council
Senate of Canada
Lanes
Cannon
Senate
Fugene Lafteur
N. W. Rowell
Mr. Cannon
BNA
Empire
New York Opposing Italian For Mayor
The city faces a partisan clash as Tammany Hall mobilizes against Fiorella H. La Guardia who secured the Republican nomination for mayor. La Guardia campaigns fiercely, rallying diverse Italian and immigrant communities from bootblacks to bank officials in a hard fought race.
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New York City
Tammany Hall
Fiorella H. la Guardia
la Guardia
New Manitoba Plant To Build Explosives Facility
Rapid Manitoba mine growth prompts Canadian Explosives division of Canadian Industries Limited to buy about 1000 acres near Selkirk 18 miles north of Winnipeg for an explosives plant. Investment around 750000 dollars. Construction start depends on mining, but work could begin next spring with production by year end 1930.
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Winnipeg
Manitooa Free Press
Manitoba
Canadian Explosives Division
Canadian Industries, Limited
Hast Selkirk
Making Trip To Coat ytowa. Hon. Jean Knight, French da, has left on three-weeks' trip to the Pacific coast
Hon. Jean Knight, Canadian minister to Canada, has left on a three weeks trip to the Pacific coast. The journey will be his first visit to Vancouver since his appointment in October and will include Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and Victoria. He will speak at Canadian clubs and chambers of commerce in the west.
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Jean Knight
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Regina
Calgary
Edmonton
Victoria
ME. Knight
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Cans
Britain ready to accept Rhineland evacuation terms
The Telegraph reports London sources indicate Britain would unconditionally accept any agreement between France and Germany on evacuating the Rhineland if such an accord is reached. British delegates at The Hague conveyed this stance to both powers and to France.
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Engianaine Exchange Telegraph Company
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Germany
Rhineland
Great Britain
Welsh coal exports may rise to Canada on minister visit
The Manchester Guardian reports a likely increase in Welsh anthracite exports to Canada, potentially 2000 tons a year, tied to the impending visit to the Dominion by J. H. Thomas, British Minister of Employment. The article also notes Spain will require a national label on all exported products.
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Hight
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