Deflation of British Prices Cited as Economic Feature
A cable from London quoting the U S commercial attache notes continued deflation of British wholesale prices across most commodities in October except cotton The report cites government loans totaling 25 000 pounds toward capital enterprise and signals Labour Party doubts while noting import and export values fell about 2 1 percent yet overall foreign trade volume did not drop.
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Great Britain
United States Commerce Department
London
House of Lat
Labor Party
Manitoba exhibitors ship cattle to Chicago show
Manitoba's finest show cattle head to Chicago for the international exhibition. The convoy includes four heifers and seven fat steers in two carloads, with two horse carriages picked up at Winnipeg. Foundry plant in Montreal-area near closure, temporary, to reopen around December end. Ontario government buys 196 acre Ridgetown farm to convert into an experimental crop farm. War stock liquidation progresses in London and on the continent. surplus stores worth £675,000,000 disposed of since armistice. Local merchants urged to compare prices before mail-order purchases.
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Manitoba
Brandon
Chicago
Winnipeg
Montreal
Cannian Car and Foundry Company
Saint Pierre-Aux-Lions
Turcott Bear
Ontario
Ridgetown
London
Beye
Believes No Danger Of Indian Revolution
Detroit, Mich. Bishop H. L. Smith of India said at the National Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church that rumors of an impending Indian revolution have no foundation. He cited lack of friendship between Mohammedans and Hindus as a barrier and warned that British control must continue to avert anarchy.
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Detroit
Mich
India
H. L. Smith
National Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Smith
Ontario Boards of Trade Seek National Employment Scheme
At Brantford Ontario the Associated Boards of Trade of Ontario urged a national plan shared by provinces cities and towns to reopen industry and undertake public works to spread employment evenly while opposing the dole system. They called for a systematic method of investigation to solve unemployment.
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Ontario Boards of Trade
Brantford
Associated Boards of Trade of Ontario
Dominion
Boards of Trade
Fast launches to combat smugglers proposed by coast guards
Plan recommends fast launches capable of 20 mph and armed with rapid fire guns to chase smugglers from British Columbia via the Seattle sound. Authorities say standard coast guard vessels cannot compete in speed and will instruct crews to stop or sink suspicious craft. Montreal reports rising unemployment and strained charitable services with a severe winter predicted.
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Seattle
Columb
China Seeks Chance To Shape Far East Role At Conference
China lays out proposals stressing territorial integrity open door policy and no secret treaties while seeking removal of foreign-imposed limitations. Dr Weilington Koo says plan benefits all Far East powers and would help stabilize Pacific relations. China wants freedom to develop political institutions and use its resources for peaceful progress.
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Washington
Far East
Arma
Far Eastern
Lina
China
Pacific
Weilington Koo
Hina
Orde
Loyalists oppose Ulster submission to Sinn Fein parliament
Ten thousand Loyalists gathered in Belfast for three meetings at the Assembly Hall and other venues. The Lord Mayor presided and Ulster rejected the idea of joining an all Ireland Parliament while endorsing Sir James Craig and allies in the peace talks and Liverpool conference.
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Ulster
Sinn Fein
Belfast
Aloe
Assembly Hall
Liverpool
Lloyd George
James Craig
Saskatoon Council Uses Men On Municipal Rock Pile
Saskatoon plans to hire destitute unemployed men as laborers on a municipal rock pile. Men must show eligibility to a medical health officer and will receive cards usable at select city boarding places. City officials call it a temporary expedient amid 200 to 300 jobless residents.
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Saskatoon
Rebels Attack British at Pandikkad Post
A company of the Gharka Riles Regiment resisted 2000 Moplah rebels at Pandikkad, with two thirds of the attackers killed. One British officer and three men died, 34 wounded, and arms including a gun and knives were captured. Other operations show rebels using artillery.
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Soprans
Onion Reuter Cabre
Delhi
India
Gharka Riles
Pandikkad
Increase in Value of Building Permits in 56 Canadian Cities
The September total permit value across 56 Canadian cities reached 9,988,157 dollars, rising from 9,054,085 in August and 9,174,, with Saint John, Ottawa area and Ontario towns showing gains over the prior month. New Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan figures are cited in the report, urging local buying from home merchants to bolster community prosperity.
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Otawa
Stolia
Quebec
Ontario
Berra
Hush Columbia
New Irunewick
Manitoba
Sas
Factory Explosion Kills Twelve at Dotzheim Near Wiesbaden
A blast at a Dotzheim factory near Wiesbaden in Prussia killed twelve workers and injured sixty. General Degoutte inspected the wounded as French troops aided in rescue efforts. The disaster echoes a September 21 explosion at Oppan, 40 miles south, which killed about a thousand and left four thousand injured.
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Oppan
Britain Denies Soviet Charge on Bolshevist Propaganda
Britain rejects Soviet allegations that British evidence of hostile Bolshevist propaganda in Persia and Central Asia was forged. The government issued a firm note denying Curzon’s charges and questioned Soviet claims in Moscow and London. The Westminster Gazette reports the imperial wireless chain project collapsed due to imperial indifference.
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Foudon
Sovet
Moscow
Chitcherin
Asia
London
Westminster
Imperial Wireless Cain
India
British Press Questions Balfour Naval Proposals
The Chilean consul Felix Nieto in New York cites a 1902 Chile Argentina pact on frontiers and a Christ statue monument as context. British papers react variably to Balfour proposals for naval limits and ship replacements, with concerns over naval holiday disruption and war revival risks.
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New York
Chile
Felix Nieto
Andes
Bandit Identified By Finger Prints
Roy Gardner, an escapee from McNeil's Island, was identified by fingerprints as the bandit who attempted to rob a mail car near Moose Jaw. Reports say Gardner confessed to or was linked to the robbery on the Canadian Pacific line, with $5 stolen. Canadian authorities remained convinced Gardner robbed train No 4 on October 19, despite his alleged arrest and ongoing sentences.
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Moose Jaw
Phoenix
Ariz
Santa Fe
Roy Gardner
McNeil’s Island
Postes
Gardner
Winnipes
Rey Gardner
Jeonoter
McNeil's Island Penitentiary
Railway Poste
Camadian Pacific Railway
Canadian National Railway
Tefield
Alta
Washington
Canadian Pacific
Noth
Alreay
United
Canadian Red Cross declines aiding Russian relief
Report of the executive committee to the general meeting states two points: relief for famine stricken Russia was not to be appealed in Canada at this time, and no relief organization could assist the afflicted Russian people.
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Toronto
Canadian Red Cross Soviety
Canada
Montreal Port Revival Seen For CanL annaporta Trade
The Montreal port is poised for a large revival of the Can land cattle trade with about thirty thousand head shipped in six months and a potential rise to thirty five thousand before the season ends. In other news, a mine helper William Smith, 24, died at Gragby mine after rock fall. he had come from Staffordshire six weeks ago to work there. Filipinos drowned at Manila Bay when the interisland steamer Maria Luisa foundered. seventy two rescued by a Japanese steamer. The British Admiralty plans to retire eighty naval captains and two hundred commanders on pensions next year as part of retrenchment. An inquest verdict found audie guilty in the shooting death of Louie Oguninak following an earlier wounding of Sir Andrew MacPhail.
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Montreuil
Great Bellain
Montreal
Everal
Napapue, BC
William — Smith
Gragby
Smith
Staffordshire
England
Fillipinos
Mania Bay
Manila
Manila Bay
Interisland
Maria Luisa
Snven
Britain
Naval Office
London
British Admiralty
The
Evening News
Engineer Killed By Boiler Explosion Near Sioux Outlook
McNabb, a veteran Transcontinental Railway engineer from Fort William, died instantly when his boiler exploded near Alcoma west of Sioux Outlook. Fireman George Reid survived serious burns. a special train carried McNabb’s body and Reid to hospital where Reid shows progress. An inquest has begun.
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Rkaeetines Een Nabb
Fort William
Oldst
Alcoma
SioInx Lookout
George Reid
Sious Lookout
Sioux Outlook
McNabb
Reid
McKetta Hospital
Labor Party Amendment on Defence Expenditure Rejected
London Reuters reports the Labour Party amendment to reduce defence spending was rejected 30 to 20 amid government plans to cut expenditure by £250. The piece notes German payments and reparations talks in parallel diplomatic circles. In British Columbia a liquor store robbery in Forks, Robson, ended with suspects fleeing after a gunfight.
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London
Reuters
Melbourne
Labor Party
House of Representatives
Kontrament
Labor
Hero's burial for boy messenger at Port Erie churchyard
Albert Miller, buried at Fort Erie Port, Ontario, aged 16, carried the British message to troops to cease fire ending war. The ceremony at Paul's Church cemetery occurred under the Great Veterans' Frontier Post auspices.
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Fort Erie
Theport
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