War Clouds Thickening as East Asia Prepares for Conflict
A Shanghai dispatch notes both China and Russia quietly gearing up for war along the Manchurian frontier. Martial law on the Chinese Eastern Railway follows railway incidents and sabotage claims. Kirin province moves two artillery brigades to defend the border amid rising tensions and reports of Soviet military demonstrations.
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Shanghai
Tachung ‘News Agency
Today
Harbin
China
Russia
Kirin
Mukden
Kuomin
Manchuri
Japan
Manchurian Border Fighting Escalates As China Reports Casualties
Reports from Tokio and London describe heavy clashes near Manchuli with Soviet armoured trains, Chinese artillery, and crossings. China claims 60 000 border troops mobilized and several hundred casualties while Russians retreat from attacked towns. Kao Lou vows to present case to Kellogg and League of Nations.
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Japan
Russia
Paghelien
United States
Tokio
Nichi Nichi
Ashai Shimburi
Manchuli
Manchurian
London
U.P
China
Nanking
Mukden
Tokyo
Manchur
Taipingling
Dalamor
Manchuk
Har~bin
Kao Lou
Paris
United Press Today
League of Nations
Harbin
Manchuria
Red Army
British Settlers Want To Go Home From Canada
Ottawa reports a small share of British migrants are discontent, while Manitoba papers say 200 to 300 were fed by government funds. Some refused further work, awaiting return to Britain. several were already deported after complaints about promised wages and board.
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Ottawa
Canada
Robert Forke
Winnipeg
Great Britain
Beton
Dominion
United Kingdom
Manitoba Free Press Evening Bulletin
Dominion Immigration Hall
Atlantic Seaboard
Steamer Quimistan Reported On Fire Afloat
The freighter Yalta relayed that the steamer Quimistan was seen on fire and deserted about 1100 miles east of Norfolk Virginia. No crew was visible and the ship appeared abandoned.
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New York
Radio Marine Corporation Today
Norfolk
Daylight Flight Aims Transcontinental Air Service Feasibility
Captain Roscoe Turner with three passengers began a daylight transcontinental flight from Grand Central Airport Glendale California to New York at 12 45 a m aiming to prove the daytime passenger air service concept He would halt three times for refueling the journey across the United States to demonstrate feasibility.
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Grand Central Airport
Glendale
Calif
Roscoe Turner
New York
Aviators Still Missing Over Atlantic From Lisbon to New York
Two Swiss youths Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher vanished while attempting a westward trans Atlantic flight from Lisbon to New York. They were last seen over Praja Victoria on Terceira Island and were due to reach Roosevelt Field around afternoon if not lost at sea amid fog and uncertain fuel as ships searched their course.
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New York
Oscar Kaesar
Kurt
Lusscher
Lisbon
Ronsevelt Field
North Atlantic
Lishen
Kurt Luescher
Praja
Mictoria
Ter‘eoira
Azores
Newfoundland
Halifax
N.S
Alberta crop yield estimate shifts wheat to 14 bushels per acre
The average yield across ten crop districts shows wheat at 14 bushels per acre, down from 25 bushels per acre estimated in early August 1928, reflecting a substantial decline in production expectations.
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Alberta
Little Effect Seen on Canada Japan Lumber Trade
Tokio reports say the recent Japanese import duty on lumber had little impact on Canada's trade with Japan. C R Fraser of Yokohama notes Canada exports mainly Douglas fir, which Japan cannot substitute, though hemlock sales dipped as buyers shifted to sugi cedar. Fraser doubts long term viability of the cedar substitution.
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Tokio
C. R. Fraser
Yokohama
British Columbia
Japan
Mr. Fraser
Canada
Fraser
Hamagulcha
Warned To Keep Away From Communist Gathering
Toronto officials warn the public to avoid Queen's Park on August 27 to prevent contact with police efforts to disperse communists planning a public meeting. Mayor Samuel McBride and Chief Constable D C Draper were notified by Charles Sims of the Communist Party of Canada that the gathering was planned. The police board ordered no public communist meetings and the mayor said measures are for the chief of police to decide.
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Toronto
Queen’s Park
Samuel McBride
D. C. Draper
Charles Sims
Communis Party of Canada
Queen's Park
Mayer
Board of Police Commissioners
No Frills At Opening Of Sask Legislature
Saskatoon report says Dr. J T M Anderson denies plans to form a government with outside cabinet members. Regina dispatch notes Gardiner and Anderson agree to skip social formalities for opening day with limited seating and equal ticket distribution to members, officials, and guests locally.
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Gardiner
Anderson Agres
Saskatoon
J. T. M. Anderson
Conservative
Saskatchewan
Co-Operative
Regina
Anderson
Macklin Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Macklin president and general manager of the Manitoba Free Press marks fifty years in journalism. He began with the Toronto Globe in 1870, moved west to the Winnipeg Free Press, and has remained devoted to newspapers, with colleagues unveiling an oil portrait in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg
Macklin
Manitoba Free Press
Toronto Globe
Iee Press
Holt
Fires in Flin Flon District Threaten Timber
Fires rake the Flin Flon mining district in Northern Manitoba after weeks of drought. One blaze near Mile 87 on the Hudson Bay railway threatened a powder house but winds shifted and timber stands were saved. A second large fire covers a twenty mile stretch southeast of Flin Flon and remains active.
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Pas, Man
Flin Fion
Manitoba
Mile
Hudson Bay
Flin Flon
Child Dies From Severe Burns at Home Near Schuler
Ruby Hildenbrant eighteen months old daughter of Mr and Mrs 3 Hildenbrant living ten miles southwest of Schuler died this morning at the hospital from extensive scalds. She fell into a tin of hot water about 1 o'clock yesterday morning and was brought to the hospital where Dr J R Patterson attended. Over half the body was scalded and there was no chance to avert collapse and death.
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Ruby Hildenbrant
French aviator plans world flight to chase Graf Zeppelin
Le Bourget France August 21 Dieudonne Coste announces he will take off at five tomorrow to pursue the Graf Zeppelin in a race around the world aiming to overtake the dirigible before it reaches Lakehurst New Jersey and New York. He previously crossed the South Atlantic in 1927 and hopes to set a non stop distance record on the first leg. Graf Zeppelin refueling for the Pacific crossing was completed at 2 p.m. with gas lifting gas restoration to finish by 6 p.m.
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Dieudonne Coste
Lebourget
Zeppelin
Torio
Een
Shelepee Eee
France
Acm
Lakehurst
N.J
New York
South Atlantic Ocean
Tokio
Kasumigaura
Japan
Pacific Ocean
Express derailment near Yale injures none
The Canadian Pacific Railway westbound Sea to Pacific express derailed eight miles east of Yale at 4 30 this morning. The locomotive and three cars left the track but all passengers and crew escaped injury.
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VaNcouver
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Seo
Mary Viaund Philibert Le febvre to hang for Hull murder
Ottawa August 21 Canadian Press reports Mary Viaund Philibert Le febvre has been refused clemency and will be hanged at Hull jail on Friday August 23 for the murder of her husband Zephyr Viau.
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Ottawa
Mary Viaund Philibert Lefebvre
Hull
Zephyr Viau
Oil man visits Calgary area to inspect Alberta fields
Oil man Mr R C Skana of Chatham Oils Ltd tours Alberta oil prospects with eastern capital backing. Accompanied by A B Deck he visits Medicine Hat Petroleum logs Bull’s Head well and plans to inspect Suffield and Turner Valley fields. Berlin unions exceed four hundred thousand members.
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R. C. Skana
Dineter
Chatham Oils, Ltd
Eastern Capital
Alberta
Easttern
A. B. Deck
Medicine Hat Petroleum Company
Bull's Head
Skena
Suffield
Turner Valley
Monster Seaplane for Great Lakes
A sea plane capable of carrying fifty persons, built at Philadelphia Navy Yard, destined for Great Lakes service by a Buffalo company. It will carry 30 passengers plus 20 crew, with a 94 foot wing span, four 450 horsepower motors, and 10 000 gallons of gasoline.
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Philadelphia
America
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Great Lakes
Buffalo
Communist Menace To Be Discussed By Trades Unions
Belfast August 21 The Trades Union Congress will debate a long report on the Communist menace within unions. The enquiry says with few exceptions the Communist and national minority movement has diminishing influence and harms recruitment and retention, especially in branches that did not curb activity early.
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Belfast
Trades Union Congress
Trades Union Movement
Detroit woman freed after arraignment in prohi death case
Petroit Michigan August 21 Mrs Max ine Heath wife of John M Heath a Detroit elevator mechanic charged in connection with the death of Richard J Sandlands Federal prohibition officer has been freed following her arraignment before Judge Stanley Hurd.
U.S. Cars Dominate Australian Motor Market
Australia imported 100000 motor vehicles in the year ending August. U S cars accounted for 69 percent of cars, Canada 23 percent, and England 14 percent. In motorcycles 80 percent came from Great Britain, shifting the balance of imports.
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Canada
Britain
Canberra
Australia
Reuters
United States
Great Britain
Motherwell Heads Coast to Ottawa After Visit
Motherwell leaves the coast for Ottawa after a ten day visit in Saskatchewan. He plans stops at Swift Current and Melville to fulfill commitments.
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Motherwell
OTTAW
Gatawa
Columbia
Saskatchewan
Swift Current
Melville
Annie Pasowesty Arrest Ties Sask Murder Case
Annie Pasowesty has been placed under arrest in connection with the murder of her husband Nick Pasowesty who was found shot to death on August 1. John Pasowesty, who confessed to killing his father, is in custody at Prince Albert.
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Sheho
Sask
Annie Pasowesty
Nick Pasowesty
John Pasowesty
Prince Albert
Canadian Wheat Tie Up At Eastern Points Due to Lack of Demand
Winnipeg, Aug 21. E B Ramsay chairs the Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners and defends the Wheat Pool policy amid Montreal grain congestion as 120 inland ships lie idle and 1,800 Canadian sailors go without work. European buyers stay cautious while U S and Argentine markets undercut Canadian prices and local elevators run full.
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Winnipeg
E. B. Ramsay
Canadian Board of Grain Commissioners
Montreal
Matthews Steamship Co
Toronto
W. Crawford
Crawford
Matthews Steamship Company
Lakes
Atlantic
United States
Canada
J. H. Pare
Canadian Seamen's Association
Frederick Heywood
James Richardson
Sons, Limited
Manitoba
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Capt. Turner
Mildred Low
Lanark
Hope
Whoa
England
Ocean
George Fifield
Joe Braun
Braun
Fifield
Schuler Kiddie
Scalds
Graf Zegpln
Berlin
Germany
Monster
Trades
Heath
Australian
Pasowesty
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