Chinese and British move amid uncertain China crisis
Shanghai reports describe British consul departure from Chengtu with Americans bound for Changan while other posts note troop movements and unconfirmed defeats in Chekiang. London confirms British defence buildup including 12 000 troops and 13th and 20th Indian brigades with ships and Marines en route.
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Shanghai
A.reuter
Chengtu
Beith Bthe
Daily Express
Lanéhi
Hangchow
China
Peking
Miles ‘Lampson
Marshall
Chang So
Lin
Sun
Chekiang
Tseintang River
Hongkong
Government Order to End Slave System in Southern Cana
The Canton Gazette reports a ruling by Shin Jen, director of the Department of Civil Administration, prohibiting slave trade in southern Cana. Slaves are to be freed and given the status of adopted daughters with rights, while education and training institutes are mandated. severe penalties for violations and magistrates ordered to establish interschool girl training centers.
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Caton
Tay
waAning
Chesn Shin Jen
Department of Civil Administration
Cana
Canton Gazette
Porter resolution backs independent US China policy in House
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the Porter resolution calling for the United States to act independently of other nations in its dealings with China. The measure emphasizes unilateral U S action rather than allied coordination.
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Washington, D
United States
China
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Noth and Faurot Well Drilling Progress Report
Noth and Faurot Well Drilling resumed at the Roth and Faurot well in Redelff. By 8 a.m. today the hole had reached 1975 feet, confirming continued advancement on the project.
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Roth and Faurot
Redelff
Man Confesses to Killing Wife With Baseball Bat
Sauston Wisconsin January 25 William Coffey a 48 year old Madison bond salesman confessed to police that he struck his second wife Mrs Hart Hales Coffey on the head with a baseball bat and dumped her body in the river at Dubuque Town last October after she accused him of infidelity Coffey has a wife and three children in Madison.
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Sauston
Wis
William Coffey
Madison
Hart Hales Coffey
Alberta Appeal Court bars ministers from testifying in Smith case
Premier Brownlee and Hon. George Hoadley cannot be compelled to give evidence in the province against former minister George P. Smith over 5820 allegedly gained from the King's Printer. The court allows subordinate Richard Andrew Smith to testify as evidence at trial while ministers may be exempt from examination.
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Edmonton
Brownlee
George Hoadley
George P. Smith
Education
King’s Printer Department
Alberta Appeal Court
Wea
Richard Andrew Smith
H. H. Parls
K.C
Parlée
Alberta
Crown
San George
Parleo
A. L. Smith
Calgary
Labor Opposes China Intervention Amid War Talk
Reports from Sydney and Melbourne indicate Australian Labor leaders vow to resist any foreign war involvement in China. Seamen at Melbourne refuse to crew ships carrying troops or supplies for Chinese conflict, while Canada and New Zealand Labor circles show mixed positions with MacDonald supported against intervention. Indian editorials decry sending troops to reinforce British forces in China.
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Sydney
N.S.W
China
Matthew Sharnton
Federal
Labor Party
Labor
Australia
Melbourne
Toronto
Qanata
New Zealand
MaccDonald
James Simpson
Canadian Labor Party
William Nash
New Zealand Labor Party
Ramsay MacDonald
British Labor Party
Ohia
London
Reuter
Chin
Peking
Bombay
India
Bombay’ ‘Chronicle
New Saskatoon Public School At Wiroge Destroyed By Fire
A $28 000 public school in Saskatoon at Wiroge was destroyed by fire yesterday morning while unoccupied. The town’s chemical engine failed to work properly. Insurance of $14 000 was carried. The school had been completed by contractors in November.
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Saskatoon
Wiroge
Vancouver newspapers questioned over liquor export donations
Advertising managers from two Vancouver daily papers testified before the customs commission about payments received from the Consolidated Liquor Exporters of British Columbia. Directors described donations totaling about 17 000 dollars to the Vancouver World and special edition advertising funds to The Sun and Province, with breweries contributing to yearly special editions.
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Vancouver
B.C
Dan
Customs Commission
Consolidated Liquor Exporters
British Columbia
Russell Whitelaw
Consolidated Exporters
Vancouver World
Sun and Province
Griffis
The
Vancouver Sun
Commission
Rowell
Busilies
British Columbia Breweries
H.W. Bird
Vancouver Star
Griftis
Star
Whitelaw
Man and Wife Found Dead at BR
Mystery surrounds the deaths of Mr and Mrs John Wilson found in their Philadelphia home. They were seated facing each other in chairs with distorted features as if they died in agony. Both about 60 years old and believed to have been dead several days.
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Philadelphia
John Wilson
Spanish Steamer Disaster Off Portugal Coast
A Spanish steamer with fourteen crew members aboard foundered off the Portuguese coast near Gigon, Spain. Survivors reported the disaster as waves prevented rescue. only five crewmen reached shore.
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Gigon
Spain
Ate
Reétuerto
If This Man Piper Was Only The Pied Piper There Would Be No More Trouble
Estimates by C H Bowen and M M Piper place 30 to 50 million mice in the Brena Vista lowlands, despite migrations. They suggest eradication could cost 4.5 to 5 million dollars after a six week trench and poison effort. The infestation spans 24 to 30 thousand acres with up to 80 thousand acres yielding about 30 million mice, a figure possibly too low.
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Pied Piper
Bakerafield
Calif
C. H. Bowen
Kew County
s. MM. _ Piper
United States
Government Biological Control Department
Brena’ Vista
Midway Sunder
Piper
Wheat Prices Jump in Winnipeg Market Report
May wheat traded at a high of 1.38 1 2 dollars in Winnipeg with May closing around 1.38 3 8. July and October futures moved, export demand rose, and sea board buyers supported gains. Rye cash and export demand showed strength while flax rose as American crushers paid higher prices. Trade volume was fair and cash grains activity was slow with broader declines in some spots.
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Winnipeg
Liverpool
Advantic
Winnipeg bank robber Bonnin executed for 1926 murder
A ten year crime career ending with the execution of Wilford Bonnin in the provincial jail yard. Bonnin, described as a bank bandit and drug addict, shot Maurice Garvie during a May 13, 1926 Royal Bank of Canada Logaph Avenue branch holdup. He testified to a life of crime starting at fourteen, with US and Canadian imprisonments and a drug addiction blamed for the killing.
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Winnipeg
Nadian
Wilford
Romain
Pasyear
Old Bank
Iefor
Maurice ‘Garvie
Hank
United States
Bonnin
Montreal
Fort William
Ont
Ontario
Willed in fist fight at Halifax neighbor attack
Clarence O'Brien 19 of Hants County was fed at his home yesterday after a fray with Hibbert Miller also 19. The two fought last week at Upper Kennetcook and O'Brien sustained a broken nose in the incident.
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Halifax
Clarence O’brien
Hants County
Acer
Ina
Hibbert’ Miller
Alaskan Floods Hit Interior Regions With Record Inundation
Winter floods of unprecedented magnitude sweep the Tazlina and Copper river districts north of Cordova in Alaska. The interior flooding follows heavy precipitation and rapid snowmelt, authorities report widespread damage to homes and roads.
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Juneau
Alaska
Tazlina
Copper River
Cordova
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