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Adieu to R. B, BennettLondon, Dec. 4.--Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, of Canada, looking fit and in excellent spirits, today left London for Liverpool, where he will board the liner Duchess of Richmond, sailing for Halifax. N.S.Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, Secretnry of State for the Dominions; Lord Bcavcrbrook, Canadian-born peer«d English crusader; Sir Josiub amp. economist, *and u number of tho members of the Prime Minister’s secretariat, saw Mr. Bennett off. The usual battalion or.p^ss photograph-SKATINGTONIGHT8:00 to 10:00Admission 20c and )l)i\crs crowded around as Mr. Bennett and Mr. Thomas shook hands with the utmost good will.Mr. Bennett delivered a short speech just before the train pulled cut, expressing his faith in the future of the British Empire.London. Dec. 3.—Prime Minister R. B. Bennett today was entertained at a private farewell luncheon tendered him by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald at No. 30 Downing Street.Others present were Hou. G. Howard Ferguson, Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain, and Mrs. Ferguson; Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas,. Secretary of State for the Doipinlons I and Mrs. Thomas; Sir Thomas and I Lady Hordcr; Wing Commander and 1 Mis. Louis L. Grief.Later Mr. Bennett and Mr. Fprgu-son visited the studio in Fambprough where work on the Canadian National War Memorial is being carried out by Sydney March and his five brothers.Practically all of the 10 figures In the monument representing every branch of Canadian war ,service are now completed. The memorial, one cf the largest in the world, will occupy a central site at Ottawa.Tonight at the Emp
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Fri, Dec 04, 1931
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