MacDonald defends government amid calls to resign
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald spoke in Doncaster saying he will resign when he can no longer “pull my full weight to the boat.” He defended the National government against critics, pledged action against financial speculators, and rejected Lloyd George’s “new deal” while keeping an open mind to any unemployment solution plans.
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Doncaster
Yorkshire
Eny
Framsay MacDonald
MacDonald
Pepper
David Lloyd George
Lloyd George
Relief Standards Urged by Ottawa Advisory Committee
The Canadian Council on Child and Family Welfare proposed a federal advisory committee to set unemployment relief standards provinces must follow. Provinces not meeting these standards would lose federal aid, in a plan highlighting urgency as current agreements expire at month end and 1,350,000 people receive relief.
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Ottawa
Canadian Council On Child and Family Welfare
Ethiopian Protest Demands Peaceful Somaliland Border Settlement
Foreign office officials draft response as Ethiopia protests continued troop and ammunition shipments to Italian Somaliland. Ethiopian charge d affaires Negad Yesus delivered a note from Emperor Haile Selassie offering to withdraw all troops and cannons from Italian Somaliland and Eritrea if Italy retires its forces and Eritrea, with Ethiopia pledging not to touch any stone in the colonies, signaling desire for peaceful resolution.
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Kome Foreign Office
Ethiopia
Negrades Yesus
Haile Selassie
Italy
Italian Somaliland
Eritrea
Saar territory shifts from LON to Reich authority
At 11 30 am February 28 the Saar territory ended League of Nations jurisdiction and Geoffrey G Knox president of the governing commission transferred police authority to Reich representatives marking a key handover in the region.
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Saarbruecken
League of Nations
Saar
Geoffrey G. Knox
Reich
Imperial Press Conference Honors Major Astor Of London Times
The fifth Imperial pres conference concluded with a vote of thanks to Major J. J. Astor chairman of the Times Publishing Company London. Delegates stood for two minutes applauding him as deliberations were deemed eminently successful. A London committee will coordinate Empire Press Union work and seek lower press cable rates.
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Johannesburg
J. J. Astor
Times Publishing Company
London
Major Astor
Empire Press Union
Dominions
Court Martial Convicts Capt Sawbridge After Renown Hood Collision
In Portsmouth England Capt H R Sawbridge of the battle cruiser Renown was convicted by court martial of negligence after the Renown collided with the Hood off the Spanish coast in January. The court found he hazarded the ships during maneuvers. Rear-Admiral Sidney Bailey was acquitted on a related charge. A third trial of Capt F T B Tower on the Hood is to follow, with Tower being dismissed from his ship.
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Portsmouth
England
H. R. Sawbridge
Hood
Spanish
Sidney Bailey
F. T. B. Tower
Bank reserves and deposits shift in January 1935 Ottawa report
The monthly report of chartered banks to the Department of Finance for January 31 1935 shows a $12 million drop in bank note circulation from December and a $5 million fall in central gold reserve deposits. Demand deposits fell $45 million from December though remained $50 million higher than a year earlier. Savings deposits rose $5 million in the month and $62 million year over year. Call loans in Canada declined $10 million versus December while current loans were down $18.006 million from December and $50 million compared with January 31 1934.
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Ottawa
Department of Finance
Canada
Leper village massacre wipes out 24 victims on island
The inhabitants of Wal Chow in the Pearl River delta killed 24 lepers living in a separate settlement and burned their village after the brutal massacre. The lepers had kept apart from the rest of the island community.
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Hong Kong
China
Walchow
Pearl River
Britain will need Canadian wheat, says UK official
Sir Francis Floud, the British high commissioner to Canada, told the Women's Canadian Club in Toronto that Britain will continue to need Canadian wheat despite extensive agricultural development in Britain.
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Toronto
Britain
Francis Floud
United Kingdom
Women’s
Canadian Club
Manitoba convention calls for free texts from grade one
The Manitoba School Trustees Association urged the government to provide free textbooks for grades one through six. The resolution, adopted at the annual convention, argues that education up to the sixth grade should be compulsory and accompanied by free books.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba School Trustees Association
Manitoba
Three Medals Awarded by Royal Society of Canada
Secretary Lawrence J Burpee announced awards of three Royal Society medals to Montrealer Dr. Edward Montpetit of Montreal University and Ottawans Dr. F T Shutt and Brig Gen E A Cruickshank. The Lorne Pierce medal honors literature, the Sir Joseph Flavelle medal honors science, and the Tyrrell medal honors history.
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Royal Society of Canada Ottawa
Lawrence J Burpee
Royal Society of Canada
Society
Edward Montpetit
Montreal University
Lorne Pierce
F. T. Shutt
Dominion Experimental Farm
Joseph Flavelle
E. A. Cruickshank
Tyrrell
Hughes War Resolution Withdrawn After Senate Debate
In Ottawa a warm discussion of the Hughes war resolution ended with the sponsor withdrawing the measure. The text urged that if Canada ever entered war again the nation should mobilize fully with conscription of all human power and material wealth.
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Ottawa
Senate
Canada
Disastrous Fire Destroys Moscow Krassin Pencil Factory
A blast from a high pressure compressor at the Krassin pencil factory on Moscow’s outskirts triggered a fire that claimed twenty nine lives. Fire crews fought the blaze for three hours before control. The factory and warehouse were a total loss and workers were displaced or reassigned to nearby plants.
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Moscow
Krassin
Sacco-Vanzetti
Special air defense committee to study countering air attacks
Sir Philip Sassoon announced in the House of Commons the creation of a committee to study countering air raids using new scientific inventions. The panel is chaired by Henry Tizard with A V Hill and P M Blackett as members, and its report will go to the Imperial Defence Committee.
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London
Philip Sassoon
House of Commons
Henry Tizard
Imperial College of Science and Technology
A. V. Hill
Royal Society
P M
Sir John Simon May Visit Russia to Talk Peace
London reports the cabinet tentatively approved sending Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and Capt. Anthony Eden to Moscow Warsaw and Praha after Berlin to pursue peace talks. An informal invitation from Moscow was well received and an official announcement was anticipated. The aim is an inclusive European settlement ending frontier tensions.
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London
John Simon
Anthony Eden
Privy Seal
Moscow
Warsaw
Praha
Berlin
Fear Drouth Will Continue Washington
The Weather Bureau reports ongoing dry soil conditions over the western great plains, signaling a possible return of drought in areas hit hard last summer. Severe dust storms hit western Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska and parts of eastern Colorado and Wyoming, occurring earlier than usual.
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Washington
Great Plains
United States Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Weather Bureau
Lack Of Fodder Stirs Minnesota Legislature Display
Outside the Minnesota legislature three emaciated animals a horse a cow and a pig stood munching feed as their owner Arthur Spencer from western Minnesota said relief delays left them unfed. Inside lawmakers approved 560000 dollars for livestock feed via the state executive council to aid western Minnesota through relief efforts.
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Arthur Spencer
Minnesota
Bony March
Reform Measures Economic Advisory Council To Be Set Up Ottawa
Legislation to establish an economic advisory council is expected as the next reform measure in parliament. The bill is practically ready but personnel of the council has not yet been decided. The board will advise on economic progress similar to the National Research Council for scientific issues.
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Ottawa
Economic Advisory Council
R. B. Bennett
Dominion
National Research Council
Tourist Traffic Better Ottawa
Foreign automobile traffic entering Canada rose in the past calendar year with 9,261,545 automobiles compared with 3,096,887 in 1933 a gain of 164 961 according to a statement by Hon R C Matthews minister of national revenue.
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Ottawa
Canada
R. C. Matthews
National Revenue
Frost Tremors Shake Toronto East End Homes
Eastend residents felt shaking and rattling dishes as frosty earth tremors struck during cold snaps. Officials attributed the phenomenon to unsettled ground from waterworks activity and sustained freezing conditions, noting similar quakes occurred a few weeks earlier.
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Toronto
Eastend
Congress to Hear on Soviet Link to US Communists
The House Foreign Affairs Committee set a March 5 hearing on the Tinkham resolution to withdraw recognition of Soviet Russia, despite State Department objections, pursuing alleged links between the Soviet Union and the American Communist Party.
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Washington
Russia
Communist Party
United States
House of Representatives
State Department
Tinkham
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Claude S. Beck
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