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dc present inis year.r-H RIG MEETING STARTS)fK| Canada’s Win the War Convention to!Strike Nationalist Note.tion love alty the ! fealD.I(By United Press)Montreal, May 21—A great Win-thc-War convention, which will bring together scores of the most prominent j men in Canada and strike a new noteourtheshx*iiss.s-7,n-of50lyiiehoedesidts.N.mof nationalism for the Dominion, opened here to-day.Colonel Roosevelt was invited to attend but word has been received thatGro Corr hert and to ( ial :he is devoting all his time to his expeditionary division plan and could not accept the invitation. Lieut. Col. (“Trooper”) Mulloy, Avho organized the movement, also has invited mem-. bers of the French and British com- s^althcibell12.C[r.ndiiiehyin.liemissions now in the United States, as guests of honor at the banquet planned for Wednesday night, the eve ofVictoria Day.willlenlt;The accredited delegates from all parts of the dominion will likely num-1 Col her 1,000 to 1,200, and in addition there will be a large number of friends and unofficial visitors from(Montreal, Ottawa, and other nearby, points. TThe first days of the conventionwill be devoted to organization work,with the adoption of a constitution,ir, | election of officers, committees, etc.The banquet Wednesday evening,will be followed by a public sessionwhen the public will be admitted to the galleries.Phtheiff,■ff,fe,c.cly: in -vn, etyRU-“Our idea in this convention”, said Lieut. Col. Mulloy, “is to get the people together, and through their leaders to engender a really national feeling—-to make the people real Nationalists instead of provincial-ists.” eniponlt;ablt;ffclThincBoLi ianRcBeofirgw-nr-iry,ton••In addition to this, he said, a number of concrete questions will be dealt with, especially those touching the problems to be faced at the end of the war, such as the establishment of a national labor exchange, and otherwork in rogard to the demobilization of the troops.GrL.wcM;C.A;wiYlt;M
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Gettysburg Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, May 26, 1917
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