Britain Plans Bilateral Talks for Naval Limitation Treaty
Britain will push a plan for bilateral negotiations with major powers to draft a naval limitation treaty. Italy’s reluctance to join a four power agreement prompts a shift to separate talks with the United States and Germany, then Austria, Japan, France, and Italy.
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Lend
Orn
Britein
Alen
Rome
Britisd
Italy
Iran
Auissia
Japan
France
British MP Cited Royal Family Sparks Commons Clash
Labor MP David Kirkwood drew fire in the House of Commons when mentioning the royal family in a debate on a labor ministry supplementary estimate. He recalled travels by the future Prince of Wales in South Africa and Argentina as a “wealthy young man,” prompting the deputy chairman to remind members that the royal family is never discussed in the chamber.
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Labor
London
David Kirkwood
House of Commons
Labor Ministry
Kirkwood
South Africa
Argentina
Prince of Wales
Royal Commission to Probe Canada Penitentiaries
Personnel for a royal commission to investigate Canada's penitentiary system has been practically completed. The body will likely be a five member panel with terms calling for a thorough study of conditions in all penitentiaries and evidence taken at each institution.
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Royal Commission
Canada
Ottawa
Manitoba government reports windfall from two per cent wage tax
The Manitoba Government reported that its two per cent wage tax raised 1,674,800 this fiscal year, 24,800 above expectations. Treasurer A. McPherson told the Provincial Legislature the gain exceeded projections.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
A. McPherson
Assembly
Travelling Expenses for Canadian Radio Commission Costs
A House of Commons return shows travelling expenses of Canadian Radio Commission members and officers from April 1, 1933, to February 21, 1936, totaling just over 60 000. The disclosure came in reply to Hermas Deslauriers’s question.
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Ottawa
Canadian Radio Commission
House of Commons
Hermas Deslauriers
Lib
St. Mary
Retief Camp Policy Changes in Canada
Government announces closing of Retief camps nationwide with no new admissions. 10 000 men to work on deferred maintenance with railways. 15 monthly allowance replaces 20 cent daily rate, cash and non negotiable vouchers issued for unspent balance.
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Ottewa
Canada
Domine Day
Hom
Norman McL
Rogers
House of Commons
Canadian Railways
Department of National Defence
Labor Department
France ready to submit Franco-Soviet pact to world court
Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne Flandin told the chamber of deputies that France would let the League decide if the Franco-Soviet mutual aid pact breaches Locarno. He urged ratification as a step for collective security and denied it is a military alliance. He noted Russian arms helped win the Marne.
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Paris
France
Germany
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
Chamber of Deputies
M. Flandin
Chamber
Soviet Union
Marne
Edmonton Leads Province in Farm Relief Settlements
The annual report shows Edmonton leading in families settled under the six hundred dollar farm relief scheme. Since 1932 Edmonton sent 295 families, Calgary 184, Medicine Hat 33, Lethbridge 16, Wetaskiwin four, plus seven towns, eight villages, 52 rural districts, 16 local improvement districts, and 22 Turner Valley district settlements.
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Edmonton
Province
Dominion
Department of Agriculture
Calgary
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Wetaskiwin
Turner Valley
No Canadians Hurt in Tokyo Coup Reports
The department of external affairs said Sir Herbert Marler Canadian minister to Japan cabled that no Canadian citizen was injured in the Tokyo fighting during the military coup. He was monitoring developments and withheld further contents of his message.
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Ottawa
Department of External Affairs
Sir Herbert Marler
Japan
Tokyo
Herbert
Belgian Government Seeks Renewal of British Neutrality Guarantees
Reports indicate Belgium requests renewed British assurances of Belgium's neutrality similar to those during Britain’s entry to the Great War. Sources describe hoped renewal in the context of evolving European security.
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London
Treaty Ratified Amid Turmoil in Franco-Soviet Pact Vote
The chamber of deputies ratified the Franco-Soviet mutual aid treaty by a large majority after an uproar. Rightist and Communist deputies clashed amid debate over threats from the Far East following the Tokyo coup. Alfred Rosenberg condemned the pact in Voelkischer Beobachter.
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Parta
Chamber of Deputies
Far East
Tokyo
Berlin
Alfred Rosenberg
Nazi Party
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Japan Leaders Die in Revolt by War Party Coup
In a snowbound assault, three top Japanese leaders were killed by young army officers who aimed to remove corrupt influences around the throne. Premier Okada, Lord Makoto Saito, and Gen. Jotaro Watanabe died, while Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and Admiral Kantaro Suzuki were wounded as rebels seized public buildings and martial law spread. Emperor Hirohito and officials sought to halt the uprising as world powers watched.
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Tokyo
Japan
Keisuke Okada
Privy Seal
Viscount Makoto Saito
Jotaro Watanabe
Korekiyo Takahashi
Kantaro Suzuki
Imperial Court
New York
Takahashi
Hirohito
Imperial Palace
Privy Council
Okada
Fumio Goto
China
High Seas
Osaka
Protest Over Farm Machinery Prices in Manitoba Legislature
In Manitoba the legislature heard calls to urge Ottawa to cut farm machinery prices to pre Bennett levels. A R Welch cited 11 price increases on seed drills binders and harrows effective February 1. Douglas Campbell joined in criticizing the Canada United States trade agreement for raising farm implement costs.
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Manitoba
Winnipeg
Dominion
Bennett
A. R. Welch
Turtle Mountain
Bracken
Ottawa
Douglas Campbell
Progressive
Lakeside
Choosing Air Mail Bases Ottawa
Test flights over proposed north Atlantic air mail routes will determine bases on this side of the Atlantic a Sydney delegation was told by post office officials. Tests of the route will run in the next two years linking the United States with England via Newfoundland and a point on the Canadian Atlantic seaboard.
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Ottawa
Atlantic
Sydney
Post Office Department
United States
England
Newfoundland
Canadian Atlantic Seaboard
Alberta Coal Production in 1934 Reaches 12 Million
Coal valued at 12 440 616 produced in Alberta during the calendar year 1934. The latest reports are complete and filed for the legislature by Hon C. Ross, as required by the provincial lands and mines department.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Department of Lands and Mines
C. Ross
Poverty Among Indians Ottawa House Debates Indian Dept Budget
The Ottawa House of Commons reviewed estimates for the Indian department totaling 4 241 000 as India n affairs chief Crerar said the 112 000 strong population was rising and about one third on relief The TB problem and segregation of tuberculous pupils in Indian schools were noted as urgent. Bennett commented on overall care while Crerar hoped to propose reforms before the next session.
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Ottawa
Canada
House of Commons
Indian Department
T. A. Crerar
Indian Affairs
Department
Bennett
Crerar
Plan 10 retire public debts urged in House debate
Walter A. Tucker proposes a debt retirement plan to convert Dominion provincial municipal and public corporate debt into non-interest securities over 24 years with no treasury cost. He says Bank of Canada could issue credit against deposit bonds to replace bonds and save hundreds of millions in annual interest.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada and
Public Credit
House of Commons
Walter A. Tucker
Liberal
Rosthern, Sask
Treasury
Rosthern
House
M. J. Coldwell
C.C.F
Rosetown-Biggar
Bank of Canada
Dunning
Canada
Tucker
Dominion
Unemployment Rescue Proposals Debated in Commons
Private members of the House in Ottawa offered varied remedies to end unemployment. Grant MacNeil urged full government responsibility plus public works, higher taxes on incomes over 10 000, and direct relief. E H Brunelle favored a land program to move urban workers to farming, with conscription if needed. H H Stevens backed reforestation and housing as self liquidating works and noted social credit theories.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Grant MacNeil
C.C.F
Vancouver North
Dominion
E. H. Brunelle
Liberal
Champlain
Hon
H. H. Stevens
Stevens
Showa Behind Tokyo Coup, Says Matsuoka Link
Reprinted from a Shanghai authority, Bosuke Matsuoka, head of the South Manchurian Railway, revived the Showa as a moral movement with fascist leanings. The group, noted for Emperor veneration, would oppose capitalism and parliament, favoring a corporate state with imperial aims.
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Shanghai
Showa
Tokyo
Bosuke Matsuoka
Matsuoka
South Manchurian Railway
Japans
League of Nations
Japan
Prospectors Find Gold in Grizaly Gulch Cranbrook District
Reports from Cranbrook British Columbia describe a coarse one inch white gold find in Grizaly Gulch a tributary of Akamina Creek in the Rocky Mountain region near the international boundary. Prospectors say staking has surged despite cold weather with claims filed over the past ten days in the extreme southeast of the province.
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Cranbrook
B.C
Flathead
British Columbia
Grizaly Gulch
Rocky Mountain Range
International Line
Alberta
Danish Aviators Die After Storm Flight Rescue
Three aviators were killed in Copenhagen while attempting to guide a non existent pilot through a snow storm. Sounds from snow laden wires led crews to search for an incoming aero plane before authorities learned the guiding plane had crashed in the night.
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Copenhagen
Denmhark
Fiers
New Westminster Refuses Tag Day for Defence Appeal
The New Westminster city council denies the joint defence committee permission to hold a tag day to raise funds for the relief camp strikers facing trial in Regina.
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New Westminster
B.C
New Westminster City
Joint Defence Committee
Atrikera
Regina
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