Canada faces food shortage and cost of living debate
Senator G D Robertson argues there is no food surplus in Canada and prices rise from shortages not hoarding. He cites cold storage figures for butter oleomargarine cheese eggs pork and beef to show the limited impact of storage. He warns of an egg famine without increased production and notes a new serial chapter appears elsewhere.
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Chiewa
Canada
Senate
G. D. Robertson
Labor
Robertson
Steamer Vindelia Returns with Captured Guns for Canadian Units
The steamer Vindelia brings a cargo of captured German guns to port. Items include a heavy piece marked Second Canadian Division 24th battalion 930 consigned to the Victorian Rifles in Montreal, plus other guns allocated to Ontario Alberta Nova Scotia and Alberta lieutenant governors. Several pieces bear illegible markings though the Black Watch and other units are referenced.
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Montreal
Victorian Rifles
Ontario
List
Alberta
25Th
Nova Scotia
Alien Homesteaders To Be Investigated For Soldier Settlement
Ottawa reports a Dominion land records review targets alien and in default homestead entries to support soldier settlement. The interior department and Soldier Settlement Board will coordinate with municipalities to locate and verify lands and inform local sources about eligible properties.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Dominion Land
Department of Interior
Soldier Settlement Board
Vsoldier
Setilement Board
Informaacerning
Sucht Lands
Reds Attempt to Halt Premier Paderewski in Warsaw
New York Warsaw dispatch says Bolshevists tried to assassinate Premier Paderewski as he left a Paris return train to Warsaw. Demonstrations greeted his return to Poland after the Paris Conference work. Poles approve the Danzig decision and Silesian boundary settlement, with some disappointment over Teschen coal field verdict.
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New York
Warsaw
Bolshevists
Padere
Walid
Paris
M. Paderewski
Poland
Danzig
Teschen
Germans Will Hold Out Berlin says they will resist terms
German leader says peace terms would paralyze the nation and that President Wilson hypnotizes the people. He declares he hopes U S democracy rejects the treaty and asserts the government will hold out to the end rather than resign.
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Berlin
Germany
Wilson
Ebert
United States
Versailles hotel spy claim sparks diplomatic protest
An official note accuses a German correspondent of sending to the Neues Wiener Tageblatt a dispatch claiming spies in the Versailles hotel housing German delegates. The note denounces the report as odious calumny and warns France may expel German correspondents if repeated.
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Paris
Neues Weiner Tageblatt
Versailles
Six women commissioners to Dominion outreach missions
The Overseas Settlement Committee will send six women commissioners to the Dominions. Two will visit Canada, two to Australia, and two to New Zealand to investigate openings for women, especially land workers, with a view to emigration.
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London
Government Overseas Settlement Committee
Dominions
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Winnipeg Strikes Paralyze City Services Across Industries
Winnipeg reels under a massive strike as 27 000 to 35 000 workers walk out. Veterans groups vow to uphold law while deportation talks surface. Public utilities, police, fire services, post office, transit, and rail yards ground to a halt. Prime services stagger with volunteers stepping in for essential tasks.
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Winnipeg
G.av.v.a
Army & Navy Veterans
Imperial Veterans of Canada
Wieni
Peg
C.P.R
C.N.R
G.T.P. Railways
Ties for H. B. Railway Ottawa
Contracts for 250000 ties for the Hudson Bay Railway awarded. G W Cann to supply 75000, H F Borth 150000, and John Dione 75000, all of The Pas. Contract price sixty cents per tie. ties are spruce and pine, mainly the former.
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H. B. Railway
Ottawa
Hudson Bay Railway
G. W. Cann
H. F. Borth
John Dione
Pas
Ireland’s law bill and threats amid Irish violence
The Lord Chancellor outlined a bill to compensate law officers injured or killed on duty while a counter proclamation in Tipperary declared that English payers, magistrates and jurors could be deemed to have forfeited their lives. Civilians aiding authorities faced execution. Lord Crewe questioned the severity as supporters debated the measure.
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Ireland
Lord Chancrollor
House of Commons
Tipperary
England
Lord Crewe
Party of Violence
Will Import Canadian Wheat To Stabilize Prices
Julius H. Barnes of the United States Grain Corporation announced a plan to moderate importation of Canadian wheat through Minneapolis mills. He projected a downward revision in food prices but cautioned that no radical cut is likely until American export demand diminishes and ample wheat remains available to keep price below 12 dollars per barrel.
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Minneapolis
Julius H. Barnes
United States Grain Corporation
Millers
Canada
Absorbing romance starts in this week's serial
Purchases in Argentina are noted with a German wireless message stating Argentina bought 135000 bushels of wheat and 20000 tons of flax seed. The Entente responds by allocating 250000 tons of ship space to La Plata to secure room for a further 100000 tons of Argentina purchases.
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Argentina
London
German Finance Commission
Versailles
Germany
Entente
la Plata
Must Dismantle Armament Works in Ireland and Austria
Four police officers escorting a Sinn Fein prisoner were attacked at Knocklong railway station in County Limerick. Armed men freed the prisoner, killed one officer, seriously wounded another, and a third officer is missing. In Europe, peace talks near St Germain may be delayed as Hungary delays delegation. The Allied powers push for demobilization and dismantling of armament works including Skoda plants.
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Knocklong
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Cork
Limerick
Great Southern and Western
Hungary
St. Germain
Council of Four
Skoda
Austria
Vienna
Prague
War Expenditures in British Dominions Revealed
In the House of Commons Col. Emery states wartime outlays by the War Office totaled about £225 million in Canada £291 million in Australia £75 million in New Zealand £23 million in South Africa and £2 million in Newfoundland.
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Britain
Canada
London
House of Commons
J. Morton-Griffiths
Col. Emery
Colonial Office
War Office
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Newfoundland
Budapest Indignant Over Armistice Conditions
Budapest wireless messages report the entire press is indignant at Romania's reply to armistice terms and declares that the only response to such arrogant terms is by arms.
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Budapest
London
Romania
Italians land forces in Dalmatia coastal forts
Reuters dispatch from Belgrade reports Italian troops landing at Zara and ZebeHintco on the Dalmatian coast. The forces move eastward and strengthen ridges and mountain passes.
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Dalmatia
London
Zara
Zebehico
Reuter
Belgrade
Will Not Strike Lethbridge Civic Employees
Civic employees who voted to strike have rescinded the action and applied to the Dominion board of arbitration to settle the dispute.
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Lethbridge
Dominion Board of Arbitration
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Wallace Land CO
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Sask
Watson
Oak Point
Fordson Tractor
Fordson
Oliver
Somerset Bik
Sinn Feins
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N. T. Macmillan Co., Ltd
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