Leftists execute thousands in Madrid amid revolt
A French observer reports 5,000 to 10,000 suspected dissidents executed in Madrid since the revolt began. Prisons are crowded, bodies buried with lime, and mass mobilizations fill streets. The city suffers chaos with trucks, guns, and disappearing residents as rebels and government forces clash near Guadarrama.
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Hendaye
Madrid
Spain
Havas
Martinez Barria
Casa de Campo
Azores
Gran Via
Los Molinos
Guadarrama
France and Canada vow lasting friendship for peace
Albert Riviere, Canada’s pensions minister, told 5,000 Canadian World War I veterans at a banquet in Rouen that the friendship between Canada and France must endure. He cited the Vimy Ridge memorial unveiling and noted the veterans would soon return home.
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Rouen
Canada
France
Albert Riviere
Paria
Vimy Ridge
King Edward's Sixth Flight Ahead of Med Cruise
King Edward makes his sixth post accession flight to Sandringham to visit his mother before joining guests on the yacht Nahlin for a Mediterranean holiday cruise. The Grafton and Glowworm act as convoy destroyers, with air mail leaving England in three months weighing 115,800 pounds.
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London
Edward
Sandringham
Mediterranean
Sandringham House
Grafton
Admiralty
England
Overseas Visitors Boost England Tourism Figures
Reliable statistics show England entertaining more overseas visitors than in six years. In June Americans numbered 137,500, up 4,000 from last June, while continental travel rose. France saw a decline due to cost of living and political tensions. Hotels plan price considerations for next year’s coronation celebrations, with stakeholders aiming to avoid scamming tourists. Smaller budget travelers can still find lodgings outside central London if needed.
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England
London
France
French Chamber of Commerce
Vatican organ says Soviet hand in Spanish war
Observatore Romano asserts the Moscow Third International bears primary responsibility for the Spanish civil war. It claims the Soviet Union acted not as a government but through the Third International, sending specialists opposed to order who commit atrocities against the rebels.
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Vatican
Vatican City
Rome
Spain
Obsservatore Romano
Moscow Third International
Soviet Union
Third International
Canada aims at national unity and broader trade relations
Hon. J. E. Michaud, Dominion fisheries minister, told the Laurier club he was impressed by his Rocky Mountain journey. He spoke of creating a national consciousness so eastern provinces would understand western ones, and all would unite in a progressive, common Canada.
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Victoria
United
Canada
J. E. Michaud
Dominion
Laurier Club
Rocky Mountains
Drought Conference Plan For Western Canada
Western Canada drought situation to be discussed at a Dominion and provincial conference probably on August 17 with Hon. J. G. Gardiner minister of agriculture expected to attend. Gardiner from Saskatchewan will be joined by other cabinet members back from overseas in time for the meeting.
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Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
J. G. Gardiner
Gardiner
Saskatchewan
Follows Old Route Vancouver Sephad by Mrs Vesey
Mrs S Vesey of London great grand niece of Sir Alexander Mackenzie arrived here after travelling MacKenzie river to Aklavik and plans to go to Bella Coola Wash where Mackenzie viewed the Pacific in 1793. Ottawa. The board of railway commissioners will leave September 6 for hearings across the west with cities including Winnipeg Saskatoon Edmonton Vancouver Calgary Swift Current and Brandon.
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Vancouver
S. Kirkland Vesey
London
England
Sir Alexander Mackenzie
Otawa
Board of Railway Commissioners
West
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Edmonton
Calgary
Swift Current
Brandon
Royal Treasures Exhibition for coronation year announced
Personal treasures of royalty from ancient times to modern day will be shown in London at the Royal Treasures Exhibition next April and May as a special attraction for coronation year.
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London
Refugees From Spain Tell Case Of Narrow Escape
United States citizens arriving on the S S Exeter recount horrors from the Spanish Civil War. Donald Newhall and his wife faced riflemen at a Minorca roadside with a Spanish woman shouting English to save them. Elizabeth Healey described rioting and burning seen from a hilltop fort in Malaga.
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United States
Boston
Spain
Exeter
New York
Donald Newhall
Minorca
Newhall
Elizabeth Healey
Cooperative School For
Malaga
British Empire Unity Urged by Lord Snell at Geneva Park
Lord Snell, Labour leader in Parliament, warned the Canadian Institute of Economics and Politics at Geneva Park that the integrity of the British commonwealth must be kept. He said two of three daily English meals rely on imports and argued for sufficient naval power and a flexible foreign policy centered on collective security and keeping peace unless major interests are threatened. He linked British empire policy to Canada and proximity to the United States.
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Orillia
England
Canada
United States
Britain
Tourist Traffic to Canada Rises in 1935 Season
Leo Dolan director of the Canadian travel bureau estimates tourists from the United States and other nations will spend about 300 million dollars in Canada this year. Summer travel shows a 15 percent rise from 1934 with June arrivals at 1,632,485 versus 1,481,858 last year. July totals reached 2,500,000 and August about 2,900,000, with expectations of 3,000,000 visitors in the present month.
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Ottawa
United States
Canada
Leo Dolan
Canadian Travel Bureau
Forest Fires Blamed on Dry Lightning in Alberta
Firefighters in southwestern Alberta battled several blazes blamed on dry lightning. Two new fires started in isolated districts near Gala tea creek headwaters and near Trapp creek in the Highwood valley. Crews checked both fires while other fires in Castle river and Highwood valleys remained under control with hundreds guarding the fronts.
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Alberta
Calgary
Galatea Creek
Trapp Creek
Highwood Valley
Castle River
Highwood
Peace gardens idea spreads to borders worldwide
Henry J. Moore of Islington spoke at the 39th annual convention of the Canadian Florists and Gardeners Association about plans for international peace gardens. Negotiations were under way for gardens on the borders of Latvia Estonia and Lithuania with hopes for similar efforts on the France and Germany borders.
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Toronto
Manitoba-North Dakota
Henry J. Moore
Islington
Canadian Florists’ and Gardeners’ Association
Latvia
Esthenia
Lithuania
France
Germany
Chief Justice May Retire From Alberta Supreme Court
Hon. W. C. Simmons will retire as chief justice of the Alberta supreme court on September 1. Appointed to the bench in 1910 after a Liberal member stint for Lethbridge, he became chief justice of the trial division in 1920.
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W. C. Simmons
Alberta
Calgary
Calgary Herald
W. C
Simmons
Alberta Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Lethbridge
Protest Over Pacific Coast Men In Edmonton
Protesters decry CN Rail plan to bring 28 Pacific coast workers to Edmonton for railway construction while hundreds of unemployed locals await work. Mayor Clarke cables A E Warren Winnipeg CN vice-president urging the men be sent home at once.
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Edmonton
Clarke
A. E. Warren
Winnipeg
Canadian National Railways
Placer Miners Paid Cash by Province for Gold
The British Columbia government, under its small purchase plan for placer miners, acquired 304 ounces of virgin gold valued at about $10,000 in the last year. Miners are paid $28 per ounce on the spot, replacing the former need to pool gold for shipment to the Dominion assay office. The government handles shipments and re sells the gold to the Dominion government.
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Elc
Victoria
British Columbia
Department of Mines
Dominion Assay Office
Dominion
Wheat Exports Rise Near Eighty Million Bushels
The Dominion bureau of statistics reports Canadian wheat exports for the crop year ended July 31 at 222,215,279 bushels, about 80,000,000 more than last year. Overseas shipments total 172,045,574 bushels, US imports 50,167,705, with 5,286,657 exported in the final week including 4,102,657 overseas and 1,184,000 to the United States in bond.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
Bond
Air Ministry Official Loses His Position in Britain
Prime Minister Baldwin ordered the dismissal of Sir Christopher Bullock permanent secretary to the air council after a board of inquiry found improper discussions with Imperial Airways during talks on his future with the company. The report stressed the civil service code bars officials from advancing personal interests and noted a lack of proper judgment in Bullock's conduct.
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London
Baldwin
Christopher Bullock
Air Council
Board of
Christopher
Eric Geddes
Imperial Airways, Limited
G. E. Woods-Humphrey
Imperial Airways Board
Bullock
Geddes
Woods-Humphrey
Imperial Airways
Air Ministry
Stricter Laws Promised for Wild Fowl Protection
Ottawa announces stringent regulations to protect Canada’s wild ducks and geese. A maximum two month season, bag limits set at 12 ducks daily and 150 per season, five geese daily and 50 per season, ban on baiting and live waterfowl decoys, and sale largely prohibited except in the far north. Canada US treaty governs migratory birds. Canada’s rules milder than the American limits of 10 ducks and four geese daily. Provincial season dates listed for Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia. Brant goose protection and eel grass disease cited as factors in declining stock.
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Ottawa
Canada
T. A. Crerar
Interior
Interior Department
Prairies
United States
Ontario
French
Mattawa
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Township 60
Alberta
Clearwater
Athabaska Rivera
British Columbia
Omineca
Fort George
Peace River
Atlin
Skeena
No Coalition Winnipeg Emphasizes Manitoba Split
Errick F Willis, leader of the new Conservative party in Manitoba, rejects coalition with Premier John Bracken despite a 5 to 4 cabinet split. Main Liberal Progressive leader rushes to The Pas for Aug 21 campaigning as W W Kennedy enters Rupert's Land race.
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Winnipeg
Errick F. Willis
Conservative
Manitoba
John Bracken
Mr. Willis
Mr. Bracken
Pas
W. W. Kennedy
K.C
Winnipeg South Centre
Rupert's Land
Canadian Radio Commission to Build Station on Lulu Island
Mayor G. G. McGeer broke ground for a new Canadian radio commission broadcasting station on Lulu Island. The facility will house a 5,000 watt transmitter with a 40 foot tower and new studios. Plans to upgrade CRCV from 500 watts move forward, with completion expected by October after a year of discussion and contract awards.
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Canadian Commission
Lulu Island
Vancouver
G. G. McGeer
Canadian Radio Commission
CRCV
Coal output in Canada rises in June reports Dominion Bureau
The Dominion bureau of statistics shows Canada's coal production last June at 1,022,385 tons, up from 920,093 tons in June 1935 and above the five year monthly average of 859,458 tons. Coke production was only slightly lower than a year earlier.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
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Portsmouth
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Bracken
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