Britain Stands Against Reparations Plan At Hague
In The Hague Britain rejects the Young plan, led by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. He warns no compromise will be accepted, citing Britain’s wartime debts, sacrifices, and insistence on preserving treaty rights. France Italy and Belgium oppose changes, calling for firm positions.
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the Hague
Great Britain
Paris
France
Italy
Belgium
Philip Snowden
Mir. Snowden
Snowden
Committee of Experts
United Staes
Alles
Young Plan
Young Committee
Spa
Germany
House of Commons
House of Coramons
British Columbia Considers Selling Pacific Great Eastern
Hon. R. P. Pooley stated at the Esquimalt Conservative picnic that the Pacific Great Eastern railway may be removed from provincial ownership soon. The line, owned by the BC government, is under joint survey by the province Canadian Nations and Canadian Pacific Railways.
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Victoria
B.C
R. P. Pooley
Esquimalt
Saxe Point
Pacific Great Eastern
Government of
British Columbia
Canadian Nations
Canadian Pacific Railways
Negotiations Breakdown Reported in Manchuria
Tokyo dispatches from Manchuria state that representatives of Russia and China have Eastern Railway and that negotiations have broken down, signaling trouble in regional diplomacy and railway control.
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Tokyo
Manchua
Manchuria
Russia
China
British Airship May Be Zeppelin's Rival
London papers consider British airships as rivals to Zeppelins after Graf Zeppelin's America trip. Discussion centers on faster trans Atlantic service, with R-100 and R-101 nearing completion and a fifty eight hour outward and return schedule proposed by Sir Dennis Burbey.
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London
Eng
Lakehurst
America
Dennis Burbey
M.P
The
Daily News
Resignation Of Grain Board Ottawa
The Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada all resigned effective August 15. Hon. James Malcolm announced the move at a cabinet meeting and said the new commission would appoint its own assistant commissioners. Resigning chief commissioner L. H. Boyd and commissioners Matthew Snow and James Robinson are named. the new board will have three commissioners and four assistants.
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Ottawa
Board of Grain Commissioners For
Canada
Grain Commission
James Malcolm
Trade and Commerce
Malcolm
L. H. Boyd
K.C
Matthew Snow
James Robinson
New Administration Took Office In Canada Aboard Proclamations
Victoria reports Francis Anglin with Chief Justice status became administrator of the Dominion after oath in Premier Tolmie’s office. A proclamation followed naming P B Mignault of Montreal as deputy administrator empowered to sign urgent documents.
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Victoria
Francis Alexander Anglin
P.C
Canada
Dominion of Canada
F. Tolmie
British Columbia
Dominion
P. B. Mignault
Montreal
Eight Killed in Calcutta Jute Strike Riots
A Daily Mail despatch from London reports eight dead and 20 injured in clashes between jute mill strikers, watchmen, and police at Naibati, 240 miles north of Calcutta. The strike has lasted weeks over the sixty hour week, with 40 percent of the loomama stopped and about 12,000 workers idle.
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London
Eng
Calcutta
Daily Mail
Naibati
Patrol Ship Boothic Returns From Northward Voyage
Canadian patrol ship Boothic reached Bache Peninsula Ellesmere Island on August 3 marking the expedition’s northern apex during the 1929 interior expansion. She now departs south with Inspector A H Joy of the Mounted Police returning from a 1860 mile northland patrol.
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Ottawa
Boothic
Department of Interior
Bache Peninsula
Ellesmere Isisna
A. H. Joy
Canadian Mounted Police
Hoover drops freedom of seas issue from disarmament program
A Washington dispatch reports President Hoover removed the freedom of the seas clause from his disarmament plan. He argues it does not suit the Kellogg pact and that naval parity with Great Britain offers the real safeguard for freedom of the seas.
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Toronto
Mail
Empire
Washington
Hoover
Great Britain
Atlantic Fleet Recalled to Form World’s Largest Fighting Force
The Admiralty orders five Queen Elizabeth class battleships from the Mediterranean to home ports, creating a 14-ship Atlantic fleet led by HMS Hood and including Nelson class ships and battle cruisers Renown and Repulse. This shifts power from Malta and Gibraltar to the Atlantic as Britain builds its strongest peacetime force.
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London
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Malta
Gibraltar
Rodney
Nelson
H.A.S. Hood
Hood
Per Capita Liquor Sales Exceed $10 Nationwide in 1928
Ottawa reports Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures showing Canada wide liquor sales through government stores at 107,694,384 dollars in 1928, equating to more than 10 dollars per person. Ontario and Quebec lead provincial revenues, with Ontario at 8,130,390 and Quebec at 7,000,000, while Alberta and British Columbia also report substantial totals.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Dominion
Liquor Control Boards
Saskatchewan
Liquor Board
British Columbia
Ontario
Quebec
Alberta
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Canada Names Arbitrators in I'm Alone Case
Ottawa and Washington announce selections for the I'm Alone case with Eu gene Lafleur and Willis Van Devanter as arbiters. John E. Reed named Canadian agent. W W Tilley and Aime Geoffrion as counsel. Preparations require pleadings and dates. sittings likely in Washington with possible Ottawa venues.
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Ottawa
Canada
Eugene Lafleur
DCL
Chunser
Montreal
United States
Willis van Devanter
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington
Department of External Affairs
John E. Reed
K.C
Nova Scotia Bar
Department
Dominion of Canada
W. W. Tilley
Toronto
Aime Geoffrion
Plan New Air Route Chicago to Puget Sound
Northwest Airways announces a new all air passenger route linking Chicago with Puget Sound cities, aiming for a 22 to 23 hour journey. Col. L. H. Britten says an agreement with Western Canada Airways will extend the line to Winnipeg with connections to Banff and Victoria along the southern Canadian border.
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Chicago
Puget
Sound
Northwest
Col
L. H. Britten
Northwest Airways
Britten
Western Canada Airways, Ltd
Winnipeg
Banff
Victoria
Noted Aviator Visita West Sets Record Flight Schedule
Captain J. H. Parkinson of Montreal departed Montreal on July 12 heading to the Pacific coast. The noted Canadian pilot plans a trans continental air tour with 13 stops at eastern cities and towns and will visit prairie cities on the way west.
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Winnipeg
Man
J. H. Parkinson
Montreal
Que
Pacific
Canadian Authoress Dead in Chicago Fringe District
Mary MacLane, once a prominent author known for Mary MacLane and Men Who Have Made Love To Me, died August 6 in a lonely room on Chicago's fringe. Born in Winnipeg in 1881, she faded from public view after retirement six years earlier amid poor sales and financial trouble. Her body was found by a hotel proprietor. no certificate issued her death was from natural causes.
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Chicago
Mary MacLane
Winnipeg
Man
Ottawa Moves To Tighten Liquor Smuggling Co Operation
The Dominion government study plans to deepen Canada United States cooperation to curb liquor smuggling. Premier Mackenzie King told the cabinet that with U S actions, Canada should consider new measures and an announcement on stricter co operation may come soon.
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Ottawa
Dominion
United States
W. L. Mackenzie King
Anglo-Egyptian Draft Treaty Well Received
London reports a new Anglo-Egyptian draft treaty that abandons most British occupation of Egypt except the Suez Canal zone. It envisions independence, withdrawal of garrisons, exclusion of extraterritorial rights, and Egyptian protection of minorities under Egyptian government. Egypt’s Parliament may first approve before formal submission to Britain.
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London
Eng
Egypt
Suez Canal Zone
Downing Street
Foreign Office
Mader Zaghoul Pasha
Arthur Henderson
Mohammed Pasha Mahmoud
Suez Canal
League of Nations
Great Britain
Canal
Sarwat Pasha
Austen Chamberlin
Henderson
Mahoud
Women in Senate Question Soon Decided
Ottawa brief notes Hon. Lucien Cannon returning after two months abroad. He did not comment on the Privy Council reference about women sitting in the Senate. The case, argued by Eugene Lafleur and N. W. Rowell, K.C., concerns whether section 24 of the British North America Act permits women to be appointed to the Senate, not the admissibility of women. Judgment reserved.
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Ottawa
Privy Council
Senate of Canada
Lucien Cannon
Cannon
Senate
Eugene Lafleur
N. W. Rowell
K.C
Mr. Cannon
New York Opposing Italian For Mayor
New York City faces a fierce mayoral fight as Tammany Hall mobilizes against Fiorello H. La Guardia. The piece notes large Italian born and foreign born populations and praises La Guardia as a formidable campaigner whose aggressive rhetoric energizes Latin voters and party machinery.
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New York
Tammany Hall
Ea Guardia
New York City
Fiorella Hi
la Guardia
Manitoba Explosives Plant Planned Near Selkirk
The Canadian Explosives division of Canadian Industries Limited will buy about 1000 acres near Mast Selkirk, 18 miles north of Winnipeg, to build an explosives plant. The project involves roughly $750,000, with construction to start early next spring and production expected by late 1920, depending on mining development.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba Free Press
Manitoba
Canadian Industries, Limited
Mast Selkirk
Ottawa minister Knight sails for Pacific coast tour
Hon. Jean Knight, French minister to Canada, leaves on a three weeks trip to the Pacific coast. He will visit Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton and Victoria and speak at Canadian clubs and chambers of commerce in the west.
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Ottawa
Jean Knight
Canada
Pacific
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Regina
Calgary
Edmonton
Victoria
Knight
Chambers of Commerce
British accept any Rhineland evacuation deal at Hague
The Exchange Telegraph reports that British delegates to the Hague conference told France and Germany that London would accept any agreement they reach regarding evacuation of the Rhineland. The statement reflects Britain’s willingness to recognize a German French deal on the contested region.
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London
England
Exchange Telegraph Company
France
Germany
Rhineland
Great Britain
Welsh Coal Exports Seen Rising Ahead of Minister Thomas Visit
The Manchester Guardian reports a likely rise in Welsh anthracite exports to Canada by about 2000 tons yearly. The uptick follows the upcoming visit to the Dominion by Right Hon. J. H. Thomas, Minister of Employment. Spain also plans a national labeling for all exported products.
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Landen
Eng
Canada
Dominion
J. H. Thomas
Manchester Guardian
Spain
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AR. M. Blair
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G. M. Emslie
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