Civil War In Spain Intensifies Amid Global Debate
Reports from London note renewed ferocity in the Spanish Civil War as both sides push forward, while leftist demonstrations in Trafalgar Square and Charing Cross rally in support of the Spanish government. Across the Atlantic, Canada’s Lord Tweedmuir is welcomed as a Cree chief during Treaty No. 6 celebrations in Carlton with ceremonial honors and a royal gift.
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London
Spain
France
Britain
Critica
Trafalgar Square
Struggie
Labor Party
First Boat At Churchill Arrives With Heavy Cargo
The steamer Wentworth reached Churchill on August 10 bringing 3,000 tons of general cargo for northern points. Among goods were coal, large castings, steel grinding balls for Manitoba mines, and glass for prairie centres. Captain L Graves noted a calm voyage from England with a one day fog delay as the ship began loading 310,000 bushels of wheat for Europe.
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Churchill
Hudson Bay
Wentworth
Manitoba
L. Graves
England
Europe
Sunken Steamer Moscow Discovered Near Archangel
A diver in the Dvina river has located a large English steamer overturned and half buried in sand near Archangel. The 1918 sunken vessel recalls Allied army intervention in Russia and the Soviets plan to raise the ship.
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Moscow
Archangel
Dvina
Interim injunction halts Edmonton from prosperity certificates
Edmonton seeks to restrain use of Alberta prosperity certificates. Justice Tweedie granted an interim order preventing the city from accepting or entering agreements to accept certificates from the province or others until trial. Mayor Clarke criticized the move as scandalous while council contemplates next steps.
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Alberta
T. M. ‘Tweedie
Alberta Supreme Court
Ronald Hannan Watson
Clarke
Alfred Russell
J. W. Hugill
K.C
Province of
Parreddmonton
Watson
Charles H. Grant
Grant
Famonton
Selassie Hopeful to Reestablish Ethiopian Kingdom
Emperor Haile Selassie rests at a sea coast resort in Bath England and expresses hope to retake Addis Ababa with remnants of his army in western Ethiopia. His representative says they are in a strong position with an established government at Gore but cannot import munitions. He plans to stay weeks to formulate action and awaits developments.
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Geneva
Ethiopia
America
Fatal Quebec crossing crash kills eighteen and injures fourteen
A fast freight train from Quebec to Montreal struck a truckload of men returning from a political meeting in Ste. Justine, Maskinonge county. Eighteen died at the scene, fourteen injured, with several fatalities en route to Three Rivers hospitals. The truck occupants had attended a political gathering and were en route home to Louisville. The dead were taken to a nearby garage serving as a temporary morgue.
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Maskinonge
Drowned Professor on Northern Canoe Trip
Northwestern University professor Elmer Leslie Fuller, 53, of Chicago, drowned in rapids near Aklavik during a northern canoe trip with two sons and two friends. An Edmonton based Airway plane stood by to fly the body to Dawson City rather than Edmonton, about 500 miles from Aklavik.
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Aklavik
Invasion Fears As Japanese Troops Mass Near Mongolia
Reports claim reinforced Japanese forces ready to advance into Sulu lvan province and East Suiyuan with two Jehol companies said to join at Dolonor. Tientsin spokesman denies plan but observers warn growing tension amid Mongolian strife and pact limits.
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Sululvan
Inner Mongolia
Japan
China
Tientsin
Jehol
Manchoukuo
Dolonor
Shangtu
West Chabor
Manitoba Quarantine Rules Adopted to Fight Infantile Paralysis
Manitoba government in cabinet session adopts quarantine regulations for infantile paralysis on advice of Health Minister I. B. Griffiths. Measures include placarding premises with patients and forbidding food handlers from working within 14 days of last exposure.
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Winnipeg
I. B. Griffiths
Island renamed in Yugoslavia after King Edward visit
In Sivenik, Yugoslavia, officials renamed Kuki Otok as King Edward Island and Tejar harbor to the King’s name after the royal party’s Dalmatian coast stop. King Edward toured Rab in native dress and economics talks with shopkeepers before yacht Nahlin sailed to Starigrad for a deer hunt. He fished until midnight, catching two eight pound dental fish amid cheers from locals. fishermen misidentified him at one stop.
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Yugoslavia
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Edward
Rab
Kuki Otok
King Edward Island
Tejar Harbor
Nahlin
Starigrad
Velebit
Fire devastates site used for The Great Barrier film
Revelstoke British Columbia a wildfire swept through timbered slopes near Silver Tip Falls eight miles from Revelstoke where Gaumont British motion picture The Great Barrier used as backdrop for western railway construction scenes. Fire started possibly from a cigarette and destroyed a viewing platform. Eight blackened peaks remained as firefighters battled flames toward Mount Revelstoke.
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Great Barrier
Mount Revelstoke
New Support For Rebel Army In Spain Reported
A Gibraltar message to the Daily Telegraph reports General Franco’s south rebel army near Seville expected to receive substantial aid. Observers note 20 Junker transports, five German pursuit planes, seven Capronis, and German anti aircraft guns as part of a fresh buildup. Additional reports describe training flights and suspected aerial offensive plans against government forces.
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Daily Telegraph
Gibraltar
Percival Phillips
Francisco Franco
Seville
Franco
Junker
Ethiopia
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Evening Standard
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Lisbon
Spain
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