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There they will rest for a short. time, rounded by some of the most parvellous scenery in the New World, It is the oldest and second largest (2,586 square miles) of Canada's Nationul Parks. There are hundreds of lofty peaks, many know-clad and glacier hung, between them love- ly valleys mantled, by forest growths or studded with lovely lakes. Of these Lake Louise, reputed to be situated among one of the seven of the world' most perfect landscapes, is the most famous.
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Pacific at Vancouver, one of } the most beautiful of the Em- pire's large cities, magnificently situated on a natural harbour that has few picers in the world, and possessing for background glorious forests of tremendous extent that climb the lower slopes of majestic mountains, from whence foam waterfalls of enchanting loveliness.
Such is the heritage of natural beauty enjoyed by Canada's thriving western outlet, indeed, its greatest port, "Queen of the Pacific Shore."
Its growth, like that of Winni- peg, has been extraordinary, for in the eighties it consisted of
NAVAL
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CONSCRIPTION BILL HOTLY CRITICISED BY THE OPPOSITION
Five years ago Lleut-Commander D. B. Wyburd, who was serving on rescue 139 sailors from United States the Chin Station, helped to gunboat which burnt out in Blas Bay. Recently, this naval herp, who was, decorated by the United States, was married, and here he is seen walking from the church near Basingstoke, Hampshire with his bride, Miss Anne Sofie Frigast of Copenhagen. They originally intended to be married in Copenhagen, then changed their plans.
little more than a few log huts. Diplomatic Activity
Its population is 360,000 now und 16,000 ships under the flags of more than a dozen countries enter and leave annually, Van- couver has the largest, per- centage of British born inhabi- tants of any city in Canada.
a re-
Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is famous as sidential and tourist centre, and also for its charms. It is known as the "City of Flowers."
SCRAMBLE FOR NEW EUROPEAN ALLIES
HELSINGFORS. May 8-"A non-aggression pact with Germany would be entirely compatible with the neutrality of the northern States," dedares the newspaper "Helsingin Sanomat" to-day.
the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, at the Foreign Oce Monday afternoon.
on
LONDON, May 8.
DURING THE second reading of the Military Train- ing Bill in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Wedgwood Benn declared that there was great concern throughout the country regarding the safety of the Empire, which was being endangered by the reluctance of the Government to come to an understanding with Russia.
Mr. W. S. Morrison, on behalf
of the Minister for Defence, said | CHINA IN that in forming the militia, the
Government was resurrecting a THE COMMONS
force which had never yet failed to do its duty in times of danger to our liberties. He declared that undoubtedly the proposals of the bill had done more than anything else to remove any doubts that we meant exactly what our guarantees said.
Mr. Morrison claimed that the proposals had the support of the whole country, and certainly had the support of the young men mest vitally affected.
ALL THE USUAL ANSWERS
LONDON, May 8. APROPOS THE new Central Bank in Nanking, Mr. Robert Morgan asked in the House of Commons to-day whether steps would be taken to safeguard British trade with respect to a currency which traders as whole did not recognise.
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Lloyd George's Fears He declared there were no grounds for fears that the bill would affect the position of the trade unions.
Mr. Lloyd George said he was in
Mr. R. A. Buller repiled that is duty bound to support the Govern- ment, but he expressed the opinion Majesty's Government was in com- Japanese men munication of
that the actual numbers
the with
NANKING
summoned were grossly inadequate. Government on the subject.
Arguing in favour of an agreement with Russin, Mr. Lloyd George declared that Germany and Italy had available twice the number of men France, Poland, and Britain could put into the field.
"Without Russla, our guarantees to Poland, Rumania, and Greece ДЕС irredeemable," he declared.
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Mr. Alan Graham asked whether British businessmen and property owners in Nanking were able to return there. If not, what action was the Government taking?
Mr. Butler announced
that limited number of passes had been "Japan is out for domination in granted to Britons to return to Nan- East. During the great war welling, and frequent representations were reinforced by 1,000,000 men had been made to the Japanese from India, and the French hud 500,-nuthorlties both on the number of 000 from Indo-China.
passes and the conditions under which they were issued.
the
"How are we going to fill those gaps without Russia, and with Japan as an enemy?"-Reuter.
Counter-Proposals
Mr. Buller added that His Majesty's Government considers that the Japan- ese military authorities, who are in effective control, musí be hold responsible for the safely of British property in Naniding, while British interests were being watched over by
The paper stresses that it would be difficult for a neutral State to refuse conclusion of such a pact if it really intends keeping out of war
During the course of a foriy-minute
Paris, May 8. under all circumstances, provided, of interview, various diplomatic affairs
situation, Britain's counter-proposals to the course, that is neutrality is respect-Japan's air raids on Chungking and Soviet are based on a plan of having resident consular officer.
including the European The paper further polpis out that the establishment of the Hua Hsiang Russla guarantee the security of all Finland occupies a peculiar position Commercial Bank in Shanghal were the nations which lie between that since she has already concluded a understood to have been discussed-country and the Reich, these to
Russia. Dumai. with un-ngression
ed.
pact
From there their Majesties are to visit the huge and magni- ficent Jasper National Purk covering no fewer than 4,200 square miles, about six times the size of Surrey, and within which all kinds of wild animals, bear, deer, and mountain sheep and guats, roam unmolested and ai-This is an important factor determin- WARSAW
ing Finland's attitude towards the German proposals,
the paper, it necessary above all else for the northern States to adopt a common stand, since separate action on the part of any single State might result in the dissolution of the northern group.--Trans-Ocean.
most tame. Peak after puak lifts Its majestic hend to the clouds, and remnants of the last Ice Age still lie in thick fields upon the shoulders of the moun- tains. In the park is a glorious peak which has been named after the heroic Nurse Edith Cavell.
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However, says
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Lithuania Declines KAUNAS, May 8-Lithuania has no intention of entering into a mill-
Poland, pact with tary
It was
the
reports Lithuanian Chief of Staff to Warsaw, was for the purpose of discussing such a pact-Trans-Ocean.
FTER PASSING through Ed-announced officially this afternoon, monton, capital of Alberta, in reply to numerous foreign press
that the visit of and distributing point for an area of 75,000 square miles, their Majesties will visit Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the very heart. of one of the finest whent grow. ing countries on the face of the globe, and then they will see the following: beautiful Muskoka Lakes Dia- trict of Ontario, and so to one of ROME the most remarkable towns in
Around The Capitals Considerable diplomalle activity is still evident in Europe's capitals.
The news
agencies report the
Warsaw, May 8,
M. Scharone, Soviet Minister to Athens, has been appointed Ambas sador to Poland, with the approval of Fresident Moseleki, it was on- nouncet here to-day.
to
The last Soviet Ambassador Warsaw, M. Davtinn, disappeared in the autumn of 1037, and the post has been vacant ever since.-Trans-
Ocean.
IMPORTANT MOVE IN PALESTINE
CAIRO, May 8. A BRITISH White Paper on the Palestine question is to ROME. May B.-Sir Percy Lorraine, be issued on Wednesday, the the Empire-London, in Middle- the new British Ambassador to Rome, Egyptian Government having чех County, on the River to-day visited the Quirinal Palace
Trans-Occan.
'' SHANGHAI -
Sir John Wardlaw-Milne sought in- include Rumanle. It was asserted in French political circles to-day. formation of the Japanese demands England would then pledge herself regarding the Shanghial Municipal to come to Russian assistance in the Council, and auggested that no modi- event of her becoming involved in a fleation of the Council, or the lund war as a result of the guarantees regulations be entertained without a treaty Joint conference of all the Powers and China, while Mr. A. C. Morcing suggested that Britain should decline to consider any changes ng long
the Japanese military authori The fact that Sir Willums Seeds, ties were occupying the Hongkew and the British Ambassador to Moscow, Yangtsepoo districts, and Britons Baw M. Molotov and handed were debarred from the lawful enjoy- him the text of the British proposals.ment of their property in those dis- shows that the British authorities tricts.
Collaboration ?
Lorkion, May 8.
received satisfactory assurances that M. Litvinoff's retirement implied no change in the Soviet foreign policy,
·THE SETTLEMENTS.
Thames! But it lies only 120 and presented his credentials to the already been informed of its no moment would there appear to be valid without the assent of the
King-Emperor.-Trans-Ocean.
PARIS
contents.
The white paper will contain the following proposals:
miles from Toronto. The local
According to well-informed circles, nomenclature is astonishing be- cause of the extremely close way PARIS. May 8.-M. Georges the British Government will reveal in which the inhabitants have Bonnet, the French Foreign Minister that it has definitely abandoned the reproduced that of the great city-day received M. Pouritch, the partitioning plan, and that extensive Yugo-Slav Minister, who was in-ngreement has been achieved between whose name it has borrowed. structed by his Government to ask the the British, French, and Turkish
A century ago Governor Simco French Government to protect Yugo governments. of Ontario
Slav Interests in Chino-Reuter, saw before him a
LONDON, May 8-Major-General scene "like a well-kept English Alexander, commander of the first park." So English was
division nt Aldershot, nic- the air
number of high scene, in fact, he would have companied by a
oficiais, left British air force liked the capital of the province Saturday night for Paris, Londori to have been built there. But newspapers belatedly reported to- it was not to be, yet the city Very strict secrecy is maintained eventually founded was destined us to the purpose of the visit. All to bear a world-famous name. It that is known is that the British officials were met at Le Bourget alr- has its St. Paul's Cathedral, and
port by French air officials, including Westminster and Hyde Park are
General Blanchard, and Colonel de there too. The market became Turenne-Trans-Ocean, known as Covent Garden, and TOKYO streets were all named after
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TOKYO,
on
May -The Foreign
Palestine, Syria, and Trans-Jordan will be united into a single State under an Arab king, England, France, and Turkey will guaran
new State, the
and addition, England and France will
conclude proteciive ogrec-
tee
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and that they have hopes that the Mr. Butler replying to both ques- British counter-proposals will serve tions jointly, said that Viscount as a basis for mutual understanding. Halifax had not yet received the full says "Reuter's" diplomatic corres-text of the staleinent expressing the pondent.
Japanese desire for changes in the Although the British offer does not International Settlement, including accept the Russian suggestion for changes in the Council. He under- what would virtually have been an stood similar communications, had Caillance, there is Kround for the been made to the United States Am- belief that it is based on collaboration bassador in Tokyo and the Shanghai on a reciprocal basis in the event of Municipal Council. aggression against Central or South In the meantime, he explained, the European States, bordering on Russia. constitution of the Council was fixed There would be consultation and by the land regulations. No changes an exchange of information, but at in the land regulations are legaity any specifle proposals regarding the Chinese Government, nor would His shape the collaboration should us Majesty's Government concur with sume-Reuter,
such changes without full considera- tion with all other parties concerned, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne asked Mr. Gordon MacDonald (Lab) ophanges in the Council, which in whether, if the Japanese pressed for posed the bill on the ground that it effect would bring the Council largely had not the approval of the country, under Japanese domination, Britain and that it was unnecessary,
would assist the Council to resist Sir Edward Grit sald that Mr. such proposals. Lloyd George had made out on un- Mr. Butler replied: "Yes. His answerable case for the bill, but Majesty's Government would concur Russia or no Russia, he did not doubt with no changes without full con- that we should give a very good ac-sideration with other partics count of ourselves if challenged.
Unnecessary
suggested that the Government Introduce a measure pledging the country to universal liability to serve
National Register.
cerned.
TSINGTAO
соль-
Mr. Alan Grahom asked whether
ments after the pattern of the case of war, and to abolish the gir Archibald Clark Kerr had report-]
Anglo-Iraq pact.
The
ns
Sir Ronald Ross, Conservative member for Londonderry, opposed
distinction drawing any
between Northern Ireland and other parts of the United Kingdom,
Oficer The Air Rold Precautions announces that a course of Air Raid Warden lectures in Chinese will be held at Queen's College, on Fridays at 7 p.m. and Tuesdays at 7. p.m. commencing next Friday. The lec- Mr. Clement Attlee såld that the tures will be given by Mr. Chang Government had not shown the mill-Kim-wah. tary need for the bill, nor had it
Industry Next?
Sir Stafford Cripps, opposing the ed on his recent visit to Tsingtao re- republic of Satay, the former
bili, suggested that the Prime Minis-garding the difficulties which British. Sanjak of Alexandretta will be
ter would
make a more effective residents were encountering in con- the face of ceded to Turkey, who will also receive part of the Syrian dis- gesture to the world if he entered ducting business in an agreement with Russia forthwith. Japanese obstruction.
Mr. Buller said that no special trict of Aleppo.
Mr. J. McGovern said that the
been received, but the Government famous thoroughfares in Lon- Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arin, received ject has already been the subject of everything in its power to encourage was being kept fully informed of the Arab circles Intimate that the pro- Independent Labour Party would do report, nor any recommendation had don, England.
negotiations between the French and the young men of the country to re-situation, and there was a resident "Baby" London now has a
as between the fuse to fight, and to resist conscrip- Consul General in the port-Reuter. wel population of 75,000.
in North America and the lead- British,
British and Turkish governments, tion. ing Atlantic winter port.
and that the approval of Parts and Their last call will be St. Ankara is a foregone conclusion. NATURALLY, their Majesties John's, Nowfoundland, home of Trans-Ocean.
will admire the roaring talls an intensely loyal and sturdy at Niagara, which lie partly in fisher-folk. St. John's is the Canada, and partly in the United capital, and has a splendid har States, and they will conclude bour. Of Inte years the people their journey by visiting the of Newfoundland have experien- cities in the most English of all ced lean times, but the island is
PARIS, May 8 second Norman-shown that the men required could the provinces of Canada, those gradually regaining ita pro die, to replune the liner Paris which not be provided by the voluntary scription, above all other acts of the along the Atlantle seaboard. sperity.
was recently burnt out, is to be built, syrtem. The bill was a surrender to Government, would give them hope Saint John is the capital of the
This will be the first time in according to authoritative quarters the conrcriptionists at home, and the and greater assurance In pursuing Government was not very well in the cause common to us all—Reuter. maritime province of Now history a reigning Sovereign and here to-day.
Work on the now liner will not be formed on the demands from abroad.
/ Amendment Lost Brunswick, notable as the ter- his Queen have visited Now-
this is only because the one dock lei industrial conscription.. minus of the transcontinental foundland and evidence of Royalin until the end of 1940. However, Behind the bill loomed the spectre of lines and for its very large ico, interest will help to bind even France large enough to place a liner Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, In reply, LONDON, May 8-The Labour free harbour. Halifax, capital moro closely the ties that link of over 50,000 tons ofthe stocks, is to the debate, said that the Governe amchement to the Military Training Bill was defeated by 387, voles, to 145. the 'direfant carrier, Marshal' Joffre alli
foreign countries without division."Reuter. ters of the British Naval Forces possession
Trans-Occan.
[reiterating" "that the measure of come!
France To Build New Normandie
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