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INDIA'S GIFT CANADA'S
TO FRENCH
ARMY
New Delhi, To-day, India has sent the French Army £37,500,
The Viceroy of India yesterday sent this cable to the President of France:
SPEED-UP
Ottawa, To-day.
The Empire's dire need as a con- sequence of developments in "France will send Canada's wartime industry into a crescendo of production, de- clares Mr. C. D. Howe, Minister of
in Munitions, announcing a sharp crease in the Canadian output of arms and ammunition.
"With profound admiration for the gallant achievements of the armies of France, the Viceroy of India has the honour to deliver from his War Pur poses Fund-raised by public subscrip- tion by the Princes and people of the The production of anti-tank and nation the sum of £37,500, to be used anti-aircraft shells has just been In- for the benefit of the French Army creased by one-third and Bren} gun in whatever manner your Excellency factories are producing at full capaci may think fit,”-Reuter.
Ity-Reuter.
Sunday, May 26, was a day of National Prayer and Queen 'WII- helming of Holland attended the -service at Westminster Abbey.. Photo shows Queen Wilhelmina leaving the Abbey after attending the service. (Copyright, Fox):
B.W.O.F. SHIPMENT
During the course of last week the. British War Organisation Fund ship- ped to England fifteen cases of Hos- pital Supplies and Knitted Woollen Comforts as under:
S. AMERICA
TO BE BARRED
The Washington, To-day.
prevention of Ger- many's further economic penetration in South Ameri- ca is believed to lie behind the announcement by the White House yesterday that the Cabinet committee has just concluded examination of the most effective manner of disposing profitably of the export surplus of the West- ern Hemisphere.
Authoritative circles here explained that an inter-American trading cor- poration would be formed with all exporting countries as shareholders and the United States furnishing most of the capital.
The corporation would buy all exportable commodities at some average price and÷aśli to foreign customers at the best prices ob- tainablo.
As it is admitted the corporation would lose on most transactions, the plan would be in the nature of a United States subsidy to some Amer- ican countries.― Reuter..
WAR MEMORIES OF 25 YEARS AGO
(From the "China Mall"""fitos). June 18, 1915. ·
Sub-Lieutenant Warneford, V.C., has been killed while testing an aeroplane at Paris, the machine crashing from a height of 800 feet. An American
10 cases Hospital Supplies address-Journalist, Henry Needham, who was with him, was also killed. Warneford was only recently given the V.C. for his successful bombing of a Zeppelin at Ghent
ed to The British Red Cross. 4 cases Army. Comforts addressed to The Army Comforts: Depot. 1 case 'Navy Comforts addressed to The Royal Naval Comforts Depot. Amongst those cases addressed to the Army Comforts Depot are 9 helmets and 24 pullovers, being gifts from the Foreign community of Shameen; Total shipments to date are as under: 73 cases Hospital Supplies; 36 cases Army Comforts; 10 cases Navy Comforts.
MADAME CHIANG IN
COLONY
Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived in the Colony from Chungking yester- day, according to the vernacular "Yuet Wah Pao" this morning.
The fighting north of Arras, con- tinues very fiercely, with numerous desperate infantry actions and a vio- lent and continuous artillery duel.
All German first-line trenches cap- tured east of Ypres remain in our hands, reports Field-Marshal French, despite heavy counter-attacks, which were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. We were unable to retain the second line of trenches.
The battle in Galicia continues with undiminished fierceness; the enemy was repulsed in disorder between the rivers Tysmenica and Strye.
Madame
Other sources state that Chiang will remain in the Colony un-
The paper adds that Madame til Saturday, June 29, when she will of Chiang's visit has no political signi- officially open the new building ficance: She has come here to con- the China War Orphanage presented sült her dentist.
by Mr. Aw. Boon-haw.
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