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...poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife. What Poet Service did not mention, said Mr. Mahoney last week, was that the "lady called Lou" was also shot. She recovered, he said, and was two years ago reported living quietly in Prince Rupert...
Shocked were most Australians when Air Marshal Sir Edward charged that the Dominion's high proportion of air accidents is due to disobedience of orders or bad flying discipline; that Australia's prized fighting plane, the Wirraways, similar to the U. S. Army's North American BT 9, possesses insufficient speed for a modern fighter and is fit only for a temporary expedient or a training ship: that all Australia's service squadrons are below strength in men and oncers...
...London. Foreign Office heads worried lest Sir Edward's attack offend Australia at the moment when Britain is striving desperately to maintain Dominion acceptance of her own foreign policy. Next day their fears were relieved. Out came the Australian Prime Minister, bluff Joseph A. Lyons, with one of the most vigorous backslaps for British Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy ever delivered. To newshawks Prime Minister Lyons declared that his Cabinet had decided to express to Great Britain its complete confidence in steps and methods adopted by the British Government for a peaceful settlement of the Czechoslovak-Sudeten...
...assure ourselves that this hemisphere at least shall remain a strong citadel wherein civilization can flourish unimpaired. The Dominion of Canada is part of the sisterhood of the British Empire. I give to you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire...
...Thomas Dufferin Pattullo had journeyed to Washington to chat with President Roosevelt about his cherished dream of a road to Alaska. Returning to find his newly finished post office occupied by a noisy rabble, he failed to impress them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...