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...around the threshing machines in Canada's Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...
...Chicago Board of Trade, registered a net gain of 10? for the week. Even more important than war talk was the disastrous failure of the wheat crop in Canada, where drought & rust in the past few weeks have cut 150,000,000 bu. off early estimates of the Dominion's harvest...
Incensed by London's stand, New Zealand's Armstrong thundered: "The British Government and British employers, who for years have been the keystone of the opposition to shorter hours, this time have been virtually abandoned by all the Dominion Governments and have had to keep India working more than usual to support their arguments publicly. The movement among the self-governing Dominions away from British toward American leadership on labor questions- which began with the American entry into the I. L. C.-has now developed to this point...
Princess Louise, widow of the Duke of Argyll married that Scottish peer when he was Marquis of Lome, accompanied him to Canada when he was made Governor-General of this Dominion, and presided graciously over Rideau Hall at Ottawa for some years...
What Stanley Baldwin wanted from his colleagues was some assurance that they would help meet the expense of arming the Empire. His trump card, the British Navy, has been worth least in Canada, more in South Africa where he hopes to trade on it for a Dominion-supported air force, most of all in New Zealand and Australia. In 26 years, Australia has spent $350,000,000 on naval defense, largely on her nine warships and the defenses of her home ports, facts on which Colleague Lyons cannily harped last week. With the British Navy in the Atlantic...