The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2021-11-23
issued: 1931-07-13
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note: Canadian Shots Do Well in Bisley Shoot —Page Seven Hagen and Alliss in Finals of Canadian Open —Page Seven VOLUME 30 THE XK1.SON DAILY NEW*. NKLftON, B. C. MOMMY MORNING. JI1.V 1:1 IJS1 FIVE CENTS A COPY NUMBER 11 GERMA: ^ANK CLOSES DOOR BRITAIN WILL TRY TO QET WORLD TO CUT ARMAMENTS Leaders of Three Great Parties Give Their Support 10,000 PERSONS ATTEND MEETING Field Marshal Robertson Declares "War Hurts Everybody" LONDON, -?ul) 11 (API—(By Frank H. King) — Through the leaders of her three great parties, Great Britain laat night dedicated herself tn the task of persuading the nations ut thc disarmament conference In Gen- eta next spring to reduce "tlu> enormous and disgraceful burden of arms." Speaking from the >aine plot- form in Albert hall, ftamiat Ramsay MacDonald, Lahorlte. Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Comer va- tUe, and Rt. Hon. David Llnwl Oeorge, Liberal, declared their unanimous support of disarmament. Ten thousand persons heard .ind applauded them. The audience was almost unanimously enthusiastic, although at the beginning of the meeting a woman created a disturbance by throwin a stench bomb at the emtnents on the rostrum. T*«ter on a few hecklers spoke up. WAR HtTRTS EVERYONE Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, chairman of the meeting, set the keynote by calling for "a re.<! reduction Jn thc armies, navies and air foroes of the world." Sir William declared he had spent. 50 years in ttoe study and practice of the ' arts of war, and confessed, "War hurts everybody, benefit* only tha profiteers, and settles nothing." A peace parade nearly a mile long woTind through London from the Thames embankment to Piccadilly and Hyde park before the meeting. Each of the 64 nations whlcn will participate in the negotiations at*. Geneva was represented by a section of the procession. In the tront row ln Albert hd'.l were gathered the diplomats of all countries accredited to the court of St, James. The disturhence at the beginning of the meeting, caused by the tossing of a b…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0406704
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text