PANIC CAUSED IN QUEBEC
RUMOURS OF RUSSIAN WAR FALSE BROADCAST BY RADIO STATION (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) OTTAWA, December 24. Rumours of an impending war with Russia were circulated in Quebec last night, after a mysterious news flash from a Quebec radio station. The station broke into its regular programme to announce that the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr Louis St. Laurent) had ordered an emergency session of Parliament. An official spokesman in Ottawa immediately denied the report. Newspapers and radio stations in Quebec were inundated with telephone calls. Preparations for Christmas festivities were halted as reports of the broadcast spread throughout Quebec. The threatened panic was averted when all radio stations broadcast assurances that no emergency session of Parliament had been called. A possible basis for the broadcast was said to lie in the sudden cancellation of Mr St. Laurent’s appearance at a Christmas party for newsboys. Mr St. Laurent was delayed in Ottawa.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25996, 27 December 1949, Page 5
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