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Opening of Main Trunk Line (From “The Dominion," November 1, 1908.) A silver-plated spike will be driven by the Prime Minister to mark the official opening of the Main Trunk line. The ceremony will take place at the north end of the Viaduct, where there is a space of level ground. • • • The Viceroy of India. Lord Minto, announces that King Edward will send a message to the princes and people of India oh the occasion of the jubilee of the assumption of the sovereignty of India by the British Crown. » * « Mr. Victor Grayson (Socialist M.P. for Colne Valley), addressing a gathering of unemployed at Tower Hill, challenged the Labour leaders to join- him in a campaign to rouse the country up on the question of unemployment. lie declared that the people would never have got the Reform Bill by begging and praying, but they had done so by threatening aud doing.' • • • Commenting on the Kaiser's protestation of friendship to Britain, and bis suggestion that in the future the British and the German fleets may he found speaking on the same side, the “Pall Mall Gazette” says: “Without questioning the Kaiser's sincerity, while Germany insists on constructing a. mighty battle " fleet. England is bound to continue building if only to provide for possible eventualities."
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 8
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21625 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 8
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