WHEN THE ALARM SOUNDED
DRAMATIC STORY OF BRITAIN'S CALL TO ARMS. (Rec. November 21, 8.30 p.m.) London, November 20. Speaking at the Empire Parliamentary Association, Mr. Lewis Harcourt told a dramatic story of how the Empire learned that wo were-at war. When tho ultimatum time limit expired at midnight he sent oitt war telegrams. Within seven minutes the whole Empire knew, and beforem orning he received acknowledgments from every colonial protectorate, even the islets in the Pacific. So the grim machinery began revolving in perfect order, because previously the war book had been prepared. It was at that moment locked in each Governor's and Commissioner's' safe. They knew at once what to do—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 49, 22 November 1918, Page 5
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115WHEN THE ALARM SOUNDED Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 49, 22 November 1918, Page 5
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