CANADIAN CONCERN
WARNING OF MENACE POSSIBLE NEXT STEP (Reed 1 . July 29, 11 a.m.) OTTAWA, July 28. A message from Niagara Falls says that the Premier of Ontario, Mr. Mitchell -Hepburn, in a public address, said that the Canadian people bad been smug and apathetic too long. “The future is not as secure as the past has always been,” he said. “When Japan completes her conquest of China, she will turn to Canada. I was in British Columbia in 1938. People out there take a most serious view of the problem.” He confessed that when he was a member of the Federal Parliament, he opposed measures to strengthen Canada’s national defence, but since he had changed- Iris view concerning ;he “Japanese menace.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 5
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122CANADIAN CONCERN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 5
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