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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1928 PAGE NINE Says Newfouudland is "Ready to Form up with U.S. Instead of Canada Halifax, Nov. 7.--Sweeping victory of Sir Richard Squires in the New- foundland elections last week re calis an interview with Sir William ("The in-coming government discussed, and the fall of the gov- ernment predicted. Sir William {is reported thus: will Coaker, his chief lieutenant, pub- Iprobably dispose of Labrador timb- lished in a local paper last July, in ler and mineral wealth. which disposal of the timber and mineral wealth of Labrador and the possibility of Newfoundland join- ing up with the United States was American interests are active and the figure of $100,000,000 mentioned. "Newfoundland has not forgot- ten Canada's action regarding the Bond Blaine treaty 30 years ago. when Canada stepped in and pro- tested to the British government against confirmation of the treaty negotiated by Sir Robert Bond and Secretary of State Blain, and is in no humor to comsider confedera- tion with Canada. Join the U, S, "If a day comes when the people must decide our destiny apart from the present constitution, it will be to the United States they will look and not to Canada. Newfoundland will never revert to a crown colony and, as she is free to choose her own course, is coming round to the idea of a State in the United States. "At present if a referendum were taken on this subject, it would carry 75 per cent. of the whole elec- torate, not because she bas forgot- ten the flaz, but because of a ten- dency to consider dollars and cents. The true destiny of Newfoundland with her fisheries, forest and min- eral wealth lies in the direction of the United States." Recalling the facet that the Que- bec government had turned down an offer to sell Labrador for $15,.- 000,000 in 1925, Sir William said that Quebec was asleep and would wake up to find the whole of Lab- rador turned over to an American syndicate. Matter for Ottana Quebec, Nov. 3.-- Purchase of Labrador would be a question for, Ottawa rather than Quebee, said Premier Taschereau, commenting on a statement of Sir William Coaker, that the results of the elec- tion in Newfoundland would be tbe sale of Labrador to Camada or an American syndicate. The premier had no intimation of a sale. Siamese Women Are Keeping Pace With Their British Sisters Oxford, England, Nov. 7.-- A niece of the King of Siam who has come to Oxford University to study the language and manners of Eng- land says the modern young womak \in Siam is keeping pace with he. English sister in the race for free. dom and progress. In an interview she intimated that the "new ideas" in Britain about the place which women might fill were not so very new in Siam. Copy of "Tamerlane" Poe's First Work, is Purchased for $20,000 Boston, Mass, Nov. 7.--A copy of "Tarierlane," the. first published work of Edgar Allen Poe his been sold by Charles E. Goodspeed, Dos- ton dealer in rare books, to an In- dianapolis collector, for the highest price ever paid for an American first edition, said to be in excess oi $20,- 000. It is a periect copy, with the original wrappers, and clean and un- soiled, its only defect being that the sewing is loose in the wrappers. It is an eighth of an inch taller and wider than thie last previous copy sold, which measured six and five sixteenths by four and five-six- teenths inches. One of only six known The sccond copy is in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Mu- scum a n Gabriel, Cali. and three others none in periect condition are | privately copies of this book, it is one three which exist complete zn same state as when publish is "| PRINCESS ILEANA "Tamerlane and Poems, by a Bos- | GOING TO SWEDEN tonian" was printed in Boston by Calvin F. S. Thomas in 1827 and is - so rare that there is no copy in the! Bucharest, Rumania, Nov, T.-= Library oi Congress, Harvard or the {Princess Ileana, 19-year-old daugh= Boston Public Library. The first re- [ter of Dowager Queen Marie, will corded copy was owned by S. G. [leave soon for a visit to Stockholm, Drake, a Boston bookseller, who soli w hich, it is rumored, may result ia it to Henry Stevens in 1859. 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