{"id":9652,"date":"2014-10-11T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2014-10-11T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T10:00:23","slug":"false-reports-of-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/false-reports-of-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"FALSE REPORTS OF ARRIVAL\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/11-Oct-14_A.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9569 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/11-Oct-14_A-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"11 Oct 14_A\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 11 October 1914 &#8211; A week or so after the convoy carrying the First Canadian Contingent had left Gasp\u00e9 Basin on the third of the month, press started to report that the Canadian Contingent had arrived in England.\u00a0 These initial reports turned out to be pure speculation, such as the above Canadian Press Dispatch from Southampton on October 8<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/11-Oct-14_B.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9570 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/11-Oct-14_B-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"11 Oct 14_B\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> The following day a Canadian Associated Press cable from London stated \u201cCanada`s great vanguard of loyal troops for the front is now in English waters.\u00a0 Escorted by warships, transports arrived off the Isle of Wight in the early hours of this morning, and their disembarkation will probably take place after berthing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later the same day (Oct. 9<sup>th<\/sup>) the Press Bureau in London issued this bulletin:\u00a0 \u201cThe Press Bureau denies reports published this morning of the arrival of Canadian troops, and laconically adds that the troops have not reached English waters.\u00a0 At the same time it says \u201cIt is true some officers of the contingent have arrived at Salisbury Plain today.\u201d<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 \u201cThree Shiploads of Canadian Troops Reach Southampton,\u201d Canadian Press Dispatch, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/hnpglobeandmail\/pubidlinkhandler\/sng\/pubtitle\/The+Globe+$281844-1936$29\/$N\/1396352\/DocView\/1351561096\/citation\/9207AF70048E4B9FPQ\/53?accountid=14369\"><em>The Globe<\/em> (1844-1936)<\/a>, Toronto, Ontario, October 9, 1914, pg. 1, col. 3.<\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0 \u201cAre Canadian Troops Still On The Water? \u00a0Report of Their Landing Has Been Denied \"Some Officers Are Here,\" Canadian Press Dispatch, <a href=\"http:\/\/search.proquest.com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca\/hnpglobeandmail\/pubidlinkhandler\/sng\/pubtitle\/The+Globe+$281844-1936$29\/$N\/1396352\/DocView\/1351235690\/abstract\/9207AF70048E4B9FPQ\/61?accountid=14369\"><em>The Globe<\/em> (1844-1936)<\/a>,Toronto, Ontario, October 10, 1915, pg. 5, col. 1.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY, 11 October 1914 &#8211; A week or so after the convoy carrying the First Canadian Contingent had left Gasp\u00e9 Basin on the third of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}