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Show VANCOUVER IN MOURNING FOR -FALLEN CHIEF VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. . British Columbia In general and Vancouver in particular was In mourning today'. 'Whll th officialdom offi-cialdom of thl part of th world half-masted flag snd compllsu formal mease ee of condolence to Mra Harding and to. United States authoiitl, th plain men and women of th eommunlty talked of President Harding' death, aa of the passing of a comrade. It was exactly a wsebv sines ths people tramped to th muslo of massed - bands through aisles of suntengto greet th heada of the house of their nearest neighbor and bid them welcome In th nam of Canada.. It waa exactly a week alnca they mobbed their polio and military In high good humor to fling an "au revolr" to their guests ss they sailed for. horn, in spits of newspsper extraa and flaring headlines, many of thoee who made merry then found It hard to believe, be-lieve, laat night that th "clean and capable'' man, as th mayor described him, bad gone to hi death and that the ready smile of his gracious wlf was quenched in sorrow. , v |