It is assumed that Alvo would have been able to extricate himself from
his difficulties and avert the bankruptcy into which he was forced but
for the outbreak of war. The fatality lay in the fact that all his
investments were in countries with which the Kaiser was or was about to
be at war.
But to begin at the beginning, as we find it in an issue of the
_Canadian Courier_ of October, 1917, when Alvo’s career came to a
conclusion, temporarily at least, by his internment as a spy.
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