Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 April 1918

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 97. VOL. LXXVI. FRIDAY, 26th APRIL, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
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      MARRIAGE REGISTRATION.
      2296 2 [To the Editor of the “Pinang Gazette.”] Sih, —My attention has been drawn to a letter published in your paper of the 23rd inst. which if remained unreplied would create a false conception. It is indeed very surprising that the gentleman who ventured to style himself Diplomatist should
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    FIRE IN GOPENG.
    340 2 T.0.M.” The little town of Gopeng, which has been the scene of several disastrous fires during the last two years, experienced another outbreak on Tuesday night, when the Ipoh Fire Brigade assisted in preventing the whole town, or, at least, a large area, being burned down. The
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    FARES FOR THE JOURNEY HOME.
    105 2 Rangoon, April 2.—The passenger rates on the 8.1.5. N. Company’s steamers have been raised since the Ist April from Rangoon to coastwise ports by 25 per cent. Fares on the Home lines have been raised by almost 35 per cent, over the rates obtaining at
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    TONGKANG BLAZE.
    205 2 INQUIRY INTO CHINAMAN’S DEATH. An inquiry into the death of a Chinese named Keh Ah Loo, who died as a result of a fire which occurred on a Chinese Tongkang on Saturday last, was held by Mr. S. H. Langston, the Coroner, in Penang Police Court, to-day. Inspector
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    NEW ZEALAND’S PART IN WAR.
    64 2 Wellington. —New Zealand’s war expenses to 31st December totalled £32,513,711. The principal items are:—Pay and allowances, £12,825,848; payments to the War Office *or upkeep of troops in the field, £7,800,000; transport of troops, freights and charter steamers, £4,364,752; equipment £2,554,103 rations, £1,253,075; medical services and
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    P.V. OPERATIONS.
    43 2 Penang Volunteers —Less 50 men of “A” Coy. _will fall in at 9.30 p.m. on Saturday, 27th April, 1918, each at his most convenient place of assembly (vide “Monthly Orders”). Bicycles or other means of transport should be used, where possible.
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    Committed For Perjury.
    160 2 In the Supreme Court, Ku*!» Lumpur, before the Acting Chief Judicial Commissioner, Mr. Justice Innes, the civil suit Sjed ALagoff versus Raja Jamaat, which commenced r n Monday was concluded yesterday morning. The plaintiff claimed $1,140 money lent to Bot, the father of the present defendant, who
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    PRODUCE.
    157 2 Penang, April 26, 1918 S. P. Tapioca ...$9.40 sellers. M. P. Tapioca ...$lO 20 sellers. Poldleaf $72. Gepper (W. Coast 3 lbs. 5 oz) $l6 j buyers Black Pepper $25 buyers. White Pepper $4O nom Trang Pepper $32.00 season coming Mace $BO nom. Mace Pickings $49 sellers. Cloves season
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    COMING EVENTS.
    89 2 April 27.—Malay Peninsula Agricultural Association, General Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 11.30 a.m. April 27.—P.V. Field Operations, (Compulsory), 9.30 p.m. April 29.—War Loans Investment Trust of Malaya, First Annual General Meeting, Trust’s registered office, No. 3, Clarke Street, Kuala Lumpur, at 11.30 a.m. April 29.—Sungei Gettah Rubber Estates, Ltd.,
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    Singapore Cold Storage.
    369 2 Mr. F. W. Smith writes to the Strait? Times I was very much annoyed this evening on reading in the Straits Times the very garbled statement as to my reasons for leaving the Singapore Cold Stroage Company. e There are several icaccurancies in the report of the
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER SALES.
    43 2 FIRM MARKET. [From Oub Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 26. At Singapore rubber auctions, 902 tons were offered and 540 tons sold. The market stood firm, with fine pale $ll2 and ribbed smoked $llO, plain $9O and unsmoked $69 to $BO.
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    THE SHARE MARKET.
    28 2 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 26. Messrs. Fraser and Co.’s report says the rubber share market is weaker and the share market generally dull.
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    COCONUT OIL TAKEN OVER.
    30 2 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 26. r An order by the Govemor-in-Council takes over 1.850 tons of coconut oil recently purchased from the Singapore Oilmills.
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    EXCHANGE.
    329 2 Penang, April 26, 1918 (5y Courtesy at the Chartered Bank, London Demand Bank .2’4 1/4 4 month*' sight Bank ...2/4 17 32 3 Credit ...2/4 27/32 3 Document®»-? ...2/4 7/8 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs 3 days' sight Private Bombay Demand Bank Mouluiein Demand Bank c 3 days' sight Private
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    THE WAR POSITION.
    895 3 MR HUGHES’ REVIEW. A striking review of the war position and an earnest appeal to Australians to realise the gravity of the situation was made by the Prime Minister (Mr Hughes), in opening a patriotic garden fete at the Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne, last month, The Prime
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    THE FOUNDATIONS OF VICTORY.
    1283 4 In Henderson’s life of Stonewall Jackson” the author remarks that “It has been well said by a soldier of Napoleon, writing of the war io Spain, that neither the Government nor the army are the true bulwarks against foreign aggression, but the national character.” And it
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    HERE AND THERE.
    1209 4 A result of tbe almost incredible increase in rice freightage beMaUva’s Rie® WBen Ran B o n a d th Supply. Straits and Bangkok and tbe Straits is that the consumer is having to pay an iniquitous price for a staple article of food, and because, up
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    490 4 Mr S Wickwar passed through Penang to-day from Singapore on his way to Ipoh. Mr and Mrs R O Wood of Henrietta Estate, Luna’, have returned from a holiday in Ceylon. Japtain Evelyn Wrench, c m late Secretary of the Overseas Club, was acting as Private Secretary
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    TO-NIGHT'S BAND PROGRAMME.
    50 4 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 5 p.m, to-day 1. Selection A Greek Slave ...Jones 2. Quadrille e Olympia ...Williau- 3 3. Selection Carmen Up To Data ...lutz’s 4. Waltz On the Blue Wave Fahrbach 5. March Dollar Princess Fall
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    TIN PRICES.
    15 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $162.75 per picul business done.
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      52 4 THE TIDES. The following are the bides for to-day and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To-day. 12.6 am. (sft. 9in.) 6.23 a.m. (Oft. Bin.) 12.22 p.m. (6ft. Bin.) 6.58 p.m. (Ift. Oin To-mobbow. 12.35 a.m. (sft. Bin.) 6.48 a.m, (Oft. 9in.) 12.49 p.m. (6ft. 6in.) 7.26 p.m,
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    BATTLE RENEWED.
    217 5 heavy enemy repulses. STRUGGLES FOR VILLAGES. DETAILS FROM ZEEBfiUGGE. The Germans attacked south of the Somme on Wednesday morning on a front of about ten miles from the Somme to south of the Avre at a point west of Moreuil. The British repulsed the enemy’s first efforts, and
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      ENEMY OFFENSIVE.
      1420 5 [Reuter Telegrams.] SOMME BATTLE RESUMED. London April 24. Field Marshal Haig reports After a violent bombardment, this morning, the enemy attack 'd on the whole British front south of the Somme and the French on our right. The attack was repulsed. The attack wa* renewed later in strength
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      M. Clemenceau’s Tour.
      409 5 "GREATLY SA’ISFiED." [Havas Telegrams.] Paris, April 25.—M. Clemenceau, the French Premier, on returning from a tour at the front, notably in Flanders, declared to a representative of the Echo de Paris that he had returned greatly satisfied with what he had heard and s°en. Everywhere he bad
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      The Air Ministry.
      61 5 MORE DIFFERENCES. London, April 25. It* is stated that Sir Arthur Roberts, Financial Adviser to the Air Ministry, has resigned, owing to differences with Lord Rotbeimere, President of the Air Ministry. Lord Rothermere Resigns. London April 25. The Press Bureau says Lord R >thermere has resigned the
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      ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND.
      2019 5 AIRMEN’S INSPECTION. Loudon, April 24. The Admiralty reports that following yesterday’s operations at Zeebrugge and Ostend, aircraft carried out observations and bombardments. Owing to clouds, the machines descended to fifty feet and observed a clear break of twenty yards wide at the inner end of Zeebrugge mole.
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      THE DEFENCES OF OSTEND.
      442 5 The season will reopen shortly under wholly German management.” It was a German marine who scrawled this sample oi Teutonic humour on the front of the Hotel Majestic at Ostend. But to-day Ostend is ringed off from the outer world. It has been put into a
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    Macedonia.
    91 5 CONTINUED ACTIVITY. London, April 24. A French eastern communique reports that fkhtiog activity oonti: ued most lively in different sectors. We scored a series of fresh successes. Bririih detachments west of Doiran penetrated Bulgarian trenches on a wide front and destroyed dugouts, inflicting heavy los-es. In the region west
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    KUALA LUMPUR D.P.A.
    1711 6 M.M.” ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The annual general meeting of the Kuala Lumpur District Plantei’s’ Association was held on Monday in the P.A.M. Rooms, Mercantile Bank Buildings, Kuala Lumpur, there being present Lieut.-Col. A. J. Fox (chairman), Mr. F. G. Harvey (Hon. Sec.), and Messrs. F. Clyde Jeavons,
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    OUR OWN COUNTRY.
    117 6 M e never knew, w? never dreamed How green your fields to eyes that see Grey ruin where the noonday gleamed On great dunes rolling wide and free. Dearl> remembered, through our minds Your hills, your towns, your hamlets pass The old road home, the road that
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      172 6 w Saint You a Sinner I EMPIRE WILL BE PACKED WITH faints and Sinners Friday and Saturday Nights. TO SEE LTbe faintly pinner A KEAL BLUE BIKD. BIGGEST AND BEST THAT'S ALL. PROTEA Who has Thrilled Millions with her daring feats, reappears at the TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT I COI DRURY
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    HOLLAND AND GERMANY.
    220 7 THE QUESTIONS AT ISSUE. [Reuter’s Teligrams' Amsterdam, April 24. It is staged on good authority that the main Germano-Dutch questions being discussed relate to sand and gravel, and the Q Be of the Gladback-Antwerp railway, which was stopped at the beginning of the war. Holland does not
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    Austrian Powder Factory Destroyed.
    35 7 London, April 24. 35 were killed and 19 injured in an explosion at the Bluenenau powder factory in lower Austria, which is a great centre for the production of pic-ic acid.
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    Long-Range Gunners Killed.
    32 7 London, Apri 24 It is stated that a French shell killed the whole of the crew of German longrange gun, hence Paris bad not been bombarded for two days.
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    Richtofen.
    31 7 Amsterdam. April 24. The Comman ler of he German Air Forces, in an obituary notice on Baron von Richtofen, says, His death is a deep wound for the entire air-forces
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    GERMAN AIR PROPAGANDA.
    235 7 Italian Headquarters, February 6.—Enemy airmen continue to drop leaflets and pamphlets in the Italian lines. One of these pamphlets has an illustrated cover showing a British soldier bayoneting an emblematic figure of Italy, who is falling on a map of Italy, while a British officer seated upon
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    The Victoria Cross.
    220 7 WILTSHIRES’ OFFICER’S COURAGE. London, April 24. three new recipients of the Victoria Cross include Lieutenant R F Hayward (Wiltshires) who, while commanding a company, displayed almost superhuman endurance and very rare courage. Although he was buried, wounded in the head and deafened on the first day of
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    INDIAN CONSPIRACY TRIAL.
    127 7 SHOTS IN COURT. San Francisco, April 24. Ram Singh, one of thirty-two prisoners in the Indian conspiracy trial, shot and killed another Hindu prisoner, Ram Chandra, with an automatic pistol, at the close of the morning session in Court. Ram Chandra was walking across the room when
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    Germans and Hindus.
    70 7 TRIAL IN SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco, April 24. Twenty-nine defendants in the trial mentioned this morning were found guilty. The Court ruled that Herr Bipp, former German Consul-General in San Francisco, and other German defendants are not entitled to bad and they were ordered to be interned
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    A WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY.
    786 7 RAMIFICATIONS IN JAVA. Great interest is being taken in Java in the San Francisco trial and the Batavia and Soerabaya papers have been publishing special reports and comments thereon. The following is a translation of an article contributed to the ‘’Soerabaya Cour ant” by its San Francisco
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    Indian Labour Corps.
    42 7 KING’S INSPECTION. London, April, 24. H. M. the King inspected a party of officers and non-coms of the Indian Labour Corps under Captain G. P. Taylor, consisting of met from the State of Manipur, on leave from the front.
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    Germans and the Crimea.
    90 7 A RUSSIAN WARNING. Petrograd, April 25. The Commissary of Foreign Affairs has requested an explanation of the GermanoUkrainian invirion of the Crimea, and throws cut a warning of the possibility of consequent setion by the Black Sea Fleet. Kormloff’s Forces. Moscow. April 23. The Soviet forces
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    Enough Home-Grown Food.
    61 7 TRIBUTE TO FARMERS. London, April 25. Mr R E Prothero, Minister cf Agriculture. addressing farmers at Oxford, paid a tribute to the work of the Farmers’ Committees in increasing the supply of homegrown food by the sacrifice of grass lands. He was now able to say that
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    German Law Courts in Belgium.
    82 7 Amsterdam, April 25. German Law Courts have been established in Belgium. The German TaxesLondon, April 25. The “Mannheim Volks Stimme referring to Germany’s new taxe’’. says they are onlv paper taxes. For example, the export duties on tea, coffee and cocoa are trebled, but none
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    BANKRUPTCY AWAITS GERMANY.
    295 7 The rift, always there, though hidden, appears to be widening between Prussia and Bavaria. It may be—some hope that it will be—the signal of a rending asunder of the German Empire, the Catholic kingdom of Bavaria, with other South German communities, including Wiirtemberg and Baden, falling back
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    THE WOLFS CRUISE.
    101 7 FIRST OFFICERS STATEMENT. London, April 26. In a speech at Luebeck, Commander Witschewsky, First Officer of the German raider Wolf, gave fresh details of the raider’s cruise. He said tbe first object of tbe cruise was mine-laying Many mines were laid near Colombo and along the Indian
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    Grain for Switzerland.
    60 7 A GERMAN WARNING. Amsterdam, April 25. A Berlin semi-official report states that Germany cannot guarantee safe conducts to vessels carrying grain for Switzerland from America during tbe next three months, because only after that time could all the German warships receive instructions, therefore if such vessels dying
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    House of Lords Reforms.
    385 7 CONFERENCE REPORT. London, April 24. The report of the Conference, presided over by Viscount Bryce, on the Reform of the Second Chamber has been issued. It recommends that the S-cond Chamber shall consist of two sections. Firstly, 246 persons elected by panels of members of the
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    Baron von Kuehlman.
    43 7 PRESS ALLEGATION. Amsterdam, April 25. Tbe Pan-German Deutsche Zeitung is being prosecuted for an article accusing Baron von Kueblman, the Foreign Minister, of immorality. u Vorwaerts” asserts that the allegations were intended to influence the Kaiserin against Baron von Kueblman.
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    Catholics and Ireland.
    109 7 STRONG ARTICLE BY THE “TIMES.” London, April 24. The Times,” in a leader referring to the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Ireland placing themselves at the bead of the anticonscription movement says It says much for the forbearance of the British people that so little protest is made
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  • NEWS FROM JAVA.
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      Dutch Shipping.
      77 7 (Special Cable Service Batavia, April 25. The Dutch Shipping Companies are unwilling to resume sailings to British harbours. Some papers support tbe action of the Shipping Cimpani s Others urge they ought to follow the Dutch Government’s wishes. The Dutch Shipping Companies do not refuse to sail to
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      Japanese Ministers Resign.
      83 7 Batavia, April 25 The N. I. P. A. special correspondent at Tokio, says the Home Minister, Baron Goto, and the Foreign Minis’er Baron Motono, have resigned. Mr. Mizumo, the Vice-Minister, has been promoted Home Minister, and Mr Nakamura,to President of the Railway Board. Baron Goto was tbe
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      Museum for Dutch Indies.
      29 7 Batavia, April 25. A Japan South Sea Syndicate is abou’ to erect in Medan or Batavia a Museum, tbe same as in Singapore, costing $BO,OOO.
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    CANADA.
    300 7 NATIONAL REGISTRATION. Ottawa, April 24. In connection with the National R c gi tration in June, the Government has ordered that all residents in Canada over 16 years must register Penalties for noncompliance will be a fine or imprisonment or both, disfranchisement, deprivation of the right to bold any
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    Imperial Conference.
    94 7 MOBILIZATION FOR HOME SERVICE. Melbourne, April 25. In the Senate,JMr Millen, Minister of Repatriation. replying to a question regarding the proposed attendance of tbe various Dominions opposition leaders at tbe Imperial Conference, said he had been informed Sir Wilfred Laurier would not ouaccompany Sir Robert Borden. To Encourage
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    Spanish Banking Arrangement.
    36 7 Madrid, April 25. An agreement for a consortium of Spanish banks, representing a capital of £2,000 ODO and including banking firms in and Barcelona has been signed, with France and tbe United State*.
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    EGYPTIAN COTTON.
    86 7 SIR W. E. BRUNY ATE’d NOTE. L-n dor, April 20 The tote by Sir WEB unyate, the Adviser in Egypt, says the phenomenal increase in tbe price of cotton was maintained He estimates the 1917 cotton crop will yield £50,000 000 (Egyptian) against £39.000,000 in 1916. The Empire
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    Turkey and Bulgaria.
    35 7 AMERICA’S ATTITUDE. Washington, April 24. Senator King, after conferring with President Wihon, announced that it was not intended to Senator King’s resolution pryviding for a declaration of war against Bulgaria and Tarkey
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    Mr. Chamberlain Returned.
    27 7 London, April 25. Mr. Austen Chamberlain has been returned unopposed at West Birmingham. The election was due to his appointment to the War Cabinet.
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    Count Czernin.
    27 7 Amsterdam, April 25. In tbe Hungarian Parliament, Herr Wekerle said Coant Cz-rnin resigned because he long felt he did not possess the King’s confidence sufficiently.
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    Italian Shipping.
    26 7 L ndon. April 25. The Italian shipping re urns show arrivals 342 and d- partu es 315 One vessel above 1500 tons was sank.
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    THE MARI TROUBLE.
    205 7 We understand says the Pioneer that practically no casualties have occurred among our troops in the operations against the Maris. The Mari country is extraordinarily difficult, covering an area of nearly 3,400 square males and consisting of a jumble ol hills. The most practical means of dealing
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    INDIAN EMIGRATION.
    392 7 Criticism of the Conference Scheme. The scheme of "assisted emigration to Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guiana, and Fiji, to replace the now abandoned indenture” system which was drawn up last summer by an India and Colonial Office inter-depart-mental conference, was subjected to hostile criticism at a meeting of the
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  • Obituary
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    19 7 Obituary. London, April 22. Tbe death is announced of MajorGeneral P D Henderson, formerly Resident in Mysore, aged 77.
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