The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 6 February 1918

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  • 5 162 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION.
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  • 1270 162 In our recent consideration o f the nquiremeats of that unheroify bo ardently J'l N lO Chinese community, nnlmnli bat by interested i? 5' W 0 «farced to a pcsof 9 onr 10 Commerce view a... grea J commercial interests wL dottbl fcbafc ought s 5 h,bw".^h“ b
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  • 35 162 late of the Federal- ed Malay States, has recently been admitted and enrolled as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Courts of British North Borneo and has commenced practice at Sandakan,
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  • 36 162 was experienced in Singapore during the week-end. Friday was coldest (with a minimum of 67 deg. Fahrenheit, probably a record, registered at Kandang Kerbau observatory), but Saturday night was pretty chilly as well.—Jf.T.
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  • 50 162 are absolute strangers, the Ipoh paper remarks. If one is to judge from ths unconcerned manner in which most trains steam into Ipoh ten or sometimes fifteen minutes late. In the old days some one had to pay up every time a train was late.
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  • 74 162 in the market prices to-day as compared with those of last week. Beef has gone down by one cent and mutton by from 5 to 8 cents, and fiih by about 10 cants in soma cases. Pork, fowls and vegetables have, on the other hand,
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  • 36 162 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at 1136.75, buainpsa done, in Singapore, (refined) at $137 70, business done, (225 toes eold) and in London at 4298 10s, and at 4294 10j. three months,
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    • 104 162 Che Straits €cDo. 4 ff rlsi \r, wf wtFW' VtSft PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Suniays and public holidays,) at the CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, S9,'Beach Street, Penang. Price: Daily Local $BO pep annum. Outstation Postage Extra. MaH Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: “ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Eoho) 586. Printing
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  • 499 163 Mr B P. B to lDdia holiday, bai retained. Mr. Qub Km ol P,n g bMiowa trip to Mr D*D McVitie, of Karak B.tate, p.bang, returned from leers to-day toPabwg Port Swett.»hlB- Mr C. P. Harding, Managing Director, Bobber, Ltd., Luna®*» Mrs. Herding returned from their holiday
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  • 435 163 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Extensiw Enemy Eai3s London, J»uoary 28,10-25 pm. .tron boatile reconnoitnHoP."les' Mtinwy’’» B «-ctive of Cambrai, north of Leo» »»d in the Passchendaele lector. Hostile Artillery Active. London, January 29. 3,20 n.m. Sir Douglaa Haig reports ithat boatlie artillery was aotire in the Havrincourt and north-east of
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  • 333 163 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] U- 8. SECRETARY FOR WAR’} REVIEW. 3 Renewed Activity in the West London, January 28. A telegram from Washington states that in his weekly review, Mr.N.l). B,k, r United States Secretary for War, speaka of the renewed activity on the Western front including the region
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  • 20 163 (From Our Own London, The prices in tha London Rubber to-day were: 0/Q1 Pale Crepe Ribbed Smoked
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  • 120 163 in a recent c»bl« Mr, ward rnce in that the Austrians in the moU withoot huts or dugouts. T liey .‘««til» sleeping out in the open,'their _»"*’«I» being a great coat, with the sem.?a5 em a low aero. Daring the lull i fl J the number of
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  • 393 164 [Bjuhb' B Tbi»e rams epidemics at pETB aBAD Democracy in Sadlil9 London, January 29. a Times from Petrograd AC b fh.t t °tb J new’P*P’« ia lengtby e 1 bow the population of ruC deoiled by an epidemic Ea, J o *i M tbe result of malnutrition.
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  • 1039 164 Bafore forming a decided opinion as to his mental capacity you had not enquired from any of the madical men who attended him ?—None whatsoever. You made careful entries in your note book during your visits are they open to inspection by our medical men ?—-Certainly, in connection
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  • 223 164 After the conclusion of an important case in the Kuala Lumpur Police Court last Saturday, the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. McCabe drew the attention of the p ending Magistrate to the disadvantage that be and counsel for the defendants had been placed at owing to the fact that
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  • 85 164 Says the Malaya Tribune of Monday A Chinese amah was stabbed in the face and the back with some sharp instrument early this morning, at house No. 13, Rowell R iad, She alleged that the deed was done by a man who h.d broken into the house, and was found
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  • 515 165 Fi»i« Totalu.o »114,1» Th, Ko»l» Lompar paper in itaMond‘^X‘o«St^».CbKg. .th '«“'•''"‘rt •‘‘‘Xor* 1 .n Kn.l. M b? oJdcr to .void L r wit.nj of the alcohoho rtXh'and farther with feleelj declaring tbTbqnor to be of brand, that were .abject ff b “o Ue mtgirtrrte, Mr. A. W.
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  • 117 165 is reported from Ban- goon where Khojt Rabamtlullab Mohamed, Hecre'ary of the Kboji Community in Rangoon, instituted proceedings agAinat V.H.P. Naase, Mining Engineer of Y»wthet, Tbayetmyo, for aa.ault but when the oai3 catni before M'. 0. de Glaunlle, Western Subdinaiooti
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  • 582 165 INDIA AND MALAYA A COMPARISON. Orer the .ignore •'H.N.F,” which warcely veil, he identity o! t hei writer, the Malay Mail f the Indian article comparing the aal.rlee or rn Oil Servant with those of Cadet ana District Officer and official, of h'gher rank w.hrt “H.N.F,” consider! it
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  • 69 165 fi,? n' erred 10 To-d.j we h e .r of V* Sarai d,ebict Lun»’ Ked.b L ,1!®'" ’““"«nca new ten. D b ?d e f v ur iDforra nt coolie. b., 6 been discorared of death is being invesiiJu/ ?l h caUBe Kapok of the gang th« d
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  • 246 165 The deputation which the H<w 8 c w is to receive upon the reform of the?" riage Laws will have behind it the body of public common sense and reflection, says a London paper. TheS? tian that has been growing up under n operation of easy separation
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  • 69 165 Fold Medal 1917, January Midall9lB. The above competitions will be played for on Saturday and Sunday, the 2nd and 3rd February. The following are eligible for tbs Gold Medal Messrs. M. M. Stewart, L. C. Robinson, C. C. Rogers, W. 8 Goldie, T. E, Winfield, G. A.
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  • 12 165 cabling on Januiry 28, states that the silver market is featureless.
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  • 24 165 for the twenty four boin ended 9 am. to-day was 9 millimetre! (354 inch) as registered by the gauge st Fort Cornwallis.
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  • 29 165 can no* go to Canada for the purpose of higher education in any approved college or uniwrsity without paying the former tax of 1500 gold.
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  • 29 165 Ge >eral Vestrovitcb, t sort of Montenegrin the Wake,” hn surrendered with the handful of follower!, who oiigiosHy numb rd 300, still remaining to him.
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  • 33 165 PgH’GfcnD* o are trying to impose on tbe Kaiser a P r0 gramme of wholsale annexation in east west. This would involve tbe resignation! of Count Hertling and Kuehlmann.
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  • 132 165 The firework» of the chetty cominun «{gconnection with the Taipusam at the E® Reclamation last night ended in Punctually at 9 p.m. the firing began, after some ten pieces had been sent up, 0 failed to ascend, and fell on the store. •«plosion ensued
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  • 520 166 •TThfl 1 reoort for 1917 to Thafolio^ ll^ 18 mooting on b 3 presented at January 31s ftCO U ats ebcwa a eurTbB>^J® meDt o f 523 616 99 after deductF"' t te.gaJf »8037,58 for depreciation, S »17,000 gymkhana in Atk jer.°3 "> ‘>“B e a M
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  • 50 166 British Legation cables say 9 81y: Ahk tll9 t 0 C on stantin. S repor^toK a n the Sul tan. of exceptional political p Times states at A Bntu,ld ships of f th t tln total S- “V 1 “'I WlB i“A c »P*ur«., was IJI8 U,0913H tow in J.n-
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  • 3081 166 IMPORTANT CHINESE WILL CASE In the Supreme Court, yesterday afternoon, before Mr, Judice L M. Wocdward, Senior Puisne Judge, the hearing was begun of a suit “In the goods of Choong Cheng Kian, deceased, L.m Guk Teen Neoh. plaintiff vs. Lim Gaik Kee, Choong Lye Hock and Choong
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  • 297 167 Thb Fivi-Foot Way Question. A meeting of the Municipal Comio'i* sioners was held at the Municipal Offi» yesterday afternoon. There were present Messrs. W Peel, President, A. ft Goodrich, A. M. Goodman and Chee Wor Lock with Mr. L. M. Bell (Municipal Eogi* naer) and Mr. L, A.
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  • 3710 168 ffH EBE EXPEBTd DI3AQBEE. T Rnorein* Coart, yesterday after--10 S,® L M. DOOO,W° r tfao hefcrlDg was Bfl ljr /of a suit “Io goods of eostioaedof Lm Gaik gaftSt SX Cum Lje Hck *»d 0OD Lje Hm. Tb,plJ«t.fl claim, to be the second wife Massed and tbs
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  • 76 169 Tho following were the results of the tin played yesterday i Mixed Doubles: —Mr and Mrs B beat Mrs Kinder and L M Woodward t 7-5, 2-6, B—6. Ladies D -übles:—Mrs Prentis and M'* Harvey beat Mias Hooker and Mrs ntr by 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Mrs Enns
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  • 61 169 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted 1137.00, no business done, in ‘WjJm (refined) at 5137 50, business does, I tons sold) and in London at *297 at .£294 three months. Messrs. Boustead A Co. inform the following were the quotations R r on spot in London on
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  • 732 170 GERMANY 'S LOST COLONIES. nfA, sent us General Smuts’speech m litfl a iicßskW puzz e, The piecing work of O' l t,lB j f |>J, B «od p»io, ,nd ,he f ot h,t ,b 8 middl/of tbe oration errivtd after the wper had go»» f P re m,de po 8
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  • 12 170 cabling on January 29 says that tbe silver market is steady»
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  • 23 170 593 coolies arrived yesterday 280 went to Pulau Jer» jik for quarantine and the balance to Port Swettenham,
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  • 29 170 Planters’ Association of Malaya will be held it tbe Penang Chamber of Commerce at 10.30 a.m. on the 26. b of next month.
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  • 106 170 a corre- spondent remarks and reiterates that tbe people of Malaya are not doing all they can to help their country and kinsmen and appeals to everyone to show tbe stern stuff of which they are really made. He exhorts all to give
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  • 125 170 writing on the subject of local war economy, suggests that Government might asnht those of us who are not too well to do to save our spare money by the introduction of a scheme similar to one which it believes is dciog good wo k in this
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  • 184 170 this morning of tbe C4BO agiinst Supaya, a Detective, for receiving the sum of 1100 from some tongkang owner?, under section 165 of tbe Criminal Procedure Code. Mr. B. W. Allen, Assistant Superintendent of Police, prose* cuttd
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  • 385 170 Mr. J. T, Donald, of Kuala Luu pur, is leaving for home in the near future. Mr. D. A. M. Brc wo, Official Handicapper to the S. R, A, left yesterday for Kuala Lumpur for the raoj meeting there, Mr. R. M G. Mitchell, Manager of Sungei
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  • 168 170 [To Th a Editor or thb Malaya Tribune,] Dear Sir, —I quite agree with Mr T, B. Goh’s letter of the 21st inst. If you refer to my letter which wae pub* lished in your paper of tbe 19th July, 1916, you will And that I wroti
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  • 998 171 00 ucb t>»i wd,.pen ß4 ble r- Ba ;;T‘b? X ’Va tb.°i Mr. Hereford to fall down the Court Houee bill before the authorities pat a few steps in the bans that dl i up from lb® road to the local Temple peculiar ••influence” of the «DO PW..
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  • 176 171 [Riuth’s Tblbgramb An Unfounded DeportLondon, January 29, 9 30 p.m A cable from Washington states that Mr. Rob rt L insing, U aited 8 ates 8< ore tary of State, expresses surprise at theie report that Couot Czirnin’s sp ech bad bnpn forwaided to Piesid nt Wilson
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  • 993 171 [KiUTBB’s TILIGBIMB.I A BIG AFFAIR. Heavy Casualties. Lindon, January 29, 5.30 It is officially announced that u < of last n ght’s air-raid fourteen m eD( teen women and sixteen children were r atd ninety-three men, fifty-nine womenS seventeen children were injured. Ail these casualties occurred
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  • 440 172 [Reuter’s Telebams BEFORE THE BIG BLOW. London, January 30, 2.40 a.m. Sir Douglas Haig reporter—“We repulsed an attempted raid south of tne Scarpe. Tne enemy did not reach our trenches. Hostile artillery was active at Arras and Tpres. •'Our aeroplanes yesterday dropped four hundred bombs on Roulers, Memo
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  • 469 172 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Bolsheviks and Finland* London, January 29. The outstanding feature of the appallingly chaotic situation in Russia is the B ihhevik determination to crush all their opponents. They are openly assisting to upset the Government of Finland by aiding the Finnish Redguards. Sanguinary fighting is occurring
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  • 429 173 [Riutib’s TltioiAMi.] WHAT LABOUR DEMANDS, A Reply to the ABiet. AoD*terd*DO, January 29. The KorreepondenMatl of the German ibU the «fke 1» R«lin demand ai a reply to Mr. m Opo re’. of January 18 a Statement of German war-aim. in thVwe.t and al.o representation of
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  • 85 173 B‘cretary for Chinese Affair» and Protector of Chinese, 8 kngor and Negri Sambihn, leave» early next month on a three month»*’ holiday, on medical advice, Mr. Clayton, who ha» baeu io the service ilnce 1895* leA¥ d rin the latter end of I
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  • 112 173 [Biutib’B Tilegrxmb Tea and Tonnage in 1918 London, January 29, Tn the House of Commons Mr J. Parker, of the Food Ministry, announced that owing to repre.ent.tion» by trader, it b.dl k -n arranged that tea would be bought in Cnina So behalf ot th- Food Ministry
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  • 385 173 [To THi Iditoi o» TMi Straitt Echo,'] *1 shall be obliged if yon will kindly publish in your paper the annexed statement of the result of the special effort made by this Society on St. Andrew’s Diy ***** n behalf of the Scottish Branch of The
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  • HAVAS SERVICE.
    • 66 173 French Troops Rome, January 30, General Fayolle, commanding the F Army in Italy, accompinLd by qJ.^ 5 Dilman and Maistre, the British 0™“ Barling and several Italian generali formed on tbe plain facing Meant Toa? the ceremony ot bestowing the decoration.! the Legion of Honour and the
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    • 42 173 M. Jonnart, formerly Minister of Blockade, has been appointed GovernorGeneral of Algeria. He will carry out reforms in favour of th. natives in recognition of the numeroai proofs they have given ot their attackment to France duriug the war,
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    • 28 173 The High Court has declared itself cob. petent regarding the examination (of with nesses in) the case against M. Malvy, formerly Minister of the Interior,
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    • 106 173 Paris, Janusry 80. Thi Inter-Allied Military Conference it Versailles will begin to-morrow, according to the Matin, under the presidency of M. Clemenceau. Great Britain will be represented by Mr. L'oyd George, Lord Milner, of the Wir Cabinet, and Lieutenant-Ganeral Sir Henn Wilson. Signor Orlando, the Italian Prembr,
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    • 143 173 loterostiog document», throwing light on the French success at Verdun as long an December 15, 1916, issued by the man First Army Command, hare jfl't Ww into the hand» of the Our defences near Verdun, saj J Germans, were apparently fautesj. Etch division had a very
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  • 22 173 Mr W. J. Edmond, will t* Saturday for a three-month trip' In his absence Mr. minige Oath Ohemiots,”
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  • 1113 174 [Bn»»'' aaiJWH AW GIBMAN IDEALSLctuMbyO»’” l Smuts. London, January 29. □-.nt, lecturing last night R->nl' G o?r»P bi011 Bociaty contracted the German on E*’t r n f .j 6W on colonial and nd Briti'b P 0 pbM i, el J that Germany A ««er the English l not
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  • 714 174 The interpreting difficulty, referred to by the Deputy Public Prosecutor In Court list week, is no new thing. And it has not been confined to tbe Magistrate's Court Some of our readers will remember tbe silted mine case heard in the Supreme Court here in 1906. Oae of
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  • 344 175 [Te Til Editob 0» th Malaya Tribune.] Hir-I conaider It an act of ingratitude on tbe part of "ObHrver" to write aucb a SUr Jwa. P»bli.hed on the 26;b rn an iiiQt of your esteemed paper. As far as I Ma reoellect, I bate never read
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  • 204 175 tried a case at the Ipoh Supreme Court on Tuesday in which Aung Tua Mab, for five years the manager of tbe Ipoh branch of Chop Ttow Heng, was charged with criminal breach of trust in respect of sums totalling ab ut >3,000. Toward! tbe latter part
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  • 703 175 THE RAVAGES OF HOOKWORM. Tbe c»lc«tt» Statesman '“J.” 1 refers to an .rlicio contributed by D P„e to I'be World» Work, tbe ed.tor.o.p ST.teb h. reb»<l B be d n °Tj n JL the American Ambassador in London loe contribution announced t e lm Pj* j cover? made by
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  • 123 175 Pining Women Wobkim. Subscriptions received up to January 2th 1918 Mrt Benson 5 Mrs Penny 10 Mrs No 36 5 120 Hospital garments for soldiers, ready cut out for workers will be given out at tbe Tows Hall every Friday at 9.15 a.m, till 10,30 a.m.
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  • 24 175 (From Our Own Correspondent) London, January 29. The prices in tbe London Rubber to-day Were: Pale Crepe W Ribbed Smoked 2/3
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  • 72 175 The undermentioned prices jy flre^ for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen D® Co. at their 353rd Auction Sale held week 1 Smoked Diamond A Sheet No. 1 |Boto I 92 Smoked Diamond KA Sheet No. 2 58 79 Unsmoked Sheet No, 1 78 Unsmoked Sheet No, 2
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  • 31 175 TO IO. A number of the men who o por* teered for the Siam g p P have received notice calling commence upon their training on
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  • 4903 176 JJHBD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. c omB CoD't aft? la the S»P' 1 -tice L M- Wond»»rd, M b 'n r iudr. e hs -°< w Senior o n "Io ood f co,uo«o U D dec-*-' 1 L OO G.-k C,ooo«C»e»g K jfl H LlOl G, k Kao, Te
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  • 63 178 At the Eastern Produce Exchange 206 h Auction Sale the following prices were obtained Fer p cul. Diamond Smoked Fa’r from $5B to 85 Diamond 55 to 66 Piain Unmoked 53 to 62 Scrap O»pp Fir 35 Virgin, Pressed A Loose Untreated Sirap 12 to 41 64.121
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  • 75 178 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, January 1. Tbe fallowing were the prices realised in the Singapore Rubber Auction to-day Smoked fine ribbed 88 to I 93 ppr picul Good 63 88 do Pkin 83 do Crope fine pale 91 95 do Good 79 90 do Fine brown
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  • 87 178 learns from a Girman eourca that tba German air Berries has r'cently been increased by 100 new squadrons of asropiao» a, each pquidron conM»nng of ten micnint-et. These new Gsrinan >punes. it is stated, are piinted a sky blue c lour and a e without any
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  • 394 178 The London correspondent of the Madras Mail telegraphed on January 15: Unless be goes to the Persian Gulf Ml J. Montagu ia expected to reach England in March. There is no likelihood of bis even jf aj p by the Cabinet, being decided upon by tne
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  • 29 178 Ordinance 8 of 1918 for the Preservation of Coconut Palms is being brought into force on Ist February throughout Penang, Province Wellesley and the Bindings,
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  • 32 178 that from Feb. 1 foreigners entering Japan should carry passports or certificates of nationality with photographs attached and bearing the rite of a competent Japanrae consular or diplomatic officer.
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  • 50 178 understand that tbe Government has been informed by the Straits Steamship Co, that it will ba necessary to raise tbe freight rates on all Borneo cargo towards tbe end of this month. It is probable that the rates will be increased by 25 par cent.
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  • 48 178 which were printed in Kusls Lumpur, are already in circulation in Singapore. The general public opinion is that, failing a 5» cent taken, a 15-cent note would ba far more useful than one of 25 cents, says the Malaya Tribune,
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  • 46 178 by tba King, dated November 27. is gazetted. It relates to trading with certain peisoos of enemy nationality interned in neutral countries, Ail tie tx'«tiog rest'ictioas will obtain just as though the enemy persons concerned were resident or carrying on business in enemy countries,
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  • 1042 179 Mo.. Acn»*tu-’ Ofi»ios. m... H K.rrr r«plj t 0 nll>t er 006 insTiaawd 8/daey ,u flr report u r ™d£t£e period. The dredge worked for akht mootb»of the year to the erd of May jS’lttE’writi», do™ P'»»t the rjt. ot iok e. p. a. there wee a
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  • 52 179 Tbe following were the results cf tie .lea played yesterday Singles A F C Gregson beat F N Syer by 6-4. 6-1, J Singles B:—E A D ivies beat G E Wrigbt-Motion by 3—6, 6-1, 6-4. Singles C:—P Le Saur beat W McKuigbt Young 6 3, by
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  • 26 179 (brom Our Own Correspondent) London, January 30. The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Palo Crepe t 2/3' Ribbed Smoked 2/3
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  • 55 179 Latest Quotations. »138 50, n,’ bu.iceeTdooe "re 9 mo«M. <lOa i 2" ind thM l B <)U ea 1 Co inform us that cn spot io W Lo B Dd b o7 U ol Af Ue *°o\h TV receded yesterday 9 vJ h nBt Plantation lit latex
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  • 302 179 List night Dr. Mohamed Arff oflk Penang District Hospital, son of Mr K a Mustau of the Supreme Court, entsrtaiS his many friends to dinner and a “ron CM n'• performance on the occasion of bis m! to the daughter of Mr. Pakir Mv? 1 of Hutton
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  • 196 179 In an article in the Voititche Zeilw about life in Berlin, Fiaulein Marie ro Bunsen dilates upon the charms of restricts street lighting, and then turns to another development which she finds less attracts Fiauleiu von Bunsen says:— “Who can explain tbe habit which bn suddenly arisen of
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  • 51 179 THE FRENCH marine. Paiia, J n 3l The Socialist member of j girf Compere Morel has been app of as Government jmal fS J revictaalling organisation. P*’’ > reg.rd. agricultural ftr* Bouisaon member of P* r department, Bouchea a > been entrusted with the enquire into queation* c
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  • 24 180 At the Cburcb of Be». L. M. Duvslle tbeA’‘ n ®C > 1918 Hiiry Do»gl‘« w31, J b ,°H;»gko»g Dd So s( l ssssm-*-
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  • 881 180 t *thA nreieot moment the Germans» X ffi> kelpie»» at their feet toX.S%‘-i‘‘ boEar °pr ba B4 p were the sole enter.on-to ba m U ipiriti. Bet there »re three f.oto s io th. «tertioo which, wa «nture to Mere, ere ceu.rog the authorities m Btrlio t'tn
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  • 34 180 since Ge many started on the uures'ricted submaiiuism which was to bav.4 given her victory, c'jitairi and assured, io six months L ttle good it has done her,
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  • 47 180 reports yet another gang robb?ry from Malim Nawar where the railway station whs looted ahw days ago. In tbhiLstaoce the local chandu shop was the ol jective of the robbors, one of whom wis shot dead by the police who happened to be at hand,
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  • 66 180 Our Singapore correspondent wires At tbe meeting of the Singapore Sporting Club it was decided that subjects by birth of enemy nations will c ase to be members of the club and rennin so for two years after peaces been dryland. Thi meeting further decided that the subscription of subscribing
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  • 79 180 Messrs. Adamson, Grilfillan Co. send us vj, I v* I BCUU US a 9 Q’ ri^ If»dia Diary and A’Qi*nack for 19;8, a tasteful little produo t’on which reveals that the losses by subaurineu, though oonsid? rab'e, have not bon bo heavy as might h*va been expected. Built and building
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  • 612 180 Mr. Eric E. L. G eig, of Messrs. Guthrie and Co., Singapore, wto is iu Penang w.ll be leaving for home ia the immediate fuluie, Mr. T. A, Melville arrived this morning from toe southern settlement and tbe duties cf Asst -P.M G. here. M W. H.
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  • 1026 181 The Freedom of the Sea». W. ,bould t«y BCII l "“Xn°°h<, tA, Preid.ot Wil.oo me»m wben <«th« freedom ot th» ssss. H-il 0 iboat “tbe tr«oom Heitliog bud y mean th! MmB v 7, _i. hZ for i. fbM c.M Eogl»»d called upon to givs °P her P
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  • 55 181 tbe patroness of Ireland and of Fleet-street, whose feast falls on February 1, was the beautiful daughter of a bard who became the religious duciple ot St. Patrick and Abbess of Kildare, The story of St Bride,or Bridget fired the Celtic imagination, nod in Ireland about twenty parishes
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  • 169 181 From the Sydney Bulletin They are sverywhere. There is one at the trench School of Military Aviation at Chartres. His name is Leigh Elsuin, and before the war he was in the Malay States. When J ft"' 11 b 00 16,, ’< h «»J«. •nd/ouud Ihm Atulraliaw I felt like
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  • 420 181 [Riutbb’s Trotzky’s Admission. London, January 30, 6.30 p. B A telegram from P<stro»rad state, th./ the Congress of Soviets, M. Troizky that peace without annexation is impost Count Bertling Denounced. London, J anuary 30,8 30 p. tt A Russian wireless political itatematt from Brest-Litovsk denounces Cjib Bertling’s
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  • 407 182 [Earrsa’e TttMM»-] BRITISH FIGURES. A Slight Bis* London, January 3 ls P < jh, Adni>»'ty reports tb.t ,r,T *S*A 2309 Total 4661 n»ar 1 600 tons and six under JSS s, '£‘bt ttscksdi Oos fi’bing boat was «nk* [Tb« following is the lilt of iinktoge from M2Bt-
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  • 436 182 [Reuter’s Telerams SB DOUG TAS HAIG’S BE PORT. Patrol Encounters. London, Januaiy 30, 12,45 p.m. Sir Doudas Haig reports that one of our patrols successfully attacked an enemy outpost to the north-east of Havrincourt, killing and taking prisoners a number of the garrison. Further casualties were inflicted on
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  • 508 182 [Rbutbe’s Tblhgeams MOVEMENT SPREADING RAPIDLY. Humoured Outbreak at Krupp's* London, Janu a ry 30, 5.45 p.m. B’ports reaching Ziriob, Copenhagen and Amsterdam agree that the strikes in Germany are spreading with alarming rapidrhe Vorwaeris on the 29,h instant ststed that war industries in Bjriin and neighbourhood
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  • 19 182 which are now available on application to the Treasury seem to be in gr«it demani.
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  • 484 183 [Bitrri»’» Tbl«obam«J IMPORTANT CADRES. Xnemy Diviiious DestroyedLiodoo, Jinairy 3J, 7 30 a.m, An TtdltD C |fVJ p <*W? tpto Col ddl K aD *fu Wa cap #od Wltbltoo j aunmaui on captured Mount Vtltell* J d1 i08 The capture* vthlrto were 100 officer», 2.500 men, 6 «M, RIO
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  • 535 183 First Day’s Results. (FVwn Our Om Correspondent.) Kua’a Lumpur, January 31. The we.tb.r oa the da J B*l.og«r nca •P lend,d the guing good *od tbe .itend.nee bir. The following were the results: 1 Thu Planters’ Stakes, Value 1400 with 15 per cent, of the Cash Sweep
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  • 265 183 [Rbutbb’b Telegrams.] THE OFFICIAL REPORT. More Killed and Injured. London, January 30, 2 30 p.m, An official report on the second air ntt states that about fifteen hostile maobioei delivered a number of attacks againet Lon. don but none penetrated to tbe capital. One group crossed
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  • 237 183 i—A disaster wh cb, in addi’ion to the serious pecuniary invo'ved. hi» plunged a bride io grief, occurred this evening at Kota, Taiping» w e J the houae of an Ind an Mahommedm d*® Madarsah, whose daughter was to
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  • 3987 184 FP gTHEBjBOOj EPlWg3 Mom Exmr Pnu t yegtaroay BTC0» 10 ."mu/ucb LN- dß rd ron.b’to, 9 dg toe b-M.og «■>< Saoior Po» ,ce J .<i a the goods of continued of decotse d, LmG* k OnooogCtieog K L m Q al k Kee, T«° N<? b a
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  • 30 186 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at *****0, buyers no sellers, in ungapore, (refined) at *****0, buyers no sailors and in London at £295 103. three months.
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  • 26 186 Straits 235.000, Penan? 221 500. Tah Aver 37,500, Bubina 84,000, Began Serai *****, Bstak Babit 25.000, Stiawan ***** 3 8. (Bsrtam) 120,000 lb.
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  • 24 186 Surveyor, Municipality, Pening, has severed hie connection with the Municipality here and will be leaving shortly tor the southern settlement.
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  • 68 186 coniderably more than two acres. Thus, when hundreds of these anti-aircraft shells are borating in the isms direction, each sending out a spray of bullets like water from the rose of a watering-can—but
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  • 86 186 before 9 i>b on Monday will bo in timi for despatch by the Homeward Mail. Letters etc, for despatch by the HomePacket m»y be posted at the Head Omae up to 10.45 a.m. on payment of a late «e of 5 cents and upto 11
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  • 78 186 Mrs. C. E. Donaldson and family left f n Homs yesterday An.erica. 7 alien, who for over six voars has 3 Rail W H °tel >“ d»v edVOS f'hat appointment togO6S the Fe,,erate( O" Frid »y PWD. straitl tl E A Llntr>n »f the Efland of
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  • 140 186 «miniscencĕß ii of Lord Morley’s ’"'‘ten *td reMt.H' t,nOe bow hiBt0 'J 19 to ford Minto tellit 'ft- m ft' Ho wr *tes *»d whu o u.,,1 blm t* ow industrious f'iweot W«l e s W ,ker b fur the fh«ot ssryino b 3 tOOIB f“H
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  • 451 186 [Ebuter’B Telegrams.! A GREAT EFFOIiT. Food and Troops For Europe. London, Februiry 1, 7.25 a.m. A cable fiom New York states that measures have been announced for intensifying the efforts for supplying food and troops to Europa. Shipping control committees have been established to direct all
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  • 25 186 (From Our Own Correspondent-') London, January 31. The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/3 Ribbed Suaoked 2/2|
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  • 17 186 and Mrs. A. Gt. Watson leive this afternoon on a trip to Japan.
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  • 422 186 [Rkitbr’s Tblegrams.] BOMBS ON PARIS, The German VersionLindon, January 31, 4 55 p.m. A wireless German official message states “As a reprisal for the bombing of German open towns, our aviators dropp d fourteen tons of bombs on Paris last n'ght during the course of our
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  • 63 186 motor car driver of Towkay T<n Pek Seng, was charged with driving his car in a rash and negligent manner along North am Road on the afternoon of Dumber 21, as the result of which Mr. Thomson was injured, was concluded before Mr. R. D.
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  • 1009 187 Skabpik —Cam^ bbll Tta Caorcb <•» the Aiwop-ion K Mr H. r ,y Djugl»» at tb. m»»ri»ge of Mr- Bbuplo, of tb« Hongkong nod Sb.ngb* Biokiog Cirporntion, Riogoon, to M r b .,ioe Campbei', yonngeit d.egbSTS Iff MrZC.aipbell. »od.^ ..ter nt Mrs C. M Henderson, of PdDßng. Thnrewn.*
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  • 243 187 Two European Otficirs Killed. The Strait» Timet culls the following account of a most sensational sff'ay which occurred in Hongkong on January 22 from one of the Hongkong papers There had been an armed robbery in which a contract' had been bound and gagged, and it
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  • 175 187 FINANCE AND THE Wlfc Gloomy Prussian Outlook, Paris, February 2 2 ab. Hergt, Prussian Miuijt,.*’ France, declared (bis week that addi the expenses that bad been alreidv in by the German Empire, the exp la S the near future will call tor, forty.fi.’ hlt cent, of the total
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  • 132 187 Paris, February 2, The effect of the raid on Paris by tbeGti* man Gotbae last night was not to frigbta the population who showed much curioiiiy, following the evolutions in the sky of the hostile machines. It did however arouse indignities against German barbarity and
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  • 93 187 Meeting at VeriailliiParis, February 2, 2 The Inter-Allied War Council met 0® Wiidnt sd »y afternoon at three o’clock in lh Trianon F-lace at Versailles. The allied nations represented it tjj meeting were France, represented M. Clemenceau, Generals Petain, »td W igxnd England, reprMfoW by Mr. Lloyd
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  • 82 187 Messrs, Sime, Darby <fc Co.i of particulars of tin ouiputi from the» log companies for the month of J® B 1918 is uuder h gM Kamunting Tin Dredging Hours run 655; Yards treated, Value of output $61,120; Colt of «12,600. Chbndbkiang Tin Diidg D.edge—Piculs 255 Houri roß treated
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  • 739 188 a amnlorer of labour to whom we Vatbe P other day had very little to •P° k0 a favour of youths reared and ,V JJlnfiallv. Io point of hot, he made eDg g e indictment. Toey write Lb art not too careful in the matter Jf bookkeepirg, are not
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  • 11 188 leaves for home in the near future.
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  • 26 188 Station Master, Be- remban, who retired from the F.M.S. Railways after over twenty years' service, will be leaving for India in the near future.
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  • 29 188 the Secretaries of the Sungei Patani Rubber Company, advise us that the output of this Company for the month of January was 19.500 lb.
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  • 37 188 that the Hin Kong Nok Buoy (13 deg. 11.7 N. Lat, and 100 deg. 47.2 E. Long.) at Kok-si-chang has drifted away from its position, Notice will be given when the same is replaced.
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  • 46 188 This place is about 10 ft. above high water level and 70® at night is considered warm. About 64.66 is our usu*l night temperature. Oi December 11 the thermometer went down to 58°. On Sunday 27 wa registered 60®.—Shivers.”
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  • 77 188 who was charged with receiving the sum of $lOO under section 165 of the Criminal Procedure Code was concluded yesterday before Mr. R. D. Acton in the D strict Court when the accused was convicted and sentenced to three months’ rigorous imprison» <nt tog
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  • 93 188 From Thursday's Straits Times Mrs. C. E. Donaldson and family left for Home yesterday via America. Mr. W. Pullen, who for over six years has been manager of the F-M. 8. Railway Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, leaves that appointment today, and to-morrow goes to tho Federated Enginering Co., Ltd. A
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  • 25 188 (From Our Own Corrupondtni) London, January 31. The prices in the London Rubber Market to«day were: Pale Crepe 2/3 Ribbed Smoked 2/2J
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  • 941 188 Good Business We read in the Straits Times's Local Share Market report for Thursday Uniteers, buyers $l9 50, sellers |l9. There ought to be no difficulty at doing business at these quotations, unless perhaps sellers persisted in taking 50 cents less than buyers were willing to give. Second
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  • 233 189 [Riutub'u Tuligbams,] Air Defences Currency» and Food. Lindon, January 31, 6,10 p-m. J In the House of Commons, M. Bonar Law, replying to Dr. Arthur Lynch, Nationalist Membir for West Clare, said that the Cabinet was satieti'd that every* I thing possible was bung done to maintain
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  • 931 189 L iiEUTBB '8 ISLEGBAMB.] many leaders arrested, mabtial law pboclaimbd. jfovainttt Spreading to the Mines. J.nury 30. Saciiliat represent.ti’es from all P”« .of darm.nyanl Aa-tria»™ «rrnlog 10 dtl the Rbeoi.b .ud We.tpb.h.n deputies who report that the miners are l JlDin B tb movement in ever-mcrCMing
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  • 373 190 Twbbam" 1 SIB DOVGU3 HAWS REPORT. General LivalmesS' Lord»-, 31 lh u. H.iz r»poftuhit our patrols Xd-»’p- Me Bin,b9BCiBbboU ot E P eb tillarr was acti” t 0 thB eouth JSTSS-** bood ot Passcbendaele. More Prisoner» Taken. London, January 31, 11.45 p.m. a- nwdu Haie’i r®P or t
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  • 567 190 TROOPSHIP DESTROYER TORPEDOED. [Reuter’s Telegrams Heavy Loss of Life. L ndou, January 30, 4 15 p.m. The Admiralty announced in the House of Commons on the 23rd were transport Aragon torpedoed and sunk on Djcembar 30, the auxiliary Os mini eh mined and sunk on Dacember 31, both in the
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  • 424 190 [Kbutxs’s Tbleobams.] FRESH COMPLICATIONS. More Delegates on Both Sides* Amsc rd am, January 31. At tbo Peace Conference at Brest-Litovsk when the sittings were resumed, Baron von Kuehlmaun announced that Bavaria would be specally represented, while M. Trotzky announced that two representatives of the Ukranian People’s Republic bad
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  • 468 191 [EMTM’i TB.MBAM» P«rtagw» Ahrm-L-rtidoo. February 1. J.»5 «.tn CorrMpoLdeow wbrcb p»»«d between the Ft'ivtl Gw.r«pbie«l Society »od the Geogr». P *Tbe be< l«tter wrote Mjl“« ‘*“l th PortMUtw nation was mo,t aI J by the Labourite proposal to Joond kiad of international state in Africa. Its chisf
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  • 1122 191 [Bt Tom Wbiuht Study of the lustily-growing national debts of Great Britain and France, with their separata and united loans, recalled to my mind an amusing story which, throug no 7 fault of its own. no longer seems amusing. Il tells of an Irishman looking at the Winged Victory.’
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  • 58 191 in which Mr. A. B. me case id wnicn Government Monopolies supervlion 1 g ed with committing extortion w>• chop in Seletar Eoad on November further proceeded within court yesterday afternoon, up 0i Timet of Wednesday. The e fl concluded and the hearing until the 9;h init. A
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  • 391 192 HA VAS SERVICE. UITEB.ALI.IED COUNCIL. Premiers Interviewed. 31 125 P j vZ*r CoEDDoittea held i»»*’ of triDie® or present together B’g h C C p r ims Ministers, Mr. Lloyd with tbs three H and M ClemPDCe au Bwrg St.)»» nd Frfnch Minis e 9 f B d»lsothelt»l> g bea
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  • 130 192 figUMs for 1917. A Pebmr y 2,10.10 p.tn. 'ot U 8 ?6 R th’general ">»»< tb.“ S’ B oI France wh.ch feeinoinj o f th. B) eince the '»«*****00 7 ,cbcci ot '288,0.0,000 wb cb ~a tot of nfeQ ,n *ol7. nd Odd to neu r .i'7 C
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  • 189 192 [Reuter's Telegrams.] London, Februa y 1, 6*35 p.m, At a bye-election at Prestwicb, Lieut. Cawley, the Coalitii n candidate, who is a son of the previous member who wts raised to tbe peerage was ele n t c d by 8,520 vet’s against 2,832 received by the Conservative
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  • 241 192 The G a neva Convention Act 1911 (Colonies) Order io Council 1917 comes into force in the Colony from F id»y, by direction of H. E tbe Governor. Th s provide for the kdiptation of the Act as follows (1) Tbe powers by the «mid
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  • 40 192 irquired into the rumour that bubonic pligue hid broken out at Fucbiatien (tba Chinese Quarter of Harbin). The rumour has been cffioially contra* dieted by the Japanese Consulate-General and tbe Red Cross Medical Rdiaf Station at Fuohiatien.
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  • 48 192 the Cabinet at Peking has promised General Luk Wing Ting tbe I spector-Gi-nAralshio of the three province of Kwingtuag, Kw*Dgsi, H uaa if he canc-h the indt-pondAnce” of the two Kwing and secures the withdrawal of Kwangsi troops from the province of Kwangtung.
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  • 777 192 COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES. The Secretaries forward the following excerpts from tbe Minutes of a Meeting of the Committee of tbe Penang Chrmbtr of Commerce held in the Chamber on Tuesday, 29th January. 1918, at 2 30 p.m. Present: A F. Goodrich E q Chiirman, C. M,
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  • 170 193 Paris, January 30, Rubber is quoted at 2a 3|dd, The Inter—Allied Conference had to-day Its first meeting in Ver saillew. During the airraids on London, there were 47 killed and 169 wounded. Fifteen enemy aeroplanes tried to make a new raid thia evening, There was no victim
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  • 32 193 fidge ot the Ch uo Chin Association cf Chins, registered on Do 12, 1913. is called upon lo furnish proof of its existence to the Registrar of Bociet lea.
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  • 40 193 is row being manufactured iq Singapore, and is being put on the market at a most reasonable pries. Thus kcal washermen can no longer orc are herga earbon tuda naik when thev try to rush ap prices—Xb.
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  • 91 193 a oorreaponcent from Singora write, to the Tiwm o/ Afa/jyi that during his iournev t ou. u. EMB. u a; m B, r EdorA man, i.cm g, Cnief S.ctretarv. FMB Would .pend Dl(fht ,t 81n)iorai r b ng, Cflumpoo, and at the royal palace at hou.
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  • 617 193 CONCLUDING DAY’S RESULTS. Our Own Kuala Lumpur, February 2. The concluding day of the Selangor Etces wm favoured with fine weather. The attendance wai excellent and the going good. A, Parsons, who was riding Bwrg Second Race, wai thrown iff his saddle and sustained concussion of the
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  • 208 193 Under the War Tax Ordinance, ths following division! are established t Settlements of Singapore (excluding CbriitoM Island,) Penang, Malacca and Labiin sod the District of Christmas Island, Toe following are approved as mditon for the purpose ef certifying ststemeoti delivered under section 12 of the Ordinwoe, and
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  • 216 193 towards tbe end of January a Murine Court of Enquiry was held intotta conduct of Mr. N. G Majir, late chief c»* cer of the Manapouri and now mMtw o the ship. Tne matter arose from tn »PP 1 cation by Mr. M. B. Wilson Wd«o»» Iof merly
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  • 834 194 1 i of tb B,ng»po« T “rub "’.b.ld oo Fnd.j. Toe Spo.M Cuo Firraof> p Mid( d over ed.M- T»’ 9 8 ded G. K K MughrtoD, Meu>. a L H M. VV.G. B 'fl Sauodrri. W. E. 81 b, r a, Lubmn »°d We bn. fl
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  • 2576 194 FURTHER PROCEEDINGS. Moki Midical E vidinci. In tbe Supreme Court tbig morning noop, before Mr, Justice L M. Wocdward, senior Puisne Judge, tbe hearing was continued of a suit “Io the goods of Cboong Cbeng Kian, debased, L.m Gi k Teen Neoh, plaintiff vt. Lira Kee, Choong
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  • 51 195 granted for 1918 number 36, and there an also one appuser’s licence and two country lice ices. For Penang there are 12 lioenooa for town auctioneers, two for* country auctioneers, two for appraisers, one for appraiser and land valuer and one for appraiier and home
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  • 60 195 on good authority tbit every single unofficial member of thaKnili Lumpur Sanitary Bond is in favour of tbl Board meetings being thrown open to the public through tb?ir representative!—tbl Frees It is even d th*t the Chairman, Mr- C. F. Green, woo i< one of the moil
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  • 77 195 that Mr, Pat Zilwii cl the Chartered Bank, who some time W was prosecuted by the Police (over which ?r< secufion a Skh constable at tbe instance of Goverment was charg' d and convicted of perjury and sentenced to a year’s imprison* hr nt), has now reamed f>om
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  • 91 195 ia tbe Gouette tor IjJJf it io uuiiuHu iu kuv information that as from January 1J the Minister of Munitions will p*J Straits Settlement wolfram X 3 per 1 for ore on a basis of minimum con sixfy-fuur per cent, of W 0 3, del> warehouse London
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  • 92 195 A few days ago we mentioned that four Chinese corpses bad been near Lunas and that an eD Q° ,r h held on the spot by the Sou Medcal Oificer and the Poucs-to-day that as a result of these tions, a coroner’s inquest is to f|(
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  • 1006 196 Disrui» Caw- delivered last week by Mr jedgment w 10 tho fourrb J«* tlOd kj-Jy Jo tba affairs of cise relating j d wb o died in To U uik 3». March iyl of tbo clarnnd b 9 P “Xory note «<” 12 < 000 d ted oo
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  • 276 196 Annual General Meeting, The AonuU General Mooting wa h old on Sa u day last in lb Chub II ua3 at 6*45 pm. Tub Rport and Accounts for the year 1917 were adpted and tho following offictri elert-d f r the year 1918 viz President. Hon. Mr.
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  • 532 196 Seifaring men run great risks in a war like this, some from the action of the enemy, such as the reported loss of the two ships in the Msditerr*ne*u at the ecd of tbeyear, one a transport, with over, six bunlred lives lost. Other dingers
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  • 20 196 will be held at 480 p.m., on Firday, at tbe Free School,
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  • 164 196 astonish'd tbe natives a good deal and sent them back to their homes without tbe customary crick in the neck. An old friend reminds ua that it is the second mishap of tbe kind tbit he remembers, Thirty-six years ago the Princes Albert
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  • 229 197 vs. Mb. Dvbx Mb Exbcbiili TBAM Th. .KO.d Bl be “o’? T E,cl«.d. on B.tord.y played on El o biel’. t».m, rfterscon n a N C 0». of tbe oonpoied j Mr. Dann’s te.m, T r .,t of Penang. It a tbrougbouta. will be noticed from the wore» >
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  • 15 197 is satisfied that the German Reading Room has ceased to exiet.
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  • 44 197 Messrs. Boustead Co., Agents of the Ratrat Basin Tin Dredging Co, inform us that they are in receipt of cabled ad rices from the Msmger ot the Company that the oatpat tor January was 470 picuU, hours worked 500 and the yards treated 65,000,
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  • 54 197 returns for the wetk ended January 26 show 306 death*, including no European and two Eurasian* 250 Chinese died. Cau«pi of d**ath included convulsions 24. malar id fever 39, dysentery 17, beri-beri 46, phthisis 45, and pneumonia 26. The ratio uf deaths was 43.14 per 1,000 ot
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  • 200 197 called at the r» quest of Messrs. Yau N<tn P*n, au Chian Heng and Thong Biong Lm. was held at the Protectorate 8 ngspore on Monday, J*nuary 28, and the following rear Intiou propr »<»d by Mr. Y-.U uNagan Pau atd
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  • 298 197 Tinxis Toubmambnt. Tbofullo”» -‘l* b a iqV d CM Pf r WIL& Id ar.d F Matson (4); p enrX E H Bwit rand F B Bictatt (5). 01, rci... Handicap-F C Gregson C K L^ei’ Handicap-Mra Kinder and Mrs Clark o Mn Prenti» and Mr» Harvey (1);
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  • 76 197 engineer of 488, Cairn Hill Road, is given have to file a specification of an invention for improvements in machines for macerMiag and cropping all grades of scrap rubber, extracting gutta peicba fromjthe leaves of gntta percha trees, and or pulveribiug copn, ground nul? other substances
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  • 109 197 in which Mr, A. E- Pattinsou, of the M inop >ii -a D 'partmerit, is charged with commi ting extortion on D oemb=>r 4 by taking fiv gio rotes in m a chaodu shopkeeper in Havelock Rud was confirm* d before M r Ham in
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  • 119 197 P iciC pal uf the hlwaid VII. (Strair B and F.M Medicul 8;boo], woo went Hime on sick leave about months ago, is now said not to bo returnb< g altb° hl9 Cha ge WiDg t 0 continued ill I” vbw of this a movement has be?n
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  • 175 197 Mr, Khaw Joo Tok advise» Ug output» from the six coa)n ln Pl month of January, were 0T Tbe Toogkah Harbour Tiu N. L. 125 tons, Weekly output from 27 h Janu.n us February b j iog one week 25 ton., J Tin Bjotong No Lability—cib ic 73,800;
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  • 21 197 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day it >135.75, buyers no sellers, in Singapore, (refined) at,>136.25, buyers no sellon.
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  • 25 197 (From Our Own Correspondtni} London, Febnary 1, The prices in the London Rubber Market o-day were: Pale Crepe 2/3 Ribbed Smoked 2/2}
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  • 41 197 for the Municipality of Singapore, correotvd up to D cember 81, is published in the QautU, P contains 98 names. The lot is I mixed one in respect of nationality and includes one German.
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  • 45 197 a proohmstios by thn Kmg requiring returns to be mads of B itish prcp?rty in territory in hostile occupation, and claims by British autj°cts against person l firms, companies and cor* poritiona residing or carrying on business in such teriitory.
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  • 67 197 has notified that His Majesty tbe King J* not be advised to exercise his power of allowance with respect to the Ordinances:—To amend tho l*w relating o Fraudulent Marks on Merchandise! provide for the Licensing and Contra Dealers in Second-hand Go ids; to
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  • 106 197 Director Mechanical Transport for India and A» t nt Military Secretary at the I°di* arrivtd here on Saturday from T*ip lD lM called at the Residency and spent the < on shore. On Sunday morning Lord# 0 who is one of the world’s greatest asi ties
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  • 1040 198 «ith all the caution dictated Spe»klog wrt o( dermaQ tricks it b I i^doe^we m thorough ly es U tliehed really 1 a hia b.’en a series of that tbera nt neoUJ and very serious perfectly ?P° D y Even we strikes 10 Timet' view that the bit.
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  • 28 198 Inspector, Railway Police. Perak, has been transferred to Kuiia Lumpur in the cip«city of Acting Chief Inspector of Rulway Polio?, Inspector O’Mihoney comes to Taiping,
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  • 117 198 member of Frtnch Parlia- for Saigoo, who arrived in Singapore, a few days ago, with Mrs. Outrey and M of the lodo-Coiua Civil Service, has hfr for the F.M.B. He will be accompat ied as far as P n*ng by Mrs. A. D ojou, Fiench Consul in
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  • 632 198 There were many fri nds on the st?amer ti goodbye to Mrs. Allen D-mnys who, with her two children, is going to C ylon for a holiday, Mr. Mariapen, of the Education Office, h*s euocppd-d chief clerk J M Lie, of the Health Office, Tdipiog, who goes
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  • 906 199 P“^ t 0 celebr,tS tns irwt Ab Amr-TUn and Now, Bh.kJpĕ»r« in"K'”g Henry V” make, th* Wwtmor.l.nd on the night befer. the bettie of Agiocourt, bemoan the neooity <* '<•• Britl,h ,r op teriKO with the opposing French army lithwhom King Henry had deeded to inn ieiM the
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  • 124 199 [Eiutik’b Telegrams, j The British Commend* London, Feb* nary 3, Tbe military correspondent of the Observer learns that the British General Staff and the Higher Command recognise tbe va U 3 of tbe machinery of the Versailb s Council. Tbe military leader» in London, at G neral
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  • 30 199 London, February 2. gr 6m6nt h B been conc’untv .‘nd W of London B«k with ler B nk Dd P B <6210,*****9. gBreg te de PO’ite of
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  • 53 199 Strike Throat»»! L :odoo, February 2. 5.40 m. tb. Dutcb b’X“ utTs e d ‘l“ 6Ute th solved to call y Socialists have reThey demand that Mondaythe foodstuffs in hM Qo rernmen t sieie all h equally IBong tb e U fop T u OD d
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  • 523 199 [Riutbb’s Tiligbamil REVIEW OF THE YEAR Statement by the First Lord. Landon, February 2,105 S r Erio G?dd*s, First Lord of the L mirtlty, stated io in interview that ha thought we are now sinking submirinegt fast as Germany can build them. London, February 2,1,20 im Sir
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  • 1459 200 [Biuria’s Til« obamB HTENSIVE DISIUHBANCES BARRICADESJN BERLIN. Strikin' Comaittw DissolvedLwdoo, Febroiry 1, 7 p m. ~b|. from Amut-rd»!» «utei that, tbs S tb« Btnkera’ Commifes and pro SS meeting "••the etrike more. X »ill endanger tbe public ntetj, ?'fornaatioe. ot «»J o h n i-eottb. .trike
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  • 929 201 [Rimae Tiligbams.] Th* 2»'.i 03 ria Liodo". F.bm-7 1, 6 i I P w A F-mb W* P.", b "p.°H r X' *’f "“‘V fourteen io tbs suburbs. Thii total includes eleven women and five cblldrto. Two hucd’id and seven perione wsreTjured, 131 in the city
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  • 512 201 [Biutib’b Telzobims.] BIR EDWARD CARSON. Pledges to Ulster. L ndon, February 1 fiqc Sir Edward Carson has received l®' reception in B If<wt. He *aid io tb fi of a speech, that he bid come to co with Ulster on a very serious situation London, February 3,
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  • 391 202 [BMW»’» T»»«AX. J L .n. st.testh.t tbo enemy B>' f ’port. in th» neighbourraided one s P ud3n railway, A few hood of th o Y P r jD{? We belt off an “w. P Mptnred 171 P ri6oner da;,n 3 bombed sn aorodrom. at b T g
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  • 42 202 Ilk??. aia y Mail. kt 1DD n has from HongAC H ,ler dJ** 0 transfer if r v Bain K oes to 0 for the Co Lt l‘ wher c Urk whioi, l 5 y ears the pogi-
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  • 351 202 [Rkutir’s Tilegrams.] In the Occupied Districts London, February 2. Reuter bee received from a trustworthy Belgian citizen, who escaptd from Valenciennes an account of the appalling condition of the occupied districts of France from which little news ever reaches England. He confirms that a highly organised
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  • 86 202 Penang Contbiiutions, Total sum already acknowledged >6,940 F. G> Penny 100 Mias Pritchard Miss M, Pritchard 20 H. Welham 25 Hon. W. C Michell 50 R. P. rbillips 100 P M. Murphy 10 O M Hende’-aon 50 J R. Murriy 50 H. A, Low 100 Justice
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  • 57 202 8 mgei B«tu 33.500, Vai D’or 27,250, Kuran 28 200, Ab’akcff 54,100. Straits SttUnmnt* (Bsrt&m) 20,0'0, Windsor (F.M.B 37,900. M yfbld 3i,500, M rjlmton 16,130, Foothill* (Malays) 15,600. Modi Syndicate 11,914, Kuala Stdiin 27,6t0 lb. P. j r*k River Valley, 21,204 lb Sfman>?gol. 14,171 lb.; Jury, 6,000
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  • 437 202 Maxwell Bead MurderAn inquest was held in the Third Court yesterday by Mr. 8. H. Langston, sitting as coroner, intothecircumstancas attending the death of a Javanese sateh seller named Taj*k which occurred in the General Hospital on the 23rd of January as the result, it is alleged,
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  • 69 202 The Japanese Consul has received a telegram from Irkutsk reporting that disorders have again broken out there. The Maximalist* received reinforcements and heavy guns and the Cossacks decided to surrender to avoid further bloodshed. Many Russian officers are arriving in Harbin, the
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  • 26 202 (From Our Own Corretpondeni-') London, February 2, The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Pah Crepe 2/3 Ribbed Sucked 2/2 J
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  • 25 202 Latest Quotations Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to*day st $136, buyers no sailers, and in Singapore, (tpfined) at $137, business done, (220 tons sold).
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  • 879 203 [Bi Tom Wm«J tbl lM B b iß 2£ nroacbes. lft ing it to think of somer L wffi There’, someUioK with it I have read Pett Madame Priaoe,” but beyond the «Ut.maat that thia new novel gives one a delightfully intimate feeling of acquaintance with a
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  • 531 203 Fining Siction, Mre. Ebden, Hon, Secretary of the Penang Women Workers for Queen Mary’s Needle* work Guild, hae received the following correspondence COPT Quin Mm e Niidliwoii Guild. friary Court, St. James's Palace, S.W I. T A.gs.t 2,1917. Hon. Lady Lawley, Hon, Seo, Dear Madam, I
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  • 49 203 The output of the Kampong KsMjtoj Tin Dredging, Ltd., for the month January, were ,g., Hours run 1,210; Cubic Yards tm* 153,700; Total Piculi 1,014.99; Beilmi« sale 176.641.53. ra The output of the Tronoh Mines, W from all sources for the month of Januaty was 1.740 piculs.
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  • 33 203 ■ent by th. Inp®*' A. OWUFU UIiUUDUUr, bbui vj of Japan as a tribute to tbe defender» Verdun, has been handed by the Ambassador in Paris to the Verdun.
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  • 138 203 We read in the Indian Daily News V V W I V M V WWW ww Th* public in Calcutta ar* perplexed over the release of Capto’i of th* Emdtn and others. We take on parole not to fight against ue, WJ advise and direct and the weak Indian defence
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  • 1072 204 20 Reuter told us tbit Ofl J‘ na I. Britain had informbe bad l’* r h tb B a «the Briti.h B ’"7 desir. to reaffirm tbe S“Md decUratio» of 1815 .nd to trelte Swiss Government that in rt w U “be United State. ‘'TprtM. toey
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  • 12 204 cabling on Jwuary 2 states that the silver market is quiet.
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  • 33 204 of the Mcnglembu Lode Syndicate which was fixed for yesterday afternoon had to be postponed to Wednesday, the 13th instant, at 3 p.m, as there was no qu ium.
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  • 39 204 from Penang during ououuiiug the past few weeks and for the first time for years past there are several desirable residences” in tha market at reasonable rentals.
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  • 51 204 which has been mentioned several times io recent Eist African comruun qu4-i,is the priacip*! port in Portuguese Africa into which tarritory the enemy orces retroatel when finally driven from East Africa. Ic is named after the still hvmg consort of the kte Kiog Carlos and mother of King
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  • 525 204 Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Pearse have left for Colombo. Tbe Rovererd Brother James has gone to Ceylon for a short visit. Mr. M. J. Finhy of the Chartered Bank leaves Penang to day on transfer tn Medan. Mr. 0, V, Thomas left here on Saturday for Singapore
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  • 850 205 From '’7^‘tend»nt. of the "di.-wbo-e o.igin.l atcrtUrj of 8-»" rriTe< j .t same 11 Moa* t hor lummH Tommy was be^ r< L D tarei Jeruialem, but rd ’..rd they’d «•p*’'” to .end .11 I didn’t know they th. bloomin' pruoner. ere rb Bhe H Tb« A»*!»'* 11
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  • 156 205 [Resteb’s lelegkams] COLOURED CORPS’ SUCCESS. Useful Capture of Food London, February 3 6.35 p.m, An Eist African official commun qod says The Cape Coloured Corps nccupipd Nwenhe without opposition and pursued the enemy to Mtnnk*. ”We Pamunibilr, forty.five mih« inland from Port Amelia, capturing thirty tons of food
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  • 31 205 A Slight Advance. A P.le.fi™” F" bro r y 3. 935 p.m. 1« to 1 6 C,B I communique g a y g don»gJ.Bui°“? l B ene “T »w»pl»o«
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  • 436 205 [Ruutuu’s Ti LlaUMa j SIR DOUGLAS HAIG’S REPORT The Usual Raiding. London, February 3 4 |q 8 r D.ug’as H<ig reports: We d off raiders with les» fo the east of P Wood. “Hostile artillery was active < Epehy, in the neighbourhood of the Ar Cambrai Wood, to
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  • 139 206 [UR »’> 1 STE2N MILITANT OASUBES. cnciALIST DEPUTY COURT-MARTIALLED 50 L Outbreak in Austrian)9ioi‘d*a,j February 3. Berlin announces that Al -i*ur».re lommooiog to the colours “•“.I-* .I les’sMd mon recalled from tt,t.r"or entlll tr de who plttlol h tb tri%i f f the Socialist Dittmann h.a
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  • 342 206 Dr. Tuck's PositionThe Peking Daily Newt, remarking that its policy has always been to refrain from unduly criticising the authorities, states that it does not intend to mince m < Vers in connection with the lethargy and bungling wbioh the Authority have been disp'ayiug in their methods
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  • 492 206 The Malays Tribune voices the opinion that probably nowhere in the Empire is the Unant ciPel upon to shoulder so much of the repairs that bis landlord’s property tbat be h*pp?ns to be occuping requires from time to time as on Singapore. Oar contemporary says
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  • 78 206 Transfer to New Company. (J'rom Our Oum Singapore, February 5. The Indragiri report states that the total number of shares allotted is 130,000 of which 100,000 are allotted as fully paid in consideration of the transfer to the I-idra-giri Rubber and Gutta Percha. Cimpiny. Upon 29,074 shares three
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  • 2624 206 SEVENTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Attesting Solicitor’s Evidenci. In tbe Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Ju tice L. M. vVoidward, Senior Puisne Judge, the hearing was continued of a suit “In the goods of Choong Cheng Kian, deceased, Lim Gaik Teen Neob. plaintiff vs. Lim Gaik Kee, Choong
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