Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 3 May 1918

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 103. VOL. LXXVI. FRIDAY, 3rd MAY, 1918 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    ENEMY PEACE OFFENSIVE.
    323 2 A NEW CAMPAIGN. [Rkutek Telegram <J London, May 2. A peace cffensive, the best confirmation of the enemy defeat at Ypres, is contained in the indications of the imminence of 8 renewal of the pence offensive. Thus the German papers state that the Pope is about to
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    Emperors to Confer.
    40 2 Amsterdam, May 2. It is repotted from Vienna that the Austrian Emperor end Baron Burian, the Foreign Minister, will shortly visit the Kaiser at the German Headquarters, and that far-reaching political importance is attached to the meeting.
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    THE POPE AND THE WAR.
    663 2 M. Louis de la Vallee Poussin, Professor at the University of Ghent, writes to the Times.” Much has been written in British papers, and it may inaccurately, on the peace policy of the Holy See and the contre-coup of this policy amongst Roman Catholics. It
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    V. C. for Airmen.
    318 2 Loudon, May 1. The Vic oria Cross has been awarded to two officers of the Royal Air Force. Lieut Alan Jerrard attacked five enemy aeroplanes and shot down one afi&lt;e. He then attacked an enemy aerodrome from a height of 50 feet, and engaged single-hand-d 19
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    Canada's Finances.
    195 2 Ottawa, May 1. In?he Canadian House of Commons, Mr Maclean, Acting Minister of Finance, B‘ated that the year’s war expenditure amounted to £69,000,000 The total since the ou‘b r eak of war was £175,000,000. Canada’s net debt was £240,000,000. The estimated d* ficit for the cu-rent year was
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    Lord Derby.
    94 2 SPEECH IN PARIS. Paris, May 2. Cordial speeches were exchanged by President Poincare and Lord Derby, on the occasion of the latter’s presentation of his credentials as our new Ambassador in Paris. Lord Derby voiced the British admiration for the splendid French feats of arms, and declared that
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    Australian Recruiting Boom.
    21 2 Melbourne May 2. Recruiting continues to improve. Mr. Heitmann, member of the Federal Parliament for Kalgoorli°, has enlisted.
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    Silver.
    11 2 London, Ap r il 30. The silver market is steady.
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    MERCANTILE MARINE'S SACRIFICES.
    251 2 UNION PRESIDENT AND BOYCOTT OP GERMANY. London, May 2. Mr Havelock Wilson, President of the British Seamen and Firemen’s Union, in a statement as regards the sacrifices of the Mercantile Marine said 15,000 British seamen bad been murdered by the German pirates daring the war. The sea
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    American Vessel Sunk.
    37 2 73 LIVES LOST BY COLLISION. New York, May 2. The coasting steam°r City of Athens was sunk, as the result o F a collision with a cruiser. 74 on board the steamer were drowned.
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    New Wooden Ships.
    25 2 Washington, May 2. Mr. Hurley, the Shipping Controller, states that the n*w shipping programme includes 200 wooden vessels of 4,500 tons each.
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    America’s Shipping Record.
    20 2 Washington. May 1, The Shipping Board announces that 240,000 tons of new shipping were constructed in April.
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    Labour and the War.
    105 2 MR HENDERSON’S STATEMENT. London May 2. Mr Arthur Henderson specifically informed the Evening Standard that no conference with German Social Democrats was now possible until they accepted the position of no annexation and no punitive indemnities, and the right of self-determin-ation, and until they were ready
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    Zanzibar’s Contributions.
    29 2 London, May 2 The Government has gratefully accepted £20,000 from the Government of Zinzibar towards the cost of the war, making £70,000 altogether from the Zanzibar Government.
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    Japan’s Policy.
    108 2 NEW FOREIGN MINISTER’S DENIAL. Tokio, May 1, Baron Goto, the new Foreign Minister, in an interview with Reuter’s correspondent, declared that the suggestion'was baseless that the policy of the Japanese Government would be changed, or that it? loyalty to all i‘s engagements had lessened oMng to the change
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    General Botha.
    39 2 Copetown, May 2. In the House of Assembly» General Botha announced that be would not attend the Imperial Conference, but would send Mr. Burton, Minister of Railways and Finance, to assist General Smuts in representing the Union.
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    General Trenchard.
    152 2 PREMIER’S STATEMENT. London, May 29. In the House of Commons, in the debate on the Estimates for the Royal Air Force, the Premier said the Cabinet asked General Smuts, whose tact, sagacity and knowledge of the war nobody could doubt, to investigate whether General Trencbard’s resignation should be
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    The Two Thousand.
    58 2 London, May 1. The race for the Two Thousand Guineas resulted Gainsborough 1 Some Kiss 2 Blink 3 Thirteen ran. Won by one and a half lengths; six length? between second «and third. Betting :4to 1 against Gainsboror gh 2to 1 Some Kiss 100 to 6 Blink
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    The Rubber Market.
    34 2 The following were the rubber quotations in London on May lit, ins’ received to-day Plantation Ist latex crepe 2s 4d Smoked Sheet 2s 3d [By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead &lt;k Co.]
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER SALES.
    48 2 [From Our Own Correspondent. Singapore, May 3. At Singapore rubber auctions, 831 tons were offered j and 461 tons sold. The market was weak, prices falling. Ribbed smoked closed at $99 to $lOO, fine pale $lOl to $lO5, and for the others prices were lower.
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    THE SHARE MARKET.
    324 2 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, May 3. Tin shares are more active and in good demand. Industrials are firmer. Letters received in London from Penang on March 10th had been 84 days in transit. To provide agai st complete exhaustion of local supplies of petrol, the Ceylon
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
    739 2 A French Cousular telegram states that a ministerial decree renews M Albert Sarraut’s mission io Indo-China. Messrs D Anderson. C H Miller and VEH Bhodes, of the Kajang district, are leaving shortly to join the Forces. We regret to learn that news has been received of the
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    WAR, WOMEN AND WEDLOCK.
    1069 3 THREE PHASES. In the Divorce Court, this letter was read from a wife to her husband “Dear Gaston, —Before the die is cast, and an irrevocable wrong done to our children, I ask you to consider the situation squarely. I feel, you and I have never
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    JAPANESE WOMEN vs. JAPANESE MEN.
    392 3 .—Ex. Dimorphism appears to have gone further among the Japanese than among other races. Of course, to support such an assertion as this it would be necessary to take a very large number of anthropometric measurements and to make careful averages. But if mere impressions
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    RECORD EGG-LAYING
    201 3 All previous world's records for individual egg-laying by White Leghorns have been eclipsed in the Bendigo single test competition, where 530 birds of various breeds have been under test for twelve months. The winner and new record holder is Mr. H. B. James’s White Leghorn pullet Lady Constant
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    LEAGUE OF NATIONS PROPOSAL.
    97 3 Washington. March 23.—Senator Owen has introduced a motion in the Senate authorising the President to call a league of Allied nation?. He urged that the United States, Great Britain. France, Japan, Italy and China should draft a treaty, stipulating that, on the principles of international law.
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      173 3 Pain in the Region of the Hips. Have you pains in the region of the hips. Many people suffer from pain in the region of the hips. They may come from a touch of Sciatica, or Rheumatism, or from a strain of the muscles. They may have other causes, but
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    BIRTHS.
    44 4 Kennedy—On 18th April, at “The Warren,” Stevenage, Hert a England, to Barbara (ne6 Guinness) the wife of Major C. C. Kennedy, m c, a daaghter. Myers.—On the 30th April, at the European Hospital, Kuala Lumper, to Mr and Mrs G Myers a son.
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    MARRIAGE.
    24 4 Seth—Segnitz.—March sch, in Paris, G G Secb, Straits Settlements Civil Service, to Denise, widow of Lieut Henry Segnitz, killed in action in 1915.
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    IN MESOPOTAMIA.
    785 4 The report covering a year of British administration of the Baghdad Vilayet is a record of achievement in almost every respect. That part of the country, like Basra farther south, has been opened op in a way that has helped to bring contentment to a people who cannot
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    TIN PRICES
    14 4 To-day’s quo’ation for unrefined tin in Penang was $171.00 per picul buyers.
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    Tin Outputs.
    338 4 Mr Khaw Joo Tok advises us that the output of tin of Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Co’s;(N. L.) for the month of April was 109 tons. Mr Khaw Joo Tok advises us that the output from Tin Bentong (No Liability) for April last, was: Cubic yards 71,300, hours
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    HERE AND THERE.
    1577 4 The death in an Austrian fortress of Prinzip, who assassinated Sarajevo th Archduke Ferdinand Recalled, and bis consort, a Bohemian, formerly Countess Sophia Ohotek, sends one’s thoughts back to the preliminary act in the great world drama in June, 1914. The late Archduke, the Silent Man of
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    THE GABLES
    163 4 iThe EasUrn Extension Company has received the following from LondonT:*—“Deferred Messages now be accepted for North America and h** yond via the following Copapanies Ang 10 Direct United States, and Western UnionThe “Vorwarts,” while denying tie report published in various Berlin papers, that there is to he a
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      6 4 •S’fay WAere Everybody Stays. “E. O.”
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      50 4 THE TIDES. The following are tha tides for to-day and bo-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To DAT. 4.18 a.m. (4fc. 5i0.) 10 6 am. (2ft. Bin.) 4.8 p.m. (sft. sin.) 11.33 pm, (2ft Oin.) To-mobrow. 6.18 A.m. (4f 4in.) 11.42 am. (3ft. 3in 5.42 p.m. (sfr. lin.)
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  • Obituary
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    46 4 DEATH?. Ramsay—March 15, at Queen’s Gate, Eleanor Julia, wife of Sir George Dalhousie Ramsay, CB, and daaghter of the late John Crawford, F R S, Singapore. Thomson—March 8, after a short illness, at Hillside, Bishops Teignton, South Devon, Thomas Scott Thomson, formerly of Singapore, aged 80
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    ARTILLERY DUELS.
    162 5 GAINS IN MESOPOTAMIA AND PALESTINE. GERMANY AND HOLLAND. GOVERNMENT AND IRELAND Sir Douglas Ilaig reports considerable enemy artillery activity at Locre, also north and south of the Lys, in the Arras and Lens sectors, and south of the Somme. There was also a lively bombardment on the French
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  • France and Belgium
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      THE OFFENSIVE.
      827 5 [Reuter Telegrams.] ENEMY’S BAD FORI NIGHT, London, May I. From the point of view of the enemy’s fighting strength, the Germans, despite their spectacular successes, can be regarded as having had the worst on balance of nearly six weeks of fighting, for it must not be f irgotten
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      The Enemy’s Defeat in Flanders.
      158 5 PARIS COMMENTS. [Havas Telegrams.] Paris, May I.—The French newspapers are unanimous in stating that the recent fighting in Flanders has been a veritable sanguinary defeat for the Germans. The Echo de Paris speaks of the struggle on Monday as follows From six in the morning
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      Ukraine Supplies.
      58 5 Berne, May I.—According to the Munich papers of April 30th, the Ukraine bad agreed to supply the Central Powers in the month of May with twelve million lbs of wheat. The Ukraine Government now informs them that it cannot fulfil its promises, because the Ukrainian peasants are showing
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      Lord Derby in Paris.
      168 5 Paris, May 2.—President Poincare received to-day Lord Derby who, after submitting his credentials as British Extraordinary Plenipotentiary and Ambassador, delivered an address to the President, in which he said I succeed Sir Francis Bertie at a time when the agreement already existing between the two countries
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    HOLLAND AND GERMANY.
    187 5 AGREEMENT REACHED. Amsterdam, May 2. [Reuter’s Teligrams] The ‘Nieuwe Rotterdam Oourant” reports that a mutually satisfactory arrangement has been reached between Holland and Germany, and that an announcement may be expected very shortly. Negotiations Proceeding. Amsterdam, May 2. The Handelsblad says the statement by the Nieuwe Rotterdam
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    Dutch Shipping.
    730 5 THE BRITISH REPLY. London, May 1. While rec rgnising ?hat the Dutch delegates who discussed outstanoing questions at the end of last year between the Netherlands and the Associated Governments were not plenipotentiaries. His Majesty’s Government repudiates the sug. gestion that the negotiations were merely preliminaries od which
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  • The Near East.
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      Palestine.
      103 5 BRITISH ADVANCES. London, May 1. A Palestine official report says: Early yesterday morning, our forces east of the Jordan attacked the enemy holding the foothills south of Es-Salt. Our mounted troops moving northwards along the east bank of the river, and turning eastward, were within two miles of Es-Salt
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      Mesopotamia “Push.”
      33 5 1,800 PRISONERS. Loodon, May 1. A Mesopotamia official report says We reached the Tauq river on Tuesday. We captured twelve more field guns on April 29th. The prisoners are now 1,800.
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      British Rule in Baghdad.
      141 5 A YEAR’S RECORD. London, May 1. A Bxghdad telegram says the results of a year of British military administration of the Baghdad Vilayet are highly satisfactory. Land untilled for many years is bearing crops, roads and railways have been energetically developed, sanitation improved, and dispensaries for
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      FREE FROM “CULTURE.”
      177 5 Lot of Togoland Natives Improved Under British Rule. It is calculated, says a Colonial report, that the natives in the British sphere of occupation in Togoland now have 33 per cent, more land under cultivation than they had at any period under German rule. Release from constant
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  • Italy’s Campaign
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      Italian Front.
      51 5 BRITISH RAIDS. London, May 1. An Pa’lan rfficid r* p&gt;rr. -avs the British made raids south-west of Canove aud south of AsLgo, ii:flic‘ing losses There is reciprocal artillery fire at Tonale and astride the Bren'a and near Cornuda. A direct hit blew up an enemy ammunition dump at
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      Bessarabia.
      94 5 RUSSIA’S PROTEST TO RUMANIA. Moscow, May 1. The Government has protested against the rtcent Rumsmau sun aocemeut stating that Rumania will henceforth consider Bessarabia an inalienable part of Rumania. The proest acds that (bis is a flagrant violation of the agreement between Russia and the previous Rumanian Government, also
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      THE RUSSIAN SUPPLIES.
      259 5 For practical purposes the Russian stock* at the present time are narrowed down to those in the Ukraine, Don Cossacks, and Kuban, a vast area, nevertheless, where the peasants are still the possessors of grain which they concealed from Kerensky’s i&gt;specters and have yet no apparent inducement
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      Naval Losses.
      55 5 Lond n, Mpy 1. The Admiralty reports that, tbe sloop Cowslip was and sunk on the April Five officers and one n an, who aie missing, are presumed to Lave beta killed by the explosion. Torpedo boat No. 90 foundered in heavy weather on April 25tb. One efficer
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      The “ Vindictive.”
      136 5 The Vindictive.” London, May 1. In the House of Co nmons, Dr Macnamara stated that, the Government were considering whether they should leave tbe Vindictive unrepaired as an &lt; xample and inspiration to the public. Soldier»* Leave. In the House of Commons, Mr HA Watt urged that soldiers who were
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    Prinzip Dead.
    24 5 Amsterdam, May 1. Prinzip, who assassinated the Arcbduke Ferdinand and his wife, has died of con sumption in the Theresien Stadt fortress.
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    THE IRISH CRISIS.
    221 5 bEW DIFFICULTIES. London, May 2. Sir Edward Carson has written to tbe Secretary of the Irish Southern Unionist Committee declaring that it is little short of insanity to reopen the qu stion of Home Rule midst the gravest European crisis. The ‘‘Daily News” Lobby correspondent says the
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    “THE IRISH ISSUE IN ITS ASPECT.”
    576 5 The author of a new book with the above title, Mr. Shane Leslie, is an Irish Nationalist and the son of an American mother (by which relationship he is a first cousin of Mr. Winston Churchill), he is already favourably known to the English
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    The Budget.
    89 5 NEW TAXATION ADOPTED. London, May 2. The highest Budget in the history of the world is passing easily through the House of Commons. The total taxation involved is £842,000,000, but the House of Comrrous confirmed all the necessary resolutions after a brief and tranquil discussion. The new Sugar
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    GERMANY’S BRIDGE TO THE EAST.
    785 6  -  (By K. N. Colville.) Of late there have been a good many references in the press of the Central Powers to that Mittel-Europa scheme, so much to the fore in the first year of the war, which was to turn the present military alliance of
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    TERRIBLE QUERY ANSWERED
    155 6 News has just reached The Hague of a criminal case which was heard before the Assize Court of Ghent, and the result of which answers one of tTfe most terrible queries suggested by German outrages during the war. A Belgian woman named Arsena V. P. was charged
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    LOG BOOK
    958 6 The Chosen Yusen Kaisha resumed its Vladivostock service and despatched frem Osaka on March 2 the s. Heijo Maru. The s. Heian Maru followed her on March 9. The s Kagoshima Maru, 5,460 tons, of the Harada Kisen Kaisha, Osaka, chartered by the French Government, has not been
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    MALACCA TRAGEDY.
    283 7 M.M.” SIX PERSONS POISONED. A tragic affair is reported from Malacca which, as the result cf a dispensing mistake, strychnine hydrochloride being administered instead of quinine, six pergns in th o Malacca Hospital lost th&lt;ir lives, wll le ten others who took the P cison recovered. &gt; a
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
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      CHINESE ADVISORY BOARD.
      312 7 [To thb Editor of the “Pinano Gazette.”] gir t The r e is a significant letter in your wiiely-read journal of yesterday’s date by Inquirer,” who brought to public notice a state of affairs none too commendable to the gentleman concerned. lam extremely surprised that only seven,
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    TO-NIGHT’S BAND PROGRAMME
    50 7 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 5 p.m. to-day 1. Selection The Bat ...Bt r auss 2. One Step The Picadilly Picadillo ...Holmes 3. Selection Madeline Sherry ...Felix 4. Waltz La Barcarolle ...Fetras 5. March Le Pere la victoire Ganne
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    In the Heat.
    125 7 Colonel Roosevelt told at the Plattsburg Training Camp a hot-weather story “Today,” he began, “is like the day when the Major said to the Colonel Colonel, I bet I’ve sweat 24 gallons this afternoon.’ Major,’ said the Colonel, gentlemen don’t sweat—they perspire. Hosses sweat, Sir.’ "‘Then, by
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    AS OTHERS SEE US.
    969 7 THE ENGLISH IN THE HAGUE. A strange meeting took place in the town, writes a correspondent in the Telegraaf," a day or two ago. The cast consisted of two officers and two boys. The officers were standing in front of a bookseller’s shop, pointing out to
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    THE CEYLON WRECK.
    88 7 Captain and Crew Bate. Colombo, April 19.—A telegram from Batticaloa cotticeming the steamer which is aground on the east coast states that the accident took place shortly after midnight on the 17th April twelve miles south of Batticaloa. The master and the crew composed of eight Europeans
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    TO THE PACIFISTS.
    113 7  -  By Francis Coutts. So you would make the sacrifices vain, The sorrow void let all that wealth of woe Be wasted, and the Prussian murderers go Unpunished. See, the thick-sown fields of slain And wandering coffin waters of the main Teem forth the dead, who, in procession
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    TO FRANCE.
    119 7  -  By George Sterling. O daughter of the morning I on thy brow Immortal be the lilies thou hast won Eternal be thy station in the sun, That shines not on a splendour such as thou A strength is thine beyond the armoured prow, And past dominion of the
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    DIAMOND FIELDS OF DUTCH BORNEO.
    150 7 Interested persons in Holland are directing attention to the diamond fields of Dutch Borneo, which, while known of for centuries, have never been developed, notwithstanding the Netherlands has in Amsterdam the greatest diamond-cutting industry in the world. Interest in this subject has been aroused 1
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    JAPANESE EXPANSION IN PHILIPPINES.
    94 7 An American contemporary states that in addition to active participation in the agricultural development of the Philippine Islands, Japanese capital is soon to enter the banking and insurance fields in the islands, arrangements having been completed for the establishment of a branch of the big Yokohama
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    BOLSHEVIK APPOINTEE FOR CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY.
    81 7 The Chinese Eastern Railway was notified by the Bolshevik Government of the appointment of M. Gucha to be Special Executive Officer of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the public institutions in the Chinese Eastern Railway area and the servants of the railway were instructed
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    NEW TRADE CONDITIONS IN SOUTH CHINA.
    427 7 The Compradore System. An interesting feature of the “Imperial and Foreign Trade Supplement” of “The Times” is a further instalment of Professor Middleton Smith’s review of the position of British trade with China. In the present issue Professor Middleton Smith discusses the campradore system.
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    BRITISH MALAYA AND THE WAR.
    388 7 In the course of a most interesting lecture before the Royal Colonial Institute, on March 13, Mr. Octavius C. Beale, ex-Pre-sident of the Associated Chambers of Manufacture of Australia, rendered the following tribute to the services that British Malaya had rendered during the war: Of
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    HUGE TOBACCO PROFITS.
    68 7 The anDal report of the Imperial Tobacco Company, shows a net trading profit of more than three and a half million pounds. Fifty thousand pounds has been set aside for providing pensions, and a million pounds has been added to the general reserve. The usual fixed dividends
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    HOME RULE FOR INDIA.
    763 7 LORD ROBERTS’ VIEWS. A correspondent writes to the “Civil and Military Gazette” —The capacity for foretelling what is likely to happen is surely one of the most valuable gifts for a statesman. How many of our greatest political mistakes have been due to the want of
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    A MINISTER’S LESSON.
    135 7 A member of the Government, whose manners are not of the best, entered a well-filled lift at his Ministry the other day. The rest of the passengers were bound for the top of the building, and the lift-girl, recently engaged, to whom the Minister was unknown, passed
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    Passengers to the Straits
    215 7 Per NY K. From Birkenhead.—To Singapore: Mr Overhead, Mr J M Pennycuick, Mr G Ca ella, Mr Ade Piava Raposa, Mr P J David, Dr B E Edge, Mr S C Harris, Mr A J de Wett, Mr W M Freestone, Mr N Babouean, Mr G
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    Rubber Crops.
    202 7 The following are additional robber outputs for April:— Juru lbs 6,700 Kong Lee (Perak) 760 Perak River Valley 11,049 Rubber Estate of Krian 18,300 Sungei Gettah 4,555 Semanggol 11,469 The late Mr. Thomas Fraser, who died early in the year, aged 56, of Chesterfieldgardeno, Hampstead, one of the
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    COMING EVENTS.
    47 7 May 4.—M.C.L. Entertainment Town Hall, 5.30 pm. May 6.—P.C.C. General Meeting, 6.45 p.m. May 9.—P.V.R C. Shoot, (Deliberate), 7 a.m. May 20.—P.V.R. O. Shoot, (Rapids), 7 am. May 25 and 26.—Penang Bisley.” •lune 1,3, 8, 9 and 22.—Peuang Bisley.” June 11, 13 and 15.—Singapore Races.
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    EXCHANGE.
    121 7 Prbang, May 3 1918. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank) London Demand Bank 2/4 5/32 4 months' eight Bank 2/4 716 3 Credit 2/4 11/16 3 Documentary ...2/4 23/3 Calcutta Demand Bank R».. 3 days' sight Friva:?* Bombay Demand Bank Demand Bank o 3 days’ sight Private ►g. Madras
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    PRODUCE.
    144 7 Pbnano, May 3, 1918 8. P. Tapioca ...$8,85 sales. M. P. Tapioca ...$9 35 sellers* Gold leaf $72 sellers. Pepper (W. Coast 3 lbs. 5 oz) SI6J buyers Black Pepper $25 buyers. White Pepper $4O nom; Trang Pepper $32.00 season coming Mace $BO nom. Mace Pickings $49 sellers. Cloves
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      27 7 WAR CARTOON. Jrom the World's Press A COMING VISIT TO PETROGRAD. In accordance with custom, Kaiser Wilhelm will adopt the costume of the power visited.-— ‘‘Notenkraker,” 'Amsterdam.
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