Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 9 May 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 108. VOL. LXXVI. THURSDAY, 9th MAY, 1918 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 930 1 a JAPANESE DENTIST T. NAGATA Next Door to The Dispensary. er i /F yQ£/ H2L TEl£2. I “JU Usual” I BEAR BRAND MILK. we le ,n I I you can have no idea what a Quality and j ftgSM PERFECTLY STERILISED MILK I S/2BS\|o really is. Do not confuse I
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    • 17 1 OBMoaHaBOfIKOiMKOMB IRUNNYMEDE L I HOTEL. I GARAGE I I New Cars for Hire. I O o ""E
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  • 1181 2 AN EARLY MORNING IN THE LIFE OF FOUR FLYING MEN. (By Observer.) Contact, ’shouted the pilot. It was the starting signal. The hum of the engine increased to a roar and the last of the four aeroplanes was whirring away airwards on the daybreak patrol, their destination
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  • 807 2 PENANG WOMEN WORKERS. Amount previously acknowledged $7,140.02. Miss D. Macdonald $2, Mrs. Prentis $2. Mrs. Morrison $lO, F. M. $lO, R. H. $lO, K. S. $lO, D. L. $2. H. S. $2. Mrs. Jamieson $lO, Bridge 30 cents. Hospital garments for soldielrs will be given out
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 845 2 WASTED PUBLIC AUCTION SALE. 2f H. P. 2 Stroke Allon Motor Cycle in of a comfortable 5 Seater, 4 Cylinder, good running order. Reply s ating i 6/2 O B H P>j 1913 MODEL. Box No. 105, c/o Pinang Gazette. I “NAPIER” MOTOR CAR I The undersigned are instructed to
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    • 237 2 Everything for the Mouse PritchanTs NEW SHOWROOMS. v B c L m I u W 1 s fe;. p I E I HmS I t JB ".-5k E I u MM-1 Q V I E i I IM I Q f i a I u a 808. i p I
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  • 887 3 Mrs. Jensen of Singapore is staying at the E. O. Mrs. Webber of Taiping is staying at Falmouth House. Mr. Fletcher has returned to Kuala Lumpur after a business visit to Penang. i Mrs. A. H. Callwood has had to returi to the General Hospital. Mr. T.
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  • 196 3 .—“S.T.” Before the Chief Justice (Sir John Bucknill, K.C.) and Mr. Justice Ebden in the Supreme Court, Singapore, a motion was made by the Hon. Mr. F. M. Elliot on behalf of the Bar Committee to strike the name of Mr. E. M. A. Tozer, Advocate and
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  • 202 3 Mr. Justice Ebden at Singapore has delivered an important judgment in the action brought by Syed Hassan Alsagoff (on behalf oi the beneficiaries under the will of Syed Mohamed Alsagoff) against Syed Omar Alsagoff and others. The question for his lordship's decision was whether a consent given
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  • 176 3 According to a recent estimate of one of the leading aviation authorities in France, the output of aeroplanes by the Allies is now practically double that of Germany. This estimate is confirmed by our own Air Board. It is now known definitely that the German*have been
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  • 164 3 Can any one explain why our hospital ships continue to make floating targets of themselves by carrying rows of lights when they know that the enemy are lying in wait for them And can anyone explain why we have not twenty German officers in each ship
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  • 169 3 The “Tageszeitung” reports a speech in the Turkish Chamber by the Minister of Finance, who stated that the deficit on the budget would amount to £T. 14.000,000. The expenses for the year were £T.128.000.000 and the total expenses for the war came to £T. 230,000,000. That,
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  • 972 3 BY COLONEL BUCHAN. The following extract is from the last published volume of Nelson’s History of the War, by Col. John Buchan: This is not the place to attempt an estimate of Mr. Lloyd George’s singular career —a career with no parallel in British history. His great
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 555 3 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. WANTED 2,000 feet 8" or 10* mild ateel riveted stove or slip joint piping thickness of metal 1/16" seed price and particulars to Box No. 107, c/o Pinang Gazette. ROOMS TO LEG Furnished or unfurnished. Apply to 231, BURMAH ROAD. TO LET FURNISHED, until Ist December, 1918, The
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    • 58 3 nnnnnnnnnuanannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn S MADAME SERRET I n has arrived at E, O. HO7EL, PENANG. (Room 0 No. 64, annexe) and invites inspection of her beautiful stock of lace including: H I Venise, Fillet, Irish Em- broidery on Linen Linen n MOST MODERATE PRIG S. NOW ON VIEW. nannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn LIME FRUIT JUICE
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 321 3 (EMPIRE! Thursday’s Change of Programme. D MARKS A NEW ERA! IT IS REALLY GREAT. Special features Animated Weekly No. 63 H 2 The Tornado when Damon fell for H d Pythias. H r baturday, May 11 th, 1918. H THE RED ACE. I H MARIE WALCAMP A GREATER SERIAL THaN
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  • 1037 4 We are disposed to agree with the Daily Mail that "nobody not utterly besotted by the craze of politics can suppose Mr Bonar Law deliberately lied nor can we believe that Mr Lloyd George, in his great position as Prime Minister, intentionally stated what be knew to
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  • 323 4 [Fbom Oub Own Cobbespondmnt. Singapore, May 9. At the aucions the market was uncertain th» re being few buyers and little competition, ai d email deu and. Ribbed smoked realised slo'. Fine psle $lO7. Lower grades were largely bought in. The price f-jll latrrin the day. The
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  • 1259 4 A Gazette of India Extraordinary, issued recently, gave a Income-Tax: iisn of exemptions under the Indian Income-Tax and set out a number of revisions to rubs under the Act. Tl e former are reproduced below, and we append a few comments wh'ch may be of in tiest
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  • 16 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Pe< aug was $179.50 per picul, business done.
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  • 94 4 The f'»il wing are the latest quotations in Mesrs. Kennedy Co.’s diare list:— Yesterday. To day. SHAKES. I >. QQ X &Q Rubber (Dollar.) JenmK. $l.lO $1.20 $1.20 $1.30 Mining. Asam K. 25/- 26/- 25/6 26/6 K. amunting 48/- 49/- 48/6 49/6 Kainunting T. 27/- 28/- 28/-
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  • 110 4 The. following are additional rubber output» for April Asahan lbs 41,868 Ampat 12,445 Anglo Sumatra 51,707 15 207 Bah Lias 32,105 Hfa Sumatra 14,418 Bandar Sumatra 28,400 Cicely 39,214 Central Sumatra 9,052 Dindang >, 5,207 Extern Sumatra 14,738 Glenealy 22,400 Glen Bervie 11,085 Hopelaud 3,006 .H 11 Rise
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  • 106 4 Messrs. Allen Dennys Co. advise us that the under-mentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them at their two auction sales held this week Smoked diamond sheet No 1 $9O to $99 Smoked diamond sheet No 2 67 88 Plain smoked sheet 64 Unsmoked sheet No
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  • 127 4 PEMOBILISITiON. [Reutb» 8 Telegrams] London, May 7. A Rumanian communique says the peace treaty between Rumania and Austria, Germany, Turkey and Bulgaria was signed at Bucharest this morning. The text of the treaty will be published shortly. Chief Stipulations. Amsterdam, May 8. The peace treaty between Germany,
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  • 56 4 Amsterdam, May 7. The Niewe Rotterdamsche Oourant,” referring to the Germano- Dutch Agreement, states that Holland restricted the transport by land and water to civilian supplies. The newspaper complins however that Germany hastened the negotiations by military threats, a fact from which the Dutch people will not fail
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  • 58 4 Paris, May 7. The Cabiuet Las denounced all commercial Conve niens containing-a general clause regarding the most favoured nations.” This is regaided is a further economic menace against Germany. The Matin," on thh qa s f ioD, emphasises the diplomatic importance of the threat to
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  • 39 4 San Jean del Sur, May 8. N caragua has declared -war on the CL ntral Powers. Only four votes were cast against the Congress declaration of war. The President was authorised to utilize the nation’s forces
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  • 51 4 London, May 7. In the House of Commons, Mr J. F. Hope stated that no further information has been received regarding 586 British and 2600 Indians taken prisoner at Kut, who could not ba traced. Probably the majority succumbed on the march from Kut. Inquiries are being
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  • 24 4 Lisbon, May 7. The newly elected Deputies and Senators areis favour of remodelling the constitution < n the basis of the United States.
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  • 28 4 Washington, May 8. The United States has made a further lean to Britain of £15,000,000, bringing the total sum advanced to Britain to nearly £1000,000,000
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  • 16 4 London, May 8. Ifis reported from Zurich that ex-King Constantine is dangerously ill.
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  • 17 4 London, May 7. The Prussian Lower read a second limo the Electoral Reform Bill.
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  • 13 4 Loudon, May 7. Sir Robert Newymw was returned unopposed for Exeter.
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  • 9 4 London, May 6. The silver market is quieb.
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  • 68 4 Emebgbncy Fund. The following donations are gratefully acknowledged Already acknowledged, $854.94, Mr G W Simms, Kuala Lumpur, per Mr Purdy $l5, Mrs Edwin Philips, Kuala Kang ar $lO. Total $872 94 To cover the extra outlay in 1918 (due to war conditions) at least £30,000
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  • 113 4 LOSSES AND OUTPUTS London, May 8. Dr. T. J. Macnamar», M.P., !pesk at Bristol, sa:d the sinkings of submarines bad steadily increased. The sinkings of merchant ships fell steadily acd the output of tonnage monthly Wa9 ffe)l ahead of last year. large plans had been laid by America
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  • 134 4 NEW CONSTRUCTION FIGURES, London, May 8. An Admiralty statement on new merchant ship construction shows that in ths first quarter of 1918 320,280 tons were completed in the United Kingdom yards, 544,327 were launched in Allied and neutral countries. The respective totals for the whole of 1917 were
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  • 97 4 A SHIPPING EXAMPLE. London, May 6 In the House of Commons, Sir Owen •Philips asked What will the Treasury lose owing -to the recent trtsnsfereuce < f ownership of certain British steamers from a c<-n;p*Dy under the laws of the United Kingdom to a company registered iu
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  • 27 4 Washington, May 7. Ten steel ships of 50,000 tons aud six wooden ships of tonnage of a 21,000 will be launched iu Ameiica in May.
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  • 302 4 SHIPS AND MONEY. [From Our Special Correspondent.] Batavia—San Francisco, May 6. Ihe trial of the first concrete vessel b called a success. Congress is appropria ting o(? 60) million for the establishment of plants to turn cut ships. Manila, May 7. A Dutch coffee buyer en route
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 53 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to day and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water, To DAY. 11.24 a.m. (7ft. 4in.) 5 16 a m. (Oft. 6in.) 11.42 p.m. (6ft. 3in.) 5.57 p.m. (Oft. Bin.) To MORROW. 5.58 a.m. (O't. Bin.) 12.3 p.m. (7ft 6iu.) 6.41
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  • 277 5 ALLEGATIONS AGAINST MINISTERS. THE STRENGTH OF OUR ARMIES. RUMANIA'S PEACE IREAIY. SUBMARINE LOSSES AND SHIPPING uonsiHuciion. Sensational allegations of inaccuracies in Ministerial statements regarding lire strength of the British Army in i rance at the beginning of the year, the number of British divisions in the eastern
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  • France and Belgium
    • 716 5 FRecter Telegrams.] HOSTILE ARTILLERY ACTIVE London, May 8. Sir Douglas Haig reports that rs the result of minor operations we advanced our line a short distance in three localities between the Somme and the Ancre taking prisoners. Hostile artillery was active at night between Locon and Robecq and
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    • 103 5 ALLIED MILITARY CHIEF’S CONFIDENCE. London, May 8. Signor Orlando, Italian Premier, inter viewed on the Italian front, on his return from France, said he found aF the Allied military chiefs convinced that the German onrush would be stopped, and that the Germans would neither reach the Channel
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    • 139 5 SPEECH TO METAL WORKERS. London, May 8. The Press Bureau announces that Mr Churchill, in acknowledging a patriotic resolution of the National Brassworkers, and Metal Mechanics’ Society recording fighting forces' bravery and sacrifices and urging the munition workers to redouble their efforts, said he is profoundly confident that
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    • 49 5 London, May 8. Sir Edward Carson, in the course of a letter to the press proposing Unionist reconsideration of the Irish policy in view of recent anti-conscription manifestations, declares the Government possess the clearest evidence that the Sinn Fein organisation is in alliance with Germany.
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    • 23 5 London, May 8. The P« ess Bureau says civilian passengers from G'eat Bri'ain to Ire.and must possess a permit.
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  • Russia
    • 212 5 GERMANY UNEASY. Amsterdam, May 7. It is reported Lom Kieff that the Germans disarmed a Ukrainian division. Germany is apparently most uneasy over the Ukrainian situation. A discussion in the Reichstag evoked very sharp Progressive criticism of the German military measures, which, it was declared, created a dangerous
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    • 303 5 Pioneer and Labour Journal” of Woolwich. A number of documents showing that the Bolshevik movement in Russia was financed by Germany are published by the Petit Parisien.” A letter sent from Berlin on August 25 last by Scheidemann. the Kaiser'Socialist, announces the despatch of £7.500 for
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    • 83 5 Be; r.e, May 7. The Ame-icin Legation spates the recent German semi official declaration that German ‘aft ccnduct for Americ-n ships carrying grain fcr Switzerland won d only operate af er three moi.tbs is tant- m .un* to a declaration tba* Germany maintain a blockade of Swi
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    • 66 5 London, May 7 A Jerusalem telegram state- that the annual pilgrimage to Naby Musa w -s canied out on April 25 The military authorities assisted in every way possibl and the ceremonies occurred wi-hou disturbance of any kind An excellent impression was produced in Moslem circles and
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    • 32 5 London, May 7. In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Asquith, Mr. Bonar Law stated the Government was conesp nding with General Trenchard on the question of his employment.
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  • 2051 5 GENERAL AND MINISTERS. London, May 7. Maj ir-Gen -r&l Maurice, ex-Director of Military Operations, in a letter to the newspapers, says Mr. Bonar Law’s statement on April 23rd that the extension of the British front was not dealt with at Versailles is incorrect. I was at Ver sail
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  • 141 5 London, May 8. Mr. Balfour, speaking at the London University, declared if we had been in the same position as America we might have hesitated even longer than she did before entering the war. He had never thought an apology was required for the fact tbe
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  • 311 5 [Havas Telegrams.] London, May 9. M. Tractates Delanr.ey, formerly Prefect ;f th*' Seine, has just teen appointed French Ambassador to Tokio. He was born at Le Mans on 23rd April, 1863, and has had a long and glorious career in the administration. He entered it
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  • 363 6 M.M.” INCREASING TIN PRODUCTION. A general meeting at the Selangor Miners’ Association's Chamber was held it Kuala Lumpur on May 2nd with Mr Chot Kia Peng in the Chair. There were also present the Hon tht British Resident (Mr E G Broad rick) tht Senior Warden of Mines,
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  • 379 6 It is not always true (*ays the New York “Outlook”) that because a man pays an income tax on 840.000 or 850.000 he is worth 81,000.000. The fortunes of some men are sometimes represented only by theii brains and industry, though they may receive salari >s of
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  • 81 6 Peking, \|>ril 10.—The Bolshevik leaders at Dauria Station issued an ultimatum tr the Chinese authorities demanding the immediate delivery of General Senienoff and tin. disarming of the force under his command. •'wing to refusal of the Chinese to comply, the Bilsheviki proceeded to bombard Manchuria Station,
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  • 86 6 I lie Chinese Red Cross ship Fei Ching, of the China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Co., bound for Vladivostok, left Shangai to re lieve the destitute Chinese in that port. Tht ship is well supplied with medicine and food stuffs. Ihe medical work will be
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  • 250 6 Trial Cut and Dried,” says Brother Prisoner. Good-bye, old man, I don’t expect to see you again,” were the last words Captain Fryatt said to his chief engineer. Frederick Thurlow, at Ruhleben Camp, before he was taken back to Zeebrugge to stand his trial before the German
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  • 186 6 As the result of a conference held on November 7. 1917. at which there were present representaives of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research i>id of the Department for the Development of Mineral Resources, and many of the land iwners and
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  • 176 6 Quite a mystery attaches to the death of a Japanese woman, aged about 28 years, win was observed on the beach off East Road, Singapore on Saturday, says the Malaya Tribune.” Whilst Mrs. Handy ami Mr. Charle- de Silva were at Dr. Handy's house. 618 East Coast
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  • 133 6 Major Flood, of the Australian Forces, speaking in London gave an account of his experiences on the German raidei* Wolf. \s soon as they were held up by the raider, he said, the latter se»it off a boat. When they got on board the officer said to
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  • 181 6 Senator Kenyon, who, before a visit to tin front, was a pacifist and could not believe in the German atrocities, addressed a large au dience at Baltimore. Apologizing to the Rev. Dr. Wroth, win presided at the meeting, the lowa Senator de clared that if Hell
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  • 350 6 A circular issued to the shareholders of the above company, Messrs. Guthrie and Co., dated London, February 26 says: Dear Sir (or Madam), —We are instructed to advise you that for reasons mentioned below the directors have reluctantly come to the conclusion that
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  • 227 6 A great number of rikisha pullers assembled at Kampong Bahru. Kuala Lumpur, where the Protector of Chinese. Mr. M T. Chapman, Messrs. N. Grenier. Choo Kia Peng and Lee Kong Lam met them to discus? the lamps dispute which was the cause of the strike says
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  • 235 6 Thusw i'-e shouted the men at wai to the men that bought and sold: W*‘ have played our part and have kepyou» mart come ye and send your gold. For the shrapnel shell falls cruel thick, tin machine-nun rakes us through. Ami we who drench in the dripping
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  • 113 6 To compile a register for any general election afte»* Septembe»" practically a new census will be taken. Twelve pages of the “London Gazette” aie occupied by forms prescribed by an Order in Council, which householders, occupiers, owners, agents, soldiers, and sailors will have to fill up. A
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  • 298 6 This altruistic talk of an equal distribution of the raw materials among all tht nations of the world, Germany included, when the war is over, is sentimentally beautiful, but I want to say now that we are going to see that Great
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  • 138 6 U.S. Will Join Unless Germans Reduce Armaments. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has adopted resolutions calling upon the business men of Germany to cast off the tyranny of autocracy, and so avert a disastrous post-bellum economic wa» and promote a lasting peace. The resolutions
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  • 118 6 I nd. the heading General Smuts’s visit to Switzerland —Meeting with Count Mensdorff.” the Tinies gives the following from it- Rome correspondent There has been a good deal of discussion about the meeting of General Smuts and Count Albert MensdorfT (formerly AustroHungarian \mbassador to Great Britain) in
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  • 129 6 The Bishop of London, preaching at a service for numbers of the Baltic Exchange at St. I ndershaft, said that on the next six months the future of the whole world depended. “We know where we are. We know from what has happened in Russia that you cannot
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  • 117 6 Detroit. March 7. —While Ford Motor Company officials refuse to discuss the subject. it is understood from good authority, that the company will make light “tanks” for the United States and the Allies on a wholesale scale. Work on the first model is under way, and
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  • 86 6 M. Marcel Hutin. writing in the “Echo de Paris,” says: “The Germans are very proud of their new ‘ace’—the rival of Boelke —Captain Baron von Tutscheck, whose 27th victory w r as announced in Ludendorff’s communique on Saturday. Well, we shall hear no
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • NEWS FROM INDIA.
    • 384 7 Rangoon, April 22. —A conference of land owners, cultivators, small millers, traders and general merchants was held under the auspices of the Burmese Merchants’ Association at Rangoon on Sunday for an exchange of views on the present rice and paddy situation. Mr. J. A. Maurig Gyi
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    • 105 7 Madras, April 20.—The poorer and middle classes are feeling the rise that has lately been taking place in the price of rioe in parts of South Malabar. The grain merchants seek to justify the rise on the ground that stocks are running out and cannot
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    • 181 7 Calcuta, April 16.—Some time ago the views of the Commissioner of Police of Calcutta were ’invited by the Calcutta Corporation regarding the transfer of the control of taxi-cabs from the Commissioner to the Corporation. The Commissioner of Police in the course of his reply states: “I
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    • 110 7 Colombo, April 19.—The petrol restrictions are being most rigorously enforced and extensive experiments are being made with kerosine and a’cohol. It is understood that the Ceylon Sugar Refineries Company is capable of supplying twenty thousand gallons weekly. Permission is being sought from Government to use this
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 423 7 SbEnTEMkiiiiD SCENT Of ARABY (b A Harmony of. Fragrance y from the scents of a thousand flowers, Shem-el-jL I Nessim perfume is fragrant and JO lasting. It possesses just that subtle jjf note of daintiness and refinement which appeals most strongly to the Wg JF t liajFi person of taste.
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    • 346 7 If* “Strops Itself” i as well as a Barber could A® strop it. az Perhaps on some occasion you have come across a barber who has given you the shave of a lifetime ’-close, velvety-a razor touch that was almost a caress. If so, it was because he was an
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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