The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 3 April 1917

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    15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEX CENTS SINGAPORE TUESDAY, APRIL, 3. 1917. NO. 89,723
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    THE DAY'S NEWS.
    296 1 The late wires contain interesting news as to the state of affairs m Germany Page 4. The Hindenburg Line continues to give under British pressure, and oar troops are now m sight of St Quentin* Loot and destruction are the order m the town the usual signs
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    AMONGST THE ANZACS.
    1098 1 THE BUSH." Five miles from the nearest dwelling, sixteen from the Government Hotel, twenty five from a railway station, thirty two from the nearest township all around naught but the wonderful New Zealand bath. With justifiable pride the Australian vaunts his native bath I, an impartial critic,
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      186 1 GOODRICH TYRES S.FETY TREAD I WHITEAWAY'S Qim^tes^ H'o^]!l^^^HiW^\ IN THESE Fast Coloured Striped Gents Pyjamas decidedly -'«9r Ifflif iR MMI\/CDQAi nCDART Cool and Comfortable. WH I. l||l 1 UNIVtneAL Price $4.25 per suit. I I lllMi Hi i v\ uciJT 1 I LuUNUmY W g gfl Stiff fronted Evening Dress
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      122 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. Bargains at Wbiteaway's Page 1. Hanma's new Pictures— Page '2, Gaiety's change of Programme Page 2. Lecture on V M C A Work Page 2. The Dodge Car— Page 2. Chin? Keng Lee and Co's sales of land and property Page 2. Notice by J Travere and Sons,
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      2 1 Martell's Brandy
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      94 1 THE WEEK. Toesdaj 3rd. High Water— 7.32 a.m., 8 57 p m. Wednesday 4th. High Water— B 27 a.m 9-85 p.m. M. C. Parade. 5.C.0.. 5 15 p.m. Jesselton Ice and Power Co, mtg, noon. Ttraradai sth. High Water— 9-10 a.m., 9 42 p.m. Mark L dge, 8 30 pm.
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    "SQUARE HEADS."
    362 2  - "SQUARE HEADS. C. Fox Smith An' I wish I may lie where the !ost shipe lie as never mounted a gun, Them as was raked with shrapnel fire they coulJ neither tight nor run Them as spread the sea with their dead when the day wad eunDy an' fine, Or
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    A WINDOW GLASS CASE.
    234 2 In the Second Coart at Penaug, before Mr S H Laagrtou. tbe prosecution agaiuat the Handel Maatechappij Deli-Abjeh was withdrawn by tLe Solicitor General, who stated that a telegram had been re ceived (torn the Secretary of State to the effect that the purchase money for
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      368 2 The Worlds best In BRITISH P lanos ty— Brinsraead Broadwood Collard and Collard Cbappell Stromenger Grands and Uprights AT TiiiT"'^Trn Inccrpr rated Jn Eongkon^, VICTORIA THEATRE. Saturday, 7th April, 1917, at 9 p. m. Mr. J. J. VIRGO Ot London, Iliitish National Field Secretary, WILL LE< TOM ON The \Sork
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      673 2 B^M| JBSk bf mff ML t&i B aS Psi B B n iK«B» ißtril I Pi SJ-SgAwmMJi A Bluebird Masterpiece that will stir the blood to a riot of Patriotism and Love of County. "THE BUGLER OF ALGIERS" The Producing c\n tUnfeed by the GORGEOUS MOUNTAIN BOBHBBT OF FRANCE atd
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      716 2 The first of a Series of Programmes, that will EXCEL anything we have ever attempted before. AT THE HOUSE OP QUALITY THE ALHAMBRA BEACH ROAD THE LEADING THEATRE IN SINGAPOEE. TO-NIGHT'S PROGRAMME BABY MARIE OSBORNE 1 be darling fear year- old Child Star of the Scree* Shadows f Sunshine A
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    BOOKS RECEIVED.
    533 3 Milestones on My Long Jouhney (Sir Charles Brace, Maclehose). This ia an autobiography of an energetic and hard thinking Colonial servant who commenced service m Mauritius m 1868, having been previously Professor of Sanscrit at King's College. For ten years he worked as Rector of the Royal College,
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    GERMANY'S EASTERN VERDUN.
    348 3 Petrograd, February 6. The battle on the Riga front rages with unabated eeve rity, m defiance cf the weather. This winter is the coldest known m Russia for many years. Heavy frosts are continuous and unrelaxing, and there has been no hint of thaw for weeks past.
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      519 3 THE POPULAR PHOTO PLAY HOUSE EMPIRE Tanjong Pagar Road. Trains Pass the Door. SECOND SHOW 9.30 p.m. Sharp. THE P.! STING OF THE CONSCIENCE P ,l A ivia Drama of the Great North- West with L orris Pawn. 2 Parts BEYOND THE TRAIL 2 Parts. Bison Multiple- Keel Feature. Supported
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      170 3 Gaggino&Co (Established 1876). No. 6, 7, 8, MALACCA STREET. VICHY SPRINGS Property of the French Government The State Springs of I Vichy Water are Celestins, Hopital, Grande Grille and other, but Celestins Spring is the only one that can be used as Table Water; the I others are medicinal and
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      627 3 FEDERATED MALAY STATES RAILWAYS. On Good Friday, 6(h April, 1817, trains will run as on Sundays. P. H. HEN SHAW. Trade Manager. F.M.B. Railways. Traffic Manager's Okficb, Kuala Lumpur, Sist Match 1917. 5 5-4 ALOR GAJAH RUBBER ESTATE, LIMITED. Declaration of Interim Dividend lad Notice of closing of Transfer Books
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      431 3 HOUSE WANTED. For week or fortnight about April 15 at Seaside, furnished Bungalow with tennis court if possible Reply with tcrn^s and number of rooms to Seaside c o Free Pieaa. 8 4 ths 7-4 TELEPHONE OPERATORS. Wanted girl operators for Central Telephone Exchange. Commencing salary 160 per month to
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    Domestic Occurrences MARRIAGE
    39 4 Domestic Occurrences MARRIAGE Cullvn MEK/.iEB~on EOth March, at 8t Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Penang, Arthur Cullrn. youngest eon of the late \Vm. Cullen, Uddingston, Bcotland, to X Adrina Mknziep, youngest daughter of the late John Menzies, Demerara and Perth, Scotland.
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    DEATH.
    18 4 Strvenson On March 29th, 19P, Violet Radford, daughter of Robert and Mary BTEVENHON, Bukit Tungn Estate, Baogt.
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    The Singapore Free Press. Tuesday, April. 3, 1917.
    1148 4 The Singapore Free Press. Tuesday, April. 3, 1917. P*-« viii tfct Prats th« Ptoft I .'f*r i&'-JMfc n »«««4 »r ImHc'dcc and tioHbad fc» fU» f 4far* tadot Treita ky g '.nr'.o-at orac«r* 'VjM t* I «u*i*a Lcvrttv nod !<•• The winter has been unusually severe m Europe, and the
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    864 4 The Garrison Golf Club course will be closed for play on Thursday. M Tchelnokoff, tbe Mayor of Moscow was created a k 0 m q on the occasion of the Allied delegates visit to Moscow. The Band of Hope will meet as usual m the V M C A Hall
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    LATEST TELEGRAM
    329 4 [By Submarine Gable) [Renter's sWvtee] London, April 2— The strength of v* St Queutin position can be judged fr Ott the fact that \a deftcded by ten separate baits of wire, well protected from (fa, rear. The enemy is using a new field g Qn outranging its predecessors
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    COOLIE IMMIGRATION
    63 4 Kw Our Oim Ctrrtipondent Koala Lumpur. April 2 The Secretary to the Government of Madras hae telegraphed to Sir E L Brock man that the Government of Madras hit authorised the Superintendent of Emi gration at the depot at Negapatam tht* the F M S emigration agent at
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    CHIEF OFFICER'S LAPSE.
    151 4 In the Marine Court yesterday Williac Perrit, chief officer of the s. s. Hong Bet was charged before Lieut. Comm Cstor ft N, with being drunk and with absence from leave two separate charges. Arthur W Hall, master, stated that tat accuted was not fit to carry
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    RED CROSS FOR THE WOUNDED.
    47 4 Work will cot be given out at ibe Tanglin Club on Good Friday and the Bandage Class will not meet on Good M day or on Eaeter Monday. Work vUI begin again on Friday April 13th at lC»c at the Tanglin Club.
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    ONE OF THE "SIX HUNDRED."
    78 4 ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED." The death occurred at Blackburn Work bouee. tn February, from the effects of »n accidental fall, of Robert Rigby. I mean veteran. He enlisted m t: Light Dragoons at Manchester it and was m theCbarge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. His bone was shot
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    82 4 The Chinese stone goddess K«f. *bich m China is known a* the Godde* of Mercy, but m America became the God des* of the Debutante Slouch.' ha* be* sold by Paul I'oiret, of I'ario, to the Kale kian Art Galleries. f N. I lot £40 000. Although Kwan> llf 6even
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      125 4 ACKERMAN-LAURENCE SPARKLING BAUMUR Dl?y #?OV4L 4JVO v% "BRUT ROYAL" IN QUARTS AND PINTS. CALDBECK, MACGREGOR Co. SOLE AGENTS. JQ///V LITTLE'S jjT NOW PROCEEDING jlb\ WAR ECONOMY 1 I OPPORTUNITY I Genuine Reductions m Ladies' ■iIL Gents' and Fancy Goods IjU 13 Sale Days. Once a Year. JL John Little Co.,
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      64 4 G. R. Lambert Co. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS Si Orchard Road, Telephone 10. 1035. The Oldest and Leading Studio. First In 1872, Foremost In 1917. Unequalled Facilities, Ample Resources, and the Requisite Experience, are all at oar Command, thus ensuring always the prodnc tion of only the best results m Studio Portraiture,
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      387 5 Germans Destroying St Quentin [By Submariat Cablfi [RtaW'i B*rTi<»] London, April 1. Marshal Haig reports We took prisoner m March 1,239 Germans, of whom sixteen were officers, and captured three field guna, twenty-five trench mortars, and sixty machine guns. We took prisoner m January to March 4600. We occupied this
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    FRENCH PLODDING AWAY
    125 5 Vigorous Push near Margival London, April 1. A French comrauniqa« records an artillery duel of consid arable violence on the Somme and the Oise and sensible progress during the night north and south of the Aillette, particularly to the north east of Margival. London. April 1. A
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    BELGIANS ENGAGED
    24 5 London, April 2. A Belgian communique iays: There is continuous artillery fire on the whole front, especially m the region of Dixmade.
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    THE TROUBLOUS TURKS
    93 5 Acquiring Habit of Retreat London. April 1. Mesopotamia Official The enemy s attempted converging movement from tbe Shatt el Adhaim acd Deli Abbaa on our Deltawa detachment failed. The enemy's movement from Deli Abbas was contained and his troops are now m full retreat. We attacked the
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    BRAILOY DOCKS BOMBED
    42 5 London. April 1. Wireless. Russian Official VS'a repulsed attacks m the Kirlibaba, Jacobeni and Vale-Putna road re <ioqB. Oar aeroplanes by gunfire burnt an airship m the OJobestchi region Twenty two of our aeroplanes bombed Brailov, causing dock tire*.
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    AN AUSTRIAN EFFORT
    22 5 London, April 1. Italian Official We drove back an attack n^ortn of the San i -iterina and Oorizia area.
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    GERMANY WANTS PEACE
    291 5 GERMANY WANTS PE ACE AUSTRIAN LEAD EAGERLY SECONDED Hopes About Russia [By Submarine C*bl«] [lUoUr'ft S*rvio«] Amsterdam. April 1. Germany's hope that the Russian revolution would result 'm peace is evidenced by an inspired Berlin telegram purporting to Rive the views of political circles on Count Czec nin's interview. It
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    RUSSIA NOT BITING
    225 5 Advises Germans to Revolt Petrograd, April 1. Neatly all the newspapers have emphasi/.ad that Herr Batbmann Hollweg's references to Russia m the Reichstag were intended tv entrap Liberal opinion m Russia m favour of peace. The Novo Vremya recalls that the Kaiser was always interfering In the
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    FAILURE OF PIRACY
    78 5 Reason for Peace Talk London, April 2. The Telegraph's naval expert points out that while the submarine piracy was designed to stop all British trade immediately, sticking at no inhumanity to effect that aim, British ports dnring tbe blockade have been visited by forty thousand ehipg, of
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    A SERIOUS STRIKE
    94 5 Government Action Likely London, April 1. The Press Bureau saya The Barrow m Furness strike now affects practically all the engineering shops m that area, but does not affect the shipyards. The strikers to day, despite efforts at settlement by the Society of Engineers and Minister of
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    THE RAIDERS
    194 5 FAIRYTALES FOR CAPTURED CREWS The Seeadlers Ruses [By Submarine Cable] [iUuUr'i B«rTu*J Rio de Janeiro, April 1. Later informa tion says that the Cambronne on the morning of March 20 m latitude 20 10 south, longitude 28 C 5 west, sighted a Ftullug-ibip which approached rapidly The sails
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    MOEWE'S HARD FIGHT
    128 5 Commander's Tribute to Otaki Amsterdam, April 1. The commander of the Moewe, interviewed m Berlin, stated that he converted one of the captured vessels into an auxiliary cruiser and renamed her the Geyer. she sank a number of vessels but eventually had to be sunk herself owing
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    U.S. WAR FEVER
    60 5 The Pacificists Advertise Washington, April 2.— The country is on the tiptoe of expectation regarding President Wilson* message to Congress on Tuesday. Messages from patriotic societies are pouring m at White House, supporting President Wilson. Special trains are pro ceeding to Washington with war delega tions. The
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    THE VIRGINIA ISLANDS
    62 5 Washington, April I.— Mr Lansing hand ed to the Danish Minister iv the United Slates a Treasurj Warrant for X', OOO, GOG m payment for the Danish West Indies, from henceforth to be known as the Vir ginia Islands. Admiral Pollock, commanding the warship Hancock, has been
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    OVERSEAS AIRCRAFT GIFTS
    59 5 London, Mar 30. The Patriotic League ol Britons Overseas hai received from 167 branches abroad over .£lOO,OOO welling, the greater part of which lias been banded to the Admiralty and War Office to provide seaplanes end aeroplanes. Considerable sums Lave also been riven to various war charities,
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    WAR TRANSPORT
    54 5 London, Mar 20.— Sir Eric Geddes has been appointed Inspector General of Trans portation m all war theatres. He retains the position of Director General of Trans portation on Marshal Haig's stuff but vacates the War Office post of Director General of Military Railways, to which Sir Charles
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    BUSINESSLIKE WAR
    39 5 London, April 2. A new department of the War Office has been created to take over the functions of various departments relating to tbe commercial side of the business of supplying the army, except as regards munitions.
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    FRENCH CONSULAR TELEGRAMS.
    312 5 [By Courtesy of th# French Consulate Paris, March 80, 6. 20 p.m. The French 8 pet cent bonds are at franca 61.85, the 5 per cent at 88.80 and the new 5 per cent at 88.40. Yesterday there were artillery engage ments at divers points of the
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    INDIA MATTERS
    258 5 The Coffee Crop [EUuUr'i BcxTioe] London, Mar 28 —In the Hoate of Commons, Sir J I) Reel emphasised the seriousness to India of the prohibition of the import of coffee into the United Kingdom and urged the Imperial Gov ernment to allow the import of the Indian coffee
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    N.S.W. AND WAR FUNDS
    52 5 Sydney, March 80. It is officially an nounced thut New South Wales has con tributed £2, 604, 928 sterling to various war funds, including XI, 064,959 for foreign relief besides great quantities of provisions, clothing, etc. The State has also contributed £35,250 COO to Common wealth
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    OBITUARY
    15 5 London, March 27.— Obituary Mr John Dawbon Mayna, author of The Indian Penal Code."
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    RECRUITING IN AUSTRALIA
    20 5 Melbourne, March 30. Mr Tudor, lead er cf tbe Labour Opposition, m a speech appealed for recruits.
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    SILVER MARKET
    14 5 London, March 27.— Silver is at 11 16, the maiket being featureless.
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    38 5 A fire occurred on Malacca Rubber Plantations Serkam Eetate on March 29, early m the morning, causing considerable damage to the dry rubber factory. Fortunately there was no wind blowing and the offices and store close by escaped.
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    A BY-ELECTION
    22 5 London, March 30. Mr J A Marriott, tutor m modern history and economics, has been returned unopposed for Oxford City.
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      171 5 <<r «$> ©v The Singapore Straits Directory for 1917. Price *8.50 per copy. s9 0». post free to places In Siraits Settlements Federated Muay States, Johore. Kedan, Kelantan. Perils Trengganu British Nortn Borneo, Sarawak aud Brunei to Slam. Saigon, Netherlands India &c, $9.60, post free. Publishers: FRASER and NEfrVE, LIMITED.
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      793 6 "ELLERMAN" LINE. ELLERMAN AND BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND, FOR LONDON. For particulars as to rates of freight and passage apply to McALISTER Co., Ltd., agents; KONINKUJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPfiJ (Incorporated In Holland, Royil Packet Navigation Co., of Batavia. s— 3, Collteb Quit, UHDEH OOHTRAOT WITH THE NETHERLANDS IRDIA
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      578 6 r^ O m British India AND Apcar Line (Companies Incorporated 1b England.) Mail and Passenger Services. peninsular and oriental sailings. (Under Contract with Hli Majesty'! Government.) For] China, Japan, Penang, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Ports and London. MAIL LINES. HOMEWARD (FOB EUROPE). I OUTWABD (108 OBIBAI INTERMEDIATE DIRECT
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      623 6 N. Y. K. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO., Ltd i lncorporated tn Japan). EUROPEAN LINE. A strvloe 1b maintained between Tokohaiai via ports to Marseilles, London, ondev cal h contract with the Imperial Japanese Oover» ment. The New Twin screw Steamert maintaining this eerrloe have been Bfedailf designed and constructed, and
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      354 6 M. M. MESSAGERIES MARITIME INCORPOBATKD IH FRAN. MAIL URI. Fortnightly service bet^ ere Ihlna, Japan, Ceylon, Djibouti kV i* larseille*. BRANCH LINE Fortnightly serrice between BalgonToMto. [alpbong. For further information apply to J. do COURTOIS, itoomvaart laatschappy "hederlau and 'Rotterdam Lloyd (Incorporated m Hollaed ROYAL DUTCH BAIL COBPARIES Regular Mail
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    EXCHANGE OF CIVILIAN PRISONERS.
    699 7 Argument from Ruhlebeo. A large number of British civilian prisoners, released from the internment camp at Ruhleben, have signed a memorandum on tbe subject of a general exchange ct such prisoner*, German and British. The document, which shows the signatories to be m favour of that
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    THE TERM "COLONIAL"
    153 7 Dominions Authorities Differ. By a curious coincidence the term Colonial," as applied to the pelf govern ing Overseas, was referred to by two of the leading .representatives of those Dominions now m London. Mr Andrew Fieher, High Comtni6Boner for Australia, speaking at the Koyal Colonial lustitute, Raid
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      155 7 TEe TROPICAL ROOFING GSNASCO Supplied with patent "KANT LEAK" KLEATB which do away with the necessity of ising sticky cement at the overlaps. -j jn mm \\Kmnx;. L tff I ll— I Renasco isiifiiiiH"UUl9iM i v' GENASCO is the result of over BO years experience m the manufacture of Ready
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      720 7 IN THE HOT SEASON. Many people suffer from overheating ot the blood, with weariness and a sense of being too tiled m the morning, even if there are no pimples or sallowness of the skin to show that medicine is needed. The great mistake that people make at this time
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      22 7 TO THOSE H3MEWARD BOUND J. CAMPBELL LATHAM ft Co., Coirt Nual Military Talhn S9, CONDUIT RTRBHT, LONDON W, fir. H. G DISS.
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      483 7 Yet'la'the game— Sargol makes Puny, Peevish People Plump and Popular. SARGOL, the concentrated food that puts on good, healthy flesh, sometimes at the rate of a pound a day, builds up the thin and weak, brings back the rosy blush of health, rounde out the Ekinny, scrawny figures to lines
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    EXCHANGE.
    54 9 iCOBBBOTBD DF TO April 2.) Bank 4 mJt 2 4S d mand 24j PffiTKUoiediti dme 2 415-16 Fiance demand Bar k 825 IHDIA, T. T. Boaasosa, demand l% Prem Yceoqama, dftraand 109 i Java, demand 18R 5/ascos, damaai 65 ECV^axiSHB, Bank Buylt g |«M Be^k ulHnf land Rite 6^%
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    PRODUCE
    154 9 April 2. Tin (100 tons) »101 00 Jarcfctw 17.00 Q&rakio Cafe No. 1 26 25 3ata«ie« 0«W No. r 21.00 ?epp«9 Mack ori'in. o'poie 29. 7 C Fer/f.tr, (Wfcite f ti») 87.50 Htttmtfa (113 lo the U 42.00 Vattasg* (80 to tbft Ife.) 52. C0 Mace \Baad*) 80. 00
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      614 9 B Paminf or Plenty, Life Insurance is worth 100 cents on the dollar. If WHAT OTNEX PROPERTY iS P I GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS). 1 IBAB OFFICK. Wtnctieater Honsa, Stntfipore. LONDON OFFICE I SI, Old Jewry E.C. __y__i HH fi_n.o^O (iejfdftfjik with the Baateme
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      532 9 THE HO HONG BANK, Ltd. Head Office SINGAPORE, RAFFLES CHAMBFRS.S &6. f Branch Malacca, 155 First Cross Street; luar, 77/79 Jalao Suleiman v CAPITAL. Registered $8,000,000. 1 Idtued *4,(*0,<00. Subscribed ?3,500,000. 1 board of Directors. Lim Peng Slang Esq Chain* The Hon'ble Dr. Lim Boon Keng. Lee Choon Onan E'q.
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      414 9 ALLIANCE ASSURANCE Co. Ltd. (Incorporated m England.) _coaxnalatod Funds exceed _>. 117,000,000 FIRE ft MOTOR CIR RISKS. InHnrances effected at rates of premium which will be found favourable to the Insurer. Pitersoj Blmooi ft Co., Ltd. Igsiti. (Incorporated lv England.) Aug. 4 go SUAROfAN ASSURANCE Co. Ltd. (Incorporated In England.)
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      226 9 Singapore Gold Storage Co., Ltd Diip Eitraoea to Boriec ibirf Telephone 1261 Bea stocks of all kinds of Fro sen Meats etc., can be delivered to shipping at the Wharves, or ir che Singapore Roads on short QOtioe. OFFICE HOURS. Weekdays 8 $.m. to S p.i 1..4... I 7 l
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      421 9 MAIL TABLE To day. Intermediate and local m alia, wth be tooas In list below Penarg, Malacca, F.M.S (by Train) 6 pa dally (except Sunday). Johore. 8, 9. 50, 11 a.m.. 15.40, 4A 6 p.n. Cucob Hock Gan 880 am P. Batam &P. Bulang Hock Kent; 880 am Kerimon Sanit
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    BUILDING SUBMARINES.
    1166 10 How Germany Does It. Germany baa adapted to the building of U boats tbe same kind of workshop me thoJs as are employed by tbe manafac turers of cheap American motor cars. Parts and processes are duplicated meti culously with the object of facilitating quick construction. In a
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    RUDYARD KIPLING.
    312 10 Tablet Unveiled at Lahore. Lahore, 13th March. A pleasant informal ceremony took place at the offices of the Civil and Military Gazette," Lahore, on Monday afternoon when Sir Michael O'Dwyer nuveiled a bron/e tablet to commemorate Mr Hud yard Kipling's connection with the paper. The tablet, which was
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    "GERMANY JUSTIFIED."
    218 10 GERMANY JUSTIFIED." Senators Amazing Speech. Washington, Feb. 14. An extraordinary speech calling on the United States to keep out of the war was made m the Senate to day by Mr John Downey Works (Repnb)ican, California), a veteran of the Civil War. Mr Works warned his fellow Senators that the
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    106 10 A very pretty wedding took place at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Penang, on Friday when Mr Arthur Cullen, of Singapore, youngest son of Mr Wm Cullen. UJdingetoL, Scollunu, wuo mariied to Miss E Adr.ua Monzies, youngest daughter of the late John Menziee, Demerara, and of Perth, Scotland. The Rev. Donald
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    PICTURE SHOWS.
    187 10 The Palladium is doing good business with the remarkably stirring picture The Bugler of Algiers," a feature of which ia the magnificent scenery amid which the action takes place. Shadows and Sunshine has proved a rare draw at the Albambra, this five reeler with Baby Marie Osborne appearing
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    RAJAH HITAM COCONUT ESTATE.
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    77 10 Agents East Asiatic Co. Mount Austin 166,580 Agents Barlow and Co. Permas 22,570 Majedie (Johore) 1 1^14 Central Kelantan 6^200" Sekong 18,700 Boaely (Jobore) 8,678 Straits 212,500 Penang 171,000 Tali Ayer 67,500 Kubana 56.000 I'.agan Serai 26,600 Batak Habit 38,500 Messrs Guthrie and Co have received
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    60 10 TO DAY. 141 p.m. Drill Hall S V A Recruits do SRE v N C Os do Maxim Co do Chinese Co Brae Baaahrd Malay Co Wkdnf.sday, April 4th. 4.80 p.m. Drill Hall SVC Thursday, April 6th. 5.15 p.m. Bras Basah-rd Malay Co Friday, Apbil 6th. GOOD
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    145 10 A new Pahang Enactment makes rather a curious amendment to the Mohamedban law of marriage and divorce. It specifies that whsre the marriage of two persons subject to the enactment has been ir revocably dissolved by the pronouncement of three divorces by the man againet the woman, it shall be
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