The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 19 June 1917

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  • 15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEN CENTS SINGAPORE TUESDAY, jf#E, 19, 1917. NO. 9,087
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  • 1054 1 PART I. In about twenty days tbe voyage between Singapore and Australia is accomplished and the traveller has journeyed over summer seas, passing tbe numerous Dutch owned islands of the Archipelago, patches of green glistening m the morning sun. Java, which is but a three days
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  • 243 1 The latest air raid on the English coast has caused much damage to property but fprtunately little loss of life. One of the raiders was brought down a mile from the sea —Page 6. A crowded meeting m London, presided over by the Lord Mayor, demands constant
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 188 1 GOODRICH TYRES SAFETY TREAD BAFFLES HOTEL SPECIAL DINNER OH SATURDAY. RAFFLES REFRESHMENT ROOM Open from 8 a. m. to 12 p. m. daily RAFFLES BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY The best m town Upconntry orders promptly executed Bread delivered at private residences daily. RAFFLES MOTOR GARAGE Cars Repaired, garaged, and Cars on
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    • 464 1 Kelly Walsh Ltd. USE! UL BOOKS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD Moore's Manual ot Family Medicine Mrs. Ediaid's Cookery Book. $2.00 and Hygiene for India. A Yearfjtonners. 385 seasonable din--Bth edition $4 25 ners' pk Instructions for Cooking. A Birch's Management and Medical Handy Guide book for Worried HouseTreatment of Children In
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    • 99 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. /*s»iff:v^SF?au..s?« l^ ~"f "n-^Vja ••bj p* 9--auction sales Page or Johore Govt, want a dresser Page 9. Houses and bungalows to let Page 9. Japanese poodle dog lost Page 8. Kelly and Walsh new books for the house Page 1. Powell and Co sell teak furniture Page 8.
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    • 2 1 Jeffreys Beer
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    • 102 1 THE WEEK. Tuesday 19th. High Water— lo.ss a.m., 10-1 p.m. New Moon. Italian Circus, Beach-rd, 9.50 p.m. Wednesday 20th. High Water— ll-35 a.m., 10-41 p.m. Thursday 21st. High Water— o-1 1 a.m.. 11-20 p.m. Lodge Eastern Gate, 8. r 0 p.m. Meeting of Justices of Peace. Bulan Puaea begins. Friday
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  • 224 2 Few men realise that about one woman m four doos her homework while suffering actual pain. It a man hid to endure as much pain he would stay at home and let his work take care of itse.f Bnt there is nobody to do the work of
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  • 376 2 The recent rumou?s of an invasion of England arose from a sudden mobiiisa tion of the entire home forces, whicb, according to Press correspondence, wae due to a German concentration at Cox haven and Zeebrugge. The rumour of the invasion is described as sweeping the country from
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  • 199 2 A volume dedicated to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe and entertaining to all admirer a of the British Navy, will be issued shortly by Messrs P S King and Son, Ltd, under thfi title of Spun Yarns of a Naval Officer," by Captain Wonham, RN. Captain Won ham entered the Royal
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 69 2 MORTGAGEES SALE OF TWO TONGKANQS it Messrs CHIRG KERG LEE ft Cos Sale-room Raffles Chambers, Raffles Place On Monday, 25th Jane, at 12 noon Tongkang No. 3076, length 69 feet, breadth 17 feet 5 inches, dept a 7 feet 6 inches tonnage 61. Tongkang No. 8077, length 71 feet, breadth
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    • 408 2 BOSTOCK'S ROYAL ITALIAN CIRCUS BEACH ROAD SINGAPORE. THE GREATEST SUCCESS ON RECORD The World's Greatest Wonder Chow NEXT MATINEE Wed. June 20th BOOK IN ADVANCE AT MOUTRIE'S Not One Animal Not One Act Not One Artiste EVER BEFORE SEEN IN SINGAPORE Electric Lighting Comfortable Seating The Circus de Luxe MATINEES:
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    • 1031 2 <+*■ "MONEY" C 5 EVERY HAN AND EVERY WOMAN SHOULD SF* AT THB. T HIB PJU ALHAMBRa THE PIONEER AND PREMIER HOUSE OF QUALITY WORLD FILM CORPORATION^ PRE 3E Xts BEACB *OAb A Drama of the People and for tre T\ "MO NE V" In 5 acts of sure-fire appeal
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  • 309 3 Provinces Establish A Military Government. iff ah Tsz Yafc Po'a Service.) Shanghai, June 4. The independent provinces have established a Military Government at Tientsin ,od have elected Chn Shai Cheong Genejaliasimo, Wong Shi Chan, Premier Teo Ya Luoq, Minister of Foreign Affaire; long Fa Lan S» Minister
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  • 171 3 A New York telegram dated April 26th states Twenty cashier's cheques for 110,000,000 each passed throngh the clear ing house to day, completing the transaction for the transfer of #200,000,000 from the Government ot the United States to to the Government of Oreat Britain. These cheques,
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  • 114 3 Opinions of Politicians. Washington, April 27th. In the House of Representatives yesterday Mr Mason urged that Mr Roosevelt should be permitted to raise an army for service m France. Ha accused President Wilson of having blocked tbe project for political reasons, and he asserted that the General star!
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  • 35 3 Accoidirg to the Socialiet paper Av»°ti" Bulgarian Socialists are striving for a separate peace, and prophesy that -oles9 it coraes within a few weeks there *iii be a revolution and the King will be iethroced.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 694 3 LOST From Clnny Lodge 16th Instant. Black aad White Japanese Poodle Dog. c inder will be rewarded on returning to Mr. Wm. Meade c/o Boustead A Co. 19-6 19 6 GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Tenders will be received at the Colonial Secretary's Office, up to noon of the 80th June, 1917, for
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    • 830 3 VALUABLE ESTATE FOR BALL TENDERS INVITED. SIPAKTAB ESTATE. Tenders are invited for the purchase of tbe property known as the Sipantas Estate (the property of the Sipantas Company, Limited) situate near Sab bak on the Birnam River m Lower Perak. Area. The Estate comprises approximately 2,000 acres htld under Government
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    • 671 3 AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD PROPERTIES At Messrs Ching Keng Lee a Co's Sale-room > Baffles Chambers. Baffles Place tSU /i,OA s?ijr_ 2sth j v ne i9i7 > 2 p-m-Lo Ko M .„n_c_« »,_s__a -w— 8 886 Do. Do, g92 687 Do. Do. y 7 Jf 4 889
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  • 1042 4 The Singapore Free Press. Tuesday, June 19, 1917. In some ways rubber has been one of the greatest curses of Malaya and most particularly m the effect it has had on the cultivation of other products less commercially profit bearing but more effective as regards the mainten ance of life.
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  • 1184 4 A Gazette Extraordinary issued yesterday gives additions to and variations m the Statutory List. Information has been received that the light on Muar Buoy was not burning on the 16th June 1917. The Rheinisch Westfalische Zeitungsays the Governor of Westphalia has prohibit ed peasants from putting their cattle out to
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  • 238 4 FRENCH CONSULAR TELEGRAMS. [By Courtesy of the Fefnchp T CBCOB Pans Jnne 15th. 6 p 0 King of ureece and th* Tfc left Greece Icr iWaarto. mil £Z Parja. June 16'.h 6 5Q pn, attacked on both banks of th. Bri^ Ypres to Commine*. rap*? their objectives; t!]( C H
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  • 290 4 All the Malayan people at Home m very much encouraged by the appointmsr., ofSub-heut. _B H Prince Albert toft battleship Malaya. Sir Ernest Birch took the ebiir at the Overseas Club lecture b- Mr F a McKecJ the war correspondent, en "With tfat Canadians at Vimy."
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  • 41 4 The Hon. Treasurer. Mr A W Vici Chartered Bank acknowledge* receipt oi following contributions i Already acknowledged 521.511' Received through Mrs F E de Paula G Gordon Brown t iOO Hugh Whitfield I Mre Fortesquieu 3 IS 131,121*
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  • 73 4 The following iMftfaM ffr :i ceived by Mr A W Vicb. at tbe Cbarterefl Bank. Already acknowledged Per WP Millar:— W P Millar 10. (ARJ3 XMt W. A B€ $2, J J Blar.dln 10. H I Ward 10, JM 99 It. Jit H F 5.)
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  • 74 4 President Wilson ie 60 years of U has grown white with the war. but not lost his elasticity or his love and humour. Often he begins b« meeting with a story. Tbe otber told of a place hunter who burriefl rf great man of the district^ on B T kf
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 186 4 JUST RECEIVED FRESH SHIPMENT OF AUSTRALIAN BEER IN HOGSHEADS FROM A WELL-KNOWN BREWERY FOR PARTICULARS AND PRICES APPLY TO CALDBECK MACGREGOR CO. HOBBS HART'S SAFES NEW STOCK JUST ARRIVED P *\<* 1 /4'*'f„i The following sizes m Stock. PrittS on application Height Width Depth 1 Height Width Depth 28 by
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    • 64 4 G. R. Lambert Co. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS ll Orchard Bead, Telephone 10. 1051. The Oldest aid Leading Studio. First m 1879, Foremost m 1917. Unequalled Facilities, Ample Resources, and the Requisite Experience, are all at out Command, thus ensuring always the produo* tion of only the best results m Studio Portraiture,
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  • 481 5 VERY POWERFUL BOMBS The End of One Raider £ly Unhmari— Cable] [Renter's Bervioel I^adon June 17. The Press-bureau vs rv. Airships carried out last nights Oat crossed tha Kent Coast and popped six bomb* m a coast town where reports say two persons were i sixteen ir.jared and
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  • 94 5 German Treachery Le_fan Jane 17 An Admiralty statement discloses that a British destroyer »hi!e rescuing German survivors who jumped overboard m the naval action of Jnae 15 were fired on by the German destroyer $20 before the latter sank and s«sc by ghore batteries, while enemy seaplanes
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  • 201 5 Kew Device for Canal Transport. The mmmi stage of a striking experiment Q inlaad water transport was successfully °tnp;eted by the arrival m London of *wo •trges laden with coal from the Can3°ck Chase Colliery which had been Spelled for 160 miles by a detachable actcr. The uew
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  • 283 5 FRENCH ACTIVELY ENGAGED [By Submarine Gable] [Renter 's Service] London, June 18. Frenoh communique: Following yesterday nights bombardment of the Hurtebise sector, the enemy attacked and succeeded m entering a salient of our positions, but was driven I back after a brisk fight and only able to maintain
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  • 54 5 London, June 17. A French eastern communique says British airmen greatly damaged enemy campe at Saint Yraco. The Thessalian advance continues. The French cavalry have reached Pharsale and Domokos, sixt-j kilometres south of Larissa, and the British have occupied Demerli. Rome, June 18 King Constantine and hae family
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  • 48 5 Cairo, June 18 Recent operations m Palestine have been limited to the usual trench fighting. The British artillery has been very active, dominating the enemy's and inflicting nnmerons casualties, while the airmen frequently and effectively raided the camps and headquarters of Birsaba, Barreira, Gaza and elsewhere.
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  • 61 5 London, June 17. There has been a heavy fall m the mark m neutral ex* changes. It is now worth less than 6|d. London, June 17. -The death is an* nonnced of Colonel Thomas Watson. London, Jnne 16. The silver market is steady with nothing doing. Madrid, Jnne 18
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  • 149 5 A reward of Rs 100 was advertised m Rangoon by A G, No 4 Sole Pagoda road, for the recovery of a solitaire diamond ring. This ring was presented by tbe B. A. A to Mr A G Dußern, the honor ary secretary, on the occasion
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  • 167 5 On Saturday, June 9, the new pavilion of the Gopeng Gymkhana Club, Ipoh, was formally declared open by the President, Mr T Treacher, m the presence of a large number of people. Considerable inconvenience has inevitably been caused to the families of those officer who have left the Indian establish*
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  • 374 5 THE AMERICAN MISSION (By Submarine Cable J New York, June 17. A cable from Petrograd eaye that Mr Root leading the American mission to Russia was greeted by the Provisional Government. He laid stress on the fearful danger of German military autocracy threatening Russia's newfound freedom and
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  • 253 5 Use of Aeroplanes after the War. The possibility of utilising our great aerial organisation after the war for com* mercial purposes was indicated m the House of Commons on April 26 during the debate on the Air Service. Major Baird, Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board, said
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  • 177 5 The military correspondent of the Pioneer gives some startling comparative figures with reference to the German and British losses m the battle of Arras. He asserts that the Huns lost 18C.00O men, exclusive of prisoners and of these the large proportion is m men killed. The destruction wrought among enemy
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  • 164 5 London, June, 18, (5.50 a.m.) The Admiralty issues a statement that the wireless report that a German submarine sank a British destroyer m the Mediterranean on June 11 is untrueLondon, June 18. The Times corres- 1 pondent at Madrid says Sr. Dato's concilia tory methods have calmed the
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  • 366 5 STRAITS TRADE LAST QUARTERS FIGURES. The trade returns for the Colony for the first quarter of the year show that the total value of imports of merchandise was $156,177,937 compared with $140,268,112 during the same period of laet year. Tbe figure* of imports for the various settle ments wete as
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  • 61 5 Mr G A Chill, Rangoon excise depart- 1 ment, while searching a Chinese steamer m port for contraband came upon two bags of raw Bengal opium m the eross 1 coal bunkers under fifteen feet of coal.' There were 68 cakes of opium m the two bags,
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  • 198 5 In recent years, until the outbreak of war, and even daring the war, a considerable number of Chinese students have been m attendance at the Scotch universities. On their return to the East they enter Government service and fill posts of m flnence m various departments, including the schools. For
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 212 5 I Just Received CHRISTY'S' SINGLE AND DOUBLE TERAI HATS IN GREY, FAWN AND CUBA ALL SIZES STOCKED Robinson Co. THE SINGAPORE STRAITS HOUSEKEEPER'S DAY BOOK. Names of Articles m EDgiish with phonetic equivalent m Malay. Contains— Bazaar Account (52 weeks), Cook's Cash Account, Beef and Mutton Account, Dhobie's Account. Summary
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    • 754 6 c" ELLERMAN" LINE. ELLERMAN AND BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO.. LTD. INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND MMM M _^_»¥_i —T~ I FOR LONDON. Pot particulars as to rates of freight and passage apply to McALISTER Co., Ltd., AGENTS) KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ (Incorporated In Holland, Royal Packet Navigation Ca, of Batavia. B—3, C'OLLTEB QUAY, OBDKH
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    • 623 6 Km Oe OBITISH INDIA AND _\PCAB JLINE (Oompanles Inoorporated la England.! Mail and Passenger Services. peninsulas and oriental sailings. (Under Contract with His Majesty's Government.) NX China. Japan, Penang, Ceylon, .Australia, India, Adam, Egypt, Mediterranean Ports and London. MAIL UNES. HOMBWABO (FOB EUROPE). I OUTWARD (FOB CHIPA) INTERMEDIATE DIRECT SERVICE
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    • 810 6 MESSAGERIES MiRmL "AIL Lim, BRAKCH LIU Fortnightly service botw w.« c Balphoug. »«*een Salgo^ For further Information apn f k da COURTOis OSAKA ShOSETKA^ (Incorporated i D COsiks ■erssstlli Stesmshin r. Iw KOBE-BOMBAY L»r The Company mamtata/i Sr service with six steamere rokkaichi, Hongl_B l .Sin^&!_s ham, Penang, Colombo IT^^mi
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  • 486 7 ■p. Kipling oi the power of the Press. Tbe gem of the new Rudyard Kipling volume, A Diversity of Creatures is a delicious story called The Village That Voted tbe Earth Was Flat. Sir Thomae Ingle, baronet, w. P., J. P.. and Radical, was fated
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  • 543 7 Tcnom (Borneo). J The report of the Teuom (Borneo) Rub- ber Company for 1916 states that the crop for the year was as folio we Pad as Valley estate, 298,000 lb?, against an estimate of 820,000 lbs ilengattal estate, 278 400 lbe, ngetaat un tttiraaie cf 110,009 lbs;
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  • 330 7 ■en's Time Beaten at Ploughing. Sbaekleford, Surrey. From over's wide area of Surrey 120 farm girls invaded tbis little village, 8$ miles from Godalming, to take part m a farm demonstration and competition. Smocked and gaitered some of them wore putteeß, some smocks of green or brown
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  • 314 7 An aviation critic m an exchange writes I have alluded to tbe close affinity which exists between the spotting air man and the gunner. But I was surprised to hear that battery commanders insist on having their favourite observer up aloft. I can easily understand this.
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  • 42 7 The following donations have been received by Mr A W Vick at the Chartered Bank. Already acknowledged t1,230.§0 E E Adamscn 5 Capt T Bannatyne (per A E Thornley Jones) 10 $1,245.60 JAB f odk, Hon Secretary
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 601 7 I Wah ar Peack, Famins m- I^aEnty, Life Insurance is worth too cents on the dollar. WHAT OTHER PROPERTY ISP !E GREAT EASTERN UFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, UMIUD. (INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS). L mimmm OFFIC fi: Wlncli6st6r House, Singapore. LONDON OFFICE i SI. Old Jewrj. E-C I a Oompant a*? fiSO.ooc
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    • 518 7 THE HO HONG BANK, Ltd. Head Office SINGAPORE, RAFFLES CHAMBERS, 5 6. Branches I Malacca, 155 First Cross Street Moar, 77/79 Jalan Suleiman. CAPITAL. I Registered^. «8,000,000. Issued »4,<K0,r00. Subscribed 55.500.000. Paid °P »1,750,C00. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Lim Peng Siang Esq Chairman. The Hon' bio Dr. Lim Boon Keng. Lee
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    • 804 7 SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE CO., LTO. (Incorporated In New Zealand. III! Insuranoes effected on Buildings, Rent and Merchandise of every description. M&_lr7l Insurances aooepted to all parts of tbe world at lowest rates. Wil Bill accepted to all parts. i. HBNRY, Manager. Oflees 2, Flilspoi Inn, 1 ALLIINSE ASSURANCE fo. Ltd.
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  • 406 8 Ia an interesting article m a contemporary, a writer points ont that although we are considered as a "nation of shop keepers,'* we are really a seafaring people. Not only have we been bo for 1,000 years, bnt with the growth of population, and the
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  • 233 8 The Lord Chief Justice oo Fair Comment. Tbe Divisional Court recently refused an application (or a writ of attachment against Mr Bottom ley for conterr.pt of court for comment m an open letter m John Ball on Mr Arnold Lapton. the ex ll P who was
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  • 188 8 Sir Edward Morris on nev Trade Methods. Some of the Colonial Prime Ministers now m this country were the guests of the British Manufacturers' Association at Stationers' Hall, Ludgate hill. Among them were Mr W F Massey, Premier of New Zealand Mr Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner
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  • 1126 8 Tha boats of the valley are, as are its canals, many m their number but few m their variety the Bast weighs heavy upon them with that uninspired repetition of similar forms which is so inexplicable to the West. There are large boats and there are small
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  • 147 8 Portuguese subjects m the East, who follow with interest .the movements of the Portuguese Expenditionary Force m Force, will feel gratified to know that a part of it has already reoeived its baptism of fire. Tbe Lisbon journals to hand by the last mail publish a
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 257 8 JGaggino&Go I (Established m Singapore 1878). NO. 6, 7, 8 6-a, MALACCA STREEI Life Boat Yard TANJONG ROO. Ship Chandlery Depot SAMBAU STREET. We have always steam launches for sale, life boats and other boats, new and second hand. Contractors for new boats. ALWAYS RELIABLE BOTH IN QUALITY AND QUANTITY
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    • 438 8 Yet la the gaae-Sargol makes Pnay, Peevish People Plomp and Popular SARGOL, the concentrated food that puts on good healt" sometimes at the rate of a pound a day, builds up the thin and' brings back the rosy blush of health, rounds out the 6k;, ny 1 figures to lines
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  • 1497 9 Issued by FRASER <& Co., Exchange and Share Brokers, June 18th. •AU tooaattoe-B ol Sterling SHarae moat ia regarded aa finely nominal ioa fee preaeni. OAt iMOa. Paid. &abv Di?, Buyhkb, Simmm. 100,000 II IB AUftffSf IH% -.18 8 0 879,980 la Sa Anglo-Java 10% let 6
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  • 54 9 (CoBoaoTBD uf vo Jnne 18.) Baift m/a 940 dmiaod 2-4 i PrtTJsln eaedila Bre a 2-4 18- IP France demand Bank 818 ißDta, T. T. HOHRKOSSi demand s&%Pren> L'cxjba— a demand 109 Java, demand 184-J Bah^kok, demand as-J &OV BBfICRBM, Bonk BO/lag 9-%.*« Bast o.* ISngUnc Bate 6< Bar
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  • 150 9 June 18 Tin (100 tons) 9110.25 _iai 16.01 lam Mar Cnfca Na. 1 26.2f 3__ Bias Cuke Ns. 25.00 Pespt* fclack ordln. S'pora 29 25 Papjper, (WbiU f a!«) 89.00 Natmvga (110 ts fcfca U 42.00 K«ftn»g3 (80 to tht lajJ 52.00 uface (Bands) 80.00 Clovaa (Amboina) nom Bali
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 200 9 TEe TROPICAL ROOFING GENASCO Supplied with patent "KANT LEAK" KLEATB which do away with the necessity of using sticky cement at the overlaps. .___fl___telr i _H x jfltr^ BBh SSr;it r. 95H&& mm^^^^^"""/ ffrM If 3l9__ mk* %m\ Wsf fr_ih J2^t» _l J___H _H _B fl_fef-&&: N >. x^W*J*-^i_?^ __P>«9HB_B___a_a^_
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    • 616 9 JOHORE GOVERNMENT DISPENSARY Wanted a well goal fled Dispenser and Store Keeper. Chinese -referred. UFt have good knowledge tt English jnd Malay. Apply enclosing qualification and testimonial to Principal Medical Ofiicer, Johore. 19 6 ws 93-6 VACANCY For c^.pablc saleswoman m Ladies Outfitting Dep:. Good salary to clever hand. JOHN
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 478 9 MAIL TABLE Todij. Intermediate and local mails, wta sc »ou*. In list below Penang, Malacca, F.M.S (by Ireia) t p. a dally (except Sunday). Johore, 8, 0.80. 11 a.m.. 11.80 f 4 A 8 p.m P. Batam A P. Balang Hock Lim 4 p* Cucob Azmere 4 pm Cucob Soon
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  • 1324 10 Tilt Budget. from Onr 0»n Corrt-rpoadsaJ London, May 8. Mr Bonar Law accomplished a feat yesterday which probably no man m the House could bare done, speaking (or 75 .minutes on^he Budget without notes of any sort exoept a few figures, and yet making no mistake m
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  • 296 10 Tha report ot the Directors to the annual meeting ot the shore company beld on May 8, states Daring the year 488 tons ot tin ore were sold as compared with 264 tons sold daring 1916. The amount realised was £47,558 6s Bd, equal to £108 68 per
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  • 143 10 Before Mr W Langham Carter ia the First Court yesterday a number of motor car cases were beard and the following were amongst them Goh Keng Lam, manager of a rubber estate at Yeo Chu Kang, was signalled to by a policeman, by holding op his hand to
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  • 70 10 It is announced that a British Govern ment department wishes photographs and picture-postcards of place including bridges, railway junctions, rivers, canals, factories, etc m the portions of Belgium and Northern France now occupied by the Germans. The owners of such pictures who are willing to present them are
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  • 469 10 The annual meeting of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company of which Messrs Boustead and Co are the looal agents was held on April 25 at Liver* pool Mr J H Clayton presiding. In. the 1 course of his speech he said Summarising the
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  • 302 10 The Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade having accomplished the main object of its protest since its formation m 1874, will continue for the present as a vigilance committee, so that if at any time it should appear desirable and prac ticable to
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  • 136 10 Among the Hun victims at Arras was the most remarkable private soldier m the German Army Professor Dr Caspar Rene Gregory, who enlisted as an ordinary reoruit m the spring of 1916 and has been; m the trenches ever since. A native of Philadelphia,' USA,
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  • 237 10 i I YESTERDaY»3 RESULTS. f Profession Pairs. Tel. IV Westwood and Laybourne beat Army, I Lloyd and Fifoot, 6—4, 6 l. G S. 11. Tyler and Pedlow vs Navy Stow and Webb, postponed. TODAY'S TIES. B. Singles. To will vs Any on. Zehnder vs Joyce.
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  • 62 10 The Palladium's chaoge ot programme inclodes a stirring Wild "West drama, Mixed Blood," with new comedies and cartoons, and the latest War Gazette. An other Lois Weber production, "The People versos John Doe," is promised soon. Harima Hall continues the thrilling Purple Mask," two episodes m four parts,
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  • 203 10 Mdlle Irma Caron and party have me with splendid success m Batavia and have already made arrangements to play a return season there after playing the principal country towns. 'The Batavia press has referred to the entertainment m tbe most glowing terms and two critics have gone so far as
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  • 46 10 (Saunders and Macphail's Report.) j Monday's Business. The share market is quiet but prices of rubber shares are quite steady. There is a mild enquiry for Ting Kils at 97.80, Titiß at 97 50, Sungei Gaus at 915.50. Traders. Bayers 988.50 Sellers 939.25.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 473 10 "GUARANTEED^ UNDER THE PURE FOOD AND DRUnT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA On every bottle of Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pill s S( i States of Americathere is placed an extra lakel, k_rtng a O^j word "Guaranteed" which denotes that the proprietors oi L) nU M an tW Root Pills guarantee
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 46 10 S.V. C. DRILL PROGRAMME. TO-DAY. 5.15 p.m. Drill Hall S V A Recruits. do S R E v, N C Os. ii H do Maxim Co. 5.10* do Chinese Co. 5.15 Bras Basah Road Malay Co. G G Wace, Captain jm- Actg. Adjutant, S. V. C,
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