The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 26 June 1917

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  • 15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEN CENTS SINGAPORE TUESDAY, JUNE 2&, 1917. NO. 9,093
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  • 132 1 Oar Scottish letter on page 10. Results ia yesterday's teanis tournament Page 10. Aa interesting letter on milk supplies will be found on page 4. A special article oa internal affairs m Germany is given oa page 6. Late wires record aa unfortunate oc currence at Rotterdam
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  • 1334 1 111. There and Around. It is a strange little town, is Ooty scattered and awkward, m some ways, yet fascinating. It has a post office like a Swiss chalet, and a sub judge's court like a church (with bell and diamondpaned windows complete). Ite Government House
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 232 1 GOODRICH TYRES SAFETY TREAD RAFFLES HOTEL SPECIAL DINNER ON SATURDAY. RAFFLES REFRESHMENT ROOM Open from 8 a. m. to 12 p. m. daily RAFFLES BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY te best m town omptly executed Bread delivered at private residences daily. RAFFLES MOTOR GARAGE ™r French and English Cars In exceUent condition
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    • 334 1 Kelly Walsh, Ltd. Putnam weales f HOW WE KEPT THE SEA LATEST BOOK D A tU au- a Record of the Achievements THE ALTAR FIBELoVea. w^ shNavyduringthc The Story ol the Chinese Bevolutlon H. CDRREY, K.N. Price $1.25 Price $2.75 i Contains chapters on CornSpectator— Here the author parisons between
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    • 148 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. RobicEon and Co for tennis shoes P X- 6. Secretary wanted for Chinese firm Page 9. Keiiy and Walsh advertise some intereasing books Page 1. Notice re stolen bullock cart plates; Notice by Wadleigh and Co re cargo from Njw York Page 3. Fre.h films at the Harima
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    • 2 1 Jeffreys Beer
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 111 1 THE WEEK. Tuesday 26th. High Water— l.sl a.m., 3 1 p.m. Emulation Lodge, 8.80 p.m. Italian Circa., Beach-rd, 9. SO p.m. Bandman Opera, Bing Boys." Wednesday 27th. High Water— B-S8 a.r_... 3-40 p.m. Bandman Opera, High Jinks." Thursday 28th. Hlfb Water— .-83 a.m.. 4-23 p.m. Bandman Opera, Tina." Friday 29th.
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  • 244 2 At the general meeting of tbe Deutsche Bank a shareholder asked whether it was true, as had been reported m England, that the Deutsche Bank has £16 000,000 sterling tied up m the Baghdad Railway, and, if so, how this investment cow ap peared m the books
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  • 102 2 A correspondent Bends a portion of the Daily Express of June 2, 1904, con taining an article by the German military critic, Count Ernst Reventlow, who gave England a warning that was not taken. He said If Britain could maintain for all time a fleet of
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  • 94 2 Archdeacon Holmes told the following story at the annual meeting of tbe Re bear=al Club at ihe St James' Theatre Not long ego I went into a room where the clergy had been accustomed to meet for a long time. Being late, I rushed m m
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 413 2 Theatre Royal NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. FOR 6 NIGHTS ONLY. COMMENCING TUESDAY. JULY 3rd. FAREWELL VISIT OF THE GREAT HORACE GOLDIN The "World's Greatest Illusionist :r P. Supported by a Full LONDON Company of 35 ARTISTES 35 la Entirely New Illusions Including *C a I m±. J^L 4 HORACE GOLDIN A
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    • 806 2 THRILLS. LAUGHTER -WS^. ALHAMBRa The Piooeer and Premier Bouse The House of Htfiti ESSANAY PRESENTS Ch Ro WINE WOMEM SOMIN 2 ACTS M Keepitig m fine restraint any desire that a\ r prominence th.^ downfall of tbe cbarpcter from v ih e fc J succeeded m giving the spsctitor a
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  • 412 3 The After Tbe- Wir Fleet. Important light on Germany's shipping plans tet the war after the war is shed by jH-ffl—irg despatch to the Munich Latest Mi (Neueste Nachrichten) of April 28. j te nisaii of interned German vessels m American and Brazilian harbours (amountiE g to nearly
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  • 132 3 Lord Balfour's Committee on After Tar Trade ia now, I understand, engaged with :he important problem of the introduccion zi the metric and decimal systems for our weights and measures and coinage. It is a bat remarkable coincidence that at this juncture m the relations of
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 300 3 AUCTION SALE OF TWENTY VALUABLE FREEHOLD BUILDINO ALLOTMENTS Areas from 1 388 .quare feet to 2,387 square teet j Situate at Serangoon Road and Race Course Lane 4: Missrs. Ching Ken* Les ft Cos Sale-room Kaffles C_a_ubers, Raffles Place On Monday, 2nd July, at 2-30 p. m. CHUG KEHG LEE
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    • 452 3 I EATING WHAT YOU LIKE Not to be limited m one's diet but to eat whatever one ple_.es without discomfort is the dream of every dyspeptic. Nobody can honestly promise to restore any stomach to this condition, becanse all people cannot eat the same kind of food vith equally satisfactory
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    • 853 3 PERMANENT WAY INSPECTOR Vacancy now filled, applicants thanked. GUTHRIE ft GO., Ltd. 266 28. 8 WARNING. j The number plates of Bullock Cart No. 2241 1 and 1798 (red ground and white figures 1917) 1 are reported stolen. i W. E HOOPER. 1 Registrar of Vehioles. 1 Singapore. 25th June
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    • 482 3 STRAITS SETTLEMENTS POLICE. POLICE NOTICE ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES ORDINANCE 1913. RENEWAL OF PERMITS FOR FIREARMS. AU persons m possession of firearms are hereby reminded that permits for such firearms expire on the SOth June 1917, and should be renewed as soon after that date as possible. Persons failing to renew
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    • 227 3 Wfc m^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ mmm^ mmm^maaWam*maa i rT_»"if. ..b_r__£_._B-_____.T3-H-_^__g__ira "FIRESTONE." EFFICIENCY. /.gents; BRI NKM ANN tf CO. ""^™™-i^^-™"^_-_---_-___________. RAFFLES CHAMBERS 'be following sections only available Groand noor sections Nos. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 T" 1 «°Z r 2 5 Second floor 8, 9, io ll and 12 Eleotrlo Lift
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  • 2209 4 The Singapore Free Press. Tuesday, June 26, 1917. The "Toad beneath the Harrow" is not always to be trusted to return an unbiassed judgement on the harrow, and so not possibly everybody who has to pay more for his commodities and puts it down toHhe cost of freight is to
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  • 763 4 Correspondence. MILK PRICES. io the Editor, Dear Sir,— Certaia letter, v f d m the daily pre,, co^^ap^ day- a,d a, ta hag pte amount cf -peculation on tho 3 a distributors of m.i.,. i f. v Pa «c! U* the piiiHlU, wm MtMMmtA ■TST**^ ■JDisS. BQI^J Thp p f
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 104 4 JUST RECEIVED FRESH SHIPMENT OF AUSTRALIAN BEER IN HOGSHEADS FROM A WELL-KNOWN BREWERY I FOR PARTICULARS AND PRICES APPLY TO CALDBECK MACGREGOR CO. I Fashionable Ladies' Shoes. NEW STOCKS JUST ARRIVED. NSWEST STYLES No. 1404. Finest English Chrome Patent Court Dress Shoe. Paste and Silver Ornament Price $12.75. V* P
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    • 63 4 G. R. Lambert Co. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS 81 Orchard Koad, Telephone la 1035. Ths Oldest and Leading Studio. First ln 1879, Foremost m 1917. Unequalled Facilities, Ample Resources, and the Requisite Experience, are all at ont Command, thus ensuring always the production of only the best results ln Studio; Portraiture, Child
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  • 215 5 ANARCHIST PLANS FAIL French Minister Hopeful [By Babmar-M Cable] [Barter's Berrieal petrograd, June 24. Tha Duruovo anarchists are still defying the government j^jj threaten to blow up the occupied •ill- if -orce be naed. I Jun9 24 Th 9 Maximalist i c-rcp'e te fia-eo. Neither the m^AvM 'BM
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  • 164 5 Systematic Development London. Jane 24. It is officially stated tbe development of tha mineral resources of.-. I sited Kingdom which the depart_t.__: I the _Uini_trv of Munitions is aniert ik.ng under Sir Lionel Phillips is likely to lead to far reaching results. Sir Lionel is bringing tbe
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  • 44 5 New York, June 24. The House of Representatives has passed the food control bill, empowering the President to control the distribution of food, feed and fuel, forbidding the use of food-tuff, for making intoxicants, authorising the taking over cf all distilled liquors.
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  • 46 5 Amsterdam, June 25. The Coder Secre tary fat foreign affairs, Baron Newton, General Sir Hubert Belfield, and Mr Jua -cc Younger have arrived at the HagQe k Hfßti-_M with German delegates rela tive to the conditions of respective war prisoners.
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  • 20 5 Amsterdam, June 24. A new Austrian Cabinet baa been formed under the precier=h.r of Doctor Von Seidler.
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  • 195 5 THE MERRY WIDOW." -ibi-ii's put on an old favourite at -ie Victoria Theatre last evening, and the wdience which filled the bouse were ero'.is m their appreciation of Tbe l r r v Widow." It has. as is well known, tespital story and much excellent music, »od
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  • 23 5 F or being m possession of a quantity of liable tobacco m Beach-rd, Goh Ah Fat lined 176 by Mr Mudie, third magisyesterday.
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  • 89 5 GERMAN PLOT UNMASKED Huge Stores of Explosives {By Bubmariafl Gabl*] [Renter's Sflrvioa] Copenhagen, June 24. Norwegian Official The Christiania police have arrested several foreigners with a quantity of explosives m a private house, Albo a number of large trunks from Germany, filled with explosives, at the
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  • 454 5 The Future of the White Races Capetown, June 25. Speaking at Robertson, Cape Colony, General Botha regietted that the provincial council elections bad been fought ou political lines. Tbey should have remained outside party politics. Unfortunately politics had been dragged m m many matters where tbey
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  • 157 5 French Restore their Lines London, June 24. Fieldmarshal Haig says Tbe enemy unsuccessfully attempt ed raids southeast of Gavrelle and Ar mentieres. The enemy artillery was active near Havrincourt wood, north of the Scarpa and at Messines We brought down four aeroplanes. One of ours is missing. London,
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  • 55 5 Ottawa, June 24. Further liberal opposition to Sir W Laurier on the conscription question was marked during the week end. Three of his prominent supporters m the Commons disapproved of his referendum amendment. It is expected that only six liberals will support Sir Wilfred, and his solid
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  • 1146 5 THB DIFFICULTIES OF LIFE It is well known that the whole vast machinery of tbe German oensorihip is ceaselessly at work to prevent any information about internal conditions reaching the outer world. Yet m spite of tbe most elaborate precautions a certain amount of. evidence does
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  • 422 5 London, June 25. The Daily Mail correspondent at the Hague says the populace of Rotterdam seized and distributed lighters of potatoes consigned to the British Government thereby creating a grave political situation. Tbe Dutch British agricultural agreement allows Holland to expoit fifty per cent of ber potato crop
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  • 260 5 At tbe Harima Hall this evening fur her episodes of Tne Purple Mask,*' a new Screen Magazine, an amusing Nestor comedy and other good films will be shown. Tbe Palladium screens "A Daughter of the Nile." The Heart of New York," new official Gazette, The Conspiracy and
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 216 5 THE TIG E fi BRAND RED Tennis Shoes (RED RUBBBB SOLES! NEW STOCKS JUST RECEIVED. I a—^ _ww mm 1_— w r— The Best More and Extensively used Latest Shoe -^<<^f^ 4 locally for all P^m\ ''''^^S, f than any other Sports. jj^nj^L*^ Make i Sizes Stocked %|^vß Cli Sizes
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 787 6 "ELLERMAN" LINE. ELLERMAN AND BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO.. LTD. INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND FOR LONDON. For particulars aa to rates of freight and passage apply to McALISTER Co., Ltd., AGBNTSI XONINKLMKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAFFy (Incorporated ln Holland, Royal Packet Navigation Co., of Batavia. 9—B, GOLL-EB QUA_. D-SDER CONTRACT WITH THE NETHERLANDS IWDIA OOVERNMt.>
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    • 577 6 Ml 0# British India AND A.pcab Line (Companies Incorporatea la England,) Mail and Passenger Services. peninsular and oriental saiungs. (Under Contract with His Majesty b Government.) For; China, Japan, Penang, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Ports and London. (MAIL LINES. HOMBWABD(FOBEUBOPB). I OOTWABD (KB OBIBA} INTERMEDIATE DIRECT SERVICE Qomewap
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    • 743 6 M. M ■EBSIOEBIEB MAplrv *"*a>ci Fortnightly .ervicf y t China. Japan, Ce,^ fe! h Marseilles. b J lfc oatl. Mm BRANCH LlSg Fortnightly P r.rvi C(;tt Haiphong. %a n co GOURTOIS OSAKA SL^SdT^^ (Q-aki lanwi'it :t^. The Con -r.r y maictainfi .T .arv«e. wtth six -<- rc 23Ja» <^ rottaicW^ongkcngiigc^!?
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  • 1160 7 The great French offensive, or, retbet double offensive, of the past week sbouli be regarded simply and tolely o^ what i I is, an attack by the right wing supplement ing the British onslaught on tbe left whicl 'pushed m tbe German front between Leu .and Arras.
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  • 781 7 Light on old India is being steadily oast by Hie excavations of tbe Archaeological Department. Tee Department is compiling a history wb;ch ie cot a kind of gac! calender, a register of crimes and miseries— for this ia what histories, compill d from old written
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1738 7 m i -am -"^---------__M_l^b_K^^Sß^^B-_B_H BB aMaCS'Ma\ ___lfl__l __K-flßt_[BßHP99_____BK-_^____i WmmMtM^/IMBMtUm^mWmimimWmimim^tmiammmmXmmmmmmmMMimßKt j Wib Q^ Peace, Famine or Plenty. Life Insurance is worth too cents on the dollar. jj WHAT OTHER PROPERTY ISP j 111 GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, UMITED. (INCORPORATED IN BT&AITS SETTLEMENTS). ■BAB OFFICE Winchester House, Slnfapore. LONDON v__FFICE i
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    • 201 7 SOUTH BRiTiSH INSURANCE CO., LTD. (Incorporated In New Zealand. i Pill InpuraucßP efleoted on Buildings, Sect and Merchandise of every description. HARIRI Insurances accepted to all parts of the world at lowest rates, VAB 5!73 accepted co all parts, J. HENRY, Manager, Office-. 2, Flalaysoi firaaa. UUANSE ASSURANCE Co, Ltd,
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  • 621 8 (incorporated m Queensland.) General Manager's Progress Report fob Four Weeks Ending May 19th, 1917. The accompanying sheet of Mine Measurements and Assay returns shows a footage of 825 ft made up of 85 ft sinking, 42 ft driving, and 248 ft oroaaoutting, as'
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  • 346 8 While the German authorities are manufacturing fat by sacrilegious practices that freeze the world with horror, an m fluential group of Englishmen are study ing bow to turn to better account those great stores of the commodity which ace available among our natural resources. Mr.
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  • Article, Illustration
    329 8 S -RGOL, the concentrated food that puts on noi beftlik. sometimes at the rate of a pound a day, builds up the brings back the rosy blush of health, rounds cut tht tlfigures to lines of beauty and plumpness, does it i effectively. You don't understand it Well, to tell
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 810 8 RHEUMATISM, I LUMBAGO SCIATICA. Rheumatism. Lumbago and Sciatica are three of the most common and most l* painful complaints vnd practically arise from the same cause and the names only X distinguish the location of the disease. If the arms and legs are affected it is called U Rheumatism; ii
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    • 89 8 THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. Nol No* N.* THERAPIONtw-c^ BLOOD POISON. KIDNIY. BLADDER, IHINARY DISEASES DISCHARi'.ES, WEAKNESS, PILES. SEND STAMP ADDRESS BMVBLOPE kor FREE BOORLET ro Dk. LE CLERC Med. c<>, HAVRRarocß rd. Hampstead. London.hmParis depot: 13, RUE CASTIGLIONE 1 A CURE~I HEm York DEPOT: 90. HEEKMAI* ST. IFOR YOU 1
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    • 48 8 MOSQUITO NETTING GREEN MOSQUITO NETTING. 36 ins. wide by 16 mesh by 100 feet m a roll 31 by 18 by 100 BRASS WIRE MESH. 3 feet wide by I ins. mesh by No. 17 gauge j UNITED ENGINEERS LIMITS j INCORPORATED IN THE STRAUS SETTLEMENTS I SINGAPORE.
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  • 48 9 (GOBBBC9MO ur 90 June 25.) Rank i otfl I-4| dimaad 2-4J ex«did4 |ml 2-418-1* Franco demand Bank 818 lama, T. T. E-OH&KOHa, demand B|%Pren TOZORAMA, demand 100 Java, demand 164 Bas&kO-h domand 55| SfOVBBVWHti Bank Baying ,s '4 Book oi Btagland U te 5^ Bma 8Ut«» liOi-dD-i
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  • 1474 9 Issued by FRASER Co., Exohange and Share Brokers, June 25th. Oat. Imus. Fait* BinDi?. Burns, Saftftvsi 100,000 fa la Aliag&r 111% -18 8 0 879,080 IB as Anglo-Jim 10% int 5 0 6 0 110,000 la la Anglo-Malay BS% int 10 6 18 0 •0,000 8a la
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  • 109 9 June 26. Tin (buyers) »1 09.00 GfimklMM 16. CC Qt-mfciM Cdfc- Ho. 1 26.2 f ~a.T__ii._ Ca-c Ko. f 25.0( Black c-din. S'poaa 29.80 Fepp^if, tWttiti t~'.tf 40.00 Nafmogi (no ta Hit Ik) 42. 0 c N'i.megß (80 tc lh« 1i..: 52. CC Kaoe (Banda) 90. 0 C O.ovea
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 138 9 TIT TROPICAL VoOFING GENASCO Suoplied with patent "KANT LEAK" KLEATS .n;:h do away with the necessity of using sticky cement at the overlaps. V Hi^vflKv fli j| iJ MA. _____3____» GENASCO is the result of over 30 years experience m the manufacture of Ready Roofings. Its durability makes it the
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    • 13 9 •All luotittoi- distorting Steiei mom ie regarded ts purelf ■omlnU tor lhe eieseil.
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    • 46 9 Time-ball- on Fort Gannlnf aafl Mooai Faber drop dally at 1 p.m. Singapore rtandard Mme. corresponding lo I a.m. Greenwlofc mean lime. Tbe tlme-gnn la fired al 11 o'olooi noon, Indicating Singapore standard Mmc, oo every day excepting Sunday, when II la flved ai one 'oelook.
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    • 526 9 WANTED SECRETARY For a Chine c Commercial firm. Must be a good co- respondent an J accoun act. Only Straits bom ULinesp EPtv. apoly. Engineering c/o Free Press. 16-6 80.6 WAN. ED Mining Er.?\vr-rr "Antral! n" peeks Fmplovraeat a* ronpfcemr r Managing Tin Mine. Experience ai CoßStroctinoel ana Erectional wo:i__.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 425 9 MAIL TABLB intermediate and local mails, wt:; be foucd m list below Penang, Malaooa, F M.S (by T»ai.. c p.a. daily (except Sunday). Jobote. 8. 9.30. 11 a.m. 12.30, 9, «a 6 p.u, Anamba ft Natnna Is. Batavier 8.80 am P. Batam ft P. Bulang Hock Keng 880 Ay Cncob
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  • 1885 10 From Our Otcn Correapofwdeni Soldiers' Songs. Edinburgh, May 9. In a clever if somewhat academic .war novel, one of the characters, who hears the strains of Tipperary eung by a com pany of recruits outside his window, is made to moralise thus, Lillibulero drove my King ont of
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  • 201 10 [By Courtesy of the French Consulate] Paris, June 24, 6.10 p.m. A powerful German attack on a front of two kilometres on the Chemin des Dames failed with heavy losses we only abandoned an ad vanced salient of our line. During tbe night tbe Germans attacked at
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  • 400 10 Germany's Food. Amsterdam, May 18. Herr Batocki, Food Controller, speakiog m the Reichstag said he was convinced that the food supplies would last until the harvest, bat the Government must ensure careful distribution of the toil. England had been forced to copy Germany, but she could not
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  • 45 10 The Hon Treasurer, Mr A W Vick, care of Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Singapore, begs to acknowledge with many thanks receipt of the following further contribution to the above Fund. Already acknowledged $21,711.87 Sir John Jackson, Ltd 50 521,761.87
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  • 45 10 Over $47,000 has been paid over to the Japanese Consul General at Shanghai by the Chinese Government through the Special Envoy of Foreign Affairs, says the Chinese Press, m settlement of all indemnity claims by Japanese subjects who suffered daring the second revolution m 1018.
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  • 139 10 YESTERDAYS PLAY. Championship. Upcott beat Ruohwaldy, 6—o, 6—l. Hunt beat Allen, 6 1, 6—o. Heaps beat Sinclair, w.o. B. Singles. Rev Swindell beat Murray, 6—4, 6—l. Cassels beat Phipps, 6—B, 2—6, 6—4. Potts beat Wreford, 6—3, 4—6, B—o. C Singles. Watt beat Broad. B—B, 6—o, 6—2. Parr
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  • 98 10 A. Singles. Tinsley v Donnell. B. Singles. Towill v Joyce. Elder v Meade, postponed. Borneman v Pash. C. Singles. Layton v Thomson. Wright v Lowndes. Newcomers'. Rankin v Hunt. Lecot v Gordon. Savage v Diethelm. Evans v Hughes. Allen v Salter. A. Doubles. Dunn and Hartnell v Smith
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  • 376 10 There was a large congregation at St. Andrew's Church, Kowlooo, at the morning service on Jnne 10, when Uie Excellency the Governor (Sir Henry May, Xc M o) unveiled a tablet to tbe memory of the late Rev H O Spink, a forme. Chaplain of the Church, who.was killed m
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  • 34 10 TO DAY. 8.16 p m. Drill Hall S V A Recruits. do S R E v, N C Os. d° Maxim Co. 6 lo do Chinese Co. G G Wace, Captain
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 248 10 Bad Stom&£]| Weakness I Dr. Cassell's Tablets Cure Stomach Th and Make You Strong. Wh m yoa 'cannot dim est might lie m a pit. ana I naxeg ji i reak I iii. Ef oines filled with Then yon need Dr. Ca_e I Tai i <]_<:. st our food, and
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