The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 15 January 1918
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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942)
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Title Section31 1918-01-15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. EN CENTS SINGAPOKE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 1918 s_««________»arisssswsMs__ssr»»___»sWMaws<sis-»ls ssssss i ii*M-»ss— Wllstl IMlia_! _s_a_y%gsjsatjHaas»_saMAJ_i<a«srT^y>«;« •a^ssuaai.-JMSsi sajw< ■*W-*'">*^Wk»«l«nUßS-BM-BSBSniiPM_SS^ NO. 9,263 -™w»».'.»» <«ms»«e»».-r— r.-fsxiis. i— %c.'- i31 words
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Article348 1918-01-15 1 i Not much wire newe had come through up to a late hour yesterday. On the Western Front Haig reports J night patrol encounters and the French j teport eucceEß with aeroplane work Page 5. The Italians are active on the Asiago I Plateau and theßritibh gung348 words
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Article1702 1918-01-15 1 All day a steady drizF.ie had been falling, and all day and for many days ff loads of men and material had ratUffd acd tramped up the slope past tbe little rillogs m the hills. And now U was eight 0 lock and, although the height of1,702 words
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Advertisement238 1918-01-15 1 GOODRICH TYRES 'ETY TfsEAO I nAPPiPc? hotpi U r P y]^|_^' If J fttWHfl'i'l' IF4S Will hf* <*if*ni/f>fl m thf* WI !U, Ht fC/*-» Will (IrJ .^e/^Cflf #f# t/ie hotel lounge and on the lawn every a Thursday from 4.30 p.m. 4~| J~^ G Ll _5 OHs^l ?s__l M 1238 words
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Advertisement400 1918-01-15 1 Kelly Walsh Ltd. (INCORPORATED IN HONGKONG). Chatterbox. Annual Volume $2.50 The Rosebud Annual for Children S^ 50 Ihe World's Debate. Au Historical The Childrens Year Book $3.75 Delenoe Of the AlUes by William Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth 2-75 Legend by d. a. MaeKtmsie Armenia amd thc War by A.400 words
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Advertisement174 1918-01-15 1 LITEST ADVERTISEMENTS. Centrally situated oflicee to let Page 9. Bankruptcy notice re Chop Kiam Seng Page 3. Harima Hall new programme on page 2. Gaiety and Fantastics announcements on same page.Messrs Kelly and Y»*al6h's list of new books This page. mm THE WEEK. Taesdaj 15th Blgh Water— o 15 a.m.,174 words
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Advertisement379 1918-01-15 2 Mj^ -what' Bin i g-^l w m»ml. THFRES NOTHING IN A NAME NOT ADVERTISED Red Cross Society Pernittsd by the Dutch Gov eminent 00 Sept. 28th 40.000 tickets, total value of prizes fl 50,000 f! 50,300 for Our Day Fund. sth Lady's bag Btudded with od sapphires 1.7f0 6th Diamond379 words
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Advertisement589 1918-01-15 2 rALloAl# I U If I orchard Road, Singapore s Premier Jheatre NOTE.-ILL SEATS BOOKED POR SATOBDiY ABB AVAILABLE POR THI3 WEEK. JEWEL PRODUCTIONS PRESENT 1 ft IWI Wm I o^,.a, A Big Drama of the West. The Film Feature of the Boui Introducing the Gifted Screen Queen, Singapore's Favourite, Bogged589 words
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Advertisement318 1918-01-15 2 Ksm\ fant\htw* mm\ \dt* j TO-NIGKI T "'j at the o FANTASTICS Etl V/ILL APPEAR IN A VAHII W programme of APPHRATir^ campc fj DIALECT STORIES, IMI t\ttamc it 1 ATIOJNb, ttC. O \ggf CHANuE OF PROMi \MME j X ON WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY PRECEDED BY M A Mljlj:i: Vostes318 words
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Advertisement784 1918-01-15 3 \4 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT I A Photoplay is ART- and ART Requires BALANCE V 3 Beauty m Story, Setting and Photography F |L— Yoa Have Seen GOOD BEST Photoplays But If Yoa See |BL| WU-WtL rROUUCTIONoW S "THEY ARE THE PHOTOPLAYS" The Beauty of a GE*s lies not m its Carat—784 words
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Advertisement453 1918-01-15 3 The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1888. Is the Supreme Cenrt of the Straits Settlements. Bettlbmbht ov Singapore. IN BANKRUPTCY. No. IS7 of 1917. RE Chop Kiam Seng NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Order uf Adjudication of Bankruptcy against Tan Tek Young, a partner m Chop Kiam Seng, was made by the453 words
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Advertisement277 1918-01-15 3 m^ m^^^ mmmmHmmmm ootnomuimat^oeommimwm^m*a**u**n**oum*timm m m****W**********a**m****\**W******^W*noa******\*******************m*m Miss HILDA FELSTEAD The Australian Ccmediear.e row playing at the ALHAMBRA I THE CHINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE C- Ll D (Inoorporated In Hongkong and Registered nnder the Assnrance Companies Paid to Policyholders by Singapore Office m 1916 $362,390 00 Paid to Policyholders sincetheCompany's incep.277 words
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Article18 1918-01-15 4 Domestic Occurances BIRTH. McCloskv.—On llth instant, at Kuala Lumpur the wife of A. J. DICCLOBKY, M.D., a son18 words
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1468 1918-01-15 4 The Singapore Free Press. Tuesday, January 15, 1918. That the German Government took pains, through the Imperial Secretary for tho Navy, to reply to tho speech of Sir ERIC GEDDES m November oate gorioally m distinction to making a general denial with a superfluity of adjectives, maybe taken as an1,468 words
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Article460 1918-01-15 4 Visitors to Peuana include Mr I Good-ill auJ Mr and Mrs A J The soccer trial garae, Whites v Colours, arranged to be played oil the S C C ground this evening, has been cancelled. Mr \V Gcnatilaka. manager cf tbe P 40 wharf, ha? reported the theft cf 599460 words
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Article425 1918-01-15 4 the Bret for >P8rs, met Sundav X) damage v London, .Jar. 14. The I Tnrk« hive brei. ing twei z n i and li./e. a k a Russian r;tufp Tbe Daily Chronicle Stockholm ta\s th,. anna b&f arrived. lot that ha did not be any immediate ch politics,425 words
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Advertisement196 1918-01-15 4 THE IDEAL I DINNER WINE RED SPARKLING BURGUNDY Quarts and Pints ii WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Galdbeck, Macgregor Go. ——.^^^^—i— mm m _m»msss^»^_«hi«m— wm_m»— ■■—■m»»s«m~M"""**™ iii m^^ Paramatta Rain Goats $27.50 Special Value 2 YEARS GUARANTEE. John Little Go., Ltd. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND) Mr. H. N. BUCKERIDGE (late of Mbsbbs LAFAYETTE,196 words
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Advertisement102 1918-01-15 4 something new for the new 6 ™r 6 Means 6 Cabinet Portraits for $6. (12 do. for $10) AND IT ALSO MEANS No Satisfactory Proof Ko Payment, The Pest Guarantee of the Quality of Cur Photographs. Ring up 1035 TG-BAY and make an appointment for a Sitting on ANY DAY.102 words
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Article123 1918-01-15 5 St gabm-jn_. C*_le] mter*i iertiee] -Addcuooing the 10l the Polish S iaty to Bei r Hansdelbrueck urged that nounce territorial acquisitions grounds not pacifist but •1 saga* ing the ituh policy In -The Association iers has ohed to louial Secretary, expreising I a Governor of goroui col "j123 words
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Article182 1918-01-15 5 fan 13. Wireltas Russian ct the Councils of :.ers and Peasants Da- »i a decree giving local :o re elect and reoall Assembly in th^y do not express the ing masses. The All- reea h*3 baen ■urmuon to discuss qaestion? »:ituent Assembly and iiack Sea navy to Tkra:182 words
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Article127 1918-01-15 5 sympathy, the Japanese ;i:iou Society ha3 seat a sum ra Prank Champion, widow of rank Champion tha airman \cchi. 3 of Malaya says We «nder ttei on freight fixed by ard Conference have 100 psr cent, with the ex and ores, which have been cer ton. es became operative immed127 words
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Article594 1918-01-15 5 rTHE FIGHTING LINES 1*7 iabmariiM Gahfc] i&mxtmr* &wrio«) London. Jan 18.— Field Marshal Haig r-ports n:ght putro! encounter* Bouthea.f j of. Armenlieres. London, Jan 18. A French commuuiqoe saya that between Jan 1 anJ J*n 10 we brought down fifteen enemy noroplnnes |Q Mon, twelve others were594 words
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Article168 1918-01-15 5 e programme for the Selangor Turf Club New Year meeting (Jan 31st and Feb 2nd) is published. There are seven races en the drst day aad eight cu the second. Entries close on Jaa 23rd. Vlsutenaot General Sir Robert Baden11, in a letter to Sir Arthur Yapp approving of the168 words
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Article1479 1918-01-15 5 Critical Position in Finland. PetroKrad, Nov 27.— Tie situation in Finland critical. Tbe new Diet, wish a small aatl Soctalit*! majority, refused the Socialists' demand iot 8he immediate continuation of bills adoptud by Khopifcrlci.'S Socialist Diet, including the Independence Bill, which led to Chi Socialist Ditt'fl dissolaiion1,479 words
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Article213 1918-01-15 5 At a general meeting of the E Hoe j Hean Club held on the 18th in the Club. House at No 88 Club Street the followiug members were elecfed office bearers for the present year President Mr Lim Chwee Chian, Vice President Tan Kab Kee, Hon Secretary Tan Pong Guan,213 words
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Advertisement174 1918-01-15 5 lii n m mi mmmjmmmi .._vjq._. J i._ f%s#"^ IT^ T 15kT IfcT mO 4T* <^ *!EW STC KS JJET REGEIfB Sf~-" ll|,r H i Ladles' Children's V.'ea li m t TARAVa-LLE Standard, Fine aod Superfine 1^ lalitics. tsaiijsssj •-..,.< Br_3___j r/^>'^ljEM Cream, Melius andHeav^ Qualitie Coloured Stripes Tropfctl and174 words
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Advertisement443 1918-01-15 6 r tr KsagkaaS, Shanghai, foci !r tfo*y&?.»v Ft? Saints, Psascg, CclsisCft roc England A, 3Civt<y II* hi M lofcofcam jj^rt- la HftnolliM, ados u<-i~f nik\ mem Tt: N Twta Mvew Bteameti nalntaiatnfl tola have bom Bf Ail v-ith a'.i Mm hi tool bnfaorameBti ha Ht \t *y aua eoiiii ri443 words
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Advertisement439 1918-01-15 6 MESSAGESIES MARITIME! INCOHPORATKD IB FhiSCK .AIL Lj>'«, Fortnightly B6rriM betWAM IttdO-OllKi cniua, Japan Oeylon, Djibouti Bsy»* mi Mftrbellloj. BKANCH LINK. f'::trJ^hrlyMevvic::bt:tweeu6fticoB'ToUF*»H Haiphong. Fci further information hfflj to J. de COURTIS, um Stoomvaart Slaatscfcapny "Setferlafc*' and Rotterdam Lloyd" (Incorporated in Holland)* ROYAL DUTCH «A1L COMPAH1RS Fortnightly Wai! Service B9tweeu Java, Singapore,439 words
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Advertisement639 1918-01-15 6 gSOKMJKE PAKETViURT KAATSSKAPPSJ (Incorporate in Ilollia.l, Rq,?%1 Pas&«t Navigation C&, et Batavia. UNDER C )NTilA'T WITH THE NETHERLANDS INDIA GOVERNMENTS Bikgkep Letong, Kramafe, Tarempa, Genting, Poe'.oe-PandjaDg, SeraB?an end Mbrki-s Klouw, Tambelan and Pontianak Jan. 16 Altim> Mcntok and Palombacg ...Jan. 16 Kalmoi Pargfaalan Bocsoe ...Jan. 16 SiNGAhADJA Taudjong-Vengeidar,Tandjong -Leidong Bercmbiing,639 words
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Advertisement386 1918-01-15 6 (i .omyanle J.nc tap bl r-iaufi I Mail and Passenger Sei:. I PENINSULAS AND GSJENTAL S. N. I Ccntract eritb H;s Maj est- s Governrren The Company's MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are The Company's INTERMEDIATE SERVICED TO Passengers for Enropc an- bookeJ via Bombaj as opj The F. O.386 words
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Article1396 1918-01-15 7 The following messaga has been receiv ec from Ueuter's special correspondent ie Mesopotamia Kut, when the troops who bad taken Saurian at paised by it, noi through il, the day after we forced the paMage oi j tha Tigris, was. h rum. A guubcal atop ped1,396 words
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Article478 1918-01-15 7 A Terri Mi Winter Coming It has been clesr for a long while that things m Russia would have tc get v. or-, before they could get better. That is the one ray of hope m the 'revolution which for the moment has p'acsd power m the hands478 words
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Advertisement1039 1918-01-15 7 /4R or or PLENTY, LIF INSURANCE IS WORTH 100 CENTS ON TBE DOLLAR. I WiT OTiTAJ U DDnDCDTV ffi^ I rrrF^f 4J 9 lt% r.tw rww\3rmZ. it f r fct <r FIT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN STRAI.S SETTLEMENTS). g <v_AD OFfit;^: ¥B'i£e»ie«.er Houm, 3la*ipori LONDG^ OFFICE: WW.1,039 words
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Article444 1918-01-15 8 Grave Charges Against Dutch Company. Serious charges were made against a Dutch company in the Prize Court on Nov 14, when very interesting evidence from a neutral (as tha Attoruey General do scribed it) was elicited under severe cross examination, The Crown asked for condemnation of Paraffin444 words
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291 1918-01-15 8 An Unclaimed Portmanteau. In the Prize Court recently before Sir Samuel Evans, tbe Crown asked for the condemnation as lawful pri. 9 of a port manteau containing jC^O.COO worth of bends from Germany, Mr Micklethwaite explained that the portmanteau was found behind a wooden291 words
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Article376 1918-01-15 8 Singapore, Nov 14. Cotton valaea are still on th* upward grade at Liverpool and on Monday freih high recorda were touched. The markut there ia apparently acting on iCa own initiative, strength being supplied by trade demand and further threatened difficulties in obtaining euppliea of the raw376 words
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Advertisement519 1918-01-15 8 Assured by the Occasional Use I Dr. Morse's Indian Root T. S- To reach a green old age ar.d v IkA can only be obtained b\ the car* 1 V' /r from the little irregularities i w X -^k common ailments arise, and nan 1 ti(,:ss oi iav a p519 words
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Article1478 1918-01-15 9 Issued by FKASEK Co., Exchange and Share Brokers, Jan. Uth. OkM, *****. PAID. *<ASB Dlt. BO*»B6. bl ,H* IOO.OOf li li Allagai 18* I 8 3 0 8?t,l8f Sb Si Aaglo-Java 36% .50 8 U IIO.OM is ll Aaglo-M&)ftf m int 10 8 13 0 11,000 181,478 words
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Article49 1918-01-15 9 GOBMOmm CP M Jan 1-1 Baal 4 h |4] V d ixd -n-i m 1.4 TtS ?^aaeff 'ifmanjS Fan* 818 [■au, t, 158 109 18 Jern-v a Bl}%Pr«n fOKOucsSii tem%atf 108 Java itmand lv^ S LHSKOI loman 8" i -...j :l »usl«4T.i! ;-:tt« 5% «'U 4 5i I49 words
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Article157 1918-01-15 9 Jan. 14 Til (buyers) 8138 10 fcuw 15.C8 is-. bill Oa k« U. 1 23 Cftt<?s >'.;. 21.01 i'o^v** lUa^k Spore HUM, Pappai, (Wfiis» laix) 41.it (110 13 .20 Ik) ncnj :k^fts;*j s*G So .!t cqitj d ;3f..-i no Hi J.G7BS (Amboiaa) dch Bali Coffw (4% Blask] aom rftpiooft,157 words
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Advertisement155 1918-01-15 9 .sssssssss^ ftHsfc UP mn TD ftPIP A I D A fMTllur* 1 Ivv/r IlurM.l^ KAJUr Irtkm* m ma m \,vhich do away with the necessity of using sticky cement at the overlaps. sy SSSLMtfIMb j x <*\3si»'"'- I GENASCO is the result of over I 30 years experience m the155 words
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Advertisement17 1918-01-15 9 "GL^UiNE QUALITY MET a YL ATED PIkJ 1 STOCKISTS HIN WATT A Co. BH IP-CHAN DLB KS.17 words
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Advertisement563 1918-01-15 9 ASSISTANT SURGEON. it< I roc I itati ia ba) ia |MlMfii A«-i'i ■>: fcurgi q aad 1 bysi lan 0 t ■alarj a fhin 1 1 1 1 BARKER 4 Cc Ui Chsrti n _I n DfSURANCE. Wanted bf a leadtog B'iti«h I a Sbh 6ae oanvaaeer. X i an563 words
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Miscellaneous393 1918-01-15 9 MAIL TABLE Today. in kenned ate and local mall*, *.i. bt toner Id list below Penang. Malacca, F M.S. (ftp Trai*' I i_ flaHy (except Sunday). Johore, 8, 9.80. 11 a l_. 12 3u I, lil Mb Cucob Azmere 8.30 am Cucob Soon Hong 8 30 au Sandakau, ei2 R393 words
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Article1153 1918-01-15 10 BBNTRNCE In STICK- AND* NAIL Cam:, At tbo Aaeizee, seetexday, the Chief .Justice (8ii John Bneknill, i patted sentence ou >^h Ho, Hokiec, convictt-d of voluntarily canting grieYOni hurt. TinOriginal charge, reduced bj the jury, was tri.tt c! oulpable bomieldt no: amounting |O murder. Thil III Ihe cn?e1,153 words
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Article457 1918-01-15 10 Hjrrowlng Details. LcLdon, Dec 9. The appalling disaster at Halifax h.*3 yielded a death roll which i- -rimated aC 4.00O. la addition 8,000 are injured, many of them seriously. The vessels (bat caused the disaster were the Fi :ich steamer Mont Blanc, 8,121 tons, wbioh was loaded457 words
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Article248 1918-01-15 10 Another lawn tennis champion is on active service on the Western front. This i3 the brilliant American champion, R N Williams, who made eo many frisnds at Wimbledon when he came over to fitfht for the Davis Cup. He loet his rather on the Titanic. Very youthful in appearance, R248 words
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Article198 1918-01-15 10 I Mr A E PattinBon, a supervisor of tbe Monopolies Department was yesterday charged in the third court with extortion lot fivo 810 note*, 1 p, S'O. fba offence was alleged to hava bt-eu comm cted on or aboufi Dec 4. Mr G Cullon, A S P, prosecuted198 words
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Article127 1918-01-15 10 Mr N A Rospopcff, Consul General for Russia, asks us to insert the following appeal for help. "There ia a poor young Jew Izik Levitan suffering of consumption an absolutely destitute, vshose last hope of recovery would be to go to some healthy dry country127 words
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Article61 1918-01-15 10 Two mors episodes iv tbe thrilling serial The Gray Ghost" are m tbe Harima Hall programme, with a U S feature The Cross eyed Submarine. .The Gaiety have a fine miscellaneous programme, including the Four Part 'Hii Last Deal" auJ 'Joy and the Dragon," while m the second61 words
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Article493 1918-01-15 10 Lord Morley's pious conviction Chat our quarrel with the Bjers could have been settled if Me Chamberlain and k^u^er had sat down at Bloemfontein with a tobacco jar between 'hem is backed, oddly enough, by the Greatest war makei of modern times, '"How could any man," Bismarck was fond of493 words
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Article103 1918-01-15 10 FRENCH CONSULAR TELEGRAMS. [Courtesy op thb French Consular.] Paris, Jan 13 6 15 p m. j Oq the French and British fronts there is nothing important to report. The rtgion o£ Archangel is organizing i e e 1 f ae an autooomou strtte, incluiing seven Governments, the principal of which103 words
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Article100 1918-01-15 10 From Ovr Oxen Correspondent Penang Jan 14. The stiff of the Eastern Smelting Co to I day prep-3Qtc-d Mr F George Pi?nay with a j handsome eilver rose-bowl oo the oocaioa of hi* relinquishing the Enlargement of the Coirpany on hie early departure for Home. Mr100 words
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Article106 1918-01-15 10 Macphail and Co's Report, Both Rubber and Tin are rather down over the week end, bat 6hares a*e unaffected. Pajams have been cone at $14 65, Kempas at $8 85 and $8.90, Ayer Pauas 111.10. Indragiris have buyer* at 16.40, Sungei Bag-ms at 08 75, Bfalaka Pindas106 words
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Article164 1918-01-15 10 Mr H J Mackinder. U l presiding at the London School of Economics over a lecture delivered by Mr S J Johnston* on the Rarer Key Minerals, said that iv the future the rarer metals were bound to become of crucial importance to the industries of164 words
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Article21 1918-01-15 10 i Owing to the flooded condition of the Linki, the course will be clewed until further uctice. a21 words
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Article108 1918-01-15 10 Secretaries Evatt Cc. Luuae 15,6(0; total for two months I 30,400. Agents Patereon, Simons Co. Kuala Pergan 19,907 agst 20,131 total to date 322,895. Hevea 25,621 agafc 23,687 total to date 140,429. Bujong 19, C00 ngst 19,906 total to date I 204,25 4. I BPDBt 8,080108 words
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Article108 1918-01-15 10 A Merthyr lady recently hired a motoroat to attend holy communion at Cyfarthfa Church. The police, hearing of "the in cident, summoned her, the owner of the car, and the chauffeur, for using petro! contrary to the Motor Spirit Restriction Order. At the police court the chief con stable Paid108 words
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Advertisement68 1918-01-15 10 uibAii I i*^ im^iilll/liL II BANISH HAIR FGVERTV jY AZCLPillG THIS THR] 1 s i t^ f^ t^ w n o i^ i w*. Vt v\ c a f* EVERY NIGHT OUR VAN WIJK QUARTETTE H KICK TA1U.K ovory SUNDAY, TUESDAY r THURSDAY. |H I Booklets for 15 Tiffins or68 words
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