The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 11 March 1918

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942)
  • 15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. .EN CENTS SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 11 1918. NO 9,309
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  • 395 1 If one thing emeiges more than another i 'from the eight columns of Reuters m this issue it is that tbe Germans art- putting their foot m it with real German thoroughness. Everywhere Ihey j are menacing others and creating enemies, j [land etill their threatened big
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  • 1699 1 Sweet coAnifv lifl to --neb ocbnown Whose lives are others' nut their own Thou nc vi ,-r pi ogh'al the oaaa'e foam To seek and bring n d peppi r botne. But walk'st about Ml tap i.ul Ban* bonOl Not envying others' larger grounds. Herbick. There are three legitimate
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 172 1 JORICH TYRES I "ETY TSEAO Wll%, lt% IT 'Jf 1 W mmmm <_m w R A WlO !<\* UfiTUI I niiirjiiD-o iv i Ldhm mm am *m. Ammo -ffc^ A* JL JhH JMi ifternoon TEAS will be served m the hotel lounge and on the lawn every Thursday from 4.30
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    • 116 1 IWWft H E only tyre which has won the R.A.C. certificate of 5,000 miles without cuts or punctures. "Sielastic" I Super-tyres fe /■•i''JeAi l ir i A' 1 li*'** O*. 1 A. Te"** Stelastic Tyres (y.wz are ___W Made m Britain %r; .^'-CV.'^^^^^^ from Plantation Rubber. SOLE AGENTS: International Trading
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    • 199 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS.! i S3.natogen at Medical Hall Page 2. Pinkettes for constipation Page '1. Little's Oriental Balm for sciatica I Page 3. Magneto work at Alec Williamson's Page 2. i Latest programmes at the Alhambra,; Palladium, Empire and M .rlborough j j Page 2. Ching Keng Lee and Co's furniture!
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    • 2 1 Martell's Brandy
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  • 109 2 t! »>bat i** claimed by connoisseurs to I v the tinest drop shaped pearl yet raised m •.ralian waters was recently found or. the north west coast, and is now being U ited by a firm of jewellers m Mel* bourne. i ._bs 100 grume, cr ti 1 convey an
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    • 256 2 i£W*nLi h Uj s c.j 11/31 1 J MAKING A FATAL MISTAKE i £f> estam -_*-*g-j- mss W&* 1 5 p(v bottle j THIS MEDICAL HALL Opposite Genera^ Po>. Crfice SINGAPORE. M VOii L £YRr.>. MORF M^LES FOS YOUB MONEY j Victoria Theatre. THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday
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    • 967 2 A Picture to See and An Actress to be Enamoured of AT THE Tbe Hai; for Music -The Pioneer and Proder House -The House of Quali Metro Picture Corporation Prese MISS EMILY ST NS A Very Charming and -ittle A< The most refreshing ana Irresistible picture that t\cr i audience.
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  • 393 3 THE PETROGRAD MURDERS Lenin Denies Responsibility. London, Jaa .13. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Chronicle tele graphs M Lenin states that the Soviet condemns the murders of ex Ministers MM Shingartn* and Kokhoshkin, and has i66ned au order for the arrest of the assassins It i-i
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  • 445 3 Germany Organizing imports. The financial columns of tbe German newe-Dapere now contain i certain amount 'of information about tbe German plans j for tbe economic exploitation of Russia. j Tbe tirst objects are to ob:ain imparts I from Russia, to prepare for exportation jto Russia, and to
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  • 39 3 -W* c s At the police court prosecution of c 'member cf a crew of a mine sweeper foi stealing 41b of tea, it was disclosed thai i tbe mine sweeper salvaged a Tease carrying tea valued at' -£4,000,000,
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  • 525 3 PHILLPOTT BROWN (Globe- Trotter). An Incident with an Unhappy Sequel. Phillpott Browrn, as his name almost implies, was a Globe trotter. If there were any doubt on the point, his huge sun hat with pugaree and fetreamers, white umbrella with green lining, and eun spectacles, woull have confirmed it. But
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  • 395 3 Mr Cadwallader Washburn, an American artist who has made a name for himself m etching, concluded a visit tc Siam lately, when he left to return to America. Ho has produced 6ome vet\ tine etching-; of temples, images and tlgures m the course of hia slay. He is returning to
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 424 3 j ***-tf |llM l| THE PWOLMPHOTOPLAY HOUSE 9 4 THE VOICE ON THE WIRE 4 Blue I Photoplay Fresents Violet Mersereau m 5 THE LITTLE TERROR 5 HBg AAv--r* nes Ol a Qn, b Oirl m New York Society Reliance Film Corporation Present P .?Ti RUNAWAY JUNE F „S T
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    • 487 3 i .I-. HK The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1888. m the Supre BU Court of the Straits Settlements. uunt of Singapore. :n BANKRUPTCY. No. 7 of 1918. N 13 HEREBY GIVEN that on a Petition ti td the IStfa day of January. 1918, R< \mg Ordtr against Ong Bong Pin of No.
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    • 415 3 -""-aßa-aa* I nOUdtHOLD buOBS II I A rp I\ OT I D FTa 4 have just nee ivr d tif iAK* Vi>'L<nmf\ a ar fee stock of new lli^W WZ&stscm *N V t> designs m Cretonnes fll )r tt r •"> I colourings. Floral washing II J X ■■■>_£^ m^t
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  • 867 4 The Singapore Free Press. Monday, March. 11, 1918, The week-end war news is concerned not bq mneh with accounts cf military action as with the possible results of politico* military Birategy. Mr BONAR Law m tlie House ot Commons, taking advantage of tlie vote of credit, made a general statement
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  • 485 4 w Mr E C 11 Wolff, assistant Colonial Secretary, has gene to Japan, accompanied by Mrs Wolff, en a three months health nip. Mr 1' Beattv acA :Vr Mr Wolff. Mr A R Linton, of the Mercantile Bank. has come down to Singapore to take charge of the Singapore Branch
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  • 457 4 TWO GOTH Ab fKNfiTIUTIS IU LONDON f Some Remarkable Episodes By Bnbmarin-B C»bl«] i Reuter'a Berrioe] London, Mit B, The Press Bureau reports that aeroplanes crossed the east t coast at eleven o'clock on Thursday even- it ing and proceeded towards London The I raid is progressing,
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  • 86 4 A Warm Reception London. March 9.— PTench Official Several enemy air-squadrons have raided Pari**. Details are lacking but it is be lieved that the casualties were fever than m the last raid. London, March 9. French Official Between ten and twelve squadron, parti cipated m the air
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  • 294 4 In case ths new postal rate of exchange on India r-bould disturb people the. might be consoled by knowing that Kn 1856 the legal rate for the new copper currency was that one dollar equalled two rupees aud three annas. There are still a few cf the old copper coins
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  • 245 4 GERMANS IN THF bhU* [BLIND All Scandinam Perturbed London, March I tic-ii writer^ the new Ger .vide need by and the B fre_h deoign by the peace treaty wi latest news fiom tbe tbe Germans have troops, a large Th<; German I house at Eeki A Coramandir
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  • 57 4 London. March 9— -The MontetA -ter for War, m a letter to the indignant.) denying the rumour Montenegro may conclude peace witb the Central Powers, mentions tbat 2 COI tenegrins are fighting on the FreccL He adds that the Central Power*- have formally offered the Monten ment peace,
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  • 77 4 Further Progress Repo London, Mar 8. Palest ;tween Mar 4 and 7 oui i Jerusalem- N T ablus road wt? vanced almost uuopposdepth attained was thn of eighteen miles. We sue ed the railway and aerodrome a on Monday, and dt on the railway north of
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  • 12 4 London The m-iii. J cf Lurso rivi desp: Nyai
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  • 26 4 Thf II 11 ES Major I intt several staff petition ti impossible I competitors Ol M»« p*« wait until Satni that the competitions
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    • 199 4 v xrx*2* '''y£kj&_ ||l Hi SOJE AGENTS. Calddeck Macgregor Co. „..^«.,r -qr-|| r* i fc '4' n" A,.- Jt ,V, *3 Bf j_) S \fl__AjL "V V* S v 1.. i I A P^% J y -»V V ->» t A.-<** I _mm__ 4 "I 1 O The Place to
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    • 43 4 Wilson Go. PHOTOGRAFHIC ARTISTS OBCHIBD ROAD. TELEPHONE 1035 |V U| 6 Cabinet Portraits $6 (12 do $10) Note the conditions of our offer: "No satisfactory Proof, No Payment." No tetter guarantee of the high quality ef out vroik could be given or deruaueUd.
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  • 578 5 BONAR LAW ASSESSES THE ODDS Dare the Germans Attack March 7. Continuing his the Bow of mv, Mr U 1 tl a during the last few my had moved at least bundred Irn trout. pita the at Brest LitOTsk. believed that we at present :ior m men
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  • 260 5 March 7 —In tbe House of jog the Govern •a over the non-exchange of Aine, said that of fifteen t :_acB m Great Bri r, ition the majority of the German army, while IBd BrKi-ihers interned at two thousand were seafarers ttasanj regarded as combatants i despite a
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  • 134 5 ITALIANS TO RETURN THE j COMPLIMENT? The British War Map a -_T *v lib-Ran*** Uabla] Ranter* Berrioe] London, Mar 7.— ln the House of Com ■none, Mr EteKenna. following Mr Bonar oed that m view of tbe policy of tbe lingh fa and the Italian numerical sup
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  • 122 5 And German Hypocrisy London Mar B.— Mc asquith, speaking apmc, said that there were two keys to i position, the co nmand of the sea, tad that ot the western front. Both these, < despite vicissitudes, remained m the hands 'the Allies There bad been no more
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  • 121 5 Over a Hundred Miiliong London, March 9. On the conclusion of Tank Week," 111 Konar Law sant a j message to the Lord Mayor m which the t heartily congratulated him on the etmount < of the oity*B contribution to the War < Bond campaign, and 1
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  • 143 5 Finished with Germany Washington. Mar 9 The proper:y own ed m the United States by the Kaiser, Bethmann Bollweg and the junker class generally, and the ler men Government, will be firs: sold under the authority i granted to Mr Palmer, custodian of alien I property,
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  • 27 5 London. Mar 8. The Press Bureau 'announce* that the Government has dcci- j ded to recruit ilfty thousand fit unmarried coal miners under twenty-five.
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  • 807 5 I GERMANS STRENUOUSLY COUNTERED British Airmen's Brilliance IHt Submarine uabl«] R*M*t»r'_ K*»r*ric*al London, Mar 7. Field Marshal Haig says After artillery thr>, the enemy m a fog raided advanced posts north weet of La Bitssee. of our men are missing from a post which tha enemy entered Wa
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  • 735 5 RUSSIA'S BETTER ELEMENTS SHOWING UP Anti Bolshevik Risings .R-auto-'i Barrios] Paris, Mir 7— The Russian Embassy In Pari, h-m sent the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs a message m which it protects ega net the Bhameful peace signed j at Brest Litcvek. It declares Disarmed i t*.nd
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  • 13 5 LoDdon, March 7. The death is an- nouncad of Dr William Merry.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 132 5 ROBINSON Co. i have just received English made Harness Nicke! cr Brass fittings. Horse size. Cob llzc. Pony size. L j x > flr late of Messr? LAFAYETTE, Photographers to Their MAJESTIES Begs to announce that he conducts the ONLY EUROPEAN STUDIO SINGAPORE BUYING TON. (10u Paces North of the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 442 6 re, V MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Monthl-f Berries betweea Bhanghai, Hong* bong, Belgon, Bftagapoce, Gotombo, Djlbonti, Bg: pt aud Martetiled and -rlce-versa. Fortnightly ser /ice between Saigon-Toorane- j Balpk n.: F^r further Inlcr-uatlon apply to J. da COURIOSS Agents.! RANGOON. A Steamer will be loading In thi course ot a Ism days
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    • 500 6 L Ma m. Tm. APAN %l Ai L daoorporaasd la Japaal< 'sr tagkecg, B&neghgl, Kc"3B vS Tekobr.sss mr Salsssi l Pssang, Golombs ni Bfigltod via Tbs Cape. i A service It- r:ain«»ino<l teiweev iDtohaji j portß to Bfareelllee, London, ondra msi icttract ?7{th the lmpcorlal Japaneee Gove-^ Dent. Tbe Nsw
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    • 777 6 XOKeKKLL'KE PAKETVAART iAATSGfiAFFIJ (Incorporated m Holland, Rojai Paeset Navigation Ca f off Batavisr. 2--D, CoJi.ran Qri7. UNDER CDSTRA3I WITH THE NETHERLANDS INDIA GOVERNMENTS t____*y*_r»**m*_t**-i*-Mt**-Mw-M**^^ Rumphius Belawsn-Deli. ar 1 Van Heemskerk Batavia, Sonrabaya, Macassar, Balik-Papan, Donggala. Palehleh, Kwandang, Amoerang, Menado, Tagr elanclang, Siaoe, Taroena. Peta. Tamako, Totok, Kota-Boena, Djiko, Gorontalo, Tominibay
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    • 254 6 SUPPLIES FOR ES HJH mtm states Mines Etc, *> Acetic Acid. 99 per cent pure. I Ant Fumigators ("Four Oaks') m I Sulphur Powder. I Arsenite of Soda for killing out i tt i au I Aspinali's Best Copal Varnish. I Bisulphite of Soda (Besf EngUsh) I Cartridges. Nobel's own
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  • 16 7 MtftßO-M I f .9 if 2 4 <"• 1 I 81 85 mi 7 If, 816
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  • 69 7 9. Tin (100 tona) 9'pcre i c Ifc a mmia duailtf iki li a, a 1 se _*k "QU r*« mmm -30 S*> Vn3BKtio«A I- ti X«. 1 iora 2 I Dc-ce'6 Eri'iir. psr c. #5 60 b brand kerosene, -4.8 C 4.80 I MS rnt l.ffl rer 2
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 252 7 1j TH GR^AT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED (INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS;. BEAD OFFiCt: Winchester House, Singapore. LONDON OFFICE: 32, OUI Jewry, EC. has £20, CUD Ae*poBlted With IheBapreme Court of England, and complies with the BiitishLife Assurance Companies Act iv every particulir. CTI¥E PLANS OF ASSDItNNCE MONEY TO LOAN.
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    • 452 7 MOMMA SPECIE OOaPOI J UTAH al Subsc*- V, 45,000.000 •ral Paid Up „V, 30,000,000 Reserve Fund....... ....Y. 11,800,( Prudent. JT, Inouye Eaf, Vioe-Prt lent. l.Ym ai w 1 Baaj. T Inou\ S Yamakawa Esq. a Esq. M. Odagiri Esq. I ..node Bf T. Kawashlma Esq. R. Kimura Esq. Baron K.
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    • 612 7 rj]r«aar~MmYjx-rw .-oe^.d. iifn;-jiiai.ir.>tY.»».-^.m-i: jau_ _^A >■* Established 1376. L Merchants anci Commission Agents ji PUKET HOUSE Pharmaceutical Drugs Dept. ESANOFELE c Jnst received from Bordeaux, jdble claret m bulk and bottle ilso light dry white wine. ifichy Celestins rable Water (for tU kidneys) Vichy Grand-Grille (for liver complaint) Vichy Hopital
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    • 549 7 DRAFTSMEN WANTED European, accustomed to Reinforced Conireteand Gteneral Constructional Work. Apply t iting experience references and when at ibcrty to B XAJ c/o Freo Pies-A 7.9 ie-8 CU?SI3£ FO-fcESSEN WANTEF) Europs^n. accustomed to Reinforced Con reteacd General Constructional Work App 1 tatin^ experience, references, an 3 wh n at I
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 346 7 MATT. TAR? P To oay. fiiirnmnfllMr and local i__al-B, v/!ii be tons a :a UsS below ing, Malacca. F.M.S, ffcy V r.n. '•Eti? Except Sunday). Johore 8, 9.30. noon. I Ct.ccb Hock C^J. 130 am Ooeob Edina -J 30 am Indragiri via ports Quorrc au Sibu Flevo am Malacca Sri
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  • 194 8 TRAGIC CASE OF THE ARMENIANS Further Massacre Likely London March 8 Reports received! tram lian Informatioa Bureau a handing over of trans Caucasia to the Turk-* will lead to further massacres of Armenians, and perhaps to their final extermination- The Darkish troops who arereoccupying Armemaaredes troyiug all tbe
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  • 120 8 Tribute to a Great Irishman London Mar requiem mass at Westminster Cash* m memory ol the late M: John Redmond wa- Celebrated m the presence cf large and o stinguiehed BOngl gati a mcl id ng representative-- ol the King, the Queen Mother aud also IS Ol the
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  • 135 8 A Cry from the Shipyards London, Mar S Special Tha chip building Employers Federation aud the shipyard trade anions have issued a state ment saying tha: Sir Erie Geides' revela tions regarding shipbuilding employers and WOekmen have caused much feeling m the shipbuilding dst iete. a
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  • 68 8 London, Mar 8. The most vital inaporsance is attached by the Admiralty to :he darkening of --hips »S8 explained by Sii Erie Oeddes m his textual statement cabled cv March 5, The Admiralty desires that the fullest possible lieity be given to this instruction by pl
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  • 44 8 London. March 7 —The Tra Beckers associating States that although nearly ail the BC mil-ion pounds of tea exp iried from Calcutta kl England from November to tannery has arrived i- is only abou: two months' supply for the United .cgdem.
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  • 36 8 Lisbon M-ir 7.- Owing to the refusal! Un list members of lb-* Cabinet to adopt universal suffrage at the Presidential sleetione, the Cabinet has been' seeonetmcted without the Unionists. Thei Premiership remains unchanged. ■■a*
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  • 44 8 Loudon, March 7 —Mr Lionel Phillips' has bet-a appoiated chairuo.au of the I BOWly foresed Tin and Tungsten Research) Board, which Boaird has beeu formed with J a view to increasing the recovery cf ■Beta! m tne treatment cf ores. mm^
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  • 34 8 Louden, Mar 7.— The I'a'ian sbippirc* returus fur the week ended March 1 show* 334 arrivals aad 281 departures, j There were no sinkings but one vessel was unsuccessfully attacked. —^^m—
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  • 29 8 London, Mar 7. The Praia Bureau says An explosion m a small Government workshop m Iha south of London on* March 6 killed tout persons aod injrjrstfi
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  • 791 8 MORE GERMAN PLOTS Organising General Strikes IBj Submarine Oab!«] [Reuter's B«rvie«] London, Mar 8. --The Times Madrid correspondent wires that ihe sd pub i Hones a facsimile letter and two flyleaves proving the Qerman Embassy's attempts to foment a revolutionary movement through the Hir??!uaa Syndicalists, I The
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  • 219 8 The programme for the first of theee j j concerts has been arranged and will j 'provide for all who care for operatic music J I a delightful treat. The various selections have been ohosen to illuwtrete not merely: I the talents of the artists bnt the
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  • 207 8 The annual ti pjrt of ihe F M 3 Chamber of Klines to be presented to the annual meeting to he held m Ipoh on March 28 shows that the income was $5,848 and expenditure $5 SSC for the year there being also |2 500 invested
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  • 37 8 JOHORE PLANTERS ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the above Aeso ciation, which was to have been held to-morrow, has had to be postponed till Marco 19 owiug to the secretary having to go to hospital through fever.
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  • 148 8 S R C AND R B DRAW. The cricket match on the Esplanade on S kturday between the S R C and the R E ended iv a draw, the rain preventing a decision being arrived at, with a victory for the Club close at hand. The soldiers knocked
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  • 37 8 [Renter's Hervic-t] London, Mar 9.— Mr Barnes, specking m London, said that the meeting between the Premier, himself and representatives of the Eugmeers Society would probably result m the latter heartily co operating with Government.
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  • 31 8 Loudon, Mar 6. The Chancery Division has ordered the winding up of Mohr Brothers and Company, Limited, of Burma and Siam, under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
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  • 32 8 Paris, March 8, The Chamber has passed a vote of confidence m the Government by 400 votes to 75, after discuss ing the Government's responsibilities m the 8010 affair.
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  • 48 8 London, Mar 6. The silver market is quiet. London, March 7. Silver is steady. The two brothers, Harry and Erio Maulefflnch, who went Home last year to join the Imperial forces and who were training with the Artiste Rifles O T 0, are no*-* laifcTh ftio **_<*-,*-« *>;*»-.- r\*m
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  • 369 8 Thp Pniirp Rpnort The following is the repot t furnished by the Hongkong Police of the catastrophe which took place on Tuesday afternoon Feb 26 on the Racecourse at; Happy Valley: Between 2.55 and 8 p.m. on the 26th of February, juat as the fifth race was about
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  • 167 8 The Golden Bullet is a thrilling Western drama enuounced for the Pal ladium, io which more is seen of that daring cowboy him actor, Harry Carey. There is also a Mexican drama cf rare appeal. and the usual supplementary features. The Alhambra is showing a very charming
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  • 121 8 Batavia, March 8. Rubber. First Littx Crepe per half! kilo F .925. Ribbed Smoked Sheet per ha'f kilo .90. Outputs (76% Firsts) per half kilo 95. Sugar. New Crop Java Superior While! D S 'J5 highl r f o b per pikul F 9.50. Old Crop
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  • 68 8 Orders for week ending March 16, 191 H. Tuesday March 12. Telegraphy Class,' V M 0 A, 5.15 p ra. Thursday March 14. Baud Practice, Malay Volunteer Club, 5.15. Individual Troop Orders as issued by Scoutmasters. Mr F Shepherdson is appointed Asst. Scoutmaster Second Singapore Trocp. I
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 207 8 Trcsb Shipment ]usi Received. I Singapore Gold Storage 00. ltd I Wh 0. %i k M l l' l _Q Q A M IT ft Aii 1 1 A fill lii 4 S^l Ili i M Jc T P*. Jewellers, _ilk and Curio Merchants 56, 57, High Street, Singapore Singapore's
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 55 8 S. V. C. DRILL PROGRAMME Monday, March 11. 4.30 p.m. Balestier Range SV T A 5.15 Drill Hall SYR atd. Maxim Co 5.10 Sepoy Lines (near Golf Club; Pay) Veterans' Co SVCCompuls! 5.16 Drill Hall Signalling Sec SVC •i n SVC Recrnits Compuls 1 ii ii it A V Platoon
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