The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 16 May 1918

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  • 14 305 THE Singapore Free Press MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. THIRD SERIES THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1918, No 1,607,
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  • 142 305 PS. PAGE rhry Opinions 305 Qaiel m Fisndors 806 Kcd cf the Maurice Affair 3C6 The u__t German Attack 306 asrioe Campaigning BL7 itris's Difficulties 307 Wet snd National Pnysique 307 POLICE AND COURT NEWS. [Jadelivered Letter 808 Law Court Speculation 812 Plagus Charge 814 The Sssizss 314 808
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  • Domestic Occurrence.
    • 42 305 EiAM.-On Tueßday, 7th May, 1918, at the *o op an Ho8 P ital K uala Lumpur, the wife or k. W. Hi.m, a daughter (Mona Audrey;. Archdeacon.—" At "Wolverton* Dalvev Road on May 14 to Mr. and Mrs. Archdeacon a daughter.
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    • 19 305 -i-wioN HRAIN.-O- May 10th, at Koala Lumpur, Barbara Jo.ephlne, the infant daughter of A. and L. Lewton Brain.
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  • 57 305 C-sbbc m »__> ro May 15 I _ta_U 4a* s 24 8 8 isr_saal J. 4 li C falfMs issatls %m% 2.4 6 8 3Ti_uiQS gssssoi Baal 816 lama, T. x, i 4 8 Ii;-.oa^-_i. l fomaai 106 JiLYA, iSSSISad 1)3 IAMBOE, icmaod *6i 807«sijio»a, Bank Buy it_s seat
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  • 157 305 May 15. Tta (be? art.) 1i74.i5 L*lei i 0.2. kl*] d«IN *0 I 28 01 Mcc Cc:'*? Wo, f 10.00 tffftl BIUCk Of&iO. x? poire 84 00 .'<.g-r. (Wmie 49 OJ -telmsgi (110 .2 -.lie Us.J d Vi Knos (BtmtU) Dr !ti /ri-as l_-msoi--J-) n-~j B CaffsS A.% BlsskJ
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  • 1077 305 t-.«j» ,v,, rmmm'i rtgM MfcW-U* 'mm t.^ w^i,.H>«.^ y v 9mt fmtm Trmt km Iwi i?»<*c»:?v. *.<■■.»' <x~< fa < Saiga, /».;cy .irt' c*T. May 10. When the war tends to weary us and bring that sense/ of dissatisfaction and hopelessness which the mon at the front j
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  • Page 305 Advertisements
    • 196 305 to the "Singapore Free Press" returning from Europe to the Straits by say of the mail lines, are invited to send to lanager the name of their steamer and date of arrival m Singapore. Copies will then be mailed to meet them at various ports of call. Subscribers m Europe
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  • Page 305 Miscellaneous
    • 198 305 THE WEEK'S NEWS. No mail arrived here from Home this week. An uncertain tone was maintained at the weekly rubber auction, and the prices for standard grades showed daily fluctuations. There was a poor attend inc-3 and very little demand. A letter has been received by the Bishop of Singapore
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  • 1152 306 The news from the FJandera front indicates that the Germans have failed to break free from the lore of Ypres. Their latest attack, which is very localised m character and does not appear to be proceeding too well for them, aims at the same objective
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  • 862 306 Apart from the fact that the r6_ations between France and Britain will possibly be rather strained owing to remarks made during the debate on the.MAURiCE episode, it does not appear to us that the faots, as far as they have been disclosed, warrant
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  • 727 306 It should not be long before w e k. of a freah German attempt to f 0 U* deciaive victory against the Allie there is no reason to suppose that attempt will be made m any other than that whiob has been bright since
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  • 963 307 Bfoofa more cheerful just now than for many months, past, is the position of affairs with regard to the submarine successes of the enemy. Quite apart rom arguments as to figures of tonnage re is the -olid evidence of the nee m France cf half a
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  • 684 307 The rather remarkable lull m operations continues and we are beginning to suspect that it is not military, but political, exigencies which wro at the root of the delay. There is a good deal more beneath ths surface m the irritation felt over the mudd c
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  • 437 307 A curiously interesting suggestion is made m American papers by a dist m guished American doctor. He says that tbe war might result m the saving and improvement of more lives than it will cause loss or permanent injury of. He arguts the matter out on
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  • 129 307 The representatives and members of the Moslem Institute visited the Straits Chinese Literary Association on Saturday afternoon and engaged them at billiards, tbe match being a very interesting and a well contested one, and the following being the results SCL A.
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  • 349 307 The committee of the Singapore Automobile Club present their report and account-, for the year ended 8 1st March, 1918. signed by Mr W A Sims, hon sec. The financial state-man*] shows a balance of funds m hand of $2,635 88 against $2,607 86 at the comraeac.maaii
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  • 30 307 Lieut. Humphrey Hamilton Wilson, RFC (only sarviving bou ol WK Wilson, of Yokohama,) has been killed m action. His only brother was killed at the front about five months ago.
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  • 1303 308 Somewhere there is a definition of bum onr which says something to this effect that the circumstances which create laughter would be tragic were they not known to be unreal. And, by 'tragic" is meant every degree from the mildly unfortunate to the really terrible by unreal is
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  • 416 308 The weekly meeting cf the Rent Board was held m the Municipal Offices yesterday afternoon, presided over by the hon'ble Mr C J Saunders, and attended by Messrs E A Elias, Gaw Khek Kiam, M Meyer, and H Beadsworth (assistant Municipal assessor.) On behalf of the attorney of
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  • 44 308 Kobe and Osaka are declared to be m. fected ports, on account of the existence of cerebro Fpinal meuingitia m an epidemic state there. A Harbin telegram says that the Cossack Convention at Tiflia has passed a law confiscating Prince NicholaiMichailovitch's property without compensation.
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  • 408 308 mmmmmmmmmmm At the Assizes, yesterday, before the Chief Justice (Sir John Buckn'.i!. X c). Koh Koon Siu, a Hokien. was culled un for sentence on conviction on a cb.trge oi using a. genuine a forgvd ctacumsnt. He wps sentenced to one year s r'gorous imprisonment. In the ca.e
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  • 289 308 Singapore, May 15. On the 10th instant Information was received that the American Consulate Gei_e_al, Singapore, had that day received a telegraphic circular, dated My, Bth, 1918 from the Department cf State, Washington, stating that as from that date imports of crude rubber from overseas were restricted
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  • 134 308 A commercial museum har. I: en es tablished m Harb'n by Japanei-- Chinese and Russians, m order to sxhibil their respective special products. The death is announced m Kob s of Mr Griffith Jones, who for some 17 years has been a well-known resident of Kobe. Mr Jones was 84
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  • 651 308 Before Mr W Langham Carter magistrate, on Tuesday afternoon ___r ese postman named Paan Leon_' H Queen et, was charged with nnls-TiV 01 detaining 14 Chinese letters S*** delivering them at their re.p^tiv ot dresses on April 27. Tb? »ccqi not guilty and s.id he bad bin^ victim
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  • 102 308 The following properties were disposed of by auction at Messrs Ching Keng Lee Co's sale room on Monday afternoon. There was a larg^ attsndanos r.f intending purchasers. Freehold land and osttls sbst No. 12 McPherson rd, area 46 598 eg ft. bought by Ramadhin Singh for M.60 1
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  • 126 308 Mr J P Hallaway is appointed a mem ber cf the Priority of Indents Committe'. Charged before Mr W Lacgh.ira Caiter on Tuesday wilh attempting to eipd 300 bars of silver on May 7, m OOBtlSfSi tion of a proclamation dated Feu 18 Chinese named Yeung Look TenC. was defended
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  • 5216 309 E~TI SUPPORTS THE PREMIER ull Explanations By Submarine Otbls] [Renter's Bervice] London, May B. ThaMsoriot sensation piodaosd a political -situation which bbriiti sgessli likaly to have raomen[Utnesa Tlier* is 6ome doubt tourss th. I Government will )t7i but whether it adheres J8 io appoint a court of
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  • 1077 310 Sir, my mind is made up on this matter, and every man baa a right to hie own opinion. Nothing you can say will make me budge an inch from the position I have taken up." Invincible Ignorance masquerading ac Manly Independence. Every serious student of history, politics,
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  • 239 310 Ab St Jama's, Piccadilly, on April 21st, Mr Bertram Msjendie, formerly V A for Messrs Cumbe.batch and Co m Selangor, was married to Olive, daughter of Mr Harry Gordon Small. Mr Majendio has been engaged m Red Cross Transport work m France. It is reported that
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  • 99 310 The Brazilian novy has come m m time to anticipate tbe going out of the Russian. History ha. tansjbt them wariness, for they had, m ths 'sixties, one ot the strange.t a.v^nti.ies sirce the old days of little wooden .bipa und big cutting out expeditions. A couple of Brazilian ironclads
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  • 804 311 Lieut A Krishna Menon, r. b c p, i_ B, late of the Batang Berjnntai Esta.es Hospitals is now attached to a Corps of the Indian Hospitals, B E F, France Information was received by last mail tbat Captain B O Moore, of the Malacca Bnbbsc
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  • 124 311 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association 845 th Auction, Bth and 9th Miy. 1918. Offered for sale pikuls 14,868.62 or 1,880,488 lbs, Tone 884.14. Prices Realised. Sm. Sheet Fine Ribbed $98t***** Good 76 97 Fire Plain 81 Good 74 .6 Uossaobsd Sheet Good 65 Crepe Fine
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  • 214 311 Rubber. Singapore, May 9. The market still maintains a very uncertain tone with priceß f -r the Standard Grades showing daiiy fluctuations. The weekly auctions which concluded this morning were pooriy attended throughout and only a few buyers were operating. There was consequently very little com- j
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  • 101 311 Singapore, May 9. For the weekly Rubber Auction which commenced yesterday the quantity catalogued was 91,000 tons. Prices for the highest grade Rubbers were fully up to tho.e of last week, the top price for Fine Pale Crepe being unchanged at 9105, and that for Ribbed Smoked
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  • 82 311 Subject to audit the directors will re commend that a final dividend of 920 and a bonus dividend of 910 per bhare be paid for account 1(16, making 960 per share for the year, an interim dividend of 980 per share for 1917, and a bonus
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  • 212 311 The Suddhadib, commanded by Capt. Larsen, arrived at Bangkok from Hong kong on Sunday April 29, this being her maiden trip, which was m every way successful. A Penang man who is on a holiday tri D to Japan writing on March 29, says thathe quick changes of temperature to
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  • 541 311 The report of the above company for the year ended Jen 81 1918, tc b. presented at tbe annual meeting to ba held on May 19 ai the company's offices, states The net profit for the year amounts to 981,_23 16 to which must be added
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  • 337 311 A farewell dinner is being arranged m Ipoh m honour of Lieut. F N Pearse who is leaving for tbe front shortly. Mr E R James, who sucoeeds Mr Welcott H Pitkin as Advisor m Foreign Affairs, arrived m Bangkok from Hongkong on Sunday April 28, acoompanied by Mrs James.
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  • 311 311 A dull tone continues to characterise this market. Mining shares for a few days m some instances showed some excitement but on the vthole c'o^e with an easier tendency which is mainly caused by t. c general inclination lo merely epecila^e m tin shar The enquiries fcr
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  • 280 311 2nd- 3th May The past week has been a quiet one m our local market particularly m rubber shares. Rubber Last week's Anction Results. Total offered. Tons 956 Totsl sold 461 Top prices Crepe 9105. Sbpet 9102. London Equivalent 2s 'if- 2s lid. Various rumours about
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  • 213 311 A telegram from Sydney (N S W) states that three men smuggled 48,000 worth of opium from a steamer lying at Ha! main, and, placing it m a motor car, raced towards the city at 8 o'clock m the morning. The police blocked thf road, but ths driver of the
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  • 710 312 Mr B F Bridge is appointed an ae.i-tant district judge for Penang Mr Frank Aahton Gwatkin is appointed Assistant Registrar of Imports and Exports. It ia notified that tbe Governor m Council If e^tifefled that the Fcciety known as the Cornwall Minstrels, Singapore, has ceased to
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  • 284 312 A SUPREME COURT DECISION. In the Supreme Court, before the Chief i Justice (Sir John Fucknill, k o), yester day, one Chiong Guan Hion sued a Ohinsss woman r.amed Tan P.ck Tone f° r 9958.4 5 for moneys advanced to her to bring an action iv the
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  • 128 312 A match which caused a let of interest and was watched by a very large audience took place on Thursday evening at the Catholic Club, the contestants being A Lewis and W A Aeria. The game was one cf 600 up on level terms. The first half ot tbe
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  • 22 312 The following were tbe results of the May Spoon Shoot, which took place at Balestier on Thursday last
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  • 308 312 The result of the Ladies' Medal for May is as follows Winner, Mrs R St J Braddell, 2 down. Runners up, Mrs Holden and Mrs Drummond, both 4 down. m The Ipoh YMCA has been undergoing a period of transition owing to tbe departure for home oi
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  • 324 312 Th 6 following letter has b«eu rnrMved by the Bi-bop of Singapore from M» jor- i General Ridout C M c, C B Dear Bishop, I wish you the greatet f-.ucr.s_ ia -our appeal for Church At my Tents. I beys no dcub. that the people In
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  • 483 312 A Serbian Ambulance motor car corps, consisting of 14 officers and 854 mon and 10 nurses, arrived at Mukden recently and left for Japan via Chosen. Mr P A F David is appointed to aot as second magistrate, Singapore, with effect from the 6th ins.. Tbe reported his re turn
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  • 235 312 The report ot tbe Superintendent Singapore Fire Brigade, for the yea. ia, says that the number of calls to fl supposed fires was 42 a decreaae V° c 1918. Of these 27 were genuine fl* 3 Hrseseed property within Kanlefpel lh 9 were false alarm with g<
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  • 451 312 Rikisha Coolies In Revolt. -■■-■■■_B__H There was a riot among rikisba cooliei m Shanghai on the 17th April. Tha coolies have a grievance against tbe Tramway Co. They fear that if the Company is granted certain extensions eh they have recently applied for, the number ot rikisha
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  • 122 312 As a result of the safety first" campaign the number of accident per 100.0 C miles run by London General Bus Com pany's vehicles lost year WM r lei 22i per cent below that of 1916- and the number of fatal accidents was re-uced b 27.8 per cent. Mr Page,
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  • 792 313 Before the war the fastest train m Europe wae the Paris Berlin express which covered the 1491 miles, from Paris to Erquelinnes, m 144 minutes, equal to 62j miles per hour, the section of the hustle m Belgium being traversed at 62 9 miles per lour.
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  • 269 313 A heavy storm on Saturday moroing broke shortly before training is usually begun at the Racecoarse but it cleared later and a fair morning's work was got through. There were however very few present. Milky Way, Silent Friend, Pretty Boy, Playmate, Sandy Creek, Char.es X, Queen Beth, Aringa,
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  • 264 313 The Seremban A.sizos which were fixed fcr hearing on Monday to day, the 18th inst, have had to be postponed until the follow ing Monday, May 20th, consequent upon there being no judge available to take them, and from tbe fact also, that tbe DPP, Mr McCabe Reay,
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  • 279 313 It is proposed to commemorate the Rev. E H Mosses, rector of St Paul's Covent Garden, who was killed m a recent air raid, by establishing and endowing a bos pital m China for a medical mission, which the late rector's son may join at the conclusion of the war.
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  • 1248 313 Quicquid agunt homines nostri eti farrago libelli Juvenal. The Topic of the weok, or 6hall we say, to use tho pbra«-e so comforting to the hack journalist, tho cau*_ eelebre, Is the case of Ifaarlee va Hoyd Georg*, Borar Law and oth_is which has now, since
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  • 491 313 Two Canadian soldiers were talking. One said, I hear the Australians were m Jerusalem on Christmas Day." To which the other replied, Betcher the shepherds watched their flocks that night." The Rev W H Fo ster Pegg, who wae Chaplaiu to the For cos iv Hongkong about a year previous
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  • 732 314 We are informed that Kerling tin mine •tarted Bluicing on the 11th. and every thing is working satisfactorily. Tbe Java Pacific Mail line has resumed its sailings and the next mail boat from Java for San Francisco is dua m Singapore on Sunday morning. Arrangements are
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  • 1221 314 THE ANNUAL MEETING. Company's Gratifying Progress. The 2 1st ordinary general meeting of Fraser and Neave, Ltd, was held yesterday al the registered office, the Arcade. There were present tbe hon'ble Mr F M Elliot (presiding), Messrs W Lowther Kemp, J D.nniston (directors), W P W
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  • 380 314 Before Mr W Langham Carter, senior magistrate, yesterday afternoon, a Chinese named Cheoog Tan Kee, owner ot a Chinese Hospital at No 88 Sago st was charged with unlawfully removing or aiding to remove Lee Bee Chow, a man Buffering from bubonic plague from No 80 Upper
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  • 93 314 In appealing to young Army officers to exchange the sword for the surplice aftar the war, the Archbishop of Canterbury might have cited some notable examples of the kind. The late Archdeacon Sinclair wore the Queen's scarlet for a while m his youth, and Dr Maclagan, the late Archbi.hop of
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  • 909 314 The third Assizes ot the ye*!- yesterday before the Chief J a9t i Cc Z John Bucknill, k o.) There was a lmal^' calendar than at the last Assize., and WM notable that of the twelve (relating to fourteeu eeeessd P o ri there was not one m
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  • 781 315 Information has been received that bout 40 cases said to contain rubber were risked up at sea by the harbour master at polo San)boe. The cases are marked Ship ,„_nt N V, M R (J. Information has been received that about 100 tins said to contain
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  • 2357 315 QUESTIONS ABOUT ACCOUNTS AND DIRECTORS* FEES. No Dividend Obsebvations. The ninth ordinary general meeting ot the Ayer Panat Robber Estate, Ltd., was held yesterday at the registered office, Gresham House, Battery I. There were present Messrs A W Bear Presiding) J M Sime, W P Plummer, EX
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  • 120 315 From Onr Own Correutondeni Kuala Lumpur, May 18. The death I haa occurred of Mr Malcolm Cumming. [Mr Malcolm Cumming waa one of the old time band of F M S coffee planters and one of tbe pioneer rubber planters, his coffee plantation being converted
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  • 31 315 From Our Own Oorrupondeni Kuala Lumpur, May 18. The following rubber dividends are announced Finals Pataling 180, Kepong 15, Ayer Kuning 15, Gedong 10. Kuala Lumpur (interim) 10. -c-
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  • 135 315 Early ou Sunday morning, Mr Justice Ebden's cook was aroused by some Buspicioua movements m tbe chicken house and going out found that ten of the best fowls had disappeared. He immediately reported the thett to his master who telephoned the police from his bungalow at Changi
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  • 784 316 A meeting of the Indian Immigration Committee was held at Kuala Lumpur on May sth. There were present: The Controller of Labour (Mr J R O Aldworth) Chairman the Principal Medical Officer, Federated Malay States (Dr C L Sansom, c m o), Mr W Duncan, Hon'ble Mr
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  • 543 316 Turks Surprised. Palestine Headquarters. March 81. By a dashing raid the Anzao Mounted lm perial Camel Corpa blew up a portion of the Hedj&z railway north and south of Amman, after the infantry had taken the town of Ea Salt, 26 miles east of the Jordan. Tbe
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  • 191 316 Pjor teachers make dull scholars. None but a poor teacacr will accept an made quate salary. Ergo, if good teachers are wanted for our schools good salaries will have to be paid. Tbe new 6cale of the London County Council, accepted by the teachers, who unanimously rejected a
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  • 31 316 The football match between the National Uaiou Club ond the boarders of the St Joseph's Institution, played on Saturday, waa won by the N TJ C by five goals to nil.
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  • 705 316 [The dates given are those of tbe telegrams from Loudon.] April 80. —Germans suffer disastrous repulse m first phase of battle begun m desperate attempt to capture line of hills held by Allies m Flanders. They Buffer more terrible losses than m any previous battle, yet are
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  • 26 316 Mr V D X Craddock, who was severely I wounded sometime ago and invalided out j cf the army, has returned bo Shanghai, with Mrs Craddcck.
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  • 359 316 Tbe report of tbe ditectors to ba submitted to the fifth annual general meeting of the Compacyisas follows- Your directora have the pleasure* t 0 submit herewith the Report and state- ment of Accounts for the year ended 81st December. 1917. The nett profit after
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  • 499 316 The great barracks up m Canada, where ia the flret Jewish detachment of the Judaean battalion, which enlisted m the United States for service under the British flag and to fight oo the Palestine front, haß assumed a Jewish atmosphere. Every one of the recruits is
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  • 452 317 [By Bnb-narlne Gable] __UeWs Service] Amsterdam, May T. The Prussian lower house passed the second reading of the Electoral Reform Bill. London, May 7. Sir Robert Newyman bap leen returned unopposed for Exeter. London, May 8 —The Poat Office an nouncf« the loss at sea through enemy j action
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  • 271 317 London, May 8. Renter's correspondent at American headquarters says The crack American airman, Captain Hill, formerly ot the British army, and author of Kitchener's Mob," was killed m a fight with a German circus. Capt. Hill was closely following an enemy when tbe latter, with extraordinary suddenness, turned
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  • 70 317 The engagement m announced of James Malcolm Hall, solicitor, third son of Mr s Hall, of Hongkong, nnd Maijorie Mabel, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Japh MaEon, of Ilford. Ee.ex, The account* of the Red Cress Society of Siam for the year B B 2460, says that Ibe total
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  • 4157 317 London, May 6.— Field Marshal Haig says In a successful local operation m the neighbourhood of Morlancourt we took over 200 prisoners. The French re poised attempted raida south ot Locre. Reciprocal artillery firing continued all day on the battlefronts. Our artillery caused several firea behind the enemy's
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  • 2376 318 London May 8. Russian Wireless: An armistice waa concluded on tbe 4th on the Kursk front between tbe Germano Ukrainians and the Russians, pending peace negatiations. A neutral zone ten kilometres deep has been defined. Zurich, May 8. News from Kieff via Vienna says that the Russian Black
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  • 3224 319 London, May 7. A telegram to Zurich soy^: Dr Se idler has ordered the prosecution of the organisers of a demonstration at Prague on May 1 m favonr of the creation of a Czech- Slovak State. A hundred thou sand Czechs have since presented a peti tion demanding
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  • 2486 320 London, May 10.— The Admiralty re ports tbat tbe operation designed to clone the ports ot Ostend and Zeebrugge was successfully completed on the night of May 9 and when the obsolete cruiser Vindictive was sunk between the piers and across the entrance to Oatend harbour.
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  • 52 320 In Bangkok, the increase m tho piica of food ia beginning to alarm poor people, end ie big enough to be feit b; everybDdy. The alarm is due to a seemingly general expectation that prices will go still higher. Fruit ia dear m Bangkok o.viog to tbe destruction caused by
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