The Straits Budget, 20 June 1919

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  • 29 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE t WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES" VOL. LXXIII No. 3201 Singapore. Friday, June 20, 1919. ESTABLISHES OVEI HALF A CEHTUHY Price 25 cents.
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  • 225 1 xiBADBRS— Thu Rice Control Sobeme 10 The Russian Position 1C Tho Middle East 1C• 11 China and Japan 11 Tho Allies’ Riply 11 Fighting Malaria 12 Leoai and General— Local and Personal 1-2 Router Telegrams 3-7 Malaya Association 7 Municipal Meeting 8 Perak aUJI of Honour 8
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  • 5359 1 Ik is suggested that in view of the price of wheat flour being fixed, tho size, weight, and price of tho Laf cf bread should bo standardised throughout Malaya. In the bigger towns, according to tho Times of Malaya, tho si/e of tho ordinary baf raroly varies,
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  • FRIDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 317 3 Rbutsb Tklkorams. London, Juno 7. Cologne A ocmbt rrf provincial oentrist mectic h Lave teen he Id at v Licb reeoloti' dp have beer parred di<»preiaf.irg thrrTrhc* Lem Dr. I);lien's recent ucticia. The dec-*.* bat >vired Mir WiPiaic Rtfce’fccc annourrirg tbo
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    • 416 3 London, Jane 6. Mv. Gbarobill proceeded: We have only two battalions in Siberia wbo are hundreds of miles from the fighting. They are stationed at Omsk, the seat of Government, as a symbol of British sympathy. He referred to the reoent warning against basing exag Iterated hopes on
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    • 181 3 London, Jane 6. The Hague, Jane 6: The Foreign Minister, Karnebeok in a stateount to the States General with reference to the Belgian claims said that the Great Powers in Paris recognising iho necessity if tho revision of the treaties bad frtmn ed to the lottrr ational
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    • 145 3 laris, June 7. Tbo lctrcr in tfc f P:»,m rc-gcn yesterday rbrwtd signs (f improve inert, fpp»c.allv rogsrdinp passrrpir am* service s. In tbo metal engines ring tre-i;. s agreement on some poii:ts was ro’chcd bet ween workers and employer s Dscndnioa fol’owa TLcrc arc nowbeie signs cl
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    • 110 3 Simla, June 10. The Afghans who were dispersed neat their villagcs are reported returning in email parties to Jalalabad. Since the air raids ceased, Afridi outlaws and other bad char&o ters have established themselves at Kajari, sooth ot Jam red, and have made some minor raids into the Peshawar
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    • 38 3 Simla, Jane 7. Twenty accused persons in thn recent □prising have been cc urt-msrtir Urd on the charge of murdering the British Bank officials at Amritsar daring the reoent disturbances and were fentenoed to death.
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    • 46 3 Londi u, June 7. Paris The strike situation is unaltered. Extremists’ attempt to secure a railwaymen’s strike tailed, but a railwayman's meeting passed a reEolution strongly condemning tbe Government's foreign policy. A limited number cf tubes, trams and busses are running with military help.
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    • 48 3 London, Juno 7. Ottawa, Jane 6 A bill authorising the depovtaticn of agitators against constituted authority parsed all its stages in the Senate and House cf Ccmtrons, and has received the Loyal assent. The bill is made to apply to Britishers as well as aliens.
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    • 73 3 London, Jono 7. Tko Birthday Honours Prime Ministers' list does not include a single peerage or baronetcy, or political awards, but chiefly ooneiatß of rewards to civil servants. It is understood that the list has been reduced to a minimum in view of the expected conclusion cf poaco
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    • 107 3 London, Juno 6. At Loidß, tho luntialian« beat the M. C. C. by ton wickets. London, Jano 7. Latent oticket rofluKs are :—Snrtoy boat Watwiokßhifo by eovon wickets. Oxford University beat P. F. Warner's XI by 80 tana. London, Jane 6. The result ol the race (or the Oaks
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    • 74 3 Wo ate indebted to tbo French Uonßulatc (cr the f jllowing telegrams P/ujp, M y -„H, ft 3U p iu. It ip probable that in the perec treaty will be 6xcd a* ccranlete’y aa prppifclo, tho nnrnh vl icb tbo Gc.rL.aut3 wbl bo iLdiutcd to tbo illieß
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  • SATURDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 426 3 Ridtbh Tmliokams. London, Jane 9. Copenhagen June 8: Tbo Esthonmnn have resoLui the l>vioa from Ksut Lctthiod and cooupied the junction of KrtaUbarg and Jakobstadt on tbo river, after successful fight* ing. The Lithuanians are rapidly approaching Dvinisk from the eouth. The Bolshevists
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    • 73 3 London, Juno 8. Copenhagen, (torn Vienna, Juno 7; Four thousand armed poaßants appembled bo tween Zinkendoiff and Kclicit uf with the object of diHplacing tho Soviet Government at Ocdinbatg. They were intercepted by the Oodcnburg garrison with artillery and maalnne-gonH near Z.nkendorf and a battle rcßultt d
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    • 550 3 London, Jane 8. i w Berlin, Jane 7: Sr r ions riots hare occurred at Steinamaager in Hungary, whero workmen refused to aooept money issued by the Bade* post Oovornmenl. Hundreds were arrested, and of tbeno peventy Cvr, including many railwaymen, were shot. A hIiLo wan thereupon declar -l
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    • 233 3 iHavfta.) Paris. June 4. Tho Allies avo sol inolinod to modify the German Treaty. Details of its application might be alterod. bat no obango affecting its principles is possiblo. M. Cl-menoean is opposed to changes in principle although it ia boliovod that ho wonld consent to some modification
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    • 173 4 L nice, Jauc 'J Pfttip M C f."rcncn*a, Col. Hoane in* Laid l ft* Hin: I'-d termß > idev v u 1 oncer to djl- i irt*\ o* *.'iuiUtl ic a Loagao ct Na*i :j«. 'I '.«> t in-Lt' n j ti boluowL.s id ot'.cf to r»!i
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    • 169 4 L'.nJeu, J ioc 8. Paris, Jto 8; T;.« M>ri<tir of Public Works !>rh dr.c'arrri i* in practically c tt&ui that the n:\ ikt »"orrn ti ***i i! or Jy ns rII tbo rai! ’"ax ran,’* fl T *anl» havo ht'in natu ti .id, aul u lj l. Cuj
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    • 106 4 London, Juno 9, Tbo K\*t Antrim by i lotion reaulfc waft aft folio* h Mr. G. F. Limn*, Ld pendent H. 714 Major W A, Muo.o L’oioni«L Mr. C. M. Lr>fl, L teral, 1 77*5. London. Jane 8. St. John ft. Jun' u A’c'icl M 0 pi os ol
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    • 143 4 Wo are in It lit i to the K*cnch Corsuiite I for the f jlluwioj< t'.iiuyraui i:— I’a/ia, Jane 6. J The Four coitioced tbo txauiiaaihu ci the Ot rujau c ,U" .crpropag »lr; it ih provable that if mo.>ihi.a i oh ace eo i.wut r( i],
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  • MONDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 872 4 I>KLTKK ThLROKAMH, L.ntLn, .lane 11. PariH, .1 iiu 10: It iw kiot probable filial tLo Alii* 8 v ill r p.y io tho GitLU4u conn or jropOßalH jofoie Uju emi of thu v,<\k, Tlio reply vi.l iiL.iint la ce'upcmte u t •morai»* Ouia diali
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    • 671 4 (LUvufc). Patifi, J .'no 7, Th 3 CrnnGi' of F> ur a»o a accord rcpard ing Jio points on which ihu Gusmans r.ro to bo mot, the points o ic'f» the qaestion cf reparations sn f certain a poofcs of the u -v Polis.- frontiers. a tiied t
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    • 233 4 L u toe, Jane 11. Washington Iu the Sjnsto th>: H jpnblicau lc. <l r K-is, introduced a resold’ion s»-h*3b declares it:- impossible for th? Seoul 0 1 1 concur m the provision* of tue Liajue of Nations as drafted and asks that thy Oore- -lant
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    • 510 4 London, Jane 10, Rente* learns tbat Djnikon’s army, assist d by British tanks and aorophnos, advanced m tbe pa** few days fifty miles in order to Imk up with Koltcbak o left. It is believed tlut the BjLLu-vik necessity for reinforcing otrii(.c ff'iiii) Will 80. U lessen the
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    • 166 4 Load i t Juc. 11. R a ter live interviewed > British r.a-.d officer from the B!a.L Sea who was in the cions; torch *./'h (i .coral Decikin'e a3miniB-.r*!nn H i dutcribod th hi i qi r n‘ii>ed ot ma i-nna, guas, Utas and acrylic- a,
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    • 85 4 London, Jane 11. Tht? anti-Jap anoer in China owirg to tii*.' deoibioo ot the Peacj Conference with *°K&rd to Sh&iiuui' Lias L-d to morions distav* .ocas at Shanghai wboii. i-.e foreign police «vcro assaaltei with bricks. Tuo pjlioo cuargtd, drove buk the crowd and cleared the str*r>t
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    • 106 4 London, Jane 11. ellington, Jane 11 The wav baa added £81,01,0,000 sterling to tbo national debt of Now Zealand, whijh isrongbly £l7O sterling pcc head of the population. Tbo national wealth ii equal to JCIOO per head. Tbe bank deposits are JC72,00.!,000 atorlirg Savings b.ok deposit
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    • 147 4 Simla, Jaoc 18, 1' i!.crn hundred Molimauds have proceeded to B furtho purpose of meleeting oar foraging pa»*tir h Oiir aeroplanes bombed >r »3 d-i in th»* “juairy which baa s r f !o hTn ovkd. An aeroplane wbilo vi i‘ i n. 4 Maia K ml, L»a.mMid aad
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    • 114 5 London, Jane 10 Cleveland, Ohio, Juno 10: A naVor*' ■trike of telrrhoue workorn ban b-ion ordtr ?d to fcegia ou Joqo 16 io sympathy wit» lb Btrke ct coruuiercid p .ire btg:n..u>K on Jane 11. Tbe tehp' o~e workers’ dtr-aodH Me pin lav to tbe telegraphers' namely re
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    • 109 5 London, Juno 11 Telegrams from Malta if port some disturb Alices apparently owing to an anetuplcymeui •gitatioi (or autonomy and a report that the university will ba abolishtd. Thowilifc&y were ctiled out and there were some fata lties, bat it is believed that order is n*w restored.
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    • 169 5 London, Jam: 11. Replying to tbo South Afrioan nationalist deputation braded by Gemrsl H rtzog which visited him in Paris on Jam 5 in Older to advocate the grant cf iodtpendi n *e to the two former Dutch republics, Mr. L'uyd George d claiol that the Sooth
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    • 47 5 London, Jane 10. Middlesex beat Hampshire b? an inning and 74 runs. Lancashire beat Yorksuiae by 140. Derbyshire boat Warwickshire by seven wickets Somerset beat Gloucestershire by seven wi k ta. Htnox v. Kent.Nortbants v. Leie stershire, Notia v. Surrey, Sussex lustra .ans were all drawn,
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    • 217 5 London, Jane 10. Official: Vice-Admiral Dull in appoint ed Coannan ior in-Chi* f ot the Cbma station, Rear Admiral Tothill Commander in Chief ot the Kant Indies station and Captain Cbatfield Fourth Sea Lord. London, Jane 10. The Kick's birthday m'litary hocoarß In lade the cros of St. M
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    • 878 5 Wo am indeb’od to the French Consulate for tho following telegram: Paris, Jnne 8. The situation of tho Paris etrikis is Bta tiouary. Cocnt Br:ck;2:i ft Rintxau came back to Pans at noon. President who was ovated, inane orated in Ntecy th i umun eot t-tiotr'd tor
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  • TUESDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 528 5 Rbutkk i KLBORAMS. LontlcD, Juno 12. Paris, Jaoo 12 Tbo Couacil of Four yesteiday readied decisions cn tbo majority of impoitanl poirts ia tbo German counter proposals. :bo 0 unoii docile Ito mako u essential med.tic *tiocs in tho r par
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    • 252 5 (H'.TftM.) Pui s, Juno 13 The C r uocil cf F;nt Ims c xamined the Ism, rep rt conoimin# tin reply t'j tboOtruian counter proposal*’, notably the roost iiu t v rt >ut r ftrrroi* to tho Leaßor* of Nation 1. An s uow urivol nk on too
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    • 223 5 London, .Judo 11. Copenhagen: Tho Estonians aftor FauKUtuary fighting evacnae. d WtnCcn wnioh tbo Germans occupied. Tie g*oatcst in donation pt( vails throughout Hiibocia at Ibo Germans’ truajhoroas attack. London, Juno 12. 'lhn evacuation of Ibo Baltic provinces io proceeding. Loadoo, .Juno 12. Omsk. Juno 6: Siberian
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    • 65 5 Londor, Jano 12. Hooter loams authoritatively that no reply to the armistice terms, cabled last week, has been received from the Amir. Bvidenoo is aoccumolatidK that hn is entering into close relationship with the Kalian Boh heviks, who toward the Afghan outbreak as a unique of p
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    • 58 5 London, Jane 12. Haalnr authoritatively Icarivi that the iffoupivo tho Czjobs is vapidly priori snir#. Tdo Caeobs bavo boon driven back the vrbr.lo front of two hncdred miles frjm tbo J)inabo opposite Kaab to tne Carpathian foothills- Proasba>K in neviooßly endangered. 'I ho Czechs are short of an.
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    • 303 5 Loo Jon, Jane 12. Tbe King has invostod Admiral Beatty and Marshal Haig with the Order of Merit. London, Jane 12, Tboro was a brilliant and imposing function at tbe Guildhall tc-day on tho occasion of tbo presentation of the Freedoufof tbe City it London and Swords
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    • 236 6 IyondoD, Jane 12. Prospectu -es have been issued ol two loans, both of unlimited amount, bearing lon* per oent. interest and exempt from all taxation if owned by persons not domiciled or not ordinarily resident in the U sited Kingdom. One issue consists cf Victory Bonds at eighty
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    • 80 6 London, Jane 12. Ottawa: In the Commons Sir R. Borden nnnoanoed that be bad proposed to tbe Imperial Government that (all power to oontrol ooean rates and tbe disposition of tbs ship ping of tbe Hmpiro should be oonferred by ooncarrent logiHiation on temporary ocmmis sion and that
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    • 104 6 London, Jane 12. Paris: The Minors' Coancil is onsatitfied •witb Ibe Miners' Bight Hoar Day Bill which the Chamber passed yostcrday with a view to averting a strike and has decided upon a general miners Btrike to begin on Jane 16. Tbe Congress of Seamen's Unions also deoidid
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    • 40 6 London, Jano 12. 'Atlantic City The Labour Federation Convention overwhelmingly passed a rcRO lotion opposing the continnanoo of war tiim prohibition measures and demanding the annulment of the prohibition of brewing beer over 23 per cent, alooholic strength.
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    • 22 6 London, Jane 12, Chicago: All ihe telegraph companies' reports indioate that the strike of telegraphists has bithorto proved a failare.
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    • 19 6 London, Jane 12. The latent news (vom Malta is veasßaving. It is believed that tbu tiouble in over.
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    • 171 6 I We ate indebted to the Freach Consulate loi the following telegrams:— i Paris, Jane 15. j It is aatboritativelj confirmed that the I reply to the Gorman coaster-proposals will i be gir en on Monday, the 16tb inst., with a i delay of five days, inolading
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  • WEDNESDAY’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 2015 6 KIUTiR TILIORAtfS. London, Jane 16, 8 p.m, The Allied reply to the Gorman counterproposals is now issued officially, la a ojvoriog letter, the Allies, referring to the German protost against a peaoe of violence, emphasise that the war was the greatest orime
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    • 321 6 London, Jane 18. Pnris, Jane 13; The Peaoe Trentj will be entirely rewritten and reprinted to incorporate textaally the explanations and clarifications contained in the reply to the Oerman ooantor proposals. Thus while anchanged in principles it will be virtually a new dccament which will be presented
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    • 193 6 (Havaa.) Paris, Jane 14. M, Clemenoeaa, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Lloyd George and Baron Sonnino have ended examining the reports oonoerning the reply to the ooanter proposals. The co ordinating commission is now fixing the definite text to be remitted on Monday to Brookdorff Rantzau who will take it
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    • 149 7 London, Jane 18. Eutbonian onmmuc qne Jane 11: On the Poibcff (vonl 7CO of the enemy have deserted to the Hessians. On the Oatrcff front the Russians oaptoved, it is stated, Tsarskaja. London, Jane JB. Koltohak's troops in Viatka offensive foaght desperately. The iffjnsive is oontma irg.
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    • 122 7 Simla,' Jane 18. The Htaara, Peshawar, Banna, Kohat aad Deraj at areas are quiet. The situation ai Zbob is satisfactory except for a minor die* torbanoe between sections of the Khctran Bribe. Quetta reports that an Afghan camp h?s been pitched at Margka eighteen miles north north east
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    • 385 7 London, June 13. Shanghai, June 0 The drivers and fire men of the Shanghai Nanking and Shanghai Hangobow Ningpo railways hate decided to •trike to night. The men of the TientsinPoaow railway are expected to follow. The strife• threatens to become general owing to the Prking Government retaining
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    • 274 7 London, Jane 12, Rentei learns firm Soo f b Africa that b or trim teal aviaticn ood p*f>y wi»b b capital cf 100,0C0 sUriißK baß botn started at Joban nesbuvg. Services will bo ran between Johannesburg and Pretoria and also Johanu Bbarg and Mariuburg and Durban. In
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    • 127 7 London, Jane 18. The Lord Mayors and Mayors bare been invited oertmoaially to announce tbe open ns( o! the Joy Loan cam* paign to-morrow. Foals of obnreb bells at noon on Monday will bevald tbe inaagaratiou of tbe campaign. At tbe Oaildball a meeting will be addressed
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1167 10 —Stvaits Times, Jose 18 We talked the otbe* day, in passing, of official jargon. There ia a fine example of it in the statement on the Koe Control Scheme which appears elsewhere in this issue. The rioe position," it says, has not ehanged materially (or the
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    • 1123 10 merely a temporary one.—Straits Times, June 14. It is reoorded of Mr. Churchill that, when he was a boy at Harrow, he was asked what profession he thought of adopting and that he replied: "The Army, of oourso, so long a 9 there’s fighting to be bad-
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    • 1037 10 Conference has to tackle.—Straits Jane 16. Tke departure of the Turkish Mission for Paris turns thoughts to the Middle East; to the new Middle Bast, that is to say, which is to emerge from the world convulsion of the Great War. There are one or two points
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    • 1163 11 —Straits Times, June 17. No surprise need be expressed over the outbreak cf auti Japanese riots in Shanghai, for trouble was almost board to come. The feeling against Japan is strong throughout China and it is spreading. In Suangtung especially resentment is very keen as the vesult
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    • 1106 11 Straits Tiiuee, Juno 18, Even the original peace terms wove not awaited with more eagernosß Itaa ban the Allies' reply to the German counterproposals. There was no veal fear, of coarse, that the Allies would yield on any essential point, though it was believed that they might
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    • 1135 12 Straits Ticnee, Janj 18. Appended to the rep art of the F.M S. Malaria Advisory Board fov 1918 is a reproduction of a poster familiar to as. At the bottom of it are the words, sot oat in bold tppe, quinine is the remedy for malaria." Bnt has
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  • 195 12 The following passengers landed at Singapore from the 8100 Funnel steamer Njleu*, which arr.ved on Wednesday from Home:— Mrs. F. B, Baker,iMr. D. O. ba;foar, Mr. A. C. Ballard, Mr. J. M. Batbgate, Mrs. O. L. Boraeman, Mrs. BromfiJd and three chil dron, Mr. G N. Burnham,
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  • 67 12 The Atlantic Flown A froDoh Consular ratio of tho 15tb isst. fitatoe: Tbo aviator Alcook lift at 4 115 fcj.iu. on Jano 14 and arrived at Cufdou, 02 tbo western ooart of Ireland, at 81) a m 0 tbo lf>tb iust.” If itfs means tLat A lojofc lift Xjwfonndland then
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  • 668 12 Sc m 3 ooloar i« lent to the theory that the Perak gang of lobbera is breaking op and distributing over the country Bide by reoeot events in the Kuala Kubo district, includ iog the hold op cf Mr. H.
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  • 758 12 A correspondent ftdviaes as that a dastard ly outrage was oommitted on Tfaars lay, Jane I‘2, at about the 20 iu mile o.u tbe Me* liman Jasin Road rumrn? through tbe Mtrlimau rorest reserve. Captain a. Gould, M.C., a superintendent of tbe Merlimau
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  • 187 12 The ladies of the Sea View Hotel and Crescent, Tarjorg K*tong, omertuined 64 boys f.fui H.M a S. Sydney and Hatypus on Juuo 11, Tbo Sea View crches*fa discoursed lively airs d 'rirg tea which wt»s served at 4 15. At, j o'clock a programme ot epoits
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  • 161 12 Ci.izjn writes to the Pinang Gazette as follows: Your correapcnJent Cibia" has Apparently given mucu thought to this question of honours, and although be admits .uat there ace othors who migut be included, it will surprise rujat people that he failed to uj jutioi the
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  • 1828 13 London, May 9. The ootner o! the world (rim which I write is (all ot one eobjeot on'y to day—the Treaty of Peace and ita manifold applications to the oomplex problems of the civilised world, After nearly
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  • 514 13 A oomranuique from the Chief Secretary, Burma, states: Publicity has been given sinoe the beginning cf the present year to all Rations of illtreatment suffered by Barmese women cigarrol'era in Penang, at the hands of their Cniit'BG employers, and questions on the sutj
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  • 253 13 Tho direotors of Dungun, Limited, report: Gentlemen, your direotors bog to submit t’uoir fi(.h annual report and statement tf aooaunts as at February 28,1919. The inoome for the year exceeded thj i x;,oadituro by 97 737 77 which after eliminating the adverse bilauoe brought forward from 1 *st
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  • 472 13 Messrs frasei* and Co.’s Weekly Circular. Messrs. Frasor and Co., in tbeir weekly ronort dated June IH, state Business in rubber shares has been far from active einco tar last report and the market d. void of any nptoial interest. The tone generally v.as dull, nearly all
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  • 224 13 A Madras message cf May 29 eays: The British lodia ctoamoi Bharat*, carrying emigrant coalien to the Federated Malay Staten left Madras on Saturday bat had bo turn baok after having prootodod as fav sh Ncgapaiam, owing to an outbreak of oholer* aiu mg tin oooliaa
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  • 122 13 At a meeting of tho Exooutive Committoe of tho Peace Celebrations held at Jon Bel ton on M *y 19, it was decided that a otnuderable curtailment of tho original pvcgiamme would bo by veasou of the ooming noo sLortago and for other reasons. An amecdod
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  • 69 14 [The Straits Timet is not responsible for Ihe opinion cf its oorrespondents. Gone spondents should boar in mind that letters most be Hhr*vt end to the point. Long ■ambling cr ,M tles aro l»*hle to be r jeotcd C' inthleenly o»t down. Correspondents loom enclose *ht ir names, not
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  • 127 14 To the Bditor of the Straits Times, Bit, —Will yon or your readers kindly let me know where Ponta Delgada really is In Bryoe's Knowledge in a Natshell Atlas of the World, Ponta Delgada is in tbo A sores, while in W. and A. K Johnston’s Wide World
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  • 906 14 To tbe Editor ol Ibe Straits Timet. Sir,—AithouKh it it raftber late in tbe daj for me to do to, allow me to tbank joo for tbe leader of tbe oth insh, which proved very timely and interesting reading. Tbe Eurasian oommanity, 1 am sore, cannot feel too
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  • 127 14 To the Editor of the Straits Timea. Sir, —Can yon tell me if this ia a veoovd I yesterday asked (ov a number and it took the operator half an hoar to pot me through. Some system this!—Yoars, etc., Bmqdibsb, Singapore, Jane 16, 1919. [Patienoe ia a virtue. II
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  • 134 14 Steamer Perak Gone Dry." To the Editov of the Straits Times. Sir,—Yesterday I went on board the Perak with a few friends to say pood bye to a well known F M.S. planter. Judge of oar consternation on learning that by the oaptam's orders the bar was closed to all
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  • 325 14 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—As a newoomer to the Straits Settlements after two years fighting with the British army in France, I oannot help being struck by what appears to me to be an appal ling lack of interest amongst old residents here in the
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  • 125 14 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—The roads in Malaooa are already very narrow atd tbo way how granite iB unloaded from the carts, etc., and allowed to lie right across the roads for days without bring pited makes matters muoh worse. This iB not coffined to
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  • 294 14 The following maximum prioes for Siam and Saigon white rio* were notified-in a Government Gazette Extraordinary issued on Tuesday: la cxeroite of the powers oonferved apon oim by regulation 6 of the Food Control Regulations, 1918, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf
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  • 184 14 Naum Cbapiro, the violinist, gave a sccaeßPful concert at (be Myrtle Club on Wednesday a large audience|much efforts and tVise o( (be looal attistes who assisted bim. Bis best oontiibjtion w&a perhaps Mendels ohn’s well knowa Coccrto in E minor, which was rendered with feeling and exprssion and
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  • 152 14 Calcrtta was grilling for three or four days at the end of May in which the tjmperatnre steadily rose, and both on 20sh and 21 <t got wdl over the 100 in the shade mark, while in one twenty four hours’ ending at 8 o’clock in
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  • 449 14 Tbe following are cables to the Madras Times, dated London, May 10: We understand on good authority that the Montagu Bill will be introduced at the end of June at the earliest, sinoe the oommittee now sitting will require at least thiee weeks
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  • 50 14 (From Ocb Own Corrispondbnt.) Penang, Jane 18. At the Penang Turf Club half yearly meeting, M*. Hereford, presiding, said that $lO,OOO profit was made on the last meeting, lee cash in hand waß $12,000. Theacoounta were passed and the advertised programme for the August meeting was adopted.
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  • 77 14 We are informed by tho looal manager of the Oriental Telephone and Electrio Co., Lid that bills of lading for the bulk of the new exchange apparatus came to hand by Wrdnesday’s mail, and that the material is dua’.in about a week frem chief installing engineer arrived
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  • 81 14 In connection with the Chinese boyoott of Japanese goods, which is row ao'ive in Siugapcre, it is reported that duiirg the last or two olerks and other Chinese in Japanese employ have received anonymous circulars cf a Black Hand description. They are warned that they have either
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  • 72 14 Tho British ship Cumberland, wlrch left Bingkok, with a cargo of teak bound for London, on May 22 last, pot in to port on Wtdnesday as she has be n meetiug wth adverse winds and currents ever sinoe she left the Siam *so port. The Cumberland, it
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  • 2884 15 A meeting ol the Legislative Council was held on Monday afternoon Hie Excellenoy the Governor (Sir Arthur Young, G.C M.G.) presided, and there were also project: His Excellency the General Offioer Commanding (Major-General D. H. Ridout, C.B C.M.G.),
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  • 112 15 (PaoM Oua Own Cobhbspondsnt.) Penang, Jane 13. The Malay oaptaios and gnnners of the Eastern Shipping Company's ships threatened to Htriko for better pay. Commandea Macintyro was oalled upon so arbitrate and a settlement was roaohed to day. A few days ago, says tho Pinang Oaaette, of
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  • 218 15 following appoars in the Ocvornment Uazutte In acoordanoe with the provisions of section 4 of the Railway Ordinance, 190(5, notice is horeby givoa that tbo Government of the Federated Malay States bavo deposited for publio inspection as required by the said section in the office of tho
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  • 137 15 Tho f blowing Btudoats havo been award* cd scholarships for tbo ourront ynar at tbo above institution :—Diamond Jubiloo Scholarship, Kunnotb Bolh Soo Kwo Bjon Sjholarship, Chia Took Yam Ong Took L m Scholarship, Tong Ab Yat Djskot Scholarship, N. Ktstoori Oag Kim Woo Scholarship, Hon# Yook
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  • 2471 16 Boauii.’n'i’v fine weather again favoured Kingapon 3 > -ring Meeting, the second day V racmy of which p aied if! without a hitch There was a large attteudanco present n:u‘ among those noticed were Hi* Bxc iPoaoy the Governor, His
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  • 100 16 Rai’vay Clock vrihß in tho Pinant; Gaz'Uo: Fot Ci\b’a Ltm.fi* I wcnld like biw to koow that the 0 B.K. wph granted to Ccmraander Mactntyre for war woik This ci t sif-ted of earryiDg out tbe dntiis of Kt Bidi Naval Officer for four yearn wit*' ont at
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  • 458 16 Tho Blue Faunal ttuamcr Tydfas. which arrived on Friday, had on,board uver 130 pas* b< ugora—ah meu—tbo nif jority of whom have been demobilised from the army. The vossul kft Birkenhead on May 10. frith tho tiaffio congestion to tho East still
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  • 118 16 Mr. Justice Parer Maoby was engaged in the Supremo Conit, Ipoh. for the greater part of Saturday in hearing an iniorstinp sequel to the last FM S. Million Dollar Lottery drawn at the Ipoh Town Hall on Apnl 12. One of the winning tickets in tho lottery
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  • 97 16 The »ate of mortality in the Settlement of Singapore for tbo week ended June wjip 83.04 per ruille of the population, The total number of deaths was 24i, of which H 5 were male subjects and 65 fernslo. Convulsions claimed 42, phthisis malaria frvrr 4C, beri ber
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  • Page 16 Advertisements
    • 180 16 Property Sales. Tbo following Singapore properties wer e sold by pufcl.o auction by Ml'hhh Chiog Ktng Leo and Co. at their tale room on Monday 999 years' leastbcld land and houses 63 to 67, Bras Basah Road, and 18 to 22 and 3 to 8, Kim Seng Place, total areas
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  • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
    • 261 17 Teams from tho Australian warships Sydney and Platypus, now in curt, p’ayod a footbcH match on tho Esplanade cn Jane 12. .iud as tho tsmo was or der t» e Aostisl.a col? thr.ro was eoosidiiable public internet in tfie fixtura—thu first of it- uini in the S t‘.’
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    • 166 17 The game of Rugger played on the Erplarado cn Friday between fifteens of thu S.C 0 rlh! '.h*« Am.i.uiUn warships in port proved to he a buskhut r-atch and c::e 01! tue best seen here for a long tine. Conditions woro ideal, tho ovjrrigbt rain having softened tho
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    • 177 17 The all day crlekjt match which wap played cn Monday ou the esplanade between teams representing Euglishuuu vs. Anatolians of the Sydney resalted in a win fir the men of th a daughter ooartiy by 81 rans at the conclosion of the first innings, the second innings
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    • 75 17 The Singapore Garrison Golf G!cb monthly medal, iii.d'f, June, 1919, resulted as fellows: Liout. H L. Ciiitr 5 down Msjor W. G. ’i 6 n The Lit;; 1 Golf Club la l ei’modal fer Juno w ,m wo a by Mil. Langh?m Carter Sci.ros wt»e: M»s, Langbani Carter 63
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    • 231 17 The hundred yards handicap for tho Tack3on Mil or Cap was cortcst.d at the S n: rains' Clab on Sunday. Soveo entered, ar_d tho result W& 1 az o win for Co*' who was very lit pod swam W'l1 —witu boh war/ second aod Pother third, There was the
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    • 81 17 1 i a >’s tie? in the Sl; C. lawn tennis •oucj.auiuut remlted as folhw C'B.VMPsiNSHII', D j Sr.:z ilr ;t D: Silva, 8-2, 6—2. Mi\ki> Douulk. O rvoito and Cordo n boat BalhL'.chut and Honour boo, .7.0. in s a 01 in (hs S.R.C. lav a tennis
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    • 294 17 Mr. Langharu Carter, I Ji. go, had a f-fccioo-i cape cf alleged rash drt\ ng b-jfjH* him on Tuesday afternoon, in .vhich'tbo accused was a Malav ch .uif ur s -izd Ju?Rh bin Samat of Car 117. It uppt a s t. 0 accused diovo a party
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    • 133 17 Judgment has b?m d?l vered by tho marsial law corumissionura in t’ e case of eight persons charged with asaaulhog Miss Shot weed, the lady J ctor BU£erint jndent cf Amritßar minion rchool, on April 10 with sticks and lathies and beating her on the head
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    • 126 17 M.-, B. Sheik Mohamod Maricar, a wealthy landh td, rcsidiug at No. 93, Boaoh Roau, appealed to tho Saprem i Court against tho c nvictiou and hading of tho first magistrate cn charge cf n ‘ndmg or furnishing an in corse ~i r'tnrn c f rentals :f
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    • 117 17 Attnatiou ip invitod to tbo pr-.M'sio&H of fbo Wtvr' r ftx <>-d naaco whntoby, xcrpt in c r H'n c r y r, ~?nDa"y ov ooiatio'i Cr (i y n<> tU bUsiULfS 10 f*. > C olony IDUHt 01? cc hr t ire .lu-j 1 f J:
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  • 308 17 Macphail and Company, Ltd., Weekly Report, Jqeq 13 to V.). The r cent dnloe.H a tho share market has hjcj acocntaatei by tin Race Mooting an 1v ry little basin tails to bo reerded. Rubber. Last work's aactioQH (Qatbrio's K port) Total Tap pricos. London offered. so’d.
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  • 96 17 Tho < overnraent at Batavia ha« r ooivol tho following telegram from tho Notimrlands Consul m Yokohama:—All passag'*trom Japau to Amuica havo boon already uioked several ui intlis ia advance. Fartu cuaore, tho Government is still reqaisitiuning ships. The Consul dosires the Government warn mt&nding travellers not
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  • 89 17 Dun* %nson —On Juno 18 1919, at the General Hospital. Singapore, to Mr. aud Mrs. J. Dincansua, a daugutcr. Mylks —On Juno 10 at Ilolroyd Nowton Roae, to Mr, a id Mrs. J B. M7IOB, a pou. Lanktbrk— On Jano 16, at Hill, Malscoa, tj Mr. r.nd Mrs H.
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  • 22 17 Wacom —M* Hlwan— On April 29, at GlaiBiw, Porcivai J. Boy Galang B ,*sa? I'.antatioca, Singapore, to Margaret Dougiil M:Evan, Glungow.
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  • 132 17 Junk 19, 1618, UJUKAMI4 On Lapdon Bark 4 m/a 2/4 Domaad 1/4* PvivaK 1 B cu/a 2/44* Om Ya7.ii...Doma*(\ {4J Fmilo 69 (*»yp 66| N mac r Bark M gig i.'N India bnak 'X Tl 129 Ok boNairjH<>...r;a»k dj.2 f 4 %pm u iixarii ...1-iulx dfu 42$
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  • 363 17 C'INOAPOKH, JUNM 19, 1919. MINING. v!S2> 1 BD > era 8o 10 1(1 AmpsiK 12.50 18.00 1 A Weng 2.25 2 50 S', Ail kMii. K-inonli»g 2.9 0 2.10. C c.d. 10 Kiu.a ASbociaticn 11.1 0 11 8C ad. 41 K ti* Ti» 0 112 0 nom
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  • 72 17 H>M Ouk Own Gi*k k k s i*o n d knt Bangkok, laao 18. A rnyil *1 c ’jrjtji u'/i IMj .\.p„r. of rioe u/tf.’i July I 0 uul' Hii.ioi 4 oaini bounce and ap >o’.nlH a 1» iivd of Uioo ooet'OU Wr-
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 85 17 NOTICE T!i* post tree price of the Struiti Timrt to the United Kingdom a:vi foreign countries it 4is a year. 1 post In priMottbi Strxitt Budget ufi t iy>af to any part of the world. It is not necessary to subscribe tor a year. The subscriptions .or shorter periods aro
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  • 138 17 DIE ITUS Lhonj Ti vi, —On Tonci G 1919, ft Hanoi Vil:», Hoad, Sm/aporr, i I u?n r on T< ?ji; of (noud f»~n oir’th. I Kyo (Jbiatitfi ‘)d 44. Hahkl'.ok—On .J iuu 9 ;4 )an«.i KraduA 10 S io'! i vo i« S*: n .'*n li wrima, i —»n
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT.
    • 66 1 Gunihal— Robber ItcnjH Kobbf r Jnttu«f ry Estate Medic* 1 Service May Rubber Returns Price of Rubber Singapore Rubber ADetiotn CoKKK >1 ONDK .< H Estate Steft’R AnpoeiaLon 2 M*«tinos an:> RpFORTr.— Java Amalgamated 1 Baean Serai Rubb< r i N E I. Robber Factory Bila (Siuatra rubber Straits
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    • 370 1 Mi. and Mrs. C. Gordon Jcavcns have MttaiDid frem home, Mr. Jeavons taking uo bis appointment on Balao Hstate. Semenyik Mesrrs. Barker and Co. have received advice by cable that the board oi directors ct the Bakit Kajang Bobber Sedate*, Ltd Lave declared as intir.'m dividend of per
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    • 44 1 it Pto the piesi nt fannt dftD k p? °ns brown considerable tmo Lai ho for tV 1 f btidir,jaH0 IiRH U al Uic s>cknr is ic duo to api »cal pbi ucuienon, caused by tapping Til drsoove.y.w) important to tborJbbe? indni
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    • 1779 1 The ninth annual ordinary general meeting of the Java Amalgamated Rubber Kstatos, i Lin i.od. was held cn april 25, at the offices cl tie company, Mincing I.are Honsc, 09,! biaotchoap, (J M». 1L rbirt Wright (chair man of tbe
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    • 143 1 The report of the Bagan Serai Ccmpany for the year ended December 81 last states that a farther 68 aores were planted with rabbet and 16 aores opened rp for planting in 1919. Crop harvested was 888,167 lbs., and the avorage netprico realised, including estimated valuo of
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    • 266 1 We extract the following from tht annual Report for 1918 of the NV. N'oderlandsch Indische Caoutcboncfabrick Wo bad lesa satisfactory experiences with tbe native personel, on account of tbe want of regularity of tbe Soudanese workmen and tbe great loss of time. A bones system
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    • 1409 2 Tbe eigbtb rr inary pf nr r*J meeting of Bila (Sumatra) Bobber Lands, I.mitcd, wap held on April 26 at tbe registered (lliro cf tho ocmpacy, 1-4, Great Tower Street, etc Mr. George (Jrtll (chairman cf tbo ccmpaayj pro
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    • 387 2 TLe draft cf an ordnance for cc.Ußtitutirj' a kcr.rd f r pro. dk k in citato medical scrvcti in iho Scttlcaent ol Ma’LC.a iB ahi si ol :n the Government oa/ :c. The nr j ctrj and reasr ns siiic Unc'cr tl c
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    • 64 2 [The Straits Timm in doI responsible lc» the opioionn of its correspondents. Comppondents should bear in tmod that letters LuiMt be Fhort aud to tho point. Logk rambling epistles are lmbio to be vejooted or ruthlessly cot down. Correspondents most enclose their names, cot neoettsarily for poblicaticn bat as
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    • 1380 2 To the Editor of tho Straits Tinea. Sie,—Noting with oouHidorablo interest tho loader in your inwuo of tho 10th —an article which ahoold bo marked and digested by all concerned— it would accm that tho principal LsUcloto tho inauguration of (bo Loggcsted association ia tho diffnnlty of
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    • 49 2 Merßui.— ls,6lB lbs. Brunei.—o,C99 Ibn. Taipiug Rubber Kutitos.—lB,olo lb Malaka Finds.— 89,872 lbs. Kiala Sawah —H.OII lbs Bouar.—7 878 lbs. Buj .dr.—l;>,27‘2 Jhn. ‘2l 800 lbs. Henrietta.— ."8 7.i0 lbs Sn: f*c* ’JaS'jr.—29, 05 !b'. (Saajft'-a)—‘***** Iba. In i ri 33,678 M.ViCo* Rubber Plantation* —079,050 lbs.
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    • 221 2 TOt rcprrt cl the S raitrf Ht "hrr Comps ry for the year ended I). oernbrr .1 last Btatuti that 812 aoroß on Nova Scotio oßtato woro j.la» t 1 with rnbbi r aul a farther 272 ecren were f lied. On Godonfc ORtah; 477 acre* of coconut*
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    • 57 2 With icffinnco to Nu'ificaii ns Nos, 2H M i 132, published ii th K M Government lif.z tto of J lau&ry 3, 1 yiW, it i- notified that the price cf fiif-t <*rado rubbtr t ir tbo period June 13 to June 19, 1919, ia 76j cents
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    • 583 3 Meuva. Guthrie and Ct. rtpcrt Singapore, Juno 12. 1 Influenced by arfvioe* c( b»n\y falls ic ▼aloes in Lwoi %ud N w Y irk, the unVr market shoved fort'j»r aid pronooar o* weakness at the uu'ti'n held yoit'r.tay Buying w. son a
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    • 196 3 The report of the Windsor (F M.S) Rabbet 1 Estate lot li e yta» ended December 81 last Btatea that toe total cultivated avea is now 1,418 acre?, of which 1,155 acroH ate in bear 1 ing. Daring tho year 70 aoten were planted, 1 and on tho
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    • 677 3 Tbo report of the directors to tbo shareholders lu the Bilge wnio Rubber Estates, L‘d., b-Att h GeatlciuoT,—Your directors havo pleasure in Hubuiitticg their fourteenth annu»i rt port and tb*> si*', outer: t f accounts fir tbe y./,r March hi,
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    • 106 3 A general meeting of The Planters’ Asscci ation of Malaya will be held on Wednesday, the 25th inst., at the Sungei Ujong Club, Serembau, to consider the following agon da:—Minutes of mooting held on Aptil BU, 1919; affiliation of Bahaa Kuala Pilah D P.A.; Wai(a) war
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    • 1018 3 Stock Singapore lM>>nod Par Dividends. Malayan Exchange Fraser k Co.’s Capital Value Companies. Prices. Closing Prices, 1818. 1917. M»y 14. Jane 19. 150,000 2/- 45% 65% Anglo Malay 14/6 10/6 18/. 6»'*¥) £1 10%
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