Straits Echo, 2 May 1918

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. 9SO Per Annum. PENANG, THURSDAY, 2nd MAY. 1918. Single Copy, lo cents. No. 102.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1160 1 Mi NDENSED Milkmaid Bf SWISSCONDEH L°* St IF YOU WANT COMFORT GO TO THIS Under mentioned Garage For Brand New Csrs for hir» DAY AND NIGHT Telephone No 694. Telegraphic Address: HOKIMTEIK. Motor car importers and largest dealers in cylinder oil, petrol A motor accessories. REPAIRS of every kind done
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    • 9 1 jUS’s MILK w snr me Ml u»* TlOm* cca
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    • 34 2 OF EVERY Momi Cases. Acetic Acid. English Tapping Knives. Changkols. Wire Nails. Cat (Brand) Axes. Box Strapping. Sodium Bi-Sulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze. (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) PENANG. LTD K K r >■ 5 /X
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  • 1262 3 Yon should hour with jour eyes und see with your ears as well as using both organs lor their own purposes.—An Irish BullThe world suffars from shell-shock. Insensitiveness to the meaning of great events is natural in the fourth year of Armageddon. We lost at Trafalgar
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  • 483 3 Prmint Dat Cohditioks Ix COXSTANTIUOPLI. When the general war situation of the Central Powers is reviewed, the Turkish Empire is often not considered as deeply as is warranted by its importance in the Germanic scheme, The Turkish rulers have undoubtedly sold their nation body and soul
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  • 108 3 Apart from their Army rations, it is difficult and expensive even for the officers with General Allenby’s force to add to their dietary. The oountry seems to have been almost denuded of everything eatable and drinkable. Prioes are extortionate. A small fowl, all skin and bone,
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 276 3 A Perfect Food for Raby "fV ..v* r-vx Meliin s Pood. Perfect because it contains all that is essential for healthy development. Perfect because it can be given to the most tender infant with assurance of complete assimilation. A Sample Bottle of MellTn’s Food, together with Handbook for Mothers ‘The
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    • 49 3 Whj It Sella. Chamberlain's Coagh Remedy ie the largest selling ooagh medioine in the world to-day beoanse it does exactly what a ooagh remedy is «apposed to do. It stop* the ooagh by oaring the oold and does it speedily and effeotaally. For sale by all dispensaries and deawe>
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    • 78 3 E. 0. Hotel. SPECIAL TIFFIN EVERY WEDNESDAY SATURDAY. ******************************0] 0 i 0 0 n 0 0 0 0 Rvnnymede Hotel, Penaaj (SEA-SIDE) Every Wednesday and Saturday i* Selections 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 a uaarrmn nnnoacaaa man norma Dos ui--3 Sandiiands, Battery Co.,
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  • 582 4 Lutdiko Supplies ik Fuakci. A French Seaport. Here at th Principal “stoke holts” of the I Amaiioan Eip ditionary Farce in Franc, I one mbs elbows with bluej*ckets from tbr I guardian destroyers, as well as so’.diert freshly landed from the troopships; on» sees the
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  • 232 4 On Avgust 27 (1914), as I was walking with my regiment at Malmes, in the morn* Ing, I saw a German soldier about 160 metres from me. There were other German soldiers with him, and they were running away from my oomrades. Two women, one of whom
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  • 112 4 Owing to 17-boat piraoy quite a number of ancient wind-jammers have been refitted and are now carrying cargoea. Among them ia the famous British conviot ship Suocm*, whiob, a few years back, was on ■how in the Thames. Built in Burmah for the East India Company
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  • 916 4 A Town Of Apatmt Akd Dubctio* L No more striking contrast can be imagined than that presented by the Germany < through which I passed on August 5,1914, on my way to Berlin, and the same country I ss 1 saw it, on my recent journey home. I
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 51 4 Accidents Will Happen. It may be impuaaible to present an accident, bat it ie not iuipoaeibie to be prepared for it. Chamberlain'* Pain Balm is net beyond any one’a pane and with a bottle of tkia liniment yon are prepared for almeat anything. rot eale by all diepeneaifea and dealer
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    • 374 4 Whiteaways FOR CHINA AND Ci-ASS WARE. «THE STRATFORD” n rp„, nd Breakfast Set made of white semi-prooelain ware, decorated with aonle green leaf deeigo, St. Regent shaped as illustration. Very strong and serviceab.e. Breakages can be replaced at any timeStrong Durable >*• 7* m •i **+''+*/fit* V «L-. *8*’ /frV.
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    • 89 4 CkamberUln’s c«tgh Remedy When jo* bare a bad oold yon want a remedy that will not only give relief, bat ef. feet a prompt and permanent care, a remedy that is pleaaant to take, a remedy that con* tain, nothing icjnrloa.. Chamberlain'. Coagh Remedy meet, all tbe.e reqairement. It aot.
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    • 451 4 NOTICE LABOUR C0DE.J912. F.JM, “Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 19U EMPLOYERS OF INDIAN LABOUR are hereby reminded that assessment returns for the preceding quarter muit be sent to the Office of the Deputy Controller of Labour, Penang, during the month» on April, July, October and January. Forms for the return will
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  • 251 5 Sentenced to Impbison^knt. Iq the Police Court this morning before Mr. 8. H. Langston, a Telegraph Offioe mrsspcger pleaded guilty to a charge cf cheating by personation by falsely pretending to Captain S. R Perbina that he had tern instructed to collect the sum of thirty cents
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  • 225 5 [To tub Editor or thi Strait» Echo Dear Mr. Editor, Three Cheers for the Penang Food Control, and a great big Tiger I recently paid a visit to th 9 southern settlement; there I found the prioa of beef 28 cents per catty the best beef, maximum price, pork
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  • 157 5 The output of Kampong Eamunting Tin Dredging, Ltd. for tha month of April was —Hours run 1,225 1 Cubic Yards treated 161,000; To*al Piculs 827,17; Realised on sale $74,385,00, The output of Rahman Hydraulic Tin, Ltd., during the month of April was 300 pikuls. The output of The
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  • 46 5 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. A, A. Anthony and Company s share list: Yesterday. To-day. is i I }i i i Mining. Kamponp Kamuting 46/- 48/- 47/-- 48/6 Tongkah Harbour... 18.75 19.50 19.*****-50 Oensral, Eastern Shipping... 5.25 5.75 5.00 5.50
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  • 61 5 For By Stbamfb At. To-morrow (Friday). Pang Nga Padang 1?0 p.m. DindiDgs and Sitiawan Ghirki 12-30 p.m. Port Swettenham l'in Seng 12-30 p m. Bxgait Ditoh and Teluk Anson Sappho 3-30 pm. PuDu Langkawi and Perlis Un Peng 3-30 p.m« 4th instant (Saturday). Port Swettenham and Singapore
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  • 23 5 Straits 127,000, Penang 105,000, Tali Ayer 48.500, Rubana 46 000, Began Seiat 19,000, Batak Rabit 16,000, Sungei Patani 17,000 lb.
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  • 217 5 Admissions of Demoralization, Amsterdam, January, 30. The Leipzeiger Neuette Nachrichten, in a leading article entitled “The Nation’s Boul in Distress,” frankly admits the demoralization of the German nation since the war, and quotes a Hamburg authority as openly declaring that the position of the honourable merchant no
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  • 174 5 Mr. Henry Wood, special correspandent of the United Pre»» with the French armies; says A copy of an Order bearing the signature of Ludendorff and taken from German prisoners reads as following The consumption by the army of clothing and equipment, demands for replacing and the requests
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  • 178 5 A picked house rewarded the efforts of the Children of the Ministering Children’s League who gave their first performance yesterday evening. The Entertainment went smoothly without a hitch from start to finish and judging by the enthusiastic applause was highly appreciated. The Town Band provided musio during
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  • 82 5 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs, Allen Dfnnys Co. at their two Auction Sales held this week Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 1 s9oto 97 per picul Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 2 75 88 do Unsmoked Sheet No. 1 68 do Unsmoked Sheet No,
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  • 160 5 CPhm Chur Own Correspondent} Ipob, May 2, The death has occurred of Mr. George Logan, a master at the Anglo Chinese School, Ipoh. Until 8 years ago he was in a similar capaoity at the Penang Aoglo* Chinese School, wrere he worked for 20 years.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 450 5 igntnrmmnmmmrmmmimnmrnmM K Special V ■i Kl ■>- > special special pecwj 3 THE RED ACE” 3 NOTE THE OPENING NIGHT MAY Ilth. 3H VEMPIR Hi R-» g: •m •Jr* We have no desire to be sensational in our announcement of the above but ►a A- Till': rki> it THU KKI»
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    • 215 5 i c The Test of a Paint is the Services It gives. Pabco Paints are an Insurance against rust in Iron and Steel. Prevents corrosion and does not crack with the expansion and contraction of metals. Extensively used on Rubber Estates for Factories Drying Sheds, etc. Colours—lndian Red, Grey, Green
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  • Supplement to the “Straits Echo."
    • 163 6 [REUTER’S SERVICE]. London, May 1, The Press Bureau says tn*t FieldYtarshal U*ig congratulated tbe N nth vision on the great ga lintry at Wyts--baete on tbe Lvs and on many <ther occidons southward of Arras the Twerty-fifth Division on their ccurag enterprise and resolution in tbe coutter-ataok of
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  • 98 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and pnbllc holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Daily Local $BO per annum. Outstation Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Nos. (Eohoj 586. Printing Department 343, N.U.— 4l) business
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  • 747 6 Although many unpleasant and unsavoury affairs hs ve ootne to light in Kedah lately, aotually the Bt*te ii in s re ry mnoh better oondition in every wsy than it was when ita sea.'rainty passed from our Siamese frieads. This renoociation it will be remembered waa
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  • 626 6 SMILE. D YOU, SMILE Whenever the Centralitts find that their plans have not been realised on the field of battle they again begin to talk of Peaoe—a peace which ahall guarantee the safeiy cf the beloved Fatherland, the meek lamb beset by wolves whose sole obj»ot in con-tinuing-the war is
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  • 1907 6 Married Men and Breach of Promise If we wtre not afraid of agiin calling from the vasty deep the storms of elcquenoe that accompany any discussion of the Marriage Question in Penang, we would quote the oase of a young lady who recovered in the King’s Benoh Division,
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  • 31 6 Latest Quotations. I J ID (oorefined) is qsoted here business done, in Singapore tiaed) at $171, buyers no sellers, sod in I London st £360 spot sod thru month*' tight,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • THE GREAT BATTLE.
    • 138 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] London. April 30. Sir Douglas Haig in his aviation report "Oar airmen dropped 275 bombs on enemy troops east of Loore and machineganned them and brought down eight enemy planes. Two of ours are missing.” London, May 1, 12.20 p.m. Sir Douglas Haig reports:—"We
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    • 83 7 French Communiques London, May 1. A Frenoh communique states There was a violent bombardment in the region of tlangard, A G rman attaok in tbe sector of Noyon resulted in heavy fighting. We pjeoted the enemy from the advanced elements where his first rush had gained him a footing and
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    • 566 7 London, April 30. Renter’s correspondent at British headquarters, telegraphing on the SOth evening, says I—" To-day all is quiet on the Flanders battle field. A Frenoh counter-attack yesterdiy evening was brilliantly successful, not only in recovering ground on the south-1 ern slope of Soberpenberg, but in advancing our
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    • 240 7 General Wire News Petrograd Anarchists. London, May 1. A Mosoow message of April 23 says that the disarmament of anarchists at Petrograd was carried out on the night of April 22 very quietly. Kalediae's Army. London, May 1 General Ka'eiine’s troops that had entered Novotoherkask were ej-cted by 8oviet forces.
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    • 166 7 German Electoral Reforms. Prussian Hot Air. London, May 1, A message from Amsterdam states that in the Prussian Diet the Centre Party deputy Spee moved the adjournment of the elector- ate reform bill till after tbe war Minister Friedberg said that a postponement would mean tbe gravest danger
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  • 76 7 (From Onr Own Correepondent London, April 80, The prioes in the London Bibber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe eet Diamond Smoked Sheet m 2/3} Tbe Board of the Flemish Belgian League whioh comprises 6,000 Flemings residing in Holland, has unanimously passed a resolution that the proclamation of
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  • 740 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] MORE ADVANCES AND CAPTUREB. Good Work by Caralry London, April 30, 9.50 p.m, A Mesopotamia offioial message staten—"Oar foroes have advanoed north of Bagdad along the road leading to Mosul via Eifri and Eirkuk. We osptured K'fri on the 27th April making prisoner forty. The Turks
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  • 693 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Interdependent in IrelandLondon, May 1, An Older of Council hae been gisatted j ar thor postponing tha operation of the s Atonal Servioe order as regards Ireland. rhe Dai ht says»— 1 "The Government h*s decided to keep its Irish Conaoription policy in abeyanoe
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  • 227 7 CHAMBER KE8UME3. National ConfidencePans, April 30. The Chamber of Deputies resumed its labours on April 80, which were interrupt. ed on the 16'h by the sitting of tie General Councils. Many deputies arrived on the previous evening at tbe Palais Bourbon. All agree in stating that the spirit
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  • 651 7 I (From a Part» Correspondent.) The eoimy having again begun air> raiding Paris and the long-range gun being again at work, the appended aooouat of the present state of the citj is interesting, The well-kaown monuments of Paris are beginning to be muffled up. The work
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  • 74 7 The following articles will be feuud eu our cntaide pages 3, Government by Newspaper Owners. Turkey Pays the Price, Dear Food m Palestine. 4, Stoke-Hole ”of the U. S, Army. Germany To-day, 5, A Dishonest Messenger. M. 0. L Germany From Within. 8, Rubber Estate Option. Teluk Anson Bobber*
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  • 946 7 Dr and Mrs. MacGaskiU, cf Elang, art shortly leaving for Home. i LJwi D °u na,d u Manro of M r> McAlister Ln h® 80 transferred from Singapore to the Penang branch. K-.JJr* d Mr T Lathan have arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Lathan having bean transferred
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  • 2375 8 C NaLLioAM vs Lbs 8oon Pob, The -following is the full judgment delivered by Mr, Justice Woodward in this Base The Plaintiff olaims 910,000 commission on the .sale of two rubber estates in Perak, belonging to the Dafendant. His case in that in October last year tha
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  • 144 8 The Coliseum is well worth a visit tonight as the programme appearing elsewhere in this issue will show. It begins with ‘•The Grip of Evil,” featuring Jackie Biunders and Riland Bottomley, in tbe first show at 7.45, and tbe other pictures, after tbe interval, include a Mutual master
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  • 140 8 Women Dbivkn to Commit Suicidb Bom?, Feb 21, The Agenziz Vollz describes tha barbarous treatment of the population cl-the invaded districts by the Austro Germans, who pined if, burr, destroy, and rape like savages. Numerous women and girls have committed suicide iu c neeqaeuce of the violence of
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  • 108 8 Swiss newspapers comment very unfavourably on a cmdid statament made at Zurich by a Germ »u named Adolf Ftiedemann, that every single German subject now in neutral countries, including 8 virzerUnd, is required by tha German Government to work either as a spy or a
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  • 244 8 The following programme of music will b“ played at the Golf Club this evening at 5 45 pm.:— 1 Selection Faust 4 Gounod 2 Intermezzo Anona Grey 3 Selection Tba Shop Girl Caryll 4 Waltz Pbrvne Zulueta 5 Two Step Temptation Rag Lodge 6 March Tba P<cadore
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  • 1881 8 The ninth ordinary general meeting of the T« luk Anson Rubb-tr Estates, Limited, was held on Monday at 8iag*pore, tbos9 present being Messrs. J. A. Wobster (Chairman), W. P. Plummar, J. B. Crawford (director*), C T. de B. Whitehouse and Captain Bobinson, In moving the adoption of
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  • 117 8 The following is a copy of a letter received from the Office of the High Commissioner for Canada by the Crown Agents. 19, Viotoria Street, London, 8. W. 1. 6th February 1918. Gentlemen, I 1 beg to acknowledge your letter of the 29tb ultimo, enclosing a chf qua
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  • 60 8 Tmursdat, Mat 2. C. W. Association, 10 a m. Friday, Mat 8. Town Band, Esplanade. P. F, 8. Scoots Inspection, 6 p.m. Saturday, Mat 4, Ministering Children's League Entertainment, Town Hail), 4 80 p.m. Sunday, Mat 5. Rogation Sunday, Monday, Mat 6. Town Band, EapJanade, P.C.Ct, General
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • 563 9 In expressing Britain's determination to at&iid by France to lh« do.ta in connection with her demand for the reconsideration of the great wrong done in 1871, Mr, Lloyd George aaya i— “This aore haa poiaoned the of Earope for half a century, and anti! it ia oared
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  • 493 9 The message from Copenhagen, referring to the unemployment in factories consequent upon the lack of raw material, serves to remind us that this is going to be one of the most difficult questions which Germany will have to faoe after the war. In his recent speech,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 837 9 F .1 The Cause and Remedy. Si< k and Nervous Headaches are hut the symptoms of o'Vk r ailments to which they are merely sympathetic, sue», rs Biliousness, Constipation, cr rotr.e other irregularity of the system. Many women hntitut illy suffer from Headaches, which n ake life a daily purgatory.
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    • 1027 9 PENANG AUCTION MART By Order of the Administrators of the Estate of C. A. McIntyre, deceased. To bo Sold by Grant Indenture On Thursday, 9th May. 1918, et 11 e.m., AT PENAGA POLICE STATION P.W., The following property belonging to Kamls and Maenah. All those two pieces of land and
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  • 1231 10 The statesmanlike sp<eoh delivered by Genera! Smuts before the Royal Geogra- phioal Society oame as a useful counterblast to the wild sohemes of those half-baked idealists who chatter of Super-National Authorities. The British Empire is competent to conduct its own affairs over-seas as at home, and
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  • 507 10 OrvicEss’ Standard Dress. Agreement has at last been reached on the question of a standard uniform for the merloantile marine service. The question arose, apparently, from the I similarity of the uniform of the officers of certain companies to those worn in the Navy, and it
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  • 140 10 A correspondent, in view of Dickens’ Day, writ3B pointing out that the "Conchy was known to the great novelist, In Barnaby Rudge we find the following Gabriel Vardan. Tu', tut. Martha. How strange of you to run down volunteering when it's done to defend you and
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  • 58 10 A phrase of von Hiodenburg’s, reported by the Neuette Nachrichten of Munich, deserve* to be remembered. It is especially to be commended to tbo notice of our Pacifists. The occupied regions of Franoe are to be pitied,” said the Field-Marshal. "For parhaps ten year*, they will beuaeleas.”
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 51 10 Why It Sella Chamberlain's Coigh Remedy is the largest selling ccagh medicine in the world to»day because it does exactly what a cough remedy is supposed to do. It stops the eemgh by caring the oold, and dees it speed* uy and efeotnally. For sale by all dia. peasants and
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    • 242 10 Since the >1 Began The Allied Governments Have Bought Over aft i M IB j ROYAL TYPEWRITERS To Equip their New Armies Compare the work and you too will choose the ROYAL Typewriter,—the machine that makes big organizations complete. B STOCKED IN BRIEF, POLICY 8 FOOLSCAP SIZES BY THE SOLE
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  • 1560 11  -  (As it will be if Germany wins). By G. K. Chestertom. In gentle ridicule of those Englishmen 'I* 10 disagree with him as to peace aims, j tor the New Witness writes the following forecast of haw philosophy and ethics would be changed if Germany
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  • 239 11 Miicwtis of IfuTiva. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday, tbe 9ib April 1918: Present W. Phl, Esq. President, Quah Bing Ksi, Esq Yioh Gian Sbok, Esq Chh Wok Lok, Esq C. E. Cbaio Esq Absent A M. Goodmah, Esq F Dxxxbubt, Esq. 1.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 329 11 Are you a Slave to paia Do Ton Ever But? Or is your life a perpetual burden-» wakeru restless, fevered tortured existenoeP Do you start and cry out from twitching nerves or daittng ptinsP Are you robbed of your nights of just rupoie and tranquil sleepP Then there is hope
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 1337 12 P. O.—BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Companies Incorporated in Ingland MAIL AND PASSENGER BERVICEB. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS(Undei Contract with Hia Majesty’s Government.) The Company’■ MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at present suspended. Pinrrpr** for Enrope are booked via Bombay at opportunity offers and aa far a« accommodation ia
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