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九月二十年八十叠百几千餐英
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GERMIN AFTURS."
THE SITUATION IN BERLIN.
LONDON, December sti
The situation in Berlin is not clear, but apparently there are two movements,
ESCORTING AMERICAN TROOPS, WHAT IT COST IN IMPORTS.
LONDON, December 8th. The Freas Barea states The Shipping Controller, interviszed,
午庆天霸年七國民津中
JIMAH RUBBER ESTATES.
EFFECT OF INFLUENZA ON
OUTPUT..
The eighth annual general meeting of the shareholders of Jitnah Rubber: Batates, Limited' was held on November 3x 34, noon at the Registered Offices of the Dome Barideley
Chartered Bank Chambers, Singapore
James.
and athers present were delay preside IBCAMODE, The Baiz Soon and Er. O, R& for Mostra Gattery and Bateman, Secrèteries
Firstly & Spartacus attempt " to seize sid that it per cent, of the American to this motion of the Chairman" andt
pawer, secondly, by the Soldiers against the Socialist Extremists
BOLSHEVIST COUP IN BERLIN FAILS.
PARIS, December 8th.
the Direc
the period
seconded by McClymont, MY. ended Jul June, were adopted tor's Report and accounts for
Chairman said. In view
In reviewing the of the uncertain
troops had bed carried and escorted by British chips To do this, every pi senger stemmer was Africa, with which the trade was prac removed from Souta
work the tically killed-All Last-passenger steam- Australia Our consequent loss of It, later, circumstances warrant is they ers were removed from India and from
outlook your Directors consider it-wise: essential import exceeded a million tonsill consider the
to carry forward the available balance. The Dominions bare the hardships of dividend.
THE PEACE CONFERENCE.
PRELIMINARIES OPEN AT
PARIS
Bear or an interimu
A. telegram from Zurich states that the Bolshevist coup d'etat in Berlin, planned by Herr Liebknecht and the Spartacus Oroup, failed pitifully.
The Government troops used their isolation complainingly weapons, especially machine guns, ruth
In response to the appeal of the local lessly. Herr Liebnecht's forces
association of rubber producers the were also armed with machine-guns and wha
Directors agreed to redues the outpat bocaba, were utterly routed, and fled in
and look, the opportunity to rest ok! rabber whose bark rezoval would be killed abandoning a great number of
and woanded men.
benefitter by the resting. When the The losses. among the Government troops were
LYONS, December eth
time.comes for unrestricted tapping to slight
The Echo de Faris states that the Intering that in addition to having acted in be resumed it can be done with the feel- Herr Liebknecht has stated that he liminaries of penes opens at Paris on dastry, the Company's principal ass
Allied Conference for framing the pre- accordance with the interests of the in- Intends to rally his forces so it is posDecember 19th after the oficial recep has been improved in value. sible that Sghting will be resumed
GERMAN MILITARY DEMON tench Council of Ministers has tions of President Wilson and the King
not yet decided upon a choice of French Plenipotientianes, but there is reason to believe that the names of the negotia tors will include the most prominent members of the Government
STRATION EN MUNICH,
"
COPENHAGEN, December 3th. A telegram from Berlin states that returned troops, handed by officers, with Imperial Eags, demonstrated at Munich, dentanding the Convocation of the National Assembly,
BELGIANS OCCUPY NEUSS AND
CREFELD.
LONDON, December 8th.
A Belgian communiqué states:- Our cavalry division reached the Rhine and occupied Neass and Crefeld.
Our infantry reached a line from Wassenberg to Bant and Jackerath, TRIAL OF THE "EX-KAISER.
Lyons, December 7th. The German Government has decided not to oppose the demand of the Entente that the ex-Kaiser and the ex-GIORD Frince shall be brought before an Inter Allied Court to answer, the accusations formulated against than a Holland
has already natifed Germany accordingly French Wireless
M
- TROUBLE AT MAYENCE.
LYONS, December 7th.
A despatch from Zurich states that trouble has broken out at Mayence.
Military stores have been looted and Baseral casualties resulted-French Wireless.
GRAVE DISORDERS AT COLOGNE.
LYONS, December 7th.
There have boca grave disorders at Cologne-French Wireless.
THE ARMISTICE.
HANDING OVER AEROPLANES."
LONDON, December 8th."
The surrender of 2,000 German aero- planes is proceeding and it a expected
that it will shortly be completed.
OUR PRISONERS RETURNING.
LONDON, December 8th.
but this is now subsiding, and it is be Recently the output has been prejudi- cially affected by the influens epistemic lieved that when full tapping is resumed the estate will give good account of itself. Whether there is to be any conf pulsory restriction is still uncertain as is als the immediate fatare of the market It is probable that the work of the and until the present doubt and uncer Inter-Allied Government Conference will ainty have cleared, it is only prudent to be finished on December 15th, after which husband our resources, the PR Properly speaking Considerable 4: with the
useful work has been of the German Pieni deve in the way of cutting op stacking potentiaries will commence and burning surface timber and thinning
Unless some unforeseen incident occur cut. Farther work under these the final conferences will end towards the has still to be done and is being proceed - end of Anril or the beginning of May.ed with. It is fortunate that so much of French Fireku. »
PRESIDENT OF CZECHOSLOVAK
ARRIVES.
LYOKE, December 7th.
The President of the Czecho-Slovak Rapublic Mr. Thomas G. Masaryk, has arrived in Paris French Wireless
RAILWAY COLLISION IN FRANCE
PASIS, December 8th. Sixty-eight were killed and 151 were love train ant, another train at the injured owing to a collision between, station of Lotbiens.
THE RUSSIAN CHAOS.
SWEDES ADVISED TO RETURN
· HOME.
Shareholders will get
this work was done last year and money: cacfully spent in this way rather than in being pakl sway-in, big dividends.
the benefit later! And in the meantime the property will bave steadily improved in condition and value. In addition timber clearing has reduced the white ant pest whilst dis eases very little
esses give attle trouble
The Government of Negri Bambilan was not willing to make a road from the old Sendayan landing to the ima Fridroan the Company offered jo hear the first: $10,00 of the east of ore In view however, of the acute depression in the immediate future it was decided to post rubber market and the uncertainty in the pone this considerable expenditure mean- time I
personally think that the Goverment should meet the Company moro liberally than they propose to do ever this road expenditure as it is more She daty df Government than of private concerns to construct main roads. Owing to the difficulty of access to the
STOCKHOLM, December 8th. The Swedish Government has recalled catste it is not popular with labour their Consular and Diplomatic Repre- to connect is up with Port Dickson b7 which is one reason why it is a desirable sentatives from Russia, except two good road. This would also reduce officials at the Legation, and have also
withdrawn the privilege of diapermes, i e. cost of production t
and receiving couriers from M. sky, the Soviet Government's Representa because he abused the
By orror the figure of all-in-cost 1016-17 is shown in the report as 53 cents d clusive of Directors Fees and War Taxes.
tive at St importing Bolshevist lite. This figure actually includes all Taxes, so
The
privilege by rature from Russia
that IM. a Government have suggested
and other Soviet members of the Legation should leave Bweden.
vised to return home.
Two thousand one hundred and ten The Swedes in Russia have been ad
officers, 66,634 if other ranks and 2,762 civilians
bave been
repatriated to
Britain since the Armistice.
RETURN OF CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS.
LONDO, December 8th. Three British cruisers and nine destroy ers have returned to: Copenhagen from the Baltic
THE GENERAL ELECTION,
DEFENCE OF A TWO YEARS' ADMINISTRATION.""
LONDON, December 8th. Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech devoted to the defence at a two years adminis tration, referred to the hesitation, delay and nervousness of the Government at
and of 1918, to nagyon f
chief
There was no scramble, for place when the Government fell, all were anxious to pass it on to someone
He claimed that it is
it is imposible for business man's
wad Government to be very successful..
He justified the side-shows in the Balkans, Palestine and Mesopotamia. He declared that in the Tast two years there had been more fruitful and pro gressive legislation than any during the fast half century,
MAINTENANCE OF ANGLO AMERICAN UNDERSTANDING
LONDON, December 8th Mr. Asquith, speaking at Bochdale agreed to the Premiers recent declara tion on the abject of, repa
He emphas President Wil
new orientat
Practical
ONG TEL No. 2813,
Nationalm Wikön The besetting mainten
security agaIDE!
rking en
should be
be compared with this year's all- in-cost including, Taxes but excluding shows an increases of 70 of a cent which Directors, Fees of 59.70 cents. This
in cost of all materials and the amount is not unsatisfactory seeing the rise we have spent on Timber Clearing, Oul vation and Thinning Out. The three items named alous added practically 3 cants par lb. to the cost. Straits Settle- ments War Tax, FM.S. Super Tax and Export Duty cost us practically 4 cents a Sparks from an engine caused a reflb. but the first named, is not now levied which exploded a bomb hidden by the Germane Ten were killed and several injured. Considerable damage caused.
BOMB HIDDEN BY GERMANS EXPLODES,
GHENT, December 8th
THE SILVER MARKET,
The silver market is quiet..
WA
LONDON, Dovember 5th. Messrs. Montague & Cols, report states that there was no change in the tone of the market which shows no animation. nor is expected to do so, until the licences for export are freely granted
Tao Shanghai eschange has slightly hardened.
EARLIER TELERAMGS
OBITUARY.
LONDON, December 6th.
on Companies paying the T.M. Super tax and as mensure of relief to the industry the two latter have recently been waived temporarily. Personally would sooner én on getting a fair price for our rubber and paying our taxes which is one reason why I conside it better in the interests of both the indus try and Government that the former should be put on a sound paying baris than that it should continue in an un- healthy, precatione state and be helped along by doles is the shape of loans and exemption from reventa taxation.
As before, all expenditure is charged Against revenue except widitions to
Buildings (39,185) Machinery ($1,077)
and Furniture (82,043) totalling 312,675. Against this we have written off $8254 for depreciation leaving a zet addition to our fixed acts of 10,323.
banks are due to the estate staff, the Visiting Agent, and Mr. McClymont at Port Dickson for their sorica during the year. I believe that the property is How much Improved from what it was s
The Directors remuneration was fixed motion of Lee Ban Soort fat $2,500," the same an last year on the
MD. D. Maks who was director was tranimomaly
Mr. Cecil Chesterton died while serving da a private is Franco y su ca
Mr. Cecil Chesterton, the well known English writter, bas been editor of The Out 1901, writing frat for The Outlock and. McClymout Look wince 1972: He entered journalism in afterwards for Timber of journals and Mesora. Erat & Co. were re-elected
the motion of the Chairman seconded.
freed a Member of the Execu 3uditors
Fahim
Society, in 1906-7_~_bri on abandoned Fabian Socialism and began to attack the Farly System.
In 1913 ident witness
became
founder (and editaz
and treated
BOZING
sarios of attacks on the Maze
ngeran a journalist, his energes
the devoted to sko exposary of
erican party politics
The meeting concluded withy
links to the chairman on the ustion
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