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GENFRAL NEWS.

Gold Workers' Strike in

Shanghai.

SERVICE MATTERS.

Khaki for R.M.L,L

It will soon become a matter of The strike of the gold workers speculation in the French Concession and the RML.I. ever camo to Le called to why the -City still contintio says the "N."lobsters" on shipboard, says China Daily News." So far the "L. and C. Express." Their there is no indication of the om historieal scarles uniform ployers according to the demand doomed, and in future they will of tho men to employ none but war khaki. those bolonging to the cowly- formed union.

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the ali three years in commis sion system instead of the one as present in vogas. The year was taken off in order to prevent an necumulation of repairs, parti; cularly on foreign service, but it has been found that the advantage

Harcourt.

Singapore Libel Case. In the Court of Appelt Singapore on the 9th inst. the appeal of Mr. Van Kleef against jurigment of the District Judgo awarding Dr. Mehin $200 damages for libel was argued. The judgment of the District Court Judge was reversed and judgment entered for the {} - pellant with costs of the appeal and the lower court. Mr. Greenfantry had done scavenger's work might hope to benefit greatly.

A "Straits Times" in a telegram (Dec. 9) has the following:-

At the annual Straits Settle more than neutralised" by "the increased cost of transit of crownele Asociation dinner, Mr. W. to and from foreign station. Sholford, proposing the hoalt: of the guests, said that, now tho The Shropshires and Cholera.

The terrible fatality of cholera Singapore harbour was no longer may be exemplified by the follow in the care of a greedy, grasping, gatatement of lacts,say the "Lon-grabbing corporation, but was on and Chins Express. The 1st controlled by a benevolent philan Battalion Shropshire Light Ithropic authority,

not appeared for the appellant

and. Mr. Knowles for the 18 pond. nt

Singapore Mortality Returns.

The inhabitants gave every men

merchants

the Straits was dun to the line Governors from Sir 11. Ord t Sir Arthur Young, who had a complished splendid, enduring work and service. He eulogise

luring the plague at long sociation, said that the prosperity Mr. Harcourt, tonsting the As a modal, but the War Ollie for bade their being worn, The The mortality returns for Sin the baution was shifted to a plain papore issued by the Registrar of station in India, where they re Births and Duties show that. Hiered the 1st Battalion Goren during the week ending Decoin Highlanders, who had gone on to ber 7, there were 222, deaths, (144 | Dargai. The Shropshiro 1

dout mon ules, 58 males) giving a ratio oro

per mille of population of 34.96. era then the Cantons had Mularisl lover accounted for 37 killed and wounded in the Darga deaths, phthisis 23. covulsions campaign. 21, beri-beri 30, bronchitis 16, dy- sentery 14, pneumonia 9. Thirty- three children under three months

Officer's Death from Fever.

We regret to hear of the death, from fever, of Capt. John Wallis who has been secumded to the Burma Military Palien. Capt

Dr. Malcolm Watson's malaria work.

Lecturing before the Verein fur Geographie in Germany. ra cently on the subject of his last journey through the

Celestinl aid that, in spite of the revolution, Empire, Dr. Fritz Wertheimer tradie had steadily increased. The German Government, had, how- Lever, too little sympathy with the now Republic, which had obtained its foreign' adviser from England and America, business suffered from lack of capital, because many merchants

man commercial circles, too, there had prematurely returned to Eu- rope with their capital: Io Ger- were complaints about the iu- sufficient support extended by the German Asiatic Bank. In in- dustry, however, not only in Ger but also in Chinese enterprises.

German

man whore German engineers were employed, Germans had a good record. The opening of China

offered an opportunity for the extension of trade, interests. Tsingtau was an exhibition of German ability. The German schools in China were not given sufficient support from the home-

Singapore was procuring the the best equipped, docks in the history of the Crown possessions He emphatically denied that The Malayan battleship was sug gosted from England. The first intimation was a letter from Sir at the Colonial Office,

Mr. Darbishire, respondiar. Pickthali died up on the remote the Straits realised that they A Descendant of "Bilt Adams," frontier among the Olin Bill owod much to the States, but he and strengthen the influence of adjoining China and Assam. I was not sure the States returned was a hao song oflicor, and his tho compliment. There was no White and the officers of the bo strongthened. "If the States death is deeply deplote by Col. shadow of doubt that the ties must regiment. Capt. Pickthall served could not depend upon Penang direct descendant of " Bill Adam in the South African War 1009 and Singapore, they would not who discovered Japan. Adame took part in the operations in content with a part in a di'ch lite

of agedied. The nationalities werof Pickthall, of the 3rd Brahmans A.. Young to Sir John Anderson. land. German work had found

represented as follow: European 1. Eurasis 2, Chinese 174. Malaya 29, Indians 12.

A Chatham dockyard in, named Adams, has been cleate in the Town Council. A paper of the district, commenting op the matter, mentions, him as

the Transvaal from March to May 1992, and had the Queen's Medal with two clasps. He joined the Indian Army from the East Kent Regiment, the Buffe, which he entered as a Second Lieutenant in 1903.

Port Swoitenham, where the co' castion of business was appalling le advocated the removal of Por Swettenham to a deeper site and also the making of a port at Lumut. He learned with sati. faction of the decision to carry a bridge over the Johore Straits. This must be carried out at all costs.

recognition everywhere in China.| They must now seek to increase their import and export trade

Germany. There were, however, difficulties that must be move all, was needed in face of the out of the way. Time, above cautiousness of the Chinese. Moreover, German capital ought

to support better the various

German enterprievs, In view of the rich inineral treasures of the land, succoss must then 'be assured.

Sir H. Rider Haggard. Sir H. Rider Haggard, the well- known novelist, is due in Colombo on February 1..

certainly urrined in Japan long Deore the battle of Waterloo, but the Portuguese were sixty years before him. The first thing they did to the unfortunato Adams was to clap him into prison. Luckily for him, the hogan released hini. After that he built the first Japan- ese warship on European linos.

The Admiralty have directed Repentant Suffragette. Margaret Louise Ker, aged that the payment of submarine al

He applauded the sentimen! nineteen, daughter of Dr. Alice lowance of 6s aday to sublienten- which prompted the Malayan Ker, of Birkenheid, was commits from January 1, 1913, battleship, but questioned whether Amongst those called to the nd for trial at Liverpool recently which was recently approved, the aums in reserve at Kuala Bar on 18th ult at the Middle on the charge of wilfully setting not to take effect, other arrango Lumpur, the result of overtax Temple was Chau Sz Yui, LL B fire to a pillar-box with phosp mente being under consideration, might not be applied to Lond.

horus, Mr. Lynskey, who uppoar-

ed for her, sal that slio threw

herself entirely on the mercy of

Payment of Submarine Lieutenants.

tion.

Commissioned But Unready.

more productive purposes. With Mr. Lloyd George laxing tin and Although tho new battle cruisor rubber companies at home and

A Chinese Admitted to the

English Bar."

Mela. Mbry, Pork fior, Beef.

the court. She had a scholarship Princess Royal is officially regard. Mr. Churchill taxing products at Matton, Gam, Vel and Ham piaa, from Birkenhead of £30 a yeared as having been, commissioned their coarce, the investor was Small Hot Pies slys on hand 25 and was student at the Liverpool with a full complement at Devon-between the devil and the deep cents Esch

ALYXANDRA CAFE CO. University. It she was punished Pt on November 15 it is impos- sen. now she would probably lose both sible to accommodate the crew ch positions. The stipendary magis.

board for the present, owing to the trate eaid that ho was sorry he vessel being in an unfinished could not allow his feeling to state. The 500 petty officers and override his sense of duty.

uen who arrived from Portsmouth there. Mr. Woodrow Wilson's Scotch descent.

to complete the crew are, fore, being quartered in the

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Mr. Woodrow Wilson is of quite recent Scottish descent and has relatives residing in Glasgow. It is not generally known that he at Devonport, says the Globe" is a distant relative of the Arah having developed leaky con- bishop of York, Dr. Cosmo Lang. densers, and the officials there Mr: Wilson's maternal grand were surprised when it was not- mother, the "Aberdeon Journal" ified that the vessel would be com- says, was the daughter of Mr. miesioned at Devonport instead Robert Williamson, who died in of this taking place at Portsmouth Glasgow in the forties of last about the end of the month, as contary. Mr. Robert William originally intended.

son's wife was & Keith, aunt of

the East,

the late Rev. Dr. Patrick Keith, On an Economic Mission to of Humilton, maternal grand- father of the Archbishop of York. M. Maurice Rondet-Saint has A daughter of Mr. Robert been bharged by the French Williamson married the Rev. Minister for the Colonies with an Thomas Woodrow, then Presby economic mission in Indo China, oriin Minister at Carlisle, and the Philippines, Borneo, Java, they, with family, migrated to and Sumatra. He was to embark The United States 1836.

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