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GENERAL NEWS.

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MF. M. A. Fraser, of pla Kalompong Estate, leaves for Home to join the Army shortly. Mr. Fraser was formerly in the Rhodesia Mounted Police."

A Bad Time for Trichinopolies. Owing to the war, the cigar industry in Trichinopoly bas suffered much. Triobinopoly is a great seat of cigar manufacture, and for the best quality of oigers the merchants used to get the fine quality of tobacco required from Germany, Java and other placo?;; The Director of Agriculture of Ceylon bus netified the growerE there to communicate with pur. chiera to see whether they could meet the demand.

The Late Dr. John Nisbet.. News from home records thai death of Dr. John Nisbet, for many years in the forest depa ment of Burma. Dr Nisbet entar- ed the service in 1875 and retired in 1900, being then conservator of forests. Since his retirement he acted as lecturer on förestry-

Elîs in Glasgow University. excellent work, "Burma Under British Rule and Before" is one of the standard works on that province.

The Coolle Industry at

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Lost year 117,000 coolies migrated from India to the Straits, as against 107,000 the year before. Returning emigrants were only 72,000, so that the Indien coolie population in the Straits increased by 45,000. The figures for Indian coolies in Ceylon show a similar increase. There

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assy Lorms. thoughts, and grow, and is circulare and notices intended to tions, I am obliged to state that bour,

Apply "VIEW" do "Hongkong Tele- developed, and lakes on virtues be sent to or published in France they are entirely false. and vices, and becomes old, and daring the German occupation. It Out of respect for the other graph." then fades away.

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aumerous violations of the law of troops, and that no explosive pro- Five Lions at Large.

nations; and, in advance, Captainjectile for fire-arme have ever New York, Dec. 18.-Five lione Professor von Scharfenort in-existed in any part of the German escaped from the Eighty-sixth dicates the replies to make. The army, or that they have never street Theatre last night during following is the carious text: been of a weight of less than 40 a performance. The audience Letter to the Generalissimo oframes.

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America and War. " the crowd, one

lion being used the German troops of numer-

London, December 18.—The killed and policeman cus violations of the law of nations, London Morning Post, in an seriously wounded. The liona The German troops ara said to editorial, says: Our American then attacked the police, maul- have been guilty of hostile acts friends are inclined to twit us for ing several badly. The beasts filed againet field hospitals; to have failing to maintain our word in to different parts of the building, takon prisoner Mr. A..., in the Belgium. Let them consider and one escaped into the street midst of a field hospital organised what would happen if they were and knocked down a photographer by him to have used explosive called on suddenly to defend the and a woman who were running bullets; to have forced the pear- Monroe doctrine against a great from another lion inside a photo-ants in the neighbourhood of S.... power like Germany in South graphio gallery adjoining the to work in the digging of trenches America. They would be more fbestre. All the lions were final. under fire from the fortress; helpless to drive the invaders out ly rounded up and shot

to have attempted to secure the than England is in the case of Good Postal Work at Slogapore. pastage of trains of supplies and Belgium.

Says the Straits Times of Jan- ammunition wagons by putting message to Congress declaring uary 12-Yesterday broke all upon them the sign adopted by for a volunteer system of defence records in the General Post Office, the Geneva Convention; and, makes us smile and tempts us to Singapore. There came in from lastly, it is stated that Doctor weep. His arguments echo word Europe maila by the P. and O

who was dressing the for word the calamitous platitudes bent, French and Dutch steamers, wounds of a Prussian soldier, was of Lord Haldane," "If English- and, to a limited extent, by the Although I was perfectly con- cousins in the United States out

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