Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 20 November 1914

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 269 VOL. LXXII. FRIDAY. 20th NOVEMBER, 1914. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 741 1 kXTIIL_LJUL_JULZJI a KB .KLyJ IF YOU WANT TO SHIP, 0 BUY OR SELL n OR TO S FORWARD GOODS U to AMY PART or th» WOBLD 7 GO To j ALLEN DENNYS Co., 0 j 7. VXION BTRBET. rp ii iri i inr— irn— B u i N Y K
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    • 327 1 i-u--»»wSuQanciaoco-« Q 3 3 FOR $3O 3 XTOU can have the Piuang J 3 I Gasette posted every day f fer» whc’e year to your »dtir<»M. a 3 (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION. S2T). j. S Proportionate Quarterly end i Half-yearly rates. j fcubecnptione are psynbU ir advance and remittances should bo addressed
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  • 4317 2 COAGULATION AND PREPARATION The following is the scend part of the paper by Mr. B J. Eaten, Agricultural Chemist, F.M.B on methods of coagulation and p-eparation of Plantation Para Rubber,” writtn f >r the International Rubber Congress at Batavia. The first part appeared on Thursday Smoke Curing. The
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  • 100 2 Paris, November 15.—Official We have driven back the ene ny b *yond the right bank of the River Yser. There have b en further inundations, and now the submerged country on the south of Dix nude reaches the region 5 kilometres from Bixc <oote. The Germans have
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  • 304 2 NEGRI SEM BILAN’S PROTEST. A meeting of the committee of the Negri Sembilan Planters’ Association was hel i at Seremban to consider the situation arising cut of the F M S Government’s decisions announced to the Federal Council relating to expenditure on public works. Afjtr soma
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  • 339 2 A Spartan Letter. The follow ng is on extract from a letter sent by an officer of the British Hesdquarte: s Stiff in France to his wife, enclosing a translation of a patriotic letter from a Frenchwoman to her brother, who is serving at the fro it
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  • 230 2 A correspondent writes: The Governor Gene-a', Netherlands India, visited the Semarang Exhibition on the 12th and 13th instant. All th'? public offices were closed on the 13th. The exhibition closes on the 23rd instant, Monday. A raffle or lottery will be drawn for on December 14th against f
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  • 571 2 OFFICERS OF THE GOOD HOPE MONMOUTH AND GLASGOW. The officers of these ships as given by the Navy List published on Sept. 1 are H.M S. Good Hope.—Rear-Admiral Sir C. G. F. M. Cradock, K.C.V.0., C.B, Secretary G. B. Owens, Flag Lieut.-Com. G. E. Cumming, Eng.-Capt. G.
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  • 158 2 Three German submarines have been sunk in the Straits of Dover. Zeebru:er (in Belgium) has been utilised as a base fir German submarines. The Kaiser is very depressed over the victories of ths Russian Armies. The situation is still such in Holland that all soldieis
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  • 178 2 Messrs. Guthrie Co.’s weekly rubber report, Singapore, Wednesday, November 18th states:— The auction sale held this morning saw full catalogues but, as was to be expected, demand was detrimentally affected by the latest restriction imposed by Government, viz., the prohibition of export from the United Kingdom to
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  • 668 3 LATEST DEATH-ROLL London Nov. 7 —The following casualties are announced WoUNDRD. 2nd-Lieutenant J Eliot, 3rd Hussars. Lieutenant G R Grant, R A M C. Major L Johnston 1 Northumberland 2nd-Lieutenant C Lain/ Yeomanry, Lieut A A Macintosh, Royal Horse Guards. 2nd Lieut D E Macpherson, Gordon. Lieutenant E
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  • 171 3 FURTHER CASUALTIES. Delhi, November 9—The following is the fifth list of casualties reported from France and Belgium Killed in Action. Connaught Rangers—Lieutenant Abbott. 34th Poona Horse—Lieutenant-Colonel Swaoston, D S O. Ist-2nd King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles—Major Rose, Major Becher, Captain Barton, Lieutenant Innes, 2nd-Lieutenant Walcott, Subadar-Major
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  • 406 3 Exploits of French and English Soldiers. An officer’s letter hai just been published in tl e Empress de I’Ouest,” which gives the account of an exploit of which two corporals and a private are the heroes. Like several other episodes in the war, it is of
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  • 694 3 SCENES IN CAMP. [The Indian troops having joined the British Expeditionary Force, the following notes from a correspondent on their camp life and the journey from Marseilles will be of interest We have been in camp two days. I am quite comfortable, but the people who
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  • 256 3 Egging on the Turks to War. A correspondent sends the following note received from a friend in Jerusalem. It shows that some of the Germin military instructors now in the employment of the Turks are busily engaged in drilling recruits in Palestine. From the very
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  • 619 3 THE NAVAL BATTLE OFF CHILI. Santiago, November 7.—The' cruisers Scharnhorst and Nurnberg arrived at Valparaiso on Nov. Ist. The German Admiral repotted that he had sunk the Monmouth and damaged the Good Hope and Glasgow in a battle 6 miles off Cor or el. He believes that all
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 579 3 DVERTISER, English, 30 years of k age, shortly disengaged, seeks regagement as Accountant or Financial ssistant in mercantile firm, 6 years’ expeience in Straits and F.M.B. Salary not o much consideration as prospects, highest references. Apply Box No. 220, c/o Pinang Gazette. 1097—u c TO LET LfROM the Ist October,
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    • 57 3 Man wants but little on this Earth, and that, little is Good Health,” If he will but take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure when any sign of fev» r of dysentei’y is apparent that good hpalth he will surely oossf-ts. It i* the standard medicine for internal complaints. Sold by Dispensariet
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    • 179 3 STOP! THINK for jugt one minute of the utter uselessness of suffering wi’.h Neuralgia! For only Re. 1 you can procure a bottle of Little’s Oriental Balm, and even the first application of the Balm will bring you relief from the torturing pain Continue its u-e. Rub it in where
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    • 715 3 NOTICE OF SALE. BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE* The undersigtied is instructed to take possession and put up for sale By Public Auction, To tRb Highest Bidders, On Monday, the 23rd Nov., 1914, AT 1 P. M., In the Archway of Logan's Buildings, Beach Street, Penang, The undermentioned property of
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  • 1035 5 ENEMY DRIVEN BACK IN DISORDER. IMPORTANT BATTLE IN POLAND. NAVAL FIGHT IN THE BLACK SEA. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Recd. Nov. 19, 3-28 pm. The Press Bureau says the British Third Division was heavily attacked by artillery and infantry yesterday. The brunt fell on two battalions, and
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  • 36 5 GREAT RUSH BY PUBLIC. The War Loan is an assured success. There has been an enormous public demand, and there is every indication that the whole amount will be covered before the week-end.—Reuter.
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  • 267 5 AMERICAN CRUISER S LAUNCH FIRED ON. REFUSED ENTRANCE TO SMYRNA. [Copyright Telegram (By Submarine Telegraph.) Recd. Nov. 20, 11-19 a.m The Paris correspondent of the New York Herald” says the United States cruiser Tennessee asked to be allowed to enter the port of Smyrna, in order to
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  • 229 5 The denuding of the rubber estates of their European staffs cannot Le allowed to con inue indefinitely. We would not say a word to stop anyone going who can be spared, but it must be realised, as the older planters do realis l that the estates must
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  • 158 5 Omly Part of Crew Pickkd Up. Messrs. The Bank Line Ltd., General Agents of the American and Oriental Line at Hongkong have received information to the effect that the Master and part of the crew of the Shirley, which was abandoned in mid-Pacific [on fire,
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  • 406 5 IMPRESSIVE SCENE IN ST. PAUL'S. HIS MAJESTY PRESENT. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Recd. Nov. 19, 3-24 p.m. The King will attend Earl Roberts’ funeral. Great Military Spectacle. Recd. Nov. 20, 3-10 a.m. Despite a day of sleet Earl Roberts’ funeral './ill rank among the
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  • 164 5 Bombay, Oct. 29.——Attention is called to the extension of the German lie campaign to India by a letter addressed to the Times of India by a correspondent who reports that he has just received a circular containing several paragraphs of specious lies favourable to tbe Germans. The circular
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  • 453 5 PERFORMANCE AT TOWN HALL. That there are some promising young artistes in Penang was fully demonstrated in the Town Hall yesterday evening, when the pupils of Miss Hogan, assisted by other children, performed the operetta A Baker’s Dream,” from the Arabian Nights. There was a large audience,
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  • 64 5 Britain Cruisers Germany. Abcukir Yorck Hogue Magdeburg Creasy Kolu Good Hope Mainz Monmouth Ariadne Amphion Hela Pathfinder Emden Pegasus Koenigsberg Hawke Geier, Cormoran Hermes Gunboats. Speedy Mowe Niger Hedwig Tsingtau Vaterland litis Jaguar Tiger Luchs Minelayers. Koenigin Lu'sa Uching Converted Cruisers. Oceanic Kaiser Welhelm Cap Trafalgar Bethania
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 154 5 One of the fallacies—the I have to pay for the Advertisements fallacy. You pay for them just precisely as you pay for the rent of the shop you deal with—no more, no less. A shop in a crowded thoroughfare pays a higher rent than one in a deserted street, but
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    • 445 5 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. Motor Boat Engine Can be fitted to any Boat or Sampan, nearly new, 3| H.P. Price $l5O. Apply No. 176, c/o Pinang Gazette. A REMINDER. Penang Sales Room. Re ESTATE OF LIM KEK CHUAN, Deceased. THE AUCTION SALE OF New Chinese Tombstones WILL TAKE PLACK At
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  • 1251 6 Since Indian troops are now fighting aids by side with English and colonial continge its abroad, interest may be felt in the Indian theory of war in its general relation to life and thought. Considerable parts of the old Indian political treatises are concerned with the practical theory
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  • 412 6 Triple Estentk to be Smashed. Some remarkable passages from a hitherto unpublished translation of a popular work by General von Bernhardi appear in the Academy.” The volume was published under the title of Our Future: a Word of Warning to the German Nation,” and made it
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  • 271 6 In the Penang Municipality for the week ended Oct. 31, there were 76 deaths —54 males and 22 females, equal to a death-rate of 38.22 per mille per annum, compared with 34.20 in the preceding week and with 31.40 in the corresponding week of last year. The following
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 165 6 Where to Stay. Pknang The E. «t O. Hotel, The Crag, Runnymede Hotel, Hotel Norman, Carlton Hotel and The New Sea View Hotel. Singapore :—Raffles Hotel. Rangoon Strand Hotel. Ceylon —Nuwara Eliya. You judge the sincerity of silver by the hall-mark. The sincerity of an advertisement may be estimated by
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    • 240 6 Kmp the 0 Blood Pure." IClarke’s Blood. I Mixture! If you »uffer. from just »uch a medicine, any »ucn disease as It is composed of mentioned below, ingredients which don’t waste time and quickly attack, overmoney on lotions or come, and expel from ointments which can- the blood all imnot
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  • 364 7 (Specially Contributed.) The following paragraphs are based upon translations of items appearing in the Netherlands Indies newspapers The Anglo-Sumatra Rubber Company pays a dividend of 17|%. We are informed that Minister Treub will resign. He refuses a war loan and insists on a war tax. In the Province
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  • 231 7 AN •‘UNDOUBTEDLY PRO-BRITISH FEELING.” A representative of the Pinang Gazette” has had an with a local Dutch gentleman who recently returned from a visit to Sumatra. Things are going on very quietly now,” our representative was informed. “At first there was some excitement, chiefly because many of
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  • 53 7 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 to 7 p.m. this evt-ning 1. Overture William Tell ...Ressini 2. Two Step The Victoria Cross How g 3. Selection Girojle Qirojla ...Leccq 4. Waltz Dream oj the Ocean Burald 5. March The
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  • 330 7 An official telegram from the British Foreign Office to H. B. M. Legation, Bangkok, on Nov. 8 states According to the Vorwaerts of October 23rd the German Metal Workers’ Union paid over £150,000 in unemployed benefit during the first nine weeks of the war although up to
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  • 209 7 An official telegram, of the Japanese Army to Bangkok on Nov. 8 states At 9-20 a.m. (the 7th) the Germans sent to us a bearer with a truce flag and proposed surrendering Accordingly, at 4 p.m. capitulation was being concluded in the Moltke Barracks. The Japanese Government
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  • 254 7 DUTCH VIEW. Het Nieuws van den Dag of November sth writes the following. We I are informed our readers already that the Germans and Aus'rians in Malacca and Penang have been transferred to St. John’s Island near Singapore and would from there be transferred
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  • 538 7 EVENTS OF A WEEK. November 7.—Slow, but consistent, progress is the keynote of the messages from the Allies headquarters in France. All enemy attacks were repulsed. Russian captures on Cracow —Thorn front from October 23rd to November, 4th totalled 274 officers and 18,500, men iu addition
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 435 7 INSURANCE. «HE corporation of the ■yal EXCHANGE ASSURANCE ■s? Royal Exchange, London gBpOMMENCED business in a.d. 1717 and gLs was Incorporated by Royal Charter in ffitD. 1710 and is therefore one of the oldest Bompanies in existence. It has granted the Benefits of Assurance to the Public for a ■Mriod
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    • 61 7 Oil Gas Power. Diesel, Semi-Diesel, and Suction Gas Engines and Plants—Enquirers for this class of power would do well to consult. Agents The Borneo Coy., Ltd., Singapore, and Joseph Heim, Railway Buildings, Penang,” who represent firms of the highest repute, which is a guarantee of reliable power and satisfactory running.
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    • 480 7 After Illness After the racking effects of fever, dysentery, cholera, colic or bowel complaints, every part of the body needs strengthening. It is not enough merely to take tonics or artificial stimulants, for only by building-up every part of the body can health be regained. SCOTT’S Emulsion is a pure
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    • 595 7 BANKS. CHARTERED* BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA. AND CHINA. Incorporated by Royal Charter. Paid-up Capital £1,200,000 Reserve Fund £1,800,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors... £1,200,000 Head Officb 38, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, E.O Agencies and Branches. Amritsar Hongkong Puket Bangkok Iloilo Rangoon Batavia Ipoh Saigon Bombay Karachi Serembac Calcutta Klang Shanghai Canton Kobe Singapore
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 663 8 British India STEAM NAVIGATION company, ltd. For Singapore. Port Swettenham and Singapore. P XX Victoria Point, Mergui, Tavoy, Yeh and B y/i Moulmein. Steam Navigation Co. Singapore and Australia. Rangoon and Calcutta. FOR China Japan Negapatam, Madras, Pondicherry, Cuddalore and Karikal. Singapore, Ceylon, 0 For terms and rates of freight
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    • 679 8 STRAITS STEAM SHIP Co., Ocean STEAM SHIP CO., Lift LIMITED. I/ ,u > AND 77 i J <-• CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV. OS.. LT3. For Port Swettenham and Singapore. THB c .n.p™ M 1 from Liverpool outwards for the Strait* Tpl U An son China, and Japan every week, and
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