Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 November 1914

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    20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833, No. 272 VOL. LXXII. TUESDAY. 24th NOVEMBER. 1914. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
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      “CLASHING DATES’’AND THE WAR FUND MEETING.
      272 2 (To the Editor of the 1,1 Pinang Gazette.”] Sir, —My first feeling on reading Scot’s’ letter in your last night’s Laue was one of indignation that any Scot in Penang could be found to consider any Englishman or body of Englishmen capable of a
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      "THE BELGIAN RELIEF FUND."
      661 2 [2’o the Editor oj the Pinang Gazette*] Sib, —In asking you to kindly publish a full list of subscribers to the Belgian Relief Fund to date, I would like to intimate that a further remittance will be made to Europe this week through the Belgian Cons
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    THE PRINCE OF WALES’S WAR RELIEF FUND.
    45 2 The Hon. Treasurer sends us the following further contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance Nov. 21 ...$28,704.48 Englishman 50.00 An Admirer of the British Army 30.00 Balance on Nov. 22 ...$28,784 48
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    BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.
    30 2 Balance Nov. 19 $1,085.74 Capt. D. C. iMacintyre (2nd instalment) 80.00 Mrs. A. F. Goodrich 16.00 Balance on Nov. 23 $1,181.74 Amount previously acknowledged $2,133.33 Total $3,315.07
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    THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE SCHELDT.
    602 2 With the capture of Antwerp by the Germans navigation of the Scheldt has again become, as it has often before been, a matter of supreme importance to Europe. As a leading article in The Times points out it flows through the territories of three
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    RESULTS OF WAR WITH TURKEY.
    113 2 H. B. M. Legation, Bangkok, is informe 1 that in consequence of the Annexation of Cyprus the inhabitants are henceforth recognized by H. B. M. Legations and Consulate? as British subjects on production of satisfactory evidence as to their origin and birthplace 1 Similarly by
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    THE CANADIAN FORCES.
    1400 2 COLONEL HUGHES’ STIRRING MESSAGE. A copy of the following message from Colonel Sam Hughes, Canadian Minister of Militia, to the First Canadian Contingent was delivered to each member of the Force by Colonel Hughes’s order the day after each ship had put to sea. Wherb Duty Leads.
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    BRITAIN AND THE WAR.
    358 2 M. Andre Lichtenberger has an interesting lit'le article iu the October number of Les Annaliea ”in praise of the fighting qualities of the British and their altitude towards the pre-ent war. He writes We can never praise too highly such an example—Government, press and nation alike
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    British Cargo in Enemy Ships.
    280 2 In response to numerous enquiries with regard to the procedure to be adopted by the owners of Bri i h cargo iu enemy ship? iu neutral ports in order to safeguard their interests the Board of Trade, on the recommendations of the Committee on Diverted
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    WEST AFRICAN FIGHTING.
    705 2 THRILLING STORY FROM CALABAR. A Calabar resident writes iu a private letter on September II Things are still quiet here and everything going on as usua’, except for most conflicting and bewildering movements. Everything is kept so secret that we are all in the dark to a
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    A Contra Account.
    190 2 French Surgeon and German Princb. Bordeaux, Tuesday.—The toll of a French doctor’s fee for attending a German Prince has just become known. It was when the Ge "mans were advancing towards Sezanne and Fere-Champenoise. They reached Epernay, where they consumed 50,000 bottles of champagne and demanded a
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    BAITING THE WOUNDED.
    408 2 Daily Telegraph.” GERMAN BRUTALITY. The war correspondent of the Datch journal Tyd tells a terrible story of the brutality of German soldiers towards British wounded. The incident occurred in Landen Station on Friday, Oct. 9. He says he is fully aware of the gravity of the charges
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    Mining Under German Trenches
    459 2 A TERRIBLE MOMENT. The following story of the springing of a mine is told by a corporal of the Coldstream Guards, wounde I in the battle of the Aisne on October 1 and now in hospital at Sheffield Quite the most awful thing I ever set
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    Where to Stay.
    32 2 Pbnang :—The E. <fc O. Hotel, The Crag, Runnymede Hotel, Hotel Norman, Carlton Hotel and The New Sea View Hotel. Singapobb Raffles Hotel. Rangoon :—Strand Hotel. Cbylon Nuwara Eliya.
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    THE NEUTRALITY OF HOLLAND.
    1229 3 Mr. Arthur Kitsun, writing to a London paper last month, said The Dutch people are feeling very uncomfortable just now. With the very best of intentions towards their neighbours, they are being rated and threatened on all sides, and they hardly know what to do. I
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    German Methods in Switzerland.
    387 3 An Intolerable Abuse.” Some of the German-speaking Swiss are systematically working to produce among their French-speaking compatriots in the western part of the little Republic a sttte of feeling less unfavourable to Germany than at present prevails there. One of their instruments is a newspaper printed
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    Japan’s Gift of Sake
    120 3 A correspondent writes The gift of sake to the British troops before Tsingtao made by the Crown Prince of Japan, who also sent a very cordial message, is a signal honour not often accorded by the Royal family. The gift of sake itself is a not
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    EAST AND WEST.
    395 3 JAPAN TAKES HER PLACE IN THE WORLD. Unmeasured satisfaction is expressed over the annoncement that Allied troops are to participate with Japan in the siege of Ttdngtnu, and especially over the assurance given by the British Government that Japan will have a voice in the peace negotiations,
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    Anatole France as a Private.
    239 3 Crushing Reply to German Intellectuals. The Petit Parisien publishes an interview with M. Anato’e France, who «aid that the War Ministry had agreed to his request to be allowed to serve with the French Army. He added They understood the deep sentiment which made me
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    German Strategy.
    203 3 Lahore, November 12.—A cable to the Civil and Military Gazette,” dated London, November 10th, states: To-days news from both theatres is contradictory. Persistent reports that Germans are withdrawing troops from Belgium for the Eastern fron ier confl ct with the accounts of the reinforcement of the lines for
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    FEEDING THE INDIANS.
    956 3 HOW IT IS DONE IN FRANCE. An interesting article appears in the Drily Telegraph of October 16th under the signature of Mr. Malcolm Macaskill on the commissariat of the Indian Army. He writes :—We know on what Napoleon said that an army marches. It is a true
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    FROM SHEPHERD'S BUSH TO ZANZIBAR.
    626 4 Blunders in dealing with “the enemy in our midst are not exclusively associated with the Straits Government, which quite failed to grasp the importance of the question of the internment of residents of German and Austrian nationality. In London mistakes have also been made, but
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    THE LOAN TO SIAM.
    398 4 The Bangkok Times has an editorial in its issus of the 13th inst. with regard to the loan made by the F.M.S. Government some years ago of four and three-quarter millions sterling which is being applied by the Siamese Government towards railway construction projects in Southern
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    A THIEF SENTENCED.
    786 4 For the theft of a hat and baju containing a watch, spectacles, etc., a Chinaman named Tan Ah Ti was sentence 1 by Mr. V. G. Ezechiel, second magistrate, to one month’s rigorous imprisonment. Complainant stated that while he was lying asleep in bis house in Carnarvon
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    BREACH OF TRUST CASE.
    362 4 ACCUSED DISCHARGED. in the District Court, Penang, to-day, Mr. G. A. Hall disposed of a case, after sixteen days’ hearing, in which Chee Boon Yong charged Yong Tua Ni, alias Yong Thye Lean, with criminal breach of trust in respect of some $5OOO. The prosecutor alleged
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    CRUELTY TO A HOUSE.
    507 4 Versay Mohamed and Kader Hussain, owner and driver of a horse respectively, was this morning charged by Mr. T. W. W. Wright, Municipal Veterinary Surgeon, with working a horse yesterday in Maxwell Road, while in an unfit state. Defendant No. 2 admitted that he was driving
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    LULL CONTINUES.
    15 5 MORE ARTILLERY ACTIONS DARING RAID BY BRITISH AVIATORS. GERMAN SUBMARINE RAMMED CREW SAVED.
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    France and Belgium.
    793 5 The lull which followed the desperate but unsuccessful attempt of the German right wing to force a victory and capture Ypres, continues, and except for artillery duels at some parts, pit ticu'arly at Ypres, Soissons, ani Rheims, the rival armies are resting in preparation for the next
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    Russian Campaign.
    100 5 In the east, the battle which is taking place between the Vistula and the Warta is being fought out on a big scale, but as yet without definite result. The Russians in Asiatic Turkey continue to advance in the direction of Erzerum, where the Turks are no doubt
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    Turkey and the Near East.
    108 5 RUSSIAN PORT BOMBARDED. Petrograd, November 23. It is officially announced that the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh fired 125 shells on Tuapse, but caused little damage. Only four Russians were killed. The Russian artillery replied effectively. [The Hamidieh is a cruiser of 3,800 tons, built at Elswick
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    Naval Operations.
    68 5 GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK. CREW SAVED BY BRITISH DESTROYER. Recd. Nov. 24, 1-10 a.m. The Admiralty announces that a British patrol vessel rammed the German submarine UlB on the norsh coast of Scotland on Monday. An hour later the submarine was seen on the surface flying a white flag,
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    General News.
    150 5 —Reuter. DE WET IN FLIGHT. Pretoria, November 23. It is officially announced that the loyalist troops are hotly pursuing General De Wet and 25 men, all that remain of his commando. ITALIAN POLICY. AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. The Italian Ambassador has left London for Rome. The new Foreign Minister
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    FRENCH CONSULAR CABLES.
    82 5 The French Consular message of November 21 says Our Artillery had the advantage at Nieuport. We repulsed two furions attacks at Hollebeeke, and won the enemy’s trenches at various points on the Aisne, in Champagne, Argonne, Verdun, and Vosges. Nov. 22.—1 t has been a much quieter
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    ESCAPES FROM TAIPING PRISON.
    82 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.} Ipoh, November 24. Four convicts escaped from Taiping Gaol yesterday afternoon. During a storm they got away unobserved, and on the alarm being raised by a European warder two were captured. Search is being made for the others. An official telegram from
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    COURT MARTIAL AT PENANG.
    1426 5 i.—“ M.M.” CHARGES AGAINST MAHOMMEDAN. VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. The Court Martial was resumed this morning, at Penang, for ths trial of Mahomed Ebrahim, a Mahommedan, charged with, in time of war, creating reports calculated to cause alarm or desponden?y, in that he, at the beginning
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    THE CONTENTS BILL.
    132 5 Page 2.—The Canadian Forces Baiting the Wounded West African Fighting The Legal Position of the Scheldt; Correspondence Britain and the War British Cargo in Enemy Ships Mining Under German Trenches; Allied Warships’ Captures A Contra Account; King and Scots Guards; Bombay Market. Page 3.—The Neutrality of Holland
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    BATTLE STORIES.
    1089 6 FIRST TO CROSS? THE BRIDGE. PRINCE MAURICE OF BATTENBERG. Corporal J. Jolley, of the King’s Royal Rifles, who bas been invalided home, and is in a hospital at Cardiff, kept a diary of this experiences. Under date Sept. 7 he says We traversed a wood and found that
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    Lifebelts in the Navy.
    190 6 No lifebelts are, we believe, ever carried on British men of-war. There are boats for all,” but before going into action the boats are supposed to be put overboard and set adrift. The presence of so much loose woodwork would be very dangerous in action. Life-buoys
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    THOUGHTS OF A GERMAN.
    634 6 “OUR LEADERS SEEM TO ME TO BE QUITE INCOMPETENT.” So far as we know, Noyon is still in German hands, but from the correspondence of a German officer who has taken part in the fighting in this region, says the Times correspondent, it would s :em
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    A Puritan Army.
    154 6 Contrast Manchurian Campaign. Petrograd, October 20.—The well-known Russian writer and war correspondent, Nemirovitch Danchenko, who was in the Russo-Turkish and Russo-Japanese wars, communicating bis impressions of the present campaign to the Russkoe Slovo,” says One must be blind not to see the enormous progress made by the
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    PENANG'S HEALTH.
    243 6 In the Penang Municipality for the week ended Nov. 7, there were 73 deaths 53 males and 20 females, equal to a death-rate of 36.71 per mille per annum, compared with 38.22 in the preceding week and with 26.34 in the corresponding week of last year. The following
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    KITCHENER’S MEN IN TRAINING.
    735 7 RANKERS WHO MOTOR UP IN COSTLY CARS. Two of the most interesting battalions in the new army are training at Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. There are probably no other battalions quite like them, writes a Daily News correspondent. When I saw a number of men, dressed
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    OUR SOLDIERS.
    402 7 STRIKING TRIBUTE BY ITALIAN WRITER. The Messaggero publishes a very long appreciation of the British troops from i s own war correspondent in France. He says England has splendidly maintained all her promises regarding the assistance she would give her ally.” The correspondent indicates the striking contrast between
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    Allied Warships’ Captures.
    473 7 We have he 3rd much lately of the activities of the various G rman cruisers in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian waters, but little has been said concerning the good work performed by the Allies’ warships who have been deputed to guard the distant trade routes. It
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    King and Scots Guards.
    91 7 An interesting private cermony took place at Buckingham Palace recently when the King handed back to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of the Scots Guards the colours surrendered when the battalion was “absorbed” in 1:06. Iu that year the 3rd Scots were ended as a separate entity
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    THE MOTHERLAND.
    468 7 The following national hymn is from the pen of Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, K C.B late chief constructor to the navy, and is to be sung to the tune Russia,” by A’exis Lvoff —the widely-known Russian National Anthem God Bless Our Motherland. God bless our Motherland Cradled in oeean;
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    DIARY OF THE WAR.
    292 7 EVENTS OF A WEEK. Nov. 16.—Indian troops, assisted by the cruiser Duke of Edinburgh, capture forts near Bab-el-Mandeb. Germans driven over the Yser. Press Bureau announces five German gunboats, one destroyer, one minelayer, and one Austrian cruiser were found in Tsingtau, sunk by exp'osion. Nov. 17.—Commons
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    WESTERN SIAM.
    790 7 IN TRANG AND PUKET. A correspondent writes to the Bangkok Times Since the Ist October wht i railway traffic was opened between Trang on the one coast and Nakon Sritamarat and Singora on the other coast of the Peninsula, already about a thousand bags of Siam rice have
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    Japanese in Shantung.
    88 7 Peking, November 4.— The representatives of the Tokyo and Osaka merchants are now studying at Tsi-nan-fu the possibilities of extending the Japar eie commerce in Shantung. A branch of the Japanese Asiatic Society for the promotion of the Sino-Japanese relations has been opened at Tsinanfu. It will
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