Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 27 November 1914
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Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle
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Title Section20 1914-11-27 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 275 VOL. LXXII. FRIDAY. 27th NOVEMBER. 1914. PRICE 10 CENTS.20 words
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Advertisement1072 1914-11-27 1 |L'KI Tl-IX-ll 181 Mt II rr-M.CZ IF YOU WANT TO SHIP, buy OR SELL OR TO 1 I FORWARD GOODS L TO ANT PART 07 THB WORLD r GO TO ALLEN DENNYS Co., J t. VVMOX ITBUT. J Nw»” irjr nnjnnnnnnnnnnQaDnnnnnnannnnnnnn I IFF .Y. K S n g or ASTHENOPIA1,072 words
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Advertisement63 1914-11-27 1 laaDaDOiaaanniDODaDßaDaDtm 3 D a FOR SBO g 3 X/OU can h%ve the “Pinang D X Gaastte" posted every day n for a whole year to your addrese. a (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION. »27). g Proportionate Quarterly and q 5 Half-yearly rates. g a Subscriptions are payable in advene* and remittances should b*63 words
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Article3189 1914-11-27 2 VIVID STORY FROM. TELEGRAPH CHIEF. THE SUCCESSFUL CALLS FOR HELP As the following account of what happened when the Emden visitei Cocos Island Telegraph Station has been approved by the authorities, we are enabled, says the Straits Times to publish it for public information. It is a3,189 words
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Article332 1914-11-27 2 SEVERAL AMENDMENTS. At th' s meeting of the Federal Council at Ku? Lumpu r the Legal Adviser introduced "The Labour Code 1912, Amend meat, 1914.” The objects he said, were given in the attached reasons, which are as follows The amendments of The Labour Code 1912,” for332 words
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Article48 1914-11-27 2 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 to 7 p.m. this evening 1. Introduction II Trovatore ...Verdi 2. Seguidillas de Periquito ...Olivier 3. Fantasia Lucretia Borgia Donizetti 4. Waltz On the Mountain Kaulich 5. March Penang Volunteers ...Andres48 words
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Article31 1914-11-27 2 Balance Nov. 25 $1,256 74 W. R. Armstrong 50.00 W. F. Clarke 25.00 A Volunteer’s mite 16.00 Balance on Nov. 26 $1,347,74 Amount previously acknowledged $2,133.33 Total ...»$3,481.0731 words
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Article597 1914-11-27 2 KITCHENER’S APPEAL FOR SOBRIETY. Lord Kitchener’s appeal to the public to help in maintaining sobiiety among the soldiers in training, is endorsed this morning, said the Times of 28th ult., by a further plea from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He urges a general movement of voluntary self-restraint597 words
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Article224 1914-11-27 2 Bangkok, November 24 —The following British Foreign Office messages have been received by the British Legation, Bangkok The German press is beginning to realise the ineffectiveness of the press campaign. The Tageblatt and the Cologne Gazette appear to understand that the campaign has merely tended to alienate224 words
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Article42 1914-11-27 2 Arrivals. By Selangor (November 27) from Singapore, Mr and Mrs C R Sa W el and two children, Mrs Mclntyre, Mr Soon Lick Chun and .Mr M Asakura; Swettanham, Mrs Ford, Mr HeptfoFth? Mr G E Gieen and Mr A Mustard.42 words
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Article416 1914-11-27 2 M.M.” A FAREWELL DINNER. The Hon Mr E B Skinner, who is very shortly retiring from the F M S and returning Home, was entertained to dinner at the Masonic Hall in Kuala Lumpur by the members of the Federal Council and by a number of" M.M.” - 416 words
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Article302 1914-11-27 2 S.F.P.” Many will grieve to hear tbat Sir George Murray has lost his second son Eric, who was a subaltern in the 19th Hussars and v;as killed in action* Sir Ernest Birch is with Sir George Murray in the Eastern Counties acting as recruiters. Mr. aud—“ S.F.P.” - 302 words
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Article192 1914-11-27 2 It may be stated quite certain’y that when the Germans tell these things themselves they do it for a purpose. If they have these guns, or if they had, as they are fond of telling the pecple whom they know will bring the nows to192 words
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Advertisement154 1914-11-27 2 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, but154 words
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Article1838 1914-11-27 3 UNOFFICIALS AND ESTIMATES. PROVISIONAL CONSENT. The much discussed estimates of expenditure were passed at the meeting of the Federal Council, H.E the High Commissioner presiding. The unofficial members, however, only gave their consent provisionally to the passing of the Supply Enactment, pending a reply to a memorandum which1,838 words
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Article427 1914-11-27 3 J The war correspondent of the Berlin Tageblatt writing recently from the main beadquarters of the Eastern armies on the 9th instant, gives the following account of what he saw during a visit to Malines The town is dead its 60,000 inhabitants have fled the dark houses427 words
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Article287 1914-11-27 3 The lack of intelligent discrimination shown by the Singapore Post Office in the despatch of mails for Bangkok from Europe has often been the theme of complaints in the local press, says the Siam Observer, which goe? on to say The latest feat of the Singapore287 words
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Article1266 1914-11-27 3 ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the above Company was held at the office of the Secretaries, Messrs. Evatt and Co., Singapore. The Chairman said :—lf you will turn to the English Company’s balance sheet (liabilities side) you will see that the partly paid shares of the1,266 words
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Article623 1914-11-27 3 —Ex. [Bringing A. M. R. Gordon’s well-known lines up to date.] As years roll on ve sdronger grows, Ve gates nicht dam fur all our foes, Ve gif dem all der bleeding nose, Meinself-und Gott. Ven Servia fly at Austria’s droat I dakes mein seat—Ex. - 623 words
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Advertisement57 1914-11-27 3 Sore throat denotes a weakness in the larynx that ha? been seized upon by harmful germs, who, colonising there, are prepared to create serious trouble unless swept away by a dose of Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure, a true germicide, which at the same time, soothes and heals the tender parts.57 words
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Advertisement64 1914-11-27 3 Graphite Lubrication. By using this method it is claimed Cylinder lubrication cost is reduced 90 per cent, in either Steam, Gas, or Oil Engines. Fuel Consumption is reduced 5 per cent, to 10 per cent, and Piston rings, Valves and Valve gears are protected from wear. Agents ‘'The Borneo Coy.,64 words
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Advertisement612 1914-11-27 3 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 Ovfics: 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 Singapore612 words
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Article571 1914-11-27 4 Both at Home and elsewhere there are people disposed to look with suspicion on Russia and who are inclined to think that after the war she will be a thorn in the side of the British Empire. As the “Saturday Review” lately pointed out those who give expression571 words
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Article410 1914-11-27 4 Germany has succeeded in preserving the strictest secrecy as to the strength of her forces, and it is impessible to make more than a very rough guess at their distribution in the two theatres of war. When hostilities commenced the published information was that Germany had five410 words
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Article319 1914-11-27 4 Mr. Winston Churchill appears to have emerged with credit from the controversy which his action in connection with the despatch of the Naval force an I Marines to Antwerp caused, ani now tha"> it has been officially declared that what was done was with the full knowledge319 words
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Article825 1914-11-27 4 [From a Correspondent] Soerabaya, November 19. The Governor General, after visiting the Semarang Exhibition on the 12th and 13th, left for Pekalongan to view tbe night bazaar there. His Excellency had been to the plague striken district of Malang. I bear that the plague is subsiding. The825 words
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Article474 1914-11-27 4 Mr Hatchell is in Ipoh to take over as C.P.O. from Mr. Conlay. Mr. Edwards, of Ipoh, and Mr. Eric W. Battersby, Manager of Gunong Kroh Estate, left Ipoh yesterday for Home to join Lord Kitchener’s Army. Mr. A. Mustard, of Dusun Durian Estate,. Banting, Kuala Langat,474 words
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Article195 1914-11-27 4 All are requested to make a note of next Monday evening when under the auspices of the Penang St Andrew’s Society, a concert will be given in the Town Hall in aid of the Prince of Wales’s War Fund. The entire proceeds of the concert, for which,195 words
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Advertisement139 1914-11-27 4 ITHE FALL OF TSINGTAU MEANS K The ft /«rtiog of German Ambition in tbe East, a so there is no cause for a anxiety of the shortage /CQ Theoaiy a Ar Beer brewed X O a in Japan a purely Japanese X a Malt and Hops. X a Fresh Stock139 words
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Advertisement34 1914-11-27 4 THE CRAG HOTEL, SANATORIUM 7 PENANG HILL Completely Renovated. An hour and 10 minutes from the E. 0. HOTEL. Chairs and Coolies always in readiness at the foot of the Hill. Sarkies Brothers TVoprwtora.34 words
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Advertisement79 1914-11-27 4 THE CONTENTS BILL Page 2.—Emden as Cocos; The Volunteer Army The Hon. Mr. Skinner j Howto Check False News Straits People at Home. Page 3.—Federal Council; Pulau BulanS Rubber; Singapore and Bangkok Mails A Dead Town. Page 4.- Russia s Example j In the Lime- light; The German Forces Notes79 words
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Article201 1914-11-27 5 GREAT MUSCOVITE VICTORY. ENORMOUS GERMAN LOSSES IN RUSSIAN POLAND. BRITISH BATTLESHIP BLOWN UP AT SHEERNESS. On the western front, »he Allies have made interrupted progress at some parts, and even the artillery has been kss in evidence. In the Arras region, there was some cannonading, and201 words
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Article606 1914-11-27 5 Reuter’s Special and Ordinary Services.] DIMINISHED CANNONADE. GERMAN ATTACK FAILS. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Recd. Nov. 26, 5-15 p.m. A Paris communique says: “There was no important action yesterday. The cannonade in the north diminished in intensity. There have been no infantry attacks against us. We| Reuter’s Special and Ordinary Services.] - 606 words
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Article295 1914-11-27 5 LEGION OF HONOUR FOR THREE AVIATORS. Paris, November 27. Details of the British aeroplane raid on Fredrichshafen show that the bombs completely wrecked the only workshops equipped with indispensable tools, and machinery for repair of airships, and caused an obvious panic in the yards. FlightLieutenant Sippe and295 words
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Article159 1914-11-27 5 MANY PRISONERS AND GUNS CAPTURED. Recd. Nov. 26, 2-10 a.m. A Petrograd official communique chronicles Russian successes in Poland and Galicia, with captures of prisoners and guns. The Russians have entered Hungary. The communique says the fighting in the neighbourhood of Lodz continues; The masses of Germans159 words
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Article143 1914-11-27 5 ARMY CORPS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN CAPTURED. Petrograd, November 27. The Bourse Gazette says that fortyeight trains have been despatched to bring the prisoners who were captured near Lodz. The accommodation is apj roximately that for a complete Army Corps. It appears that at least one German143 words
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Article269 1914-11-27 5 ARMIES CUT OFF. Petrograd, November 27. The German strategy astounded the Russians. The enemy intended a simultaneous advance on Lodz from the north and south, to seize the railway between Skierniewiceand Petrokow, and thus separate the northern and southern Russian armies. The Germans bec&Die sandwiched except in269 words
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Article54 1914-11-27 5 TURKS IN RETREAT. A Petrograd official message says the Russians continued their pursuit of the main body and defeated the Turks in the direction of Erzerum, capturing many prisoners and munitions. The roads are littered with frozen corpses, the Turks apparently hurrying to the shelter54 words
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Article302 1914-11-27 5 BRITISH BATTLESHIP BLOWN UP. ONLY TWELVE MEN SAVED. Recd. Nov. 26, 5-15 p.m. Mr. Churchill announced that the battleship Bulwark has blown up at Sheerness. In the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill added that only twelve men of the Bulwark were saved out of seven or eight hundred.302 words
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Article108 1914-11-27 5 XMAS GIFTS FROM AMERICA. Recd. Nov. 26, 1-25 p.m. The American Santa Claus ehip, Jason, received an official welcome to Plymouth yesterday. It brought 1.200 tons of Christmas gifts to children of the combatants, and proceeds to Marseilles and other ports. THE BALKAN SITUATION. Pourparlers are proceeding, aiming108 words
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Article67 1914-11-27 5 Britain Gkbmany. Battleship Bulwark Cruisers. Aboukir Yorck Hogue Magdeburg Creasy Koln Good Hope Mainz Monmouth Ariadne Ampbion Hela Pathfinder Emden Pegasus Koenigsberg Hawke Geier Hermes Cormoran Gunboats. Speedy Mowe Niger Hedwig Tsingtau Vatedand litis Jaguar Tiger Luebs Soden Comet Minelayers. Konigin Lu'se Uching Converted Cruisers. Oceanic Kaiser67 words
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Article45 1914-11-27 5 [From Our Own Ipoh, November 27. A big landslide has occurred» on the road from Kuala Kangsar to Grit, in Upper Perak. It extends from the 77th to the 87th mile and is due to heavy rains and severe flooding at G.it.45 words
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Advertisement471 1914-11-27 5 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY, A CONCERT WILL BE HELD IN AID OF THE Prince of Wales’s War Relief Fund IN THE TOWN HALL, PENANG, ON St Andrew’s Day (November 30th), At 9-30 p.m. sharp. Refreshments at Moderate Prices. Prince of Wales Relief Fund. A PUBLIC MEETING471 words
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Article377 1914-11-27 6 THE GERMAN CASUALTIES. According to Japanese reports the number of casualties (killed, wounded and missing) on the German side is eight hundred. Fall op Tsingtau and tee Emdsn, Tokio, November 14.—While the people were celebrating the fall of Tsingtau by processions the news of the Emden having been377 words
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Article297 1914-11-27 6 MINUPES OF MEETING. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday, the 10th November, 1914. Present :—-Mr. W. Peel (Presiden')» Messrs. P. T Allen, F. Duxbury, John Mitchell, and Yeoh Guan Seok. Absent Messrs Quah Beng Kee, and Lim Eow Hong. 1. The minutes of297 words
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Advertisement636 1914-11-27 6 Nicholson’s Old Tom Gin II I For the I I Connoisseur. Hhli Ik lip 11 IbllkMla i Excellent for I OLD TOM 6IN I Pa Xs" d I LONDON IH SOLE AGENTS: SELLAR, MURRAY Co., penang. ■j! |Mj IBF- g ■■l ill The a I'par Pure Hazeline il'lil WE (Trade636 words
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Article771 1914-11-27 7 EXTENDED EXTRADITION FACILITIES. At the meeting of the Federal Council at Kuala Lumpur, the following new Enactments were also pa>sed “The Secretary for Chinese Affairs Enactment*, 1899, Amendment Enactment which was framed to vest in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs inspecting and controlling pjwers in respect of771 words
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Article33 1914-11-27 7 Pinang :—The E. <s O. Hotel, The Crag, Runnymede Hotel, Hotel Norman, Carlton Hotel and The New Sea View Hotel. S ingaporb Raffles Hotel. Rangoon Strand Hotel. Cbylon —Nuwara Eliya.33 words
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719 1914-11-27 7 A CONSIDERED JUDGMENT. Mr. A. E. W. Mason, the novelist, says Sympathy in the United States is at present overwhelmingly with the Allies. Even the German-born are by no means unanimous for Germany. A few loudish voices are, of course, raised from that quarter—a prufessor719 words
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Article204 1914-11-27 7 An Expression of Loyalty. At the Federal Council meeting H.H. the Sultan of Selangor addressed the Council in Malay, his speech being afterwards translated by Mr. Maxwell, the clerk to the Council. He said he was deeply sorry to bear that Turkey had dec’ared war against Great204 words
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Article315 1914-11-27 7 EVENTS OF A WEEK. Nov. 19.—Earl Roberts buried in St. Paul’s. i Artillery action on the western front. Heavy attacks on British Division are repulsed. Big battle commences in Russian Poland. Libau (Baltic) bombarded by German Fleet. Trebizond (Black Sea) bombarded by Russian warships. Russian Black315 words
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Article283 1914-11-27 7 Readers of Sir John French’s despatch will have noticed that, while he describes the examination of shells which proves that tbe Germans had Bin. howitzers in action, he does not reord the pre-ence on the other side of any larger guns. I believe that outside Antwerp283 words
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Advertisement440 1914-11-27 7 The only show in Town that Specialises •in Universal Fea‘ues and the Latest Pathe Releases. IS THE BIG SHOW tieorge Town Kinema AT THE THEATRE HALL, Kuala Kangsa Road. Pathe Animated Jonrnai depicts news in motion-pictures-f" J Pathe Cartoon depicts Satirical Review of Topical EventsProgramme Change Twice Weekly. THE BEST440 words
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Advertisement139 1914-11-27 7 Maddening Headaches Dull, grinding aches in the forehead, o* er the eyes or at the b’.se of the brain sharp, shooting pain* through the temples and sides of the face throbbing, maddening pains in the head—pains that set every nerve quivering in agony. All kinds of headaches and neuralgia—all s139 words
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