Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 10 December 1914

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 286 VOL. LXXII. THURSDAY. 10th DECEMBER. 1914. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    • 1175 1 I IF YOU WANT TO SHIP, BUY OR SELL RVBBER on to FORWARD GOODS L TO ANY PART O» th* WORLD «0 TO ALLEN DENNYS Co., I t. VMIOM amJUET. THE P S± M TFASi SUN life R BEACH STREET. PENAHG. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. *< JL A JL AI W? A
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    • 60 1 soaaooouauonn«nDnno«aDDao* a FOR S3O g u V7OU can have the “Pinene B X Gwwtte posted every day f for e whole year to yoar addre*s. 3 (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION. $27). j| Proportionate Quarterly and q J Half-yearly rate». 2 BchMsnptions are payabl/. in r- advance and remittances shoulri be eddrossed to
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  • 1012 2 THEIR PRINCIPAL FEATURE. A military expert writing on the situation a month ago said It was a general exspectation at the b’ginning of the war that the Russian forces would take long to come into operation, but that when they on the scene they wou'd be in
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  • 311 2 Enthusiastic Send off. The rousing send-off given to the Sportsman’s Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, on their departure from London for training was very striking, for in these days the marching of men in khaki has little of novelty. No doubt the public interest and enthusiasm displayed towards the
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  • 150 2 The astonishingly large percentage of the officers and crew rescued from the cruiser Hermes after the ship was torpedoed in the Dover Strait appears to have been due to a most ingenious idea thought of by someone who evidently retained all his presence of mind in
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  • 168 2 A thrilling story of h>w a boy of 18 led a bayonet charge is told by Corporal Isherwood, of D Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Manchester Regiment, who with a batch of wounded arrived at Cardiff. It was on the 20th of October,”
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  • 71 2 A move it is on foot for the purpose of forming Jewish Battalion in London and to off*r it for active service. This is particularly commendable, says the Jewish Chronicle” in view of the fact that its Honour R-ord contains the names of just on 4,064 British
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  • 37 2 The Kaiser's men their thirst were fain To quench in France’s best champagne, Since drinking seemed their forte But having drained the frisky juice Of Pommery and Green Chartreuse, They order up the Porte.
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    • 540 2 WANTED FOR RUBBER ESTATE, two European assistant». Apply with fall particular» to F. W. BARKER Co, Pencmy. 1253-11-12 SITUATION WANTED. Young Englishman seekspnAion on a rabbet estate. Over thspPyears «xperie>e, latterly as Senior Assistant. Is still employed, bat wishes to leave ÜbhqaltLy district. Address: "Invicta,” Box 221, c/o Pinang Gazette.
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    • 490 2 NO INCREASE IN PRICES OF MICHELIN TYRES Uninterrupted Supplies during the War. Obtainable from all Leading Agents. 1 O TO MINE-MANAGERS AND OTHERS. An MALAYAN COLLIERIES, LTD., early beg announce that thay will shortly be in a position A to place their COAL on the local market and should P
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  • 375 3 MOTOR AMBULANCE WORK. Extract from' a private letter received from »n cld F.M.B. resident:— On Monday last I and my chauffeur motored to Folkestone, where we stayed till Wednesday as there was no 100 m on board for our cars. We stayed at Boulogne till Monday and
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  • 310 3 —“M.M.” It is the habit of some people these days to attribute all the worries and troubles of the hour to the disturbance caused by the war. To a certain extent of course the war has been a disturbing element, but not in the manner that
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  • 241 3 We have the name of Ypres in England in that of the Ypres Tower, at Rye, in Sussex, though local talk knows nothing of its proper pronunciation, and broadly calls it the Wipers Tower.” It is a twelfth century building, the oldest secular building of all the Cinque Ports,
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  • 685 3 AMENDMENT TO THE HONGKONG ORDINANCE. A Government Gaz-nte Extraordinary issued at Hongkong on November 30 contai el a bill to amend the Alien Enemies’ (Winding-up) Ordinal ce, 1914, to provide for the protection of public officers in certain cases. The Bill is in substi ution of the
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  • 147 3 There has been a good deal of mortality among directors of plantation rubber companies of late. Not long ago the death of Mr. Joseph Fraser, a great personality in planting circles, had to be recorded, since when the demise of Mr. Thomas Carritt and Mr. K
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  • 43 3 A German officer named Mors, who was arrested last September, by tha Egyptian police, on his return from Turkey with plans for dynamiting the Suez Canal, was sentenced by a court martial at Alexandria to imprisonment for life.
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  • 432 3 AN ITALIAN VIEW. The National Zeitung publishes an acciunt of an article on the British, French and Geiman armies by an Italian correspondent. These foreign opinions are worth studying for the light which they may throw on the course of the campaign. The National Zeituog says The
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  • 451 3 GERMAN DOCTORS’ CONTRADICTION. Most hoirible tales of atrocit’es committed by Belg’ais upon Germans have ben current for a long time in Germany. The Kolnische Volkszeitung of October 29 published the fullowing interesting letter upon this subject written by a man of superior eiucation: In spite
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    • 237 3 Little Peterisms.” •O xfo -A w ✓Jgj VrCt. I W i? CI walker 5> /ry Bklf J DRINK IMPERIALLY. John Bull: Cheero boys don’t forget, No More German Lager.” PETER WALKER LAGER BEER. Obtainable from all first class dealers or Sellar, Murray Co., AGENTS, PENANG. Good RICH TYRES C Sole
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  • 488 4 WAR NEWS VIA THE HAGUE. 1 The Hague, Decembar 1-3 :—Several hundred German reservists and Landstara men have been sent bick from the front to Ostiud and Ghent chained two and two these men refused to take part in the fighting at the front on the ground
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  • 443 4 FROM ONE OF THEM. When I write of Tommy Atkins, you all know who 1 mean, The chap who’s doing all he knows for Country, King and Queen He does it too with such a will, in his own peculiar way, He’s flabbergasted all the Huns, he’s
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  • 904 4 JAPANESE POLITICS. Tokio, Novembar 25 —The eight bodies in the Seiyukwii mat in the evening of the 24»;h and decided to impeach the government by pointing out the maladministration in regard to home affiirs, foreign finance and the national defence and they threatened the leaders of the party.
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  • 714 4 OUR NEW ARMY. Allahabid, November 28th.—The Pioneer’s London correspondent cables The first new army has completed its recruit training an i is now at field work and advance musketry. I have the battalions at work after an interval of a week or two and have been astonished at
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  • 99 4 The German espionage system ir Great Britain is revealed through the deat ujtion by British war ve sds of a Germ n submarine base on an uninhabited rod of the Shethnd Islands in «ha North Ssa, according to a r a pirt from Scotland. It
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  • 32 4 Pbnang —The E. 4 O. Hotel The Crag, Runnyrnede Hotel, Hote Norman, Carlton Hotel and Tha Ne < Sea View Hotel. Singapore: —Raffles Hotel. Rangoon Strand Hotel. Cbylon Nuwara Eliya.
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  • 933 4 ARTILLERY MOUNTED ON AIR MONSTER. “The Dai'y Chronicle’' spec’al correspon lent Mr Ahn Bot“, in a despatch, received in London on Nov 4 from the Lake of Constance says Something extraordinary is happening at Friedrichshafen. From my window I can see the little white anl red town nestling at
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  • 672 4 THE FAILURE TO REACH CALAIS. To American imagination no feature of the war, apart from tha co'ossal losses involved, is fraught with more dramatic possibilities than the desperate, furious, frantic efforts of the Kaiser’s cohorts to reach Dunkirk and Calais To Americans Germany has unbosomed hers u
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  • 171 4 Cool Artilleryman. A French artillery regiment nevr Lille the other day was in the hottest kind of action with German b itteries of superior strength, says a co-respondent in the Daily News.” The French lines received a storm of shot and shell, but nothing could silence the 75,”
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  • 525 4 MEMORIAL TABLET AT KLANG. At the close of serv ce at St. Barnabas Church, Klang, on Sunday evening, the Rev. J. D. Bolton unveiled the memorial tablet which has been placed in the church to the'memory of the late Mr. James Sco'.t Mason. The tablet,
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  • 357 4 An Eight Days’ Trial After trial running well into the eighth day, the two Malaya charged with the murder of a Chinese pedlar at Sungei Kuntol on Sept. 17th were acquitted. In all, nineteen witnfssei we e called for the prosecution. The accused called no evidence, contenting
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  • 1286 5 A conservative policy. The fourth annua! general meeting of the Batak Rabit Rubber Estate. Limited, was held Nov. 10, at the offices of the company, Pinners’ Hall, Austin Friars, Mr. Edward Lau-ence Hamilton (chairman of the company) presiding. The Chairman said The report speaks for itself, and
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  • 266 5 Mr. Staines Manders, wr-tef the London correspondent of the Times o! Ceylon,” was fortunate indeed to have got h i Rubber Exhibition through before the war b oke out Had the date been October instead >f June-July wl)o would haye ?ared aboqt a I ibber
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  • 508 5 A Timb op Highbr Yields. The seventh annual general meeting was held at 38, Eastcheap, Mr. H. A. Barret presiding. The Chairman referred with great regret to tte recent death of Mr. Keith F. Arbuthnot, who, he stated, had been connected with the company since
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  • 387 5 The report of the Sungei Bahru Rubber Estates, Limited, to be subsnitted to the meeting on the 19th ult. states that the rubber crop harvested during the ye»r to June 30th was 98,020 lbs. The number of trees in the tapping round on June 30 th
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  • 247 5 The report of the directors for present ition at the adjourned 4th annual general meeting of shareholder states Acreage Under Cultivation.—As at 30th June, 1914, was 4')o acres approximately. Production. —The total output for the year ending, June 30th, 1914, was 21,849 lbs. against an estimate
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  • 200 5 Messrs. Guthrie Co., io their weekly report of Tuesday, the Bth inst. say The auction which opened this morning easily establishes a fresh record as regards quantity offered, close on 160 tons being catalogued. It was early apparent that sellers would have to be content with prices
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    • 86 5 J> iiliwiLLiillA P) Ki Jk by appointment to his majesty the king. r jh a mo I LJH CONTRACTORS TO leH The British War Office. India Office. British Admiralty. Bal ISH me nrinsn war un ve The Straits Settlements and Federated Malay Stales Government Hospitals, etc., etc. Condensed w® JK
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    • 53 5 You judge the sincerity of silver by the hall-mark. The sincerity of an advertisement may be estimated by the consistency of its appearance. If advertisements appear persistently in the press, it is evident they ara honest and worth your while to reply to. If they were not, they could not
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  • 641 6 The resignation of the General Beyers, the former Commandant General of the Union Defence Forces, and the rebellion which the late chief organised with the co-operation of General De Wet, the famous guerilla leader, were prompted by motives quite different from those which
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  • 356 6 The escape of the portion of the German Army which was almost surrounded in Russian Poland, north east of Lodz, following a despeate attempt by the enemy to get to the rear of the Russians and inflict a decisive blow left the situation pretty much as it was
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  • 248 6 CHINESE NONIA CHARGED. Chia Soh Guat, a Chinese nonia, was arrested last night on a warrant at the instance of another woman named Sim Hok Kim on the alleged charge of dis honest misappropriation of three cold and diamond krosanys valued at $5,500 on July Ist last. Mr.
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  • 529 6 Tin is quoted in London to-day at £146 spot and £144 10l three months. To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $69.09 per picu l business I done. The Rev. W. H. Foster Pegg, late Army Chaplain in Hongkong, has been mentioned in despatches.” A meeting
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  • 305 6 DEATH OF MR. H. A. MEREDITH, Mr. H. A. Meredith, the victim of the Kulim outrage, died at Butterworth Hospital at 9 o’clock this morning. Mr Meredith, it will be remembered, was murderously attacked by some Chinese coolies on November 28 and was picked up practically in
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  • 224 6 RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. A Congregational meeting was held in the Presbyterian Chirch, Penang, last night, when the Rev. W. Cross, m.a formally announced his resignation. The Presbytery of London, which has charge of the Presbyterian Churches in Malaya, has asked Mr. Cross to undertake the charge of
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  • 43 6 The Hon. Treasurer sends us the following further contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance Dec. 8 ...$34,119 19 A. B. Voules’ 2nd Donation 100.00 Balance on Dec. 9 ...$34,219 19
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  • 32 6 Balance Dec. 8 $1,167.06 M. M. Noor lin 100.00 Pritchard and Co., Weighing Machine Box HJQ Balance on Deo. 9 $1,278.96 Amount previously acknowle g«d $4,266.66 Total $5,545 62
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  • 120 6 We understand that Mr. P. K. Nambyar, who was recently elected a member of the Prince of Wales’s Relief Fund Committee, is, in co-operation with Messrs. H. G. nd T. Isaac Tambyah, convening at the Chinese Town Hall on Saturday, the h instant, at 2 p.m. a
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    • 33 6 THE CRAG HOTEL, SANATORIUM' 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 Proprietors.
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  • 191 7 GENERAL BEYERS DEAD. INDISPOSITION OF THE KAISER. THE FIGHTING IN POLAND. AUSTRIAN FLIGHT FROM SERBIA The Germans are showing more activity in Belgium, and the Allies’ artillery hos been successfully used sgaiust them. A report from Dutch sources says Allied warship s have been again utilised against the
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 276 7 [Reutbb’s Special and Ordinary Services [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) London, December 9. A Paris evening official corumun’que aiys: A violent German attack was made on St. Eloi, south of Ypres, which was repu’sed. A vigorous struggle is still continuing in Argonne.” GERMAN BOMBS ON RHEIMS.
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    • 211 7 [Copyright Telrgram j (By Submarine Telegraph.) London, December 10. News has ben received that the Germans shot down an aeroplane, with the Earl of Annesley and Lieutenant Beevor at Ostend on November 5. Both aviators were killed. mJ Th® Times of November 10 stated lhe Secretary of
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    • 177 7 RETURN FROM BERLIN DELAYED. Am-terdam, December 9. A Berlin official despatch says the Kaiser has been obliged to postpone for some days his return to the front, owing to an attack of feverish bronchial catarrh. He was able to-day to receive a report on the war situation.
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 154 7 Petrograd, December 9. An official message says fighting has developed at Prasnysz aud Ziechanowa, between Warzaw and Mlawa, and is not yet finished. Fighting has also occurred in the Piotrkow region, where the Russians have had partial successes. RUSSIAN SUCCESS NEAR CRACOW. A battle began on
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  • Turkey and the Near East.
    • 33 7 APPEARS OFF SEVASTOPOL. Petrograd, December 10. It is officially announced that the cruiser Breslau appeared eff Sevastopol (Black Sea) snd disappeared when the Russian ciuiseis and aeroplanes went out to attack.
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    • 63 7 AUSTRIANS IN RETREAT. [Copyright Telegram] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Nish, December 9. An official communique says the Serbian Army assumed a fierce offensive over the entire front, and the enemy are retreating everywhere, leaving many prisoners and guns, and a great quantity of war material. The Serbians captured,at one
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  • Britain Overseas.
    • 175 7 TR \NBVAAL REBKL LEADER. London, December 9. It is officially announced from Pretoria that General Beyers, the leader of *ho Transvaal revolt, is dead. Drowned While Crossing Vaal. Pretoria, December 9. It is officially announced that daring a short engagement on the bank? of the Vaal, General
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  • General News.
    • 57 7 GERMANS BLAMED. Stockholm, December 10. The Swedish Press and public are astounded at the discovery of mines off the Finnish coast, which have already sunk three Swedish steamers, aud are convinced they were laid by the Germans. Captains of steamers say that on Saturday a r td
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    • 137 7 34 MEN BURNED TO DEATH. London, December 10. The British oil steamer Vedra went ashore, during a gale, near Fleetwood. The cargo caught fire, and tbi ty-four of the crew were burned to death. THE COLONIES’ WAR GIFTS. London, December 9. Correspondence relating to the war
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  • 99 7 INTERVIEW IN LONDON. [Copyright Tblbgram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) London, December 10. Mr. Szo, the new Cbin»se Minister in Lon lon, in an interview with Rau’er, said there is general confidence io the present Chinese Government He said the President and the Government continues successfully to grapple with
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  • Special Cable.
    • 343 7 SATISFACTORY SITUATION. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Bangkok, December 9. The Legation telegram from the Biiti&h Foreign Office states that employment in Britain shows a continued improvement. The October returns give firms employing more than 4,000,000 men, and show that ths number out of work is not g
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  • 43 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.'] Singapore, December 9. The e were on offer 143 tons, of which 76 tons were sold. Prices generally were lower:— Ribbed Smoked Sheet $166 Pale Crepe 155 Brown and Dark 1 54 to 3B Crepe j
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  • 30 7 OUTPUTS FOR NOVEMBER. The following are the rubber outputs for Nov.:— Burma Development... lbs. 1,883 Clovelly 2.802 Durian Sabatang 1 810 Kota Tinggi 6,000 Pelepah Valley 9,500 Siginting 3,700
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  • 949 7 ALLEGED ABETMENT OF UNLAWFUL MARRIAGE. In the Third Court, Penang, yesterday afternoon, before Mr. V. G. Ezechiel, the pel i min ary enquiry into the charge of alleged abetment of unlawful marriage against an Ex Kathi named Syed Omar was commenced. Mr. C. R. Samuel appeared for
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 543 7 DRESSER WANTED for Gula Estate Hospital. Apply Manager, Gules Estate, Krian, F.M.S. DEEBOOK DREDGING NO LIABILITY. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. NOTICE is hereby given that a Dividend (the first) at the rate of 5% on the paid up capital (equivalent to Is. per share) has been declared on all shares in
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  • 209 7 OBITUARY. MR. W. R ROCKHILL, THE U.S. diplomat. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) London, December 9. The death has occurred of the wellknown American diplomat, Mr. William Woodville Rockhill, at Honolu’u, while en route for Peking, to act as Adviser to President Yuan-Shih Kai.—Reuter. [William Woodville Rockhill, Ambassador of the
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  • 1439 8 FIRST CASES HEARD IN SINGAPORE. AN ENEMY’S BIGHT TO APPEAL. What is probably the first Prize Court to be held in Singapore or the Straits Settlemen’s, was opened in the Supreme Court, on Tuesd ly, before the acting Chief Justice, Mr. L. M. Woodward. There was howeve-,
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  • 240 8 In another column, says the Bangkok Times of Ist instant, will be found the somewhat surprising statement that it is exotc ed there will be direct railway connection between Prye (Penang) and Bangkok in about a yea»*. The statement was made by the Pinang Gazette’” but was
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  • 137 8 The Turkish Navy of the past owe! almost its existence to an English sulor, Hobart Pasha, a bold buccaneer of the Elizabethan period, who by same strange perverseness of fate was born into the Victorian age He retired from the English Navy in 1863, and during the
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  • 751 8 January Meeting, 1915. (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE DAYS: FIRST DAY Thursday, 7th January, 1915. SECOND DAY... Saturday, 9th January, 1915. FIRST DAY. Thursday, 7th January, 19J5 1 THE OPENING STAKES. Value $5OO. A Handicap for all Horses to be entered at a stated
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 59 8 All mothers desire to see t eir children grow up strong and hearty. To effect this the protection from chills, stomach ailments, etc., must be sure, such as is afforded by Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, a medicine known throughout the Southern Hemisphere as the children’s life saver. Never be without
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    • 343 8 ytw2qS&jrg& IV” Whisky &dcnbargW m| Sole Agents: -TONG JOO Co., Penang. OSSBKBESia2£a9SB9S9EaSEa9SSBSS&EESS&2S9SEED| i! Try what a refreshing, easily digested, and specially nourishing food beverage may be made with Benger’s Food in combination with tea or coffee, cocoa or chocolate. I Benger’s Food, prepared with r| fresh new milk forms a
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    • 70 8 WE HAVE JUST UNPACKED Motor Car and Motor Cycle Accessories and Oils As well as SOLID TYRES for Carriages. Our prices are the cheapest in the market and we are prepared to challenge competitors. We have also in stock the famous J. E. S. MOTOR SETS to be fitted to
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  • 356 9 BETRAYER OF THE LONDON SCOTTISH. CAUGHT BY GHURKAS. It is now generally known that the Lon don Scottish were deliberately misled by a German spy who wai afterwards caught by our Indian troop?, and no man more deserved his fate than this one, writes a Daily Chronicle
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  • 350 9 EVENTS OF A WEEK. Nuv. 27.—Germans eatrenching in Kiel Canal region. German attacks south of Dixmude and in Argonne repulsed. Rheims again bombarded. Turkish forces baaten eist of E-zarum. Two steamers sunk by German submarine near Havre. November 29.—Sinking of German crui er in Baltic is
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  • 688 9 CARGO IN ENEMY VESSELS AT NEUTRAL PORTS. The one problem which more than any other sine a the war began, has given rise to an infinitude of d üb\ misunderstanding and controversy in shipping and importing circles, concerns the exac* liability of consignors and consignees under c.i.f.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 750 9 INSURANCE. the THE CORPORATION OF THE PIM ROW EXCHAHCE ASSURAHCI IlinnV Royal Exchange, London COMMENCED business in a.d. 1717 and f« fa was Incorporated by Royal Charter in M a.d. 1710 and i fl therefore one of the oldest Companies in existence. It has granted the benefits of Assurance to
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    • 430 9 r Indigestion, g Used Angier’s for many years. “Wonderful Healing Powers.” The Hoath. Canterbury. Dear Sirs, —I have much pleasure in testifying to the wonderful healing powers 1= of Angier’s Emulsion, which I have taken off and on for many years. When I first s began taking it, I suffered
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  • 445 10 “MAN WHO TOOK THE GUNS IO LADYSMITH.” Among the naval aDno’utments anby tbe Admiralty is that of H Admiral Sir Percy Scott, K.C.8., K.C.V.O, L.L.D., to ths President, edditiona 1 for Special Service, November 3.” This announcement about the nnn who took the guns to
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  • 172 10 It is interesting to note the remarkable place the Motor Car has obtained, and the success with which it has been so widely adopted by the War Departments of the countries engaged in the present European War. The stride that the industry has made during the past few
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  • 92 10 The origin of the British occupation of Egypt and the Soudan can ba traced to the purchase, 39 years ago, for £4,000,000, of the Khedive’s Suez Canal shares. It was at a Guildhall banquet that Lord Beaconsfield replied to Mr. Gladstone’s bag and baggage pamphlet by
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  • 615 10 MINUTES OF MEETING. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday, the 24th November, 1914. Present —Messrs, W. Peel (Presxhnt), F. Duxbury, Qaah Beng Kee, John Yeoh Guan Seok, and L .m Eow Hong. Absent :—Mr. P. T. Allen. 1. The minutes of the last
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    • 104 10 I Driven to Death by the unbearable torments of Neuralgia—piercing, torturing, nerve-destroying pains taht rob life of all its pleasures. Don’t let Neuralgia drive you to death. Don’t let it make life miserable, iutolerab’e. Just use Little's Oriental Balm and get the speedy, sure relief that this great remedy provides.
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  • 1180 11 MISLEADER OF THE TURKS. BY ONE WHO KNOWS HIM. Probably no man in Europe—unless it be the German Emperor himsalf—has attained co much notoriety on co small a basis of talent as Enver Pasha. To-day he figures as the man who is plunging Tvrkey into a luicidal
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  • 183 11 A special correspondent, in Northern France, October 31 says Long effected movements now make it possible to mention the Honourable Artillery Company and the work they have been doing in France. They followed the London Scottish closely, and. like them, were tried on lines of communication
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  • 225 11 —Ex. Just after the news o f the first Emden raid had reached Calcutta there was received by the Marine Department an urgent wireless,” calling for the immediate supply of coal for a British cruiser, which, coming at full speed from Singapore, had run out of fuel,
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  • 142 11 Freda Uden, the little daughter of MrJ and Mrs. F. G. Uden, of Godaiming, recently sent a muffler, which she bad knitted, to Admiral Sir John Jellico* with the following letter Dear Admiral Jellicoe, —I am sending this scarf. Will you give it to
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