Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 10 June 1915

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 131 VOL. LXXIII. THURSDAY. 10th JUNE, 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 938 1 m3. If ti 17 IUU Want IO SHIP. y BUY Ort SELL Q rrub n s r c OR TO 5 L FORWARO GOODS y r to ANY PASIT or THI WORLD [1 < GO TO u ALLEh DENNYS Co., g X 1. VMiON BTKKET. IHrM—r* M CTi JmzjqiTic?! —ma
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    • 55 1 jnunooohautinosini>ci.N FOB »30 e B X7OU e*D have the Pinsog o X GmmmUb n «wry Any a far a wteofo y»»r to yoor tuid?an» a (LOCAL SUBSCItirTtOM, »xn. PKoportimiAte Quarterly ai>d !H*lf-/«*Uy reu« ar* paynhW tn odvano» and irmittMcc*» Bbot>|d I b« addrewtasd to a a 2 g mwans oazetyk
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  • 300 2 AMERICAN ESTIMATE. The British Weekly quotes the “New York Independent for an article entitled The Business of Selling Death,” by One of the Salesmen.” The writer begins “I am a war contractor in a very large way.” He goes on to siy that the Allies are the
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  • 269 2 “To the 6th Gordons who fell at Neuve Chapelle, March, 1915, who were faithful unto death; and in Memory of Patrick M’Laren aud William Fraser.” From our sequestered nook, their young hearts leaping To front the war, with comrades true they went: First of their own familiar band,
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  • 172 2 Who Fell at Nbuve Chapelle, March, 1915. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Sleep on, brave hearts, the sleep that knows no waking Sleep peacefully, and take your well earned rest; Till when the last
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  • 898 2 The N.Y. K. steamer Wakasa Maru, which proceeded home via Suez, is being despatched to New York and will return to Japan via the Panama Canal. At the meeting of the directors of the Japan-China Steamship Company held on April 13 it was decided that a dividend of
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1162 2 Rates for WANTED. Re ERNEST TAYLOR, Deceased. a c ual A SSISTANT for a Rubber Estate; a A,LL creditors or claimants upon or VASllill riUVvi 2A. man with, some experience and xx against the Estate of Ernest Taylor FOR SALE TO LET SITUATIONS VACANT. ETC. knowledge of Tamil preferred. formerly
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    • 572 2 BANKS. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIa AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA, Incorporated by Royal Charter. p.id.up Capital Reserve Fund £i jqo one Reserve Liability of Proprietors... £l2OO 000 Head Ofyiob 38, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, R.q Aoxmcixs and Branohm. Amritsar Hongkong Penang Bangkok Iloilo Puket Batavia Ipoh Rangoon Bombay Karachi Saigon Calcutta Klang Seremban Canton
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  • 1436 3 by sir HENRY seion-karr, c.m.g. All Rights Reserved.] (f*. G. Special.) X well-known and eminent Canon of the Church, himself a golfer, is reported to have once remarked that one of the chief demerits of the game of go’f, in his opinion, was that its regular
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  • 231 3 China has a long way to go before her people become a warlike people. At present they a»e much too unpractical to be good fighters. An instance of this was afforded in the city of Chacbow some days ago. A bard of twenty robbers attacked a
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  • 1300 3 AN INDICTMENT THE WAR HAS DRAWN UP AGAINST THE SQUAW. There is floating in the thick fluid of the public mind, writes Rebecca We»t, the well-known feminist, a confuse 1 feeling that somehow or other this war is a lesson to women. It is felt that
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  • 426 3 Messrs. James F. Hutton A Co., Ltd writing on May 6, report Liverpool Cotten. To-day. Last Week. Mid-American —Spot 5,24 5.69 Mid-American, Current Month 5.14 5.59 F.G.F. Egyptian—Spot 7.70 8.20 New York Cotton. Yesterday. Last week Spot—Cents. 10.05 10.50 London. To-day. Last week. Bar Silver 23 9/16
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  • 157 3 One day some-one spoke to the Hon. Champ Clark of scientific farm management. When,” said the speaker, I hear the bragging of these efficiency engineers that they can increase by so many fold the output of a farm, I am reminded of the case of one Bill
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  • 946 3 Harpei ’e A SUCCESSFUL YEAR IN SPITE OF THE WAR. The report of the committee of Tanglia Club Singapore for the year ending January 31st last, has just been issued and reads as follows :—Your committee regret that owing to the mutiny and other circumstances it has not
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  • 781 3 EVERY MAN UNDER 55. Speaking at a largely attended meeting of shopkeepers of Liverpool, convened by the Lord Mayor in response to a request from the Home Office, Lord Derby made an important statement in regard to compulsory national service. In order to keep
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 182 3 THE MALARIA DEATH RATE. Statistics prove that Malaria kills mor» people every year in the hot countries cf the East than any otlv r disease, an appalling fact when one considers that most of these deaths were preventable. Not so many years ago Science was still groping in the dark
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  • 369 4 [From Our Own Corretpondent.] Koala Lumpur, Jane 8. The Revd W. Dale, of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of England, preached in the Y.M C.A. hall to a large congregation on Sunday evening. At 9 p.m he gave an address on the Life and
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  • 529 4 Flame a Mile Long and 200 yards WIDB. We hive often heard of invention* that will make war impossible, aid of engines of des’ruction so powerful that human flesh and blood cannot stand against them,” says the military correspon lent of the Standard.” The p geon-holes of
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  • 999 4 BRITISH COMMANDER IN THE DARDANELLES. At the moment than Englishmen are awaiting the development of the struggle for the Dardanelle 4 with the fate of Constantinople an < the Turkish Empire in the balance it is announced that ths Commander of the Expeditionary Force is General Sir
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  • 426 4 A Trades in India. A well-known member of the English motor trade has recently returned from a business tour in India and Java, a tour which he had planned bef >re the war began or was even thought of—by the British at any rate. Apparently it was only because
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  • 383 4 Gunners, engineers and doubtless a good many otbe s will be interested in a few particulars of the Gernun 16-inch gun, of which eo much was in the earlier stages of the war, more especially in connection with ths reduction of the Belgian fortresses on
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  • 1198 4 -“Pioneer.’t SUGGESTED REFORMS. The movement on foot to compel every European in India to become a volunteer has attracted attention to the entire question of volunteering io India and on this ground should be welcomed by all interested in the improvement of the Volunteer forces of this
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  • 238 4 His Britannic Majesty’s Acting ConsulGeneral asks us to state that, His Majesty’s Government having decided to revise the system and form of British passports issued prior to the sth August 1914 and held by British Subjects in Siam will become invalid on the Ist Augn*t 1915.
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  • 190 4 Unprecedented Severity In Pahang. The Pahang correspondent of the M. M.” writes :—As previocsly pointed out by me in your coloumos, the wintering of rubber trees, in the Bent< ng, Tras, Raub, Cherok, and Kuala Lipis districts of Pahaug, has this year been extraordinarily severe. Such
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 198 4 The Penang Choral Society WILL PRESENT “H. M. S. PINAFORE,” AT THE TOWN HALL, Under the distinguished Patronage of The Resident Councillor. TO-NIGHT, Thursday, 10th June, At 9-15 p.m. IN AID OF H. R. H. Prince of Wales’ Relief Fund. Reserved Seats $2. Unreserved Seats $l. The Booking is now
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 204 4 WHO IS FIRST IN THE FIELD? The Chance is now at your command to form your opinion. Although there may be two subjects of the same kind but admittedly they are not of the same quality. QUALITY is the absolute Essential Value that leads to Success; and is the Underlying
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  • 1112 5 THRILLING stories of the recent air raids. Although little has been heard in detail about the doings of the*naval aviators on the Continent of late, occasional references in the Press to the dropping of bombs on various Belgian towns show that the work of the
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  • 326 5 A Trade that has been Stopped. It is not generally known that the cloth required for the envelopes of airships, and for the wings of aeroplanes, is only made in Lancashire, and that since the beginning of the war there is re won to believe that large
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  • 396 5 One of the Factors Behind the Japanese Demands. A Tokio correspondent writes to th? home Press that one of the main factors in Japan’s present attitude toward China is her desire to secure control of the valuable iron mines of that) ecuntry. Japan has long
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  • 564 5 AN IMPORTANT EXTENSION. The Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, that wonderful little steel rowd which, with many a twist, carries the tourist towards the region of the everlasting snows, has now found a new and not unworthy rival in the Teesta-Siliguri extension, says the “Statesman.” The new hill railway forms a
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  • 323 5 Mr. Bonar Law’s Way. I hope we shall pay no attention whatever to any convention which interferes with bringing the war to a rapid conclusion.” This was the declaration of Mr. Bonar Law in the House of Commons on May sth when speaking of the
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  • 990 5 The following letter by Mr. G. Nevill Stevens appears in the South Perak Church Notes My Dear Padre, I was glad to see that you touched on the subject of Sunday tapping. Any work on the Sunday is wrong in principle for professing Christians, for the day is
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 713 5 I Pure Yorkshire wool JeL I suits—light and cool. LI f We’ll tailor you in latest European style in the /u''/ smar test, lightest and coolest suit you’ve had. Avoid sloppy, ill-fitting garments. They’re no cooler and make you look slovenly. Pure wool 1' T suits absorb moisture and keep
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  • 19 6 Hunter.—On June 7, at 8, L°onie Hill Road, Singapore, to Dr. and Mrs. P. S. Hunter, a son.
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  • 1026 6 The resignation of Mr. Bryan is no misfortune. On the contrary, the cause of civilization will be improved and President Woodrow Wilson’s task lightened by the removal from the Foreign Office of the United States of a Minister who has been more of a trial than a
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  • 1074 6 When we referred to the fact that I Bangkok was kept well supplied with German literatui e and informative news about the war we had not had the pleasure of reading the brightest specimens. 1 These have been forwarded for our perusal. Mrs. L. Niessen-Deiters, for example,
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  • 50 6 To-morrow, Friday Feast of St Barnabas. Holy Communion 8 a.m. a St. George’s Church. Service of luterce sion for the War, 6 p.m. The Choir will render the Anthem “Ye shall dwell in the land (Stainer on Sunday next at Evensong. Bass solo Soprano solo, and chorus.
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  • 628 6 To-day’s quotation for unrefine 1 tic in Penang was $Bl 50 per picul, business done—a decrease of $1.25. Tin is quoted in London to-day at 166 10s. Spot, and £165 10s. three months Mr. L. T. Hildreth, Consul for Siam at New York, died last month. Mr.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 363 6 .«niiii™ I A E 3 0U L L fl SMOKING MIXTURE. ABDULLA N /gs new bond zz: ■1 TilE BEST I 6BDULLA I PRICE g. 'Smoking i Is MIXTURE i MIXTO" ONLY 85 cents s a MEDIUM “T X-'VC 1 W ZZ* OBTAINABLE J per 54 lb. tin. g I
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    • 33 6 THE CRAG HOTEL, “SANATORIUM” PENANG HILL Completely Renovated. Ab 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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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
  • 21 6 DEATH. Stables.— On Jone 9ih, as the result of a motor car accident, G. Stables, Changkat Estate, Province Wellesley, aged 32.
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  • 220 7 SIR J. FRENCH’S REPORT. the german advance in GALICIA. WINED TURKISH CRUISER REFLOATED. field Marshal S r John French’s latest bulletin does not explain the recent Lean casualties which have been re ported, and states that the s’tuation Las not changed. Two more German aeroplar.es have been brought
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 114 7 Reuter’s Services.] activity north of arras. Paris, Jane 9. A French communique says: Severe artillery duels have occurred in the regions of the Aisne and Notre Dame de Lorette. We captured more hon es at Neuvi’.le and repuls p d a violent attack in the labryinth.
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    • 70 7 London, June 9. Field Marshal Sir John French reports that the situation on the British front has not changed. The artillery has ben less active. We successfuly exploded mines under the German trenches in front of Ploegsteert, destroying thirty yards of the parapet. We brought down
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    • 55 7 Amsterdam, June 9. Tue frontier of B Jgium and Holland has been closed in connection with movements enoi incus numbers of German troops to the Yser. Barbed electric wire has been placed along the whole f'outier and the inhabitants have been to place buckets of water before the
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    • 118 7 FATE OF THE CREW. Amsterdam, June 9. wo aeroplares were observed on Sunday evening hovering over Flanders. Guns Plundered on all sides, but the airunperturbed, remained in the air. apparently awaiting Zeppelins. One of D »r roplaniats sighted a Zeppelin about in ’he morning, and brought it
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    • 39 7 London, June 9. In the House of Common-, at question time, Mr. Asquith announced that compensation would be granted for damage by air raids. The Government was considering the insurance cf property against war risks.
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    • 87 7 L 1 Wrecked in North Sea. Wrecked near Mlawa, Sept. 1914. Wrecked at Dusseldorf by British Airman. Nov. 10, 1914. Wrecked near French lines. Wrecked near Cologne, Feb. 28, 1915. (Parsevnl' Wrecked at Libau. L 3'Wrecked in Denmark. Feb. 17. 1915. L 4 Wrecked in North Sea.
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    • 38 7 London, June 9. Ata meeting of the Ca;d oom Workers at Manchester it was decided to persist in the dema? d fra war bonus. The decision has further aggrava ed the citton trade disjute.
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 144 7 CONTINUOUS FIGHTING IN GALICIA. Petrograd, June 9. The German s are developing a big battle in front of Shavli, with rearranged force’. They are persistently attacking in the direction of the village cf Doubie. The communique says In consequence the Russians left the village and concentrated
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    • 73 7 BELGIAN GENERAL AND THE RETREAT. Paris, June, 9. The Belgian General, De Witte, has jast returned from Russia full of enthusiasm over the Russian Army, which, he savs, is th’ most courageous in existence. I have no fear about, their fallins back:” ‘We fell back from Moscow
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  • Italy’s Campaign.
    • 39 7 AEROPLANE ATTACK Vienna, June 9. An official announcement states that an Austrian seaplane shot at ai.d destroyed the Italian airship Ferrara which was returning frem Fiume in the early morning. The crew of seven were captured.
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  • Turkey and the Near East
    • 80 7 lAN HAMILTON AND HIS TROOPS. London, June 9. General Sir Tan Hamilton in an Order to the troops on May 9th said •‘I have never seen more devoted gallantry than during the fast three days, even during the Russo Japanese fighting. I have cabled to Earl Kitchener, paying
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    • 67 7 TURKISH BASE ATTACKED. London, Jute 9. A traveler who has arrived at Bukhareet from Constantinople states that nine British seaplanes bombed Ak Bascb base and harbour in Gallipo i, killing or wt aciding fifteen soldiers and damaging stores. Ak Bascb is on the northern shore of the
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    • 24 7 Athens, June 9 King Constantine has impr ved, and it is hoped that Lis Majes’y will soon te out of danger.
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  • Naval Operations
    • 78 7 BY RUSSIAN SUBMARINE. Petrograd, Jure 9. A Russian submarine attacked ten German batik ships between Windau aid Gotland. The subm line fired s veral torpedoes and then dived, knd explosions bring heard. The German-, owing to the activity of Russian submarines and losses by minefields, left for
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    • 61 7 Odessa, June 9. The Russians have refloated and docked the Turkish cruiser Medjidieh. The Mkpjidieh was sunk by a mine off the Russian coast some weeks ago. She is a light cruiser of 3.432 tons, completed at Philadelphia in 1901. She carries two 6 inch, and
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    • 79 7 London, June 9. Ti<e German submarine U 23, which sink the battleships Triumph and Majestic ofl Gallipoli, has arrived »t Constantinople. U 23 was the third of a new type of large sea-going submarines completed in 1912-1913 Their submerged diplacement is 800 tons, and the surface
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  • General News.
    • 35 7 London, June 9. TLe triennial gold medal of the Royal Asiatic Society has been awarded to Mrs Smith Lewis, end ler sister, Mrs. Dunlop Gibson, for their contributions to Sinaitic Semetic studies
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    • 38 7 London, June 9. Sir Hugh Barnes yesterday presented the Public Schools’ Medsl for the best prize essay on Delhi past and present to H. A. Methew at Merchant Taylors’School. The winner was born at Cawnpore.
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  • 267 7 Tenders were opened in Bangkok on June 1 for the supply of passenger rolling stcck, destined principally for the long distance traffic which is only partly developed now, and which will reach completion when the line is open to Chieng nai. It was a matter of specu’aHon
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  • 421 7 DISAGREES WITH NOTE TO GERMANY. AN UPHOLDER OF PEACE. Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Washington, June 9. Mr. Bryan, Secretary of State, has resigned. Difference Over Note to Germany, Washington, June 9. President Wilson has accepted Mr Bryan’s resignation, wl ich was due to differences over the
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  • 31 7 Washington, June 9. Rear-Admiral Mayo, commander of the First Division of the Atlantic Fleet, has b< en appointed Vice-Adnrral, the first of three American Vice-Admirals to be appointed.
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  • 31 7 Lon lon, June 10. A resolution by the Association of Dutch Sea Captains ar d Officers protests against the barbarous German submarine warfare against defenceless merchantmen and fi-hermen.
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  • 67 7 The Hon. Treasurer sends us the following further contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance on June 8 ...$21,974.94 H D Sharpin monthly subscription 22.00 F B Rickett Do 10 00 G B Fitzgerald Do 10.00 G N
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  • 112 7 SIXTEEN DEATHS REPORTED. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapcre, June 13. The steamer Zweena of the Heap Eng Moh Line is reported to have been lost near Bali. It is stated that eleven passengers and five of the crew were drowned. The Island of Bali is in
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  • 46 7 German Submarine Sunk. CREW CAPTURED. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) L'lndon, June 9. In the House of Commons, Mr Balfour First Lord of the Admiralty, announc» d that a German submarine had been sunk, and six officers and twenty-one of the c-ew captured.
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  • 48 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, June 10. At Singapore rubber auctions, thera were offered 183 tons. With a strong demand 120 tons were sold. Fine Ribbed Smoked Sheet ..,$128—5127 Fine pale crepe 127 Unsmoked sheet fell to 118 Low grade crepes were in good demand.
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  • 253 7 MASQUERADING AS WOMAN. Dollah, a Malay, wa’ charged b e f >re Mr. E. E. Co'ma in the Second C>u t, Penarg, to-day, with diso derly conduct by masquerading as a w ma He pleaded not guilty to the charge. Inspector Frayne, who conducted the ca-e, said that
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  • 181 7 In the same Court four Clrnese—Wong Mia, Wong Pang Liong, Yu Su Chuan and bia Kiu Lai were charged with voluntarily cautiug hurt to a compatriot named Chua Luan with dangerous weapon? —a knife, an iron bar and a bomb. While the prosecutor, who was employ* d
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  • 279 7 The funeral of Mr. G. Stables of Changkat Estate, Province Welledey, whoso untimely end, as the result of a motor car accident, has crea’ed wide-spread sympathy for his sorrowing relatives, took place yesterday afternoon from Changkat E'rta’e to Parit Buutar Cemetery. The ceremony, which was
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  • 89 7 PENANG GOLF CLUB. THE TENNIS IOURNAMENT. The following ties were played last night Men’s Singles Handicap Class A— Threlfall —4O beat Bennett—ls by 6—2, 9—7. Profession Pairs—Whitlock an 1 Syer beat Byatt and Everest by 6—l, 4—6, 6—4. Ladies’ Singles Handicap—Miss Grey ecr beat M s Peel +3/6
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  • 78 7 The following wa’ the result of the competition for he Ladies Spoon for June. Miss Brown 1 up Mrs Brereton Martin 1 down Mrs Sayers 2 do Mrs Crichton 4 do Mrs Kinder 8 do Miss Smith 11 do Mrs Hoefeld, Mrs Tom-on, Miss Barnett, Miss Sellars,
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  • 34 7 The following ties have be'n fixed for to-morrow Singles Handicap F Scarborough v W Goldie (1). A Mourin v G E WrightMotion Jr (2). D J Rcberisoo J A. Alexander (3).
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  • 268 7 A cricket match has been arranged for Saturday, on the E-planade, between teams captained by the Hon. A H Adams and Mr. Currie. The majority of those composing the sides have not played cricket for years and certainly not in Penang, so strange things may happen. All are
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  • 404 8 THE ALLIES AND RETALIATORY MEASURES. According to the special correspondent of the Morning Post with the French Army, the French military authorities have not be n long in finding a reply to the German poison gases. If the enemy means to use poisonous gases in warfare, the
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  • 241 8 In the Penang Municipality for the week ended May 22, there were 76 deaths —4B males and 28 females, equal to a death-rate of 37.44 per mille per annum, compared with 36.44 in the preceding week and with 35.21 in the correspon ling week of last year. The
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  • 137 8 —Stray Stories. Oregonians by a Japanese girl.—'* Seattle Post Intelligencer.” Pretty Cashier—“ You might give me a holiday to recruit mv health. My beauty is beginning to fide.” Manager—“ What makes you think so? Pretty Cashier—“ The men are beginn- ing to count their change/- Ridder says Germany
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  • 611 8 LAST UNPROFITABLE YEAR OF THE COMPANY. The ninth, and probably the last, ordinary general meeting of Bruang, Ltd., was held on Monday iu the offices of the Secretaries. Interest in the company’s expiring activities w. s obviomly lacking, for only Mr. G. A.' Derrick (Chairman) aud Messrs. H.
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  • 262 8 Reluctant Men Spirited away by Police. Amsterdam. April 25.—A most dismal dicture of life in Vienna was given topay by an Austrian business mm who was in the Austrian capital as recently as four days ago. He admits an utter lack of enthusiasm for war among his countrymen,
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  • 256 8 Penang, Juke 10, 1915. B.’ P. Tapioca s6| sellers. M. P. Tapioca s6| sellers. Gold leaf $61.40 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 oz). $l6 1/2 buyers. Black Pepper $lB.OO buyers. White Pepper s33f sellers Trang Pepper $23 sellers. Mace SI 10 nom. Mace Pickings $64 j sales. Cloves
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  • 59 8 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Pangkor, Brit., 94, Caswell, June 10 B. Datoh, geu., E. S. Co. Hebe, Brit., 346, Scott, June 10, T. Anson, gen., Adamson Giliillan Co. Hong Moh, Brit., 2555, Kington, June Amoy, gen., Chin Hin Co. Kalmoa, Dut., 170, Weerd, June 9, B Api gen., K.P.M. Tara, Brit.,
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  • 54 8 To-day. Aing Thye for Alor Star (Kedah). Mary Austin for Trang. Yatshing for Singapore, China and Japan. Alma for Deli. Perak, (E. S. &Co for Pert Swettenharn, Port Dickson and Malacca. Tara for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Avagyee for Bindings, Sitiawan Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson. Hong Moh for
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  • 52 8 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Closs Singapore, China and Japan Sardinia 9 a m. Deli and Asahan Kalmoa 10 a.m. Teiuk Anson Hebe 4 p.m. Ceylon, Australasia, India, Aden, Mauri- I Oriental 6-30 pm. tins, Egypt and /Beg- up to 4-30 p.m. Europe, Parcels 4 p.m.
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  • 7 8 Perseus. June 17, from China.
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  • 131 8 Penang, June 10, 1915. (5y of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ...2/3 31/32 ,i 4 months’ sight Bank ...2/4 7/32 3 Credit ...2/4 7/16 h 3 Documentary ...2/4 15/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 175 3 days’ sight Private 176’ Bombay Demand Bank 1"» Moulmein Demand Bank A 3
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 347 8 Appropriate, always. With certain dishes, such as Game, Lea Perrins’ Sauce is always appropriate. 8 N It is the recognised sauce for such use. In fact, for everything with which a sauce TO can be used, Lea Perrins’ is invariably T the BEST. It has a refinement of flavour that
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    • 95 8 I 1 Support the Flag. 1 S 1 j 1 The All British 1 I AVON TYRES I NKWMBMMSBI HMMW— Made by the AVON INDIA RUBBER Co., Ltd. with all British capital, employing British workmen and using British grown rubber. The price is right, the quality is right —be patriotic
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  • 1319 9 a. 0 Value. 2 5 2“ ft* a □>** iM i ru i N w< Ayer Weng f Rahman? DIP. 0». Qn 1 Belat Tin Mlnfug Oc *0« 10 J* Chenderlang Tin Dredging C« S 3 H <} Deebook Dredging N, L. 10/A il Gopeng Consolidated ci 12% 1)0
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  • 855 9 Chicago Herald.” KUALA LUMPUR’S NEW SHOW. A case of butterflies in a museum is usually a thing of mystery to the unknowe ing Yet a casual glance in passing or an exclamation as to how pretty they aria all the attention that they seem to be able to secure.
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  • 488 9 INHUMAN ACT OF THEIR OFFICERS. May 3.—Rather than allow their men to be rescued by the British, German officers of the two torpedo-boats sunk by the British in the North Sea action on Saturday shot them as they plunged into the water from the sinking ships. It
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  • 238 9 WEEKLY EDITION. The following are the principal contents of the current issue of our Weekly Mail Edition, which will be published on Friday afternoon, price 40 cents. Editorials Page. The Aerial Raid 767 Przeaysl 767 The Delayed Advance 768 Potential Allies 769 Aerial Warfare
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  • 774 9 Summer Meeting, 1915. (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) NOTICE. —No amendments to this Programme will be considered unless due notice ia given in writing to the Secretary at least seven days before the 23rd June, 1915, the date of the Special General Meeting. The notice
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 285 9 MUWICIPAI. commission. HOTEL NORMAN» OFFICIAL MINUTES. Penang's Select Desidential Hotel. Minutes of a meetine of the Municipal ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. Commissioners held on Tuesday, the 25th May, 1915. Present.—Mr W. Peel (President), N ln fch event of change of proP. T. Allen, Quah Beng Ke% A. F. Good- prietorship, the Hotel
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  • 392 10 EIGHTY ONE MEN SENTENCED. Lahore, May 24.—A daccity case has just concluded at Jhang before Mr. Dobson, I. C. S., Special Magistrate, arising out of an attack on Nepopkara village in Sborkot tahsil, on the 27th February, A gang of Mahomedan?, estimated at 1,000 to 2,000 in
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  • 415 10 Lord Kitchener Invited to Round Them Up. T 1 e Shipping World,” which is edited by Major Jours, who was an officer in ti e Federal Army of the United States in the Civil War, says During the Am c rican rebellion of the sixties there was
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  • 61 10 The motor-bus stopped, and the conductor looked earnestly up the steps, tut no one descended, and at lasc he stalked up impatiently. “’Ere, you,” he said to a man on top, don’t you want Wes minster Abbey Yes,” was the reply. Well,” retorted the conductor, come down
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