Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 June 1915

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. Nc. I4i VOL. LXXIII. WEDNESDAY. 23rct JUNE, 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS*
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 833 1 C r tou wan. io SHIP, k RUY oh SELL ;RUB B E R OR TO 3 FOftWARD GOODS U to AfiT PAST of th® WC2LD M 60 TO q C ALLEh DENNYS Co., c n r 7. cmiv» «TBrrr. g fct» UTT I »1 11 MV K SOI EON
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    • 61 1 OUOOnV,UuUt3UI.\'; U. I-VCM *> a c FOi« tat 0 car b«v« ih« B I QftMßtX* r posted Aa» 4 for a rMf te yr>n> *.V>7. a« 8 5 {LOCAL SUB»C»IFTIOH. »iT> g PvofwrHccijkl* <jUMrteriy arwi 5 S Ha*<-y<ariy rat** F teMcriptbom ar* peyMbk ir eAtCMC* and emittance» V V ke
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  • 182 2 COMPULSORY SERVICE. BILL u—[from Our Own Corrtspondtnt.] Singapore, Jane 23. The Reserve Force and Civil Gaard Bill is pub’ished in a Gazette Extraordiua ry The Bill comes up for first reading at the Legislative Council meeting on Friday. The Bill provides that after its passing all males
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  • 56 2 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, June 23. The Straita Trading Co’s half-yearly report shows a net profit of $592,361. A dividend of one dollar and a bonus of fifty cents is proposed, with $44 620 to tin reserve and $212,318 carried forward. Business has been bettar than
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  • 112 2 The Hon. Treasurer sends as the following list of further contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance on June 21 ...$22,790.06 J R Brown, June subscription... 25.00 Staff of Messrs Robert Young, monthly subscription 100,00 Staff of Asiatic
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  • 301 2 Arrivals. By Alma (June 23) from Deli, Mr and Mrs Straatemeier, Mrs Breed veldt and 4 children, Mr and Mrs Vogelensany and child, Messrs J Porteou*, W J Trengrove, E S Shandi, J C de Force, 8 J Howe, C Knight, J M Chalmers, Qaah Thian Hor, Khoo Hock
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  • 928 2 BRITAIN ADOPTS RUSSIAN MACHINE. The British authorities are now building giant biplanes of the Ilja Mouromets type which the Russians have been using with good efieot against the Germans. Writing in the Field” Mr. T. F. Farman gives some interesting details of these machines, which are the invention
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 93 2 The following ties have been fixed for to-day Mixed Doubles HandicapMiss Hogan and Reimann v Mrs Phillips and Adams (2)Ladies’ Doubles Handicap—Mrs WnghtMotion and Mrs Jarvis v Mrs Souter and Mies Pritchard (1) Doubles HandicapMourin and Bulford v Roee and Sojitham (3). The following ties
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    • 21 2 To-day at Dato Kramat Gardens, Stia Persenangan meet Jama-hol Moslem in the Second Division of the M. F. A. League.
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  • 291 2 M.M. Nothing could be more marked and to the cynic more amusing than the changed attitude of sections of the Press of the Straits Settlements towards the Federated Malay States during the past year or two. At one time we were the model colony,” rejoicing in the
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  • 136 2 TLe George Town Kiuema had a crowded house last night to witness the continuation of the series of "Lucille Love,” chapters eleven and twelve. The latest War Gazette was also shown. A change is announced at the Electric Polyfcope to-night when the following will be screened." As in
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  • 106 2 CniNkSß Passenger Killed. A fatal accident took place at the Ipoh railway station at noon on Tuesday, the victim being a Chinese who is believed to have been a passeneer on the down mail train His lifeless body was found beneath one of the carriages
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  • 34 2 The Host—" I thought of sending some of these cigars out to the front.” The Victim—" Good idea 1 But how can you make certain that the Germans will get them
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1241 2 WANTED. FOR SALE. A SECRETARY for the Ipoh Club. U* NGLISH-BUILT VICTORIA (by /X >-200/300 Hous? provided Holland and Holland) in good condi<t $3O per month r'nt. Apply to tion with useful BAY WALER GELDHoube Member, -X X" S l4™o g J. B. CRICHTON, TTURNISHED HOUSE, NORTHAM Mercantile Bank, Penang.
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    • 12 2 At times of crisis it must be Bovril BRITISH TO TUB BACKBONE,
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    • 614 2 r> HOTEL NORMAN» Penang’s Select Residential Hotel ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. JT.s.ln the event of change of prietGi-ship, the Hotel will not be closed but will be handed over to the new f Pna as a going concern. a Large Airy Rooms facing the Sea Under the patronage of H. M. Judges,
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  • 1151 3 the prince of wales. His Royal Highness, Edward, Prince of Wales, to-day celebrates the 21st anniversary of his birthday. Like the majority of young men in the Homeland be is soldiering. An intimate study of the Prince at the front, by Mr. Henry N Hall, the New York
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  • 578 3 OPTIMISM GIVES WAY TO DESPAIR. The following appears in the Ceylon Observer Mr. B. P. Kadomtzeff, Russian Consul, gave some interesting information from the Russian newspapers which he had received recently. He said that the most striking feature in the latest correspondence from the theatre of war
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  • 51 3 Callers were at the door and Bobbie was told to show them into the parlour. He did so, and while his mother was fixwg herself up, he sat there rather embarrassed. Presently, seeing ths visitors glancing around the room, be said: Well, what do yo« think of our stuff,
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  • 21 3 Cynthia— Thus, buthiog-suits make some people look shorter, don t they Tom—" Tut. i 1 look lon er
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  • 1179 3 RESULTS OF THE LIQUIDATOR’S INVESTIGATIONS. SEVERE STRICTURES ON MANAGEMENT. The first report of the liquidators of the Kwong Yik Banking Corporation (Messrs. Lim Peng Siang, Leow Chia Heng and W. Lowther Kemp) has been circulated and provides an extremely in’eresting iasight into the affairs of that unfortunate
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  • 272 3 S T.” It is with regret that we announce the death of Mr. W. D. Fisher, which occurred on Saturday evening at the Nursing Home, Singapore from heart failure following malaria. The news comes as a shock to his friends for he was one
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  • 149 3 The members of the Malacca Planters* Association meet at Malacca on Sunday next, when the agenda of business will include :Chinese immigration, the Agricultural Department, toddy shops, quitrent and rebate*, and the Tamil Labour Ordinance for the B.S. Mr. Chan Kang Swi has given notice that he
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 681 3 As you love your Baby j 5 you must protect him against Summer Diarrhea, which S'- g becomes epidemic in hot weather and carries off thousands g|| 3 °f infants in a few weeks. The Medical Officer of Health for Manchester reports that during the past week 48 deaths of
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  • 40 4 CrowtherCrichton.On June 23rd, at S r George’s Cl urc>’, Penang, by the Rev. F. W. Haines, Colonial Chaplain, Charles Richard Facy Crowtl er, Changkat Salak Estate, Halak North, to Rita McLean, daugh >*r of the late James Crichton, Aberdeen.
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  • 1261 4 It would be an erYor to attach over much importance to recent reports coming from Berlin about Socialist meetings in favour of peace. It is not at all unlikely that the fearful casualty lists from all fronts, delayed though they may be, must have a cumulatively depressing
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  • 1281 4 It is surprising to get an official statement from the Government so late in the day denying that it bad any knowledge of seditious tendencies in the sth Light Infantry, before the mutiny actually broke ou* It is surprising that the Government has even made this denial
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  • CORRESPONDENCE
    • 192 4 [To the Editor oj the Pinang Gazette.'] Sir,—That devilish monstrosity the engine in use at thi ice factory at Dato Kramat continue* to make night hidsoui with its monotonous no s Q The factory has been erected in close proximity to the residential quarters aud to the
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  • 154 4 The quarterly meeting of the Ru r s. Bor rd for Penang Islmd wis held in the Land Office yesterday afternoon when there were present Mess s. H. C. Sells, Collector of Land Revenue (Chairman) U G. May, (Deputy Col. Engineer), CneaL Seng Yean, D-. R. Dane, (Chief
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  • 182 4 The first case of Peh Bin’ Fantan gaming for same 7 ear3 brought before Mr. E E. Colm»' 1 the defendants being seven sp dro Chinese women and one man. J- arrested on a gambling search w rra tor No. 205 Dato Kramat Road by ln-t R.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 367 4 n tfpownwrH his «AJEsrir hhu geosse I Motor, Motyr-cyde, solid and Cycle Tytes. No interruption of supplies. No all erat i o n in prices. The Dunlop Company*is in a position to meet any demands which may be made upon it. It is to your best interest, at this time
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    • 15 4 E. 0. HOTEL. SPECIAL DINNER, FRIDAY, 25th JUNE. DANCING AFTER DINNER. E. A O. ORCHESTRA.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
  • 17 4 DEATH. Fisher On the 19th ins*’ at the Nursing Home, Singapore, William Die san Fishrr, Civil Engineer.
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  • 245 5 A RETREAT TO LEMBERG. BRITISH LINER’S ESCAPE. THE NEW WAR LOAN. DE WET SENTENCED. On the Webern front the French have beu engaged at many point» The ofleLsivd has not in every case been nrkiertaken by them, but all the German attacks, made midway between Arras and Compiegne,
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 416 5 [Reuter’s Servicbs.] FIGHTING AT VARIOUS POINTS. Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Paris, June 21. A French communique says North of Arras we progressed farther towards Souchez and carried several trenches. We approached the north-west of the village. There has keen an all-night arti lery duel. A German attack
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    • 20 5 London, June 23. Major Lumsden of ths Royal Flying Co ps was killed while flying at Brooklands.
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    • 92 5 BODY IN LONDON. London, June 22. A great crosd at V.c oria Station awaited the arrival of the bo ly o‘ F.ight SubLieutenant Warneford, V.C., in the evening. The sisters ani stepfather of the dead aviator, and representatives of the Ad miralty, were present. The coffin
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    • 42 5 Loudon, June 19. In the House of Cimmms. Mr, H. J Tennant, Under Secretary for Wa:’, affirm ed that the health of ths British troops was so good that nothing approaching it had been known in the past.
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    • 74 5 A MUNITIONS CONFERENCE. Loudon, June 22. Mr. Lloyd Gmrge had a conference with the French Under Secretary for War, M. Thomas, who is the organiser of French munitions, at Bou'ogne, uu Saturday auu Sunday. Both were accompanied by experts. Loudon, June 19. In the House
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    • 44 5 London, June 22. In iha House of Commons, in reply to Mr. R J. Neville (Wigan) Mr. Chamberlain said the question of employing the inexhaustible labour supply of I dia in tl e manufacture of munitions was receiving the fullest consideration.
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    • 104 5 London, June 22. There has ken a remarkable spread recently in the employment of women throughout the country in every class of work, including banks, railway-», farms, atd tramways. The Government has been the pioneer of the movement, and has found work for a vast number of
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    • 94 5 A glance at the subjoined table will go far to show just to what extent war orders have benefited Canada. These include those contracts let out by Britain, France, and Russia. Although the figures are not absolutely official, they have been secured from authoritative sources, and are,
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    • 42 5 New York, Jum 22 Tie New York Herald” ha® made investigations, which show that German agents ate buying considerable quantities of munitions in America. These ate shipped first to South America and thence to Holland an I Denmark.
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    • 42 5 London, June 12. In the Hou»e of Common®, Lord Robert Cecil, Lnder Secretary for Foreign Affairs, am:d cheers, paid a tribute to the untiring efforts of the American Ambassador in securing better treatment for British prisoners in Geimany.
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    • 799 5 CHANCELLOR’S NEW PROPOSALS. London, June 22. In the House of Commons Mr. R. McKean®, Chai ce’lor cf the Exchequer, moving a war loan resolution, said a prompt decision was iequired, as it was uud-sirabD that a big loan be kept ha-iging ov, r the market, lhe Bank
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    • 60 5 London, June 22. In the House of Commons, in reply to Sir J D. Rees, Mr. Austen Chamb rlain, Secretary for I-dia, sail the Board of Trade was occupied on the qutstion of the manufacture in Britain of synthetic indigo, while the Government of India was doing
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    • 29 5 Lonon, June 22. In the House of Commons, Mr. A-quith announced that a biil wou’d be introduced forthwith to postpone the general elections for a year.
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 82 5 FIGHTING JN PROGRESS. Petrograd, Ju :e 22. A Russian communique states that the, enemy’s offensive in the region of Riwaruska continues. The Russians on the night of 19th June withdrew from the Grcdek Lakes on to the Lemberg positions. Germans Occupy Rawaruska. Amsterdam, June 22.
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    • 21 5 Ams’erdam, Jure 22. It is officially announce! th it the Kaiser was present at ths operations at Grodek.
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  • Naval Operations
    • 105 5 ATTEMPT TO RAM SUBMARINE. Louden, June 22, The Anchor liner Cameroni®, which arrived at Liverpool on Sunday from New York, was attacktd during the voyage by a German submarine, which, though the Cameronia went at fu'l speed, it was impossible to elude. Accordingly, the Cameronia attemp ed
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    • 30 5 Rome, Jure 22. The Italian auxiliary cruiser Hotley chased and captured an Au«trian naphtha steamer in the Mediterranean. The latter was carrying supplies for Austrian submarines.
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  • General News
    • 21 5 THE BRITISH ADVANCE. Pretoria, June 23. General Botha has occupied Omararu, on the Swakopmund-Grootfontein railway. The British advance continues.
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    • 37 5 London, June 18 In the Hanse of Common®, Mr. Bonar Law, Colonial Secret a y, said he hoped soon to be able to give more information regarding the operations in East Africa and Central Africa.
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    • 61 5 London, June 21. Civil L’st pension? aware’s include the wife of the late Doctor Htjgh Baker, who died while investigating sleeping sickness in Africa the wife of the late Bishop Tucker of Uganda, in consideration cf the Bishop’s serviceg to the Empire; Miss Violet WallSce, in emsideratiou
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    • 70 5 THE SENTENCE. Bloemfontein, Jane 22General Da Wet was found guilty, on eight coante, of treason, and not guilty on the remaining two. Sentence was deferred till to morrow. Bloemfontien, later. General De Wtt was acquitted of the charge of proceeding to join the Germans. Six Years
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    • 316 5 Our memories are thrown bick to the days of Hie Boer War when newspaper p’aoards oontiined such announcements as De Wet escapes again.” The wily Boer General waa always good at escaping, but as iu the previous campaign, he eudtd by being caught in his latest enterprise
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    • 60 5 London, June 32. The German military authorities arĕ colli cting recruits aged nineteen in a’l parts of the Empire and sendftog them to the Tyrol to learn fiaouutaineerin?, to be able to confront the Italians and replace the former Alpine troops of Germany and Austria, which
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    • 31 5 VENIZELO3’ STATEMENT. Athens, June 23. M. Venizeks ha? authorised the statement that he is convinced any policy except that of supporting the Entente Powers will be disastrous to Greece.
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    • 25 5 OVJIR £40,000 DAMAGE. Havre, June 22. A fire destroyed two warehouses containing 12,700 bales of cotton. The damage is over £40,0C0.
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    • 36 5 London, June 22. A special general mee’ing of ti e Burma Society has convened for July 31st to consider the question of the discontinuance of the Siciety, owing to lack of Burman support.
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  • WAR NEWS.
    • 579 5 The Times” coutrad cts the opinioi» that rhe larger import of rice into theNetherlands is due to the transit to Germany. The Serbians ook, in Albania, Austrian machine guns and mountain artillery. Th» Albanian troops are command» d by Austrian efficers. The Serbians lott 200 men. The
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    • 228 5 The Pddang correspondent of th» Ba’avia Nieusblad writes that a heavy storm accompanied by a high wind blew over that town on the 20ih instant for 18 bou'S. Serious damage was done to th» Chinese operator. Huge floods have sine» broken out rnd the water is now abcut
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  • THE MUTINY.
    • 286 6 TOTAL DENIAL OF FOREKNOWLEDGE. The following communique has been forwarded from the Colonial Secretary’s Office for publication In view of the misrepresentations that have been made regarding the mutiny, we are authorized by the Governor to state that no report whatever bad reached His Excellency
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    • 441 6 Clemency Extended to Prisonxbs. "Within the gaol precincts, on Friday, the Provost-Marshal, Major A. M. Thompson, in the presence of the Chief Police Officer, other police official*, and a limited number of the general public, promulgated the following sentences in connection with the recent mutiny
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  • 1693 6 A good many may have read a letter that appeared in Saturday’s issue of this journal referring generally to the Mutiny Compensation Policy, or the want of it, from a correspondent who signs himself Mahkota says theJ‘ Free Press.” Thab letter, so far as we
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  • 57 6 Paris, Mav 21st.According to the Berlin paper Vossisohe Zaitung,” the Austrians used a new battery of 52 centimetre mortars at Tarnow, and the first shot entirely demobliahed a large tower 11 miles away. The shell fired from these guns weigh a quarter of a ton—more than the
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  • 26 6 Bill—" I read as *ow that ere lndenburg as got an English wife A If—" Ah, that accounts for is fightin* like e does.”
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  • 32 6 Prisoner, have you anything to say Only this, your honour. I’d be mighty sorry if th’ young lawyer you assigned to me was ever called upon to defend an innocent man.”
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  • 73 6 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Ekma, Brit., 2356, Kilner, June 23, S’pore, gen., Huttenbach Liebert Co. Alma, Brit., 459, Bell, June 23, Deli, gen., E. S. Co. Ban Watt Soon, Brit., 199, Taylor, June 23, Langkat, gen., E. S. Co. Avagyee, Brit., 247, Capt Murphy, June 23, T. Anson, gen., E. S.
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  • 28 6 To-day. Tong Chay Un for Alor Star (Kedah). Ekma for Negapatam, Madras and Durban. Hok Canton for Bagan Datoh Teluk Anson. Flying Dragon for Portweld and Taiping.
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  • 83 6 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morkow. For Per Close, Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chuan 11a.m. Deli Alma 1 p.m. Port Swettenham, y Port Diokson, and > Perak (E.S. Co) 2 p.m. Malacca J Langkat and Pangkalan Brandan Ban Whatt Soon 2 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Edavana 3 pm.
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  • 123 6 Penang, June 23, 1915. (3y Oourteey of the Chartered Bank). Rondon Demand Bank ...2/4 4 months’sight Bank ...2/4} 3 Credit 2/4} 3 Documentary ...2/4 17/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 175 3 days’ sight Private 176 J Bombay Demand Bank 175 Moulmein Demand Bank 174 3 days’sight Private 176 Madras
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 170 6 I HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. Now that food stuffs are becoming dearer, the attention of the Public is drawn to Skimmed Milk. THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS At Budapest in 1909 and at Berne in 1914 recognised that O* SKIMMED MILK CONSTITUTES A WHOLESOME AND CHEAP FOOD ESPECIALLY FOR ADULTS and that its nutritive
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    • 302 6 I Unsolicited Testimony I IS THE I Best Recommendation. I The local agents of Ross’s, the Bottling SpeI cialists of London, Liverpool, Belfast, and Leith, I have received the following entirely unsolicited I testimonial from one of their Clients in the Malay I Peninsula. I In sending you a repeat
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  • 375 7 PROPOSED NEW ENACTMENT. In the current F.M.S. Gazette appears the draft of an enactment to make provision, complementery to the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, of the Imperial Parliament, with regard to Fugitive Offenders from the United Kingdom, British possessions and place to which the said Act miy be
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  • 212 7 THE CASUALTIES. It is difficult to give a correct estimate of the number of casualties resulting from the disturbances in Colombo, sajs the Time? of Ceylon but it is known that there were 23 bodies at the Maradana mortuary and eleven at the General Hospital mmtuary on s'.h
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  • 247 7 Major Cooper Key, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Explosives in England has just published a very useful primer on the Petroleum Spirit and Carbide of Calcium for the use of Local Inspectors and Motorists and on page 24 of this Manual be gives advice to chaffeurs in
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  • 857 7 VIGOROUS ANTI-GERMAN SENTIMENTS. The followmg highly interesting letter has been received by a friend in Singapoie from Doctor Norman Black, who is at the R.A.MC. training camp, Llandrindod Wells; I’ve been a busy mao since I came home and am hard at work training men
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1439 7 By Order of PUSSY FATIMAH, the Administratrix of the Estate of MOHAMED ARIFF, deceased. TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION ALL THE UNDERMENTIONED valuable Freehold Properties AT Nos. 52 and 54, Bishop Street, Penang, ON Friday, the 16th day of July, 1915, and following days until the properties SHALL HAVE
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    • 121 7 STOP! THINK for just one minute of the utter uselessness of suffering with Neuralgia! For only Re. 1 you can procure a bottle of Little’s Oriental Balm, and eyen the first application of the Balm will bring you relief from the torturing pain Continue its use. Rub it in where
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    • 35 7 MODERN ART PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO NIKKO Telephone No. 579. 21, Penang Road. Amateurs’ Work Developed and Printed. Experts sent for Out-door Photography. Oak, Mahogany and Japanese Jindaisugi f Frames in Stock. K. S. OK ANIWA, Proprietor.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 461 7 Detective! Detective I! Detective!! I THE STRAITS CINEMA Co., The Leading Premier Show in Penang and The People’s Favourite Rendezvous, 'empire HALL, PENANG ROAD, Phon* No. 628. ALL THAT’S BEST IN FILM-DOM Il to be Been Straits* Ont Programme! are Original, Brigr*. and Brefizy. We Cater for the Crowd, that
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2124 8 P. J? TENDED sailings. Straits Steam Ship Co., Ltd. Ocean Stain Navigation Co. INDIA I For Intended to Sail. Steamer. STEAM SHIP £q Wireless Telegraphy fitted os all Every Tuesday, at 5-30 p.m. K] AND Steamer#.' LZf.J STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. ohin* u LBTEAM m its FREE o‘ e..h"berth i.
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