Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 31 July 1916

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 177 VOL. LXXIV. MONDAY, 31st JULY. 1916. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 931 1 caaaoDDaaaDDDDaDnnnn□□□□□□□□ WANTED g RUBBER to sell by auction ar pri- n vately, or for shipment. g GOODS for forwarding to any part of the world. n c INSURANCE risks against Fire. n specialize in the above. n o g Apply to— ALLEN DENNYS Co., 6 Beach Street, Penang. Established 1902.
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    • 62 1 nanaaaaoaaaaD a b a FOR $3O a a b X7OU can have the Pinang I Gazette posted every day Q for a whole year to your address, q (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION, $27). g Proportionate Quarteily and Half-yearly rates. 3 Subscriptions are payable in q, advance and remittance should g g be
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  • 1524 2 A STRIKING COMPARISON. It may be of some interest to consider what have been the losses sufferel on both sides of the North Sea since the war opened on the 4th Angus* 1914, if we accept Germany’s own assessment of the damage which was inflicted on her on
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  • 17 2 Penang :—The E O. Hotel, The'Crag, Runnymede Hotel. Singapore :—Raffles Hotel. Rangoon :—Strand Hotel.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1011 2 A N T E D Ikyfß. KENNETH DOUGLAS is authLVJL orised to sign our firm in Penang ner procuration as from 26th June, 1916. European assistant «or shipping perpr o T n r.j Department of Commercial Firm; w MANSFIELD Co., Ltd. knowledge of Spanish and French essential. Apply stating previous
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    • 453 2 I Li Ifc I 'ii'i ‘Wincarnis’ offers you M New Health and New Life. What a comfort f o know that you need not r emain eak, ffa Anaemic,"Nervy,”o r Run down —-toknowthat* wf SE offers you new health and new life. The reason is that Wincarnis (the wine of
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  • 2525 3 THE LAST DAY. The Penang Turf Club’s three days’ race meeting was brought to a eloie on Saturday. The attendance was much larger than was the case earlier in the week, and included many visitors. There were eight events, and in the majority the candidates entered ensured good
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  • 324 3 Turkish Minister’s Calm Confession Talaat Bey, the Turkish Minister of the Interior, ha? made some interesting confessions to a German journalist at Constantinople. Armenians in Russia and Turkey,” he says, cultivated a political ideal which can only be realised by the destruction of the O:toman Empire. At the
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  • 130 3 New System Suggested. Mr W F de B Maclaren, in a letter to the Press, makes a suggestion for a new system for selling rubber. Brbfly stated it is for a sliding scale for forward contracts which he contends, if it could be devised, would possess most, if
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 197 3 LOATHING OF FOOD. If you feel a sudden distaste for food—if the sight and smell of wholesome food being cooked disgusts you—then nature i? telling you that all is not well. If after a night's rest you have no appetite for breakfast, your digestion requires attention. If your food is
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    • 308 3 ss esssai ss h sssa sssss ea I IHBBEEai j Ig Clutch and Brake Linings 8 supersede leather because they are much more efficient. Hi Exhaustive tests at the National Physical Laboratory prove |j that the co-efficient of friction of leather against metal is ‘8 fl when cold, but as
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  • 798 4 A DASTARDLY CRIME. [Reuter Telegrams.] London, Joly 29. The newspapers express the utmost horror and indignation at the execution of Capt. Fryatt, which is said to surpass the Nurse Caveli crime because it is m defiance of German sea law i*self. The Manager of the Great Eastern
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  • 7 4 L end C. E.”
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  • 869 4 Inspector Lamerton is being transferred from Klang to Port Dickson. It is rumoured that Mr G A Hereford will succeed the late Mr Noel Walker as Deputy Public Prosecutor. Capt P T Blanford, Malay States Guides, has been awarded the Military Cross for distinguished service in the
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  • 300 4 DEATH OF MR. E. D’ARANJO. We regret to record the death of Mr. Eddie D’Aranjo, Laboratory Assistant, Straits Trading Coy, Butterworth, which occurred at about 3 o’clock, yesterday afternoon, as the result of a motor cycl accident at Batu Mau, on the Bayan Lepas Road, on the
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  • 626 4 Shipping Fusion —P. and O. and Australian Lines. L end C. E.” Subject to the consent of the Treasury and to confirmation by the requisite num ber of shareholders, an agreement has been concluded whereby the shares of the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., which owns the Federal Line, will
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  • 492 4 h*9 no superior.—“ East London Observer (June 24.) Whiteohapel has a Bell Foundry, famous throughout the world for over three centuries. There by Fieldgate Street some of the greatest bePs on earth were cast; there is rhe birth place of many noted Cathedral peals. To name a
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  • 151 4 The following are the latest quotations in our share list:— Saturday. To-day. 30 0C K CL Sharks SL Mining. K.Kamunting 33/6 34/6 »33/- 34/Kinta A. Ord. $7 $6 Pref. $7 J 6 K.. Pulai ss| SSJ ss| Trong D. 25/- 26/- 22/- 25/General. Lobito* O. 37/6 40/6
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  • 223 4 The output of the Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging (N. L.) for the week ending July 29th, was 21, tons. The possibilities of the port of Pukow, on the Yangtsze, opposite Nanking, will have been foreseen by all who have studied the conditions since railways came to its aid.
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  • 232 4 Over 25 couplei t >ok the floor in 31(na of the dances at the E O. afeer the special race dinner on Saturday evening. This far speaks for its If of the public’s practical appreciation of Mr. Sarkies’ efforts to provide a pleasant form of diversion on race
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  • 76 4 The July monthly medal competition 200 yards handicap, was held at the Shimming Club on Sunday morning with the following re-ult: Start. Ist S A Yell Scratch Jjcd C A Padday 29 secs ord G M Terzauo 2 Tnere were six starters and Mr Yell won
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  • 34 4 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, July 31. The Singapore Cricket Club beat the Malay States Volunteer Rifl s at Rugby, on Saturday, after a good game by eleven points to nil.
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  • 28 4 From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, July 31. The liquida’ion report of the “Union Times Press was received at the Com* pany’s meeting and passed.
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  • 27 4 Members are reminded that there is a handicap shoot to morrow morning (Tuesday) commencing at 7a m. Ranges 200, 500 and 60J yards.
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  • 15 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang wes $81.75 per picul business done.
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  • 30 4 London, July 29.* The following is the rubber quotation for to-day Plantation Ist Latt x Crepe 2 3} Smoked Sheet 2/2} [♦By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead Co,]
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 52 4 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. J. G. ALLAN, Engineer, Ship Surveyor and Contractor, HAS Removed to No. 3a Union St. WANTED. SHIFTMEN for Electric Generating Station. Apply The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Pahang. BANK HOLIDAY. The Exchange Banks will be closed on Tuesday, Ist Aug., 1916, which has been proclaimed a
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  • 389 5 T.O.M.” TOWN BESIEGED AND HOUSES SACKED. The disturbing state of affairs in Perak early this year when a bewildering series of robberies took place in various small mining towns in Kinta had subsided to such an extent within the last few months that a rather sensational
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  • 457 5 Writing to the “M.M.” H.N.F. says:— Sir,—Now that you have opened your columns to letters on the subject of local taxation I should like to point oub one or two methods by which the revenue might be increased without involving any one in undue hardship. For example, there
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  • 270 5 At the Assize 3 in Singapore, a Cantonese named Lim Ah Wah was found guilty of the attempted murder of PC. 292 after an affray between Chinese coolies in Pagoda Street on the evening of June 8. The constable, a Malay, was stabbed three times in arresting the
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  • 50 5 August 2.-—Chamber of Commerce, Special G. M. Chamber of Commerce, 2.30 p.m. August 4.—Second Anniversary of the War. August 5 and 7.—Cricket: Perak v. Penang at Ipoh. August 7.—Bank Holiday. August 10 and 12.—Selangor Races. August 12.—Anniversary of Penang (1786); Sept. 9.—Coronation of Sultan of Perak, Kuala Kangsa.
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  • 771 5 OTHER SIDE OF PICTURE. Housekeeper Perak, writes to the Editor, “Times of Malaya.” Sir, —The article you recently published from a Sydney weekly, and the reference to Mr Towers’s scheme in your issue of the for 19th inst, interested me as a housekeeper 20 years in England,
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 17 5 WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW S Co., Ltd., (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND.) ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE NOW PROCEEDING. BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS.
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    • 58 5 Harsh Purgatives, Salts and Castor Oil, are old fashioned remedies more drastic than safe. PINKETTES the tiny laxatives ensure the same results, but in a perfectly natural manner. They do not upset the stomach, nor gripe, but gently assist nature. Of chemists, 50 cents per phial, er post free from
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  • 33 6 Moss. At Kinta Kellas Estate, Batu Gajab, to Mr. and Mrs. M. Moss, a son. Ellis n.—On July 27, at 4. Sophia Road, Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. I. Ellison, a daughter.
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  • 1145 6 Since General Brussiloff commenced his forward movements in Volhynia, Galicia and Bukovina, in the first week of June, he has enjoyed success that compares favourably with anything in the war previously, By these offensives the Russian troops showed that the scale had turned in favour of the
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  • 1407 6 Mr. F. S. Brereton-Martin has been nominated in Penang as Nomination for the representative of the Council. Chamber of Commerce on the Legislative Council, the Hon. A. R. Adams having decided, to the great regret of the community as a whole, to decline nomination. The Hon A.
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  • 430 6 M. M.” Reuter’s telegrams will be sent tomorrow to all subscribers to the Pinaog Gazette.” The paper will not be issued. To-morrow, the Chief Post Office will be closed at noon and only the Morning Express will be issued. The Money Order and the Savings Bank Departments will
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    • 393 6 n THE COMMON CAUSE. j The Allies are United in Arms and in Business 1 ASAHI BEER THE MOST POPULAR DRINK IN THE EAST. J Winners of Prizes at Several of the Worlds Expositions. OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. PRESS COMMENT. We have received samples of Asahi Beer from The Eastern 2 I
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    • 10 6 “E. O.” GARAGE. MOTOR CARS ON HIRE. Tel. No. 322.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
  • 36 6 DEATHS. Gold.—Killed in act o n 21st July, Percy Gold, 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battalion Scots Guards. Griffith-Jones.—On July 12, William Lionel Phillips Griffith-Jone», m c Lieut. 2nd Bar. Durham «Light Infantry, late of Bukit Mertajam Estate.
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  • 184 7 BRUSSILOFF’S PUSH MANY GUNS AND PRISONERS TAKEN. —i—— CAPTAIN FRYATT CRIME GERMANY’S ACTION DENOUNCED. General Haig announces the capture of a position north-east of Pozieres (shown on map on page 8) and also of the whole of Longueval, further ground near Delville wood. Trench raids at other parts
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 866 7 IMPORTANT POINTS CAPTURED. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph). London, July 29. The “Times” correspondent at headquarters says the British captured a windmill north-east of Pozieres, close to Hill 160, the highest point on the Thiepval plateau. Longueval in British Hands. London, July 29. General Sir Douglas Haig
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    • 55 7 SIR D. HAIG’S APPRECIATION. London, July 28. Replying to a message of congratulation from the General Federation of Trade Unions, General Sir Douglas Haig has telegraphed his warmest thanks. He says all ranks realise how much success is due to the patriotism, self-denial and wholehearted co-operation of
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    • 112 7 EAST COAST VISITED. London, July 29. It is officially reported that German airships raided the East coast early to-day. The number is as yet unknown. Reports have been received from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It is stated that bombs were dropped. An Abortive Effort. London, July 29. It is
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    • 123 7 KAISER’S VILE THREATS. Lindon, July 29. The Times correspondent at Madrid says that an address from Spanish Catholics in regard to Belgium, signed by 400 distinguished persons, has been published. It demands an International Commission of E- quiry into the German atrocities, condemns the violation <
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    • 76 7 FRANCE’S APPEAL 10 NEUTRALS. Paris, July 29. It is officially announced that, as all protests to Germany against the deportation of 25,000 of the inhabitants of northern France for forced labour, contrary to the Hague Conventions, have had no result, France now appeals to the sense of humanity
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    • 33 7 LIFE SAVING AWARDS. London, July 30. The Order of St. John has conferred gold medals on Surgeon-Maj >r Priestley and Surgeon Captains Vidal and Lauder for saving life at Wittenberg Camp.
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    • 50 7 Loudon, July 28. Lord Kitcheuei’s Memorial Fund is now over <£150,000 and is already being distributed. Sir Frederick Treves is supervising the equipment of a house in Regent’s Park as a home for disabled officers. London, July 30. The Lord Kitchener Memorial Fund has reached £164,000.
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    • 61 7 BRITISH MEASURES. London, July 30. The object of the prohibition of the importation of opium is to check smuggling from the United Kingdom towards the East and to America. Bona /ide medical preparations containing opium are exempt, but all dealings in the drug itself are forbidden, except under licence.
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    • 73 7 SUBSTITUTE WITH A FUTURE. London, Joly 30. An analysis of tepary beans grown in Burma mad» by the Imperial Institute indicates that the be ans possess high food value. It is stated there should be a ready sale for them in the United Kingdom and some of the
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 617 7 ENEMY FRONT BROKEN. HUGE HAUL OF PRISONERS. Petrograd, July 28. The enemy has been vanquished along the whole line of the rivers Sloniovka and Boldyrovaka. Tbe Russians have occupied Brody. The Russians have also broken the entire enemy front west of Lutzk. The enemy has been routed
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    • 71 7 THE TURN OF THE TIDE. London, July 29. The Russian War Minister interviewed by the “Russkoe Slovo” said the tide of the war bad turned. Exhaustion of men was proceeding alongside exhaustion of products. With the German initiative in fighting transferred to the Allies, the spirit
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    • 18 7 SIGNIFICANT STEP. Bukharest, July 28. All Turco-Rumanian conversations regarding the exchange of supplies are broken off.
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  • Turkey and the Near East
    • 178 7 STORE SUPPLY ARRANGEMENTS. London, July 29. Mr. Forster states that for several months all demands from India for supplies were fulfilled. Large quantities have been dispatched from reserves in the Mediterranean. AH demands for medical stores in Mesopotamia have been fulfilled. The War Office has now taken over tbe
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    • 68 7 PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS. Constanza, July 28. Thousands of Moslem women took part in anti-war demonstrations in front of the Palace at Constantinople. The police dispersed the crowds. Cholera is life in the city and Samsun, where there are thousands of refugees, in a state of utmost misery. The authorities have
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    • 82 7 Cairo, July 30. The Ministry of the Interior is studying the question of the Mecca Pilgi image. It is understood pilgrims will be asked to deposit caution money of £5O, £6O, and £7O sterling for first, second, and third class respectively. A regular service to Jeddah is being
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    • 61 7 FIGHT FOR A RIDGE. Salonika, July 29. Tbe Serbian Army has been recently leaving for the front. When they arrived at the Railhead the infantry were sent to occupy a ridge inside tbe Greek frontier north of Vodena. They foui d Bulgarians in occupation and immediately attacked
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    • 40 7 NEW ZEALANDERS ENGAGED. London, July 30. General Sir Archiblad Murray reports from Egypt that several patrol engagements took place on July 28th, in which New Zealand Mounted Rifles inflicted 50 casualties on tbe enemy. Our losses were very slight.
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  • Italy’s
    • 36 7 ITALIAN PROGRESS. Rome, July 30tb. Fierce fighting occurred north of Monte Cimone, where the Italians gained grout.d. The Alpini carried Forcella wood in tbo Tofana region and began an advance in the Travenanzes valley.
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  • Naval Operations.
    • 54 7 RETURNED TO BRITISH OWNERS; Norf» Ik (Virginia), July 29. The Federal Ccurt has ordered the restoration of the Appam to her British owners. It was decided that a prize' cannot be brought to neutral waters unconvoyed in the manner the Appam was brought in, which was a violation
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    • 18 7 London, July 2g. Eight English herring drifters were sunk by a German submarine. The saved.
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    • 29 7 London, July 29. The naval promotions, gazetted after the battle of Jutlard, are unprecedentedly large and include 26 Commanders to Captain, and 66 Lieutenant Commanders to Commanders.
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  • General News.
    • 64 7 FIRE AT MUNITIONS WAREHOUSE; New York, July 30. A fire started in a munitions warehouse on a small Island in New York Bay. It spread to a lighter loaded with shrapnel bullets which esploded. Shells fired dynamite in trucks on th” wharves. The whole country for miles round
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    • 40 7 AN ARRANGEMENT IN SIGHT. Washington, July 29. The Mexican Ambassador indicates that a satisfactory solution of differences between Mexico and the United States has been reached. It is believed General Carranza has agreed to a joint commission.
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    • 39 7 Copenhagen, July 30. The King of Denmark was sailing alone in a small boat near Aarhus, when the crsft capsized. His Maj'-s’j clung to the bottom, and was rescued, none the worse for his long immersion.
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    • 34 7 Melbourne, July 29. Mr. Jensen, Minister for the Navy, announced that a British shipping firm had offered the Commonwealth six 11,000 ton steamers at a cost unofficia ly estimated of £2,000,000.
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    • 32 7 London, July 30. The Order of Knight Grani Cross of St. Michael and St. George has been conferred on the Duke of Devoi shire, the new Governor-General of Canada.
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    • 16 7 Wellington, July 28. The Compulsion bill has passed both Houses of Parliament.
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  • Article, Illustration
    1173 8 BY AN ARTIST CORRESPONDENT.] July 7. Germany at Bay. Germany and her Allies are now on the defensive upon three points. Interest naturally centres around the progress of the great thruit in Flanders, which, as military critics are warning us, may take weeks or even months before it
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  • 163 8 How the Huns are Getting Straffbd.” Mr E A Parsy, late of Ipoh, who is now doing motor transport woik on the Verdun front, writes to a friend as follows I have moved into another formation in the Automobile Corps. The formation I belong to carries daily
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 605 8 BANKS. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Incorporated in England by Royal Charter. Paid-up Capital £1,200,000 Reserve Fund £1,800,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors £1,200,000 Head Office 38, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, E.C. Agencies and Branches. Amritsar Hongkong Peking Bangkok Iloilo Penang Batavia Ipoh Puket Bombay Karachi Rangoon Calcutta Klang Saigon Canton
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    • 144 8 A Stubborn Foe To conquer au obstinate enemy requires, persistency and pres a rvanoe. It is the same with Rheumatism, the dread foe of mankind, which ranks foremost in stubbornness. To eradicate it from the evatem, you must use the right weapon. Little’S Oriental Balm is the only »e>uedy that
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    • 479 8 Penang Confectionery, 18 LEITH STREET, PENANG. Cakes nice,” 11 quite good” “excellent” “very good" WEDDING CAKE A SPECIALITY. More than pleased with the Wedding Cake you supplied, the quality was excellent, the ornamentation etc. extremely tasteful. The whole reflects great credit on your establishment.” ORIGINALS CAN BE INSPECTED. Wateman’slOFoimtainPen 11
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  • 1884 9 A VIVID DESPATCH. Camp July 2.—The great advance continues to progress wholly in our favour. At the same time it may not be denied that the Germans fighting with desperate tenacity and valour. Ti e number of our prisoners grows in proportion to our penetration within
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  • 1154 9 EULOGY ON RETIREMENT. At a meeting of Singapore Municipal I Commission, Mr Braddell proposed That in view of the approaching resignation of Mr Peirce, the Municipal Commissioners place on record their deep sense of gratituds to him for the services which he has rendered as Municipal Engineer,
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  • 252 9 —‘T.O.M The Arrest in Kedah. The fourth day’s proceedings in the Special Court at Taiping, in which a Sikh policeman stands charged with the murder of two Malay policem°n at Kroh on January last 15, consisted in |he examination of witnesses i i regard to an arrest
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  • 199 9 Per P and O’Kashgar. London, July 7. —To Singapore. Rev Hollis, Mr Hacker, Mr Cowley, Mr Crawford, Mr Wingrave, Mr Elsworth, Mr Dowding. To Penang Miss Kibble, Mr Rigby, Mr Marmock. Per P and O Karmala. London, July 21. —To Singapore: Mr Wydler, Miss Turney. To
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  • 131 9 Penang, July 31, 1916. {By Courtesy ot the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ..2/4 7/32 4 months' sight Bank ...2/4 11/16 3 Credit ...2/4 13/16 3 Documentary ...2/4 27/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174} 3 days* sight Private 176} Bombay Demand Bank 174} Moulmein Demand Bank 173} 3 days’sight
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  • 933 9 DIVIDEND OF 25 PER CENT. The ordinary general meeting of this company, was held on July, 3rd, at River Plate House, Finsbury-circus, the Right Hon. Sir J. West Ri igeway, g. c. m g. k. c. 8. I (the Chairman) presiding. The Secretary (Mr. H. Read Smith,
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  • 682 9 Messrs. Kennedy Jt Company, Penang, report as fo'lows The feature of The Rubber Share Market during the month under review has been the renewed activity* in Local Issues, which, in spite of a further decline in the price of the Commodity, have advanced all round. The improvement
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  • 97 9 Business for Meeting. 1. Minutes of last meeting to be read and confirmed. 2. Any special business the President may bring forward. 3. Questions. 4. Motions by the Hon. John Mitchell. (i) Amendment to Provident Fund Rules. (ii) Extension of Jelutong Quarantine Camp. (iii) Quarte r for
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  • Page 9 Advertisements

  • 276 10 T.O.M. Action Against Petition Drawer An interesting case came up in the Parit Court recently before Mr. Martin, Magistrate ab Batu Gajab, when the Government charged Mohamed Noir with defaming the Penghu’u of Bota, Udu Pendowar. by having made certain statments in a petition which he
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  • 336 10 Not very many of us realise that the ground whereon the Russians are fighting at this moment is now supposed to be the birthplace of their race. Ethnology is not yet so precise a science as chemistry, for example, but during the last few years the experts
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 427 10 COAGULfITEX 20a REDUCTION IN PRICE. We beg to announce that the price of Coagulates has*been reduced twenty per cent, from this date—all previous price lists are consequently hereby cancelled—Orders now received will be executed at the reduced prices and filled in their consecutive order, We take this opportunitv of thanking
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    • 245 10 HOW THIN PEOPLE CAN GET FAT. INCREASE IN WEIGHT TEN POUNDS OR MORE. A Physician’s Advice. “I’d c?rtainly give most anything to be able to fat up a few pounds and stay that way,” declares every excessively thin man or woman. Such a result is not impossible, despite past failures.
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    • 581 10 REGULARITY 0F THE BOWELS The First Line of Defence against 111-Health. j Only about one man or woman in a hundred is perfectly healthy. The other 99 have some P digestive trouble, and perhaps more than 50 per cent of these could trace their trouble to that prevalent R evil—constipation.
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 146 10 MONDAY TO-NIGHT 31 ST JULY, 1916. THE STRAITS"CINEMA. Phone No. 628. EMPIRE HALL. PENANC ROAD. THE MALAYOPERA coy. (OF MALACCA) For this special occasion on the Eve of Hari Raya we are staging that well-known and sensational Chinese Drama entitled “CHINESE HONEYMOON” or Sam Pek and Eng Tye Reproduced from
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  • 1289 11 TRENCHES PUSHED FORWARD FROM THE JEOEAN. Already there exists, much nearer to the enemy than the works around Salonika, a strong line of defence, where fresh trenches are always being dug or deepened and more barbed wire entanglements are always being entangled lays Mr. G. Ward
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  • 240 11 Messrs Guthrie and Co., Ltd., in their weekly report date Wednesday, 26th inst. say There was a go id enquiry for practically all grades at the Auction which commenced to-day and prices with the exception of that of Fine Pale Crepe was higher on the week. Fine
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 448 11 PINANG GAZETTE. Rates for Casual Advertisements. FOR SALE. TO LET, SITUATIONS VACANT. ETC. Minimum Charge $2.00 For 1 inwrtion 1.20 per inch 2 insertions 1.10 m 3 0.95 n 0.85 1» h 0.75 m 9 0.60 12 or more insertions 0.50 Advertisements are charged by space A line of ordinary
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    • 58 11 THE CORPORATION OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE Royal Exchange, London COMMENCED business in A.D. 1717 and was Incorporated by Royal Charter in a.d. 1710 and is therefore one of the oldest Companies in existence. It has granted the benefits of Assurance to the Public for a period exceeding 190 years.
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    • 292 11 .UmLlJi'S SAFETY «30 FIRST UUWiI Of SAFETY sfflgT TYRES STOCKED BY ALL wl®. GARAGBS LARGE REDUCTION IN PRICES as from Ist January, 1916. 7 It i SOLE AGENTS: i ADAMSON, GILFILLAN Co., Ltd.. J (Incorporated in England) I SINGAPORE. PENANG A MALACOA, ■«■«■nawßiiHHißni ♦nnnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnf INSURANCE. n'.n f n The London
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 2216 12 P. 8 0.-B. I.—APGAR N. Y. K. K. P. M. °i“". MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES. J S 4B Mill St,MUbi» Cl). U. IKW *“ssutsr Hemeward (for Europe). Outward (tor China and Japan). (Royal Packet S, N. Company)} a n *T*HB Companies’ stesmsrs are dss p<uhe< Due Penang. Steamer. Connecting with
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