Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 21 August 1916

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 194 VOL. LXXIV. MONDAY. 21st AUGUST. 1916. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 55 1 BdnaDQD&Ußnan anbaoDCloaiJ-cj for $3O X/OU can have the Pinang 1 Gazette pasted every day for a whole year to your address. (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION. $77). Proportionate Quarterly and j g Half-yearly rates. i g Subscription! are payable in n advance and remittance should j g be addressed to i Q YIMAJra
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  • 899 2 GERMANY’S SEVEREST PRE-WAR CRITIC. The most powerful of the pre-war critics was a Frenchman, Fustel de Coulanges, who was born in Paris in 1830. He was of Breton descent. Physically he was a weakling, but mentally he was a gaiut. He not only equalled the Germans
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1274 2 PINANC <; AZETTE A PLANTER .t present io India SEEKS RUBBER STAMPS. PINANIj AZißi 1 1 tL. /1 RE-ENGAGEMET after August, exRates for I perience six years charge in the Straits PINANG GAZETTE PRESS, and also Ceylon. Good knowledge of 1 Lt(J g now n poBit i on t o
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    • 306 2 Model 75 —ZI Electric Lights Electric Starter Pl ice 5i,975 E. O. 1. Singapore I plus surtax on account of abnormal freight rates ruling at present. Model 75 Touring Car ($1,975 KO.R. Singapore plus surtax). Roadster ($1,925 F. O R. Singapore plus surtax). Light But Complete The Overland Model 75
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  • 1807 3 SOME REVELATIONS. German methods in Persia have a peculiar interest since they offer a model, on a small scale, of her political machinery as a whole. Nowhere else have the threads of her intrigues been laid so bare; nowhere are the motives, source, method and effect of
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  • 344 3 German Writer’s Interesting Experience. A German writer who was present at the fighting in the East gives an interesting description of the new cavalry methods employed by Cossacks. The Russian infantry ad vac cs to within 3,500 meters of our trench-line, he says, "and there dig
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  • 138 3 The Poilu is a lively httle newspaper produced in the French trenches, and in glancing over the latest issue we came across quite the best Joflre story. The generalissimo’s chauffeur, L was chatting with some soldiers. Well,” they asked him, what dots the
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  • 129 3 The Anglo-French offensive has made an enormous impression in Germany, but not so great as the Russian, which was utterly unexpected. The minute the offens ve succeeds, the Germans will be begging for peacp not before. The Germans are not to be beaten into submission except by
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  • 927 3 ADDITIONS TO OUR WAR VOCABULARY. Two steamers lie at opposite sides of the dock. One is obviously a vessel with no desire to advertise her presence on the high seas. She is in fact a transport. The other is dazzling white, ornamented with a good deal
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 35 3 Your Morning Headache will disappear after a dose of PINKETTES the tiny laxatives which do not gripe. Of chemists, 50 cents per phial, or post free from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Dept. sc, Singapore.
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    • 490 3 C JI jCI J' |8 COCK C y NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above trade mark is the joint property of the Asiatic Petroleum Company (S. S.) Limited and of the Asiatic Petroleum Company (F. M. S.) Limited—both incorporated in England—and is and will be used “in respect of
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • Article, Illustration
      514 4 ENEMY’S DESPERATE RESISTANCE. Petrograd, August 18. The enemy in Galicia are apparently firmly holding the wings, 60 miles apart. An Austrian communique speaks of vioLnt assaul-s by masses of Russians, for twelve hours continuously, against General Boehm-ErmoUi on the northern wing, and admits that trenches were penetrated at various
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  • Turkey and the Near East
    • 292 4 THE ENEMY REPELLED. Salonika, August 20. The Bulgarians attacked along the Serbian front. The Serbians counterattacked, driving back the enemy to their original positions, with enormous enemy losses. Fighting near Lake Doiran. Paris, August 20. A Salonika telegram says the enemy attack was held up by the
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    • 139 4 LATE SIR VICTOR HORSLEY’S DEFENCE OF MEDICAL SERVICE. London, August 19. The “British Medical Journal” states that it has received a letter from the late Sir Victor Horsley, dated July sch, intended to prevent the case of responsible medical officers in Mesopotamia being prejudiced by the report of the
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    • 25 4 COMMUNICATION RESTORED. Cairo, August 20. In addition to Jeddah and Mecca telegraphic communication is now established with Taif and Bahra, via Haifa and Suakim.
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  • 134 4 MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S OPTIMISM. London, August 20. Mr. Lloyd George, at Criccietb, said he was satisfied with the way things were going and he now felt for the first time that the nippers were gripping and that we should socn hear the crack. When we were able
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  • 17 4 Amsterdam, August 19 The notorious renegade, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, has become a German.
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  • 12 4 London, August 20. Au Italian steamer Stampalia was sunk.
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  • 20 4 London, August 19. Four thousand bales of jute from the steamer Langholm were burned at Cadiz.
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  • 31 4 London, August 19. Sir Horace piu ikett is seriously ill, and it is uncertain whether he will be able to participate at the opening of the Industrial Commission.
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  • 574 4 King George has, of course, no personal favourites among his Ministers, and is far too well versed in the discretions of his position to indicate any such individual preference. Still, his Majesty has made no secret of the fact that he shares with the nation at
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  • General News.
    • 301 4 BELGO-BRITISH OPERATIONS. Havre, August 10. A Belgian communique says The first fortnight of August was marked by a fresh advance by the Belgians over the whole front in East Africa. General Molitor’s brigade, which started from Lutobo (Uganda) at the end of April, has now penetrated 350 miles
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    • 81 4 NEW BRITISH REGULATIONS. London, August 20. Additional Defence of the Realm regulations prohibit the use of petrol for char a banc excusions, the holding of fairs likely to impede the production and transport of war materia], cab whistling which will disturb wounded, and entry into Ireland
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    • 110 4 London, August 19. At an investiture at Buckingham Palace, Major-General Gorriuge received the Order of Knight Commander of the Bath. The Gazette announces the following declarations K. C. M. G.—Colonel C H Bridge. C.M.G.— Lieut Colonel C S Stack. C. B.— Colonels Wilfrid Malleson, and J C
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    • 47 4 London, August 19. The first mention of British Zeppelins appears in articles in the newspapers, describing the flights of great, marvellously rigid, and very speedy airships. Neutral skippers, who are constantly seeing German Zeppelins, consider the British airships superior, and a hundred times less cumbersome.
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    • 60 4 Petrograd, August 18. A Russian communique says the situation everywhere is unchanged. A squadron of Russian seaplanes on Wednesday night plentifully bombed aerodromes at Lake A n g eon (Gulf of Riga), destroying an airship shed and causing several fires. The seaplanes carried out their work anftdst
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  • 1593 4 Mr L V J Laville is appointed to act as D O, Dindings; and Mr C D Ahearne as D O, Balik Pulau. It was in the casualty list of July 28th that the name of 2nd Lieu’. P. Gold, Septs Guards, appeared. His Lordship, Bishop Barillon,
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  • 18 4 Obituary. bondoo, August 18. The death ha<3 occurred of Mr. John Bythell, ex-Chairman of the Alauchot-er Ship Canal.
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  • 778 5 A SUCCESSFUL YEAR. The directors’ report of the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canaaa for the year ending 31st December, 1915, states Notwithstanding the continuance of the extraordinary conditions resulting from the war, the record of the past year is in harmony with the progress and
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  • 370 5 LABOUR STRIKES PRELIMINARY TO NATIONAL UPRISING. The inner history of the Spanish strikes show* thit the Government had good recons for adopting the extreme course of putting the country under martial law. Petitions had been presented to the civil governor of all the Spanish provinces reques
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  • 219 5 A dramatic ttory of the sinking of a German torpe io-boat-destroyer was told in the Prize Court when prize bounty of £465 was awarded Commander Fred P. Loder-Symonds and the ship’s company of the light cruiser-H.M.S. Cleopatra. Commander Maxwell Anderson, who, as counsel, conducted the
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  • 18 5 Penang ;—The E. O. Hotel, The Crag, Runnymede Hotel. 61NGAP0KK Raffles Hotel. Rangoon Strand Hotel.
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  • 363 5 Perak cricketers have every reason to be proud of their recent achievement in asserting their superiority over so strong a team as visited Ipoh from Peuaug a tew weeks ago. The local pitch played excellency, as the success of the bowlers indicated and the game gave a
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  • 153 5 What Holland is Paying. The Minister for the Interior announces that the following am un's have been expended on the refugees in Holland for the 1915 service, out of the State Revenues (a) for the refuges camps:— Nunspeet, f 1.984,077 j Ede, fl 1,483,107 Uden, f 1.1,007,944;.1,007,944;
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  • 142 5 The Australian Government does not intend to disband the Necessary Com modities Commission, but merely to keep it in a state of suspense. Mr. Hall (At'orney-General) made a statement to this effect when asked if the Government had d finitely d oided what to do in view
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 337 5 WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW 8 Co., Ltd., PENANG. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND). SALE MnS NOW COTTON PROCEEDING 1 PROCEEDING MATTRESSES. MOSQUITO NETS. BOLTON TWILL SHEETS. All Sizes Offered at Reduced Prices NOW is your time to buy Mosquito Curtains. We During the Sale. 66(1 to be Clean and Healthy. offer all sizes at
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  • 1257 6 It may bs assumed when Lord Derby expresses the satisfaction of the military authorities with the situation, and Mr. Lloyd George gives it as his opinion that we shall soon hear the nut crack, they do not agree with The Times military correspondent when he said Germany
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  • 1691 6 If wa except the distrust of Russia, which Sweden appears to enterSweden and tain, the attitude of thab Germany. country in the present war, once frankly proGerman, is governed by business factors, as we have contended. It is a matter of money making with many of the
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  • 66 6 The P. O. Royal Mail steamer Naniar, having left Colombo, is expected to arrive here at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 24th instant, and will leave for Singapore, China an Japan at 3 a.m. the following day. Our Singapore correspondent telegraphs that a successful garden party and sale m
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 334 6 h THE COMMON CAUSE. j J The Allies are United in Arms and in Business I ASAHI BEER I THE MOST POPULAR DRINK IN THE EAST. I j Winners of Prizes at Several of the World’s Expositions. j OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE, j J PRESS COMMENT. We have received samples of Asahi
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    • 14 6 “E. O.” GARAGE. Trips Round the Island $22 Including Tiffin Baskets Tel. No. 322.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 293 7 [Rbutrr’s Telegrams.] EXCELLENT WORK BY THE BRITISH. HOSTILITIES BEYOND SALONIKA. SERBIAN FORCES ENGAGED. The British troops between the Ancre and the Summe have been singularly successful in their latest efforts, substantial progress having been made at many portions of the front of eleven miles between Tbiepval and the
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 1047 7 GERMAN POSITIONS CAPTURED. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph). London, August 19. General Haig reports that the British troops captured several strong prsitions in the direction of Ginchy and Guillemont. The French also progressed on our right. A German aeroplane was felled in flames in our trenches, as
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  • 309 7 It is little less than remarkable said the “Field,” after the battle of Jutland, that, after well nigh two years of war, so little intelligent appreciation of our position in this matter of airships still exists. One can hear puzzled conversationalists in trains and clubs wondering why our
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  • 294 7 {Specially Translated.) The German Consul at Soekaboemi has requested the Dutch Solicitor General at Batavia to take proceedings against the Flora Bioscope at that town for screening a film entitled The Schoolmaster of Alsace” on July Bth and 9th. The Chamber of Commerce at Batavia received the following
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  • 439 7 Messrs. Kennedy <fc Co,, report Throughout the week under review there has been a fair business passing in Local Rubber Issues which have kept very firm all round. There was a good demand for Ayer Kunings, Jeram Kuantans, Kedah Rubbers, Kuala Sidims, Lunas, New Serendabs, Farit Peraks,
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  • 35 7 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $Bl.OO per picul, buyers, no sellers—a decrease of $1.25. Tin is quoted in London on Saturday at £169 5s spot, and £l7O 5s three months.
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  • 21 7 The output of the Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging (N. L.) for the week ending 19th lost., was 12 tons.
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  • 277 7 Admiralty’s Appreciation. The Secretary of the Admiralty communicates the following letter which has been addressed to the Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet, by the Lords Commissioners < f the Admiralty Sir, Admiralty, 4th July, 1916. My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have considered your reports on the action off
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  • STOP PRESS NEWS.
    • 103 7 [Rbctkr Tklegramb GERMAN SUBMARINE LOSSES. London, August 21. The Admiralty announces that the German High Seas Flest came out on Saturday, but avoided battle with considerable British forces, and returned to port. The cruisers Nottingham (5,400 tons) and Falmouth (5,250 tons) were submarined, while searching for the
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  • 256 7 “Another Kinta Valley” is how an expert mining man describes tbe Rampibon district in Southern Siam, which has lately been the scene of almost feverish activity on tbe part of persons interested in working the valuable tin and wolfram deposits that have been prospected there. The
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  • 242 7 For the final cf the championship the court was heavy and at the beginning the sun was hot. Tbe course of play may be easily described, Dean scored two, Manning scored four games, and then Dean scored ten in succession, winning the match by 6-4, 60. The
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  • 179 7 The Band will play the following pro gramme of music at the Esplanade from 6 til! 7 this evening 1. Selection L's Hugonotes Meyerbeer 2. Pclka Athlete ...Kral 3. Waltz Arrow ...Rose 4. Gavotte J/y Sweetheart ...Sabatbil 6. March The King's Musketeer ...Howson The P. O. announces
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  • 750 7 [/Vo tn Our Own Correspondent.] Ipoh, August 20. By having a meeting iu seven or eight weeks’ time it looks as if ths Ipoh Gymkhana Club was leaving little enough time in which to train the griffins which arrived last Saturday afternoon, and were drawn for on Sunday.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 142 7 THE undersigned is prepared to undertake Surveys of all descriptions for Estates, such as blocking out, preparation of plans, opening out lines etc. Charges moderate. For terms etc. apply to MANZUR HAMAD KHAN, Kaboon Jambu Road, Tupai, Taiping, THE KEDAH RUBBER Co., Ltd. {lncorporated in Penang) NOTICE OF MEETING. NOTICE
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  • WAR NEWS.
    • 744 8 HEROISM OF HIGHLANDERS. London, July 23—Mr. Philip Gibbs, telegraphing to the Daily Chronicle,” state*: The present stage of the advance is causing u> very hard fighting for important positions on high ground, which must be gained and held before new progress over open country. The enemy
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    • 140 8 London, 11th August: Correspondents a*> the front dwell on the strength of Gui lejnont, One correspondent describes the struggle abound there as very obstinate up to the present. The wily Boche has laid traps there, of the exis'ence of which we are fully aware. Another corie-pon-dent
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    • 121 8 The correspondent first quoted, referring to what h? calls a grotesque German statement of the British casualties in June s*ys We naturally lost a good many men at the beginning of our thrust. Since then we have been able to throw the enemy back at a much smaller
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    • 118 8 London, August 7.—The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent states that the French successes north of Verdun were obtained by noticeably small forces. Even cautious observers are inclined to believe that the German reserves really have begun to run short; hence the importance of concerted attacks at Verdun and on
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    • 100 8 The Chicago Daily News publishes a message from its Berlin correspondent saying All reports here praise the heroism of the British and French forces in the Battle raging on the Somme. Th- 1 Germans realise the critical importance of these days All the newspapers in Chicago
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    • 221 8 London, August 9 —The correspondent of The Times at the Italian headquarters states that the Austrians believed that their blow in the Trentino had nipped in the bud any Italian plans for co-operating in the Allied offensive. Thus the Austrianwe r e taken completely by surprise. Very few
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    • 108 8 London, August 12.—A Rus-dan official statement says that the enemy have evacuated the west bank of the Britritz* which runs by Stanislau Ihe Russians crossed, pouring rifle and machine-gun fire into the retreating enemy. The communique does not state whether this occurred north or south of Sta'islau.
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    • 63 8 A Zurich despatch to an Italian newt agency states tl at General Hindenburg recently informed the Kaher that the position of the Gem an armies on the Easte'n front had been seriously compromised by withdrawals to reinforce the Wes\ He was willing to accept the general command on
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    • 75 8 The Morning Post’s Buda Pest correspondent w.ites: “Nobody seems to know that Hindenburg will be able to do. ihe only prediction I have heard is that he will ruin his reputation. It is said he has been promised ten divisions from Turkey shortly and an jther
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    • 96 8 The position of the Austrian Army is regarded in Germany with such profound anxiety that other experts are speaking of it in the terms recently employed by Karl vun Wiegand. The military c of the Frankfurter Zeitung states Even west of Kolomea the Austrians and Hungarians have
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    • 136 8 London, August 7. The Balkan correspondent of the “Times" wires from Coustanza that the movement at C ns'antin pie against Enver Pasha and the Committee <f Union and Progress is rapidly gaining strength. The promoters, se ing the ruin of Tu r key impending, desire
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    • 220 8 The recent painful revelations as to the wretched conditions under which the Brithh are imprisoned in Germany have prompted the authorities to give permission for several journalists to visit two camps and three internment camps, so that the Briti-h methods may be male known tc
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    • 80 8 The Allies are still buying large numbers of American horses. In two weeks contracts for 10,000 horses have ben placed in (he West. Omaha is the concentration point for shipment, and £33 is the contract price per head. Tne horses are drawn from Kansas,
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    • 208 8 London, July 21.—General Sir John Maxwell, in his dispatch dealing with the Irish rebellion, says that the facility with which the Sion Fein&rs we e able to seize so many important points in Dublin was du to armed bodies of civilians being con'inudly allowed to parade and march
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    • 96 8 New York, July 23.—The “New York rimes in discussing the decline of war orders to the United States, points out that one company alone is dismantling an enormous plant and is ducharging 2,500 employees The British inspector is aho leaving. It is because British manufactures
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    • 81 8 A Stuttgart paper reports the speech made by Dr Weill, formerly Socialist member in the Reichstag for Metz, who on the outbreak of war fled to France, and joined the French Army. Dr Weill warns his French friends against his former Socialist colleagues in the Reichstag,
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    • 135 8 The establishment of a new News Agency is reported from Berlin by Wert am Montag,” in which one or two large industrialists, including Herr Rochling of Alsace, and journalists Lke Herr Rausher, formerly of the “Frankfurter Zeitung,” are concerned. The event wou'd be interesting, even if
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  • 298 8 The P. O. Company. The great prosperity of the P. and O. Company, says the Pioneer,” is indicated in the letter addressed to the shareholders in the New Zealand Shipping Company, in regard to the proposal for the amalgamation of the two enterprises. This communication poins out that the market
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  • 136 8 Spring Lake, N. J., July 6.—Under the horrified eyes of hundreds on the boardwalk, a shark to-day bit oft the legs of Charles Bruder, a Swiss youth, and tore his right side terribly. Bruder was dead before men who had gone to bis rescue could get him
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  • 97 8 The advice of Mr. Lloyd George, Minister for Munitions that Australia can best help the Imperial Government by providing for her commercial requirements by the local production of goods now imported from Great Britain is heartily approved by the Australian Minister for Customs. Mr. Tudor said that
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  • 63 8 Tokio, July 23,—-The press cordially approves of the Government using £10,000,000 of its American specie reserve for the purpose of purchasing British Exchequer bonds, which will be lodged in America. Evidently the Japanese Government is investing in these British Exchequer bonds for the purpose of maintaining
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  • 1281 8 DIRECTORS’ REPORT. The report of the directors of the Kedah Rubbor Co., Ltd., to be submitted at the sixth ordinary general meeting to be held at the Chamber of Commerce, Downing Street, Penang, on Saturday the 26th August, at 12 30 p.m. states Your directors beg
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  • 299 8 Taipinq.—Second int. divd. 5 p. c. Krubong.—lnt. divd. sg. c. Last yta r the same. Carey United —lnt. divd. Is. per share Sep*., 1916 Java Investment —Divd. at rate 10 pc. for year ended Mar. 31. In 1914-15 none, Sarawak.—Profit for 1915 shows £9,146 divd., which
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  • 239 8 In the Penang Municipality for the week ended Au;ust; 5, there were 56 deaths —39 males and 17 female, equal to a death rate of 27.83 per mille per annum, compared with 27.83 in the preceding week, and with 34.45 in the corresponlins; week of last year. The
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  • 802 9 Mr. Beu Mitchell has received the following from St. Dunstau s, the hostel for blinded soldiers and sailor’s Regent’s Park, London) Deab Sir,— l have your letter of Jane 11 th, with its welcome enclosure of £2OO (Two Hundred Pounds) towards the benefit of the blinded
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  • 392 9 FOUR CHINESE CONVICTED. The trial of five Chinese, for robbery at Cbemor on June 8, was continued before Mr Justice Farrer-Mauby at the Ipoh Criminal Assizes on Friday, when Mr M B Shelly, Acting DPP., was for the prosecution and the Hon. Mr A N Kenion
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  • 220 9 ,u» —T.O.M.” CHINESE AND TAMIL COMPANIES NOW Forming. This Volunteer Corps appears to be generally welcomed, for, in addition to the formation of a Malay Com pany of 50 men and the proposed Chinese Company, a movement has long been afoot to organise a Tamil Company. The
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  • 186 9 —•< T.0.M,” After the lapse of over six weeks since four cases of-plague occurred in Treacher Street, Ipoh, another death fromi that disease took place th's week in a dwellinghouse in the same neighbourhood. The victim was an Indian Mohammedan, who developed bubonic plague and succumbed very
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  • 712 9 A general meeting of the Ulu Selangor District Planters' Association was held in the Kuala Kubu Rest-House on Tuesday, August Istb v Mr W de L Brooke was in the Chair. A letter from the Chairman to the Resident of Selangor, and the latter’s reply, were read,
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  • 139 9 In the Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court Mr. Justice lunes, with Messrs. A. Shelton Palmers and W. Hav sitting as Assessors, heard the case in which a Tamil compositor, lately in the employ of the Government Printing Office, was charged with murder by cau iog the deaths of
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  • 51 9 The business for the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners of George Town to be held to-morrow is as follows 1. Minutes of last meeting to be read and confirmed. 2. Any special business the President may bring forward. 3. Questions. 4. Some bills to be passed. 5.
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  • 221 9 Penang, August 21, 1916. 8. P. Tapioca $7.55 sellers. M. P. Tapioca $B.lO sellers Gold leaf $64. Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 oz). $l6 1/ Black Pepper $25.0 n 3, buyer Whit. Pepper 7 Pepper no'Xk Hrae Picking. ’«1”"" Nutmegs no. J3l se H E°* $lB7 sales B«far
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  • 44 9 CLEARANCES. To-DAT. Perak, (E. S. Co for Deli. Pungah for Batu Bahra. Hong Moh for Rangoon. Anjou for Langkat and Pangkalan Brandan. Palitana for Singapore. Kedah for Bagan Datoh Teluk Anson. Van den Bosch for Singapore. Un Peng for Pulau Langkawi, Perlis Setul.
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  • 32 9 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Close. Deli and Batu Bahra De Kock noon. Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson Hebe 3-30 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Klang 4 p.m.
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  • 88 9 August 21.—The New Cirque 9.30, Dato Kramat Gardens. August 23.—The New Cirque, Dato Kramat Gardens Matinee, 5.30 p.m August 23rd and 24th.—Penang Golf Club, Ladies' Spoon. August 26.—“ Blue Cross Gymkhana Race Course, 3 p.m. August 26.—Penang Golf Club, Entries for Mixed Foursomes close. August 30. —P.A M.
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  • 123 9 Pkmasg, August 21, 1916. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bink). Loudon 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. 3 days' sight Private 176 Bombay Demand 174| Moulmein Demand I&dc 3 days’sight
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 596 9 BANKS. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA* AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. lacorporated 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 Uatavia Ipoh Puket Bombay Karachi Rangoon Calcutta Klang Saigon Canton
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    • 49 9 On August 14, at Kuala Kubu, before Mr. C. D. Bowen, a Chine e was prosecuted at the instance of Mr. A. R. Mynutt, Inspector of Mines, for working or mining land at Peretak belonging to the State. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $5OO and costs.
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    • 36 9 CARS. Moderate in first cost. Low in Petrol consumption. Light on Tyres. Output at present restricted owing I to the Home Government 1 requirements, but well worth waiting for. HUMBER LIMITED. Works: COVENTRY. ENGLAND. Agents everywhere.
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    • 321 9 NOTICE. 25 cts. each will be paid for copies of the "PINANG GAZETTE of 15th May and sth June, 1916. Apply Managbr, Pinang Press, Ltd. The NEW CIRQUE TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT 11 AND EVERY EVENING AT 9.30. Great Change of Programme. New Acts, New Turns, New Features, New Sensations, and
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  • 478 10 not much better now.,—(Manila Cablenews Dbvelopmrnt in Tkadb with United States “The Philippine cigar trade with the United States is looking up, developing rapidly beyond our greatest expectations," stated Collector Rafferty in analysing the figures for ihe first six months of thi&lt; ye4r. Over last year, he
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  • 326 10 “In the evening I went for a walk to a village lately shelled by the German heavy guns. Their effect was awful—ghastly. It was impossible to imagine the amount of damage done until one really saw it. The church was terrible too. The spire was sticking
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  • 333 10 French Appreciation of A Calm and Methodical Effort,” The Journal publishes an article by M. Ed ward Heriiot, Mayor of Lyons, on Great Britain’s calm and methodical effort.” The writer gives his impression of his recent visit to Great Britain. He says:—“ How wrong it would be
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  • 229 10 Press Camp, France, Joly 12.—1 have just heard of an experience which I think ought to be proclaimed to the world. A wounded English officer was picked up and brought into a German trench. A colloquoy ensued as to what should be done with him, ths popular
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  • 137 10 On a charge brought by Inspector Morgan before the Klang Magistra e on the 12th instant, a Chinaman named Wee Tow was produced for having been found in possession of a still, jars, and trher appliances used for the mat ufacture of sun u at Bukit
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