Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 June 1917

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 146. VOL. LXXV. FRIDAY, 22nd JUNE, 1917. PRICE 10 CENTS!
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1268 1 a iDnuoDaGDUODaanDDaDnanoatreß WANTED g RUBBER CONSIGNMENTS c for our bi-weekly auction sales, g and private sales. Cash Ad- c vances made. '■>. g D ORDERS FOR ESTATE SUPPLIES, L n GOODS for forwarding to any g r_ part of the world. g 5 FIRE INSURANCE bnsifiess. c a ALLEN DENNYS
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    • 85 1 aauflnoDennnDoa nDOQaaBDt;DD J g ttthin you are away g a Vv on leave you want to keep in touch with Malayan affairs, a o Social, Commercial, Mining, 5 Planting, &c. This you can do a a in no better way than by subscrib- fl g ing to the Weekly Edition
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  • 840 2 Mr. A W. H. Hamilton, Superintendent of Police, is now in the General Hospital. The wedding takes place to-day of Miss Ida Mey Gomez, of the Government Girls’ School, niece of Captain Daly, Straits Shipping Co., to Mr. Oscar Strobel* Mr. E. L Watson, of the Nestle’s
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  • 202 2 The Polo Club Committee may be congratulated upon the report to be presented at the annual general meeting next month. It records a most successful and interesting year and it is pleasing to find that substantial contributions have been remitted to the Blue Cross Fuud for Ho»
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  • 157 2 LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. The ties played at the Golf Club last evening resulted Ladies' Doubles Handicap—Mrs Powell and Mrs Ebden—s/6 beat Mrs Macintyre and Miss Hooker—3 6, 6 4, 5—7, 6—3. Profession Pairs—Penny and Goldie beat Winfield and Matson 6—3, B—6* Mixed Doubles Handicap—Miss Hooker and Eve
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  • 294 2 The final of the Doubles Handicap, played last evening, resulted:—J M Chalmers (D) and H Smith beat R D Pitceathly and L E Slowe 21 —lB. The death has occurred, following injuries received in a motor accident in France, of Dr. Hamilton Wright, first Director of the
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  • 268 2 THE CELEBRATED ILLUSIONIST. Mr. Horace Goldin, who is at present touring Malaya and who comes to Penang next week is the doyen of the Magicians Club in London. At this Club may be found conjurors and illusionists performing wonderful feats for the pleasure of each other. Mr.
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  • 161 2 The "ST” understands that a good deal of feeling exists in Malacca over certain measures taken in reference to buildings used for Cinema purposes. Two buildings were con» emned, but extension was granted to one on the ground that new buildings were in course of erection. The
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  • 50 2 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 p. m. till 7 p.m to-day 1. Selection Granada ...Krentzer 2. Two Step In the Night ...Gilbert 3. Waltz Hansel and Gretel Short 4. Polka Bon Vivants ...Godfrey 5. March The Handicap ...Rosey
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  • 41 2 SUBSCRIPTION LIST. Amount previously acknowledged $660 Mr G S Evans $lO Mis D G Hall $25 Dr J Sharp $5O Anonymous $5 Mr 11 Cathiravalo $2O Mr T Laac Tambyah slo.—Total $7BO. R. P. Phillips, Hon. Trea-urer.
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  • 43 2 For Per Close. To-Morrow. Rangoon (Mergui and Moulmein via Rangoon) 8.30 a.m. Port Swettenham Singapore 1.30 p.m. Port Swettenham Singapore Ipoh 3.30 p.m. Monday. Ceylon, India, Mauritius,7 p.m. Aden, Egypt and Reg. up to 6 p.m. Europe, etc. f Parcels 5 p.m
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  • 72 2 June 22.—Empire Theatre, 9.15 p.m. June 23. —Semanggol Rubber Co., Ltd., A.G.M. 1 Downing Street, 12 noon. June 23.—P.V. Field Operations 3.30 p.m. June 23.—Lecture, Pests and Diseases at Malakoff Estate, by Mr. R. M. Richards, 5 p.m. June 24.—P.V.R.C. Shoot 7 a.m. June 24.—Penang Swimming Club, Gibbon's
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 39 2 PINKETTES relieve sickness, headaches and j I constipation dne to change of air. I g 50 cents per phial at your druggist’s or direct by mail on re- B ceipt of price from DR. WILLIAMS’ MEDICINE COMPANY, S SINGAPORE.
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    • 153 2 FOR SALE. SWIFT MOTOR CAR 10/12 HP. Two Cylinders 2/3 neater with dicky seat, in perfect running order, just thoroughly overhauled and painted. Complete with spare wheel, lamps etc. Apply No. 140, c/o Pinang Gazette. TAI SENG Motor Repairing Co., 61, Burmah Road, Penang. ’Phone 208. MOTOR ENGINEERS REPAIRERS. The
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 43 2 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for ro-dav and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To DAY. 1.58 a.m. 7 56 a m. 1.38 p.m. 8 28 p.m. To MORROW. 2 55 am. 8.27 a m 2.08 a.m. 8.55 p.m.
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    • 231 2 COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME Srppire Theatre Business Manager THOMAS SHAFTO. LAST NIGHT OF THIS A PROGRAMME WORTH GOING MILES TO SEE '’O-NIGHI' OUR startling offer includes four new Episodes i 8 BIG REELS of The Serial Wonderful The DIAMOND from the SKY with popular Irving Cummings and the on? and
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  • 786 3 {Specially Contributed.) The present price of 19|d for MidAmerican Spot Cotton at Liverpool furnishes a remarkable example of the enormously enhanced value of staple commodities as a result of the war, and forms a striking and conclusive answer which, it is to be feared, will cause painful
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  • 60 3 London, May 13.—A deputation headed by Lord Islington, Under-Sec r etary for India, and chairman of the Executive Council-of the Imperial Institute, asked Mr Massey, Premier of New Zealand, and Sir Joseph Ward to consider an increase in New Zealand’s contribution to the institute. Mr Massey promised Cabinet
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  • 424 3 Messrs. James F. Hutton x. Co, Ltd., Manchester, report on Wedne-dav, Mav 2nd 1917: Liverpool Cotton. Week r uay. Mid-Arnerican—Spot 22.96 12.45 Mid-American, Current Month 12.63 12.21 F.G.F. Egyptian—Spot 26.50 26.50 F.G.F. Egyptian. Current Month 24 85 25.55 New York Cotton. Spot—Cents. 20 70 19.85 Current Month
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  • 844 3 REAL REASON FOA INDIAN TARIFF. St. Nihai Singh says on the surface it appears that Lancashire had relatively more to fear than other exporters of cotton goods to India. Cotton exports from Lancashire to India are far larger than similar exports from all other countries put
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1090 3 ESTATE MEDICAL OFFICER. FOR SALE W A rE a PP Olntl ent B npHIUMPH .MOTOR BIKE eood Utncer by a doctor now serving in I R.A.M.C. English qualifications, and four ing order $l6O. years experience in Malaya. For further F. W. HARRIS, particulars apply to 759—22 6 H. Hopson Walker,
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    • 120 3 Never too late to care Neuralgia If yo» are suffering naw fres the gripping twitching pains of naaralgia —if yon suff-red ves'erday and expeet to aaffer ro-morrow —yes if you’ve suffered all your life from the agonies of neuralgia, rheumatism. sciatica, backache, toothache, earache, sprain®, strain», or swellings, now M
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    • 714 3 PENANG HARBOUR BOARD. TENDERS will be received at th© Harbour Board Office, up to noon, of Saturday, June 23rd, 1917, for the erec’ion of a Brnded Store 330 feet long by 90 feet wide. Plans and Specification may he seen at rthe Office of the Public SVorks Department between the
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  • 1519 4 There was a two-days conference at Delhi in March last of d-legates from the Chambers of Cimmerce of India to consider papers submitted by the Government in connection w.th the commercial problems which will require to be dealt with after the war terminates Representatives attended from
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  • 1820 4 t.—“ M.M.” Several articles of great significance, by Japanese statesmen and Britain and professors and famous Japan. figures in Japanese public life appear in the first number of The New East published at Tokio under the edito-ship of Mr. J. W. Robertson Scott, who has secured a
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 193 4 I FOR SALE I MOTOR CARS I H of Well-known British and American S g make NEW and SECOND HAND. S g 2 Seater A. C. Complete with Dynamo Lighting Set. H H 2 STRAKER SQUIRE. 3 g 5 PARTIN PALMER. H g 5 REGAL. H H 7 FORD LANDAULETTE.
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    • 25 4 THE CRAG HOTEL, PENANG HILLS. The Sanatorium of the Straits Settlements. Completely Renovated. Bungalows for families also single and double rooms. Laundry on the Premises.
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  • 209 5 A GERMAN EFFORT. THE SHIPPING FIGURES. M VENEZELOS AND GREEK MONARCHY. The British troops i epulsed a new enemy attack south of Lens against the positions, near the Souchez Rive previously taken by Sir Douglas Haig’s forces. The British destroyed two German aeroplanes, and had two misuug.
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 316 5 j ßouter’s Telegrams.] AN ENEMY REPULSE. London, June 20 Field Marshal Haig reports: We completely repulsed the enemy’s fresh counterattack north of the Souchez River. The weather was unfavourable for flying yesterday. The aeroplanes cooperated with the artillery, with good results. We brought down two German aeroplanes.
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    • 647 5 GERMANY’S EX PRE MITY. London, June 21. Mr. G. N. Barn°s, replying to the toast of “Victory of the Allies’’ at a dinner in the Connaught Rooms, in London, made his fit st speech as a Member of the War Cabinet. H« said wh are now at
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    • 32 5 London, June 21. In the Hnuse of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law announced that enemy aliens would be deprived of membership of any British Order of Chivalry. (Loud cheers).
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    • 11 5 London, June 21: The silver market is steady.
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  • The Balkans.
    • 203 5 HOOTED AT LUGANO. Zurich, June 21. Ex-King Consta-itine was booted on the evening of his arrival at Lugano. When be was walking on the lake front, a mob became so threatening that the ex-King fled towards his hotel, and was forced to seek refuge in a cafe en
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    • 46 5 AERIAL AND GUN WORK. London, June 21. A French Eastern communique says the British Air Service successfully bombarded encampments in the Struma valley, north of Petrio. The artillery was somewhat active in the neighbourhoods of Maya Dag, in the Cerna bend and north of Monastir.
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  • Turkey and the Near East.
    • 235 5 DEATHS FROM NEGLECT. Cairo, June 20. Evidence is steadily accumulating of th Q bad treatment of British war prisoners in Turkey. It is learned from most reliable sources that a large number of British aud Indian prisoners in Mesopotamia succumbed to ill-treatment or neglect. A man
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    • 189 5 GERMANY’S ASIAN CAMPAIGN. London, June 20. Router learns with reference to the recent reports of the revival of German intrigue in Afghanistan and neighbouring countries in Central Asia, that official advice s confirm the rumours of the activity of German agents in Turkestan, with the object of
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    • 289 5 FOREIGN MINISTER’S STATEMENT. Petrograd, June 21. Mr. Terestchenko. the Foreign Minister, in a statement, referred to the attitude of the Allies towards the inactivity on the Russian front. He said the Allies clearly understand the Russians’ difficulties. He expressed his willingness to await the results of the democratic ieorganisation
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  • Italy’s Campaign.
    • 76 5 AIRMEN’S WORK London, June 21. A featu r e of the Italian success on the Asiago Plateau was the employment of 145 aeroplanes, which threw 5| tons of air torpedoes on the enemy’s communications. Further Gain. London, June 21. An Italian official report says: We exploded a
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    • 87 5 BARON SONNINO’S STATEMENT. Rome, June 21. In the Italian Chamber, the Foreign Minister, Baron Sounino, speaking on war aims, said Italy’s special interests were equally concerned in the destinies of Albania and direct possession of Valona, and the Hinterland. Italy desired to defend Albania from outside interference,
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  • 88 5 CZECH REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. Paris, June 21. Authoritative advices state that Prague is at present a centre of a great revolutionary, movement aiming at seejiring Czech National Constituent Assembly oA the basis of universal suffrage. Disturbances have broken out in several towns. Austria and Germanism. London, June 21. There is
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  • 57 5 Britain’s Comb London, June 22. In the Hou«e of Commons, Mr J J Macpherson, Under-Secretary for War, sta’ed that the War Office estimated that the re examination of discharged men and rejected men would yield 60,C00 for service abroad, and 60,000 in other categories. Discharged wounded men and invalided men
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  • Naval Operations.
    • 38 5 CONSIDERABLE LOSSES. Loudon, June 20. The Admiralty reports that the arrivals last week were 2,897, and the sailings 2,993. Five vessels under 1,600 tons, and 27 over 1,600 tons were sunk. Thirty-one were unsuccessfully attacked.
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    • 342 5 It may be assumed that the increasing numbers of arrivals and departures are largely due to the great traffic there must now be across the Atlantic, through the participation of the United States in the war. Then the sailings between the French ports and England must
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    • 74 5 Rome, June 21 A semi-official report says during the week ending June 17th the arrivals were 606 and the departures 531, not including fishing boats and coasters Two steamers and five sailing ships were sunk. Two steamers escaped attack. Ship's Boats Fired On. Paris, June 21. French patrol
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    • 27 5 London, June 21. In the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law stated that the O >vernment was considering the question of a Cross-Channel Railway Ferry.
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  • General News
    • 188 5 CAUSES OF THE BOOM. London, June 20 The convulsion in the Lancashire cotton trade, which resulted in the prohibition of transactions in futures at Liverpool, owing to the extraordinary rise in prices due to speculative dealing, is attributed by the Times to lack of shipping, accentuated by
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    • 80 5 SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. London, June 21. An official report from East Africa says that beginning on June 10th we operated from Lindi, with the object of clearing out the enemy from the shores of the estuary of the Lukeledi river. Warships assisted. We made a surprise landing near Mrjeka,
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    • 95 5 WOMAN SUFFaGE QUALIFICATION. London, June 21. The House of Commons, by 291 votes to 25, agreed to 30 as the age of qualification for women voters. Soldiers’ Votes. The House adopted several Government amendment clauses for the Electoral Reform Bill, relating to soldiers’ and sailors’ votes. Sir George
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    • 117 5 London, June 21. Mr. Balfour, speaking at the Empire Parliamentary Association luncheon in his honour, said The American nation welcomed the opportunity offered by the mission to manifest its deep moral and spiritual agreement with the policy of the Allies. That is the real significance of the
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  • 75 5 [From Our Own Singapore, June 2*2. At ihe hearing of he case in which Mr Frederick Williamson, managing partner of the Asiatic Motor Works, Ltd, is charged with causing the death of an unknown Chinese by a rash act in the driving of a motor car
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  • 38 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, June 22. At the Singapore rubber auctions, 648 tons were offeree! and 448 tons sold. The demand was maintained at Wednesday’s prices, but the lower quality lots were not wanted.
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  • 270 5 To-day’s quotation for "unrefined tin in Penang was $lll 50 per picul, business done—a decrease of $1.75. Tin is quoted in London to-day ab £249 spot, and £247 three ‘months. The shortage of condensed milk in Penang continues to cause some lit tie inconvenience. A considerable number of
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  • WAR NEWS.
    • 447 6 GERMAN INHUMANITY. London, May 11.—The Press Burean an nounces The steamer Alnwick Castle was torpedoed without warning 320 miles from the Scillies, the nearest land. Those on board, numbering 139, were placed into boats, including a baby three months old. Captain Chave, master of the Alnwick
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    • 252 6 London May 13.—A correspondent at headquarters states that the Germans are making frantic efforts to regain the initiative. Prince Rupprecht is hard-pressed, with his back tight against the positions which, if lost, will be fatal to his plans. He is launching attack after attack at Hindenburg’s bidding
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    • 296 6 London, May 13.—The night before last there was heavy artillery fire on the Hindenburg line and Bullecourt, mostly due to the fact that the Germans thought we were attacking Shortly after fire ceased groaning could be heard from a wounded German near the Australian lines from the
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    • 68 6 Captain Clive Durden, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, died from injuries received through beb-g run over by a train at Victoria Station. It was stated at the inquest that Capt. Durden remarked after ,he accidentlsn’t it rotten luck, after being months in France, that this silly
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    • 158 6 London, May 13—Sir Thomas Robinson Agent-General for Queensland has returned from France, where he supervised the polling of the Queensland troops on the Upper House Abolition Referendum. S >me of the divisions in which Queenslanders predominate are now in the thick fighting. When Sir Thomas Robiu-on arrived in
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    • 119 6 SHELL-TORN AND BLOOD-STAINED." Vancmver, May 11. —Marshal Joffre and V Viviani have been a round of visits. Tney saw crowds of hundreds of thousands displaying unbounded enthusiasm. Marshal Joffre placed a wreath on General Grant’s •omb. At a reception in the evening Marshal Joffre was overcome with emotion and broke
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    • 107 6 Vancouver, May 11 —The Berlin correspondent of the United Press Agency has received from the Foreign Office a statement of the German view of America’s entrance into the war. It says Germany refuses to forego the present use of submarine t although it does not desire to
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    • 71 6 Rome May 13 —lt is reported that I’arkey, through a neuTal offered Russia a separate peace on the basis of the opening of the Straits to Russian merchantmen, and to the navy and army, and the Turkish evacu*ion of Armenia. The Russian Provisional Government refused to
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    • 145 6 London, May 11.—In the case, John Gruban, a naturalised German, and exchairman of Haigh Gruban, Limited, vs F Handel Booth, Liberal M P for Pontefract, for damages for depriving him of his business connection with Haigh Gruban Company, Limited, of Oldham, Dr Addison, Minister of Munitions, gave
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  • 945 6 S.T.” INTERESTING LEGAL POINT. A esse of considerable legal interest came before the Court of Appeal, Singapore, in the appeal of Ahmed Mahomed Sallay Angulia, merchant of Singapore, against the decision of the Chief Justice (Sir John Bucknill, K.C.) in the action brought against appellant by Sir
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 224 6 S JUST UNPACKED! THIS SEASON’S SMARTEST PRODUCTIONS IN Jewellery Silverware THE BEST POSSIBLE VALUE OBTAINABLE AT jj WASSIAMULL ASSOMULL g Co., PENANG. J TONALKA IS THE BRITISH APERIENT WATER. I Pleasant in taste. Painless In action. SOLD EVERYWHERE. HEINEKEN’S BEER STAR BRAND. BENSDORF’S COCOA AND CHOCOLATES OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE. SOLE AGENTS:
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    • 85 6 •oooeoooeoooeoooeooooeoooeoooe iFIRESTONE! o 2 O 0 o 2 o FRESH STOCKS o 8 fll JUST AR R |VED P n In i MORE MILES I -w o X AGENTS: 0 0 R.T. REID Co., Penang.? 0 o S O BRINKMANN Co., Singapore. o o 0 THE WATERHOUSE Co., Ltd. J
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  • 752 7 AERIaL battles. la the daily official reports a brief picture has been given of the battle which has raged in the skirs while the earth-men have been struggling below. Truly during these last few days our Air Service has fought very wonderfully, writes a correspondent
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  • 108 7 A further big change of programme is announced for to-morrow night, instead of the usual Monday change. To-morrow’s programme consists of further new parts of Love’s Battlefield six new parts of The Diamond from they Sky Latest Official Universal War Gazette and a vary fine two reel Triangle
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  • WAR ITEMS.
    • 82 7 Washington, May 21.—Theodore Roosevelt, in response to the statement of President Wilson that the army does not look with favour upon the formation of his four divisions of volunteers, on the ground that this would cause a serious drain on the ranks of trained men wanted to instruct
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    • 89 7 The President has outlined the national food programme he proposes to adopt. Absolute powers are necessary, he says. Herbert Hoover, who had charge of the work of the commission for the relief of Belgium, has stated that he will accept the post of national food controller, without pay.
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    • 51 7 AX ashington, May 21.—The national council of defence announces that its aviation policy will include the construction of 3,500 aeroplanes during the first year, and the enlistment and training of from five to six thousand aviators. The programme for five second year will be double that of the
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    • 119 7 San Francisco, May 21.—The Chinese Six Companies have made a formal offer to the federal government to bring half a million coolies from China to work the fields in the United States during the war with Germany, agreeing that all of the labourers thus imported shall be
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    • 63 7 Washington, May 24.—Mr. Lansing has issued a warning to American socialists not to attend the Stockholm socialist conference. He declares no passports will be granted them, basing his action on the theory that their attendance would be a violation of the Logan act of 1795, which
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    • 92 7 Washington, May 17.—The new army bill, as finally agreed to by the conference committees of both Houses, and now recommended back to Congress for final approval, increases base pay for enlisted men on first enlistment, frem 815 per month to $21.15. The base pay for men
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    • 37 7 Washington, May 17. —The House of Representatives has voted to add 25 per cent, to all present surtaxes provided for in income tax laws now in effect for incomes of more than $40,000 pei- annum.
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    • 131 7 Washington. May 17.—American destroyers in British waters have already engaged in a brush with a German submarine, without having suffered any casualties. Secretary Daniels states that the American destroyers arrived in English waters on May 4. and that the belated announcement of the British Admiralty is due to
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    • 111 7 New York. May 21.—Victor Rintenlin and his accomplices, Lamar and Martin, who were charged with conspiracy in connection ■with plots to blow up munition plants and to send a bomb to President Wilson at -the White House, have been convicted of conspiracy. The culprits alleged in tfieir
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  • 503 7 The Germanophile press and the German agents that swarm throughout Spain have begun to place serious obstacles in the way of the new Cabinet, says a Madrid message of 28 April. No sooner was it known that Marques de Alhucemas fully approved the agreement between Spain
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  • 623 7 Don Alvaro Alcala Galiano, whose pamphlet The Truth about the War caused some stir some time ago, has published a volume entitled Spain and the European Conflict.” The author is a son of the former Spanish Ambassador in London, Conde de Casa Valenica, and is a well-known figure
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  • 182 7 How can responsible statesmen abroad repeat that most false of all the Potsdam lies, that Ireland has been treated as Poland was by Russia, or as the Czechs are by Austria—Austria that will not open its Parliament at all, which has hanged two thousand Bohemian patriots, to say
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  • 180 7 The London Gazette of April 27, contained a further revision of the Admiralty notic* to mariners in regard to the dangerous area of the North Sea, published in the Gazette of March 30. The dangerous area is now defined as follows The area comprising all the
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  • 146 7 Germany is attempting a new political and military manoeuvre against Italy, according to Signor Pio Mari, who explains his view in the Idea Nazionale.” He says that Germany, by means of the neutralists, is attempting to demonstrate that Italy, threatened with ruin,” may yet obtain an
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  • 139 7 Bombay Couple’s Trying Experience. Bombay, June 7. —An interesting letter lias been received in Bombay from an English resident who sailed for home recently with his wife. Their ship was torpedoed at night in the Mediterranean just ten hours from Marseilles on the 4th April, and they
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  • RUBBER ESTATES OF JOHORE
    • 1403 7 The eleventh ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Rubber Estates of Johore, Limited, was held in the Council Room of the Rubber Growers’ Association (Incorporated), 38, Eastcheap, E.C., Sir Frank A. Swettenham, G.C.M.G. (the chairman), presiding. The Chairman said Gentlemen, with your permission
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    • 128 7 Messrs. Barlow and Company supply the following statistics of the export of Para rubber from the four ports of the Peninsula from January 1. The quantities are stated in lbs., with the figures for the corresponding periods of the three previous years: Singapore. Penang. Port; S’ham. (to
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    • 228 7 That the Philippines can produce all the rubber consumed in America is the message brought back from the island by H. C. Pearson, publisher in New York of the leading rubber journal of America. He returned after spending several week® in a survey of the island and
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    • 280 7 During the past few weeks interest in Rubber shares has developed to a most remarkable extent. The market has gone from strength to strength, and readers of these articles who commenced buying on my strong recommendation more than a year ago certainly have no reason to regret their
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  • 89 7 San Francisco, May 15.—. Acting upon information given by the alleged master of the German spy system who is now under arrest here, the federal secret service has launched a movement to clear the country of spies. It is reported that the United States has been divided
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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