Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 20 February 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 42. VOL. LXXVI. WEDNESDAY, 20th FEBRUARY, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 631 1 <nC ,nnDO«»«" HBnnBBWWB aonanCD 8 UP-TO-DATE PRINTING g g o f every description undertaken, r from a visiting card to the largest size poster, by The Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd., g with care and promptitude. d Estimates given free and artistic d display guaranteed. pApaann aßß«Mßca*«a«»«CTnnnQc l a E P,
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    • 16 1 CBfIOMBOMICMOMO IRUNNVMEDEI HOTEL, I GARAGE I New Cars for Hire. I i™™ e “‘-{SH T stj
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  • 5073 2 THE ANNUAL MEETING. PENANG’S TRADE IN 1917. EDUCATION IN THE COLONY. The annual general meeting of the members of the Penang Chamber of Commerce was held in the Chamber yesterday afternoon. Mr AF Goodrich (Messrs Sandilands, Buttery 4 Co) the Chairman of the Chamber presided and the
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  • 282 2 Gazettb Notice to Miners. The following appears in the F. M. Government Gazette Mineral samples are received for a-sy in the laboratory of the Geological Department, at Ba’u Gajah, Perak. Charges are made according to the following list, whic is subject to revision The determination of one of
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  • 762 3 London December, 16.—1 n describing the exploit at Tries e, where two Italian launches entered the harbour and sank the Austrian coastal defence ship Wien Mr Percival Gibbon states The hero of the exploit was Lieut. Rizzo, a Sicilian aged 30 with the strong masculine good looks
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  • 1008 3 The Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha have announced that they will increase freight rates on their services to Australia by 50 per cent. The old rates are, by cargo ships, Sydney and Melbourne, 150 shillings; Adelaide, 175 shillings. A steel steamer of 11,600 tons deadweight
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 937 3 PLANTER of integrity and experience FOR IT Burma and Malay States desires change. Present billet many years. No <ANE UNDERWOOD TYPE WRITER, Tamil —Proficient in Malay. Managership just as good as new (second-hand), only. Principals or Agents please address: For price and further particulars apply to Change Box No. 33,
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    • 176 3 Pain in the Region of the Hips. Have you pains in the region of the hips. Many people suffer from pain in the region of the hips. They may come from a touch of Sciatica, or Rheumatism, or from a strain of the muscles. They may have other causes, but
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    • 85 3 TROPICAL MODEL PIANOS BY THE BEST BRITISH AND AMERICAN MAKERS. CASH AND TIME PAYMENTS. ROBINSON’S. (INCORPORATED IN HONGKONG.) EVERYDAY AILMENTS FLATULEN.CE ACIDITY HEARTBURN SICK HEADACHE VOMITING COLIC and PAINS DAH RED MIXTURE cures these everyday aliments and ought to be ever ready in your home. t OBTAINABLE THROUGHOUT PENANG, OR
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 320 3 I iba Proprietor H. J. A. HOLM. Manager THOMAS SHAFTO. EDDIE POLO Appears To-night as the Rough and Ready Man in the Fight. SEE HIM in Episode (3) THE WARNING SEE HIM in Episode (4) THE FIGHT The Greij Ghost Setter than Love’s Bflttlefieio I HAROLD LOCKWOOD. The Big Metro
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  • 987 4 The shadow of the war is thrown across the record of practically every institution and its eSects are traceable, to a very special degree, in an organisation like the Penang Chamber of Commerce whose operations are touched at so many points by abnormal circumstances arising out
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  • 111 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $144.75 per picul, business done. The free vaccinations at the Lam Hua Hospital, Penang, by Mr Lim Tai Lee, will be resumed on the 23rd instant, every Saturday, at Ba. m. (Chinese 13th day of the First Moon). A Kedah
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  • 1740 4 Count Terauchi’s Government has survived a vote of want of Polities in confidence by a majority Japan, of 124 votes—the figures being, for, 117, against 241. The present Premier organised a Cabinet in October, 1916, and the remarkable part about it was that it had the support
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 155 4 When Taking a Holiday Don’t Forget a KODAK. gjfc VEST POCKET KODAK COMPLETE IN LEATHER CASE $18,70 lO&SSB A perfect miniature Camera easily carried in the pocket. no. ia, ggj BROWNIE KODAK W CAM E RAS. JUNIOR mfof il I'M No. 2, Si by 2| in. ■nill I !,i H
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    • 71 4 ■Story Where Everybody “E. b.” NOTICE? TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE “PINANG GAZETTE.” The subscription accounts of the “Pinangr Gazette,” having been issued, subscribers are reminded that all subscriptions are payable: in advance:. Owing to heavy outgoings, con. tingent on the war, the manage, ment cannot continue the posting or delivery
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 40 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to-day and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water Low Water. To-dat. 10.6 a.m. 3.22 a.m. 9.20 p.m. 3 6 pm. To MOBBOW. 10.59 a.m, 4 36 a.m. 10.16 p.m. 4.35 a m.
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  • 16 4 DEATH. Donaldson—At Kulim, Kedah, on February 19tb, Eliza Donaldson, widow of Robert Donaldson, aged 86 years.
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  • 245 5 bolshevik armistice BROKEN. EVENTS IN FINLAND. THE REPINGTON ARTICLE j a a raid by six enemy aerop’anes on Saturday night, one bomb was dropped on a south-west district of London, and others on the eastern outskirts. An attack on Dover was driven off 1 bombs being dropped on
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  • France and Belgium
    • 274 5 [Rueter’s Telegrams.] THE LANCASHIRES’ RAID. London, February 16. sir Douglas Haig reports the Lancashires made a successful raid in the neighbourhood of the Ypres-Staden railway and took prisoner eleven. Our casuahiewere slight. Hostile artillery is active north of Lens, opposite La Basses and Wyt-.chaete. Prisoners Taken. London, February
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    • 406 5 Paris, December 20.—M. Joseph Reinach, tne Figaro’s military and historical authority, reckons that the Germans will be ■'Me to withdraw fifty divisions from the Russian front, leaving twenty or thirty to *atch over the execution of their treaty, do P-'lice duty, and guard the frontier.
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    • 460 5 —Exchange. The following is from Mr. Forrest, “United Press of America correspondent with the French armies in the field From a military point of view 1917 closes for the French armies a year of notable successes. Every single action fought during the past year
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    • 124 5 “SUNDAY TIMES’ VIEWS. London, February 18. The Sunday Times and National News that they were informed by General Robertson that he had not resigned. General Robertson told a Sunday Times reporter last evening, It is quite true I will not accept either position.” The political correspondent of the
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    • 39 5 EX- M. P IMPRISONED. London, February 17. Mr Arnold Lupton, formerly M. P. for the Sleaford Division of Lincolnshire, was sentenced to six month-’ imprisonment, for circulating a pacifist leaflet, the printer of which was fined £9O.
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    • 27 5 London, February 18. Mr. Lloyd GfO'ge, though indisposed was working incessantly in the Wye country on Friday, but he was recalled yesterday on urgent business.
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    • 221 5 LONDON AND DOVER. London, February 17. An official report states that six aeroplanes approached the mouth of the Thames at 9-45 last night and carried out an attack on London. All were turned back, one, which penetrated the capital and dropped a bomb on a south-west district
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    • 48 5 London, February 16; The Press Bureau says an enemy submarine bombarded Dover at 12 minutes to 10 this morning. It discharged thirty rounds in three minutes. One child was killed, and three men, one woman and three children injured. Slight damage was done to houses.
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  • 37 5 KING ALEXANDER’S VISIT. [Havas Telegram General Guillaumat, Commander-in-Chief of Eastern army, in company with the King of Greece, visited the Allied front and Fiorina, also the region of Monastic, where the population welcomed them enthusiastically.
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  • 23 5 Paris, February 19. M. Jonnart, Governor-General of Algeria has been elected tc-day a member of the Mcral and Political Sciences Academy.
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  • 34 5 Paris, February 19, The Government has introduced a bill transforming the provisional credits granted in 1917 to all Departments into definitive credits. The expenditure in the last year amounted to 44,847,677,211 francs.
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  • 171 5 BELGIAN DELEGATES’ SPEECHES [Havas Telegrams Paris, February 20, The National Council of the French Socialist Party met on Sunday to pass resolutions on the subject of the InterAllied Socialist Conference in London. English and Belgian de'egates were present. In an eloquent speech, M. Vandervelde, a Belgian delegate, declared
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  • 25 5 Tokio, February 17. In the House of Representatives, an Opposition motion of no-confidence in the Government was rejected by 241 votes to 117.
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  • Russia
    • 705 5 WAR WITH BOLSHEVIKS. Amsterdam, February 17. Germany announces that owing to the conduct of the Petrograd Government) the armistice is regarded as denounced on February 10oh, Accordingly, after the lapse of a week’s notice of the termination of the armistice provided under the treaty, Germany reserves a free
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    • 188 5 A MOVEMENT FOR PEACE. Amsterdam, February 17. The Handebblad learns from Vienna that Rumania intends to negotiate with the Central Powers, provided the Central Powers give previous assurance they will not assail the sovereignty of Rumania, and leave the solution of the dynastic question to the Rumanians themselves. Rumania
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    • 301 5 Herr Friedrich Naumann, the author of “Central Europe,” explains outright, in an interesting article in Die Hilfe (November 15), the German plan for forcing an economic agreement upon Austria in return for an Austrian solution of the Polish question. He says In Germany there is plenty
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    • 244 5 In the December Nineteenth Century is an interesting survey, signed Leslie Urquhart, of the Russian situation. The Revolution so far has been grossly artificial. Those who seized power do not represent Russia and the Russian people. At the most they represent the factory workers and the
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  • 22 5 Reuter reports that fifty infanta perished by the burning of the Foundling Asylum of the Grey Nuns at Montreal.
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  • 32 5 EXPLOSION IN THE INDIES. [Special Cablr Service] Ambon, February IS. The Government's steamer Vnlk wasdestroyed by an explosion of carbide Many of the Dutch and native crew were wounded.
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  • 55 5 WORLD” EDITOR F.NED. London, February 17. Mr. West Fenton De Wend-Fenton,, sole proprietor and controlling editor of the World was fined £lOO for publishing an article in which he referred to Colonel Repiugtou’s article in the Morning Post,” and also for publishing a confidential warning to newspapers
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  • 68 5 SPLENDID RESULTS. New York, February 17. Mr. Garfield, the Fuel Administrator, states that owing to the five-day ir das' rial suspension in January, and the subsequent “heatless Mondays,” only the normal number of ships are now in American ports. The flow of supplies to the American
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  • 54 5 APPEAL TO RUSSIA. Washington, February 18* 1 The American Federation of Labour adopted a declaration that this is Labour’s war, which Labour must win, and every State fighting for final victory must count for humanity. It urges the Russian workers to make common cause with those of America,
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  • 31 5 PEKING THREATENED. London, February 17, A Peking telegram says the plauuĕ is spreading and has appeared near Pau Ting Fu, threatening Peking and Tientsin. The mortali'y is enormous.
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  • 398 5 The Floods in Batavia. Batavia, February 15. —The floods in Batavia are falling. The Governor visited the inundated districts and spent some time in! Ped jamboon, which has suffered most. The central electric station has resumed work.; Later. The water continues still to falL It appears that
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  • WAR ITEMS.
    • 313 6 New York, December 21.—Mr. Herman Bernstein, who obtained the “Willy-Nicky” correspondence between the Kaiser and the Ozar, has given the new York “Herald” an account of an interview which he says he had with the Pope at the end of 1915, now feeling that he is
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    • 152 6 London, December 27.—The congress of the French Labour Federation has urged the working classes in every country to insist upon their respective Governments stating their peace conditions. It urges that this would be the best means of preventing any of the Allies from making a separate
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    • 154 6 Melbourne, January B.—The following summary of casualties of members of the A.I.F. reported by cable, showing the totals from the date of embarkation up to and including the casualty list published in “The Age”' this morning, has been issued by the defence authorities: Deceased 41,386 Missing e 1,756
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    • 66 6 Washington, December 22,—Mr. John Donald. a member of the Shipping Board declared that the board was preparing to put the L nited States on a footing after the war to actively complete with Japan for the vast Pacific trade, which war conditions have diverted to the United
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    • 49 6 London. January 6. —The British and French steamship lines, trading in the North Atlantic, have formed a conference known as the Atlantic conference, with a view to an agreement upon the passenger trade. The conference excludes enemy steamship lines which were members before the war.
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    • 135 6 Nw York, January 3.—Brigadier-General Crowder, Provost Marshal, who is supervising the examination of the men called up for military service, has recommended the registration of men who have reached the age of 21 since the calling up of the first draft, which would add 700,000 to the draft
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    • 76 6 Drunken sailors have sacked the residence of the first secretary of the Italian embassy at Petrograd, and have bayoneted two of the seiwants. The British ambassador in Petrograd (Sir George Buchanan) has published a statement rebutting M. Trotsky’s abusive charges of his having interfered with internal Russian
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    • 95 6 Six hundred released English soldiers and civilians arrived at the seaport of Boston, Lincolnshire, from Germany, and were enthusiastically welcomed. There were many touching reunions. The men speak of the terrible trials of captivity, and declare that they would have starved without the parcels sent from
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    • 99 6 New York, January 2.—A series of explosions and fires has destroyed an important section of the city of Norfolk, in Virginia. The damage is estimated at 2.000,000 dol. (£400.000). The city has been placed under martial law. [Norfolk is the second city of Virginia, and has a
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    • 80 6 London, January 3.—Sir Douglas Mawson has been asked for his opinion regarding the fate of the missing Aurora, formerly the Antarctic exploration ship, ,which is conderably overdue on a voyage out from Sydney. He said —“lf the Aurora has been lost it must be due to a
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    • 69 6 London, January 3. —The preliminary hearing has been concluded of the charge against Loui Voisin, a French butcher, and Madame Rouche, against whom a verdict of murder was returned at the inquest on the remains of the French woman Gerard, whose mutilated body was found in a
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    • 153 6 London, December 31. —Some irritation has arisen through Mr. Hughes, the Australian Prime Minister, offering the Western Australian Government’s steamer Kangaroo, 4,348 tons, to the Imperial Government without consulting Western Australia. The Western Australian Government has protested vigorously to the Colonial Office. The Shipping Controller
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  • 1033 6  -  By Lieut. Victor MacClure. —“T.O.M.” Sometimes they came up during the night and at other times they moved during the day. They made rather a noise when they moved, the Landships attached to the British army, and commanders hearing them pass felt uneasily that the German could
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  • 1001 6 Report of Straits Branch. The active membership of the Society is estimated at 257. The death in action of four further members has been ascertained since the last report was written namely, Lieut.-Colonel V. A. Flower, Captain ix. Millard, Mr. M. Thunder and Mr. R. B. Williams.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 208 6 THOUSANDS OF MOTHERS ARE BLESSING THE FOOD THAT BUILDS BONNIE BAIRNS. NEW STOCKS OF GLAXO AT “CASH CHEMISTS” Ltd, 52/54, BEACH STREET. PENANG. IGreen island cement co., Ltd. PORTLAND CEMENT la CMkB Bnuas rt m Aa. art. la Bags rt IM Ikt. art. Csmsnt THsk aay pnttMh I dartterways. a
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  • 566 7 death is reported from Addis Ababa a f the Empress Taitou. and Mrs F Duxbury contemplate a trip to Japan in the near future. Mr W G Peter, Chartered Bank, is taking short leave and is going to Japan. Mr and Mrs W Frew and daughter arrived
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  • 48 7 SERIOUS LOSS AT SINGAPORE. [Fbom Oue Own Cobbbspondent. Singapore, February 20. By a serious fire at Tanjong Rhu the Shipyard was burned out. Two wooden ships, ten boats and two launches were destroyed. The damage is estimated at $200,000. The oil mills and stores were saved.
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  • 129 7 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade front p.m. to-day 1. Overture Tancredi ...Rossini 2. Cake Walk The Palm ...Estella 3 Selection The Casino Girl Englander 4. Waltz Cornflowers and Poppits ...Waldteufel J-March Dollar Princess Leo Fall The Fire Insurance Companies Bid,
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  • 277 7 A TAXATION CASE. The Court ot Appeal at Penang dealt with two appeals yesterday afternoon, Mr Justice L M Woodward, Senior Puisne Judge, Mr Justice L P Ebden and Mr Justice R C Edmonds being on the Bench. Partnership Appeal. In the first case, the appeal in
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  • 209 7 When the Court resumed this morning, the Chief Justice (Sir John Bucknill, K.C.), Mr. Justice L. M. Woodward and Mr. Justice Edmonds on the Bench the appeal of Mohomed Daly (defendant) against a finding of the District Court, Penang, in connection with a case decided in favour of
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  • 67 7 Amount previously acknowledged ...$183,200 67 Sale of a Bow-Wow $lOO, Caledonia Miniature Rifle Club $19.40, Collecting Card No 56 Hutton Lane Football Club $7, Members of Penang Club $l,OOO, Additional amount received from Penang Swimming Club o/a Water Carnival $24, Proceeds of Robinson
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  • 82 7 Total already acknowledged $7,893 Mr H Waugh $250, Mr Heah Swee Lee $250, Mr D MacLennan $25, Mr J R Brown $5O, Major A R Dewar $25, Captain T Ring $5O, Mr E Reimann $5O, Mr Tye Chee Thean $25, Mr Tye Kee Yoon
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  • 109 7 British Foreign Bible Society Emergency Fund. Amount already acknowledged $581.97 A Friend $5, Mr W Haffenden, Bangkok, Ticals 50 $32.75, Mrs R H D Sander* aon, Bombay $ll, Collection St Marks. Seremban $9.75, Rev Dexter Alien $-10 Total $650.47’ Chas E. G. Ti dall, Agent, ——■jp A faction fight between
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  • 60 7 LIVES LOST. Shortly after one o’clock to-day an unfortunate occurence took place at Victoria Street, near its junction with Prangin Street, Penang, a brick budding of two floors, comprising three dwelling houses, totdly collapsing. Three persons—two women and a child—are dead, as a result of
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  • 206 7 London, December 26. —The Petrograd correspondent of the “Daily Chronicle” telegraphs —“Correspondents are sometimes reproached for failing to present the real facts of the Russian situation, but it is difficult to reproduce anything like tangible realities. This mysterious country has passed into a latent condition. The amenities of
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  • 239 7 Prophecy in war is always unsafe, and in this war it is peculiarly unwise, says Mr. Gerard Fiennes. But I have the full conviction that the experience of the future will not falsify that of the past, but that, the rhythmical action of the German submarine campaign will
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  • 40 7 Eddie Polo in “The Gray Ghost” is drawing large audiences to the Empire Theatre, where the hero of L >ve’s Battle field is probably more popular than Charlie Chaplin himsd. An excellent, supporting programme b also being shown.
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  • 184 7 Feb 20.—Penang Choral Society. Annual General Meeting, Town Hall, 6.30 p.m. Feb 23.—Kuala Sidim Rubber Co, Ltd, Annual General Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 11.30 a.rn. Feb 23.—Perak River Valley Rubber Co, Ltd, Adjourned Annual General Meeting, noon. Feb 24.—P.V. Field Operations, (Compulsory). Feb 25.—Ayer V eng (Rahman) Annual
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  • 123 7 The followin’ are the latest quotations iu Messrs. Kennedy and Co.’s share list Yesterday. To-day. QQ QD UO QQ U. U t-< J-! Shares. >» s fl 33 02 ce 5Q Rubber (Dollar), A. Molek 52.40 $2.60 $2.30 $2.50 JeramK. $1.45 $1.55 $1.45 $1.50 Kelemak $7 s7s
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  • 15 7 The following is an additional rubber output for Jaruary Malacca Plantations lbs 376,900
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  • 75 7 Messrs. Cunningham, Clark Co., Penang, advise us that the under-mentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them by auction and private tender to-day. Diamond smoked sheet sBs $9l Plain smoked sheet s 73— 79 Diamond unsmoked sheet s7l 79 Plain unsmokei sheet s 67— 70 Bark
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  • 278 7 The following is the report by the Directors to the eighth ordinary annual general meeting of shareholders to be held on Wednesday, 20th February, at noon, in th© registered office of the Company at Malacca. The Directors have pleasure in submitting the balance sheet -and profit and
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  • 200 7 The njbber share market is not happy, and rubber itself does not encourage it. We explained some weeks ago, says “The Observer” on December 16th that the Americans had been buying rubber in the East itself, at practically their own prices, which was not helpful to the rubber
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  • 557 7 V LAST YEAR’S INCREASED PROFIT. The ninth ordinary general meeting of the Sungei Gau Tin Mining. Co., Ltd., was held on Saturday at the registered office, Singapore. There were present Messrs. W. P. Plummer (presiding), A. Reid, Lee ChftA ,Guan F. Pritchard and P. M- Robinson. The
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  • 168 7 Further Supplies Stopped. Commenting on published information regarding the difficulty experienced by small users of tin plate in securing their supplies, the Australian Minister of Defence announced that there is apparently no way of helping those concerned. Senator Pearce said that for some months past the Ministry of
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  • 149 7 Penang. February 20, 1918 8. P. Tapioca ...$10.20 sellers M. P. Tapioca ...$10.20 sellers. Gold leaf $72. Pepper (W. Coast 3 lbs. 5 oz) sl6s buyers Black Pepper $25 buyers. White Pepper $4O nom Trang Pepper $32.00 season coming Mace SHO nom. Mace Pickings $49 sales. Cloves season over
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 512 7 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SITUATION WANTED. BY A CHINESE with thorough knowledge of shipping and book-keeping, good references. Apply to Box No. 47, c/o Pinang GazetteWANTED. CHINESE CLERK for Tin Mine, Upper Perak, must be accurate, fair knowledge of book-keeping essential. Commencing salary $BO per month without quarters. Apply Box No. 46,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2211 8 l___ IL JI BANKS; P.sO.-Bmtohl™* N.Y.K. fee K.JP.JM. I MAATSCHAPPIJ Reserve Fund AND laoan Mail Steamship Reserve Liability of Proprietors £l’S? japan man h (ihcobpobated in Holland.) Hkad Office: ,200 Anrar I inp Company, Limited. (Hoy*i s. n. company) A (Incorporated in Japan.) litwdid vo Hau. Sikamkb. Amritsar Hongkong Peki
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