Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 September 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 224. VOL. LXXVI. TUESDAY, 24th SEPTEMBER, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 974 1 JU JUTSU. ;> prof. Y.h. MiroMni, <; I 1» ANSON ROAD. 1* Bone Setting and Surgical Manipulation. •a* l_F YOJJ HAVE NOT TJRjED. I I BEAR BRAND MILK DUNLOP TYRES you can have no idea what a I I mrfectlv sterilised milk I LARGE STOCKS IMm I I I really
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    • 15 1 IRUNMYMEDE I HOTEL. j GARAGE j New Cars for Hire. I j "HS.t 5 j
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  • 1231 2 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The annual general meeting of the Penang Automobile Club was held in Penang Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon. Mr L M Bell, the President, was in the chair, the others present being Messrs C G May, R P Phillips, LAC Biggs, R N Goodwin,
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  • 518 2 In these unique days of rapid and thrilling events some may not yet realize th* sad interest which the murder of the Tsaritza and the young Grand-Duchesses has for English people. Queen Victoria’s grand-daughter and her children will go down to history as the victims of one
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  • 117 2 I’fie f l w •>» H>e latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s chare list:— Yesterday. To day. 2 SHARES. J 5 "5 S'? W 02 CQ CQ Rubber (Dollar.) c. c Sc. c Bukit P. 25 20 30 20 di< Radella 8.00 9.00 8.50 9.00 Mining. Asam
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  • 72 2 A homeward mail “G via Singapore, closes at 6 p.m. to-morrow. Letters posted in the pillar boxes before 5 pm. to-morrow will be in time Penang mails by Exprt ss yesterday missed connection at Kuala Lumpur. London Post Office te'egraphs that foodstuffs can be sent to United Kingdom
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  • 52 2 Sept 25.—Lfctme Sir Stamford Raffles,’’ Free School 6 pm. Sept 25.—Meeting, Board of Licensing Justices, District Court, 2.30 p m. Sept 27.—Residency “At Home.” Lingerie Sale and Entertainment, 5 p.m. Sept 28. Rahman Hydraulic Tin, Ltd, A. G. M. noon, Bank Buildings. Sept 29.—Swimming Club, Pritchard Cup, 550
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  • 1539 2 ACTION FOR DAMAGES. Mr, Justice Sproule, in the District Court, Penang, yesterday, hea>d a case in which M Hendrick Sibbelee, manager, Central Malaya Engineering and Motor Works, Taiping, and Mrs. Anna Marie Sibbelee. his wife, sued the Willison Wirth’s Circus and Menagerie for StCO as damages, for
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 353 2 OUR DAY. TANK FUND. TICKETS $l. First Prize-New Elgin Motor Car. Just Landed. Value $5,000. Outstation applicants must enclose postage. BUTTERWORTH OUR DAY OCTOBER IQth, 1918. A collection of ornamental Brass is beng made for Butterworth Our Day October 1 Orh and will be sold, the proceeds going tffthe local
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    • 189 2 a FRANCE’S DAY j TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT! Special Entertainment in aid of' tfje FRENCH FUND UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE. 1 ELECTRIC POLYSCOPE| Pathe Plays Present IRENE CASTLE 5 Reels in 11 SYLVIA OF THE SECRET SERVICE S A Thrilling Detective Play of Fast Action and Thrills—lt’s the story of international crooks attempting
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 244 2 I lk J 3 ES i F® 1 1 tMr lIxF R THEATRE B THE PREMIER THEATRE OF THE COLONY. If R It would be quite impossible for any Theatre to have a It R more Powerful Programme than the Management are r E able to present THIS WEEK onward.
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  • 531 3 Messrs. Baker, Morgan and Co., Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, reported on Saturday Another dull week falls to be recorded, due entirely to the uncertainty still existing with regard to the tin and rubber positions. A contemporary share-market report touches clearly enough on the subject of tin and
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  • 583 3 Messrs. Baker, Morgan and Co., Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, report: The prospectus, it is hoped, of the abovenamed company which it is proposed to form, will be issued on Monday next, (September 23), when the application list opens, to be closed probably on or before the sth
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  • 416 3 The report of the syndicate for the 12 months ended 31st March, 1918, says The crop secured for the year was 488,160 lbs. against an estimate of 470,000, showing an excess obtained of 18,160 lbs. The average yield per acre was 432 lbs. or excluding the
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  • 287 3 The following statement was issued at tire War Office in Tokio on August 19 The “Hochi Shimbun” of August 11 reported the suicide of an old man who committed the act to relieve the mind of his son, who had joined the colours and gone to Vladivostok,
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  • 169 3 Japanese Protest. Peking. September 2. —The Japanese Legation has followed up the British and French Legations in their protest against the gold note scheme with a protest based on the grounds that Baron Sakatani, the financial adviser to China, had not been consulted in any way,
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  • 132 3 —“Arkansas Gazette.” London. August 27. —A Zurich correspondent of the “Morning Post” quotes extracts from German newspapers showing that great efforts are being made in order to prevent the public losing heart. The cheering prospect is painted of adding India to Germany’s vassal states. The conservative “Norddeutsche
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1174 3 BILLET WANTED. ORDERS are now being booked for Para Rubber Seeds from the fine old trees, with a European Planter seeks Billet on Estate, guarantee of 75 per cent, germination. Experienced. Good References. (Ch si Price 81.50 per 1,000 packed in bags and B? j Married. Apply Box No. 229,
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    • 368 3 A Great W pjl Cathedral pMg, And A Great Tonic b Iron Jelloids. Your body, like Rheims Cathedral, W j is subject to attacks from malignant foes. Can you repel the attacks? If your body is well defended by a plentiful army of corpuscles coursing through your veins you are
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  • 1230 4 The news from Palestine continues to provide eminently satisfactory reading and the time cannot be far distant, if General Allenby’s operations continue to meet with the success that hss hitherto attended them, when his hold on the Holy land will have been wrenched from the hand of the
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  • 38 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $149.12| per picul, no buyers, and for refined tin, no sellers. Tin was quoted in London on Sept. 20 at £341 10s spot, and £341 10s three months.
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  • 32 4 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 24. The wooden steamer Tanjong Rhu was successfully launched yesterday. H.E. the Gov ernor, Vice-Admiral Tudor, Major General Ridout and others were present.
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  • 124 4 Former General Adviser to Siam. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, September- 23. Mr. J. I. Westengard, General Adviser to the Siamese Government, from 1909 till 1915, has died in America, of diabetes. The output of tin ore frem the Ngow property of the Siamese Tin Syndicate,
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  • 1805 4 The Press Bureau, explaining why copies of the Rowlatt Committee Rowlatt Report r e not yet available on Sedition. in England, states that simultaneous publication in India and,England would have delayed the appearance of the report in India. This it was desired to avoid. The report, which
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 285 4 7 WOOSTER' belting 1)1 MORE EtONOMItai tha«, «■< tffFEWW to leather, robber, or stitched canvas beltinc, as it has no la>s, stitches plies or commented parte to open up or pull apart COLD, HIAT, STEAM will not effect its efficiency. Bither side can bo run on the pulley. •WOOSTER* BELTING
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    • 9 4 3or_ Oars Jlpply to 0. garage. Welepdone fro. 322.
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  • 50 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to-day Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To-day. 2.16 a.m. (7ft. Gin.) 8.51 am. (Oft. sin.) 2.31 p.m. (6ft. Bin.) 8.49 p.m. (Oft. 9in.) To-morrow. 2.49 a.m. (6ft. 9in.) 9.29 a.m. (Oft. 9in.) 3.8 p.m. (6ft. Oin.) 8.21 p.m. (Ift. 9in.)
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  • 275 5 18,000 PRISONERS. IMPORTANT SUCCESS IN SERBIA. GAINS IN FRANCE. Sir Douglas Haig reports several minor actions on the front between Cambrai and St. Quentin, by which the British line was improved, and prisoners taken. Further progress was also made in the region of Gavrelle, east of Arras, and
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  • France and Belgium
    • 780 5 [Reuter's Telegrams] LOCAL GAINS. London, September 23. Field Matshal Haig reports that the hostile attack north-west of La Bassee, reported this morning, was not pressed. Our position is unchanged. In local encounters, we slightly improved our positions south of Villers-Guislain and in the neighbourhood of Zillebeke. The
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    • 394 5 Man-Power and Morale. Simla, September 16.—The “Military Onlooker’’ this week, after summing up recent events on the various fronts, goes on to say: We are now certain of victory, of complete victory if necessary to the extent of ultimately overrunning Germany and capturing Berlin. An examination of German
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    • 42 5 l Havas Telegrams], Paris, September 22.—The advance is now on three fronts, France, Serbia and Palestine. In Macedonia, the inhabitants receive the Serbian troops enthusiastically. Serbians forcibly enrolled in the Rul. arian Army throw down their amu, joining the Serbians.
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    • 42 5 Paris, September 22.—0 n thn western front, the battle crystallized at three points, the eastern and northern outskirts of Moeuvres, and east of Epehy, the Germans straining to keep these three strategical point’. The enemy’s best divisions are here
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    • 39 5 Paris, September 22.—General Mangin’s army contintus the flattening out process, fighting tremendously hard. The population of Metz is panicstricken. The banks have removed cash to Karlsruhe. About 40 shells from longrange gons have fallen in Mttz.
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    • 41 5 Paris, September 22—New evidence of German hypocrisy is contained in answer to the Red Cross appeal in the case of u ing asphyxiating gasses. Germany claims she only used gas after tbe French, which is a barefaced He.
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    • 57 5 Paris, September 22. —At a meeting of the Inter-Allied Labour Conference, Mr. Arthur Henderson said Alsace-Lorraine was not a question of territorial settlement, but of International Law. No Conference should be open to Germans no British workers to take part. The Brest-Litovsk and Bukharest Treaties were an almost insurmountable
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  • 244 5 JAPAN’S RECOGNITION. Tokio, September 42. The Czecho-Slovaks have been recognised by Japan as co-belligerents against the common enemy. The Kaiser’s Fear Peking, September 22. The Kaiser, on September lOtb, ordered all Germans in Russia fit for duty to join the Soviet troops to oppose Japan and the Allies,
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  • 683 5 18,000 PRISONERS. Loudon, September 23. Reuter lean s that the total British captures of prsoners in Palestine has [«ached 18,000, wi r h 120 guns. On the Jordan, London, September 22. Reuter learns tbe situation in Palestine is developing in a most interesting way. The enemy in
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  • 99 5 Paii°, September 22.—The Turkish Army in Palestine is in confused retreat. The flower of the Turkish Army has been routed. General Allenby followed the plan of Napoleon’s invasion of Syria, advancing along the mari ime plain and cutting the communications between the strong places of Samaria and
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  • 340 5 FURTHER BIG ADVANCE. Lor don, September 22. A Serbian communique says: We advanced over 20 kilometres (12 miles) northward on September 20th. Wo are now several kilometres north of Havarda. We captured 12 more guns. German and Bulgarian reinforcements are continually arriving. Italian Co-operation, London, September
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  • 77 5 AMERICAN STATEMENT. Washington, September 23. The Shipping Board states that with Allied and American construction working full headway, the total losses from submarines will soon be overcome. The submarines had sunk up to the present or destroyed 7,157,000 deadweight 'tons over construction, but 3,795,000 tons of enemy
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  • 53 5 Paris, September 22 —At a FrenchAmerican dinner at the Cercle Voluey fc in Paris, Lord Derby suggested that great monuments destroyed by tbe Germans should n<>t be restored, but left as the bests memorial to the heroic dead and German shame, Get many iu the name of justice
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  • 43 5 London, September 22. An Italian official report says the enemy attacked the salient of point 703 ab Dossalto, which was admirably defended by Czecho-Slovaks. He gained a footing but was driven out, with heavy losses, tbe situation being completely re established.
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  • 46 5 [Hayas Tsuobaics.] Paris, September 22.—The Italian Cabinet took an important decision in declaring that the movement of tbe Yugo-Slavs towards independence corresponds with the principles for which the Entente fights. Italy keeps the leadership of the movement for the liberation of subject Hapsburg races.
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  • 35 5 London, September 22. Mr. Hoover male the statement that the United States is prepared to ship 5,730,000 more tons of foodstuffs to the American Armies and the Allies than last year.
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  • 28 5 Washington, September 23. Official circles in Washington are sceptical regarding the German newspaper's dis•ussion[of parliamentary reform, which tLey interpret as another phase of tbe peace offensive.
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  • 25 5 London, September 19. The cotton spinners’ strike is regarded 88 practically settled. A resumption of work is expected early next week.
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  • 9 5 London, September 20. The silver market is steady.
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  • 316 5 London, September 13.—The public utterances of the Kaiser, German statesmen, and the newspapers continue increasingly to show an altered tone. Speaking at Krupp’s works, the Kaiser said that thflj Allies had answered the repeated and not ambiguous offers of peace from the German! Government, with their
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  • 264 5 A huge shipment of provisions, musical instruments, toys, books and magazines will be made in the middle of this month to the Cliinr ese Labour Battalion in France through the Chinese Y.M.C.A. The shipment will amount to scores of tons, but until instructions can be obtained
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  • 806 6 MADEBA OF THE PLATEAU. Mr. Charles Mansford says the great fertile plateau which covers the southern half of the Belka, a province of Eastern Palestine, was known in Old Testament days as the Mishor of Madeba, so important was the town itself and so striking its geographical position.
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  • 130 6 It is learned that the cholera epidemic at Taluk Anson, which has been causing some concern among planters in the district, is under complete control. The outbreak occurred by infected coolies from India. The first case occurred on Sabrang Estate, opposite to Telok Anson town on
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  • 81 6 The Paris papers state that Dr. Rignault, a former professor in the Naval School of Medicine at Toulon, presented a report confirming the value of magnesia as a treatment for cancer. Dr. Dubord, of Dijon, has recently furnished interesting statistics on this subject. These reports, taken in
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 430 6 The Fascination of the East Is brought home to you In the perfection to which f Egyptian Cigarettes have been brought by Messrs. 4iL.lk. Maspero Freres tn their two brands known F'*' Bouton Rouge Sand Felucca Egyptian Cigarettes The care with which they are made, under Ideal climatic conditions, starting
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    • 185 6 ♦♦♦♦♦♦OOOOO4< ♦OOOOO*<t 4< (SAKURAj I BEER Sim t —■■«■lMig o you ever tried it? 0 o o 0 0 BUY IT FROM 0 iG. Aurely CoJ O SOLE IMPORTERS: n o o g PENANG SINGAPORE 0 O 8 X J FROM EVERY LEADING STORE S. S. <& F. MS. ♦♦♦♦♦♦OCOOO>>
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  • 142 7 SE OXD LIS Total previously acknowledged 830,464.70 Mr. Choong Lye Hock 100 Mr. Chua Kee Ee 100 Anonymous 7.45 Transferred by War Demonstraj tion Committee 465.06 Mr. Gan Ngoh Bee 500 A visitor to Penang Bisley 10 Collection Sunday, 15th Sept., for “Our Day” at Church
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  • 120 7 “Our Day” Scottish Red Cross The following subscriptions have beep made on account of the above: Mr. J. C. Benson 250 Mr. L. C. Brown 50 Mr. J. G. Brown 100 Mr. G. A. Carmichael 56 Mr. T. E. Dibbs 50 Mr. J. S. Drummond 50
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  • 167 7 A meeting of the Indian Mohamedan clothshop keepers was held at the premis-s of Messrs. P. S. Fakir Mohamed Oothman Saiboo and Co, Chulia Street, on Friday, to consider the contribution to be male towards the Our Day fund. Mr. K. P. M Aminsshib, who was voted
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  • 403 7 A public meeting was held in the Sungei Patani Club on 22nd September. 1918, to consider the best means to collect funds for the British Red Cross. It was resolved to hold two days’ sports etc. on 16th, and 17th, Rabial—Awal, 1337 (50th and 21st
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  • 437 7 Mr. Cavendish’s appeal for White Elephants in aid of Our Day Fund 1918, calls for a few suggestions, writes a correspondent. Advantage might be taken of a plot of ground, with a building, at the junction of Anson and Seang Tek roads, originally intended for a market, which,
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  • 83 7 Oct 10. —Butterworth. Oct 11. —Tiffin, Shaftesbury Cafe. Oct 12. —Malakoff. Oct 19. —Grand Theatre of Varieties, Town Hall. O t 19. —Red Cross Gymkhana. Race course. Oct 19 ami 20.—Kuala Kangsar. Oct 26.—Penang. Oct 26. Steeplechase. Oct 26. Subscription Dance, etc. Town Ball. Oct 26.—•• White
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  • 455 7 —“New Yoffk World.” Committee’s Report The Committee’s report for the year ended December 31st, 1917, records an increase in the annual subscriptions, the revenue from that source having reached £1,058-95.-ld., as compared with £BB6 in the preceding year. This increase arises from the support which the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 349 7 PRITCHARD Incorporated in the Straits Settlements) STATIONERY DEPARTMENT. .UH I '.J2U S l Stonehenge hand=mide Note Paper I an(l Enve,o P es jSpOUiltrtr size per box $2.35. CpTftllßU Albert size per box $1.50. i < Grerm Wove Liped Albert Durer Note Paper Envelopes, I i J fwE Qovc. Note paper
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    • 491 7 Straits settlements War Loan Bonds. Bearing interest from the date of purchase at per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly on the ZOth January and the ZOth July. Repayable at Par on the 20th July, 1928. PRICE OF ISSUE—IOO PER CENT. All proceeds of this issue will be lent to His
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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    • 769 8 BANKS. CHARTERED BANK AUSTRALIAN AND CHINA Incorporated in England by R oya Paid-up Capital Reserve Fund 4 Reserve Liability erf Proprietors Head Office: A 38, BISHOPBGATE, LONDON. E C Agencies and Branches. Amritsar, Bangkok. Batavia, Bomtav n Canton, Cebu, Colombo, Delhi, Fcock.w’tP® Hankow, Hongkong, Iloilo, Ipoh, K;u- a ,.h; Kobe,
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