Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 4 October 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 233. VOL. LXXVI. FRIDAY, 4th OCTOBER, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • STOP PRESS.
    • 397 2 [Reuter’s Telegrams] London, October 2. Reuter learns that there has been very heavy fighting to-day from St. Quentin to Flanders, with little to show for it, except sanguinary enemy losses. As expected, the enemy reacted most heavily north of St. Quentin, but here we have broken through tne
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    • 103 2 BRITAIN’S DEMAND. London, October 3. Reuter learns that the British Government has despatched a peremptory telegram to Germany, demanding an immediate answer regarding the exchange of prisoners negotiation at the Hague in July, which has not materialised, sokly because Germany introduced at the eleventh hour the irrelevant
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    • 23 2 GERMAN WIRELESS DESTROYED. Copenhagen, October 2. The British flag was hoisted at EbelhafHarbour, Spitzbergen, where the German Wireless was destroyed.
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    • 29 2 Amsterdam, October 2 A Berlin message says the second instalment in gold of the Russian indemnity has been received on the frontier by officials of the Reichsbank.
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    • 28 2 Amsterdam, October 2. It is confirmed that all the German State Secretaries have resigned. The Prussian Upper House passed the bill for equal general direct suffrage.
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    • 57 2 London, October 1. The Press Bureau says that a neutral returned from Germany states that there is wide-spread terror on the Rhine, owing to British raids. The central portion of Frankfort on Main station is so damaged that trains are unable to enter, but arrive and depart from
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    • 54 2 London, October 2. The Press Bureau announces that the independent air force bombed the railway at Treves on the Ist October. Observation was impossible owing to clouds, but all returned. A machine reported missing on the night of the 30th September is now located. This machine bombed the
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    • 48 2 In the panic and bluster, Germany has no alternative save a Dictatorship, says a Junker organ. Socialists and Radicals and some of the Centre Party see salvation only in a popularly elected Cabinet. All agree on one point, that Germany’s military and political policy has failed.
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    • 116 2 NOTE FROM WASHINGTON. Peking, October 1. An American Note to China regrets that China has sanctioned the purchase of opium stocks at Shanghai and arranged for toe disposal of these, in contravention of the spirit of the Hague Treaty, which both China and America ratified. The Note
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    • 40 2 Landon, October 1. The silver market is quiet. The Stock Exchange. London, October 2. A feeling of greater bouyancy prevailed on the Stock Exchange this afternoon, than for a long time. Colsols advanced, also Russian minerals and oils
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  • 126 2 The Hindenburg line runs from the Che-min-des-Dames, past St. Gobain, La Fere, St. Quentin and the St. Quentin Canal to Banteux, thence north-west to Moeuvres. The sector from Moeuvres to the Scarpe via Queant has been captured by the British. The new lines run along the eastern
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  • 393 2 Rumours come from neutral quarters typhus-ridden Bulgaria is on the eve of a revolution, and that there has been a serious mutiny in the army. We know those well-meant neutral reports. But British officers from Salonika, who read little of the general situation in Bulgaria, witness
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  • 903 2 The Hon’ble Mr. F. S. James, C.M.G., the Colonial Secretary, arrived in Penang this morning. H. E. Mr. Regnault, former French Ambassador to Tokyo, has been appointed High Commissioner of the French Government to Siberia. General Degoutte, whose French Army is now reported to be in Flanders,
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  • 311 2 Situation on Volga Front. Vladivostok, September 15.—General Guaida, the Czech commander, to-day received the following telegram from General Sirovi, who is in command of the Russian and Czecho-Slovak forces in West Siberia. The message, which is dated Tcheliabinsk, midnight, the 12th instant, eloquently shows how a
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  • 120 2 Harbin, September 13.—Because the strike was not ended the Railway Administration decided to carry out its threat, and has dismissed over a thousand of the agents. Many of them pleaded to be taken back, promising their best behaviour. Traffic is gradually being renewed, although many
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  • 117 2 Harbin. September 13. —The workmen in all the local printing offices decided to strike as a protest against General Guaida’s order to the railway telegraph agents, and as a result no papers were published to-day. General Guaida’s order has been despatched to all stations on the railway
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  • 64 2 Washington. September 18. —The American Consul-General at Irkutsk advises the State Dep.-.rtment that a courier from Moscow has reported new evidence of Germany’s double dealings in Russia. German agents sometime ago sought ineffectually to form an alliance with strong political groups in Russia against their
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  • 59 2 Vladivostok. September 19.—Reuter’s representative learns this mornirfg officially that Prince Lvoff is on his way to Vladivostok specially deputed by the Congress at Ufa to implore the speediest military aid from the Allies. M. Vologodsky, the Premier of the Omsk Government, and M. Regnault.
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  • 105 2 A press despatch from the American army in Lorraine states that squadrons of American tanks, operating for the first time on a large scale in the attack at St. Mihiel played an important and dramatic part* in the defeat of the Germans. Divided into brigades of
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 94 2 The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1888. In the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements. SETTLEMENT OF PENANG. In Bankruptcy. No. 35 of 1916* Re CHOP GUAN LEE. Notice is hereby given that a First and Final Dividend of $4 per centum has been declared in the above matter, and that the same
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    • 287 2 qp K T 9 CHRISTMAS and A O NEW YEAR CARDS FOR THE HOMEWARD MAIL. The interchange of these graceful missives of Friendship and Goodwill is one of the pleasing social customs of the age; but the card must possess true merit; it must excel in Art. If not the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 93 2 g stupendous weekend CHANGE f g COMMENCING TO-NIGHT empire! I theatre I B NEVA GERBER—BEN WILSON—KINGSLEY BENEDICT IN I THE MYSTERY SHIP B A Serial of Tremendous Force and Power, Sensation follows B Sensation—Thrill upon Thrill. Scenic Display of a Colossal Ex Nature. Almost Beyond the Power of the Imagination—
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  • 280 3 In the following cases, with the assent of the military representative, conditional exemption h*s been granted without a hearing Eastern Extension Australia and China Telegraph Co J B Wishart, F B Pfordten, C L Malden, R F L LaNauze, P Croft, ARE Young, L C Payne, G
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  • 237 3 Writing to the Bishop of Singapore, from London, on July 12th, Mr. C. Baxendale says We have received details of all our losses on the Western Fr< nt since March hist The sites of the following Malayan Huts are now in the enemy’s hands Penang Malayan 2
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  • 172 3 The following letters has been addressed to His Excellency the Governor by the Directors of Messageries Maritimes Company, Marseilles, regarding the assistance rendered to the crews of the Andre Lebon. Excellence. —Le Commandant de notre Paquebot Andre Lebon, echoue dans les parages de Singapore, dans la nuit
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  • 710 3 Defeat Her Only Salvation. W Mr. Frank Bohn, a German-American writer, has just returned to New York from Switzerland completely cured, as he confesses, of the optimism which led him to exaggerate the importance of the democratic forces in Germany. Mr. Bohn reproduces in the “New York
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  • 328 3 li.— “M.M.”’ A Question of War Taxation. At the annual meeting of the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce on August 19. it was rroposed that the Chamber should recorrmend to the Government the imposition of an income tax. the proceeds of which should be forwarded home as
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1136 3 WANTED. TENDERS INVITED. Immediately Book-Keeper for Rabbtr Tenders will be received up to noon office, io commence work at once. r -alary sl so to an experienced m»n. the 30th November, 1918, at the with testimonials to B>x No. 236, Resident’s Office, Penang, for the supply of c /o Pin
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    • 167 3 STRAIGHT TO THE MARK. It Goes Where the Pain is—And Stope it. A man or woman who has never suffered the excruciating agonies of Sciatica cannot realize the full intensity of pain. And a man or woman who has ever suffered Sciatica can never forget it. To such sufferers Little’s
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    • 257 3 PWTCHARD Company United. (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.) Gentlemen’s Tailoring. are shewing in this Department a magnificent range of New Goods, all carefully selected, which affords the widest choice to the prospective purchaser either for tropical or Home Wear, and at prices which should be taken advantage of Now. All’our
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  • 1545 4 The telegrams of to-lay announce the safe arrival in Christiania of the exBolshevik Amba-sador in London, M. Litvinufl, and a party of Ru?siaus who were given safe conduct by the British Government. It is toped that news will speedily be received of the release of the
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  • 1298 4 Some time ago, we referred to an appeal made by the robber plauPapuan Rubber era o f Papoa to the Ausand Singapore tralian Government for a ce fixed price for rubber at Port Moresby. That Government’s delay in announcing a decision is operating seriously to the detriment
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  • 56 4 [From Our Own Correspondent], Singapore, October 4. At Singapore rubber auctions the genera? tendency was weaker, 1279 tons were offeree and 471 tons sold. Ribbed smoked closed at 45 cents, fine pale 46g cents, good plain smoked 32, unsmoked 252-. The forward market was firm. One January-June
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  • 30 4 [Fro xi Oub Own Correspondent]. Singapore, October 4. Messrs. Fraser and Co. report that the. share market generally is more active. Local rubbers are in. steady demand.
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  • 49 4 [From Oub Own Coreespondent]. Singapore, October 4. The report of the Eastern United Assurance Co., Ltd., shows a profit of $94,666. It is proposed to place $40,000 to reserve, and to pay a dividend of 8 per cent., with a bonus of 2 per cent.
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  • 366 4 T hursday’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $149 per picul, buyers and for refined tin per picul, 175 tons were on the market. To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $149.121 per picul, buyers, and for refined tin sl49£ per picul, 50 tons on the
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 209 4 WOOSTER BELTING IS ■OWE EftOHOMlftak thaa, aai SOWEWIOW to leather, robber, or stitcbod caarai beltiag, as it |>w no la>«, stitches plies or cesesseated parts to open op or pull apart COLD, HEAT, STEAM will nnt «fact its efficiency. Either side can ba ran an the pulley. •WOOSTER* BELTING is
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    • 9 4 Qars Jlpply to 'B. 0. garage. telephone ?fo. 322.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 46 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to-day Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To-day. 11.49 a.m. (6ft. 2in.) 6.14 a.m. (Ift. 7in.) 6.22 p.m. (Ift. 3in.) To-morrow. 12.11 a.m. (7ft. Oin.) 6.41 a.m. (Ift sin.) 12.16 p.m. (6ft. sin.) 6.47 p.m. (Ift. 3in.)
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  • 42 4 DEATH. Tan. —Tan Hoon Neoh, age 72, died at her residence, 293, Burmah Road, Penang, at 1 a.m., on October 4. She leaves two sons, Ooi Eng Sieu and Eng Lye, four daughters, and many grandchildren and great grandchildren to mourn her.
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  • 181 5 flit CAMBRAI BATTLE. HINDENBURG LINE broken. french successes. The enemy is retreating on a wide front north an j south of the La Bassee Canal, (between Armentieres and Lens) a movement rendered necessary by the Allied advance in Flanders, where the Belgians are close to Roulers and the
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  • France and Belgium
    • 600 5 [Rbuter’s Telegrams] ENEMY COUNTER-ATTACK FORESTALLED. London, October 2 Reuter at the British Headquarters on October 2nd, in the evening, says although fighting b azed up this morning with great intensity, later the infantry fighting decreased along the Cambrai-St. Quentin front. We are busy mopping up, and consolidating
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    • 202 5 London, October 2. RA French communique reports that in St. Quentin very lively actions occurred at night time. The enemy has been thrown over the east bank of the canal, where he resists energetically. Between the Aisne and the Vesle we gained fresh advantages west of Rheims. We
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    • Article, Illustration
      279 5 —Ex. Tactically, the most interesting development of the last few weeks is the employment of the tank. The German is behind hand with the tank and has underestimated its value. His action in withdrawing behind the Avre and the Ancre was partly due to his desire to place
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    • 208 5 “The Tank has a future,” Austrian military writers are telling us. Yes, it has a past, and a present, too. We say so little of our own effort that nobody reminds the world that it was this all-British invention. perhaps first conceived rn the brain of Napier, that
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    • 665 5 London, October 3. Reuter at the American Headquarters on October 2nd says the weather has become dry and cold, making the roads again available for traffic and the transport of supplies. The enemy opposition continues, but signs are not wanting that his fight is of a
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    • 448 5 Cambrai is situated on the eastern bank of the Scheldt, arms of which traverse the west of the town, and at one extremity of the canal of St. Quenua. It is the aapital of an arrondisement in the department of Nord, on the main line of the Northern Railway,
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    • 108 5 Paris, October 2.—Mr. Bonar Law, speaking in London at the Guildhall, said justice between great and small nations most be preserved. Peace was being forged by the victorious Entente Powers. French Army Operating Norik. London, October 2. Great interest is execited over the operations in Flanders.
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    • 91 5 (Havas Txlxgbams.] Paris, October 2.—General Debeney’s men, in liaison with the British Fourth Army, entered Saint Quentin and pushed the enemy beyond the canal on the eastern aide of the town. Against a stubborn defence, the French penetrated the deep Hindenburg system. General Berthelot’s Fifth Army
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    • 23 5 The Kaiser sent a message to the Fatherland Party, cry of despair. Gather around me for the defence of the Fatherland.”
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    • 66 5 Paris, October, 2.—The news from Bulgaria came like a thunderclap to Germany, and caused the greatest dismay. The Berlin Bourse has seen no worse panic since the outbreak of the war. A slump occurred in all war industry stocks. Germany has lost a quarter of a million
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    • 193 5 Amsterdam, October 2. Dr. Solf, Germany’s Minister for the Colonies,” lecturing at Munich, before an audience including the King of Bavaria, said the national importance of regaining the Colonies wae unsurpassed by any other task. The present substitutes for raw mutt-rials could not suffice for
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    • 145 5 COALITION GOVERNMENT. Amsterdam, October 3. A Berlin message says a meeting of Reichstag Conservatives resolved to sacrifice their convictions and to participate in a Coalition Government, with a view to obtaining an honourable termination of the war. The German Press is still incredulous at Bulgaria having entirely
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    • 93 5 EXPRESS TRAIN GOES OVER EMBANKMENT. Stockholm, October 2 There are over 100 dead, including 50 children, and 60 injured, as the result of a train disaster at Malmoe. Owing to heavy rains washing away the track, a train was derailed when travelling at sixty miles per
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    • 266 5 AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. London, October 2. The following Sofia official announcement} leaves no doubt that the Bulgarian request for an armistice came from a representative quarter. “In view of the conjunction of circumstances, recently arisen, and after the position had been jointly discussed with all competent authorities, the
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    • 210 5 Rupture Believed Probable. The “Daily Dispatch learned on July 31 that the reported rupture between Turkey and Germany is considered to be highly probable, having regard to the number of deserters coming in, the excitement caused by th© Allied successes, and the disagreement over the Turkish cruiser
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    • 225 5 PRESS VIEWS, London, October 2. The newspapers give prominence to the British capture of Damascus, and emphasise it is one of the most important Turkish bases for Asia Minor, and the principal supply centre for the captured Turkish Armies. They also dwell on its great historical interest,
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    • 17 5 Stockholm, October 3. Litvinoff, the ex-Bolshevik Agent in London, and party, have arrived at Christiania.
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    • 49 5 London, October 2. A British North Russia official report says in connection with the capture of Ukhtinskaya 160 of the enemy were killed. Southern Karelia has been cleared of the enemy, except 200 newly arrived reinforcements which are surrounded to the south* west of Ukhtinskaya.
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  • 465 6 New Books. The fcllowing books have been received at the Library Nelson’s History of the War Vol. XIX, by John Buchan. Japan, The Rise of a Modem Power, by Robert P. Porter. Lord Lister, by Sir R. J. Godlee John Keats, by Sidney Colvin. Irish Memories, by E.
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 218 6 [To the Editor of the “Pining Gazittb.”] Sir. Captain John F. Mills, writing on May 27. 1918, on the necessity of arranging for some sort of provision for the housing of the Indian cooly on his way to or from India, says: I. Some of them come
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 96 6 SICK headaches are caused by a gradual accumulation of poison generated in the digestive organs. In many cases the use of a proper laxative before the condition of prostration is reached will force the poisons from the system and the attack will be avoided. PINKETTEQ JL THE TINY LAXATIVES arouse
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    • 203 6 B H 9 991 a I I H I I COT DOWN THE RUNNING COST OF TOOR UR I i 0 BY USING I I “M.C.C.” OIL FOR EFFICIERT LUBRICATION H I y it is not so much the original outlay for j a motor car that oounts: it is
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  • 2065 7 hie compensation case. The hearing was continued yesterday afternoon in ’he Supreme Court, Penang, Mr- Janice L Woodward, with Allen Denny?, and J. R. Brown aa v e 4orS of the case in connection with f i,« acquisition of 23 »ce% 3 roods, 31 Je 9 o'
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  • 1001 7 HAS THERE BEEN AN AMAZING BLUNDER? We have had an interview with a prominent American Rubber buyer who recently arrived from the United States. He tells us that, as he found an amazing misconception of the rubber situation in Singapore, he thinks it is about time to see
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  • 94 7 The following are additional rubber outputs for September Bungsar lbs 26,(00 Bassett 17,756 Bakap Plantations 19,000 Batu Matang 13,935 Bukit Slarong 19,911 Foothills (Malaya) 10,200 F.M.B. Rubber 133,000 Gula 73,700 Jong Landor 43,431 Kedah 49,016 K.L. 100,000 Kuang Plantations 23,000 Kurau 26,000 Kuala Sidim 23,000 Karan 9,800 Mayfield
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  • 82 7 Messrs Allen Dennys Co. advise us that the under-mentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them at their two auction sales held this week Cts Per Lb Smoked diamond sheet No. 1 31 to 41 diamond No. 2 19 28 Unsmoked sheet No. 1 28 Unsmoked
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  • 45 7 The output of the Tronoh Mines, Ltd., from all sources for September was 1,869 piculs. The record of Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging, Limited for the month of September is Hour* run 1,235, cubic yards treated 181,000. Total piculs 1,385.20, realised on sale $117,951.51.
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  • 33 7 The following were tho rubber quotations in London on Oct Ist, received yesterday Plantation Ist latex crepe 2s 2}d Smoked Sheet 2s l|d [By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead <fc Co.]
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  • 32 7 A homeward mail “A closes at 3.30 p.m. to-morrow The homeward mail “B closes at 10 a.m. on Sunday registration till 6 p.m. to-morrow, and parcels till 4 p.m. to-morrow.
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  • 133 7 Oct 10.—Butterworth Oct 11.—Tiffin, Shaftesbury Cafe. Oct 11.—Football, Penang M. F. A. v Kedah M. F. A. Esplanade. Oct 11. —Boria Performances, Free School Ground. Oct 12.—Malakoff. Oct 16.—Nibong Tebal. Oct 19.—Grand Theatre of Varieties, Town Hall. Oct 19.—Red Cross Gymkhana, Race course. Oct 19 and 20.—Kuala
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  • 167 7 The concluding stages of the Globe Hotel tragedy were reached at the Assizes Singapore as wired by our Singapore correspondent, when a unanimous jury found the Hokhia boy. Liang Ah Tee, guilty of the murders of Sarah Liebman and Emil Landau, both of whom he strangled,
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  • 29 7 (Post Office, Official Report.) Left Penang. Arrived London. July 10 B Sept. 10 8 C „3 18 D 10 23 G „8 h 27 H 28
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