Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 8 November 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY ESTABLISHED 1833. No 233. VOL. LXXVL FRIDAY, Bth NOVEMBER, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 223 2 SERIOUS OUTBREAK. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Amsterdam, November 6. A Cologne message says a very serious mutiny broke out at Kiel to-day. The battleships Kaiser and Schleswig hoisted the Red Flag, a f ter a conflict between officers and sailor’, in which twenty officers, including two Captains, were killed.
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  • 47 2 Amsterdam, November 6. German papers report serious disturbances at Kiel, on November 3rd, owing to naval men and civilians attempting to release imprisoned mutinous sailors. A crowd committed excesses The attempt was only abandoned after the military fired, killing 8 and wounding 29.
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  • 32 2 Copenhagen, November 7. A Berlin message says the Wolff Bureau announces that a general stride has broken out in Hamburg, where outrages occurred. There were similar happenings at Lubeck.
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  • 105 2 PLUNDERING SOLDIERS. Zurich, November 5. The utmost confusion and disorder reign in Austria-Hungary. Soldiers are deserting and rushing to their homes, after plundering military stores. War prisoners are escaping and proceeding homeward as best they can. The railways are dislocated, soldiers monopolising trains. Many fatal accidents have
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  • 46 2 London, November 6. Reliable news shows that the Hungarians refused to permit six German divisions, under Marshal von Mackensen, on the Danube, to retire through Hungary. It is assumed they will fall into our hands, together with other German troops and artillery in Caucasia.
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  • 57 2 MESSAGE FROM AMERICA. Washington, November 7. Mr. Lansing, Secretary of State, sent a message to Rumania, assuring her of the Government’s sympathy with Rumanian national aspiration’, both within and without the boundaries of Rumania, and promising, when the time comes, to exert their influence to secure the just political
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  • 78 2 London, November 7. Reuter on the Belgian front, on November sth, says the Bavarians, before evacuating it, systematically pillaged Dsynze, and massacred 163 civilians, on the orders of General von Oatrowski. When the looting was finished, the Bavarians drove the inhabitants into cellars and threw incendiary bombs
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  • 34 2 London, Novembers. The Press Bureau says the Government has created a Civil Department of Demobilisation and Resettlement to deal with all questions of re-emph yment of sailors e olders, and war workers.
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  • 102 2 IN BOSNIA. London, November 6. A French Eastern communique says the Austrians on the Save re-crossed the fronttier. Shabatz has been occupied. Serbian cavalry en.ered Bosnia, where they occupied Vardiste. In the direction of Visegrad, the Austrians are retreating in disorder. Their soldiers, returning to their homes, are
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  • 79 2 Amsterdam, November 6. In consequence of the discovery in the Bolshevik diplomatic mail, of pamphlets printed in German inciting the German workers and soldiers to revolt, it is officially announced that Germany has demanded guarantees from Moscow that such propaganda will cease, and that the murder of
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  • 135 2 North-west of Colmar (Alsace) American troops repulsed a heavy German raid following intense German barrage. More than 2,000 minenwerfers, 1,000 being calibre artillery shells, fell on the surrounding communication trenches in the back area. In the course of fierce close-range grenade, bayonet, and rifle fighting, the Americans
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  • 119 2 ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. London, November 5. In the House of Commons, Sir George Cave stated that the names of all enemy army corps commanders or other persons who are known to been have been guilty of, or to have acquiesced in, actual cruelty by subordinates would be
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  • 76 2 SATISFACTORY FIGURES. London, November 6. The Admiralty announces that United Kingdom, Allied and neutral merchant ship construction in the third quarter of 1918, totalled 1,384 000 tons, of which the United Kingdom output was 411,395 tons. The former figure exceeds the losses from all causes by neady
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  • 40 2 London, November 6. The Admiralty reports that a British patrol vessel was sunk on November 4th One man is missing. A British auxiliary vessel was sunk on November 5 h, without casualty. Both were the result of collision.
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  • 56 2 London, November 6. In the House of Commons, Dr. Macnamara stated that 8,946,000 tons of British merchant-ships had been lost in war time to September 30th, by enemy action, and marine risks, of which 5,443,000 had been replaced by new construction and purchase of ships abroad and
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  • 45 2 New York, November 6. At midnight the election returns show the Republicans bad gained eight seats in tbe House of Representatives and three in the Senate. Both Democratic and Republican leaders at present claim majorities in both Houses. TheNewYoik Governorship is equally doubtful.
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  • 195 2 “THE DECISIVE BATTLE” [Havas Telegbams.] Paris, November 6.—The great decisive battle of the war began yesterday on a front of 37 miles between the. Sche’dt, north-east of Valenciennes, and Guise. Three British Armies and the First French Army drove the Germans from their defensive positions, securing a
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  • 56 2 Paris, November 6.—Commen h ing on the German wireless propaganda me sage, asking the belligerents to abstain fr m au attacks cutside the z me of operation?, the Frencu points to the cowardice of tbe enemy, whois afraid if punishment fur innumerable cumes after a huuurea
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  • 55 2 Peking, November 6. The Ail ed Legations have presented a Note to China, rt capitulating many p bits in which China has not fu fille her dutieas an Aly, in counec io i with enenij agents, also expressing that China has wasted revenue on internal strite, instead
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  • 75 2 Peking, October 18.—The Chinese Government has finally completed arrangements for the internment of a percentage of the Germans in China, including those whom the Allies consider most dangerous Nine have already ben selected in Peking to be interned on Monday. It is understood that Heer
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  • 450 2 Telegrams of congratulation have been received by the newly-elected President, Hsu Shih-chang, from President Wilson and also frum the Governments of Mexico and Brazil, on the former’s inauguration in office. The communication from President Wilson reads as follows: October 12, 1918. The President of The
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  • 80 2 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, November 6. The Press Bureau says tbe British and Allied Armies have suffered a severe loss by tbe death, from pneumonia, of Colonel E F. Harrison, Controller of the Chemical Warfare Department, who was in sole charge of nsea ch in connection
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  • 41 2 MORTALITY IN HOME TOWNS. London, November 6 An official statement gives the deaths from influenza in tho ereat towns of England and Wales as 7,417, compared with 4,482 last week. Tbe respective totals for London are 4,168 and 2,227.
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  • 213 2 The following are additional rubber outputs for October Alma lbs. 32,000 Asahan 23,921 Ayer Tawah 24,000 Ayer Hitam 24,800 Anglo Sumatra 62,757 Ampat Sumatra 16,886 Bila Sumatra 14,446 Bah Lias 49,421 Bagan Serai 25,500 Batak Rabit 27,500 Batu Lintang 6,491 Bandar Sumatra 33,3’3 Bukit Toh Alang 11,244 Bahru
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  • 85 2 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 60 to 64 diamond No. 2 45 55 Unsmoked sheet No. 1 45| 48j
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  • 190 2 In his report on the F.M.S. Hospital for August, the Medical Officer, Dr. C. S. Atkin, says':— Quite 50 ]>er cent, of the cases were malaria, and others were said to have had dysentery and backwater fever. It seems that by no means every case of malaria is
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 647 2 [To the Editor of the “Pinang Gazette.] Sir,—Under the heading of “Transport of Coolies” in the “Pinang Gazette” of the 21st instant, I read an extract from a letter from one Mr. Andrews. I consider it a pity that such unwarrantable communications should be published without proof
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    • 418 2 [To the Editor of the “Pinang Gazette.] Sir, —Much has been written againsl Siamese Administration in the Postal Telegraph Service, to cite only one instance and. I think, a few words of explanation might serve to create a more tolerant, spirit In the critics. It must
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    • 400 2 WANTED. References "qa’ I’”' 1 S Batak Rabit Estate, rs A -1 ’Wjq Notice is coutaining tbe Annual K rates imposed on a ]i situated within the M uuic Town, Penang, f or the Wty to the inspection of i3l hr e Municipal Office daily 0 Pajen i; tweeu the
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  • 1042 3 A PEAK SANATORIUM. [From Our Own Correspondent]. Mr. and Mrs. Aitken, of Jitra Estate, have just recovered from a severe attack of influenza. I Ihe Rev. J. H. Smith, of Bukit Tengah, P-M., is shortly publishing the “Kedah I Miscellany, a literary contribution of no little interest dealing
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    • 22 3 MARTIN’S» A Remedy For breeding Bitter Apple. Pennyroyel. Pil Cochm. A«. Order of all Cbemists. MARTIN t .SGUT H NG I« AMfIP
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  • 615 4 That Germany would not wait for an invasion of her eastern territories b fore signing an armistice, was almost assured. The “incipient revolution” we thought was to be detected in the latest developments in Germany ex'sts, and it will be finned by any effort to prolong the war.
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  • 931 4 According to a Reuter’s news cable from Peking the Allied Legatiors have .presenttd a Note to China in which many instances where China has not fu filled her duties as an Ally in connection with enemy agents are recapitulated. Disappointment is also expressed that China has
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  • 1294 4 An Amsterdam message states that, according to a Berlin official report, a German delegation, The Tyrol. t 0 conc a e an armistice and take up peace negotiation- has Lfr Berlin for the West front; another Dutch message (wireles») received later in the day eay* an armistice
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  • 42 4 [From Our Own Correspoxdem], Singap' 're, November i At Singapore rubber auctions, there «3 offered 1.020 tons; sold 596 tons. Cm was a slight falling off in the second iji prices, ribbed smoked 66 cents, and hue?about 70 cents.
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  • 32 4 All Tvurnaments, etc. connection rid Oar Day at Malakoff have been p poned to a date to a date to be fixedlittowards the end ot December onacc.nod the Influenza epidemic.
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  • 20 4 Nov B.—Tennis Mr Hunt, v Mr. P.C.C. Ground, 4.30 p.m- Nov 29.—St Andrew’s Societys E cterft> went.
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  • 224 4 Previously acknowledged glo-Chinese School Union lim Merchants’ Society $5O. T b 30 Lim Seng Hooi, On Tuesday the Taiping inquest on the death of an ll ‘h robber who was shot at Aye l J in the morning of September The Coroner found that 1 had been
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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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  • 181 5 L[ JIRMAN RETREAT. MUTINY AT KIEL I SHIPPING constbuction. j Tates into the Allied Lgjjcv set- 5 c an armistice, which is I uome into operation I repo« I re^ rw 1 f m -tinned the retreat bei and the Meuse. The tweet to the vicinity, of I
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  • France and Belgium
    • 1537 5 TEE 2NE Y IN RETREAT. SETTE3 12LEGEAM3 L_n :on, November 5. ■fied M i-sna Haig reports: In the battle w..b opened yesterday beUe Samcre and the Scheldt, our B* r 1" at; First A r miee heavily ■ea:ec severe’ sses in killed, wound- c.’isc-ers, it material, no fewer
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    • 35 5 [Fbom Ova Own Cobbespontent]. Medan, November 8. Aneta states that a Hague message says the armistice with Germany was signed ai eleven o’clock on November 7th, and that hostilities ceased at two p.m
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    • 172 5 Amsterdam, November 6. A Berlin official report states that a German delegation to conclude an armistice and take up peace negotiations has left Berlin for the west front. Gcrmaa Delegation Arrives. London, November 6. It was stated in the Lobby of the Hous© cf Commons that the
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    • 40 5 Amsterdam, November 6. Prince von Buelow, writing in the Nord Deutsche;' says Germany at present is sufficiently democra ized. The abdication cf the Kaiaar w.uli cause a tempest in which muoh else would be swept away.
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    • 43 5 The Germans retreated on seventy miles of front from north of Valenciennes to the Meuse, south of Sedan. The line is roughly south of Mezieres and Hirson, by Avesnes’, west of Maubeuge, at Tournai, east of Audenarde and at Ghent.
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    • 72 5 London, November 7. The Press Bureau srates that the Independent Air Force, despite the w»ather on Novemoer h, attacked an aerodrome at Morhange, hitting the railway and aerodrome. On the of November sch, we attacked aerodromes at Morhange, Frescaty DBase, Lellingea. We fired a hangar at Mornange,
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    • 13 5 Rome, November 6. The Italian F’ee: has occupied Dulciguo and Antivari.
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    • 27 5 London, November 6. H M. the King confe r red the Order of Knight Grand Cross of toe Bath on General Sir Edmund Allenby.
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    • 10 5 Madrid, November 7 The Spanish Cabinet has resigned.
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    • 231 5 TERMS APPROVED. London, November 6. The papers unanimously approve the Austrian armistice terms, as extinguishing any German illusion that Austria-Hungary will be a neutral barrier against the Allies, and as opening a door to the ideals of national liberty in Eastern Europe, while the disposition of the
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    • 38 5 Zurich, November 5. A Vienna message says the ArbeiterZ a i’ung mikes the significant ann uncement that the g-eater pa-t of the secret archives of the Ausiro-Hucgarian Fo r eigu Office have been ved.
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    • 15 5 Amsterdam, November 6. Italian officer- have arrived at Bczten, in the Tyrol.
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  • 388 6 Peking. October 18. —Chinese papers report that the Peace Association originally organized by the Chiaotung Party under the leadership of Messrs. Yen Chia-kwai and Tao Lun-kwai has been greatly strengthened by the formal inclusion of Messrs Liang Shih-yi. Hsiung Hsi-ling, Liang Chi-chao, Feng Kuo-chang, Chow Tszchi,
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  • 232 6 Shanghai Chamber of Commerce Take> Action. The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce is again asking co-operation from the similar organizations throughout China to demand lor immediate peace between the North and ibe South. Canton Chamber of Commerce has been appealed to by the Shanghai body. The
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  • 75 6 Harbin October 20. —According to the local newspaper “Novosti Jisni” General Sirovoy has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian troops at the front. General Diderix will act as his Chief of Staff and General Gaida will command on the L'ral front. The Minister of War in
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  • 122 6 Harbin, October 20. —The Siberian Minister of War. General Ivanoff Rinoff, arrived here at 4-30 p.m. to-day accompanied by M. Tavloff. the Minister of the Interior and his Staff He was met by the local authorities, representatives of the Chinese Eastern Railway and a guard of honour
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  • 63 6 Harbin. October 20. —It is understood that serious disagreements have arisen in Siberia between the military group and the Siberian Duma which at all times has shown an inclination towards extreme opinions. It is unofficially reported that Axentieff the Prime Minister of the Samara Government v ho fled
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  • 725 7 Low returned to Dg to-day fro^S^P° re A Sarkies have returned Mr. gD .‘he southern Settlement. p eD »i)? f roiu G. King» late of Bahk lo9F ector Ml Ordered home on iotg u, b ft3 ue EB u Mair, who isit t 0 Jlr" 1 r
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  • THE EPIDEMIC.
    • 269 7 FUNtBAL THIS EvEMNG. M e regret to announce that death, which occurred in Penang General Hospital, this morning, of Captain Robert Allan McCulloch, of the Straits Settlements (Certain) Rubber Co. j Ltd., Bertam Estate, Province Wellesley, from pneumonia, following influenza. Ihe deceased, who was
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    • 642 7 The Church has not the influence it ought to have attained in the general lite of the country.” That is the admission by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s first committee of inquiry into the charge widely made that the Church fails in the task of giving its that
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  • 1565 7 Kotlah ”in the Pioneer.” WHY THE EAST IS BETTER. All the Indian papers seem full- of the norma} existence and untrammelled round of comfort and usual commonplace. I wonder, says a Major-General’s wife, if some ordinary trials the memsahib now endures at home realised. In India
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  • 188 7 London, October 11.—The Indian journalists have arrive!. They will pais a week in London, in which they will visit the docks and aeroplane factories. They will be entertained by the Instituto of Journalists ani by Lord Northcliffe at the Ministry of Infoiination, and a reception wi 1
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  • 220 7 London, October 26.—Mr Arthur Henderson, labour representative Gillies, and the Belgian socialist Huysnaang, were unable to go to Frauce yesterday because the crew of the mail boat refused to take pacifists and pro-German?. Mr, Hendertou and his companions returned to London It is stated that
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  • 202 7 MR. J. C. SUGAR’S UNTIMELY DEATH. [From Our Own Correspondent]. Singapore, November 8. Mr. J". C. Sugars, of the Civil Service, was found shot in the head in his room in Raffles Hotel, with a revolver in the left hand. The inquest and funeral will be held to-day.
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  • 577 7 —“Express.” The impotent subjection of Austria to the prancing Prussian Junkers is one of history’s ironic tragedies. The Hapsburgs w’ere emperors when the Hohenzollerns were scrubby squires. Vienna was a great capital city when Berlin was a mean village. Now Austria is the German Kaiser’s washpot, and
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  • 124 7 Vladivostok, October 21.—The Vladivostok Zemstvo has made a protest against, the •district Commissary appointed by M. Vologodsky and passed a resolution which is tanameun*. to a boycott of the working organization of the Commis'sary. During the 'ate political embroilments the Zemstvo appointed its cwn Commissary in
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  • 344 7 Disavowal by Russian Officers. At the invitation of a few Russian officers in London a meeting was held at the Holborn Restaurant, on September 6, tor the purpose of enabling M. Kerensky to make a statement of policy. The Association of Russian Officers in London had previously
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  • 114 7 Penang, November 8. 1918 (7?y Courts)/ of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ...2/3 15/16 4 months’ sight Bank ...2/4 3/16 3 Credit ...2/4 15/32 3 Documentary ...2/4 1/2 Calcutta Demand Pank Rs. 3 days’ sight Private Bombay Demand Bank I Moulmein Demand Bank 3 days’ sight Private >
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  • 142 7 Penang, November 8, 1918. S. P. Tapioca $7.70 buye.s. M. P. Tapioca $7.70 sellers. Gold leaf $72 sellers. Pepper (W. Coast 3 lbs. 5 oz) $l6 J buyers Black Pepper $25 buyers. White Pepper $4O nom. Trang Pepper no stock. Mace $BO nom. Mace Pickings $61.50 salse. Cloves season
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  • 170 7 DAILY (except Sunday). Federated Malay States,By train 7.15 a.m. Malacca, Johore, Singa- > pore and Hongkong— J Saturdays 5.30 p.m. Parit Buntar, Bagan Serai, and Taiping 10 a.m. 3.45 p.m< Kuala Kubu, Kuala 7 Lumpur and Seremban J 10 am. Bukit Mertajam, Bukit 10 a.m., 3.45 p.m.
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