Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 27 November 1918

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY ESTABLISHED 1833. Mu. 273. VOL. LXXVI WEDNESDAY, 27tL NOVEMBER, 1918, PRICE 10 CENTS.
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      16 1 B Runnymede Hotel, S SEA SIDE. r« S •■THE" PLACE TO STAY AT S ’PHONE S
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    SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
    626 2 YESTERDAY’S LATE ARRIVALS. S. S. Maur, Norwegian, Capt. Svensen, 1 099 tons, of Lyugor, port of departure Bombay, touched at Colombo, arrived in Penang at 10 p.m, yesterday, consignees Messrs. Huttenbacb Bros. <fc Co., anchored in the Roads. Bound for Singapore. To-day’s Arrivals. s S. Captain Carnon, 3,600
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    KETTLER MEMORIAL DESTROYED IN PEKING.
    78 2 Peking, November 14.—The Von Kettler Memorial, which Germany compelled China to erect in the principal street of Peking, is being destroyed by French and Italian returned soldiers assisted by certain Allied civilians. The Chinese authorities are sympathetically indifferent, preferring the structure to be removed by
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    ENGLISH BRIDES FOR AUSTRALIA.
    586 2 Eager groups of relatives and friends battled against terribly stormy weather for more than three hours on October Ist at Port Melbourne pier, when over 120 English girls who have married Australian soldiers arrived. The boat was expected to berth at 9 a.m., but it was
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    PENANG “ OUR DAY.”
    393 2 PENANG OUR DAY.” I At a meeting of the General Purposes Committee held in the Government Offices, last evening, it was decided that Penang “Our Day” be Friday, December 20th and Saturday, 21st, as previously suggested. H. M. The King of Siam has ordained that December 2nd be a day
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    THE PRINCE OF WALES
    698 2 Prospective Wedding. The King, in replying to the address presented to him by the members of the Imperial Conference, at the conclusion of their labours, made the following reference to a projected tour of the Empire by the Prince of Wales. “In my speech, last year
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    POST-WAR FISCAL PROBLEMS.
    149 2 London, 27th September.—The Nati nal Liberal Federation, by an overwhelming majority, rejec ed a motion in favour of sympathetic consideration of pet ce cvertures, and adoi ted motions favouring a league of nations, demanding the abolition of conscription after the war and the establishment of Home Rule
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    EXCHANGE.
    142 2 Pknang, November 27, 1918 {By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ...2/4 3/16 4 months' sight Bank ...2/4 3/8 3 Credit ...2/4 23 32 3 Documentary ...2/4 3/4 Calcutta Demand 1 ank Rs. 3 days' sight Private Bombay Demand Bank Moulmein Demand Bank c 3 days’ sight
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    PHOTOS ON PASSPORTS.
    496 2 Concession to Indian Women. The Hon. Khan Bahadur, A. K G. Ahmedthamby Maricair, 5.8., Negapatam, WT You are aware of the difficulties Mil the hardships which our Muslim women preceding to and returning from Straits Sett ements, Malay etc. places are put to by the necessity of
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    PENANG MAILS CLOSE.
    179 2 DAILY (except Sunday). Federated Malay States. A By train 7.1 b a.m. Malacca, Johore, Singa- > pore and Hongkong— J Saturdays 5.30 p.m. Parit Buntar, Bagan Y Serai, and Taiping j 10 a m. 3.45 p.m. Kuala Kubu. Kuala 7 Lumt ur and Seremban J 10 am.
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    MAILS FOR EUROPE.
    37 2 (Post Office, Official Report.) Lrft Penang. Arrived London Sep. 7 A Oct. 31 m 8 B 31 8 C 24 14 D Nov. 15 20 E 15 23 F 15 m 25 G „11
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    TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS.
    77 2 The Singapore agents of the P. and O. Co. state: Me shall be obliged if you will bring to the notice of intending passengers to the United Kingdom that it is the intention of the Indian Government to continue to insist on passengers being in possession of passports
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      689 2 OUR DAY JUMBLE SALE IN AID ,N Li QUIDatio N) I OF THE RED CROSS Notice i 8 I Liquidators’ Reporting o TOWN HALL. been completed a Creditors who m Saturday, 14th December 1918, ««pyot the Reportcure the same by r ACc Un 'i 9.30 A.M.-12 NOON. the Chinese Chamber
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    ENGLAND CHANGING HANDS.
    881 3 A MINOR WAR-TIME REVOLUTION. Mr W A Wilson says a week or so ago the newspapers recorded as a sensational incident the ?ala of the town of Shaftesbury, in Dorsetshire. Certainly it must have come a? a surprise to many people, in days when all the talk
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    "OUR DAY” CALENDAR.
    45 3 X OV 21’. —St. Andrew's Society. Ball, Town Hall, U. 30 p m. Dec 2 3 and 4.—New Fantastic® at Town Hall. Dec 14 and 15 —Krian. Dec 20 and 21.—Penang Our Day. Dec 24 —Dinner and Dance at E v Hotel.
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    LOG BOOK.
    1032 3 The Kawasaki Dockyard launched at 7 a.m. on October 30. a 9.000-ton steamer the keel of which was laid down on (Ictober 7. The German Imperial Gazette announces that Dr. Georg Kautz, President of the Im-j-erial Canal Office at Kiel, has been appointed President of the Independent Imperial
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      841 3 WANTED. OUR DAY. 2 wdcondition about 1200 TANK FUND 3OO, e/o TICKETS $1 ’L. LORRY DRIVER. First Prize—New Elgin Motor -cP of 3 M tor-lorries and a Oar. Value $5,000. -7ou-. G°° d sa!ar y to ca P able V man Apply Manager, Outstation applicants must "'vpiha Earate, Kedah. enclose
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      1154 3 NOTICES. TENDERS INVITED. lAfUfiM it EEav Tenders will be received un to noon on TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 2nd Decembert 1918> at the Recent Councillor's Office, Penang, from persons Sinep 1917 neither Donaid de9iroas of contracting for supply of (1) Since Itfl/ nenncr DONALD timber and (2) Lime, Bricks,
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    BIRTH
    19 4 De Corner. —On November 21, at Ipoh, the wife of J. E. B. de Courcy, of a daughter.
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    MARRIAGE.
    53 4 Hinton—Vaughan.—On Wednesday, 13th September, at King’s Chapel, Gibraltar, by the Rev. H. Dalzell, M.A., Chaplain R.N., Eng. Lieut.-Com. Reginald W.S. Hinton, R.N., son of the late William Richard Hinton and Mrs. Hinton, of Tynemore, Somersetshire, to Irene Mabel, daughter of Herbert Stanley Vaughan, Superintendent H.M. Naval Victualling Yard, Malta
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    THE ELECTION AND FREE TRADE.
    1252 4 From to-day’s cables it will be observed that the British Parliament which, elected in December 1910, has sat longer than any other British Parliament elected during the past 200 years and has seen the greatest war in history carried to the point of virtual victory,
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    TIN PRICES.
    40 4 To-day s quotations for unrefined tin in Penang was $124.10 per picul, business done, and for refined tin $124.80 per picul; 25 tons. Tin was quoted in London on Nov. 21 at £3lO spot, and £290 three months
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    HERE AND THERE.
    1753 4 Just over a month ago the price of tin in the London market was Tin Price and £336. It has dropped Output. since then to £3OO. The price for this metal was £209 in 1912, and £164 during 1915, and the average for 191# was £237, so
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      140 4 PRITCHARD i COMPANY, LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.) NEW GOODS IN OUR Drapery Department, to ,mls Zj Christy’s famed Turkish Towels. $l5O to $2.75 each. Huckaback Towels. Sl.OO to $1.25 each. Sheetings. Best Wigan Sheeting in Widths of 70" 80' 90- 110" per jard $1 75, $2.00, $2.30 and
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      17 4 St. Andrew’s Dinner AT THE “8. O. Hotel On Friday, 29th November, 1918, AT 7-30 PM. SHARP.
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      52 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to-day, and to-morrow Penang Standard Times Low Water. High Water. To-day. 7.14 a.m. (4ft. 7in.) 1.42 a.m. (4ft. OinJ 8.55 p.m. (oft. oin.) 1.35 p.m. (3ft. Oin.) To-morrow. 8.45 a.m. (4ft. Tin.) 3.20 a.m. (3ft. Gin.) 9.33 p.m. (sft. 9in.) 2.52 p.m.
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    THE WAY KIEL.
    1104 5 clears 0 a passage. IK£(W im-EGBAio] I London, November 25. I nine-sweepers left the ■A r -to clear a passage fur -quaarou Which is proceeding wiiheluishaveu to supenur .armament of tue German UP' ■J g FOR THE LUSITANIA I t il: in sinking the Lusi- C iif
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    Potsdam’s Part.
    340 5 THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR London. November 25. The disclo nr c s regarding the origin of »be war. published bv the Bavarian Government, are contained in reports by Count ven Lerchenfeln, the Bavarian Minister in Berlin, to his Government in July, 1914. Reporting on July 18th, 1914
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    Parliament Dissolved.
    15 5 London. November 25. H. M. the King has signed the proclamation dissolving Parliament,
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    HOLLAND AND GERMANY.
    139 5 ALLIED PROTESTS. (Havaa Tzucxaiu.] Paris, November 26.—Dutch indulgence for the Germans brings Allied protests Several times the diplomatic represeota at the Hague have complained to tb« Minister of Foreign Affairs, Heer Van Kearnebeck, of certain acta of the Dutch Government, the passage of German troops through Limburg,
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    The Entry to Strasbourg.
    60 5 General Gourard entered Strasbourg on Sunday morning There was indescribable enthusiasm. 300,000 people welcomed the soldiers. General Gouraud issued a proclamation, beginning with the words cf the “Marseillaise.’ The glorious day has appeared. The euthusiatic .eception of the French troops to Alsace and Lorraine has ended
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    In the Bosphorus.
    34 5 A Note issued in Paris states that th; work of mine-sweeping in the Busphoru» bus been completed. Several vessels anchored eff Constantinople lave been detailed for missions in the Black sea,
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    To House Peace Delegates.
    46 5 A number of the Paris hotels have been requisitioned tor li-e deiega.es to tLe peace The Majestic and the Astoria have been taken tor the British Mission, the Cril.ou fur the Ame.leans, t:.e Luuv.e tor the Italian:, and the Lutetia for thBelgians’
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    The American Army.
    46 5 Reuter’» Telegrams.] Washington, November 25. The War Secretary, Mr. N. D. Baker, announces that he intends to reduce the America.’.. Fxp ditiotary F- rce to 30 divisions, or about ha f its present strergth. Further reductions will be made if the situa“ion warrants.
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    Silver.
    11 5 London, November 22. The si v r market is steady.
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    “ OUR DAY ”
    431 5 OUR DAY The Hon. Mr. F. S. James. Colonial Secretary writes to the Singapore papers: The Appeal for Our Day this year was issued somewhat late. With dramatic suddenness the collapse of our enemies arrived in the middle of thi» month. Heartfelt relief at the termination of hostilities is the
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    FROM NEUTRAL SOURCES
    286 5 News from the Netherlands. Batavia. November 22. —The Netherlands Government is about to appoint a Commer. cial Attache at Washington who will be the head of all commercial matters for the Netherlands and fur the Dutch East Indie». Aneta learns that at the request of the East
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    THE GERMAN LEECH
    290 5 Mr. Hughes’s Warding. tt^, 1 Hughe', speaking at St. Andrew’s Hall. Glasgow, baid: Ihe workers of Great Britain are warned 1 pacifist» that any change of our econ-F-iicy will offend Germany, that it v ill be a declaration of economic war. What a counsel this is that
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    SIR JOSEPH COOK UNDER FIRE
    188 5 Sir Joseph Cook, in a press interview, I was an eye witness of Sundav’s battle, and got beyond the Australians’ jumping off place right into the Hindenkeavy shell fire made it a dangerous experience, but the risk was well worth taking. I wanted to see
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    WIRELESS FROM AUSTRALIA TO LONDON
    73 5 London. October 2.—The newspapers emphasise the importance of the establishment of direct wireless communication with Australia. Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, managing director of the Marconi Co., stated in an interview that although there would be no public service immediately, the Marconi company intended to shortly provide
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    NAVAL COMMANDER’S PLUCK
    90 5 London. October 2.—Commander Walter Calthrop has been awarded the Albert Medal for gallantry in preventing serious loss of life by sinking an abandoned and burning steam-hip, the Proton, which contained 240 tons of ammunition, at Port Said. He first attempted to flood the Proton, but was unable
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    TRADE IN THE EAST.
    568 5 IMPROVED METHODS URGED. The opportunities for the extension of Australian commerce throughout China, Japan, India, Malaya aud the crowded islands northwest of the Commonwealth, hav» increased enormously since the war. Exigencies of shipping and the concentration of industrial effort on home needs have forced European countries
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    BOLSHEVIKI CAUSE MUTINY AT TOMSK.
    222 5 Harbin. November 10.—A despatch from Tcansk states that a mutiny occurred among the soldiers of the garrison as the result of Bolshevik propaganda and that the mutineers were joined by workmen. The mutiny was crushed by officer detachments and militia. Three hundred rebels were condemned
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    GERMAN COMMERCE STAMPED OUT IN U.S.
    179 5 -Philadephia. N vember 8. —Mr. A Mitchell Palmer, the Alien Eenemy Property Custodian, in a speech to-day reviewing his work in taking over and Americanising en-emv-ewned property declared that German industrialism was as much a menace to world peace as German military autocracy. He
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    756 5 Mr. W. H. Dinsmore, of the F.M S, Civil Service, has gone to South Africa. The following passengers arrived per s.s. Kampar to day Mr N L Raiitoo, Mr F Coates and Mrs M Moore. Mr W King, of the Singapore Harbour Board, accompanied by Mrs. King,
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    REAL CAUSE OF CHOLERA.
    1007 6 BY DR. WOODS HUTCHISON. For some nason, which is even yet not altogether clear, cholera is chiefly a hot weather disease, and its favourite hunting ground has long been the tracks of the great pilgrimages to the Holy Places, which are held every year in Asia.
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    SHARES.
    787 7 j x z %’aMES. g-i a übb w “>° ,,,r *'•*'•»■>• A- C' -’l* 11.50* 12.5 C cum in :::i i<^h”7 r E L d 1.00 1.05 LOO prem r cent Pref. 12.50 13.50 jbber EsUt r,i <u .-ate? 1-10 1.1- K»0 r E«tate <0 80 prem. ft.. K
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    JIMAH RUBBER ESTATES.
    878 7 THE GOVERNMENT AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION. The eighth annual general meeting of the Jimah Rubber Estates, Limited, was held at the registered office of the company, Chartered Bank Chambers in Singapore, on Satur- day Mr A E Baddeley presided, the others present being Messrs James McCiymont, Lee Ban
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    MANDAI-TEKONG (SINGAPORE) RUBBER.
    304 7 MANDAI -TEKONG (SINGAPORE) RUBBER. Dihectors' Report. The report of the directors of the MandaiTewong (Singapore) Rubber Estates, Limited, for the year ended 31st July 1918, states Accounts. —The Profit for the year sul ject to Mauag r s ommissi n ai d Directors remuneration amount to n 13,638.73. To this
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER REPORT
    236 7 Messrs Guthrie and Co, Ltd, Singapore, reported on Saturday’, 23rd Nov., as follows: The quantity catalogued for the Rubber Auction which commenced on the 21st inst, reached the abnormal total of 2523 tons, due to the suspension of business the previous week. Manufacturing interests were more in
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER SALES
    123 7 At the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's 372nd Auction, on 21st, •J2nd and 23rd, November 1918, there were offered 4,951,262 lbs. Tons 2,210.38. The prices realized were Smoked Sheet. Cents per lb. Fine ribbed 71 to 741 Good 60 70 Fine plain 57| 59 Good 54|
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    LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
    42 7 The foil wing are tbe latest quotatirns ir Messrs. Kennedy <fc Co.’s share list:— To-day. SHARES. >»=>» a a re Rubber (Dollar.) sc. c. c. sc. Bukit P. 6c dis 5 5c dis par Mining. Deebook 19/- 19/6 18/6 19/6
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    TO-NIGHT’S BAND PROGRAMME
    54 7 The Band will play the f /lowing programme of mus e st the Esplanade from 6 p m to-day 1 Fantasia Fcx Hunting Scene ...Suekley 2. T wo Step Dixieland ...H<res 3. Selec’ion An Artist's Model ...Jones 4. Waltz Tresor D’Anr ur Waldt ufel 5. March Sergeants
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    F.M.S. CHAMBER OF MINES.
    436 7 U IMPORTANT MEETING. A special general meeting of the members of the F M S Chamber of Mines was held in the office of the Chamber, No. 1 Brewster R iad Ipoh, on Saturday, t? consider the report of the Sub-Ci mmittee appointed at the extraordinary
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    TIN PROSPECTS
    136 7 It is hoped by directors of the Y-Water (Emmaville) Tin Co., says the Melbourne Age 'of October 16th that the present high prices for tin will be maintained for some time, in which case they expect the concern will gradually worit into better financial position. The chairman Mr
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    PRODUCE.
    188 7 Penang, November 27, 1918 S. P. Tapioca $8 60sales, M. P. Tapioca $B.BO sales. Gold leaf $72 sellers. Pepper (W. Coast 3 lbs. 5 oz) sl6j buyers Black Pepper $25 buyers. White Pepper $4O nom. Trang Pepper no stock. Mace $BO nom. Mace Pickings $61.50 sales Cloves season over
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    THE MAILS.
    39 7 The homeward miil I via Singapore eloses at 6 pm. on Saturday. The following undelivered telegrams are lying at the office of tbe Eastern Extension 4u«trala«ia and China Telegraph Co Ltd 1. Gimbee. 2. Njo.ensiah c/o Sinkaphien.
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      104 7 SOME people think that *he entire process of digestion takes place in the stomach.' There is intestinal digestion and there is intestinal n m* gestion also and the latter is usnaily associated with constipation. Harsh, strong purgatives that clear the intestines quickly leave the delicate membranes inflamed and dry, usually
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      125 7 Northam House photographic Studio, Penang. NOTICE. As MR. H. BODOM is shortly leaving the Colony for good, he begs to announcejo his patrons, that if they wish, they can purchase their negatives at a moderate price. The last available date tor application being the 15th December, 1918, after which date
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