Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 25 February 1915
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Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle
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Title Section20 1915-02-25 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1835, PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 45 VOL. LXXIII. THURSDAY. 25th FEBRUARY. 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS.20 words
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Advertisement991 1915-02-25 1 fe U IGU WANT TO SHIP. BUY OR SELL I'rUBBERI OB TO forward goods re AMT PART 0» thb WORLD SO TO ALLEN DENNYS Co., f. SI*O« mUKBT. S± EETTE AMSTEL BEER. SUN LIFE X K BEACH STREET. PENANG. STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. OF fWI I “T" j I Gold Medal Amsterdam991 words
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Advertisement62 1915-02-25 1 aoaaDaoaaaaaDßaaoaDaanaacm EOK >3O g ■3 can have the Pinang g 4 X Gaoette posted every day c a few a whole yf«*r to yonr addreea. o D J (LOCAL SUMCRIPTIOM, $27). Frujx>rtoLM.*ie Quarterly «/>1 fj f?a)f~yv*jrly rates. o 4 "r.b»cr!pt\>i;e are payahk in 4 «ktefUkee mod remittances sl.ocld 9 >,62 words
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Article561 1915-02-25 2 MORE THAN 170 SERVING IN HIS MAJESTY’S FORCES. The nobility of England has made a magnificent response to the country’s appeal for fighting men. No fewer than 178 peers of the realm are serving or have served with his Majesty’s forces during the war. The list is561 words
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Article203 1915-02-25 2 Is there not something substantial in the old fashioned view that sleep before midnight carries a special and particular merit There may be, says the Hospital,” a simple and obvious explanation of this creed, but we are satisfied that, in any event, the practice it proposes is203 words
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Article954 1915-02-25 2 The Hansa Line steamer Tannenfels, 5,341 tons, which was captured by a British destroyer jn the Basilan Channel and taken to Hongkong, where she was condemned as a prize of war, has been taken over by the Admiralty as a transport and renamed Basilan. The vessel will be954 words
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Advertisement1149 1915-02-25 2 x*. < .■»> -wr— l g^.^r,r—rr .tmwxt *«mw »gw>? «^Wj^wr— ij^W— WCWW^— MM l Rates for position wanted. Casual Advertisements. E n looo A uNWN?^ n *d d coRRE 0 ”roND! ENT, with 12 years practical commercial ValaQ FOR SAIF Tn IFT RITIIATinNQ VACANT FTP experience in India, Africa and1,149 words
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Advertisement584 1915-02-25 2 BANKS. CHARTERED BANK OF INm? AUSTRALIA AND CHINA Incorporated by R o> Charter. Paid-up Capital fl Rm.™ Paid f’-W* Be«>rve Liability of Proprietor,..'.' Head Offios 38, BIBHOPBGATE, LONDON e r Agencims and Bbanohm.' Hongkong Pena Bangkok Iloilo Puket ««eoo. Bombay Karachi Bai»on Oatoutt. Klang sj Oebu Kuala Lumpur SiugaL,. Colombo584 words
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Article, Illustration2956 1915-02-25 3 DELIGHTS OF OLD-WORLD CITY tommies who live in style. Mr. C. E. w. Bean, official reporter with tie First Australian Expeditionary Force in Fgjpt writes frem Mena Camp (near Cairo), cn December 22.—1 he Australians and New Zealanders have relitvtd Cairo. Cairo exp'eted to be half ruined2,956 words
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Article467 1915-02-25 3 A Leyden despa’ch of January 23 sta'es that fisherman, who arrive 1 at Noordwick that day, report that they witnessed an airship founder in the North Sea on the previous day. From their description the airship was a Zeppelin. The fishermen add that the weather467 words
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277 1915-02-25 3 If not the best known of the politicians recently recruited from the House of Commons, Colonel Ivor Phillips, who has just been appointed t) the command of the Welsh Army Corps, is undoubtedly among the most distinguished of those with military experience. His history as277 words
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Article, Illustration1347 1915-02-25 3 COULD THE GERMANS MAKE USE OF THEM? [An American naval expert stated the other day that when the German fleet eventua’ly offered battle it would bring to the engagement all its ships, including the mine-layers. The question arises, What use would be made of them in1,347 words
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221 1915-02-25 3 Captain Clarence Wiener, cf Ewell Castle, and graduate of Harvard University, who has protested against the proGerman utterances of Professor Hugo Munsterberg, professor of psychology in Harvard, told a Herald correspondent that he had received assurances from Dr. ALawrence Lowell, president of the University,221 words
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Article226 1915-02-25 3 The following passages are taken from a letter written by a Berlin architect serving against the Russians in Poland, and published by the Berliner Tageblatt Up to the present I have taken part in nine battles, some of them severe ones and, beyond a bullet graze226 words
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Article936 1915-02-25 4 SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR RELIEF FUND. The annual meeting of the subscribers to St. George’s Ball was held at the Penang Cricket Club last evening. The Hon. A. R. Adams was voted to the chair, in the absence of the Hon. A. T. Bryant {President) there being also present936 words
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CORRESPONDENCE.
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Article180 1915-02-25 4 [T’o the Editor oj the Pinang ffazetle.”] Sir,— Your leader of yesterday hits the nail on the head. It is exactly what many of us have been discussing lately, with comments on the slowness of the Government in waking up to the fact that any trouble which180 words
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Article132 1915-02-25 4 Private V. G. Ezechiel, Maxim Section, A Company, has been promoted Second Lieutenant and posted to B Company. Second Lieutenant J.S. Rose, “B” Company, Ins been promoted Lieutenant. Lance Corporal Sayers, A Company, has been promoted Corpora’, and Private Smith promoted Lance Corporal. Lance Corporal Candler, A Company,132 words
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Article362 1915-02-25 4 The rise of a penny in the price of bread, says a London correspondent writing on January 11, is now in operation. Within the last few days the price of wheat has gone up a shilling the sack, and the bikers maintain that the c st362 words
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Article123 1915-02-25 4 An extraordinary freak of lightning is reported to have occurred during the storm at Taiping last week. It appears that two Chinamen were sleeping under the same curtain adjoining a post in a kongsi at As-am Kumbang, when the lightning struck the attap roof of the123 words
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Article760 1915-02-25 4 MANCHESTER OFFICER’S STORY. At present we are all in an entrenched camo on a range of hills called Odonia Orok, >bou 60 miles north-west of Mount h Him tujaro. There are about 16,000 trcops here, Punjaub infantry, mountain ba tety, Maxim guns, field hospital, and760 words
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Article90 1915-02-25 4 The Corporal Kurth, of the French Foreign Legion, condemned to death for high treason by the Court-Martial of Hanoi, was shot on February 5 at Langson, Tonkin. Before dying, Kurth, who was a naturalised Frenchman (since December, 1911) declared that he had previously been a German officer,90 words
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Article80 1915-02-25 4 Tokio, February. 9—The Japanese army will carry on experiments with several kinds of new style s ege guns including Ogata siege guns at Tsingtao in March next. These experiments are now being made as the Japanese army was not able to try all kinds of experiments80 words
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Article844 1915-02-25 4 PRINCE AND PRINCESS, IN JAPAN. Tokio, January 26 —T. R. H. Prince Kampengetch and the Princess of Siam, accompanied by their suite were passengers by the Pacific mail liner Mongolia which reached Yokohama from San Francisco yesterday. Both the Prince and his consort are young844 words
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Article62 1915-02-25 4 A London Gazette supplement publishes a further list of 77 non-commissioned officers who have been appointed second lieutenants for service in the field. The appointments affect six cavalrymen, 56 artillerymen, two Coldstream Guards, and 13 who are distribute! amongst the Liverpool, Leicestershire, Gloucestershire, Welsh, Loyal North Lancashire,62 words
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Article390 1915-02-25 4 TOKIO’S DEMANDS. Peking, February 3.—From “an unimpeachable source,” it is learned by a correspondent of the China Press that the following are the terms of the Japanese demands on China South Manchuria. The extension of the lease of Port Arthur and Dairen to ninety-nine years counting from390 words
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Article343 1915-02-25 4 Paris, January IJ.—So much has been said and heard about life in the trenches that there has been a tendency to overlook the awful nature of the fighting characterising the war in the wooded region of the Woevre. After fighting in the forests for three months343 words
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STOP PRESS NEWS.
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Article42 1915-02-25 4 London, February 24 The Press Bureau states that the ar merchantman Can Mac’iauMiton mg and is considered to have been kJ a gale on Feb utry 3. 1Q Later. Twenty officersand 260 men we e the Clan Macriau’htou. ,a42 words
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Article81 1915-02-25 4 London, February 24 The steamer which was reported y es te r day to be in distress was the Oakbv London to Cardiff. She sank to-day while being towed. Her crew was landed a’ Ramsgate and Dover. Further Victims. London, February 25 The steamers Rio Parana, for81 words
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Article89 1915-02-25 4 INFORMAL PROPOSALS. London, February 24. The American steamer Carib, sunk yesterday off the German coast, with 4,600 bales of cotton, was insured by the Government Bureau for 235,850 dollars. The Bureau has lately lost $659,000, equalling the total premiums to date. Washing on, February 24. The Government89 words
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Article25 1915-02-25 4 Loudon, February 24. The British Sou .h Afr can forces ad* vanced and occupied Garub, where there is an important subterraneous water supply.25 words
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Article32 1915-02-25 4 Paris, February 25. A communique says There is nothing t) repoit except a few sue :essful actions by our troops near Auberives-sur-Suippe and further progress north wa-ds of Perthes.32 words
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Article141 1915-02-25 4 HEAVY GERMAN ATTACKS AT MANY POINTS. Petrograd, February 25. A Russian communique savs two regiments of the su roundel Corps broke through the enemy’s lines at the forest of Augusto wo and rejoined the Russian forces. Reuter learns that the Germ ms are making repeat d attacks141 words
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Article215 1915-02-25 4 RUSSIAN RECOVERY. London, *Februasy 25. Despatches from the front received in Petrograd abate that the tide turned against the Germans on Sa’urday, when Russian reinforcements from Grodno drove back the most easterly German column. The Germans were attacke among marsh, and streams between the source215 words
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Article689 1915-02-25 5 the time of my life. Blanche Wills Chandler - the time of my life. Blanche Wills Chandler. When the war broke out I was nowhere. j*| ere was no oil in my lamp. To teas up an operating table out of a hurdle and a hoppole was beyond me. A seven-tailed bandage was to me a689 words
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Article203 1915-02-25 5 The Tijd publishes a protest by Cardinal Mercier, dated lOtfi inst., and contradicting the German statement that the Cardinal-Archbishop is in no respect being hindered in the fulfilment of his pastoral duties In this protest Cardinal Mercier writes :—The facts themselves prove that the statement is contrary203 words
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Article, Illustration75 1915-02-25 5 The beautiful and historic Cathedral at Rheims, the partial destruction of which by the Germans created world wide indignation, has been subjected to further bombardment, the interior of the vaulted roof, which had previously withstood the effect of the shells, having now burst. The town of Rheims has75 words
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339 1915-02-25 5 —“S.F.P.” Ars e?t celare artem. This paragraph is an illuminating example of that art in excelsis. Should anybody in this place ever have heard of an obscure riverine affluent named ths Poozjondoung Creek, or know of the tramway line that runs past the Soolay—“S.F.P.” - 339 words
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Article253 1915-02-25 5 Facts Versus Fiction? Petrograd, January 20. The following official announcement has been issued here. •On Jan 8, the Austrian Headquarters state d that the Russian attacks on Przemysl had been abortive, and that the garrison was making regular sorties, returning on every occasion with prisoners and booty,253 words
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Article496 1915-02-25 5 A Cavalry officer writes Thoie little motor-cycles—-we call them the wasps, for they it is that sting us into action You’re snug'y between the blankets an! you hear the snorting and buzzing of one coming up the road. You hope he goes on—but no, he’s stopped496 words
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Article294 1915-02-25 5 Shipping Companies and the Import of War Contraband. A significant sign of the far-reaching influence which the formation of the Netherlands Oversea Trust is like’y to have on our import trade is furnished by an announcement just made by three of our leading shipping companies, says the294 words
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Advertisement128 1915-02-25 5 Cure that Sore Throat Easily—quickly—but just rubbing in Little’s Oriental Balm «nd trapping the throat with a flannel. Sore throat simply can’c exist when Little’s Oriental Balm gets after it, and this remarkable remedy is equally effective in cases of whooping cough, bronchitis, chest cold and croup. Be on the128 words
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Advertisement539 1915-02-25 5 111, X. The Law of Quality is as attractive as the law of gravity. Gravity keeps you J I on the earth, and Quality ensures that you are on firm I ground in the matter of value. II 1 1 pX QUALITY (/■'“'V THE BEST. k-'G— 3 I W 1539 words
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Article1002 1915-02-25 6 Last evening we received, through Reuters’ Agency, a statement is ued in London by the Press Bureau which is apparently what the Colonial Office would like the people at home, the enemy, and those who know no better, to believe about the recent terrible happenings at Singapore.1,002 words
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Article881 1915-02-25 6 The impressive parade of sdlors of our Allies, the French, and of British troops at Singapore will be long remembered by the inhabitants, who have undergone such a tragic experience. H. E. the Governor, Sir Arthur Young, thanked the French Admiral for timely ai 1. The people881 words
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396 1915-02-25 6 CHINESE WORKMEN CHARGED Twelve Chines appeared before M r v G. Ezechiel to-day charged with v o i o V tarUy “«u.iog hurt to a pubho !e a Rikisha Lance Corporal No 13 t further charge of retusiug to pay Hki i hire against accused396 words
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Article67 1915-02-25 6 The case against the seven Chinamen, Thong Cheung, Gooi Saik, Wong Saik Kong Sim, Gan Loo, Seng Tfiow and Phan K®e who were charged in the Ipoh Guurt before Mr. Justice Edmonds and two assessors with commmitiog gang robbery during which murder was committed, was concluded yesterday when67 words
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Article342 1915-02-25 6 To-day’s quotation for unrefine 1 tin in Penang was $76.35 per picul, business done, a decrease of $1.25. Tin is quoted in Loudon to-day at £177 Spot, and £157 three months. The Government Girls’ School has reopened after the Chinese New Year holidays. We are glad to342 words
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Advertisement485 1915-02-25 6 pFor Debilityl g| A retired Colonel of the Indian Medical Service "-i writes— Dear Sirs, —Following repeated attacks of influenza and debility due to long g= s== service in the tropics, I was left with obstinate chronic bronchitis, severe flatulent 75 dyspepsia and a general neurasthenia, which took the form485 words
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Advertisement105 1915-02-25 6 THE CRAG HOTEL, SANATORIUM PENANG HILL Completely Renovated. An hour and 10 minutes from the E. 0. HOTEL Chairs and Coolies always in readiness at the foot of the Hill. Sarkies Brothers Proprwtora. NOTICE, TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE “PINANG GAZETTE.” The subscription accounts of the Pinang Gazette,” for the ensuing,105 words
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Article333 1915-02-25 7 Reuter’s Services.] MAIL STEAMER’S ESCAPE. big CAPTURES IN CARPATHIANS. the RETREAT FROM EAST PRUSSIA. su9 Uined bombardment of Rheims, including the Cathedra), as a result of ■which many houses were fired and twenty civilians killed is the principal tvent in yesterday’s French communique. Ger trail attacks near Nieuport,[ Reuter’s Services.] - 333 words
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France and Belgium.
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Article173 1915-02-25 7 CATHEDRAL A SPECIAL TARGET [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph) Paris, February 24. A French communique says the Germans made two abortive attacks on Lombaerlzyde. The bombardment of Rheims was extremely violent. The first period bated for six hours and the second for five hours. 1,500 shells173 words
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Article68 1915-02-25 7 London, February, 24. The list of c»sualties includes the following. Killed —Ciptain J. C. Bowles, J. K. Mather, N. Newson, S Sewell, H. B. Stone. Wounded —J. E. Alcock, C. Bridson, A. Fergusson, N. Lethbridge, H. Litchfield, Lieutenant G. H. Nelson, W. Rushbrooke, H. Stroud, G.68 words
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Russian Campaign.
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Article150 1915-02-25 7 48,331 AUSTRIANS IN A MONTH. Petrograd, February 24. A Russian communique says the Russians in the Carpathians captured 48,331 Austrians, 17 guns, and 118 mitrailleuses, between January 21st and February 20th. Severe Fighting in Russia. Petrograd, February 24. A [Russian communique says stubborn fighting continued on February150 words
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Article167 1915-02-25 7 HEROIC RESISTANCE AGAINST GREAT ODDS. Petrograd, Febiuary 24. A despatch from the Russian Comman-der-in-Chief says the forces surrounded during the retreat from East Prussia consisted of the 29th Division and three reserve regiments, all belonging to General BulgakofFs 20th Corps. Communication with this Corps of the167 words
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Naval Operations.
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Article55 1915-02-25 7 A NARROW ESCAPE. London, February 24. The Admiralty announces that the Folkestone to Boulogne Mail Boat was attacked by a German submarine shortly after leaving Boulogne Harbour yesterday evening. A torpedo passed thirty yards ahead of the ship. The steamer had ninety-two passengers on board, who55 words
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Article28 1915-02-25 7 SANK IN TEN MINUTES. London, February 24. Later telegrams state that the Norwegian steamer Regin, which was torpedoed, sank off Dover in ten minutes.28 words
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Article63 1915-02-25 7 Loudon, February 24. The steamer Branksome Chine was mined or torpedoed twenty miles off B a achy Head. Eighteen of the crew were lauded at Newhaven. The csptain and mate are standing by in the hope of beaching the steamer, which is badly damaged. Another Vessel in63 words
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Article59 1915-02-25 7 Pari», February 24. An official communique says a vessel belonging to the Second French Flotilla at 7-30 on Tuesday morning discovered and shelled a German submarine which was on the surface, eight miles south-west of Cape Albrech, near Boulogne. Several shells struck the submarine before it dived,59 words
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Article55 1915-02-25 7 Washington, February 23. The American authorities are considering the fact that Germany’s war zone proclamation appears to be a direct vio’ation of the Germane-American Treaty of 1828 ratified two years ago by Germany, providing American vessels entire freedom on the seas for trading with countries with which55 words
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Article20 1915-02-25 7 London, February 23. The Admiralty announces a restriction of navigation in the Irish Sea and the North Channel.20 words
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Article35 1915-02-25 7 London, Febiuary 23. The Admiralty announces that unfavourable weather, a low visibility, and a .interrupted the operations at the Dardanelles. The outer forts were seriously damaged in the bombardment on the 19th.35 words
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General News.
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Article52 1915-02-25 7 SEVEN AEROPLANES SIGHTED. London, February 23. It is reported from Co'chester that seven aeroplanes were sighted flying over the Maplin Sands in a north-westerly direction, on Tuesday afternoon. The Maplin Sands are at the south-east c«rner of Essex at the month of the Thames, close52 words
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Article145 1915-02-25 7 MR CHAMBERLAIN’S SUGGESTION. London, February 24. In the House of Commons, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in a notable speech, praised the decisions arrive! at in Paris by the Finance Conference. The hon. member suggested instead of a joint loan for Belgium that the latter raise a loan145 words
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Article121 1915-02-25 7 “SITUATION SATISFACTORY.” The following copy of a telegram received from the Private Secretary, Singapore, dated yesterday, is communicated to u< for publication by the Hon. Resident Councillor. The situa'im continues completely satisfactory, the clearing of districts and the extension of the safe area progresses. Captures and Surrenders.121 words
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Article122 1915-02-25 7 Reuter. [Copyright Telegrsm.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) f London, February 23. I The Press Bureau announces that owing to jealousy over recent promotions a portion of the Fifth L’ght Infantry, late the Fifth Bengal Regiment, at Singapore, refuse! to obey orders, causing a serious riot, which was quelledReuter. - 122 words
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Article139 1915-02-25 7 The G.O.C. Singapore, announces that the safe area is extended as follows That country which is bounded by Bukit Timah at the North, Cavenagh Road at the East, thence to Kil’iney Road, and all that part south of River Valley Road, bounded by the Singapore River as139 words
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Article1198 1915-02-25 7 GOVERNOR REVIEWS THE FRENCH CONTINGENT. In the history of Singapore the gathering on the Esplanade must rank as something unique, says the Straits Times.” It was a public expression of gratitude to a body of our Allies which, at a crucial moment, performed a service to1,198 words
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Article377 1915-02-25 7 T.0.M.” We do no doubt that considerable satisfaction wi.l be expressed at the report from official sources that a man has be»n sen enced to three months’ hard labour for spreading rumour» calculated to cans? a arm an 1 despondency.” Rumour is not only a lying but—“ T.0.M.” - 377 words
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Article33 1915-02-25 7 A BIG DEMAND. London, February 23. The applications for £20,000,000 British? Treasury Bills totalled £60,750,000. The average rate for six months Bills is per cent and for twelve monthsper cent.33 words
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Article89 1915-02-25 7 PRODUCE PRICES. London, February 23. Copper £64-15s, selected £7l-10s. Braziers £BO. Yellow metal £B. Spelter £33. Linseed, Argentine 495. Linseed 53s 6d, paid. Lins Q ed Oil £29. Wheats, white Karachi 60s, Delhi 60s 6d. Rosafe 62s 3d paid. Hemp £27-10s. Tumeric unquoted. Tm £lB5. Wheat 61/689 words
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48 1915-02-25 7 The Hon. Treasurer sends us the following further contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance on Feb. 24 $2,080.60 H. Waugh, monthly subscription 50.00 Balance, Feb. 24 $2,130 60 Remitted to London on 24 215 £lO,OOO48 words
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Article132 1915-02-25 7 The following ties have been fixed for to-morrow Mixed Doubles Handicap Class A—Mr and Mrs W S Dann v Miss Heim and M K Whitkck (6); Mrs Harrop and Hargrave v Miss Rickett ar d Everest (2). I Championship—R E H Oliver C R Leonard (5); 8132 words
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Article1174 1915-02-25 8 THE RELIEF COMMISSION’S HUGE TASK. The only neutral source available in London for detailed information about the condition of Belgium under the German occupation is the American Commission for Relief in Belgium. Since the middle of October the Commission, from it* centres in London1,174 words
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Article514 1915-02-25 8 Faked Warships. The masterly silence of the British Admiralty is gradually getting on German nerves. The newspapers querulously ask where ths British Fleet is, what it intends to do, and why our best battleships cannot be located and torpedoed by the German submarines. In the absence of514 words
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Advertisement343 1915-02-25 8 Weakness Debility [RON ‘JELLOIDS,’ the reliable tonic, strengthen 1 your blood and fortify your system against climatic effects. After a course of Iron ‘Jelloids/ the blood is enriched, appetite is restored, vitality increased, Weakness and Debility disappear, and your system is enabled to combat attacks of Malaria and other diseases.343 words
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Advertisement79 1915-02-25 8 Wfaeu man asserts hi* disbelief ia advertising, ask him whose soap ha uses whose beverages he drinks. In 1 1! io cage.- evt of ten they will be adverused articles, and though hi states »iisi lie has not changed his taste for it pioves not so much that he is79 words
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Advertisement188 1915-02-25 8 ALWAYS GOING STRONG. Fwff PETER WALKER LAGER fl i From all First-class Dealers, Hotels and Restaurants. AGENTS: SELLAR, MURRAY Co. GOSNELL’S EAU m COLOGNE BEST AND BRITISH. 35 cts., 50 cts., $l.OO, $1.50, $3.00 per bottle. THE DISPENSARY, Ltd, 2 6, BISHOP STREET, PENANG. RANCH 26, Campbell Street. Telephones 398188 words
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Article87 1915-02-25 9 Thursday, February 25 Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road Electric Polyscope Co,, Argyle Road. Friday, February 26. Mail Arrives Morning Homeward Mail Closes 7 p.m. Service of Intercession in time of War, Presbyterian Church, 6-30 p.m. Band, Esplanade,87 words
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Article19 1915-02-25 9 March 6—Swimming Club, Moonlight Fete. March f 24.—Licensing Justices Meeting, 2-15 p.m. April 3 and s.—lpoh Races.19 words
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Article252 1915-02-25 9 OFFICIAL MINUTES. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday, the 9ch February, 1915. Present :—Messrs. W. Peel, (President), F. Duxbury, Quah Beng Kee, Yeoh Guan Seok and John Mitchell. Absent :—Messrs. Lim Eow Hong and P. T. Allen, 1. The minutes of the last252 words
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Article229 1915-02-25 9 Penang, February 25. Beef— ctt. Soup per catty 18 Roast 26 Steaks 26 Stew or Curry Meat 20 Rump Steak 26 Ox Tail each 50 Tongue 50 Feet 15 Heart 35 Liver per catty 30 Pork Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head 22 Feet 26 Tongue 36 Mutton229 words
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Article37 1915-02-25 9 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Omapere, Brit., 340, Lyons, Feb. 25, S’pore, gen., E. S. Co. Sappho, Brit., 328, Scott, Feb. 25, Tongkah, gen., Adamson Gilfillan Co Pangkor, Brit,, 94, Caswell, Feb. 25, B. Datoh, gen., E. S. Co.37 words
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Article35 1915-02-25 9 To-day. Leong Ho for Alor Star (Kedah). Ban Lee for Trang. Avagyee for Port Swettenham, Port Dickson and Malacca. Alma for Deli. Perlis for Trang. Kedah for Bindings, Sitiawan Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson.35 words
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Article106 1915-02-25 9 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Close. Rangoon Atjeh 9 a.m. Alor Star (Kedah) Ngi Thye 11 a.m. Deli and Asahan Kai mo a noon. Singapore, Saigon, China and Japan Itola 2 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Tara 3 p.m. Teluk Anson Sappho 4 p.m. Madras, taking106 words
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Article120 1915-02-25 9 Penang, February 25, 1915. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ...2/4 4 months’sight Bank ...2/4| 3 Credit ...2/4 9/16 3 Documentary ...2/4f Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay Demand Bank 174 Moulmein Demand Bank 173 3 days’sight Private 176 Madras Demand120 words
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Article266 1915-02-25 9 Penang, February 25, 1915. S.’ P. Tapioca $5.10 sellers. M. P. Tapioca $5.85 sales. Gold leaf $64.40 Pepper (W, Coast 3 lb. 5 oz). $l6 1/2 buyers. Black Pepper $lB.OO buyers. White Pepper $34.40 sales Trang Pepper $25.00 sellers. Mace $llO non. Mace Pickings $64 sales. Cloves $4l nominal.266 words
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Advertisement130 1915-02-25 9 FALMOUTH HOUSE, FARQUHAR STREET, (Late Sea View Hotel). Mrs. TRENGOVE beg* to announce that she has taken the above premises, and on March Ist will open the same as a Private Boarding House. Rooms single and donble. Terms very Moderate. Tel. No. 485. s m w 28-2 Commencing Friday 26th,130 words
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Advertisement59 1915-02-25 9 MARTIN’S A French Remedy top all Irr'egrulaplties. Thousand* of Ladies keep a box of Martin’» Pills in the house, so that on the first sign of any Irregularity of the System, a timely dose mav be administered. Those who use them recommend them, hence their enormous sale. >At all 'Chemists59 words
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Advertisement323 1915-02-25 9 RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, (SEA SIDE) PENANG. NEW IMPROVEMENTS have been made at our Promenade on the Sea Front. THERE WILL BE A MOONLIGHT DINNER EVERY MONTH, WEATHER PERMITTING. STRING BAND ON THE LAWN and EXTRA DINNER $2. DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER. Nuwflra Ellyn, Ceylon. 6,200 feet abovx. Level. FAMOUS FOR323 words
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Miscellaneous148 1915-02-25 9 The Show of Surprises long looked for come at last. WILLISON’S BRITISH AMERICAN CIRCUS and Mammoth Menagerie Presenting an all Star Company of Circus Celebrities Culled from the World’s Greatest Shows A rare and costly Zoological Collection OF TRAINED ANIMALS ligers, Leopard*, Black Panthers, Cassowary?, Beautiful Birds, Merry Monkeys, Rassian148 words
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Miscellaneous93 1915-02-25 9 THE TIDES. Fbnakg—February, 1915. High Water. Low Water. Date Time. H Da,e Time. Ht h m ft. h m ft. Th 25 m 10 21 3.8 4 14 a 2 9 9 42 a 4.8 26 m 5 4 1.6 F 26 m 10 54 4.5 5 la 2.3 1093 words
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Article215 1915-02-25 10 Some interesting particulars are to hand regarding the central testing station for the lubber planting industry which is to be established in our Eastern Colony, says the Gazette de Hollande and from which so much is expected by the enterprising planters in the advancement of their industry.215 words
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Article145 1915-02-25 10 For the first seven months of the year the development of the Dutch rubber market proceeded, although arrivals remained below expectations. During the last five months the rubber trade was entirely dislocated by the European war. Though very fluctuating, prices on the whole were satisfactory. At the end145 words
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Article194 1915-02-25 10 The accounts for the year to Oct. 31 last show a net profit of £63,231, making with £77,556 brought in, a total of £140,787. After deducting the Preference dividend of-the year, as well as extra remuneration to the directors, and the interim dividend of 10 p.c,194 words
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Article270 1915-02-25 10 This year witnessed a turnover of tea bigger then ever before. The production of Java is on the increase, whilst the plantations in Sumatra are progressing well. In the past year Java will have product d upwards of 30,000,000 kilos. Ten million K.G., viz., one third of this quantity,270 words
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Article195 1915-02-25 10 The unfavourable state of the weather chiefly influenced the Java tobacco crop, though the Sumatra crop suffered likewise. In spite of the fact that the Sumatra crop sold here in 1914 totalled only about 226,000 bales, as compared with 250,000 bales in the previous year, the price of195 words
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Article272 1915-02-25 10 As representing the opinion of one of the most distinguished living Germans and the intellectual attitude in Germany towards the war, Professor Souter, of Aberdeen University, has translated and sent to the Aberdeen Free Press some amazing letters from Professor Adolf Lasson, of Berlin. For arrogant272 words
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Article149 1915-02-25 10 The <; Fatherland” (German American, New York) publishes the following English version of “Deutschland, Deutschland, über Alles,” by P.C. Kullmann Deutschland, Deutschland, First of Nations, Over All in this wide world, For Defence at d for Protection German Standards now unfurl; From the Meuse unto the Memel,149 words
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Advertisement406 1915-02-25 10 T. NAGATA, JAPANESE DENTIST. MODERN DENTISTRY. 4, BISHOP STREET, PENANG, Next Door of The Dispensary. 102—m w f 25-3 n “Kmp th* *‘f«r ths Blood g Blood Pure.** lg the tlfo.” iClarke'sl Blood. Mixture Ilf you suffer-from just such a medicine, any such disease as It is composed of mentioned406 words
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Advertisement216 1915-02-25 10 OF INTEREST TO DANCERS. Under the beading Too Much Tango an American paper fays that with the prevailing crazi for dancing at all times and places it has becoma noticeable that women whose blood is thin—anaemic—fall victims to neuralgic pain! when they dance too much and rob themselves of sleep216 words
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Advertisement378 1915-02-25 10 A qood—-Judge of Cocoa will tell you that VAN HOUTEN S is the best COCO -A. pure digestible delicious goes farthest. Get the VAN HOUTEN Flavour at the Soda Fountain.. RATNER SAFES? LOCAL TESTIMONY: A FEW USERS. Messrs. The Dispensary, Limited. Messrs. Henrietta Estate. Henderson Mann. Kuala Kangsar Plantations, Ltd.378 words
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Article836 1915-02-25 11 SUPPORT FOR THE ALLIES, Under the auspic s of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Professor A, Andreades, charman of the Athenian branch of the League, and professor of economics in the University of Athene, delivered a lecture at 24, Gros-venor-square, W., on The Near East and the European836 words
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474 1915-02-25 11 The sinking of the British steamer Durward, which was torpedoed off the Dutch coast on January 21, by the German submarine Ul9, is graphically described in a telegram from the Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily Express.” The Durward’s crew of twenty-one men, he writes, were474 words
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Article397 1915-02-25 11 Messrs. James F. Hutton A Co., Ltd., writing on January 21, report Liverpool Cotton. To-day. Last Week. Mid-American—Spot 5.13 4.81 Mid-American, Current Month 4.95 4.62| F.G.F. Egyptian—Spot 6.50 6.30 xr i n xi. Yester- Last New York Cotton. day week> Spot—Cents. 8.60 8.05 London. Yesterday. Last week.397 words
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Advertisement539 1915-02-25 11 N. Y. K, Japan Mail Steamship Co. Ld. EUROPEAN LINE. A Fortnightly service is maintained be-v-ween Yokohama via ports to Marseilles London and Antwerp, under mail contract with the Imperial Japanese Government. The New Twin-screw Steamers maintaining thia service have been specially designed and constructed, and are fitted with all539 words
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Advertisement66 1915-02-25 11 In these days one often heais of the increased cost of living. It am you ever st pp dto think 'hat the prices of advertised goods a-e i evera'te-ed i The branded mustard—the advertised soap you use—y< ur bott e of s«nce with the hoi seh- Id name—are all just66 words
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Advertisement347 1915-02-25 11 MARSEILLES I TILES. “SWAN BRAND.” I l I Large Supplies on Hand. Orders Now Being Booked. I INDIAN PATENT STONE FOR FLOORING AND PAVEMENTS. I 30 YEARS’ REPUTATION FOR DURABILITY and for being I SANITARY, DAMP-PROOF, VERMIN-PROOF AND FIRE-PROOF. I SOLE AGENTS: I ADAMSON, GILFILLAN Co., Ltd., SINGAPORE. PENANG. MALACCA.347 words
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Advertisement1860 1915-02-25 12 p &O. intended sailings. straits Steam Ship Co., Ltd. [jgfr Ocean Steam Navigation Co. RrITISH INDIA For Intended to Sail. Steamer. STEAM SHIP WireU T tu:x7J itt<do steam navigation company, ltd. p t8 Egery «wn»^° pm J 0All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans Every Tuesday, at 5 p.m. Hebe.1,860 words
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