Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 27 April 1915

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 95 VOL. LXXIII. TUESDAY. 27th APRIL, 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
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      KAISER AND NAPOLEON.
      527 2 [To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette."] Sir, —If in no other respects at least in his religious profession the Kaiser has some resemblance to the late Napoleon Bonaparte. I reproduce here a paragraph from a biography of the late Napoleon which would be quite applicable to
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      A TAIPING CONCERT.
      147 2 [To the Edi'or of the Pinang Gazette."] Sir. —lt may iatere t your readers to know the result of the concert held here on March 27th in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund, and I enclose herewith a statement of accounts audited by Mr. C. B. Mills.
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    England.
    160 2 I know not, in this dark and fateful hour What England is to others, but to me She is a noble heritage, a sea Of mighty memories, a gracious power, A tender, loving mother, a strong tower Of refuge for the oppressed that would be free, The bulwark of
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    THE PERAK CLUB.
    821 2 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping, April 25. The annual general meeting of the Perak Club was held on Saturday evening. The British R sident, the Hon. B R. G- Watson, was in the chair. Thera was an exceptionally large attendance of over sixty membirs,
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    GAZETTE NOTIFICATIONS.
    350 2 Mr G H N i-h ii to act as D O, at Jelebu Mr H Weisberg is to be a second class magistrate in Jelebu. Mr S Richards is the new Deputy Registrar of Societies in Perak The appointment of Mr H A Smallwood as Treasurer, F M
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    Bukit Tengah Coconut Estate Ltd.
    238 2 Ths second oriiuary general meeting of the shareholders in the above Co. took place on the 16 inst. at the Company’s offices, Hongkong Bank lane, Bangkok. There were present Dr Malcolm Smith, Chairman of Directors, oresidiog, Messrs H V Bailey, A H Donaldson and W
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    Japanese Army and Conscription.
    243 2 If the question about the increase of two divisions of the Japanese army, which has been pending for many years, passes the extraordinary session of the Imperial Diet, new soldiers will be recruited from December of this year to make up these divisions and they will
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    WHAT OUR SOLDIERS HAVE DONE.
    826 2 SIR A. CONAN DOYLE ON GPP.. DEEDS OF THE WAR 11 In his war lecture at the Qaem’i n n Sir A. Conan Doyle gave a f,raDLnarrative of the four critical battles’ of h campaign, which ended with the Bittie Ypres and the defeat of
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    A Maxim.
    64 2 If we hate too much we become su >* el vient to those we hate.—Duke Rochefoucauld. The split pen was discovered by a miughani man, who accidentally split on of his fine steel tools, and seizs 1 i 1 hurry—instead of his quill —when he ;in ed to
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    YPRES AND LA BASSEF.
    1237 3 THEIR place in the plan of CAMPAIGN. main features described. In the immense battle front occupied by the Allies, says the British Eyewitness in France, writing bef )re the battle of Neuve Chapelle, the daily report of isolated engagements which have centred round some village, hill,
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    YRPES' TURBULENT HISTORY.
    426 3 The story of most of the Flemish towns might indeed be written in blood, for not a century passed but left behind it the ruins of hostile armies. If to this be added troubles from within—civil wars and religious wars, fought out neither less cruelly nor less
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    THE NATION’S WAR.
    384 3 ARMY THE SPEARHEAD. To mobilise the entire nation either for the working or the fighting purposes of the war is the grave problem of the hour.’* The above sentence is taken from the main article in the Observer,” which asserts that this is the nation’s war, not
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    Ford Enterprise in Canada.
    472 3 A Huge Output. Canada will manufacture 36,000 automobiles in 1915 according to a busy satistician who has been into the motor industry in the Dominion, basing his estimates on the well-known production of 1914. His conclusions were published in one of the large city papers recently.
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    THE BRIDES WHO DIED IN BATHS.
    448 3 THREE MURDER CHARGES. One of the most extraordinary murder charges of recent years was outlined be'ore the magistrate at Bow Street, London, on March 23. For several weeks there have been constant remands in the case in which George Smith, aged 43, was charged
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    An Emden Evening.
    139 3 Among the advertisements for public entertainments in the Berlin Press is one announcing an Emden Abend.” It does not appear that the proceeds of the entertainment are to be devoted to any charity or to the support of the remnants of the Emden crew. Some item? of
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      227 3 WASHING DOWN MEALS. A HABIT INVITING TROUBLE. One of the worst errors practised at table is that of washing down food before it has been properly masticated. It is an evil accompanying the speeding-up process which prevails in everything we do to-day. Doctors have declared that nine-tenths of the cases
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      355 3 Stave Yourself. I in has got to have some f his comfort and appearance, A e Gillette shave can seem W hile to him. More than I Ilion Gillette Safety Razor A 1914—nearly a million new W ed every year. British made. I Sard Sets. One Guinea. —Sold Everywhere. ;d
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    THE CANADIANS.
    1088 4 In no portion of the Empire did the call of freedom appeal with greater force than in the great dominion of Canada, the eldest daughter of the Motherland. Many sections of the people of Canada had in the past disclaimed any responsibility for our foreign policy and bugged
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    HERE AND THERE.
    1021 4 The Canadians in Northern France have written a new chapter in the wonderful story of the Dominion, and from the Great Bear Lake and British Columbia to the flat lanis, and the town’, lumbermen, farmers, artisans and city men, will read it with pride. This is not
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    THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
    360 4 [From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, April 4, Mr. T. C. Nock of the Agricult ura Department is going again to Teluk Au- r to supervise the destruction of rats in f U Bagan Datoh district of Lower Peraj where, it is said, they are comment t
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    GOVERNMENT QUARTERS.
    175 4 FOR SUBORDINATE SERVICE. The Government have now in course of construction six fine bungalows for the subordinate seivioe along Barrack Road, next to Badminton,” which is a nice and quiet locality. They a v e quite different from those behind the Hospital in We-tern Road, being single storied.
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    TO-DAY’S TIN PRICES.
    213 4 To-day’s quotation for anrefinei tin in Penang was $82.00 per picul, business done—an increase of 50 cents. Tin is quoted in London to-day £165 10s. Spot, and £166 10s. three months. Mr. Sarkies has forwarded a cheque for $7O, o'btained at a recent concert at t e
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    GREAT CHARGES.
    171 5 CANADIANS' BRILLIANT RECOVERY. guns and prisoners captured. FIELD MARSHAL'S CONGRATULATIONS. GERMAN DEFEAT AT LES EPARGES. The turning of a dangerous situation into a glorious success is credited to the Canadian Division. Toe Canadians, north of Ypres, owing to the retreat of other portions of the Allies, became cut
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  • France and Belgium.
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      THE VICTORY NORTH OF YPRES.
      306 5 [Reuter’s Services.] BRILLIANT CHARGES BY THE ALLIES. [Reuter’s Services], [Copyright Telegrams.] London, April 26. Despatches from Northern France state that the battle north of Ypres is unique as the first in Can da’s history, for the Canadians can claim the glory of it. The French
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      The Canadians’ Gallantry.
      213 5 SIR JOHN FRENCH’S MESSAGES. Ottawa, April 26. Field Marshal Sir John Frercb has te’egrapl ed to Color el Hughes, Canadian Minister of Defence, expressing his admiration of the gallant stand and fight n ade by the Canadians, who performed inot brilliant atd va'uable service. F eld Marshal
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      A German "Gas Attack."
      152 5 HOW IT WAS WORKED. London, April 24. A telegram from the north of France states that eye-witnesses of the German attack at Bcesinghe, on the left bank of the Yser Canal, are of opinion that the Germans did not use special r phyxiating shells, but a
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      Area of the Fighting.
      401 5 A FORECAST. We cannot exclude a German offensive against the front held by the British Army, and the fact that it is a British Army which holds a particular front is an additional reason in German opinion why it should be attacked, wrote The Times military
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      LOOKING AHEAD.
      576 5 There is much less danger than there was of our un errating the enormous difficulty of the Allies’ task in the West, and it may even be that when the full casualty lists are published of the recent fight ng that people will rush to the opposite extreme
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      SUBTERRANEAN WARFARE.
      122 5 The correspondent of the Daily Chronicle writes from France :—At the moment the Belgian fourth line regiment is fighting against the Germans in a way which recalls the weird stories of Edgar Allan Poe Just near Ramscapelle there is an unoccupied convent, the walls cf which have been
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      DESTRUCTION AS A BUSINESS PRECAUTION.
      91 5 According to an article appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald Germans in Australia scoff at the idea of a post bellum boycott. They frankly declare that their troops, before an evacuation of the occupied territory, whether forced or by treaty, will destroy all factories and
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    Mutineer Shot.
    39 5 DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 27. At a mutiny sentence parade one man was shot and twenty sentenced to various leuns of tren*poitaticn, etc. Two death sentences wjre commuted to transportation for Lfe.
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  • Russian Campaign.
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      AUSTRIANS BEATEN AT USZOK.
      71 5 ENEMY’S ARTILLERY STRENGTHENED. [Copyright Telegram.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Petrograd, April 26. A Rus-ian official message says the enemy brought up additional heavy guns in the Carpathians, and increased the volume of their artillery fire over the whole front. He made a series of persistent attacks, on
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  • Naval Operations.
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      THE DARDANELLES.
      121 5 TRIUMPH ATTACKS TRENCHES IN GALLIPOLI. London, April 26. Reuter’s correspondent on board the battleship Triumph telegraphs that the Triumph entered the mouth of the St: aits an i opened fire with her 7.5 guns on a trench at the western end of Gallipoli at a range of 7,000
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      ITALY’S NAVY.
      115 5 The following particulars showing the comparative strength of the Dalian and Austro-Hun’a*iu navies are given in view of the possib’e entry of Ita’y into the war. Although the two countries have both been members of the Triple Alliance an ancient distrust exists between them, and their fleets have
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  • General News.
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      THE OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS.
      53 5 KITCHENER’S APPEAL. London, April 26. Lord Kitchener, in a message to the employees of Vickers’ munition works, appeals for a continuance, at full pressure, of the workshops. Anything less than the full output, he says, will mean that callant British lives will be sacrificed u. neces'-arily
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      LIMITED DRINKING FACILITIES.
      248 5 The projected limitation of drinking facilities in what have been called the armament areas continues to be keenly discussed, though no definite proposal has yet been put forward by the Government. In an interview on March 22, the Chairman of thoiLioensed Victuallers’ Central Protection Society said: In
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    THE RUBBER MARKET.
    30 5 London, April 27.* The following is the rubber quotation for to-day Plantation Ist Latex Crepe 2/3j. Julv-December 2/2f. November-October f.o.b. l/10|. [*By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead Co
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    MARINE ENQUIRY.
    445 5 CALYPSO-AVAGYEE COLLISION. Yesterday afternoon, after the evidence of Captains Bell of the Alma and Gully of the Rotorua, both of the Eastern Shipping Comp-tny, Captain Sheppard, master of the Calypso, was called. He came in from Tongkah, he said, about 10 o’clock and started for the quarantine. About
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    PENANG LADIES’ RIFLE CLUB.
    211 5 The results of Monday afternoon’s shooting were as follows 00 00 00 O l. O u O 3 O cJ »O S O cS Miss Mathieu 32 33 23 88 Mrs Wright-Motion... 31 31 23 85 Miss Smith 31 31 21 83 Mrs Liston 32 29
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    MINISTERING CHILDREN’S LEAGUE.
    65 5 At the invitation of Mrs. R. Young, the president, the children identified with the Penang Ministering Children’s League spent a happy time at England House,” Scotland Road, yesterday. They were entertained to tea and afterwards a programme of sports was gone through. Mrs. Mitchell and other ladies
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    The Langkat Sensation.
    161 5 Case Against C. N. Chipp. Sentence of one month’s imprisonment, as a first-class misdemeanant, was passed by Mr. G. W. King, H. M. Magistrate, in the Police Court, Shanghai, on Cyril Napier Chipp, charged, in connection with the recent Langkat sensation, with corruptly accepting the sum of
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  • POLICE COURTS.
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      RANGOON EXTRADITION CASE.
      105 5 The third case in which the offender hails from Rangoon was mentioned in the District Court, before Mr. E. E. Colman, to-day. Accused is a Chinese named Si Loon Tian, who was arrested here by the detective authorities, on the strength of telegraphic orders from Rangoon for
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      ALLEGED MISCHIEF.
      60 5 Before Mr. A. W. B. Hamilton, in the Third Court to-day, Gul Bang was charged with committing mischief by setting fire to a rikiaha yesterday afternoon. It appears that he had had a quarrel with another man, and, it is alleged, took his revenge by setting fire to
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      ALLEGED THEFT.
      98 5 The case of J. J. Hudson was again mentioned in the District Court to-day, in which he is accused of the theft of $l2 worth of property on board the steamer Cornelia in Penang Harbour on the Bth instant. Mr. Brereton Martin appeared for him and Mr. W.
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    THE PRINCE OF WALES’S WAR RELIEF FUND.
    59 5 The Hon. Treasurer sends us the following farther contributions to the above Fund, forwarded co the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance on April 24 ...$16,209.66 Staff Messrs R Young, April subscription 100.00 G Smith Steinmetz, April subscription for Heme Fund 20.00 Balance on April
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    BELGIAN RELIEF FUND.
    40 5 Balance on April 23 $629.90 Anonymous 100.00 Proceds from Concert h<-ld in Taipins on March 27, 1915 by Mrs S C G Fox 653.74 Balance on April 26 $1,383 64 Amount previously ackr.owleged ...$11,744.74 Total $13,128 38
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    American Exports.
    92 5 The Commercial Department at Washington announces that during the first seven months of the war $296,631,400 worth of war material and army provisions were exported from the ’nited States, most of it to the Allies. Some $301,355,000 worth of grain went out; of the country, as compared with
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    210,000 tons of Food.
    218 5 The latest report of the Dutch Commission for Relief in Belgium shows that 19,743 tons of various kinds of foodstuffs were dispatched from Rotterdam to the various provinces of Belgium in the week ending 3rd March, including 3.381 tons of wheat, 7,233 tans of flour and
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    MALAKOFF RUBBER.
    1065 6 SATISFACTORY YEAR AND 15 PER CENT. DIVIDEND. COCONUTS AT A DISADVANTAGE. The annual general meeting of the Malakoff Rubber Co., Limited, was held on Friday in the office of the secretaries, Messrs. Boustead and Co,. Ltd Singapore. The Hon. E D. Hewan, chairman, presided, and the other directors,
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    TIN.
    519 6 THE STANDARD MARKET. Prices had a very severe setback at the end of last week owing to the Government having stopped exports of the metal from this country, and the price of standard tin lost 9Z. on the day on the cash position, and 51 10«. on a the
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    Statistics of Tin in Holland.
    84 6 We produce below the official figures showing the comparative totals of imports, deliveries and stocks of tin in Holland in January of this and last year Jan. 1914, Jan. 1915, piculs. piculs. Imports Banka 37,400 405 Billiton 330 165 Straits 3,465 41,195 570 Deliveries Banka
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    Where to Stay.
    25 6 Penang :—The E. O. Hotel, The Crag, Runnymede Hotel, Hotel Norman, British Hotel. Singapore: —Raffles Hotel. Rangoon :—Strand Hotel. Ceylon Nuwara Ellya.
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    GERMAN COUP D’ETAT.
    834 6 KAISER’S DEPUTY’S THREAT TO SHOOT MINISTERS. The Daily Chronicle Special correspondent, Mr. M. H. Donohoe in a despatch date Constanza, March 24, (Received in London March 25), siys News from a reliable source in Constantinople, which has reached me to-day, te ls of the bitter struggle which
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    PENANG’S HEALTH.
    262 6 In the Penang Municipality for the week ended April 10, there were 68 deaths —4B males and 20 females, equal to a death-rate of 33.95 per mille per annum, compared with 28.95 in the preceding week and with 30.18 in the corresponding week of last year. The following
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    PASSENGERS TO THE STRAITS.
    338 6 Per P and O steamer Nagoya. From London, March 26.—T0 Singapore Mrs J Keller, Miss Newton, Mr C G Renshaw, Mr W J Smith. Mr S Strachan, Miss A Leach, Mr S B Hampton, Mr C H Parker. To Penang Mr C ;E Mayo, Mr Novett,
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    THE WEEK'S EVENTS.
    67 6 Tuesday, April 27. Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. Empire Theatre, Penang Road Electric Polyscope Co,, Argyle Road. Wednesday, April 28. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Tkarsday. April 29 Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. Friday, April 50. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Saturday. May I. Opening of Kamunting New Dredge,
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    COMING EVENTS.
    13 6 May 2 2.—General Meeting Parish Hall. Jun» 4 and s.—lpoh Races.
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    SHIPPING.
    43 6 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Ban Watt Soon, Brit., 199, Taylor a 27, Langkat, gen., E. S. Co. r Avagyee, Brit., 247, Capt Murphy, Anril 97 T. Anson, gen., E. S. Co. H Indien, Dan., 2699, Prip, Anril 97 B’kok, gen., G. H. Slot Co.
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    CLEARANCES.
    51 6 To-day. Sembilan for Deli and Batu Bahra. Tong Chuan for Alor Star (Kedah). Malacca for Tongkah. Ban Lee for Trang. Trang for Trang. Hebe for Teluk Anson. Mambang for Setul. Pangkor for Bindings and Sitiaw&n. Klang for Port Swettenham and Singapore Ninchow for Port Swettenham, SingaoorL Manila, China and
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    MAILS.
    42 6 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE To-Morrow, For Per Close. Negapatam, Madras and Durban Golconda 11am Rangoon Kamor 11 am Rangoon and Calcutta Lightning 3 D ra Rangoon <fc Calcutta Hakata Maru 4p ra Thursday. Port Swettenham and Singapore Tara 3 p
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    VESSELS EXPECTED.
    50 6 Halaban, April 27, from B. Papan. Dovre, April 28, from Rangooon. Itola, April 30, from Singapore. Hercules, April 30, from B. Papan. Itola, April 30, from Singapore. Benloniond, April 30, from London. Maur, May 1, from Bombay. Yosuka Maru, May 1, from Singapore. Nagoya, May 2, from Bombay.
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    EXCHANGE.
    131 6 Penang, April 27, 1915. {By Courtesy oj ths Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ...2/4 4 months’ sight Bank ...2/4 7/32 it 3 11 Credit ...2/417/32 i, 3 Documentary ...2/4 9/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 171| 3 days' sight Private 176* Bombay Demand Bank 174 f Moulmein Demand Bank 173
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    PRODUCE.
    246 6 Penang, April 27, 1915. 8; P. Tapioca $6.30 sellers. M. P. Tapioca $6.90 sellers. Gold leaf $64.40 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 oz). $l6 1/2 buyers. Black Pepper $lB-00 buyers. White Pepper $35.00 sellers. Trang Pepper $23 buyers. Mace 5110 nom. Mace Pickings s66.o''sellers. Cloves 545 sellers. Nutmegs
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    ITALY ON THE BRINK OF WAR.
    1154 7 THE PROBLEMS AT ISSUE. Xo sooner had the first bugle sounded in this war writes Mr. John Leyland the Daily Chronicle than the shattered walls of the struc- uro of the Triple Alliance crumbled to the ground. Italy stood aloof from her "oundesgrmossen." Germany
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    A Serbian Epidemic.
    185 7 Some very interesting glimpses into the state of affairs in Serbia were given in an interview by Dr. A. Tienhoven, a Dutch surgeon who has just returned to Holland from ambulance work in Serbia after a severe iilness. Terrible conditions originated from the typhus epidemic, which he
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    Spotted Fever.
    244 7 Some curious facts are being discovered about spotted fever, or cerebro-spinal meningitis. The symptoms to which these names are applied constitute a very severe and fatal illness which has been one of the scourges of soldiers in the trenches, and even in tbe camps at home. But it
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    One and Quarter Million Feet a Week.
    207 7 Britain’s Huge Imports of Pictures. Kinematograph films are now included in the Board of Trade monthly and annual returns. The industry is thus enabled to obtain reliable figures concerning the report of films as regards England, The latest statistics go to show that
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    DIARY OF THE WAR.
    665 7 April 9.—Portuguese ship Douro torpedoed. Crew saved, April 10.—French Expeditionary Force in Egypt. French successes in St. Mihiel region. Mine sweeping at Chanak. French barque torpedoed. Tug attempts to ram submarine, and escapes. Blue Flannel liner chased and shelled for 57 mi es, but escapes. April
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    The Manufacturers’ Life Insurance Co.
    136 7 The Directors in submitting to the Policyholders and Shareholders their Twenty-eighth Annual Report, together with the Financial Statement to December 31st, 1914 say Insurance, —lnsurances issued and paid for during the year amounted to $12,465,813.00. The total Insurance in force at the end of the
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    "Our Solemn Warning."
    162 7 Not a long ago, says John Bull we suggested that the Government should employ every available means for increasing the acreage of arable land in the country. Private efforts towards the same end ars worthy of every encouragement, and wet regret that certain landowners are apparently blind
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