Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 July 1915

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. k»: m No. 153 VOL. LXXIII. WEDNESDAY. 7JUi JULY. 1915. PRICE IO GENTS
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  • Naval Operations.
    • 409 2 [Rkutbr’s Skrvicrb.] THE OPERATIONS DESCRIBED. Petrograd, July 6, The fight which ended in the stranding of a German mine-laying cruiser of the Albatro-s class at eight in the morning on July Ist. The fog was so dense that sometimes the opposing ships were swallowed up by the
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    • 59 2 Russian. Tons Guns speed Date Rurik 15,170 4-10 in 21 1907 Makaroff 7,887 2-8 in 22 1908 Bogatyr 6,675 12-6 in 24 1902 Bayan 7,887 2-8 in 21* 1910 Oleg 6,675 12-6 in 23 1904 German. Augsburg 4,280 12-4.1 27 1910 Roon 9,350 4-8.2 21 1905 Bremen
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    • 26 2 Paris, July 6. French destroyers bombarded two submarines in the English Channel yesterday. One submarine was stiuck by several shells before it disappeared.
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    • 55 2 London, July 6. Ti e cargo steamer Anglo Californian was homeward bound. Tne Captain, whose daring and skilful handling of his ship enabled her to escape, was unfortunately killed, whilo on the bridge, by large shells from the submarine, but wifeless calls had gone out and brought
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  • 76 2 Rome, July 6. The Italian communique says: The bombardmeut of the fortresses of Malborghetto and Predil continues most effectively. Four hundred prisoners were taken on July 4th on the Carsico P.atsau, where the Italian offensive is developing suooetsfully. Air Attacks. An Italian dirigible bombed and seriously damsgrd
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  • 425 2 (Specially Translated). Germany has prohibited the export of cotton or cotton manufactured goods. H-’rr Kenning, a former superintendent of the Naval Depot at Soerabaya, has been appointed Chief of the Dutch Bureau for the Manufacture of Munitions. The Dutch Minister Bosboom in ask ng for a 90
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  • 389 2 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 to 7 p.m. this ev-ning 1. Reminiscences Of Wales ...Godfrey 2. Two Step Temptation Rag Lodge 3. Waltz In Old Madrid Meissler 4. Dance Catch me ij Yoit Can ...Noel 5. March I'oreador
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  • 183 2 Miss Violet Asquith who has become engaged to Mr Maurice Bonham Carter, the Premier’s Secretary, left recently for Egypt to visit ber brother, Mr. Arthur Asquith, who has been wounded in the Dardanelles fighting. Miss Vio’et Asquith is the Premier’s elder daughter, and, like her father, she
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  • 189 2 The drunkenness of the driver resulted in the death of one man and injury to four others in a motor bus accident yesterday evening, says the Bangkok Daily Mail” of 28 ult. The bus belongs to Nai Bhakdinart (Nai Lett) and is licensed to carry twenty
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  • 36 2 To-day’s quotation for unrefine! tin in Penang was $82.70 per picul, buyers, no st-Lers—a decrease of 55 cents. Tin is quoted in London to-day at £l7l 15s. Spot, and £167 10s. three months.
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  • 23 2 The output of the Kramat Pulai, Limited, for June was 691.76 piculs From the Mine $14,200.00, from Tributors $150.00, total $14,350.00.
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  • 31 2 Perak Tin Exoort for the month of June, 1915, including Upper Perak figures Block Tin 2,013 piculs 5 katis Tin Ore 39,120 piculs 94 kat’s Duty ...$413,396.21 cents
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  • 60 2 The following are the latest quotations in our share list Yesterday. To-day-. so SKAIIB. -2 S'® a JQ EC Mining. Cheuderiang 13/- 15/- 14/- 16/K. Kamunting 24/6 26/- 25/- 26/Pengkalen $1 sl| $1.20 sl| ffeneral. K. Smelting (Pr.) 24/- 25/fiubber (Sterling). Merlimau 3/3 3/9 3/6 4/Rubber (Dollar).
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  • 114 2 The outward mail arrives at 6 a.m. on Friday. The homeward mail closes at 10 a.m. on Sunday. The P. 40.5. N. Co. Ltd notify that on and from 10th June the Eastern mail will be e osed in London on Thursday and the mails will be embarked
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  • 31 2 RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July 7. A Special Government Gazette rescinds the order restricting the introduction of deek passengers from Canton, T«kkijsn, an 1 Hongkong.
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 64 2 The following ties have been fixed for to*day Championship Pairs—Goodwin and Lindley v Row and Southam (I) (final*. Championship—E R Henderson v G M Terzano (2). Doubles HandicapDunn and Adams v Scarborough and Hay (3). The following ties will be played tomorrow Singles Handicap—R N Goodwin v Reimann
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    • 58 2 The deciding race of 150 yards in the Gibb rns Cup Competition, necess'ry owin» to Messrs. Scaiborough, Hargrave, and Yell tying for the Cup and Prizes, will take place at the Swimming Club on Sunday next at 11 a.m. The Cup and Prizes will be presented by
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    • 26 2 To-day, in the First Division of the M. F. A. League, Mejlis meet Amaniah. To-morrow, Thursday, in the Second League, Darul Mohibah (Butterworth) play Babohabar.
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  • 161 2 The following are the rainfall returns from the different districts for the Settlement of Penang, the Diiidintis included, for the month of June. It will be noticed that although the places where the gauges are kept are but a few miles from e*oh other there is a
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  • 27 2 Arrivals. By Alma (July 7) from Del’, Messrs J Rayner, JAB Cockburn, L B Ostrehan, A McLean Bel', Moxon, Oin Sjo Tjay and Oin Sock Leong
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1152 2 TO LET. MUNICIPAL NOTICE. FURNISHED, UPPKR PART of home, TM Commissioners of George Town, Northam Road, self contained and A Penans, hereby invite separate teuvery convenient. ders for the following i Kt av i n* n 1. New Drain at Lorong Saratus Tahon Apply No 47, c/o P.nnny <?•«««. Selwgor
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    • 207 2 In the Matter of the Alien Enemies (Winding-Up) Ordinance 1914. AND In the Matter of BEHN MEYER Company Limited, an Enemy Company within the meaning of the said Ordinance. NOTICEOF SALE. OF Freehold and Leasehold Lands and Houses, SITUATE AT Collyer Quay, De Souza Street, Prince Street, Robertson Quay, Kanisah
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  • 831 3 SOURCES AND USES OF MOLYBDENUM ORES. The director of the Imperial Institute, in the course of a statement to Penang Chamber of Commerce on The sources and uses of Molybdenum Ores,” says At the present time there is an exceptionally large demand for steel-hardeners,” Two of the chief materials
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  • 369 3 A DANGER AVERTED. Considerable anxiety was caused in the autumn of last year by the well-founded reports of native disaffection in Griqualand East, a province of South Africa containing some 250,000 mtives, This disaffection had actually gone to the length of looting trading stations
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  • 201 3 An Astonishing Documbnt. Petrogard, June 7.A Staff order which has been found on the Bzura ascribes Germany’s use of lethal gases to divine inspiration. This curious document, according to a Warsaw telegram, runs as follows God himself is with us and supports us In our struggle with
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  • 104 3 According to a despatch from Amsterdam to the Daily Express,” a private letter from Ghent tells the reason why the Countess Dejongh Dardoye, who is only sixteen years old, was sentenced to three months imprisonment by a German court-martial. She was walking in Ghent with her
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  • 51 3 How can a skid be avoided asked the West London coroner at an inquest concerning a fatal motor accident. The Motor Driver That is just what Scotland Yard would like to know. A Constable There is no effective device at present to prevent skidding on a greasy
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  • 21 3 Fi’st Lady (speaking of mutual acquaintance) E’s a German, ain’t e Second Lady: Well, then, why ain’t e interred
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  • 324 3 War is applying its searching test of character to everyone who is in the firing line, and many men have discovered that the greatest surprises of the whole business were in themselves and their own conduct. A very curious instance of this was told me, writes
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  • 233 3 War Not Expected to be Over for A Year. The news that Lord Hardinge will continue to hold his appointment until the end of next March did not create any surprise iu Simla in view of the many reso lutions which have been expressed at
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  • 123 3 The sixth tobacco sale of the season was held at Amsterdam on 4th ulto., when 18,050 bales of Sumatra and 1,799 bales of Borneo leaf were offered for sale by inscription. Little tobacco suitable foi America was iu the market, but the small usable quantities were readily
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  • 220 3 At Friday’s meeting of the Legislative Council, the Reserve F<rce and Civil Guard Bill will be moved for second reading, then taken through the committee stage and on to the third reading. A similar course will be adopted in regard to Seditious Publications (Prohibition) Bill. Other measures will
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  • 396 3 The following is from the private letter of an independent American obrerver, who has had opportunities of watching the process of organising the nation in Germany. It bears witness to the wonderful strength of the German people and to the mobilisation of their men and industries
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  • 342 3 It will perhaps be interesting to give the views of leading firm? of stockbrokers as expressed in a circular to their clients. The opinion they give is that the outlook, regarded on broad lines, is perfectly satisfactory from the point of view of the Allies. The proper
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 154 3 YOU MUST IRRIGATE YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD. Advertising has made thousands of men rich, just because they recognized the possibilities of utlizing the newspapers to bring streams of buyers into neighbourhoods that could be made busy locations by irrigationby drawing people from other sections. The successful retailer is the man who keeps
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    • 725 3 jj The Greatest Joy in Life U ==g is the possession of a happy healthy babya baby I|| that is always ready with a smile, that chortles and gurgles with delight from pure good health. AL ncalthy babies are happy and jollyand the healthy baby is the properly fed one.
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  • 1357 4 Mr. Hilaire Btlloc since the war started must hare written many thick tomes. Like the brook, he seems able to go on for ever and one comes across his articles and lectures in all sorts of publicat ons. It must be frankly admitted that, despite his volumir ous
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  • 1773 4 We are rather disappointed wi'h Bealby,” the latest novel by Mr. H. G. Wells to reach as through Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, the publishers, but this may be put down to the great expectations one always has of a new book by an author of Mr.
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    • 183 4 n vranmiEiT to his uiesh him george Motor, Motor-cycle, solid and Cycle Tyres. No interruption of supplies. No alteration in prices. The Dunlop Company is in a position to meet any demands which may be made upon it. It is to your best interest, at this time especially, to SUPPORT
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    • 124 4 E. 0. HOTEL. SPECIAL^ DINNER, FRIDAY, 9th July. DANCING AFTER DINNER. E. O. ORCHESTRA. Volunteers in Uniform Half Price ($1). THE TIDES. The following are the tides for today and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. 8- a.m. 1-36 a.m. 9- p.m. 410 p.m. 9-46 a.m. 3 14
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  • 253 5 NO WINTER CAMPAIGN.” THE BALTIC ACTIONS. HEAVY FIGHTING IN GALLIPOLI. BRITISH GAIN NE \R YPRE3. After a lengthy ?pe!l of si’enc a the British re reported to have captured several German trenches north of Ypes. The battle north of Arras continues fiercely t Scuchez, where the Germans are
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 317 5 [Reuter’s Services], THE ARRAS BATTLE. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Paris, July 6. Last night was much disturbed. The Germans had announced that they bloodily repulsed the British. The truth is that the British, supported by the French artillery, defeated the enemy in Belgium, on the east bank
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    • 66 5 London, July 6. An A .in’ralty statement says With reference he German communique that t heir aircra i embed a fort at Harwich, the facts of the incident, which otherwise is hardly worth notice, are that two German aeroplanes appeared at Harwich on the forenoon of
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    • 402 5 MR. ASQUITH’S ANNOUNCEMENT, London, July 6. In the House of Commons, Mr. Alden asked Mr. Asquith whether he was able to assure the House regarding the National Register, that forced labour or conscription was not contemplated. Mr. Asquith replied No such change is contemplated, though I am
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    • 26 5 A FIVE MILLION SUBSCRIPTION. Loudon, July 6 The great firm cf brewers, Messrs. Guinness of Dublin, have subscribed £5,000,000 to the War Loan.
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    • 23 5 {From Gur Own Correspondent) Singapore, July 7. The Eastern United Assurance Co., Ltd., has invested £5,030 in the War Loan.
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    • 76 5 REMARKABLE RESPONSE. Pari?, Ju'y 6. There has been an extraordinary res ponse to M. Ribot’s appeal for g. Id in exchange for paper mon-y. People are hastening to b r ing gold to the Bank of France in incessant streams, at six different entrances. All classes
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  • 61 5 London, July 2. In the House of Common”, in reply Mr W. Joynson Hicks, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary for India, said the Indian Government had received an application from the Bengal Chambers of Commerce for the appointment of a commission of inquiry into the present state of
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  • 189 5 WAR WEARY Reuter. KAISER AND WINTER CAMPAIGN. WAITING FOR GERMANS’ LAST BIG EFFORT. Prri?, July 6. A dis'inguished neutral from Berlin ssys the great event of the week was a speech by the Kaiser at a military ceremony. The Kaiser, amid the chters of efficers ad mtn, swore there wcuid
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  • 115 5 Amsterdam, May 28 ln the Budget Commission of the Reichstag, a telegram from Berlin says, a question was asked by a member of the Commission to-day whether the Army administration had taken all i eceesary measures in the event of the long duration of the war,
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  • 277 5 EX-WAR SECRETARY AND SUPPLY OF MUNITIONS. London, July 6. Viscouct Heldane addressed the National Liberal C ub on the duty of the nation in this crisis. A letter from Mr. Asquith wa? read, paying a tribute to Vise unt Haldane’s signal service to the Empire Tne
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  • 308 5 The Westminster Gazette.” writing on the exclusion of Lord Haldane from the Cabinet said We remain of opinion that, when the mists of passion and prejudice have cleared away, those who have rendered it inevitable will regret their action. The country is not usually
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 85 5 ARMY REPULSED NEAR BUG. Petrograd, July 7. A Russian communique says: In the direction of Lub’in, the enemy, after stubborn fighting, on July 4tb, advanced on the front betveen Krasnik and the river Vieprz. All the German attacks on July 3rd and on the morning of
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    • 66 5 AMMUNITION TRAIN BLOWN UP. Petrograd, July 6 Russian aeroplanes are making brilliant raids. They had a great coup at Przevorsk, where they dropped bombs at the station, at which were five long trains, igniting one, and b’owing it up with, as has since been learned, 30,000 rounds
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    • 396 5 GERMANS EMPLOY 1,500 GUNS IN GALICIA. Petrograd, May 31.An official Note issued here to-night says: It appears from accounts in the foreign Press of the fighting on the line between Gorlice and the river Dunaj*»c that the enemy during a lull in the fighting cannonaded our
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    • 142 5 GERMANS’ INEXHAUSTIBLE SUPPLY. The Petrograd correspondent of the Morning Post” declared that with anything like equality of artillery and ammunition there would he little d-.ubt about the resu’t of the battle, nor would the issue he so Jong delayed. But the Germans continue to show themselves
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  • Turkey and the Near East
    • 264 5 HEAVY TURKISH LOSSES. London, Ju’y 6. General Sir lan Hamilton, in a report, describes events in Gallipoli, following the rtesnt big advance at Saghirdere. The Turks attempted to counter-attack in the small hourj on Jane 29th, but were repulsed with artillery and rifle fire, and the guns
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    • 252 5 FINE WORK BY ARTILLERY AND INFANTRY. A SPECTACULAR MOMENT. London, July 6. Reuter’s special correspondent at 'he Dardanelles, reccun ing the battle on June 28th, dtscnb s he extraordinary character of the ground over which the fight took place. Foilown g aim st the line of the
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    • Article, Illustration
      522 5 Ths British and Turkish aivanced trenches were only separa’ed by sandbag?. Beyond was the Boomerang” fort with its inume'able independent saps. Tne Boomerang had enfiladed all previous attempts to advance but now the British, waiting on platforms and with ladders, leapt over the parapets and jumped and ia
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    • 154 5 Wounded Man Attempts to Shoot, Bayonet, and Bite. A letter in the Morning Post from a British officer serving in the Dardanelles says In this attack by the land ng force only one Turkish prisoner was taken he tried to shoot the doctor who was attending
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    • 36 5 Paris, July 6 A communique stat a s that the French liner Carthage was torp- doed ani sunk by a submarine off Cape Helles at the Dardanelles. Sixty-six were rescued. Six are missing.
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    • 25 5 Athens, Ju’y 6. Colonel Leipzig?r, the German Mili’a-y Attache at Constantinople, has committed suicide. He was recently appointed interim Minister at Sofia.
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  • 85 5 New York, July 5. M»*. J. P. Mo-gan the American fina» cier, who was shot by a German, is out of danger. General Stanley B Von Donop, C. 8., is Master-General of the Ordnance, and a member of the Army Council He served in the
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  • NEWS FROM CHINA.
    • 369 6 Peking, June 21.—Chang Hu, ViceMiniater of Finance, and Ye Kung-ho, Vice-Mii iater of Communications, have been dismissed from their respective posts and deprived of their ranks, by a Presidential Mandate, for boing guilty of corruption and working for their own ends. Ye Kungho is implicated with frauds committed
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  • 260 6 Heavy Life Insurance Payments. Although the details of English insurance offices’ total liabilities in respect of the sinking of the Lusitania cannot yet be given, they have already paid claims amounting in the aggregate to about £lOO,OOO a fifth of which has been discharged by the industrial offices.
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  • 167 6 The Rev. George Thomas, B. A. (Ox' n Calvinistic Methodist minister at Goodwick, Fishguard Harbour, recently took leave of his congregation previous to j ining the army. Mr. Thomas stated empathtically that he was joining the army because the o untry called for
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  • 325 6 SPLENDID WORK FOR NEW ARMIES. Major-General Lord Cheylesmore, presiding at the meeting of the National Rifle Association on May 29, said that from the outbreak of the war Bisley Camp had been turned into a school of musketry and a training centre for the military forces.
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  • 162 6 COMMANDKBRING THE MEAT SUPPLIES. Melbourne, May 30.Food prices problems are engaging the attention of every Parliament in the Commonwealth. Attor-ney-General Hughes issued yesterday a scathing criticism of the action of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (the Australian sugar monopoly), in connection with the present shortage
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  • 140 6 Once Again in Austrian Possession. The Austrian War Press reports Whilst the troops of Count Bo'hmen and Field-Marshal Hoffmann ensured the entrance to the town of Stryj, and consequently to the district of Lemberg, General Linsiugen’s army on the left wing became ma°ter of the whole petroleum
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  • 240 6 Dr. Elemer Hantos, a Hungarian Deputy and financial authority, has compiled statistics showing the total national debts of the b lligerenb countries on Aug. 1 last year, and the aggregate to which it had risen on March 31 of this year. Austria added £140,000,000 to
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  • 257 6 The Duke of the Abruzzi, the first cousin of the King of Italy, who is in supreme command of the Italian Fleet, is essentially a man of action. Now in his forty-third year, he has during the last twenty years done much to make known
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  • 194 6 Things Going as Well as Can be Expected. The following extract from a letter received from an officer who has been at the front since the beginning of ths war appears in the Morning Post.” I hear that at home people are inclined to be despondent and think
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  • 87 6 The honourable Chancellor in holy anger” rose, Denouncing the behaviour of his base Italian foes The sacrednees of treaties was the theme of his discourse, And he laid e«pecial emphasis upon their binding force. He pointed out that Germany had pledged her solemn word, And
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  • 246 6 CHAPLAIN’S ESTIMATE OF THE GERMANS. An Army chaplain, in a letter to his wife’ makes some pertinent remarks on the characteristics of the Germans as illustrated in the wa', of which, says the Morning Post,” he has now seen a good deal. He writes By all the rules
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  • 311 6 The special correspondent of the Kolnische Zeitung at Galacia sends a description of the big 42-cm. howitzers in action. The howitzers are built by the Skoda Works at Piheo, in Bohemia, where the beer is supposed to come from. They are stated to be nothing like Krupp’s
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  • 56 6 Among the little things that coant in this war let us not forget the lady bank clerks.” It is reported upon good authority that many of the troops who hive taken part in General Botha’s brilliant and extraordinarily efficient campaign against German South-West Africi are desirous of volunteering to
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 406 6 "“household ECONOMV I j at-fontinn of the Public is drawn to Skimmed Milk. Now that food stuffs are becoming dearer, the attention ot tne ruo ic THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS At Budapest in 1909 and at Berne in 1914 recognised that t=y SKIMMED MILK I CONSTITUTES A WHOLESOME AND CHEAP FOOD
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  • WAR NEWS.
    • 220 7 AHEAD OF THE MAIL. The Laibach cw sp indent of the Geneva Tribune” states that the Austrians at Gorz, whose suburbs the Italians have reached, made a desperate sortie on the 13 h June. The sortie failed and the Austrians lost 2,000 dead, wounded and prisoners. Nevertheless
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    • 135 7 London, June 21.The Daily Telegraph Rotterdam correspondent reports that the movements of German troops to the Western front, mainly to Northern Fiance, are unceasing, but that the enemy has been forced to abandon the plan of another attempt to break through for which men and heavy
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    • 82 7 London. Jane 21.Although the German offensive in Galicia continues unabated, the enemy is making heavy sacrifices, which will be wasted unless he attains such success against the Russians as will enable her to fight the western campaign as the main issue. Meanwhile he has large forces locked up
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    • 113 7 London, June 17. Mr. Tennant,replying to Mr. Joynson Hicks, said that compared with the days before the war we had ten times as many pilots and we were ab'e simultaneously to train ten times as many pupils. Aeroplanes similar to those of the Russians were under construction.Mr. Joynson
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    • 104 7 London. June 22.—-The Daily Telegraph’s Petrograd correspondent says that th® Russian armies are gaining strength in one way more rapidly than they are losing by wastage in the field by declining decisive actions ag inst forces superior in essential equipment. Russia is serving her own ends and lightening
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    • 88 7 Paris June 14. Le Journal reports that Senator Humbert’s mission to tba United States on behalf of th® Minister of Marine has resulted in Charles Schwab placing the whole works of the Bethlehem Steel Co and every other industry in which he is interested at the disposal of
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    • 15 7 Amsterdam, June 18.Recent Austrian suooesera are attributed to fifteen centimetre mortars throwing projectiles.
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    • 158 7 London, June 24sh.Now that the cap ture of the Labyrinth is completed, the French are advancing on Vimy where the German guns a r e placed. The Morning Post’s” correspondent in France reports that a footing has bean gained on slopes of Pe-t Vimy leading up to
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    • 128 7 London, June 22.Mr Kipling, speaking at a recruiting meeting, gave reasons for making war. He desc ibed the state of the Belgians compelled to work at the bayonet’s point for sufficient food to support life, with no* more rights than cattle, unable to lift a hand to protect
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    • 55 7 B a rae, June 14.Intense heat prevails in Austria-Hungary, and the drought which has existed since April is caus’ng anxiety with regard to the harvest. Serious rioting has occurred at Budapest owing to the dearness of food, the price of beef being 3s 4d per pound.
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  • 218 7 Colombo, June 25.1 t is authoritatively understood that the position of the P. and O. mail steamer Nubia is hopeless. The supreme effort made yesterday by the Santhia, two tugs and two steam launches completely failed, and the Nubia is in a worse position to-day. During the operations
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  • 89 7 The chief feature at the Electric Polyscope to-night is the great detective drama in 20 parts entitled Fantomas.” In addition the latest Gaumont War Graphic will be screened. At the Straits Cinema to-night, in addition to the latest Pathe and Gaumont War films, there will be several strong
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  • 102 7 RUBBER OUTPUTS FOR JUNE. The following are rubber outputs for June Ayer Tawah lbs. 17,200 Bernam-Perak 16,300 Bruas-Perak 1,525 Cicely 26,906 Glenealy 13,100 Gloucester 5,150 Henrietta 19,938 Lower Perak 5,500 Ratanui 17,707 S. S. Bertam 75,000 Shanghai Suncatra 23,165 Sungei Matang 12,148 Trolak i, 16,793 The Italian Deputy, serving
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  • 45 7 Ou Sunday night the Malay Volunteers with their officers visited a special show at the Straits Cinema. Extra war films were put on for the occasion, and the practical side of military training was well depicted the pictures being of the real thing.
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  • 61 7 We understand that a movement is on foot to organise a Foitball Competition daring the war, open to teams from the Volunteers, Police, Auxiliaiies and Cadets, To-moriow (Thu sday), the P.C.C. has kind y granted the use of the Esplanade pitch for a match between the European
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  • 132 7 The Hon. Treasurer sends as the following list of farther contribatious to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance on Jaly 5 ...$25,525.95 G B Fitzgerald, monthly 10.00 F B Rieke tt 10.00 Asiatic staff of the Asiatic Petroleum Co,
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  • 48 7 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Alma, Brit., 459, Bell, July 7, Deli, gen., E. S. Co. Avagyee, Brit., 247, Capt Murphy, July 7, T. Anson, gen., E. S. Co. Perak, Brit., 254, Glenday, July 7, Malacca, gen., E. S. Co. Sangola, Brit., 3349, Milne, July 7, R’goon, gen., A.A.A. Co.
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  • 93 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Close. Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chuan 10 am Port Swettenham, "1 Port Dickson, and > Perak (E.S. Co) 2 p.m. Malacca Deli Alma 2 p.m. Dindings, Sitiawan Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson Avagyee 3 p m. Friday. Singapore, China and Japan
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  • 126 7 Penang, July 7, 1915. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ..-2/4 4 months' sight Bank ...2/4 9/32 3 Credit ...2/4 9/16 3 Documentary ...2/4 19/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 175 3 days’eight Private 176| Bombay Demand Bank 17?» Moulmein Demand Bank 174 3 days’ sight Private
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