Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 8 September 1915

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 205 VOL. LXXIII. WEDNESDAY. Bth SEPTEMBER, 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 900 1 rocTJug m inrzj IT YOU WANT IX) SHIP, buy oh sell ?RUB B E R n OB TO M FORWARD GOODS y to Afl¥ PAST 0» THB WORLD H eo to 5 ALLEN DENNYS Co., 0 I t, WK)M ITBMT. NV W F~~~ X SUN LIFE I.tV. A Al Jkr>n
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    • 64 1 g FOB S3O g g can have the “Pinang n a X Gam tie posted every day a for a whole year to your address. (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION, 527). O Proportionate Quarterly and g O Half-yearly rates. n n Subscriptions are payable in n a advance and remittances should ba addressed
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  • 264 2 A FURTHER LIST. We give an additional list of Penang and Province men who are now in the Services, and shall be glad if our readers will render assistance towards making the list complete. Lieutenant S B Henson, Somerset Light Infantry (killed.) Captain P S Picot, Sherwood
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  • 34 2 LEYLAND (BIRMINGHAM) DIVIDEND. (P. G. Special.) London, September 7. Leyland (Birmingham) Rubber Co. will □ay 12| percent dividend, against 7* per cent, last year. The net profit is £48,300 against £34,800.
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  • 60 2 OUTPUTS FOR AUGUST. The following are rubber outputs for August Alma lbs. 20,300 Ayer Tawah 18,000 Bernam-Perak 17,700 Bruas-Perak J,605 Bukit Toh Alang 12,606 Cicely 27. oli Cluny 17,900 Chemor United 15,540 Glenealy 15,000 Gloucester 6,125 Henrietta 24,700 Hill Rise Estate 3,371 Kedah 40,614 Kota Bahroe 32,976 Kinta Kellas
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  • 50 2 The Band will play the following programme of music at the 'Esplanade from 6 to 7 p.m. this evening 1. Selection English ...Hartmann 2. Two Step La Machiche ...Clerc 3. Quadrille La Posts Aux Amour ...Metre 4. Walts Mello ...Waldteufel 5. March From Mexico to Buffalo ...Weldon
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  • 96 2 T.0.M.” Lbttib from Sir Eyklyn Ellis. Singapore, September 7.—Evelyn Ellis writes to the Free Press as the senior of the unofficial members of the Council and points out the missatements in the editorial of Monday, denying that the unofficial members went into the Council with little or no
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  • 2351 2 Major Borton, Malay States Guides, has returned to Taip ng. Mr. G. J. M. Keulemans arrived from Deli by the Alma this morning. Mr. D. Halp?rn, Penang, leaves for India on the 12th inst. on a short holiday. The Rev. William Murray, m will conduct a service
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  • 25 2 Arrivals. By Alma (September 8) from Deli, Mis? Waldeck, Miss L Brand, Messrs Paton, G Keulemans, J van der Lee and Tan Boon Hock.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 593 2 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. KEDAH RUBBER COMPANY, LTD. NOTICE is hereby given that the transfer books of the Company will be closed from Bth *o 22nd inst. inclusive. KATZ BROS., LTD., Secretaries. Penang, Bth September, 1915. WANTED for various Engineering firms in Calcutta expert Chinese Oxy-Acetylene Welders. Must be capable of doing
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    • 390 2 WANTED POR Robber Estate in K«j, h I/ Lunas TWO JUNIOR ASSm ANTS. For further particulars G. J. M. KEULEMANS, 5 F.M.3. Railway Boilding,, p 859—u c JAT SIKHS?" ONE HUNDRED JAT. SIKHB quired for the Kelantan Police RATES OF PAY. Constables $168—5192 per aa Lance Corporals $204 f 0
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  • 985 3 S. Free Press.” It is not to be supposed that the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council particularly relished the remarks made not many days ago in a portion of a private letter from our London correspondent regarding the ignorance in which the Colonial Office was kept regarding certain
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  • 248 3 The Evening News publishes a remarkable life story of Smith, who was sentenced to death for wife murder. Smith, the paper says, was born in 1872, He was bad from his boyhood, and his mother often said that he would die in his boots. He was sent to
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  • 135 3 Von Jagow to Leave the Foreign Office. Amsterdam. August 9.—We learn from an authoritative source in Berlin that the resignation of Herr von Jagow at an early date is considered highly probable in Parliamentary circles. The resignation will be explained as having been due to ill-health, but
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  • 127 3 The new Cabinet is constituted as follows Mr Massey, Premier and Lands and Labour. Sir Joseph Ward, Finance and Posts. Mr Allen, Defence. Mr Herries, Railways. Mr Herdmaun, Attorney-General. Mr Fraser, Public Works. Mr R McNab, Justice and Marine. Mr G W Russell, Internal Affairs. Mr
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  • 566 3 PECULIAR JEWELLERY CASE. In the District Court, Penang, yerterday afternoon, before Mr. Scott, Wong Ah Keng, a Cantonese woman, was charged by another woman, named Lai Cheng Oi, with criminal breach of tra->t in respect of jewellery valued at $1,303, on the 19tb October last year. Court
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  • 328 3 The war has been a triumph for two kinds of car, types as far apart as possible—the expensive English car and the cheap American car. The one will stand practically pony strain, and the other is so cheap that when it breaks bown badly it can
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  • 510 3 GERMAN AUSTRALIAN TN GALLIPOLI. An Australian paper says: One of the most painful items of nevs that has come back to us concerning our troops ia the Dardanelles was embodied in the despatch of Reuter’s Cairo correspondent, published recently. We refer to the account of
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  • 282 3 The Man from East Africa Dismissed. The Cologne Gazette states that the Kaiser personally opposed the inclusion of negroes in the German Army. A youth, born in German Eist Africa, recently volunteered at Strasburg for service, and was accepted, but after three weeks’ drill an order came
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 106 3 To Suffer or Not to Suffer There is only one answer. Little’S Oriental Balm has forever banished the need to suffer. Rheumatism, swollen, painful joints, weakened muscles, the most unbearable aches and pains disappear at the soothing touch of this renowned remedy. Just rub iu LITTLE’S ORIENTAL BALM, (applied externally)
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    • 12 3 Fortify yourself with Bovril IT MUST BE BOVRIL BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
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    • 463 3 Your Baby jj I s growing i 1' every day b HI iT That is why his food is all S A X important. HI >1 1 A week of wrong feeding HI IV<- l| results in indigestion and a f V?- loss of weight and vitality g < which
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  • 45 4 Wintbr—Sheffield.—On September 4, at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, Harry Norman Winter of Malacca, the third son cf Arthur and Kate Winter of Preston, Lancs., to Grace Evangel in Sheffield, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sheffield, late cf Hongkong, now of Singapore.
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  • 1303 4 The lifting of the fog of war which has shrouded moat of the doings of the Grand Fleet these many months is a fact of outstanding importance. It affords the strongest possible evidence that the British Government, the Admiralty, and Sir John Jel’icoe are so convinced
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  • 1308 4 Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg is doomed to find a place in history not only by reason of bis scrap of paper,” but because of bis claims to distinction as the champion juggler with facts. And also, perhaps, as an unconscious humourist. The Ostasiatische Lloyd War Service report
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  • 161 4 CHINESE WOMAN KILLED. A motor accident occurred yesterday at Jelutong in which a Chinese woman, was killed outrighl. It appears, from what we have been able to gather from enquiries made, that motor car No. 563, driven by a Chinese, was returning Ic Town from Teluk Kumbar.
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  • 71 4 JAVANESE SENT UP FOR TBIAL. The preliminary erquiry into the charge of murder against two Javanese coolies o Bertam Estate by causing the death of a fellow countryman employed on the sune Estate on the 10th of Amgust last after a quarrel over a woman was conciu e
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  • 73 4 The editor of a Home paper, repiy>°B correspondent, states :—Your lover a exce of avoirdupois should not alarm y OUi a men invariably make good husband?, 0 they are generally amiable, easy-go 111 and unselfish. As a rule, too, the btou husband is particularly free
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  • 28 4 To-day's quotation for unrefine in Penang was $74.75 per picul, uytino sellers. Tin is quoted in London to-day £153 10i. Spot, and 154 three uicnths-
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 115 4 it wrcmrar to his aurin uu seorse r. Motor, Motor-cycle, solid and Cycle Tyre& No interruption of supplies. No alteration in prices. The Dunlop Company is in a position to meet any deamnds which may be made upon it. It is to your best interest, at this time especially, to
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    • 15 4 “E. S 9 O.” MOTOR GARAGE. CARS ON HIRE $4 AN HOUR. TELEPHONE No. 322.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 35 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for today and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. 10-39 s.m. 6- 1 a.m. 6-21 p.m. 0- 9 a.m. 6-31 a.m. 0-11 p.m. 6 52 p.m.
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  • 191 5 FRENCH AND AMERICAN VISITORS. CEASELESS ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. GERMAN LINES ATTACKED. WORKERS AND CONSCRIPTION. JOFFRE IN ITALY. Heavy artillery actions and bomb fighting in the Argonne, with air attacks by the Frerch are reported from Paris. Forty French reroplanes attacked Saarbrucken, in Prussia, 40 miles east of Metz,
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 104 5 [Reuters Telegram?.] BOMB FIGHTING. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Paris, September 6. An intense bombardment, by guns of all calibre?, is still maintained, especially in the Arras and Champagne regions. Fierce bomb fighting is reported aga'nst the Crown Prince’s Army in the Argonne. The coma unique says that
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    • 185 5 August 6.—lt may be taken for granted that there will without much longer delay be a big development in the West. The necessary equipment is now available, and there is a feeling that big events are pending A*l opinions as to the precise nature of the strategy to
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    • 66 5 FORTY FRENCH AEROPLANES ENGAGED. Paris, Sep* ember 7. As a reprisal for the German aeroplane bombardment of Luneville, on September Ist, when the German airmen made a special mark of the populous quarters and the market, 40 French aeroplanes, to-day, bombarded the station, factories,and military establishment at
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    • 186 5 NEW COMMITTEE. London, September 7. The Gjvernment has appointed a Committee, of 20 members, with Lord Lansdowne as Chairman, to deal with questions arising in connection with the National Register, including the determination of what trades shou'd be excluded from recruiting. Recruiting and the Register. During the
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    • 325 5 TRADES UNION CONGRESS. London, September 6. Mr. J. A, Seddon, in the course of his presidential address to the Trades Union Congress, at Bristol, dwelt ou the war conditions. He said their sympathies were with the Belgian labourites, whose British comrades were determined that Belgium must be
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 221 5 BERLIN VERSION. L ndon, September 7. A Berlin communique, issued to-night, shows that the Germans are almost at a standstill in Russia. General von Hindenburg’s armies are held np. Prince Leopold is still fizhting in the swamps. General von Mackensen is fiercely engaged in a battle. Nothing
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  • Italy’s Campaign
    • 56 5 AUSTRIANS DRIVEN BACK. Rome, September 6. An Italian communique says The Italians, at Phzzo basin, attacked and routed the enemy, who were ambushed on the elopes. The Italians captured a quantity of booty. The Italians also ejected the Austrians from a wood on the Upper Izonzo, from which
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    • 81 5 VISIT TO THE FRONT. Rome, September 7. General Joffre visited the Italian front and conferred with General Cadorna, and inspected important positions on the frontier. The visit of General J< fire is regarded as of gieat military and political importance, and was for the of arranging
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  • Naval Operatiops.
    • 184 5 TWENTY-FIVE MISSING. Queenstown, September 6. It is announced that 13 passengers are still missing from the Hesperian. The exact figures will not be obtainable until the Captain lands this afternoon. The Missing. London, September 7. The Press Bureau says 13 passengers, and 7 cf the crew of the
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    • 133 5 London, September 6. The British s*earner Mimosa was sunk. The crew were saved. Harrison Liner Sunk. London, September 8. The Harrison liner Dictator (4,000 tons) was sunk. The crew of 42 were saved. F The sinking of the Dictator makes the sixth loss the Harrison Line has
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    • 633 5 ILLUMINATING STATEMENT. THE GERMAN SUBMARINE FAILURE. New York, September 7. The famous American au hor, Mr. Frederick Palmer, trlls the American people of an interesting visit he paid to the British Grand Fleet, during the past week. He states that the sight was a tremendous revelation of
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    • 214 5 Appreciation in France. Paris, August 2.—ln an article on Britain’s share in the war the Guerre Sociale says the greatest stroke of luck which has befallen France in the war is to have had Britain as an ally. What would have become of us,” says the
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    • 74 5 REPORTED LOSS OF BRITISH CRUISER. Amsterdam, September 7. A Berlin official message says that a German submarine reports having met, on the high seas, submarine U 27, which claimed to have sunk, on August 10th, a small English cruiser of an old type, west of the Hebrides. The
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    • 26 5 Athens, September 7. From a diplomatic source it is learned that a submarine sank the Turkish destroyer Yagshissar in the Sea of Marmora.
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  • General News.
    • 161 5 COUNT DUMBA’S ADMISSION. New York September 7. An admission by the Austrian Ambassador, Count Damba, that he wrote the letter, mentioned to-day, has provoked the strongest feeling in America, American Press Denunciations. The papers bitterly denounce Count Dumbs. The World urges that he be given his passports,
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    • 92 5 The Daily Telegraph’s New York correspondent says that documents published prove that the German Government sought to coerce German firms in America threatening punishment in German military fortresses if they supplied the Allies. One firm accepted an order on an understanding with the German Consul General
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    • 61 5 x BRITISH CONSUL ATTACKED. Teheran, September 7. The British Consul-General at Ispahan was attacked, and slightly wounded, while returning from a morning ride. His Indian Sowar escort was killed. German agents are lavishing money and arms on the disaffected regions in Western Persia. The German Legation at
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    • 56 5 A REIGN OF TERROR. London, September 7. Italian refugees, who are arriving in Greece, report that there is a reign of terror at Smyrna, where the Bashi Bazooka are pillaging and murdering Greeks, and illtreating Italians, unrestrained. The city has been plunged into darkness. Railways are at a
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    • 29 5 London September 7. Holders of dutiable goods, in bond, principally tobacco and tea, have begun to effect large clearances, in anticipation of higher duties in the Budget.
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    • 44 5 MAJOR-GENERAL WOUNDED. London, September 7. A shell, which was sent as a memento, by a soldier in France, exploded at the Central Parcels Office, London, wounding Major-General Sir Desmond O’Callaghan, and others. Maj )r-General O'Callaghan was taken to hospital.
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    • 30 5 London, September 6. The injury to Ranji sinhji, the Jam of Nawanagar, is progressing more and he is not now expected to lo.e the sight of the eye.
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  • 77 5 MEETING AT IPOH (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, September 7. A meeting was held at the Sanitary Board offices, Ipoh, yesterday afternoon, to discuss the question of supporting the Malayan Air Fleet Fund. Mr. E. T. C. Garland presided. A large committee was appointed to take in
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  • 99 5 PENANG DECREASES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 8. The trade of the Straits Settlements, for the quarter ending June 30th, shows that the total imports were of the value $108,346 757, compared with $115,217,679 for the same period last year. Of this total, Singapore had $8
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  • 74 5 OFFICIAL STATEMENT. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, September 8. The Chinese Consul-General publishes the text of President Yuan Sbih Kai’s message to the Council of State regarding the suggested change in the form of Government in China. The statement is carefully and opposes any change, whilst recognizing that
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  • 244 5 [Specially Translated.] A German has been arrested on a change of espionage at Woudrichem. Heer Schuller tot Penrsuna is now the Dutch Ambassador at Rome. Heer Ragout now occupies the post of Legation Secretary. During the latest actions in Galicia the Russians took 100 German officers and
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  • 428 6 FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. At the Exchange Buildings, Singapore, on Saturday, the fifth annual general meeting of shareholders in the Bukit K, B. Rubber Co., Ltd., was hel i. There were present Messrs. Neo Ong Hee (chairman), W. M. Bime, F. C. Peck, W. P. Plummer, A.
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  • 467 6 Satisfactory Reports from the East. The fifth annual ordinary general meeting was held on August 6 iu the Council Room of the Rubber Growers Association (Incorporated), 38, Eastcheap, Mr. Philip Eustace Hervey presiding. The Representative of the Secretaries i Messrs. M. P Evans and Co.)
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  • 334 6 The Secretary of the F M S Chamber of Mines communicates the following:—At the Council meeting held on Aogust 30, the following were preeentMessrs C Alma Baker (President) in the chair, R P Brash (vice-President), Hon Eu Tong Sen, Messrs J Boy, C Pearse, Cheah Kee
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  • 269 6 Inspector’s Struggle With Armed Madman. In the early hours, Inspector Browning, of thtTKandang Kerbau division, Singapore, had a norrow escape from serious injury, if not something worse, at the bands of a Chinese coolie who went amok, says the S.T.” Shortly after six. information was received at
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  • 45 6 London, August 26,—According to the American Department of Commerce (the same message adds) Germany at the end of July held 670.000 bales of cotton, as compared with 2,200,090 bales a year earlier, She had £20,000,000 sterling worth of cotton goods as against £50,000,000.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 456 6 THE POPULAR PETER WALKER PETER WALKER SB LAGER II UM PETES FROM ALL FIRST-GLASS DEALERS, or SELLAR, MURRAY Co., BUCHANAN’S “RED SEAL” “BLACK WHITE” i “ROYAL HOUSEHOLD” SCOTCH WHISKIES Ts£ sS James Buchanan Co., Ltd. (London, Glasgow, etc.} have the most extensive Bonded Warehouse in Scotland, and hold, with their
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    • 452 6 I HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY. 1 Now that food stuffs are becoming dearer, the attention of tne Public 9 is drawn to Skimmed Milk. M THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS S At Budapest in 1909 and at Berne in 1914 recognised that mmw Si SKIMMED MILK 3 i ®KISEB HACBIIIE SKhOKilOl fl -in WHOLESOME
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  • 308 7 CLAIM AGAINST CRITERION PRESS, LTD. The hearing of the suit brought by Mr. Tan Siew Kim, a well known Chinese merchant of Rangoon, claiming $lO,OOO as damages against Mr. Lira Seng Hooi and the Criterion Press, Ltd., for publishing an article alleged to contain certain libels in the
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  • 113 7 The Hon. Treasurer sends us the following list of further contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance on Sept 6 ...$34,724 30 P Nagalingoom through Dist Officer, Dindings 4.00 Employees of United Engineers Ltd monthly subscription 40.00 Lim
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  • 94 7 Messrs. Allen Dennys <k Co., advise that the undermentioned prices were realised for robber sold by them by auction yesterday; 47,600 lbs. offered, 38,500 lbs. sold. Smoked ribbed sheet $l2l to $l2B plain 120 121 No. 2 smoked sheet Unsmoked sheet 115 117 No. 2 unstnoked sheet
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 553 7 The following are further results of the drawings and handicaps for the above Tournament Singles Handicap C. J Seath —3O bye 8 Ager holm —l5 A W Blackford 4 E J Bennett 5 W Houston Scr. A Mourin —15.2 J Tryner —15.4 A W Blackstone —3O G
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    • 10 7 To-day Jamothol Moslem, the Second Division leaders, meet Babolsabar.
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    • 179 7 At the Electric Polyscope to-night the following will be shown:— M Boa Constrictor,” The Coffin ship in 3 reels. Mystery of the Silver Skull”, a detective drama in 2 pirte, besides the latest edition of the Gaumont War Graphic. The Straits Cinema will tonight show Episode 3of the
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  • 26 7 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Kamor, Nor., 949, Odner, Sept 8, R’goon, gen., G H S Co. Alma, Brit, 459, Bell, Sept 8, Deli, gen., B. 8. Co.
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  • 29 7 To-day. Atjeh for Langsa Edi, T. Semawe, Segli and Olehleh. Will o’ the Wisp for Deli. Cornelia for Bagan Datoh Teluk Anson. Flying Dragon for Portweld and Taiping.
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  • 65 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. F<» Per Cloee. Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m. Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chay Un 7 a.m. Port Swettenham, Port Dickson, and C Perak (E.S. Co) 2 p.m. Malacca J Deli Alma 2 p.m. Calcutta and Durban Kutsang 3 p.m. Dindings, Sitiawan Bagan Datoh
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  • 139 7 PIMAHG, Septbmber 8, 1915. «4 (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank .»2/4 1/8 n 4 months’sight Bank ...9/4 7/18 8 Credit ...2/4 13/1« 8 Documentary ...2/4 27/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 175 f 3 days’ sight Private 17 71 Bombay Demand Rank 175£ Moulmein Demand Bank
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 485 7 P. O.S.N. CO. Marseilles Special Train The public are hereby informed that the p. O. SLEEPING CAR SPECIAL TRAIN is to be reestablished commencing outwards in conii ecti o ii with the Medina leaving Marseilles on 12th September and homewards in coup ection with the Persia due at Marseilles same
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    • 45 7 That Heavy Feeling after meals is the result of Indigestion. Help your digestive organs to accomplish their functions by taking one or twe the ideal laxative pills. Of Chemists, 50 cents a bottle, or post free, from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Dept. 5, Singapore.
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    • 395 7 M/~\RDERS are now being booked for Para Rubber Seeds from seventeen years old trees, with a guarantee of 75 per cent germination. Price $1.50 per 1000 packed in bags and $2 packed in boxes F. O. B. or F. O. R. Teluk Anson. Delivery commencing from September 1915.” MANAGER, Cicely
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 442 7 Don t forget 1 To solve the problem, you’ll want 15 complete Black Coupons for Episode 3 of the Black Box Serial are awaiting you at the Booking Office. A Special Variety Programme. Every Film a Popular Favourite of Picture-goers at THE STRAITS CINEMA, 'Phone No. 628. EMPIRE HALL, PENANG
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2314 8 —Ml' P. S’ O. f- intended sailings. Straits Steam Ship Co.» Ltd, Ocean StCfißl Co. DpITIQM Im CM A For I Intended B»ii. stowm. steam ship c b lla I I IwH llwlm I Port ttwettenham and Singapore. Every Tuesday, at 5-30 p.m. Klang. f ANd Wirelc sXVJ‘ STEAM NAVIGATION
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