Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 October 1915

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 18 33. No. 244 VOL. LXXIII. SATURDAY. 23rd OCTOBER. 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1017 1 V JLS D a YOU WAKT TO SHIP. HUY OB SELL RUBBER OB TO FORWARD GOOD» fi to MY FAIT o* tbb WOBLD ALLEK DEMMYW Co., MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMSMMMMMMMMe 1 S iV THE J japan Mail Steamship Co. Ld. Northam House Photographic Studio, g?C T T a 8> 15 and 17a, NORTHAM
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    • 59 1 g FOR S3O g cun' have tfie M Pinang g 3 X Genette" posted every day q for a Whole year to your address. (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION, 127). a Proportionate Quarterly and q a Half-yearly rates. g Subscriptions are payable in advance and remittances should 5 be addressed to a a
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  • 497 2 [Specially Translated.] A Tempt" <x>r re» pendent at Dedeagatch writes on the 6th September that, according to information obtained from a Turkish Colonel, the total of the Turkish forces mobilised was 1,300,000. The losses up to date were estimated at half a million. The disposition of the
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  • 333 2 Ratnaveiloo this morning pleaded gnilty before Mr. V. G. Ezechiel to criminal breach of trust in respect of $167.14, committed on the 11th July, 1913. Accused was employed as a tamby in the firm of Messrs. A. A. Anthony and Co. Ou the afternoon of the 11th
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  • WAR NEWS.
    • 423 2 The Operations in Serbia. London, October 11.—A thirty miles strip of Serbia separates the TurcoBulgarian from the Teutonic forces. The Paris Press apparently regards the prevention of a junction as of the most vital interest to the Allies. The effect produced in Paris by the Greek
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    • 159 2 Refugees from Syria report a positive reign of terror has now set in and tbe Turks are court-martialling for treason and hanging notables wholesale. A quarrel ha* broken out between Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha, who is in command in Syria, because Riza Pasha, commander of
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    • 239 2 London, October 13.The Gofeborg Posten (Sweden) publishes an article by a writer just returned from Berlin. It states that the people are becoming impatient and are asking why toe army h*s not reached Paris, why Gen-ral von Hindenburg is supplied with ill-trained Landwehr,’ why the Crown Prince
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    • 134 2 London, October 1 The New York Suu publishes an interview with Mr. Thomas R. Mac Mechew, the chairman of an American firm of Aeronautic Manufac turers. He states that he has invented an anti Zeppelin aircraft capable of dealing with a Zeppelin flotilla of any size. He further
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    • 121 2 London, October 13 A leading article in the Westminster Gazette,” hitherto a staunch supporter of voluntaryism warns the public that the plans laid for maintaining ou- armies iu the Dardanelles and Flanders may possibly prove inadequate when a third Front is added to our obligations. It
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    • 26 2 Loudon, October 13.—The Paris Temps says that Germany has called up men ot fifty, who have been enrolled in the auxiliary Lnndsturm.
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  • 377 2 L. &C. E.” Mr. Van Koi, a Socialist membar of the First Chamber, has just returned home from his mission to Japan. In interviews he is reported to have said I should not like to say that I consider the position in Japan uiexceptionally favourable. In
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  • WOMAN NAVAL SPY.
    • 193 2 Press Bureau, September 21*—The trial concluded yesterday evening at the Old Bailey of two persons, a man and a woman, of German origin, who were charged with attempting to communicate to persons abroad information regarding his Majesty’* Fleet of a’ nature directly useful to the enemy, with
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    • 186 2 Airmem and Gunners on Both Sides Busy. Amsterdam, September 23.The war correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt telegraph*, referring to the fresh offensive against Serbi*, that the preparations of the Central Powers on the Save and the Danube have, of course, not remained unknown to the Serbians. This has
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    • 247 2 RIGA OR RETREAT> Au Englishman, who has only just returned from Russia, impresses upon m says a London correspondent, the vi al importance to the Germans of the capture of Riga and the railway which runs from that port southwards via Vilna aud across the Pripet marshes to Rovno aud
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    • 231 2 Paris, September 26.—The region north of Arras has perhaps been more formidably fortified than any other portion of the German front. It is an extremely thickly populated neighbourhood, and the terrain is full of difficulties. It could not be expect ed that an advance here, from
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    • 310 2 Soldier who Lost Mbmory Finds his Family. Leeds, September 27 There has been a happy sequel to the pathetic story published in The Daily Ch-onicle" a week ago of a Cana Han soldier’s search for his parents. A Leeds family received a letter from a
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  • 118 2 Racing Mishap at Fojna, Poona, October 9.—A bad accident ccurred at Poona yesterday during the race for the Parvati Cup, resulting in the death of one j ckey ani injury to another. Excelsior hai almost caught np to Nizam-nl-Mulk, when he suddenly tripped and fell bringing down
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  • 120 2 SUN DAT, OCTOBER 2£. Ckvrch of Eaglaad. St. George’s Church.2lst Sunday after Trinity; Matins, 8 a.m.; Holy Communion, 8.30 a.m.; Chinese Service, 10.30 am. Sunday School, 5 p.m Evensong and Sermon, 6 p.m. Hymn 529, Responses, Roberts. Psalm CXIX Goodenough and Matthews, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis-Maunder in C.
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  • 60 2 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Kedah, Brit. 94, Manus, Oct 23, T. Anson gen., E. S. Co. Alma, Brit., 459, Bell, Oct 25, Deli, gen., E. S. Co. Ekma, Brit., 2356, Kilner, Oct 23, Madras, gen., Hottenbach Liebert A Co. Glenogle, Brit., 2399, McGhie, Oct 23, R’goon, gen., Kim Keng Leong. Laomedon,
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  • 80 2 To-day. Ban Lee for Langsa. Omapere for Tongkah, Kopah, Renong, Victoria Point, Mergui and Tavoy. Ekma for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Cornelia for Began Datoh A Teluk Anson. Rotorua for Tongkah and Renong. Ipoh for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Calcutta for Singapore. Will o’ the Wisp for Deli. Glenogle
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  • 49 2 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Close. Madras, taking mails Tara 11 a.m. for Europe, etc., vid > 23rd inst. (Saturday) Bombay J Regtr. up to 6 p.m. Monday. Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m. Calcutta and Durban Fooksang 3 pm. Singapore, China and Japan Japan 4 p.m.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 198 2 MALARIA. Its Meauiig-Its Canie-aad Its Care. When Malaria (Mala' aria, bad air, was given its name scientists knew less about it than they do now, otherwise they would have christened it differently. Then the mosquito had a better character than he has to-day, when he is known as the carrier
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    • 287 2 FOR SALE. Triumph motor cycle, 3| h.p. Quite new. Owner going Home. Reasonable offer accepted. Apply 171 c, Argyli Road, Pbnang. KRAMAT PUL 11, Ltd., (Incorporated ia England). THE DIRECTORS have declared a second interim dividend of one shilling per share, less income tax, payable on 30th October, 1915, on
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  • 683 3 THE LATE LIEUT. OMMUND3EN. Lieutenant H. Ommundeen, of the Hon. Artillery Company, whose death is unofficially announced, was undoubtedly the best marksman in the British Empire, and perhaps the greatest rifle shot in the world. His name figures in the National R.fle Association records at Bisley twice
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  • 230 3 Town Developmbnt. Now that Ipoh has her new station, the visitor will not be depressed on arrival in our midst, says the Ipoh correspondent of the M.M.’’ There can be no doubt that the old station created an unfavourable impression in the mind of the traveller, and
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  • 30 3 MR. MEYER PRESENTS MACHINE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, October 23. Mr. M. Meyer has contributed a Fighting Aeroplane, costing £2,250 sterling, to the Malayan Air Fleet.
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  • 265 3 Mr Alma Bakers Campaign The following letter from Sir Ernest Birch appears in Tne Times'* of September 27 A good deal has appeared from time to time in the Press regarding gifts to the Royal Naval Air Service and to the Royal Flying Corps, especially from
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  • 139 3 (It is said that the Board of Control is about to forbid treating in the London area.) M What’s your’s P’ No more from genial speaker, Are we to hear this cry No more to fill the foaming beaker, No more to drain it dry? No more Stem
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  • 248 3 In connection with the increased earnings of the liner companies, a City merchant writes that he was the unfortunate possessor of certain goods shipped from Japan to Hamburg by the German steamer Preussen, which took refuge at Sabang at the outbreak of war. He joined
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 984 3 WANTED pHINESE CLERK «ho CAO reart .-rt <. -Ji RIIPPAECCD v_z write Chinese characters. Perman- V W l*V/ J UUvUfini.Lll ent position. Reply No. 85, c/o Pinang Gazette. jgg 27-10 M OTICE is hereby given that the Trade Marks depicted above are the property of The Palmer Tyre Limited, of
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    • 14 3 Bovril develops big reserves of strength IT MUST BE BOVRIL BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
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  • 50 4 Tesnbnt.At Kulim, South Kedah, on October 22nd, the wife of Hall Tennent, of a daughter. MARRIAGE. Slows—JknyobsOn the 15th inst., at Forrest Row Parish Church, Manchester, by the Rev. A. J. Swainaon, Leonard E. Slowe, of Peaan?, S. S. to Jessie Jenyous, late of Rusholme, Manchester, by special licence.
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  • 1221 4 Those who regularly read the home papers probably have noticed a particularly scathing article on Mr. Hilaire Belloc which the Daily Mail published from the pen of Mr. Lovat Fraser, who was at one time Editor of a Bombay paper, and afterwards on the staff of the
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  • 1001 4 Sir lan Hamilton’s seven column despatch records some of the amazing feats of a great Amy, and it also tends to place the Gallipoli problem in a new light, and to give the world a clearer ideas of the difficulties of the peninsula. The country is broken,
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  • 67 4 THE LATEST DIVIDENDS. THE RUBBER MARKET. (P. G. Special Cable.) London, October 21. The following dividends are announced Grand Central (Ceylon) Rubber Estates. Ltd 5 per cent, (interim) Rani Travancore Rubber Co. Ltd., 1 p« r cent, (interim). Rembia Rubber Estates, Ltd., 6 pgr cent, Tremelbye (Selangor)
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  • 80 4 The Straits Cinema have the usaal untinee this afternoon at 5 o’clock. To-night’s programme, which is a lengthy one, includes the Perils of Baulina,” when EpiIII and IV will be screened, The Queen of Spades,” Myer’s Mistake ani the latest Pat he Gazette. Four more chapters of The
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  • 35 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $74.10 per picul, buyer? an Increase of 35 cents. Tin is quoted in London to-day at £152 ss. Spot, and £153 si. three months.
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  • 19 4 By Alma (October 23) from Dsli, Mesirs S D Kaper, A Johannes, J A Brown aud J Hartman.
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  • 377 4 The homeward mail closes at 11 a m. ou Sunday. Registration up to 6 p m. to-day. By the outward Dutch mail steamer Jan Pietersz ion Goen ou Friday afternoon, there disembarked at Singapore threw Portuguese naval officers going from Lisbon to Macau. They go to Macau via
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 170 4 ASK FOR ['ll winrti j MKi lISrST W; ESI L..emPl ALLSOPP’S BEER. SOLE AGENTS MLDBECK, MACGREGOR CO., WINE SPIRIT MERCHANTS. PENANG. Pritchard Co., Ltd. PENANG. Suitable Presents for Friends At Home and at The Front. CIGARS. We bold a large stock of MANILA CIGARS at our London Office, which can
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    • 13 4 E. O.” MOTOR GARAGE. CARS ON HIRE $4 AN HOUR. TELEPHONE Ko. 322.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 34 4 THE TIDES. The following are the. tides for tomorrow, Penang Standard Timet High Water. Low Water. o*lo a.uu 6-40 a. us. 6 38 p m. 0-24 a.m. 7-10 a.m. 0-41 p.m. 7- 4 p.m.
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  • 18 4 DEATH. Brodib On September 19, suddenly, at Thirlemere-road, Streathsm, William Gibson Brodie, formerly of the Borneo Company Ltd.
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  • 319 5 RUSSIAN BLOW IN THE CENTRE. THE POSITION OF GREECE LORD DERBY S RECRUITING APPEALS. GENERAL BOTHA’S POLITICAL VICTORY. ILe Germats continue to play into the hands of the Allies in the West by weaktn ng their forces in futile and costly attacks on the French positions. The eremy,
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 161 5 [Reuter’s Telegram 4.] BIG ATTACKS NEAR RHEIMS. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Paris, October 22. A French communique sajs: The Germans suffered another grievous defeat east of Rheims. The enemy renewed their attacks, over a front of nine kilometres, after a violent preparatory bombardment, and also everincreasing
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    • 159 5 LORD DERBY’S APPEAL. London, October 22. Lord Derby, Director of Recruiting, has issued a letter to every unmarried man emphasising that bis plan is a last effort at voluntary ism, and recal'ing that Mr. Asquith has pledged England to support the Allies to the utmost in our
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    • 567 5 Lord Derby, speaking at a recruiting meeting at Manchester prior to his appointment as Director of Recruiting, said it was rather degrading that men should have to go about the country appealing and begging for recruits to defend their wives and children, and it was a
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    • 112 5 ALLEGED PEACE TALK. Rome, October 21. The Pope has received a reply from the King of the Belgians, to his autograph letter, in which His Holiness begged His Majesty to initiate steps towards peace. The King thanked Pope Benedict for the latter’s promise to use al!
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    • 141 5 INTRIGUE AGAINST PREMIER. London, October 21. The Daily Chronicle” makes a feature of what it calls a conspiracy against the Cabinet, aiming at the expulsion of Mr. Asquith, Sir E iward Grey, and Mr. Balfour, and the inclusion of Sir Edward Carson, Lord Milner, with Mr. Lloyd
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    • 250 5 The Story of Cabinet "Plot? Sir Leo Chiezza Money, M. P., has written a letter to the secretary of the Kettering Trades Council, in which he say? The country is in danger, and we have either to rally our forces or to consent to
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 145 5 3,637 PRISONERS TAKEN. Petrograd, October 22. The Russians made a most dashing coup de main against the Austrian and German centre. The communique says the Russians captured positions south-east of Baranovitchi, an important railway junction between Brest Litovsk and Minsk, and took, in the course of the day,
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  • Italy’s Campaign
    • 94 5 TYROL-TRENTINO OFFENSIVE. Rome, October 22. An Italian communique states that the Italians had have further successes on the Tyrol-Trentino frontier. The Italians stormed the fortified mounts Meliuo and Setole, in the Guidicaria and Sugana valleys, respectively, and destroyed entanglements and exploded minefields in Cordevole and Falzarego, preparatory to
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  • Turkey and the Near East
    • 22 5 ENEMY'S SLOW PROGRESS Amsterdam, October 23. A Berlin 00mujunique'says the Germans claim slow progress 00 the oort£ front of Serbia»
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    • 316 5 BRITAIN AND GREECE. London, October 21. Benter is informed, to-night, that the Foreign Office will not at present issue any statement regarding Cyprus. It is learned, however, from other diplomatic quarters, that there is every reason to believe that Britain is willing to cede Cyprus to Greece, if the
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    • 89 5 The strength of the Bulgarian Active and Reserve Armies permits the formation of three armies each of three divisions, eash of the latter having a Reserve brigade attached to it. This Army of Operations is believed to number 216 battalions, 58 machine gun companies, 158 field batteries,
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  • Naval Operations.
    • 64 5 Copenhagen, October 22. A German submarine fired at a Swedish submarine, off Ystad, mistaking it for a British vessel. The mate was seriously wounded, and a sailor slightly hurt. A Swedish squadron has gone to Ystad. An Armed Trawler. Stockholm, October 23. It was an armed
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  • 92 5 A Batavia correspondent writes While working on a padi fi’ld of their own, at Demak, Java, three Javanese came across some gold trinkets in the ground. They are claimed to be of pure gold and must be at least 600 years old. Ihe ornaments have been taken
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  • General News.
    • 712 5 AMERICAN AMBASSADOR’S APPEAL FOR MERCY. London, Ootober. 22. The Press Bureau publishes a communication from the American Ambassador, enclosing a report by the Legation at Brussels in regard to Miss Cavell. The report shows that the German authorities failed to carry out their promise to report all
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    • 138 5 GENERAL BOTHA WINNING. London, October 22. The apprehensions in certain quarters, of a landside against General Botha, in the Bou r h African elections, are dispelled by the first returns, which sbjw that the Unionist» and Bothaites are doing well. A feature, hitherto, is the large Union»
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    • 126 5 Cape Town, September 25.Nominations for tbe new H use of Assembly were made throughout the country this morning. Hitherto there have been four unopposed nominations, those of Mr. Alexander for Cape Town (Castle), Mr. Blaine for Bloemfontein, Sir E. H. Walton for Port Elizabeth, and Mr. van Niekerk
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    • 187 5 Capetown, September 23. A leading politican whose judgment is usually sound furnishes tbe following forecast of the probable results of the South African elections Bothaites, 50; Unionis s 30; Labour, 15 Nationalists, 35 total, 130. As in the same const? uencies there are contests between Bothaites
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    • 207 5 INCREASED AGE LIMIT. London, October 22. In the House of Commons, in reply to Sir John Jardine, Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary for India, said it is intended to hold the usual examination for admission to the Indian Civil Service, during the next two years, and at the usual
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    • 24 5 London, October 23 Trafalgar Day was misty, with some rain, nevertheless there was an enormous sale of Red Crosses in tbe streets.
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  • 1068 6 BRITISH WARSHIPS’ BIG ATTACK. Rotterdam, Sept. 26.Along the whole front in Flanders and beyond heavy fighting is in progress. The roar of the cannon is heard ceaselessly at places well inside the Zeeland frontier, and endless processions of German wounded are pouring into the towns
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  • 430 6 How Way Was Paved for Big French Attack. Paris, Sept 27.A correspondent of the Petit Parisien,” who was in the Arras sector during tbe preparation of the attack on the Chateau of Carleul and the Cemetery of Souchez, describes thus his impressions Since nightfall the guns thunder
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  • 169 6 A representative of the Berlin "Lokalanzeiger has in* er viewed tbe general manager of the Norddeutsche Lloyd Line, Herr Heineken, regarding the situation of German shipping, its fu'ure prospect*, &e, Herr Heineken admits that German shipping, as far as oversea traffic is concerned, has been
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  • 27 6 Penang :The E. <fc O. Hotel, The Crag, Runnymede Hotel, Hotel Norman, Singapore: Raffles Hotel. Rangoon Strand Hotel. Java Hotel Baau Sej mr Lembang.
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  • 882 6 MR. ASQUITH’S MORNING TOUR. In an eye-witness’s description of the raid in the New York American Mr. W. O Tewson says While the censor’s prohibitions make it impossible to name any specific localities over which the Zeppelins flew it may be pointed out that one
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  • 605 6 SINKING OF THE KONINGIN EMMA. The steamer Koningin Emma, returning from Java, struck a mine in the English Channel. The‘*paseengers and crew were rescued. Later it was reported that the damaged steamsr was proceeding up the Thames in tow. The vessel’s engines were working, the fore bulkhead
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 1548 7 Penang Volunteers and Cadets engage in field operations at 7 a.m. to-morrow. Mr. T. 8. Dumbreck, who is a L'eutenant in the K. 0.8.8., has gone to the Dardanelles. The 9th instant, being Her Highness the Ranee’s birthday, was observed as a general holiday in Sarawak. Mr.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 555 7 Observations on Obesity. In many cases over-stoutness is extremely distressing and humiliating, and when the excessive accumulation of fatty matter begins to hamper the organic functions of the body over-fatness becomes a disease, and a very dangerous onethat of obesity. This must be cured, or the most serious consequences are
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    • 271 7 THE MANUFACTURERS SUN LIFE LIFE INSURANCE Co., of OF CANADA. CANADA. Reserves for the protection of Policy-holders over £3,000,000. »865. Bosioest io force Dec. 3ht, 1914 All kinds of Life and Endowment G o |d Currency $2lB million»» Pohcjea issued. To(a| 3Jgt I9H m j||| oos Claims, Loans, and Surrenders
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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