Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 December 1915

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 295 VOL. LXXIII. WEDNESDAY. 22nd DECEMBER. 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 702 1 (if you want to ship, J BUY OB setx RUBBER OR TO POttWAKD GOODS ART FART ov m woud n ALLEK DENNYS Q> v. waroosr tnm. THE TAI SENG fSj Latest X_mns Novdt.es Motor Repairing Co., I 2 I Il Gold and Silver Penknives, Roskopf and I sss 4( i
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    • 64 1 g FOB SBO g u X7OU can have the Pineng g X Ge—He" posted every day a* for a whole year to your address. S (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION, $271 g g Proportionate Quarterly and g n Half-yearly rates. g* g Subscriptions are payable in b adsumoo and remittances should S bo
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  • 360 2 MESSRS. PRITCHARD CO LTD. The preparations for the festive season at the store of Mt-ssrs. Pritchard <fc Co., Ltd., are on the very high standard the Beach Street firm always seeks to attain, indeed, it is safe to advance the view tha’ their show this year
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  • 275 2 On the ground floor of this well-known and extensive establishment there is a special show, 28 yards in length, of uninterrupte display of Christmas novebie*, comprising a large and varied collection of British made toys, dolls, cracker’, gnm-s, puzz e b ocks, masks, etc.
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  • 187 2 Messrs. Allen Dennys Co. advise that the undermentioned prices were tealisej fo< robber sold by them bv auction yesterday 124,500 lbs. offered, 80,000 lbs sold. Smoked ribbed sheet $lB7 to $195 plain 168 174 No. 2 smoked sheet diamond 172 181 Unsmoked sheet 160 175 No. 2
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  • 266 2 SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN’S PARTY. St. Ge >rg s Church, as usual the started Christmas celebrations in Penang by a Christmas Tree entertainment which was heli in the Town Hall yesterday evening. There wis a large number of children present, and everyone, big as well as small, entered into
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  • 65 2 INDIAN VOLUNTEERS. [To the Editor of the I‘inang Gazette Sir, lt is wi r h the greatest p'easure ha I read the correspondence of A L -yal Indian on the subject of the formation of a company of Indian Volunteers I trust that the Government will »>e so gooi
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  • 43 2 At the Elec'nc Polyscope to-night the t. II .wing will be shown The Children of Captain Grair,” in 4 pirts, Mystery of the 7 o’c'oek Expres-, Isle of Adventure,’' both 2 nelers and the Battle of Calais, and several comedy films.
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  • 28 2 The homeward mail clones at 7 p.m on Friday. Registration up to 5 pm. Toe outward mail is expected to arrive o morrow at day ight.
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  • 340 2 Rotterdam, November 25There are P-r-istent report- that the new German bat’le-cruiser Derffl nger struck a mine in the Ba 1 tic Sea yesterday and sank. Thirty-three membeis of her crew were drowned. Towkay Cheong Tak F .on has kindly presented two handsome cypress trees (cupressus semper viiens)
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  • 835 2 The Hon. the Resident Councillor will be at home” an th Residency on Wednesday, January sth, from 5 pm. Mr H B Ellerton is gazette! to officiate as District Officer, Krian, with effect from November 12 th, 1915. Mr. G. B. Leach, P.W.D., Bagan Sefai,, is shortly
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  • 323 2 PENANG WOMEN WORKERS. Amount previously acknowledged... $875 Mrs Haines (2nd don) $lO, Mrs Horton (2nd don) $5, Collected by Mrs Wilson, Caledonia (3rd don) $5, Mrs Balfour R »ss (2nd don) $3, >SH (3rd don) $2, La TAiviata $2, Mrs T A Martin (2nd don) $l,
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  • 136 2 A CHINESE COMPANY. A Ch<n a ae Company of the Malacca Volunteer Rifl-s has been sanctioned and the Corps is in course of formation. Squad dril’s commence on the 21st December, on the Chinese Club Ground. Sergt-Major Gregory has the m u n iu hand. The Field
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  • 106 2 At a well attended meeting of the Malacca Planters* Association held in the Malacca Club on December 19 th the following resolution was moved. That daring the present shortage of Labour managers be authorised at their discretion to utilise the labour they have, to tap all or
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  • 132 2 S.T.” The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 till 7 p.m. this evening:— 1. Selection S'lorodora ...Retford 2. Polka Hannah ...Kuhner 3. Waltz Dane Lee Nuagee ...Waldteufel 4. Lanoers Arry and Arriet Crook 5. Match Olinda ...George On the occasion
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  • 83 2 (Ffom Our* Own Correspondent) Singapore, December 22 At the annual meeting of Alor Q a i l Rubber Co., Ltd., Mr. Sime, who presided said the profi- for the year was $66 IBs’ A dividend of 25% making 45% f or thft year, was passed. I’he Chairmen
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  • 417 2 A Zippelin really has sixteen B i<H formed by the sixteen girders, made «f very thin aluminium alloy, running fro® end of the ship, and over which the outer cover is stretched. To keep these longitudinal girde-s or stingers in position, there are ol’har girders which run like
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  • 142 2 Penang, December 22. Beef— ch. Soup per eatty 18 Roasb 26 Steaks 26 Stew or Curry Meat 20 Rump Steak 26 Ox Tail each 50 Tongue 50 Feet 15 Heart 40 Liver per catty 35 Pork— Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head 22 Feet» 26 Tongue 36 Mutton
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 464 2 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. WILL all Asiatic Master Masons in the F. M. S. and Suaits kindly communicate with G. H. Joshi. Ipoh. WANTED. OOMS with board, after Xmas, CathoI\ lie family preferred. Write No. 113, c/o Pinang Gazette. AN Ew L Y BUILT BUNGALOW to let furnished or for sale. Electric
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  • AHEAD OF THE MAIL.
    • 342 3 London, Nov 29. Mr Ward Price, telegraphing from Salonika, says the Britishers are now in a country as different from the polders of Belgium or the slag heaps of Lens, as the Potteries district of England is from the Highlands of Scotland. The French, early in
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    • 139 3 London, December 10The Central News Paris correspondent telegraphs from Salonika a despatch describing a vigorous Bulgarian attack on the Franco-British fiont on 6ch December. He states that the enemy repeatedly tried to bridge the "Vardar, but were driven back with severe losses. Powe ful British Artillery played
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    • 42 3 London, Dec. 10The Tribuna’s” Athens correspondent states that British transports landed on sth December, the remainder of the last five Allied Divisions and a quantity of artillery from London. A number of armoured motors have been hurried to the front.
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    • 309 3 London, November 26.Mr. M. H. Donohoe, telegraphing from Athens to the Daily Chronicle," comments upon the change in the Greek attitude, and remarks The hysterical newspapers have been weeping subsidised tears and raging against Great Britain. One might almost think that the other Allies are not
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    • 195 3 London, December 10.—The Daily Telegraph’s” corresoondent sends from Florina an account of the fall of Monastir. The Bulgarians on 28th November, developed a great offensive north-west of the town, threatening to cut off the Serbians’ retreat along the Resna Road. On the 30th November,ot her Bulgarians
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    • 229 3 London Nov. 29.Mr. Gibbs, special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph on the Franco-Flemish front, gives a remarkable picture of the winter conditions on the western line of the fight. The soldiers are experiencing the frightfulness of the elements. Rain is filling the trenches with ice-cold water.
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    • 115 3 London, November 23.Mr. Philip Gibbs, who recently visited the French headquarters, s'ates One General lives in the middle of the grest field just behind the fighting line. The dug-out’s entrance is artfully concealed, and a trench 15 ft. deep leads to the General’s underground bedroom, office and
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    • 107 3 London, November 25.—1 n the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord St. Davids’s in a personal explanation, said that the ladies to whom he had referred as visitors to the British Headquarters in Flanders were above reproach but he did not consider it decent to regard the
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    • 75 3 Amsterdam, Nov. 28.The Prussian War Minister has forbidden the soldiers at the front to send Christmas and New Year greetings home, as he does not wish to give the soldiers an opportunity for an expression of their well known wishes for an early termination of the war. The
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    • 116 3 Paris, Nov. 29.Mr. Warner Allen, representative of the British Press with the French army, estimates the German losses to the end of October last at 4,500,000 men on al fronts. Of these 3,000.000 men are dead, prisoners, or permanently disabled. The casualties now total 300,000 a month,
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    • 189 3 London, November 28.The No Conscription Fellowship” held a fairly well attended convention in London to-day. The audience consisted chiefly of men fit for recruiting. Mr. Clifford Allen presided. Mr. J. H. Thomas, Labour M.P. for Derby, wrote that it was amazing how glibly some talked aboat conscrip ion, as
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    • 61 3 London, December 11.General Von Hindenburg is reported to have told an interviewer, who suggested that the extension of the war involved a dangerous dissipation of strength, that that was the danger to Nspoleon and one of the reasons of his fall. In the age of railways,
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    • 66 3 London, Dec 10. Much German coal has arrived at Constantinople, but submarines hamper its transference elsewhere. Syria is being bared of olive and cedar trees in order to provide locomotive fuel. Bread is not always purchasable by Chrisians at Constantinople owing to the Germans requisitioning it,
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    • 48 3 Bucharest. November 23.Trustworthy information states that 2,000 Russian prisoners interned at Debreezo revolted in August, owing to the bad food- supplied them, and killed two sentries. The Hungarians thereupon shot every man of them. An official communique attributed the disappearance of ths prisoners to cholera.
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    • 223 3 London, Nov 25.Lord Inchcape, the British shipping magnate, addressing the Institute of Bankers on the loan from the United States, said: It was the best method of restoring exchanges, but it was only a palliative. The restoration of a favourable trade balance was the only cure for
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    • 125 3 London, November 25.1 n the House of Commons, yesterday, Mr. Terrell drew attention to the Russkoye Slovo article which declared that the Russian newspapers laid a heavy responsibility upon the Northcliffe Press for the failure of the diplomacy of the Entente in the Balkans. Sir John Simon
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 371 3 THERE is a Vacancy for a third man in a quiet Mess in Logan Road. Garage and btables. Apply No. 108, c/o Pinang Gazette. JUNIOR ASSISTANT Wanted for Rubber Estate in Johore Apply in writing to No. 110, c/o Pinang Gazette. 1206—23-12 WANTED For an Estate in Negri Sembilan a
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    • 12 3 Fortify yourself with Bovril IT MUST BE BOVRIL BRITISH TO THE BACKBONE
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    • 108 3 o Noir V J. B. LAPOSTOLLE. Foncateur 1827 W T PRODUCE OF FRANCE! Cordon sole Cordon HIBBERT. WOODROFFE C 9 LT? ROUGE. (Incorporated in England.) aJAUNE. The Original London Gin is GOHDDN'S Established 1769. The racipes of this ancient distillery for OLD TOM” and DRY” GIN have made these Gins
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  • 1353 4 The successful withdraws! of large British forces from a zone in Gallipoli dominated by the guns of the enemy is a tribute to the efficiency of a department where our Army and Navy have excelled ever since the first days of the war. Benefiting by its unrivalled
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  • 1492 4 Several newspapers in neutral countries refer to a pointed lesson in civilisation given by Great Britain to Germany, in the release of an American youth, Kenneth G. Triest, who was caught red handed at the spy’s nefarious game on Germany’s behalf. It affords a strong contrast to
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  • 197 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $81.25 per picul, buyers, no sellersa decrease of $1.75. Tin is quoted in London to-day at £167 ss. spot, and £l6B ss. three months. The Library will be closed on Saturday and Monday, the 25th and 27th December,, being
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 137 4 CHAMPAGNES FOR X’MAS. rroy Co. 1906 I Vintage. Dry. Bv Royal Warrant i Giesler Co. Extra Superior. Dry. BOLLINGER 1906 to HIS majesty Vintage. Very Dry. KINO QEORQE V. 0 Veuve Clicquot (Ponsardin) Dry. SOLE AGENTS:— CALDBECK MACGREGOR Co., WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, PENANG. ixmirmhmhmmvixnkmxkmmikmmmmmh The Eastern Trading Co., M
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    • 55 4 E. 0. HOTEL. A SPECIAL XMAS EVE DINNER Will be served at 8 p.m. Covers should be booked in advance. THE TOWN BAND P'»y daring Dinner and for DANCING afterwards. THE Resident Councillor will be At Home at The Residency on Wednesday, the sth January, from 5 p.m. No separate
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 33 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for tomorrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. 0-10 a.m. 7-17 a.m. 0-55 p.m. 7-11 p.m. 0 45 a.m. 7-48 a.m. 1-28 p.m. 7-42 p.m.
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  • 154 5 THE TURKS DECEIVED. IMPORTANCE of munitions. mb. LLOYD GEORGE’S SPEECH. qreco-bulgarian fight. The rews from the Western front still mainly concerns the artillery, the guns of both sides showing great activity at many different points. An enemy bombing attack near Hulluch was defeated. As many as forty-four air combats
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 272 5 Reuter’s Telegrams. GREAT ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. Copybight Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) London, December "21. The Press Bureau publishes a despatch from Headquarters which records a heavy reciprocal bombardment in the vicinity of Ypres. An enemy bombing attack near Hulluch quarries was repulsed to-day. Tke Cun Due**. Opposite the
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    • 159 5 AN OFFICER’S EXPLANATION. London, December 21. Reuter’s correspondent at the Headquarters in France, referring to neutral reports of a coming big German offensive, says one place where the ominous warning is regarded with perfect indifference is the British front. A Staff Officer to whom he mentioned the
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    • 58 5 FAREWELL TO PARIS. Paris,. December 21. Field Marshal Viscount French took leave of President Poincare at the Ely see this afternoon, and was accorded an ovation by a huge crowd, who were shouting Vive la French Vive la Angleterre and Vive la Rot.” General Joffre in the morning
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    • 77 5 STATEMENT DEFERRED. London, December 20. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith stated that in consequence of the complexity ol the task, and the enormous difficulty in classifying and tabulating the Lord Derby recruiting figure«,the Cabinet was unanimously of the opinion thatthere should be no considered statement
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    • 42 5 London, December 21. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith stated that General Sir lan Hamilton was not returning to the Near East. If any other duties were assigned to him an announcement would be made in due course.
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    • 57 5 London, December 21. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith announced that owing to strong views in different parts of the House, on the question of the prolongation of the life of Parliament, he suggested a compromise of e ght months instead of a vear. The compromise
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    • 136 5 THE NEW BUDGET. Amsterdam, December 21. In the Reichstag, Herr Helfferich, Secretary to the Treasury, claimed that the Budget for 1915-16 would show no deficit, nr only a small one. He admitted that the Budget for 1916-17 wou'd not balance without new taxes, but said he was confident
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    • 48 5 London, December 21. Every day brings fre-h confirmation of the trouble and distress caused in Germany through lack bf fats. There is extreme scarcity of butter, and the making of Christmas is forbidden in Saxony. No milk is allowed with tea and coffee in restaurants.
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  • 690 5 MR LLOYD GEORGE’S SPEECH. London, December 21. In the Hous? of Commons, Mr. L'oyd George, in a statement ou the Ministry of Munitions, dwelt on the enormous importance that machinery had plajed in this war. The German successes were due to the tardiness of the Allies
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  • 86 5 London, November 28.A wireless French official message states that by a conference in Loudon, the four Allies England, France, Ru-sia, and Ita'yhave instituted a permanent organisation for the manufacture of munitions. At the conference each delegate submitted his own coun try’s requirements. The conference then arranged a scheme,
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  • Turkey and the Near East
    • 290 5 TURKS SURPRISED. London, December 21. The War Office further announces that without the Turks being aware of the movement, a great Army has been withdrawn from one of the Gallipoli areas, although it was in places in contact with the enemy. By this contraction of the front,
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    • 409 5 Striking Indictment by Lord Brassey. Lord Brassey, interviewed by the Australian Press Association on his return from his visit in the yacht Sunbeam to the Mediterranean and Dardanelles region made striking comments on the campaign. He said I never met any officer, naval or military, who was not
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    • 129 5 ALBANIAN FRONTIER INCIDENT. Brindisi, December 21. Greek and Bulgarian advance posts have been fighting on the Greco-Albanian froctier in the region of Koritza. Both suffered losses in killed and wounded. Greek reinforcements have been sent to the scene. It is also announced that Martial Law has been
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    • 71 5 BRITISH SURPRISE ATTACK. London, December 21. The Press Bureau states that General Townshend estimates that the Turks lost 2,500 in the rearguard action on December Ist, and their abortive attack on Kut-el-Amara on the night of December 13 Mixed parties of British and Indian troops, on the night of
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 45 5 Petrograd, December 21. General Russky, commander of the Russian Northern Armies, has been relieved of his functions. Petrograd, December 21. General Russky’s withdraw*! is due to his health* The Tsar, in a Rescript, warmly thanks him for his brilliant services in defending Petrograd.
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  • General News.
    • 111 5 QUESTION IN COMMONS. London, December 20. In the House of Commons, Sir J. D. Rees asked whether the Indian Govern ment recommended the abolition of the indentured labour system. Mr. Austen Chamberlain said he recently received a communica'ion from the Indian Government dealing with objections to, and
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    • 55 5 MRS. ASQUITH SUCCESSFUL. London, December 21. In the King’s Bench Division, an injunction was granted Mrs. Asquith against The Globe.” Counsel said there was not a shadow of truth in the statements, and affirmed that Mrs. Asquith had never been at Donnington Hall, nor had she held communication
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    • 38 5 Johannesburg, December 21. General De Wet and 118 men imprisoned for high treason hav« been released. De Wet, in an interview, emphasised the necessity for Anglo-Dutch amity, and said discord and past misunderstandings should cease.
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  • 72 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, December 22. At the annual meeting of Simpan Valley Tin Co., Ltd., the report was passed and a dividend of 5 per cent, on A” shares agreed to. The Chairman said the Company could have paid 10 per cent, only the flood
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  • 363 5 HOLLAND’S SHIPPING. (Specially Translated.} The Dutch mail boat Vondel, which sails from Batavia on the 23rd, will proceed via the Cape and coal at Durban, Cape Town, St. Vincent and Las Palmas. The newest liner of the fie*t the Pieterazoon Coen, which leaves Amsterdam on Ist January,
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  • 176 5 Over 250 exhibits of the Deli Art Club are now on view at the Wette Societeib, Medan. The exhibition closes on Sunday. Four cases of plague are reported front Soerabaya. The effect of the war on Japanese trade is clearly shown in the export of cement. In 1913
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  • 204 5 Cairo, November 29.An official announcement issued yesterday stated The Sberif-el Senussi continues to maintain a friendly attitude towards the Government, but certain hostile agencies have induced some of the western Arabs to commit minor acts of aggression against our frontier posts. We are therefore concentrating our smaller frontier
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  • 918 6 SIR JOHN ANDERSON’S TASK. Than the one upon which we are at present on the eve, there was never a change f administration in this Colony of which it would ba safer to predict that it will not be followed by a burst of legislative or
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  • 462 6 S. T.” Coroner’s Enquiry into Recent Tragedy. On Saturday, at the Coroner’s Cor* t, Singapore, Dr T Murray Robertson open a the enquiry into the death of Mr George Penicuick Muckart, 38, Government Marine Surveyor, who was found dead on his bed on Thursday evening with
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  • 30 6 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singora, December 22. At the conclusion of the inquiry regarding the death of Mr. Muckart, a verdict of Suicide during temporary insanity was returner.
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  • 121 6 Two Coolies Killed. A gang-robbery is reported to have taken place at Poiitang, a village about nine n ilea from Bentong, on the 17th inst. It appears that, as four Chinese coolies were carrying tin-ore from that place to Bentong, hey were waylaid by about ten men,
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  • 146 6 A sergeant in the Australian forces sends some interesting facts concerning the latest machine-gun adopted by the War Office, It is known as the Caldwell machine-gun, being named after its inventor, a mechanic of Victoria, Australia. It can fire at the rate of 1,000 shots per minute
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  • 36 6 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Kedah, Brit 94, Manus, Dec 22, T. Anson, gen., E. 8. Co. Carlyle, Brit., 234, Morris, Dec 21, Tongkah, gen., A. G. Co. Brandan, Dnt., 170, Esser, Dec 21, T. Anson, gen., K.P.M.
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  • 21 6 To-day. Perlis for Trang, Tongkah and Pang Nga. Cornelia for Bagan Datoh Teluk Anson. Flying Dragon for Portweld and Taiping.
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  • 67 6 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Close. Singapore, China and Japan Kawachi Maru Ipm. Deli Will o’ the Wisp 1 p.ra. Port Swettenham and Singapore Tara 3 p.m. Friday. Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m. Calcutta and Durban Liisang 3 p.m. Ceylon, Australasia, x India, Aden, Mauri- I
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  • 124 6 Penang, December 22 1915. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank}. London Demand Bank ...2/4 7/32 4 months' sight Bank ...2/4 5/8 3 Credit ...2/4 27/32 3 Documentary ...2/4 7/8 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 175 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay Demand Bank 175 Moulmein Demand Bank 174 3 days’sight
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  • 47 6 Wednesday. December 22. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Empire Theatre, Penang Road Electric Polyscope Co,, Argyle Road. Thursday. Deember 23 Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. Friday. December 24. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Saturday, December 25. Band, Golf Club, *6 p.m. Sunday December 26 Church Services.
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  • 27 6 Dec. 22 Meeting Board of Licensing Justices, District Court, 2-15 p.m. Jan. 6.Penang Races. Jan. B.Penang Races. Feb. 4.P. A. M. Meeting at Johore Bahru.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 62 6 THE OFFICE MAN leads a sedentary life; bis brain grows sluggishso does his liver. His health suffersso does his business. BmwrJSrSTJTTPDRI the tiny laxatives, gently stimulate the bowels, thus toning up the system and nerves which lead to sparkling good health. Do not gripy. Of chemists, 50 cents per phial,
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    • 68 6 INVALUABLE for yoj HEALTH'S, SAKE, J*—-——A XX Essence or Fluid Extract of RED JAMAICA <W> PTrVTrmVHHHI iL7 w IHMv w Pronounced by tne HIGHEST MEDICAL AUTHORITIES /EEOa332HEBOHEa BIITFvB 1 a The SAFEST and most RELIABLE Remedy foi F LASSITUDe, HAS OVER Z 75 YEARS* WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION, SOLD BY The George
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    • 568 6 Arriving Shortly OVERLAND CARS 5 Seater Touring Body, Price Price Complete E,ectric Li^hts and ScH Starter Complete High Tension Magneto, $2,150 One man hood and Do ble folding $2,130 Wind Screen, Detachable rims with one spare. JX. WEARNE BROS. Ltd. I plain truths I SHERRY on the subject of Health
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  • 584 7 h* ll lets nt*ver go to bed if I’m not there."—J. O’C in the Daily Chronic’e.” IN THE TRAIN.” I would like to wrre an oW-fashioned iication to preface these few sentences. I w nuld inscribe them to those wom’n whn j.ufhr silently. To those
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  • 225 7 The Privy Councillor, Professor Riesser, of Mannheim, speaking about the economical relations of Germany a’ter the war, stated that commercial relations with foreign countries, even with those of the enemy, will be immediately re-established. He quoted the words of the Russian Minister of Finance. No country,
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  • 492 7 MEDITERRANEAN BASES. The sinking of the Ancona and the destruction of a number of Allied ships bring the submarine raid very much before us writes John F. H Pollen, the well-known navai&uthor. I have called it a raid, for it seems unlikely that the U boats will
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  • 518 7 A New York paper published on the 9rh October the following telegram from Boston A flotilla of American built submarines which vemured across the Atlantic to join the British naval forces at Gibraltar made the passage safely under its own power and without extraordinary discomfort for the crew,
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  • 619 7 General Goethals is quoted as saying fc Wtien the Panama Ca ial is re-opened, it will be with a permanent channel through the cut, even if this work takes the rest of the year. Mass of material involved in the break of October 14, 1914, which hss
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  • 490 7 The Indian Cotton Market. Mr. Auten Chamberlain's reply to Sir John Rees in the House of Commons as to whether the Japanese Government are granting bounties in respect of exports of raw cotton from India to Japan, a representative of the Associated Press interviewed prominent merchants
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 408 7 USEFUL BOOKS. Price. Post Free. Planter’s Medical Guide By E. N. Graham, F.R.C.S., (Edin.) Medical Officer, Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited $2.00 2.50 Contains very valuable advice for Estate Managers on Plantations situated some distance from a Doctor, and in case of emergency when delay in waiting for the arrival of
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 176 7 THE TIDES. PbnangDecember, 1915. Penang Standard TimesHeights referred to Datum of Soundings in Admiralty Charts High Water. Low Water. Standard ir b n Standard D te Time. H Dlt Time. HL h m ft. h m ft. W 22 m 010 6 6 22 m 7 17 0.9 0 55
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    • 129 7 TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT f I the ELECTRIC POLYSCOPE Co., LYCEUM THEATRE, ARGYLL ROAD. PRESENTING 4 Reels The Children of Captain Grant, 4 Parts A Powerful gripping drama full of thrills and adventures. It is one of the best Eclair production. 2 Reels Mystery of the 7 o’clock Express, 2 Parts
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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