Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 25 February 1916

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 45 VOL. LXXIV. FRIDAY, 25th FEBRUARY. 1916 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 814 1 you wawt to SHIP. F n BUY SELL KUBB E R 3 oa ro 1 F&fW**° ooooa M UK U i 6 ALLEN DENNYS Co, LIFE annnnnnnnnnaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnci CANADA. ri lSh M incorporate o iB6O, g iLxp&llclCG Mctftl AVherever I Business Io force Dec. 31st, 1914 j-j 2 tf] Gold Currency
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    • 55 1 n FOR SBO g 2 V7OU enn have the Pinaag X Ghnette" posted every day q for a whole year to yonr eddrMW. (local wttcßirnoN, »an. H Pieportionate Quarterly and q g Helf yeariy rate*. q dahecrfpCfawK are payable in b S Umbn and remittance* should S hosddbsmsita g s
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  • 845 2 Mrs. D. M. Toomey and her three children returned from Singapore this morning. Mr. A. B. Voules, the Solicitor-General, and Mrs. Voules, returned this morning from Singapore by the Ipoh. Messrs. R.B. Balloch, of Sungei Rengam Estate, and W.R S. McMillan of Padang Java Estate, are leaving
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  • 937 2 [From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh, February 24. The Military Tournament held at Ipoh on Saturday afternoon was a distinct success, and is likely to be the precursor of others in this district. It is not the first that has been held under the auspices of the M.S.V R.
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  • 689 2 an exposure. Back to monarchy 1 This, writes Adachi Kinuosuke in Harper’s Weekly” is not a Chin f se idea at all. Tuan Shih-kai might have been mothering it for years in his blue clouds climbing hours.” Bat Yuw’b dream is no more Chinese than the
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  • 69 2 LADIES’ MONTHLY MEDAL. The play in this competition for the February Medal resulted as follows Mrs Sproule 43 +4l =84—16 =6B Mrs Dennys 48 +46 94—24 =7O Mrs Duxbury 41 +49 9012 =7B Mrs Winfield, Mrs Kinder, Mrs Macintyre, Mrs Large, Mrs Powell and Mrs Tomson also
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  • 317 2 THE MOTOR AMBUUNcg. Mrs. R. P. Phillips req ae9 t 8 tion of the following coinmtm; e th, British Red C.„! 8 sX with the League’s gift of a Motn° Dl ect oll ance to the Society or British Red Cross Society. Th» n > John of
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  • 262 2 Arab-Turkish Split. The Pioneer’s Cairo correspondent writes According to the Al-Mokattam." the leading Egyptian vernacular organ, the split b-tween the Turkish and Arab element in Constantinople is daily growing greater. Relations have be°n veymnch aggravated by the operations 'of a very extensive association called “Turk objaghi”
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  • 297 2 King Sisowath of Cambodia has i" B proclamations in which he says that thougn his advanced age does not permit his offering his personal services to France in t s war, with une indiable fierce he aatborv# his subjects to serve that try either in the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 485 2 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Mr. Mrs. H. D. Nicolson P. P. C. GOVERNMENT OF KEDAH. WANTED an Immigration Clerk and Interpreter; mast have a good English and Tamil education, and be able to speak Malay a knowledge of Telagn is desirable. Initial salary $5O/- p.m. Apply with particulars to DR. A. L.
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    • 353 2 HOMEWARD BOUND. LADY travelling to England, MarchApril, is willing to assist invalid, or with children, in return for passage. Apply M. Q. c/o Singapore Free Press 195— «26-2 Penang Free School Centenary. SOME OLD FREES are convening a meeting, to be held at the School on Saturday, 26th inst., at
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    • 46 2 A Clear Head a hearty appetite, sound sleep and good digestion are sure to follow an occasional dose of the tiny laxatives. Gentle as nature. Do not gripe. Of chemists, 50 cents per phial or post free from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Dept. 6c, Singapore
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 104 2 HARMSTON’S CIRCUS AND ROYAL MENAGERIE. Bigger, Better, Brighter than ever. Grand Opening Night, Saturday, 4th March, AT 9-15 P.M. Location: Dato Kramat Gardens. New Artistes. New Acts. ‘HARMSTON The Apex The Crux The Acme The Alpha and Omega of all that stands for perfection in the Circus World. A Grand
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  • 937 3 T.O.M.’’ secret cave on kampar hills. For some time past, from information i,> use a well-known Police received hr««?, for the Police D6Ver glVe RWay th6lr Purees of information,— Mr. Conlay, C P.O Perak, has known that the gang robbers, w ho have been so active in
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  • 386 3 In The Law of the Straits Settlements Mr. Roland Braddell, the author, has the following passages in connec ion with Penang:— When Penang was first occupied, it was practically uninhabited. There are said to have been a few Malay inhabitants who subsisted chiefly by fishing, and
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  • 546 3 Tribute by Lord Cromer. Reviewing in,the ’’Spectator” a book entitled Java; Past and Present by Donald Maclaine Campbell, the well known British statesman, Lord Cromer, writes Mr. Donald Maclaine Campbell lived for twenty-three years in Java, where he had business connections. He was also for many
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  • 642 3 THINGS THAT BRITAIN SHOULD HAVE LEARNED. Nothing succeeds in war except as the result of a carefully prepared p’an. A plan of campaign should foresee all that the enemy can do and contain the means of defeating his efforts. By sticking to no plan you risk being
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  • 912 3 LORD DERBY’S CONFIDENCE. Whether the war lasts two years or ten,” said Lord Derby, Director-General of Recruiting, to a “New York Herald” correspondent we will continue to hang on and fight until the Germans are thoroughly thrashed.” But," a bystander interjected, “in America some military experts
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 137 3 Driving Pain Have you a pain anywhere in your body Is it a little pain or a big pain Does it torture a single nerve or does it grind and rack your entire being Isn’t it foolish then to be driven by pains or aches, big or little, when you
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    • 68 3 Singapore Cola storage COMPANY, LIMITED. IMPORTERS OF Australian Frozen Meat and Produce ALSO English and Siberian Fish and Game. Telegrams: STORAGE. Telephone No. 602. V» 6 Obtainable o W* -A T V-** o 0 V»’ o i° a «""a ”*<<•- \Dealers cP o f %< O V X, V a
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  • 1291 4 Mr. Philip Snowden may have special sources of information or he may be suffering from delusions, but from our reading of the papers we are unprepared to subscribe to his statement that the German Socialists solidly favoured peace.’- A good deal depend», of course, on what is meant
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  • 1478 4 When one reads the reports of gang i robberies in Malaya and of the ease with 9 which the perpetrators get away with booty which sometimes is quite large and includes 1 considerable sums of money, there is 1 a feeling of surprise that the victims hoard
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  • 251 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin Penang was $B9 per picul buyers, no ssllers—an increase of 50 cents. Tin is quoted in London to-day »t £lB2 spot, and £lB2 15s. tinea uiontbi Messrs. Fraser de Co's Share Circuit records a quiet week. The 89. Ipoh will leave here_
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 197 4 u amanan n m auon am kome -J J i a I to' <» Wk JwgsM. $?-<i F *«s 4i4 .2 ‘J qL sjJl 5 fta 23 M «> Motor, Motor Cycle, Solid Cycle Tyres. A PATRIOTIC DUTY. The Duty of the Buying Public is plain. They should support the
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    • 38 4 LEAP YEAR DANCE AFTER A SPECIAL DINNER AT THE E. O. HOTEL On Tuesday, 29th Feb., 1916. E, O. Orchestra and Town Band. Successful Proposals will have the privilege of a free week’s Honeymoon AT THU CRAG HOTEL.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 275 5 eight ships sunk. the MEUSE BATTLE. premier and peace. HONOURS FOR BRITISH OFFICERS. The British steamer Westbarn was taken into Santa Cruz (Teneriffe), with a German prize crew on board, and 206 prisoners from the British steamers Flamenco, Horace, Clan Mactavioh, Edinburgh, Cambridge, Beige, and Luxemburg, also 11
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 61 5 [R.otbb'b Sanvioas], A GRENADE ACTION. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) London, February 24. General Haig reports artillery activity in the neighbourhood of La Bassee Canal, and north-east of Ypres. The enemy’s position was considerably damaged. On our extreme left, we shelled working parties. Last night, in grenade
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    • 298 5 ANOTHER DAY’S SEVERE FIGHTING. Paris, February 24. The German attacks north of Verdun developed, rs was foreseen, into a very important action, powerfully supported. The attle continued to-day, with growing intensity, and was vigorously contested y our tronpg, who inflicted upon the enemy extremely high losses. There
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    • 749 5 WBARING DOWN PROCESS. It is generally considered in France among people competent to form an opinion that the war entered upon 1916 in a very much better position from the Allies’ point uf view than it had presented at any moment since it began, says a correspondent
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    • 75 5 MESSAGES IN A BOTTLE. Stockholm, February 25. The yacht Stella picked up a bottle near Gothenburg, in which were two letters from the Commander of Zeppelin L 19 to bis family. One dated February 3rd says the Zeppelin was then 100 yards above the sea with
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    • 157 5 It will be recalled than after the last extensive Zeppelin raid on England, the Grimsby trawler King Stephen reported that it saw, early on February 2nd, Zeppelin LI9 with the cars and part of the envelope submerged. A score of men clinging to the envelope asked to
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    • 80 5 MANCHESTER’S ADHERENCE. London, February 23. Thirty out of thirty-three Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce are to resign, in consequence of the vote against their memorandum in favour of Free Trade. [Reuter’s telegram of February leth s'ated that the Manchester Chamber of Commerce had rejected the proposal
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    • 533 5 For years I have been more or less suspect by Socialists and labour men of a certain type, for I have been a militarist, a believer in the German Bogey,” and an opponent of Free Trade, says Mr. Robert Biatchford. editor of the Clarion.”
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    • 314 5 MR ASQUITH REAFFIRMS ALLIES’ TASK. London, February 24. In the House of Commons, Mr. Philip Snowden (Labour, Blackburn) said be was of opinion that the time was ripe for a movement for peace. He said the German Socialists solidly favoured peace. Mr. C. P. Trevelyan (Liberal, Eiland) supported
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    • 114 5 FRENCH DECORATIONS. London, February 24. The London Gazette announces that President Poincare has bestowed the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour upon General Sir Douglas Haig. The Order of Grand Officer of the Legion of H incur is bestowed upon Generals Sir lan Hamilton, Sir William Birdwood,
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  • 20 5 Amsterdam, February 24. A gale aggravated the floods. Churches and houses were wrecked at Nieuwendam and Buiksloot.
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  • 251 5 The sympathy of many will go out to the inhabitants of the fishing villages of the Zuyder Zee in the disaster of flood and tempest that has overtaken them, for this district is one of our best-known holiday resorts. Twenty years ago the Isle of Marken
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  • Naval Operations.
    • 264 5 GERMAN RAIDER’S VICTIMS. Madrid, February 24. An official message from Santa Cruz (Teneriffe) says the British steamer Westburn put in for repair, flying the German flag, with a prize crew, comprising an officer and seven men. The cap of one was marked w S.M.S. Moeben Moewe). Maay
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    • 215 5 The activities of submarines, cruisers, and mines accounted for the lo s of 255 British vessels of 500 tons and upwards during tbe past year, and of this number no fewer than 231 were total looses* With the inc’usion of foreign vessels the total number of
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  • General News.
    • 42 5 THE VISIT TO THE DUMA! London, February 24. Russian people are deeply impressed by the Tsar’s first visit to tbe Duma, as testifying to the Imperial acceptance of Parliamentary institutions, and tbe close unity of the Tsar and his people.
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    • 33 5 RED CROSS WORK. London, February 24. Colonel James Montgomery has been appointed Red Cross Commissioner in East Africa, and starts immediately with his Staff, and a large consignment of stores.
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    • 30 5 DIES IN BERLIN. London, Februaiy 24. A Berlin official telegram records that Admiral von Pohl, former Commander-io-Chief of the German High Seas Fleet, has died in Berlin.
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    • 143 5 MEETING AT IPOH. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, February 24. A public meeting was held in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Ipob, to day, to ascertain what amount of support the public were prepared to give to a War Loan. The Hon. A. N. Kenion, who presided,
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  • 70 5 Reuter sends the following correct version of a paragraph in M. SazonofFs speech “M. Sazonofi] said tbe cooperation of Japan was infinitely precious to Russia. He eaid the friendly welcome given to tho Grand Duke Micbaelovitch in Japan was appreciated by Russia, which ardently hoped for tbe
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  • 135 5 The homeward mail closes at 11 a.m. on Sunday. Registration till 6 p.m. tomorrow. The next outward mail is expected to leave Negapatam to-morrow. The P. i O. outward mail steamer Khiva arrived at Port Said on tbe 21st instant. Bombay, February 13th: Owing to a mishap to
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  • 390 5 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 till 7 this evening:— 1. Selection Grand Contest Semiramide Rossini 2. Polka Filomena Boluds 3. Waltz Life of Mine Nonato 4. Bolero Jo Son La Rosa ...Marians 5 March The Jolly Penang Club
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  • 1304 6 A SERIOUS PROBLEM, The important article by Professor Spenser Wilkinson in Tuesday’s Times has revived a topic of ever-growing interest the training of officers, writes Major G. W. Redway in the Globe” of January 15. The initial error made by the Array Council was to issue
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  • 466 6 Penang C.R.C. v. straits Chinese F.A. On the S.R.C. ground, Singap3re, before a record crowd, a fast and very idteresting game of soccer was played between the teams of the Penang Chinese Recreation Club and the Straits Chinese Football Association. The home side won the toss, and defended the
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  • 88 6 Per N Y K, str Hirano Maru.—Mr B W Bergh, Mr A J Slater, Mr and Mrs H Engeler, Miss J J Grierson, Mr and Mrs A Francis, Mr C N Joyce, Mrs W M and Miss Gray, Mrs and 2 Masters Harvey, Mr S Cookson,
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  • 471 6 THE FINAL FORECAST. The summary of the final forecast of the rice crop in Burma for the year 1915-16 states The area under rice in the 16 principal rice-growing districts of Lower Burma is now reported to be 7,954,059 acres, an increase of 88,685 acres over the
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  • 208 6 The Economist (January 15), in usual statistics regarding industrial profits, shows that while some trades are booming, depression in others reduces aggregate increase in profits to negligible proportions. During last quarter, annual reports appeared of 208 industrial companies. They showed total profits £14,045,683, increase of £17,903,
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  • 212 6 For the period from the 25th February to 2nd March, 1916, inclusive, the value of the highest grade of rubber is fixed at three shillings and six pence one-half penny per lb„ and the duty on cultivated rubber on which export duty is leviable on an ad
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  • 305 6 The following taken from the New York Maritime Register" gives the tolls collected on cargo tonnage through the Pa a a Canal during the last fiscal year and the P F Tolls for vessels passing through the canal during the year amounted to $4,343,383 69
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  • 213 6 The Scotia, the Dundee whaling schooner which carried the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition to the South Polar regions under the Command of Dr. William S. Bruce, has been burnt in the Bristol Channel and has been run a®hore at Sully. The Scotia, left Troon, on November
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  • 88 6 To Make Peace With Allies. The Salonika correspondent of tho Gazzetta del Popolo says, apropos of the presence of 50,000 German soldiers at Constantinople, that an important group of O’d Turks and Young Turks decided to vote for an order of the day asking for the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 256 6 THIn PEOPLE CAN INCREASE WEIGHT. Thin men and women who would like to ncrease their weight with 10 or 15 pounds of healthy stay there fat should try eating a little Sargol with their meals for a while and note results. Here is a good test worth trying. First weigh
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  • WAR ITEMS.
    • 155 7 Jaoaary 27th: The six hunLondtO. V eaterday sat at the j re d I Conference at Bristol, heard ÜbC tl B n‘and fierce speeches by various joae c QQ The m ,jority of the conLabou- a r onily opposed to the I. L. fere° ce wBb bv
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    • 160 7 o Xo? r e “"7d e oru«v’°Vb7 After an interval of fine frosty neater there was do.opoar yesterday, and the eamp Lain a quagmire Arab informants 2 co rt that a Lumber of the enemy diea of S exposure, and exhaustion. During in January lyge numbers deserted, and
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    • 122 7 The German 17-inch gun, which has been lately made into a scare, regarded :»im yby naval experts, who are inclined W t' .ni that such guns are not meant for *ea fighting at all. because they would have 120 mile range and the enemy would therefore be
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    • 133 7 joite the fiercest fighting of tbe war has teen that on the Russian Frontiers recently. crim rep,rts of which have this week reached L nd.n. At one point 1,100 Ao«ri»ns were killed with the bayonet, and several hundreds were wounded. At aaorher po.ot, east of Toropoutz, after
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    • 177 7 Huasian j urnals give details of peace •-‘.rtguea recently attempted by Princess -’irie assie'chikemfl, a semi-official emisa 7 to Petrograd. It will be recalled ta: Sir George Buchanan in a recent pe*ch a; Petrograd referred to the activists of the Princess, who he said, had at---pted to
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    • 189 7 Full Cradles." The tenible losses su-tained by Germany in the present war has given a stimulus to the agitation, which already began before the war, iu connection with the falling birth-rate. The agitation is proceeding under tbe watchword Full Cradles,” and in this connection a writer in the Kolniscbe Zrituug
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    • 74 7 The scheme recently proposed for using Greece as a camp for prisoners of war is only to apply to the British and French captured by the Bulgarians, and to the Bulgarians taken by tbe Allies, so that the number concerned is comparatively small. The Greek
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  • 194 7 Since the outbreak of war Northamptonshire has supplied five armies with the bulk of their boo‘s, delivering to the B itish army alone no less than a total cf £325,000 worth a week in busy times out of a total of £400,000 worth for
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  • 165 7 Cap l J. W. Price’s aeronaut ascended in a balloon on Thursday evening from the King Edward VII School ground, Taiping at 5.30. The wind blowing in an easterly direction, the balloon soon cros-ed the ground towards the Post Office, over which the flyer released the
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  • 173 7 Queer as are the workings of a child’s receptive mind, the following, which was writ’en by a scholar attending a wellknown Hongkong public school, is about as whimsical as anything hitherto put into print:— Writs out the Story of Cais ard Abkl. The Cain
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  • 249 7 In the Penang Municipality for tbe wee k ended February 5, there were 65 deaths —3B males and 27 females, equal to a death-rate of 32.30 per mille per annum compared with 27.33 in the preceding week, and with 26.46 in the corresponding week of last year. 1
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  • 70 7 The following are the latest quotations in our share list Yesterday. To day. S 2 S Shaxxs >. a a x am Mining. K. Kamuuting 35/- 36/- 35/6 36/6 K Pulai 5 6 6 25 General. E. Smelting (Or? i S7j M. Collieries S 2 dis 51.75
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  • 106 7 A war romance has just been made public by the announcement that a chorus girl, earning a humble thirty shillings a week in a revue company, playing at the Grand Theatre, Claphsm Junction, baa become heiress of £15,000, the fortune of Lieut. Edward Ross Mulony, of the
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  • 68 7 America After War Could Outbuild Axy Othir Power. Mr. Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy, informed the Senate Naval Committee that he hoped an international agreement to limit armaments would fellow the war. The United States, Mr. Daniels added, would be so rich that it would
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  • 119 7 Feb. 25.—Leap Y’ear Dance, Engineers, Institute, 9 p m. 26.—Cricket P.C.C. v. Planters. Esplanade, 11 a. m. 26.—P.V.R.C. Shoot, 3.30 p m. n 26 —Meeting Free School Old Boys, Free School 5 p.m. M 29.—Leap Year Dance, E. A O. Hotel. M 29. Penang Chamber of Commerce, A.
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  • 180 7 WEEKLY EDITION. The following are tbe principal contents of thecurreit issue of our Weekly Mail Edition, which will be published on Saturday afternoon, price 40 cents. Editorials P&gt. The Shipping Problem 233 War and Education 234 Germany and Belgium 234 Air and Land 235
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  • 200 7 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Jin Ho, Brit., 93, Harding, Feb 24, Asahan, gen., E.S. Co. Hok Canton, Bnt., 287, Mathews, Feb 24, S’pore, gen., E. S. Co. Pangkor, Brit., 94, Caswell, Feb 24, Bindings, gen., E. S. Co. Ipoh, Bnt-, 528, Daly, Feb 25, S pore, gen., Adamson G. Co. Ban
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  • 130 7 Pinasq, February 25, 1916. (ffy Oourtssy of tho Charlortd BanAj. London Demand Bank ...2/4 7/32 M 4 months* right Bank ...2/4 5/8 3 Credit 7/8 3 Documentary ...3/4 29/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174 3 days’ right Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank 174 Moulmein Demand Bank 173 M 3
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 341 7 RUNNYMEDE HOTEL, PENANG. Telephone No’a 635 and 543. II Proprietor A. Kbkdyk. TeL Address: “Runnymede Hotbu” H Manager J. G. HUMMEUNG. THE MOBT SELECTED BmjATIOM ON THE DE* BIDE. TERMS:—Single rooms from •5 per dar upwards. w Double rooms For Monthly Terms apply to the Manager. Special arrangements for meals
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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