Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 March 1916

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 64 VOL. LXXIV; SATURDAY, 18th MARCH. !916 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    1206 2 The Rev William Cross passes through Penang to-day on the homeward mail. The London Gazette announces that Major Mac Mullen (Ludhiana Sikhs), becomes temporary Brigadier-General. Mr; Mark Brown, Chief Engineer of tha s.s. Krian, died on Wednesday, at the Gen eral Hospital, Singapore, and was buried at
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    The Sumatra Mail Service.
    375 2 The mail service from Belawan which has been considerably interrupted during the past three weeks by the laying up of the Eastern Shipping Company’s s s, Alma through a shortage of coal will be resumed next week when the E. S. Co.'s s.s. Perak will take
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    THE POLICE COURT.
    1210 2 INTERESTING MAINTENANCE CASE. The case in which the Chinese nonia Goh Hooi En, daughter of Mr. Goh Boon Ho, Head Cashier of the Mercantile Bank Penang, is su ng her husband Toh g Swee, the son of a wealthy towkay of Taiping, was resumed in the third
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    Herr Ballin’s Activities.
    189 2 Admiral von Holtzendotff has, writes a correspondent, somewhat ixaggerated what he is pleased to call England’s fear of the German mercantile marine but it would no doubt be true to say that in his sphere Herr Ballin is a far more formid. able menace to Britain’s future
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    Criminal Liability of Companies.
    155 2 An Interesting Legal Point. At the Full Court of Appeal to be held in Ipoh next week a case that has aroused considerable interest in legal circle? will come up for decision on the point of the liability of a business company as such tor a
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    TO-DAY’S TIN PRICES.
    31 2 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin |B Penang was $93 per picul, business done*, Tin is quoted in London to-day at £195 10s. spot, and £l9O 15s. three months.
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    The Rubber Market.
    26 2 London, March 17.* The following is the rubber quotation for to-day Plantation Ist Latex Crepe 3/6 [♦By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead Co. j
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    THE PENANG RELIEF FUND.
    41 2 The Hon. Treasurer sends us the folowing list of further contributions to t above Fund, forwarded to the Charter 0 Bank, Penang. Balance on March 14 $7,915 Govt. Monopolies staff, February subscription Balance on March 15 sB,ool.*s
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    Fraser’s Share Circular.
    76 2 [From Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, March 18Messrs Fraser and Co’s Share says generally there is good business w more movement in tins. Industrials steady and well sought. The George Town Dispensary, L’d., us a coloured calendar with portraits o Allied leaders. The Electric Polyscope will show to-n
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      483 2 NLW ADVERTISEMENTS. WANTED. HOUSE famished or unfurnished with four bedrooms. Apply to Box No. 164, c/o Pinang Gazette. NOTICE. TENDERS will be received up to noon on Saturday, the 25th March, 1916, at the Resident Councillor’s Office from persons desirous of contracting for the following supplies for the Government for
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      411 2 The resident councillor win be At Home at Tbe Residency on Wednesday, 29th March, at 5 p.m. No separate invitations will be issued. Tennis. 280—tu th s 28-3 I GEORGE NORMAN SABAPATHY > SITHAMBRAM will be known from the 31st March, 1916, as GEORGE NORMAN SITHAMBRAM SABAPATHY and not as
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    VERMAN PLANS AT SEA.
    952 3 by a student of war. There is ranch vague speculation abroad er t he Germans have some surprise in ’nr to spring upon us at sea. These surL L have little positive evidence to go m 0 far at any rate, as published ini( i 8
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    PLENTY OF MONEY AFTER THE WAR.
    811 3 OPTIMISM OF SIR GEO. PAISH. “We many confidently expect that the nation after the war will have as much capital for investment as before the war,” declared Sir Geo. Paish, the great financial authority, in a lecture delivered to the London School of Economics,
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    AN INDIAN CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY.
    527 3 BLOW TO THE PROTECTION AND SUBSIDY SCHOOL. Sir Dorabji Tata’s presidential address to the Indian Industrial Conference has thrown a bomb into the Swadeshi camp. Sir Dorabji Tata cannot be said to be a doctrinaire. He is the head of the firm which has established
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    America to Make 42cm. Howitzers.
    160 3 The resignation of Mr. Lindley M. Garrison has caused renewed interest in the views of American military expeits on the defence of the country. Special importance is attached to the reports of Colonel Charles G. Treat, instructor at the War College, compiled from observations made
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    GOOD HOPE (SELANGOR) RUBBER.
    519 3 DIVIDEND 5 PER CENT. The seventh ordinary general meeting of the above was held at the office of Messrs. Cumberbatch Co, Slave Island, Colombo, on March 4th. Present Mr. R. Whittow, Director, Chairman Mr W N Tisdall, Director, Mr C C Durrant and Mr H V
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER REPORT
    198 3 Messrs. Guthrie and Co., Ltd., in their weekly report date Singapore, Thursday, 16th instant says The quantity sold at this week’s auction amounted to some 350 tons out of a total of 435 tons catalogued. The demand for all grades was good and prices of standard grades
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    TIN RECOVERY.
    160 3 Possibly, no doubt, in partial sympathy with another rise in copper, tin on February 14th advanced £l, to £lBO 17s. 6d. per ton. Tin has so far this year been a much better market than it was either last year or in 1914, the average price being around
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      179 3 GOLD AND RHEUMATISM. The long spell of wet weather is now having evil effect on a number of people, and the tortures of rheumatism are disabling many. Victims of this malady have every reason to fear the first dull aches in the limbs and joints, followed by sharp pains through
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      25 3 Advertising is more than ever essential, on the principle that, the smaller the demand, the greater the necessity to increase it.—The American Lead Pencil Co.
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    BIRTH.
    26 4 Crofton. —On Tuesday, the Bth Feb., at 11, Hervey Road, Blackheath, the wife of Captain Roger Crofton, R. G. A of a daughter (still born).
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    THE EMPIRE'S RESOLVE.
    1020 4 The world is being enlightened as to what the future of Germany is likely to be after war in the event of the conclusive victory which the Allies are determined to achieve. The results that the Central Powers had in their minds when they entered on the
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    HERE AND THERE.
    1797 4 Mr. Ivor H. N. Evans, Assistant Curator and Ethnographical Assistant, F.M.S Museums, contributes some very interesting notes on aboriginal tribes of Upper Perak. His observations are restricted to three tribes, the Semang of Grik, the Orang Jehehr of Temengoh and the Hill Sakai of the main range.
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      193 4 “E. O.” MOTOR GARAGE. CARS ON HIRE $4- AN HOUR. Telephone No. 322. ORCHARDING IN TASMANIA. BADLIER KNIGHT Orchard Agents and Attorneys, LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA. We plant and manage orchards for Absentee Clients, with graduated payments, and under Government Expert supervision, until it suits them to take personal possession this enables
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    60 4 DEATHS. Browne.—On March 15, at the General Hospital, Singapore, Mark Browne, late Chief Engineer of s.s. Krian. Harfleet. —At Kandang Kerbau, Singapore, on the 14th, Georgina, beloved wife of John Harfleet, of the Standard 0.1 Co. Obituary. LORD THURLOW. London, March 16. The death has occurred of Thomas John Hoveli-Thui
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    DUTCH LINER LOST.
    131 5 laden french steamer ATTACKED. MR. HUGES AND TRADE. THE RECENT BRITISH SUCCESS. CANADIAN BANKS’ OFFER. The large new Dutch liner Tubantia, for South America sank off the Dutch coast, the passengers and crew being rescued. It has not been established whether the liner was mined or torpedoed,
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  • France and Belgium.
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      VERDUN.
      310 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] THE FINAL PHASE. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Paris, March 17. The opinion is growing that the battle of Verdun is in the final phas°, and that everything is in favour of the French, Although their artillery attacks are more desperate than ever, the Germans have hardly
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      The Trade Struggle.
      235 5 MR. HUGHES’ APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT. London, March 17. The Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes, the Australian Prem er, was the gue«t at dinner of the Chambers of Commerce of the Empire. Mr. Hughes said victory would crown our arms only when we had bent every energy to
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      Enemy Goods to India.
      131 5 GOVERNMENT’S MEASURES. London, March 17. In the House of Lords, Lord Sydenham affirmed that a considerable quantity of enemy goods was still entering India. Lord Islington announced that a bill would shortly be introduced in the Legislative Council of India to validate the seizure of suspected
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      Trade With Germany.
      32 5 MANCHESTER’S DECISION. London, March 17. Eighteen out of twenty-two new Directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce are pledged to have no Free Trade with Germany after the war.
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      Trading with the Enemy.
      31 5 London, March 17. The London Gazette gives a number of firms in Persia, including the notorious Wassoouss, who are black-listed under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
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      A British Airship.
      25 5 London, March 16. In the House of Commons, Dr. T. J. Macnamara announced the completion for the Admiralty of a rigid airship.
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      Hyde By-Election.
      25 5 London, March 16. Mr W. Davies will contest Hyde byelection on behalf of the married attested men, against the Coalition candidate, Mr. Jacobsen.
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      Lord Montagu.
      17 5 London, March 16. Lord Montagu has accepted a seat on an Inter-Departmental Air Service Committee.
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  • Turkey and the Near East
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      MESOPOTAMIA.
      109 5 THE HOSPITAL ARRANGEMENTS. London, March 16. In the House of Commons, on the Army Estimates, Mr. Walter Long said the Government, both at Home and in India, were doing their utmost to provide every possible alleviation for the wounded in Mesopotamia. The Viceroy some weeks ago decided to send
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      Western Egypt.
      18 5 CAPTURE OF GUNS. Cairo, March 17. Three enemy guns were captured during the pursuit from Solium.
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      THE 15th SIKHS IN EGYPT.
      124 5 Delhi, March 7.—A Press communique says In connection with the departure of the 15th Sikhs from Egypt General Sir J. G. Maxwell has sent the following telegram to General Wallace, Mersa Matruh, on the 18th January As I may not have an opportunity to say
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      WITH OUR FORCES IN EGYPT.
      472 5 Interesting glimpses at the Expeditionary Force in Egypt are provided by Reuter, as follows The clint ate is bracing, with perhaps a ra’her too variable temperature, due possibly to the frequent and sudden changes of wind, which from some quarters blows very cold indeed. But
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    COLONEL SIR C. M. WATSON.
    23 5 London, March 17. The death is announced of Colonel Sir Charles Moore Watson, kc m G., aged 71.
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    Sir S. Ali Imam.
    17 5 Loudon, March 17. Sir Syed Ali Imam, K.C.5.1., is sailing to-morrow for Bombay.
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  • Naval Operations.
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      THE TUBANTIA SUNK.
      125 5 CAUSE OF DISASTER. Tne Hague, March 16. The Dutch liner Tubantia was still afloat at 8-30 in the morning. The passengers were then in the boats. It is now uncertain whether a mine or a torpedo destroyed the liner. La’er. The Tubantia sank. All are safe. A
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      French Liner Attacked.
      49 5 20 AMERICANS ON BOARD. New York. March 16 The French liner Patria, with 900 passengers, including 20 Americans, has arrived. The Captain reports that bis ship was attacked, without warning, by a submarine, off Tunis, the torpedo passing 20 feet from the stern of the line
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      MINE-LAYING U. BOATS.
      552 5 German experts seem to have faced the conclusion that torpedo attack by submarines, under the existing condition of the war at sea, is a losing game, writes a correspondent in the Scotsman.” Representing, as it does the possibility of effective damage with a minimum of risk to
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      Grand Admiral Von Tirpitz.
      47 5 NO CHANGE IN POLICY. Loudon, March 17. A Berlin semi-official telegram says Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, the Minister of Marine, withdraws with all honours. The choice of his successor, who has co-operated with von Tirpitz, guarantees continuity of policy, particularly the submarine warfare.
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      Admiral Lacaze
      21 5 Paris, March 17. Admiral Lacaze, Minister of Marine, has temporarily taken over General Gallieni’s duties of Minister for War.
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  • General News.
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      CANADA AND MUNITIONS.
      59 5 BANKS’ SPLENDID OFFER. Ottawa, March 17, The Hon. Mr, White, the Canadian Finance Minister, announced that the Canadian Banks had offered a credit of £15,000,000 in connection with orders for munitions made in Canada in the next two months. This was a matter for great pride, coming
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      The Silver Market.
      100 5 London, March 16. Messrs Montagu Co’s, report says the tone of the silver market continues remark ably steady. The demind for the Home Mint is the chief factor. The continent has been more or less a constant buyer. Few orders came from India. The closeness of the
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      Professor Macdonell.
      72 5 London, March 16. Presenting Professor Macdonell with the Campbell Memorial Medal on behalf of Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Lord Sandhurst paid a tribute to Campbell’s great work in Bombay on the cutbreak of plague. Professor Macdonell, in reply, advocated a school cf research for Europeans
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      Portugal.
      31 5 EX-KING’S ADVICE. London, March 16. Reuter is informed that in view of the war, King Manoel has asked all the royalists to support whole-heartedly whatever Government is established in Portugal.
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      Lord Chelmsford.
      41 5 Lonuon, March 16. Lord Chelmsford was received in audience by the King, and kissed hands on his appointment as Viceroy of India. He received the insignia of the Grand Cross of the Star of India and the Indian Empire.
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      King of Siam.
      16 5 Bangkok, March 17. H. M. the King of Siam is suffering from neurasthenia.
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      Lord Curzon.
      11 5 London, March 16. Lord Curzon is making satisfactory progress.
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    NEW PEACE TRICK.
    268 5 The New York Tribune’s Lugano correspondent cables that high financial circles in Germany, fearing a financial cataclysm if the war continues much longer, are exercising pressure upon the Government to conclude peace. Germany, the correspondent learns, would be willing to make peace by the restoration of all
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    LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
    63 5 The following are the latest quotations in our share list t Yesterday. To-day. Shares S. PQ QQ CQ CO Aftmng. Chenderiang 11/6 12/6 12/- 12/6 Deebook 16/6 17/- 16/- 17/K.Kamunting 37/- 38/- 37/6 38/6 Serandah 90c 70c $1 Tongkab H. sl4| slss $l5 slsj General. P. Gazette
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    SUMATRA JOTTINGS.
    686 5 {Specially Translated.) Governor-General Idenburg leaves Buitenzorg for good on the 17th. Penang has been declared an infected port, owing to bubonic plague, by the Governor of the East Coast of Sumatra. Heer D. J. van Aalst of Bussum has been appointed Engineer to the Harbour and Coaling Station
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    M. F. A.
    60 5 This afternoon, Bahrol Alam and Crescent Star meet in the third match of the annual Cup. The former is probably a little the stronger, but not as strong as in 1914. On Sunday, Mejlis play Stia Tanjang Tokong. A game of great robustness should result. The last
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    P.C.C. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
    38 5 The following were the results of the ties played yesterday Singles Handicap B.—F W Harris beat A S Hall, 4—-6, 10 —B, 6—l; Stewart beat Blackford, 6—l, 6—2. Singles Handicap C.—Tryner beat Davie» 6—3, B—6.
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    EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON ENGLISH LIFE.
    1683 6 MR. WALTER LONG’S OPINIONS. The New York Tribune publishes the following interview on the subject of the effect of the war on life in England, which Mr. Walter Long, President of the Local Government Board, gave to Mr. F. A. Wray, special correspondent
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    SHIPPING.
    95 6 CLEARANCES. To-day. Leong Ho fo Alor Star (Kedah). Namsang for Singapore and China. Perlis for Trang, Tongkah and Pang Nga. Trang for Trang. Ipoh for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Padang for Trang. Will o’ the Wisp for Deli. Hauroto for Rangoon. Jit Seng for Ven. Nankin for Ceylon, Ausralasia,
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    EXCHANGE.
    126 6 Penang, March 18, 1916. (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 7'B 3 Documentary ...2/4 29/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174 3 days’sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank 174 Moulmein Demand Bank 173 3 days'sight Private
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    PRODUCE.
    251 6 Pbnang, March 18, 1916. 8. P. Tapioca $9.30 sales. M. P. Tapioca $9.50 sales. Gold leaf $64.40 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 oz). $l6 1/2 buyorb Black Pepper $lB.OO buyers. White Pepper $41.00 sellers Trang Pepper -$33 sellers. Mace $llO nom. Mace Pickings $62 sales Cloves $4O buye
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    COMING EVENTS.
    93 6 March 18.—Penang Club Cinderella Dance. 20.—Penang Assizes Open. 21. —Penang Rural Board Meeting, 3 p.m., Land Office. 22.—Meeting Licensing Justices, District Court, 2-15 p.m. —Malakoff Plantations, Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 3 p.m. 23.—Penang Library, A.G.M. Library, 4-30 p.m. 23 and 25.—Tableaux Vivants and Dance, Town Hall, for Destitute
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    LORD FRENCH AS WITNESS.
    868 7 RETRACTED PRESS STATEMENT. London, March 10.—An American, Mr. Moore, an intimate friend of Lord French, with whom he shared his London hou'e, and who was a guest at Lord French’s Headquarters in France, had sued a Manchester paper for stating that he had learned military secrets
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      AHEAD OF THE MAIL.
      8 7 AHEAD OF THE MAIL
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      Adviser for Crown Prince
      384 7 London, February 25.—Verdun eclipses all other topics. The whel of France is watching events with unconquerable confidence. There were evident risks in attempting an offensive movement before the end of winter, but the General Staff at Berlin was under such pressure from economic and dynastic considerations
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      Germany’s Futile Efforts.
      89 7 London, February 25th.—The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent reports that one of the fiercest battles of the war has been raging north of Verdun, bat the French military chiefs view the German onslaught with perfect confidence. The onslaught has now lasted three days and has produced no appreciable
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      Germany and Verdun Losses.
      156 7 London, Ma-ch 10—The German Press in endeavouring to assuage public disappointment regarding the outcome of the fighting at Verdun. The Vossische Zeitung says: While the German arms cannot always obtain victories, there are probably good reasons for a pause. Verdun has the significance of only one
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      Aim of France’s Troops.
      241 7 London, March B.—Some writers regard the German attacks west of the Meuse and at Fresnea as an indication of a return to the policy of surrounding Verdun. This has undoubtedly been the object of the German retention of the St. Mihiel salient and the Crown Prince’s
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      The Enemy’s Failure.
      75 7 London, March 10.—The Agenzia Libera" Zurich correspondent says that the German staff in planning the Verdun attack gravely under-estimated the French defensive strength. They calculated that ten days’ uninterrupted offensive would see the French lines broken and the Germans marching on Paris. The Crown Prince is reported
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      Italy and the War.
      40 7 London, March 4.—Apparently the anticipations of an Italian announcement regarding the war with Germany will not be realized at present. The Premier, replying to a Socialist, declared that the moment was inopportune to discuss foreign policy.
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      Meat for Germany.
      40 7 London March 10—Advices from Constantinople received at Athens say that demonstrations, mainly feminine, ha-e led to the prohibition of further export of meat to Germany. A wagon load was stopped and the meat sold to the population.
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      Alleged Confidence Trick
      356 7 T. O. M." The case in which a Mohammedan and three Tamil men of Ipoh, named Peer Mohamed, Allagappan, Sinnecuppay, and Katang, are charged by the Police with attempting to cheat a Chinese trader of the town in respect of $4,000, occupied the attention of Mr Justice
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    British Steel Helmets.
    73 7 London March 10.—A correspondent at British headquarters says steel helmets are so successful there that there is now talk of breast-plates and back-plates. He personally examined eight helmets the wearers of which would all have been killed had they been wearing cap®. Some were unhurt and others
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    THE MAILS.
    61 7 The RM S. Khyber, arrived at Marseilles on Wednesday 15th instant. The connecting steamer from the Straits viz, 8.8. Sardinia, left hereon 19th ultimo. The P. <fc O. Royal Mail steamer Nagoya, having left Colombo is expected to arrive here at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, and will leave
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    CHURCH SERVICES.
    255 7 SUNDAY, MARCH 19. Church of Eagland. St. George’s Church.—2nd Sunday in Lent; Matins 8 a.m Holy Communion, 8.30 a.m.; Holy Communion, Tamil Service, 9.15 am Chinese Service, 10.30 s.m.; Sunday School 5 p.m; Evensong and Sermon, 6 p.m. Hymn 269 Christian seek not yet repose. Psalm XCVIII Parratt,
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