Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 10 October 1916

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 236 VOL. LXXIV. TUESDAY, 10th OCTOBER, 1916. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 579 1 LaaoDDouinaDDaaaananaananaaa WANTED j Sf n RUBBER to sell by auction or pri- vately, or for shipment. c G OOPS for forwarding to any c part of the world. a I g INSURANCE risks against Fire c written. g D We specialize in the above. Apply to— ALLEN DENNYS Co., 2
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    • 60 1 pnwnnHnonnncaaoaDQßOOim»^ <3 o FOR $3O g g VOU can have the Pinanf I Gazette posted every day g for a whole year to your addreea. n g (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION. $27). Proportionate Quarteily and O Half-yearly rates. a g Subscriptions are payable in g advaucH and remittance should q be addressed
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  • 784 2 Sir Beauchamp Duff has already left India for England. Dr. Gilmore Ellis has left Singapore on a tour of inspection in Malacca and Penang. At Klang Lodge Installation yesterday evening Mr. E H. King Harman was installed as Worshipful Master. Mr. W. R. Dorsey, who succeeds Mr.
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 194 2 The shoot yesterday at Kampong Bahru resulted as follows g 2 8 'S t>- ’q. ©lO 8 r£ 2 Q Q H Mrs Liston 31 28 28 87 Miss Mathieu 32 22 29 83 Mrs Oxenham 27 27 22 76 Mrs Sayers 27 22 25 74
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    • 152 2 OCTOBER MONTHLY MEDAL. The result of the Monthly Medal competition for October was as follows nett. R H Pinherm 41 +so= 91—20 =7l AA J Warner 50 +52 102—24 =7B H Oxenham 44 48= 92—14=78 AS Hall 52 47= 99—20 =79 S F Brereton Martin 41 38=
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    • 37 2 The following ties have been fixed for Thursday Profession Pairs—S F B Martin and Harries v R E Prentis and Everest. Doubles Handicap B—G M Terzano and Tryner v J T Nicol and Harvey.
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    • 141 2 THE HANDICAPS. [From Our Own Correspondent.} Singapore, October 9. Race 1. Loaddeer 9.9 The Milky Way 8 3 The Friar 9.2 Quaker Girl 8.3 Venture 8.0 Race 2 A. R. V. 10.3 Brown Comet 7.10 Fallowland 10.3 Michael Grabam7.lo Pretty Molly 10.3 The Earl 7 7 Moment 10.0
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    • 67 2 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, October 10. Penang horses have arrived for Singapore Races. Easy work was done this morning. Storey ran the full distance alone, doing the Course in 1 min. 59 secs. At meeting of the Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Friday a
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  • 748 2 SEQUEL TO MOTOR OAR COLLISION In the Second Court, Penang, yesterday afternoon, an inquest was held by Mr. J. C. Sugars, Coroner, and a jury consisting of Messrs. T. J. Williams, G. B. Baptist and yy g Perkins, into the circumstances attending the death of a Mohammedan
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  • 240 2 .—"Cincinnati Times-Star.” I hear that a battalion of coloured men from South Africa will be shortly at work behind the lines in France, says a correspondent. It has been raised by the Union Government, and wll be under the military control of officers nominated by that
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  • 563 2 MRS. BESANT’S CLAIM. Madras, 27th September.— kt the Madras High Court to-day, a special bench composed of the officiating Chief Justice and Mr. Justices Ayling and Seshagiri Iyer sat to hear the application of Mrs. Annie Besant, keeper of the New India printing works, to revise
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  • 155 2 Terriblk Experience of Schooner’s Crew. Calcutta, September 27.—The ss Bharata reports that the day before its arrival in Calcutta cries for help were heard from a two masted schooner, about a hundred miles south of Sands head. The vessel was manned by ten emaciated Indians,
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  • 125 2 greater efforts.—“ New York Evening Telegram. A despatch from New York to the Daily Telegraph s‘ates that the German chemical dyes brought to the United States in the submarine trader Deutschland have gone begging for want of purchasers, on account of the prices asked, which are said
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 860 2 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, municipal notice. M ANA 0ER WANTED for eoeonnt N 1 1V1 estate in Province Wellesley, to aod impo ed oo gl| bui|(j take full charge o s ae an ccoun s. an( j g gituated within the Municipality of i About 900 acres in bearing. George Towd> Penang)
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 76 2 M PI R E THEATRE PHONE 628. The P rem,er Theatre of Penan PENANG ROAD TH»- ™»S. LORD JOHN’S JOURNAL In Three Parts. Being the fourth series of the thrilling adventures of a Nobleman. BEHIND THE MASK In 2 Parts. A Pretty and well acted Comedy Drama. NOTICE TO PATRONS.
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  • 1681 3 GEOGRAPHICAL DETAILS. The principal natural feature which governs the possibility and affects the direction of an advance from the jEgean Coast upon Sofia and into the heart of Old Bulgaria is the Rhodope Balkans. The name is given to the series of ranges which begin on
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  • 774 3 S.T." SUPREME COURT DECISION IN DISPUTE. Judgment was given in the Supreme Court, Singapore, by Mr. Justice Earnshaw in the matter of the application by Syed Hassan bin Mohamed Alsagoff and Co., which was opposed by Syed Omar bin Mohamed Alsagoff, Syed Mohamed bin Agil bin Yahya
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 457 3 PLANTER (Dutch) 36 years of age very healthy, many years practice in Netherlands India and Brazil as Assistant I and Manager. Good know edge of I rubber, coffee and cocoa cultivation, I new clearings, gardenwork, manufacture, I administration, drainage, irrigation and machinery; in command of all kind of coolies; seeks
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    • 23 3 THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE Co., (Incorporated in Canada).] All kinds of Life and Endowment Policies Issued. Messrs. GUTHRIE Co., Ltd., General Agents, Penang
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    • 734 3 j I When you buy tyres, i buy MILES i I j OOME tyres achieve “freak’’ mileages, j of course, just as some men live to be a j 7 hundred. The average motorist is natur- j ally more interested in average mileage, and i U— these disinterested records of
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  • 19 4 Richards —On Oct. 9th at Newbury, Beikshire, to Lieut H Eric Richards and Mrs. Richard®, a son.—(By cable).
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  • 1197 4 The latest development of German frightfnluess off the American coast fails in the element of the unexpected. The pressure of the Tirpi'z party in Germany for a more ruthless use of submarines and the desperate position into which the Germans are being forced on land indicated that
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  • 1385 4 The fifth German war loan is admittedly not a success, though G.r... W.r 10,590,000,000 m.r k Loan. looks a fairly substantial figure. The subscriptions, it is said, outside those of war contractors, come mainly from agricultural sources. It was not by any means a loan popular among
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  • CORRESPONDENCE
    • 135 4 [T’o The Editor of the Pining Gctzdtt". Sir, —At the inauguration ceremony of the newly erected Minaret of the Captain Kling Mosque, the Hon. the Resident Councillor, in the course of his reply to the Address presented to him ty tbe Mohamedan Community, ig reported
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  • 32 4 The outward mail steamer Nyatza is expected to leave Colombo on Friday nex’ t 13th instant. The mails which left Penang on the 14th September, were delivered in London yesterday.
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  • 178 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin io Penang was $87.25 per picul business done—an increase of $2.65 Tin is quoted in London to day s£l7B spot, and £l7B 10s three months. At a committee meeting of the Penao? Hindu Sabha yesterday afternoon iwas decided to appoint sub-committees to collect
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 196 4 DUE SHORTLY A SHIPMENT OF White Porcelain Latex Cups (Best Quality White Glazed) i HHHH tKfIB AS ILLUSTRATION. Packed in cases of 500 pieces each. ORDERS NOW BEING BOOKED. THE EASTERN TRADING Co., 35, PITT STREET, PENANG. ESTATE SUPPLIES. Sodium Bisulphite, Mercury Perchloride, White Arsenic, Flowers of Sulphur, Sulphur Sticks,
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    • 105 4 THE CRAG HOTEL PENANG HILLS. The Sanatorium of the Straits Settlements. Completely Kenovated. Laundry on the Premises. Telegrams Crag,” Penang Hills. NOTICE. TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE "PINANG GAZETTE.” The accounts of the “Pinang Gazette,” having been issued, subscribers are reminded that all subscriptions are PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Owing* to heavy
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 263 5 ATTACKS OFF NEW YORK. BRITISH AND NEUTRAL VESSELS SUNK. RUMANIAN RETIREMENT. ADVANCE IN MACEDONIA. German submarines, stated to be three in number, are operating close to the west coast of the United States, off New York and Boston, in the line of the trans-Atlantic traffic. It is reported
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 274 5 [Reutrr’B Telbgramb.] FRENCH REPULSE ENEMY WAVES Paris, October 8. There were intermittent reciprocal bombardments on the Somme. The Germans, after a violent artillery preparation, attacked our new positions west of Sailly-Saillisel. The attacking waves were shattered by our curtain of fire, without one reaching our trenches. The
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  • Turkey and the Near East.
    • 439 5 THE STRUGGLE PROCEEDS. Paris, October 9. A Salonika report says fighting continues from the Cerna bend to Lake Prespa. The Serbians occupied Dobroupolje peak, and the French captured Kiiovo, in the Baba mountains. Our Terrible Guns, London, October 9. Reuter’s correspondent at British Macedonian Headquarters says our guns are
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    • 164 5 Brasso, reported to have been re-cap-tured by the enemy, was the first important town captured by the Rumanians in Transylvania. This is just on the Transylvanian side of the southern mountain chain. It is the most important commerical and manufacturing town in the country, besides being with
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    • 133 5 CONSTANTINE’S DOUBLE GAME London, October 9. Telegrams from Athens state that the King is enmmoning all the discredited political jobbers in an effort to fiud a Premier. It is reported that King Constantine has postponed the corsideration of the question of intervention till after October 15th, the date fixed
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    • 478 5 Thanks to the supineness of King Constantine and the Greek Government the revolutionary movement in Greece is spreading with unexampled rapidity. The mere fact that M. Venezelos, on the very eve of the elections has abandoned constitutional agitation and has openly joined the revolutionaries at Salonika
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  • Russian Campaign.
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      75 5 BATTLE IN PROGRESS. London, October 9. A Russian conmmunique says stubborn fighting continues in the direction of Vladimir-Volynsk, where at some places we force'! the enemy’s lines, and are consolidating our gains. We repelled an enemy offensive east of Brzezany. Russian Advance in Dobrudja. Petrograd, October 9. The Russians
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  • Naval Operations.
    • 710 5 SEVERAL VESSELS TORPEDOED. New York, October 9. The British steamer Strathdene, from New York for Bordeaux, was torpedoed. Twenty of the crew were taken on board the Nantucket lightship. An American destroyer flotilla left Newport to rescue them. Menace to Atlantic Traffic. Boston, October 9. The British
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    • 67 5 Stratxdrne, 4321 tons, built Greenock, 1909, owners, Burrell Son, Glasgow, dimensions, 375 5X52.2X25.5. Kingston, 2925 tons, 1901, of Toronto, 288.0X36.2X13.3. Kingstonian (P), 6564 tons, 1901, F. Leyland Co., Ltd., Liverpool, 467.0X53.7X31.6. Stkphano, 3449 tons, 1911, New York, New Foundland and Halifax S. S. Co., Ltd., C.
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    • 48 5 SUBMARINE ATTACK. London, October 9. A French cruiser was sunk by an enemy submarine on October 4th. The torpedo exploded the power magazine and destroyed the wireless, isolating the vessel. Rafta on which were the shipwrecked were met on October sth by a French cruiser.
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  • Italy’s Campaign.
    • 55 5 A VIOLENT ATTACK. Rome, October 9. The enemy artillery activity ia increasing over the whole front. A violent attack on a peak, 2,456 feet, at Buhaalta, forced back our right wing, but the arrival of reinforcements led to the driving out of the enemy, who were chased
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  • General News.
    • 101 5 THE FLOATING DEBT. London, October 9. Swiss financiers regard the results of the German War Loan as unsatisfactory, and even approaching a financial reverse. They point out that Germany’s war expenditure at the end of September totalled £2,600,000,000, of which only £1,825,000,000 was covered by the four
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    • 63 5 CANADIAN APPRECIATION. Ottawa, October 9. The Duke of Connaught was given a farewell lunch by the Canadian Club. The Premier paid a warm tribute to the services of the Duke of Connaught. The Duke, in reply, said immigration would be one of Canada’s greatest problems after
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    • 61 5 THE NEGOTIATIONS. Peking, October 9. After long delay due to the vacancy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the negotiations arising from the Cheng-Chia-Tung incident have been re-opened. It ia stated that the Chinese Government has adopted a conciliatory attitude, and accepted in principle all the Japanese demands, except
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    • 34 5 Tokio, October 9. Tn the new Cabinet Marshal Count Terauchi is Piemier and Minister of Finance, and Baron Motono Foreign Minister. There is no change in the War and Marine Ministries.
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  • 71 5 From Our Own Correspondent.} Kuala Lumpur, October 10. Commander Mills was this morning presented by H E the Governor and High Commissioner with the Imperial Service Order. The Governor stated that Commander Mills had been 24 years in the service of the F. M.S. Government, following 17
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  • 996 5 ALLEGED RECEIPT OF ILLEGAL GRATIFICATOIN. The charge against A. A. Surin, Acting Chief Clerk of the Police Courts, Penang,, of receiving an illegal gratification of $3 on August 18, commenced in the Third Court this morning, Mr. A. Cavendish pre a iding. The Solicitor-General, Mr. R. D.
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  • 1836 6  -  A COMPLETE STORY BY PATRICK MACGILL. (Author of Children of the Dead End,” The Rat Pit,” etc.) No. 6.—For Blighty?* [All Rights Reserved.] The night was intensely dark, and from the door of the dug-out I could scarcely see the outline of the sentry who stood on
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  • 755 6 THE WORLD’S DEBT TO BELGIUM CAN NEVER BE PAID IN FULL. There are some people in Europe and overseas, writes Mr. A. G. Hales, the veteran Australian war correspondent, who imagine that Britons as a whole are so smugly self-satisfied with the part the British
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  • 18 6 Penang The E. &O. Hotel, The Crag, Runnymede Hotel. Singapore Raffles Hotel. Rangoon Strand Hotel.
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  • 147 6 Oct. 14.—Singapore v. Penang Football match at 5 p m Dato Kramat. Oct. 21.—Free School entertainment at Town Hall, 4.30 p.m. (For Scholars). Anglo-Chinese School Union, display at Town Hall, 9 p.m. Oct 25,—“At Home” at the Residency, 5 p.m. Sale of flags etc. Free School Entertainment,
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  • 136 6 Psnang, October 10, 1916. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank';. London Demand Bank ...2/4 3/16 >i 4 months' sight Bank ...2/4 5/8 ii 3 Credit ...2/4 13/16 ii 3 Documentary ...2/4 27/32 Calcutta Demand Bank R s 174 h 3 days' sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank If 174
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  • 21 6 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Mobrow. For Per Close. Singapore and China s-Jacob 3-30 p.m. Moulmein Providence 3-30 p m.
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  • 41 6 CLEARANCES. To-day. Ban Lee for Batu Bahra. De Kock for Deli and Batu Bahra. Pungah for Asahan. Hebe for Bagan Datoh Teluk Anson. Pangkor tor Dindings and Sitiawan. Klang for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Tara for Port Swettenham and Singapore,
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  • 153 6 ’Oct. 11 and 12.—Penang Golf Club, Monthly Medal, Ladies’ Links. Oct. 13.—Penang Turf Club, Special General Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 4.30 p.m. Oct. 13.—Ministering Children’s League Meeting, Free School, 4.30 p.m. Oct. 14. —Wedding of Mr. J. C. Benson, and Miss Warham, St. Andrew’s Church. Oct 14.—Concert by
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 788 6 Certain and Inoomparable Strengthoner W Is Dr. Cassell’s Tablets. K The great strength-giving power of Dr. Cassell’s Tablets makes them an S ideal restorative in malarial f^ r and the bodily weakness and exhaustion which follow They give tn fipht the disease, and so cut short the attack, lake tnem
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  • WAR NEWS.
    • 210 7 Haig’s Outflanking Tactics- London, September 27.—The first main objective in the Somme advance was the occupation of the line from Thiepval to Combles. The realisation of this objective brings nearer the isolation of Peronne. There are no more fortress positions before the British. The new line
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    • 149 7 London, September 27.—Telegrams from A*hens state that Greek officers both naval and military are going to Salonika in large numbers to join the revolutionaries. One telegram says some have gone from every garrison in old Greece. Another refers to the King and Court as almost abandoned. The
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    • 85 7 An Austrian communique admits that the Rumanians have regained the Vulcan and Szurduk passes, explaining that a big encircling movement by strong Rumanian forces compelled them to withdraw, London, December 27,—Unofficial telegrams from Bukharest siy that in the fighting in the Jiul (Zsil or Schyll) valley,
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    • 76 7 London, September 21.—The Liberte’s correspondent in Nothern France says a prisoner carried an order, stating the Allies’ attacks on the Somme would certainly become more terrific, and that as the present kghting was a prelude to more important operations, it was essential not to yield ground.
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    • 59 7 London, October 1 —The Morning Post’s” Athens correspondent reports thot General Danglis, ex-Minister of War, accompanied by other officers, has gone to join M Venezelos and will be the third Member of the Provisional Government. According to a Central News telegram from Athens, the entire Greek
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    • 62 7 London, October 2.—The gunnery against the Zeppelins is much improved. The shells all burst close to their target, and few miss altogether. The range finding work is marvellously good, even at great heights. Usually the guns damage the airship, and the aeroplanes finish them of. The night flying
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    • 130 7 London, September 30.—The lightness of our losses in comprisou with those of the Germans, as reported by General Haig, is not characteristic of a few actions only, but is a governing factor of the whole offensive. Throughout the operations the defenders have lost more heavily, which is
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    • 44 7 London, September 18 :—An East African article in the Kolnische Volks Zeitung says One of the most stirring dramas in this gigantic conflict is approach ing its end. The entire German people will grievously feel the loss of their last colony.
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    • 136 7 London, October 3.—Applicatiots for the next six per cent Exchequer Bunds are accepted to-day, and until further notice, Interest is payable half-yearly, and slightly exceeds the return from Treasury Bills. It is assumed that the Government’s object is to reduce the amount of the latter outstanding. The new
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    • 287 7 London, Sept. 18 Mr Justice Low has sentenced an employee of the Army Clothing Department to five years’ penal servitude for corruption. He administered the severest censure to two contractors, saying They leave the court free, but disgraced, men He called for an amendment of the law
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  • 1231 7 A GERMAN “DISCLOSURE” OF OUR METHODS. In an artic’e in the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung a German engineer discusses the methods which we have adopted to deal with the German submarines After a boastful introduction, in which the writer declares that the British Navy was completely taken by surprise
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  • 260 7 Action between Residuary Creditors. An important civil action is fixed for hearing in the Judicial Commissioner’s Court, Ipoh, to-day, in which the Naudin ten Cate Banking Corporation, Penang, sues Mr. C. E. Paterson, Taiping, for the recovery of the sum of $26,000. The case has an interesting
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  • 135 7 Somewhere in France there is a nameless grave, Where sleeps some mother’s son amid the brave. A cross with letters twain doth mark the place, And they the hand of Time shall soon efface. No “storied urn nor animated bust Shall hold this humble, friendless soldier’s
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 424 7 (Lassitudef I) is a feeling of weariness, depression, fatigue, fl f which affects equally men, women and child- < JJ ren, and it is most important that these signs Jg 2 of a run-down condition be not neglected. S CT Neglect may easily lead to more serious ailments. Q 5
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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