Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 28 October 1916
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Title Section20 1916-10-28 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 252 VOL. LXXIV. SATURDAY, 28th OCTOBER. 1916. PRICE 10 CENTS20 words
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Advertisement66 1916-10-28 1 nnnaaDODooanoaanDDDßflDu-’Ja FOR 830 a o H \7OU can have the Piner,g o I Gazette posted e very day a Q for a whole year to your address, g O (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION. s27i. 2 a Proportionate Qmrteily and g Half-yearly latcs q g Subscriptions are payable in n advance and remittance66 words
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Article1086 1916-10-28 2 P.C.C V. KEDAH. ANOTHER HOME VICTORY. Football for charity is not a new idea, bat there is no gainsaying the fact that the -second game in Penang played in a screened enclosure for the purpo-e of supplementing the local Our Day Red Cross Fund was out of1,086 words
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Article610 1916-10-28 2 E. O. DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENTS. There have been several Our Days but, so far as Penang is concerned, there will only be one our night,” namely last evening, when a record company assembled at the E. O. Hotel, some doubtless intent on personal enjoyment but all prepared to aid the610 words
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Article34 1916-10-28 2 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $88.40 per picul, business done—a decrease of 60 cents. Tin is quoted in London to-day at £lBl 5s spot, and £lB2 15s three months,34 words
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Article805 1916-10-28 2 The following further donations have been received by the Chartered Btnk Balance on Oct 26 $36,619.45 Chua Kongsi $52 Keng Chew Hoey Kuan $lOO Red Cross Box No. 33 J H Phipps $1.20; Red Cross Box No. 35 J H Phipps $3 42 Catholic Church,805 words
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Article87 1916-10-28 2 NEARLY NINETY THOUSAND. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, October 28. Our Day Fund now totals $84,800. The Associated Scottish Pipers of Malaya are playing at Seremban to-day in aid of the Our Day Fund. We learn, says the “S. T.,” that the boys in Messrs. John Little’s87 words
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Article16 1916-10-28 2 [A*om Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, October 28. Brigadier General Ridout is promoted Major-General.16 words
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Article839 1916-10-28 2 SIAMESE ENTERTAINMENTS. [From a Correspondent.] It will be remembered that a highly successful entertainment was given at the end of July, in aid of the Cruiser Fund and the Siamese Red Cross, resulting in a donation of 1,000 deals to each of these undertakings. Anxious to emulate this success839 words
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Article304 1916-10-28 2 Messrs. Kennedy Ji Co., report as follows Since our last advices the Rubber Share Market has, compared with previous weeks, been somewhat quiet, the tone however continues good and prices are in the majority of cases well maintained. The demand at the Local Auctions was very fair304 words
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Article198 1916-10-28 2 Messrs. Gathrie and Co., Ltd,, in their weekly report dated Singapore, Tuesday, 26 h inst., says The offerings at the weekly auction which commenced yesterday and finished to-day, amounted to the record quantity of 770 tons and of this tota’ 630 tons changed hands. Demand thoroughout the198 words
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Article278 1916-10-28 2 Further Increases in tub F.M.S. Wine and spirit merchants in the F.M.S. have had a surprise sprung upon them by a notification which appeared in the Government Gazette supplement announcing further increases in the import duties on intoxicating liquors which arensw in excess of those ruling in the278 words
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Advertisement250 1916-10-28 2 M PI RF THEATRE PHONE 628. The Premier Theatre of Penang. PENANG ROAD. °°L. SAT., SDN. A GRAND NAVAL AND MILITARY PROGRAMME. The Stolen Siege Gun Plans A Thrilling Military Drama in 3 Parts. CYRIL MAUDE in the famous Another Episode of the oD w WS CO BD J Hazards250 words
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Article131 1916-10-28 3 ENEMY ATTACKS SMASHED. THE FIGHTING IN THE BALKANS. GERMANY GOADING NORWAY. An enemy attack in the Thiepval area was repulsed by the British troops, while the French in the Verdun region completely defeated four strong attacks by the Germans on the east of the Meuse. The enemy’s losses in131 words
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France and Belgium.
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Article, Illustration238 1916-10-28 3 [Rbutkr’s TkLKGRAM. FOUR ENEMY ATTACKS SMASHED. Paris, October 27. On four occasions, the Germans attacked our captured Douaumont positions. The artillery and infantry broke those delivered at 8-30 in the morning and 2-30 in the afternoon, against the fort, and on the front farther feast. Ddspite the intense bombardment[Rbutkr’s TkLKGRAM. | - 238 words
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Article, Illustration120 1916-10-28 3 ENEMY’S ARTILLERY ACTIVE. London, October 27. General Sir Douglas Haig, in a communique says There was heavy rain during the night. Hostile artillery was active sou.h of the Ancre. Enemy trenches were successfully raided at one point in that area. British Repulse Attack. London, October 27. General120 words
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Article229 1916-10-28 3 Although, as a rule, one should beware of enemy statements contained in a captured document, which may have been left behind deliberately in order to mislead the adversary, there seems no reason to distrust the document cited in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch and bearing the signature229 words
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Article74 1916-10-28 3 TERMS OF AMERICAN ISSUE. London, October 27. A new British loan will be floated in New York in November. It hag been fixed at £60,000,000 at 5| per cent. Half the issue will have currency for three years, and the other half for five years. The terms74 words
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Article43 1916-10-28 3 CONSCRIPTION IN FAVOUR. Melbourne, October 27. Official reports from all the States forecast a conscriptionist victoiy. Enthusiastic crowds witnessed a thousand Australian expeditionary troops marching through the Melbourne streets, including a fine body undergoing compulsory training, who are dubbed Hughes’ Own.”43 words
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Article62 1916-10-28 3 London, October 27. The recipients of the Victoria Cross include Lieut. J. V. Holland (Leinster Regiment), and Second Lieut. G. G. Coury (South Lancs). Two V. C.’s: Father and Son. London, October 27. The father of the dead V. O. hero, Congreve, won the Victoria Cross62 words
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Article27 1916-10-28 3 London, October 26. An explosion yesterday at a munition factory in Kent did some damage. Two persons were killed and ten seriously burned.27 words
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Turkey and the Near East.
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Article298 1916-10-28 3 THE ALLIED RETIREMENT. Odessa, October, 26. Particulars given of the last days of the Russo-Rumanian occupation, gathered from arrivals from Constanza, show that as many as fifteen aeroplanes dropped bombs in one day. 15 wounded men in the Red Cross Hospital were killed. Notwithstanding, the authorities298 words
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Article43 1916-10-28 3 London, October 26. A Serbian communique says We have captured heights on the left bank of the Cerna and taken 480 prisoners Bad Weather in Macedonia. London, October 27. A Salonika communique says bad weather continues to hinder the operations.43 words
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Article, Illustration774 1916-10-28 3 Mr. G. Ward Price, writing from the Serbian Front, on Sept. 19, says the Battle of Ostrovo is over, and the battle for Monastir has begun. The long Allied front, with the Serbians on the right, and the French and Russians on the left, has completed774 words
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Article152 1916-10-28 3 At a sitting of the Serbian Skupstina at Corfu M. Ljouba Davidovitch, Minister of Public Instruction, after a speech by Dr Velizar Jankovitch, referring to the Serbian chikften who are being edueated in France and Great Britain, expressed, amid the loud applause of the Chamber, deep gratitude to152 words
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Article391 1916-10-28 3 Surprise is expressed -in certain quarters, writes a military expert on Sept. 25, at the almost stationary character of the eastern battle front as emphasised by the decidedly slow progress made by Brusiloff towards both Kovel and Lemberg in spite of the stupendous efforts made by the391 words
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Article91 1916-10-28 3 THE KING’S ASSURANCES. Athens, October 25. Sir Francis Elliot, the British Minister, had an audience with King Constantine. It is understood the latter repeated the assurances given to the French Minister yesterday, regarding the measures the King proposes to take to exclude any danger to Allied troops in Macedonia.91 words
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Naval Operations.
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Article274 1916-10-28 3 A SIGNIFICANT SEIZURE. London, October 27. It is believed that a Norwegian mail steamer, from Bergen for Newcastle, was taken to a German port, although there was no contraband on board. Coming on the top of the other outrages, the incident is regarded as increasing the seriousness274 words
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Article55 1916-10-28 3 FIGHT WITH A GERMAN SUBMARINE. London, October 26. It is officially announced that an enemy submarine torpedoed and sank the minesweeper Genista on the 23rd inst. All the officers and 73 men were lost. Twelve were saved. When last seen the ship was sinking but it was still55 words
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Article24 1916-10-28 3 Copenhagen, October 27. The Ekstra Bbdit says large quantities of wreckage of a German warship were washed up on Refsbale Island.24 words
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Article305 1916-10-28 3 The new German merchant submarine Bremen, like some of the new German airships, has been destroyed. This information bas .been received here from official and authentic sources on the Continent and in America, wrote a London correspondent on September, 27. It is now definitely known305 words
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Article138 1916-10-28 3 INTRIGUE OVER MEXICO. Washington, October 27. The United States War Office ha® definite information that opponents of the Government’s policy in Mexico arranged with General Villa and other bandits for a spectacular attack on the American border, before the Presidential election, in order to create an anti-Wilson138 words
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Article130 1916-10-28 3 HOSPITALS. London, October 26. In the House of Commons Sir Kinloch Cooke asked whether the officers or officials responsible for the condition of the hospital at Wellington in July were still employed by the Indian Government. Mr. Chamberlain referred him to hia reply of the 17th inst.130 words
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Article43 1916-10-28 3 TO BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED; London, October 27. Replying to a deputation advocating the construction of a Channel Tunnel, Mr. Asquith promised that the Committee of Imperial Defence would review the question in the light of the experience of the war,43 words
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Article37 1916-10-28 3 JOCKEY CLUB’S DECISION. London, October 27. The Jockey Club considered the petition for a totalisator on racecourses signed by influential English and Irish breeders, owners and trainers. It was decided that the time is inopportune.37 words
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Article86 1916-10-28 3 London, October 27. Messrs. Montagu’s report says the market is generally quiet. Supplies are forthcoming steadily from America, whence 200,000 ounces arrived during the week, but buyers are somewhat shy and the tendency of prices is downward. The fall apparently encouraged coinage demand Indian bazaars are quite86 words
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Article152 1916-10-28 3 Yet another increase of 50 centimes (5d.) per ton in the Suez Canal dues is announced. The inc ease is to take effect as from January 1 next, and will make the rate for loaded ships 7f. 75c. (6s. 2d. at the normal rate of exchange) and152 words
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Article1993 1916-10-28 4 T.0.M.” IMPORTANT MEETING IN IPOHj Labour Code Prosecutions. At the meeting of the P.A.M. at Ipoh on Wednesday, the Chairman, Mr. W. Duncan in submitting the first item to the meeting, said that in regard to the onus of instituting prosecutions for offences against the Labour Code, Section«• T.0.M.” - 1,993 words
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Article188 1916-10-28 4 Imports.—-During the fortnight business in Piece Goods has continued on a satisfactory scale, light weight Grey Cloth being chiefly in demand. The market for Rough Goods was dull. Exports.—There were smaller shipments of Tin and other Produce to Great Britain, viz: 375 tons Tin, Tapioca Pearl, 349188 words
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Article200 1916-10-28 4 Three Japanese, who were described as clerks in employment in Hongkong, were charged before Mr. Hazeland at the Magistracy there with trespassing inside the prohibited military area at Lye man. C*pt. Carr stated that soon o’clock he found three men in the military reserve area200 words
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Article112 1916-10-28 4 Although the late Mr. Lampard, whose death is so much regretted in the rubber world, looked the picture of bu iness propriety when presiding at a company meetting, yet he possessed a keen sense of humour. Who will ever forget his famous definitions of the optimist and112 words
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Article386 1916-10-28 4 GRAVE INSINUATIONS REFUTED The following letter has been published in the Peking Daily News.”— Sir, In yoar issue of the 29th September you reprint an article from the Journal de Pekin” containing some grave insinuations against the London Management of this Bank, namely.— 1, That386 words
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Article265 1916-10-28 4 A New Society Formed. Madras, October 14th A public meeting was held yesterday evening at the Mahyana Sabba Hall, with Mr. Kastariranga Iyengar in tbe chair, to orgainse the Indian Colonial Society in Madras. The Chairman said that the objects of the Society would be to265 words
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Article46 1916-10-28 4 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE CLEARANCES. To-day. Palitana for Rangoon Calcutta Durban. Ipoh for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Trang for Trang. Rotorua for Tongkah and Renong. Fooksang for China. Lian Choo for Alorstar (Kedah). Hok Canton for Bagan Datoh Teluk Anson Fooksang for Singapore China.46 words
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Article24 1916-10-28 4 For Per Close. Monday. Langsa, Edi, T. A Semawe, Segli, Olehleh Atjeh noon. and Sabang J Singapore and China Hong Moh 2-30 a.m24 words
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Advertisement156 1916-10-28 4 Instant Relief for LIVER TROUBLE Torpidity and Food-Sickness. No liver sufferer can fail to benefit from the use of Dr. Cassell’s Instant Relief. Its action is natural as Nature, sure as science. It is altogether different to ordinary liver stimulants and morning salts. These weaken the liver by forcing it,156 words
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Advertisement21 1916-10-28 4 RUBBER STAMPS. 'pHE PINANG GAZETTE PRESS, Ltd., is now in a position to execute orders for all kinds of Rubber Stamps.21 words
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Advertisement416 1916-10-28 4 WHY SUFFER FROM fdj®. INDIGESTION and other STOMACH AND LIVER DISORDERS? Why suffer from pains after eating, acidity, flatulence, headaches, biliousness, or constiM pation, when thousands of former sufferers THOUSANDS OF have ba n i s hed such troubles by the timely use FORMER of Mother Seigei’s Syrup? Begin to-day416 words
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Article2087 1916-10-28 5 STORIES OF WORK IN MILITARY HOSPITALS. The public can have no adequate conception of the great debt we owe in this war to modern surgery. Some of us may have entertained a thought that tbe surgical and medical treatment of the soldier had not kept pace with2,087 words
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Advertisement1170 1916-10-28 5 ANTED. What Practical People do to preserve An ENGINEER with experience of Ice ValuaWes Making. State salary required. The fire 8 whlch > ln the course of the lot wo y®® lB ln Bombay, devastated the office of Apply No. 294, c/o Pinang Gazette. Messrs. Ewart Latham Co., The Lakhmidas1,170 words
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Advertisement673 1916-10-28 5 OUR DAY. MOON LIGHT TRIP in an old Favourite Yacht from New Zealand which will start from Swettenham Pier about 9.30 p.m. to-night; the trip will embrace all the novelties of the early stages of a trip Home on leave after long service in the East combined with the peculiarities673 words
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Article1170 1916-10-28 6 The Premier’s speech, of which Reuter yesterday cabled a summary dealing with the coal question at Home, had special reference to the immediate problem of maintaining au output adequate to the pressing requirements of the war. In allu ling to the importance of coal for the1,170 words
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Article1601 1916-10-28 6 A Russian general haa been talking of an army of forty millions— A.Ar™, n f» a nation eternally in solDream. diera’ clothes, thinking and dreaming, we suppose, of drill and damnation In ten years, says this Russian General, Russia will have a population of more than 2001,601 words
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Article174 1916-10-28 6 Saturday, 28th, October Esplanadb, 3 P.M. 1. March Marching Thro Georgia ...Miller 2. Overture The Bohemain Girl ...Balfe3. Two Step I'm Afraid to come Homs in the e 4. Selection Irish Airs ...Hartmann 5. Wabz The Skaters Waldteafel 6. Selec ion The Gondoliers Sullivan 7. ...In the174 words
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Advertisement113 1916-10-28 6 Xso Estate (Slubs and 3 M. 0.0. WHISKY (Monarch o’ the Glen) I Per Gall. $5.00 nett. Stocked in 10 gallon Casks only. CLUB WHISKY Per Gall. $5.50 nett. Per case of 12 Botts. $13.00 nett. Duty is extra, and Casks returnable. Caldbeck, Macgregor Co., WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. PENANG.113 words
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Advertisement201 1916-10-28 6 THE CRAG HOTEL PENANG HILLS, The Sanatorium of the Straits Settlements. Completely Renovated. Laundry on the Premises. Telegrams: Crag,” Penang Hills. ORCHARDING IN TASMANIA. SADLIEK KNIGHT Orchard Agents and Attorneys, LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA. We plant and manage orchards for Absentee Clients, with graduated payments, and under Government Expert supervision, until it201 words
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Miscellaneous25 1916-10-28 6 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for today, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. 0.30 a.m. 7.10 a m. 12 p.m. 7.11 p.m.25 words
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STOP PRESS NEWS.
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Article109 1916-10-28 7 A SPEEDY TRIUMPH. f Reuter’s Telegram London, October 27, ig authoritatively stated that three divisions participated in the French triumph B t Verdun. The French casualties are on v some 2,000. Fort Douaumont, which was fired on Monday by a 400 millimetre shell was stormed by a battalionf Reuter’s Telegram ] - 109 words
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Article98 1916-10-28 7 disruption in labour party. London, October 2J. The Times Sydney correspondent says the conscription campaign is forcing a disruption in the Labour party. Mr. Holman, Mr. Wade, Mr. Beeby have agreed on the formation of a new national party in the State legislature, based on the prosecution98 words
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Article39 1916-10-28 7 AMERICAN COMMITTEE. New York, October 27. An American Committee of the Lord Kitchener Memorial Fund has been organised, with Mr. Choate as President, to raise contributions in the United States for disabled British soldiers and sailors.39 words
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Article611 1916-10-28 7 The following letter written by the Lord Mayor of London has been sent to press Sir, —The council of the Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund have resolved to found a number of scholarships which will enable young Britons destined for a commercial career to travel, study and611 words
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Article527 1916-10-28 7 Mr. and Mrs. W. Leggatt left by the Novara. Mrs. R. P. Phillips left for home by the P. Ok mail. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Michell left by the P. O. mail last night on leave. Mr. S. H. Langston, Chief Censor, took up bis duties527 words
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Article163 1916-10-28 7 A special correspondent sent by the Matin to Essen says Essen, which now numbers more than 550,000 inhabitants, is suffering from lack of provision as much as the other large towns in Germany. Stoppage of work is practically unknown, for the simple reason that the163 words
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Article74 1916-10-28 7 For the period from the 27th October to 2nd November, 1916, inclusive, the value of the highest grade of rubber is fixed at two shillings four pence one halfpenny per lb., and the duty on cultivated rubber on which export duty is leviable on an ad valorem74 words
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Article196 1916-10-28 7 As a result of the recent excellent concerts given in the Town Hall by the Convent School, Mr. H. T. Clarkj the Inspector of School’, Penang, has received the amount of $1,200/- from the Lady Superior of the Convent. This sum will be divided as196 words
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370 1916-10-28 7 An interesting report on fuel supplies, the economical use of coal, and smoke prevention was presented to a joint meeting of the Engineering and Chemistry Sections of the British Association last month by a committee which included many men of science who have distinguished themselves370 words
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Article262 1916-10-28 7 SUN DAY t OCTOBER 29. CHURCH OF ENGLAND. St. George’s Church.—The 19th Sunday after Trinity; Matins 8 a.m.; Holy Communion 8.30 a.m Sunday School, 5 p.m.; Evensong 6p m. Parade Service. Hymn 274, Responses Roberts Psalms CXLVI and CXLIII Bayley Magnificat Nunc Dimittis Maunder in C., Hymns 193,262 words
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291 1916-10-28 7 Visitors recently returned from Vienna and other parts of Austria convey a picture of strange contrasts. They have witnessed on the one hand suffering and depression among the plebeian and working classes, and on the other vain self-conceit and indifference among the burghers and the upper291 words
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Article166 1916-10-28 7 Bombay Magistrate’s Ruling. Bombay, September 21 :—Rao Bahadur Setalvad, Chief Presidency Magistrate, delivered a lengthy and interesting juigrnent in the case in which Dubrai Desai charged J. Franklin a guard, three Police constat les, and a watchman, all employees of G. I. P. Railway with wrongful confinement, and166 words
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Article204 1916-10-28 7 Edinburgh’s newsboy V. C., Private George Wilson, has returned to his old business of selling newspapers in the street. He was at his old pitch at the corner of High-street and George IV. Bridge, smartly dressed and looking well. When he was asked why he had returned204 words
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Article61 1916-10-28 7 STICKS ON THE WAYS AT LAUNCHING. The ss. Renong, the new vessel of about 600 tons of the Eastern Shipping Co., was to have taken the water at Sungei Nyok to-day, but after Mrs. Khaw Joo Tok had set her in motion, the Renong stuck forty feet61 words
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Advertisement24 1916-10-28 7 IBovril makes other foods nourish you. It has a Body-building power proved equal to from 10 to 20 time* the amount of Bovril taken.24 words
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Advertisement254 1916-10-28 7 Blf you are Run Down from overwork, suspense, anxiety, illness if appetite and digestion are impaired and the nervous system in need of a tonic, there is no treatment so generally successful as a course of Angier’s Emulsion. It promotes appetite, soothes and strengthens the organs of digestion, overcomes nervous254 words
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Advertisement2716 1916-10-28 8 P. 0.-B. 1.-APCAR N.Y.KJIfe, K. P. M. mail ano passenger services. Japan Mail Steamship Co. Id. I K3M» koninklijke paketvaart ff <nc*m»n> l i< na uu PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. INCORPORATED IN JAPAN. I MAATSCHAPPIJ gTHM MAIL SERVICES. (INCORPORATED IN HOLLAND.) (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND.) Homeward (lor Europe). Outward (lor China2,716 words
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