Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 August 1917

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 198. VOL. LXXV. WEDNESDAY, 22nd AUGUST, 1917. PRICE 10 CENTS,
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 853 1 v ja nonDnDnDaoannDnnnnnnDanDD WANTED g fHIBBEK CONSIGNMENTS t for our bi-weekly auction sales, and private sales. Cash A<lvances madĕ. nwnF RS FOR ESTATE SUPPLIES. GOODS for forwarding to any C part of the world. FIKE INSURANCE business, 5 ALLEN DENNYS Co., f 3 g Heath St. and 7 Union St.,
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    • 83 1 □□annnauMiMiHaHMiMiMiaMaunaaua c \A7 HEN YOU ARE AWAY S B V V on leave you want to keep q D in touch with Malayan affairs, H Social, Commercial, Mining, Planting, &c. This you can do H in no better way than by subs- cribing to the Weekly Edition of k the
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  • Russia.
    • 90 2 RUSSIAN REPORT. London, August 21. A Rus ian official report siys The enemy persistently attacked in the direction of Okna and Ones* chi and pressed back the Rumanian* to the south-western outskirts of Okna. The enemy’s attacks in the region of Grazestchi resulted in the capture of Staklerie
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    • 87 2 Petrograd, August 21. M. Miliukoff, addressing the Municipal Council, declared that the Soldier»’ and Workmen’s Delegates had neither the authority nor the ability to assure the defence of Russia. Their efforts had resulted in a fatal waste of time in discussion. He denied that the
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    • 421 2 Ex. The Government have done well to publish as a White Paper the interchange of Notes between Russia and Great Britain as to the revision of war aims. The covering letter, which M. Nabokoff, under instructions from his Government, forwarded with Prince Lvoff’s Proclamation, is
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  • General News.
    • 35 2 BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE. Rome, August 21. The British Minister has informed the Vatican that the Bitish Government acknowledged receipt of the Pontifical Note, which it will examine in a benevolent and serious spirit.
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    • 37 2 London, Angus 1 21. The “Daily Ttlegiaph” publishes a facsimile of the Kaiser’s now famous letter to President Wilson, thus finally disposing of the frantic and clumsv German denials of its validity.
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    • 15 2 London, August 21. Dr. Alexander Wekerle has hem appointed Premier of Hungary.
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    • 603 2 EFFECT OF MINERS’ VOTE. London, August 21. The Miners’ Federation’s decis’on means the transfer of 600,000 votes from Mr. Hecderaon to opposition to attendance at Stockholm. The transfer will not secure a majority against Stockholm on the basis of the voting on August 10th, but it will
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    • 68 2 e Zurich, August 21. The German Government has doubled the price of hay, in order to reserve as much as possible for the army. This is expected to lead to further slaughtering of cattle, the want of fodder thus causing a further shortage of milk. Austria’s Grain.
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    • 12 2 London, August 21. Parliament has adjourned till October 16 h.
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    • 102 2 “WHO CAN COMPEL US TO RESTORE THEM?” London, August 21. Professor J. P. Mahaffy.Provost of Dublin University, in a letter to the Times on the subject of Germany’s restitution suggestions, says as Germany car no repay us our losses we must repay our. e’ves. We conquered the
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    • 84 2 GOVERNMENT SCHEME. London, August 21. Mr. Edwin Montagu, Secretary of State for India, announces that, in consulcati >n with Mr. Walter Long, Secretary of State for the Co'onies, a Committee has been formed, and will meet at the India Office, in order to assist di abled
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    • 50 2 A HANDSOME DONATION. London, August 20. Messrs Tootal, Broadhurst, Lee and Coy have donated £lO,OOO yearly for five years towards textile research and education in the c tton trade. Institutes and Laborato ries will be es’ab’ished. A provisional committee is issuing a prospectus of the new aided organisation.
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    • 59 2 London, August 21. Silver is at 44|d. Trade orders caused the advance. The market is firm. Record Price in U. S. New York. August 21. Silver reached the record price of 87f cents It is predicted it will yet reach a do lar, as the floating supply
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    • 49 2 A FAVOURABLE SIGN. Madrid, August 21. The Spanish Cabinet has decided to dis band the troops cal ed tip at the recent disturbance- 1 and has also approved <f a credit of 77,000,000 peseta* for the reorganisation of the aimy, and for provision of aeroplanes and anH-iircraft guus.
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    • 438 2 The suspension of constitutional guarantees for the whole of Spain is a desperate measure which reveals that the situation in the country is far more serious than Ministerial declarations will acknowledge, wrote a London correspondent by last mail. lam told by one in close touch with
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 596 2 WANTED, AN EXPERIENCED CLERK for Geuerfil Office Work for European Estate in Province Wellesly. Apply Box No. 173, c/o Pinang Gazette. MEDICAL OFFICER. WITH LONG EXPERIENCE io F. M. S. and Colony seeks early appointment to Group of Estates, or might do locum-teuency for anyone wishing to go on leave.
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    • 54 2 J. W. MANINGTON 6 CO.. TAIPING. Momi Cases, Nails V to 6’« Box Strapping, Acetic Acid, Heavy Engine Oil for Rubber Machinery, IN STOCK. TONALKA" IS THE jj BRITISH APERIENT WATER. Pleasant In taste. Painless In action* I SOLD EVERYWHERE“ELLERMAN’IjNE' FOR LONDON For particulars as to freight and passage apply
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 285 2 Srnpire Theatre. Business Manager Thomas Shafto Phenomenal Success Nightly always the same—Packed to the door* WHY?—BECAUSE We show the STUFF the people want. Result—We get the business A PUNCH AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT A PUNCH PATHE Presents a Gold Rooster Play—Howard Estabrook Bliss Milford and Kathryn Brown-Deeker. —Featured in The
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  • 1026 3 TROUBLESOME QUESTIONS. It seems unfortunately very clear that the imposing of terms on the central powers will only be the beginning of troublesome questions. The Adriatic bristles with problems, writes a correspondent in mail week. Italy has a bad coast line on the Adriatic, flat, sandy and
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  • 306 3 From the Financial Adviser’s Report on the Budget: The total grant provided against Interest on Loans is Tcs. 3,821,000, an increase oi Tcs. 114,000 as compared with the previous year. The loans in question are, as is known, three in number, viz., the European borrowings of £1
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  • 217 3 Warehouse Rent and Storage. With the approval of the Chief Secretary to Government, the Railway Administration has amended the rules published in the F.M.S. Government Gazette of January 1, 1916, as under: 79. Warehouse Rent and Storage.—(a) All goods, with the exceptions noted below, left on the railway
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  • 197 3 New Rules in Force. With tke approval of the Chief Secretary the Residents of the. various States have amended the Excise Enactments as follows Rule 26 is rescinded and the following rule substituted therefor: 26. Sessions shall be advertised in such manner as the Chairman may think fit
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    • 881 3 WAITED. w MANSON, An ASSISTANT. No previous expetience necessary, must be ineligible DENTIST. r A pp)‘ V^i"ĕ^ lllol ,iai, to REMOVED TO KO. 1«. PITT STREET, MANAGER, Cicely Estate Teluk Aneon. OPPOSITE THE PENANG LIBRARY. 887 uc rARDHĔS are now being booked for VJ Para Rubber Seeds from fine old
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    • 111 3 TO Be Shot at Sunrise would scum ft welcome relief to msny who suffer the red hot pain thrusts of neuralgi». Theas are the hopsless torture-wracked beings who live in the shadow of constant dread of the stabbing, twisting, unbearable sudden paim and spurns of Little’s Oriental Balm* has relieved
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    • 145 3 PRITCHARD' General ond Fancy Drapery. THE FOLLOWING NEW COOPS HAVE JUST ARRIVED. MILLINERY, LATEST PRODUCTIONS IN PARIS MODELS. PRICES FROM SJ2 60 SHANTUNG HATS, WITH COLOURED BANDS. PRICES FROM $7.50, BEAUTIFULLY EMBROIDERED ORill, VOILE AND MUSLIN blouses. tOJf PRIC ES L ROM $5 50, DAINTY VOILE new jumper IN WHirE
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  • 1279 4 If the Allied offensives in France and on the Carso and Isonzo fronts have the (fleet of interfering serious’y with the demy's extensive efforts in and thus defeat a project which no doubt looms large in the calculations of the enemy—the seizure of the crops of Mo’davia, Podolia
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  • 1703 4 The Secretary of S ate for India announce) the formainvalided Officers tion of a Committee and I-astern Em- o ags j s t disabled and ployment. inva lided officers desirous of -obtaining employment in Indies Burma, the Eastern Colonies and the F.M S. There is, undoubtedly, a
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  • 41 4 We understand that as the resui enquiry from the Colonial Government of Burma reports hp i o v? present price of rice in Burma i normal, that stocks are ample, ant th prospects of the forthcoming i' ar satisfactory.
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  • 87 4 To-day’s quotation for Penang was $109.00 per picu. y sellers —a decrease of 75 cents. a Tin is quoted in London io £242 5s spot, and £239 15s three moot t-hw Strait* Farther revisions appear in Gazette of the Statutory List o. per bodies in various countries wi
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    • 34 4 “8. 0.” GARAGE. The best English French Cars on Hire. Tel. No. 322. Pinang Gazette Press, LIMITED. TELEPHONES. Printing Works Manager and 2 }J Cashier’s Office 498 Managing Editor 477 J Editor’s Residence 221
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 42 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to day and to-morrow, Peuaug Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To DAY. 2.20 am. 8.27 am. 2.20 p.m 8.36 p.m. To MORROW. 2.42 am. 8 48 a m. 242 p.m. 856 p m.
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  • 301 5 OVER 15.000 PRISONERS. THE ITALIAN ADVANCE. FRENCH SURPRISE AT VEfiDUN. THE RUMANIAN FRONT. The successful offensives by the Italians north of the Adriatic and the French rear Verdun have yielded over 10,000 and 5,000 prisoners respectively, and important advances on both fronts, the lal ans continuing the offer
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 1019 5 [RrtUTER’s Telegrams.] FRENCH ARMY'S SUCCESS. Paris, August 21. A French communique says: North of Verdun we carrie 1 the enemy defences on b tfi sides of tho Meuss on a front of eighteen kilometres, to a deph at some points of over two kilometres, On the left
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    • Article, Illustration
      683 5 WORK NORTH-EAST OF IPRES. London August 20 R-uter’s correspondent at Headquarters, wiring on Monday afternoon, describes the latest feats of the tanks in the British attack in the region of St Ju’ien yesterday. The uncouth monsters began to move in the darkness. The noise of the guns drowned
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    • 477 5 FROM NIEUPORT TO SWITZERLAND. London, August 21. With the opening of the Verdun offensive, the whole western front from the sea to the Swbs frontier, 440 miles, is now ablaze with unprecedented gun-fire, and bombing attacks which do not cease night or cay. The pounding of the gunsis
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    • 96 5 THE EXPLANATION. London, August 21. Reuter is authoritatively informed, in connection with the mysterious visitation of German aeroplanes to Holland, that when one machine came down and another was brought down the explanationgiven was that they intended raiding England, but returned owing to bad weather. As
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    • 75 5 MR. CHURCHILL AT WORK. London, August 21. A Munitions Council, on the lines of the Admiralty and Army Council has been established to coordinate the work of fifry munition departments, which are classified in ten groups. Each group is represented on the council, The Ministry has now
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  • Italy’s Campaign.
    • 438 5 AN EXTENSIVE BATTLE. Udine, August 21 Terrible uninterrupted drum-fire continues along 65 miles of the Iso: zo and Carso fronts, to which British batteries are valiantly contributing. The present offensive is developing on a front 15 miles longer than that of last May. The Italians’ Task. Udine,
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    • 303 5 The Carso is the elevated and rugged region that guards the approach to Trieste from Italy. The Austrians organised on it a series of fortified lines, one behind the other. In the Italian offensive last year Gorizia was captured in August, and in the two following months
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    • 215 5 The Rome correspondent of the Times telegraphed from the Italian headquarters on June 1 The work of the British batteries during the Carso fighting has called forth the highest praise from those best qualified to judge. A general of division who had some of
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    • 221 5 The Italians are now attacking the Hermada, the last natural fortress barring the way to Trieste, but this does not mean that when the Hermada falls Trieste will be surrendered. The Austrian defence will be carried farther back on the Carso and very close to the town.
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    • 24 5 SEAPLANE’S SUCCESS. Borne, August 21. An Italian seapl me dropped bombs on board a submarine in mid Adriatic and sank her.
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  • The Balkans.
    • 77 5 GUNS AND AIRMEN BUSY. London, August 21 A French Eastern communique reports a violent artillery duel in the Cerna bend, and north of Monastir. Our destructive fire caused explosions at two enemy heavy batteries and on ammunition dump. Fifty Allied aeroplants dropped a ton and a half of bombs
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    • 93 5 RELIEF FOR THE HOMELESS. Athens, August 21. The Greek Cabinet is discu sing measures for the relief of sufferers by the Salonika conflagration, for which a large credit will be voted. There is r o direct communication with Salonika, whither the Minister of the Interior has gone.
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  • 467 6 an interesting revelation. The condemnation by the Berlin 1’ irst Land-gericht of the notorious Dr. Ivers to nine months’ imprisonment for having extorted from the mother of a soldier 120,000 marks under threat, coupled with the evidence offered by the defence that he is a chronic
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  • 563 6 Mr. Thorpe Lee says he heard of it first from the wife of a private schoolmaster. "When she spoke of the encouragement we might receive from prophecy I looked rather blankly at her, and she then went on to explain that the operations in Palestine
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  • 816 6 Rector of Newmarket and The Meddlers.” The Rev. Henry B. Young, rector of Newmarket, preached at St. Mary’s Church on racing and Christianity. He described his subject as The Stoppage of Racing, and the Relation of Religion to it.” Tho rector took for his text St. Jude,
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  • 245 6 Frederic the Great, King of Prussia, the illustrious ancestor of Kaiser Wilhelm, had a fancy for giants in his bodyguard. One day a recruiting officer spied in Berlin an Irishman whose heightKas 6 feet 4 inches. The officer’s hopes werenhigh, too, but there was one difficulty—Pat
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  • 847 6 THE FLAGS FROM F.M.S. LADIES. Sir William Taylor, under date June 7th, wrote to Lady Brockman enclosing two letters, dated May 31st and 4th respectively, which he had received from Captain Boyle. The first letter from Captain Boyle, dated May 31st, is a follows: Dear Sir William, —A
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  • 611 6 —“M.M.” THE ADJUTANT’S EVIDENCE. The hearing was resumed in the Supreme Court Kuala Lumpur on Saturday morning, before the Acting Chief Judicial Commissioner, Mr. Justice Innes, of the charge of criminal breach of trust as servants preferred against M Sinnadurai, Teen Kon Fah and Thomas de Silva.
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  • 211 6 The following are the Orders of the Day for the meeting of the Legislative Council on Monday Aug 27. 1 Motion by the Acting Treasurer *'That this C< uncil approve the additions made to the Estimates during the quartets ended 31st March and 30 h June, 1917 as
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 20 6 fiUBBER STAMPS. 'pHE PINANG GAZETTE PRESS, Ltd., is now in position to execute orders for all kinds of Rubber Stamps.
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    • 54 6 j It’s Astonishing Sluggish Liver I when they ean cure the trouble by an occasional does of PINKETTES, J the tiny laxatives that work as gentle as nature. Do not gripe. 50 cents per phial at your druggist’s or direct by mail on receipt of 2 price from DR. WILLIAMS’
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    • 222 6 ON ALL OCCASIONS when you require a specially strong antiseptic Soap—for instance, to protect yourself against mosquitoes and other insects, or to antiseptically cleanse their bites— use CALVERTS 20°/o Carbolic Soap. Use a light la her only, that is all you need with a Soap like this, which contains such
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  • STOP PRESS.
    • 28 7 OFF JUTLAND COAST. London, August 21. Ihe Admiralty reports that light forces operating <fi the Jutland coast this morning destroyed a Zsppelin. There were no survivors.
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    • 90 7 BRITISH SUCCESS. London, August 21. Field-Marshal Haig reports Early this morning we attacked and captured the enemy’s positions on a front of 2,000 yards W o?t and north-west of Lens. Heavy fighting occurrei and it continue s. We beat off two strong counter-attacks north west of Lens,
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  • 95 7 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs Kennedy and Co.’s share list:— Yesterday. To-day. no an Sharks. A 1 ss "o S M »2 M 72 Rubber (Dollar). Scudai $7.10 $7.30 $7.20 $7.30 Temerloh $1.35 $1.40 $1.37$ $1.42 j United M. $l.lO $1.20 $1.15 $1.25 Mining.
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  • 25 7 The following are additional rubber outputs for July:— Holland American Plant lbs 504,146 Neth. Langkat RCo 20,678 Si Pare Pare R. Co 27,823
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  • 71 7 Messrs Cunningham, Clark <fc Co., Penang, advise us that the under-mentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them by auction and private tender to-day. Diamond smoked sheet $ll3 —$115 Plain smoked sheet slos 107 Diamond unsmoked sheet... $lO2 105 Plain unsmoked sheet s9s 101 Bark crepe s6s
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  • 48 7 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade fron 6 p.m. till 7 p.m. to-day: 1. Overture Under the British Colours ...Kling 1 Love You ...Andres Las Educandas de St Dimas ...Flotow 4. Waltz Immense Success ...Krier 5. March Trasbargo ...Bintura
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  • 223 7 Calcutta, July 24.—At 18-40 on the 23rd Jso. 143 down Jubbulpore-Gondia passenger narrow gauge section of the BengalRailway collided with a relief train betwee»Ghunsore and Pindra. Both engines and two third-class carriages were damaged, and the driver and a khalasi of the relief train and an
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  • 800 7 Mr R J Farcer, the British Agent, Kelantan, is down in Singapore. Mr A Hood has had the 3rd Class of the Order of Sum conferred upon him. Mr N A Worley, cadet has been appointed to act as assistant Controller of Labour, Perak. Mr J M
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  • 476 7 An Employee’s Claim. The Full Court of Appeal, comprising Mr. Justice L. M. Woodward, Mr. L. P. Ebden, and Mr. Justice P. J. Sproule heard to-day in the Supreme Court, Penang, the appeal by John Stokes, a former engineer of the Rotorua,” against the judgment by the
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  • 249 7 The Republic of China has declared war against Germany and Austria. China has had three years in which to decide between the justice of the cause of the German, the Germanod and the Germanising military autocracies, and the justice of ths cause of the peoples of the
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  • 187 7 T.0.M.” News las been received in Ipoh of an attempted robbery at Taiping the other nighr, when q gang of robbers tried to en f er the godown of the Srtaits Trading Company there. It appears that shortly after midnight the Indian watchman at the godown
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  • 1015 7 TWENTY PER CENT. INCREASE. Within the last few months, and particularly in the past month, says the “S. F. P.” the price of rice has been going up by leaps and bounds. Independent native witnesses give the price of No. 1 Siam as 11 cents a
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  • 961 7 What Italy has Achieved. One meets with such extreme kindness and consideration among the Italians that there is a real danger lest one’s personal feeling of obligation should warp one’s judgment or hamper one’s expression, writes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle after a visit to the Italian front
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  • 910 7 SHIPS REQUISITIONED. The Dutch East Indian Government has received a cable from the Colonial Minister stating that the Minister for Agriculture does not intend requisitioning ships which are, at present, in Asiatic waters or in the Pacific Ocean. A certain wastage of tonnage is unavoidable, as
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2253 8 P, O. British India I AND *vß ■»> <"■ 1 1 AUSTRALIA AND CHINA Aocar Line Mail Steamship Co ld “"'"SwtkhwTT'"'" r "'"“"J""' L# I ■■■ill IWO INCORPORATED IN JAPAN. il Reserve Fund fil’qnn’nS g> j (INCORPORATED IN HOLLAND.) Reserve Liability of Proprietors £l’9oo a?* (Companies Incorporated in England,) (Roual
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