Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 September 1917

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 222. VOL. LXXV. WEDNESDAY, 19th SEPTEMBER, 1917. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1057 1 E WANTED g r n KfPBER CONSIGNMENTS c ler our bi-weekly auction sal»», A and private eales. Cash Ad- n t vances made. 5 ORDERS for estate supplies. i GOOIIS for forwarding to any s part of the world. B FIKE INSURANCE business. ALLEN DENNYS Co.. 3 6 Beach St.
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    • 71 1 caaaaoDiBBHBRBaMBMNDQaaaaD n \A7 Hlrtr A E AWAY B VV on takeep n D in touch with M&layantaffairs, g h Social, Commercial, Mining, Plantips &c. This you can do in no better way than by subs- cribing to the Weekly Edition of a the Pinang yaibhshed M Friday. Yearly «jbscrip- tion,
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  • 664 2 FRENCH GOVERNMENT’S DUTY. Paris, September 18. In the French Chamber, M. Painleve, the Premier, announced the Government’s policy. He declared the Government ws giving all its attention to the assembling of all the forces of the nation for the supreme phase of the war, and emphasised that
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  • 128 2 THE QUEEN’S SPEECH. The Hague, September 18. The Queen of the Netherlands, in the Royal Speech at the opening of the StatesGeneral, said the prospects for the coming winter were not very satisfactory. Attempts which had been made from different sides to end the war had been unsuccessful.
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  • 114 2 P C. C. V. C. R. O. The following teams will represent P.C.C. and C.R.C. to-day and to-morrow in the tennis matches, in aid of Our Day,” at the C.R.C. ground. P.O.O.—Singles—W H Threlfall, E H Everest and M K Whitlock. Doubles—A A Craigen and H E Mason
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  • 41 2 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, September 19. There is a heavy list of cases for Singapore Assizes. A clerk, until recently in the employ of Messrs Barlow Co., who altered figures on cheques, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.
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  • 23 2 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, September 19. A Straits Government Gazette Extraordinary extends the subsidiary silver shortage inquiry to copper also.
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  • 445 2 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 p.m. till 7 p.m. to-day 1. Fantasia A Burlesque ...Kappey 2. Galop ...Alexandra ...Kuhner 3. Selection Macbeth ...Verdi 4. Waltz Themse Lieder ...Seifert 5. March Volverine Major A E Wearne, M C, formerly
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  • 816 2 Mr C Dickinson and Mr W A Stopani have left for borne, travelling via the Cape. Mr and Mrs. A Van Vollenhoven and family are shortly leaving for Australia on a health trip. The following passengers arrived per s.s. Krian, from Singapore; Messrs F N Piggott, R
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 500 2 WAN TED. TENDERS for erection of Smoke House. Plans may be seen on application to THE MANAGER, Alma Estates Ltd., P.W. GOVERNMENT Of KEDAH. TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Adviser, Alor Star, up to noon, of the Ist October, 1917, for the purchase of 2,800 W
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    • 27 2 I ©nv s)av 1917.1 Mrs. EBDEN’S Concert. Friday, September 2/st g The Bar will be in the i H capable hands of 1 Messrs. RICKETT and OXENHAM-
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    • 99 2 H. TOKISATSU MPANEBE OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER. 58. BISHOP STREET. 4 Is prepared to attend at private residences and on estates at ®*quest. Developing, Printing and Enlarging a speciality. Amateurs work carefully and neatly finished. A trial order respectfully solicited. Ask the price Don’t decide that an antiseptic soap is too expensive
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 275 2 A WORD ABOUT CHEAP PROGRAMMES. YOU CAN T SEE ANY AT THE EMPIRE. V I. I I I I Business Manager Thomas Shafto PROGRAMME FOR To-nigbt I To-night I! GOLD SEAL FEATURE A SON OF A drama of thrilling adventure in three acts featuring the celebrated Juvenile aetor Gordon Griffith.
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  • 531 3 EXPORTS PROHIBITED. It is officially announced that in view of the fact that at the present Indian price of silver it may be a profitable operation to export rupees and silver bullion, the Government of India have decided to prohibit the export from India of all silver
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  • 265 3 Times.” We hope that in any reform of the methods of collecting and disseminating commercial intelligence, the important part that might be played by Biitish Chambers of Commerce abroad will not be overlooked. Much excellent work has been done by these chambers, which are often
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1378 3 NTE D« /’"'XRDERS are now being hooked for a V/ p ara Seeds from fine old JUNIOR ASSISTANT for healthy estate trees, with a guarantee of 75% germination. 1 in Kedah. Apply to Price $1.50 per 1,000 packed in bags PROVINCE WELLESLEY. McALISTER Co, Ltd., Penang. and 2 packed in
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    • 122 3 Driven Out Whenever Lit tie’s Oriental Balm enter» home t e headache» are driven out. By aimply rubbing in a little of this sure-acting remedy the moat stubborn ache or pain is soon brought to r erm». When you apply LITTLB’B oriental balm yon «an jul th« pain gain's away.
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    • 194 3 Y° ur FRIENDS can buy anything; you can give them except your Photograph GET A KODAK pit Vest Pocket Kodak COMPLETE IN LEATHER CASE. perfect miniature Camera easily carried in the pocket. No. 1-a, Kodak BROWNIE Junior Mu TOmfo CAMERAS. Takes pictures No. 3J by in. 4J by 2| inches.
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  • 1187 4 After revelations like those made by Mr. Gerard and of other disclosures which have accumulated since the war, demonstrating the evil character of the German Government and proving that for the origin of the conflict the responsibility must rest on the Piussian military autocrats, who
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  • 1475 4 It is to be hoped that the insignificant few in England who are in German Educa- any danger of being taken tion. in by the new German peace mancenvre,which has been initiated, will read and carefully ponder the powerful arguments of Mr. Frederic Harrison in his letter
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  • 31 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin ia Penang was $110.75 per picul business done —a decrease $2. Tin is quoted in London to-day, ab £245 spot, and £243 three months.
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  • 177 4 Messrs Sime, Darby Co,, Ltd. advise particulars of the ou'puts from the following three companies for the of September as under Kamunting Tin Dredging, Ltd., piculs 270, hours run 250. (Dredge stopped <. days for boiler inspection.) Chenderiang Tin Dredging, Ltd Dredge, piculs 200, hours run 306 Tributors,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 282 4 B U L M E R’S HEREFORDSHIRE CIDER. CHAMPAGNE CIDER Nett. (Medium Dry) No. 4 $4.35 per dozen BULL BRAND (Medium Sweet) $3*75 per dozen DUTY EXTRA 60 cts. per dozen. Caldbeck, Macgregor Co., WINE SPIRIT MERCHANTS, PENANG. Trial Orders are cordially solicited for g 1 Our Best Local Make
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    • 82 4 “S. Q.” GARAGE. The best English French Cars on Hire. Tel. No. 322. NOTICE. TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE "PINANG GAZETTE.” Tire subscription accounts of the “Pinang Gazette,” having been issued, subscribers are reminded that all subscriptions are PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Owing* to heavy outgoing's, contingent on the war, the management
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 37 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to-day and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To-day 1.30 a.m. 7.40 a m. 1.33 p.m. 7.48 p.m. To-morrow. 1.53 am. 8.02 a.m. 1.57 p.m. 8.08 p.m.
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  • 158 5 FRENCH PREMIER’S SPEECH, interview with general SMUTS. GERMANY AND PEACE THE 'KING'S TOUR. The British troops advanced east of St. Julien, north-east of Ypres, and east of the latter a successful raid yielded thirteen German prisoners Three German aeroplanes were driven down, three British machines being missing. The
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 338 5 [Rwuter’s Telegrams PATROL INCIDENTS. London, September 18. Field Marshal Haig reports that there were only patrol encounters in the Ypres sector. More Raids. London, September 18. Sir Douglas Haig reports Northcountry troops ra’ded Inverness copse, and took prisoners thirteen. We improved our positions slightly east of St. Julien,
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    • 299 5 The special correspondents on the British front emphasise the death-dealing properties ci the new oil shells or canisters, “flights of w hich were poured out by the trench artilhffy, bursting into flame where they pitched, rod as the mouth of hell.” A friend of mine in the
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    • 300 5 French Headquarters, August 6.—The crushing effect of our bombardment on the Flanders front on the German ‘moral’ is exemplified by many stories, of which the following is, perhaps, the most striking. It is told by a prisoner of the Pru sian Guard Regiment belonging to the Guard
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    • 138 5 INVESTITURE AT GLASGOW. London, September 18. H. M. the King, st Glasgow, made an extensive tour of shipyards and engineering works. His Majesty presented three Victoria Ctosjes and other medals. There were large and most euthusiatic crowds. Conversing with an ironturner, His Majesty expressed bis pleasure that fewer
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    • 65 5 GREEK ARRESTED IN LONDON. London, September 18. A sensational robbery of aeroplane plans, belonging to London builders, resumed in the arrest of a after the discovery of the missing documents in a cloak-room at a Tube Station. Greek Committed for Trial. London, September 18. A Greek named
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    • 20 5 GERMANS ARRESTED. Copenhagen, September 18. The authorities have discovered another espionage plot. Four Germans have been arrested.
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    • 51 5 London, September 18. The Ministry of Labour is making a strong appeal to recruits for the Women s Army Auxiliary Corps for service at home and overseas. It should be noted that every new recruit releases a soldier for other duties, thereby directly increasing the strength of the
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    • 396 5 GENERAL SMUTS INTERVIEWED. Paris, September 18. Interviewed by “Le Journal", in London, General Smuts, referring to Germany’s present position, said she has little or no improvement to hope for. Can one doubt on the other band the growing feelings of terror which possess her as she sees nations
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    • 64 5 BARLEY AND PIGS. London, September 18. The German Food Department announces that no barley will be distributed during winter for the feeding of pigs, as the bad oat crops will barely suffice to feed the army horses. Barley must be used as human food. The department proposes
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    • 49 5 AGREEMENT WITH BRITAIN. Ymuiden, September 18. Dutch fishing boat owners have now accepted the British offer to indemnify them if they lay up 35 per cent, of their boats for two month’, in which not more than 2,000 tons of fish shall be exported to Germany.
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    • 50 5 REDUCED NUMBER OF MEETINGS London, September 18. The Australian restrictions on all sport are now announced. There will be a reduction of the metropolitan horse racing meetings in New South Wales, from 134 to 97, substantial reductions in Queensland, and smaller reductions in Victoria and Western Australia.
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    • 25 5 PREPAREDNESS MEASURES. Madrid, September 18. The Cabinet has decided upon a big increase of artillery, and the establishment of an organisation for industrial mobilisations.
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    • 21 5 FIVE-SHILLING NOTES. London, September 18. The issue of 5/- notes is foreshadowed, owing to the shortage of silver.
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    • 12 5 London, September 18. Silver is at 52d. The market is firm.
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    • 259 5 THE NEW MOVEMENT. London, September 18. After weeks of careful preparation Germany has launched a new so-called peace movement through the medium of the reply to the Pope’s Note. The actual wording of the reply is at present unknown, but amid a tangle of contradictory statements can
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    • 352 5 A Plain Question to German Chancellor. Speaking in the House of Commons on the 26th July in the debate raised by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald’s peace resolution, Mr. Asquith, the ex-Prime Minister said in the course of a speech also dealt with editorially In my judgment, it
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    • 134 5 GERMANY'S REGRET. Buenos Aires, September 18. The Argentine Minister in Berlin telegraphs that the German Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs declared that Germany regrets the Count Luxburg affair, and disapproves of Count Luxburg. Telegrams from the Argentine state that the Government considers the above declaration insufficient, and awaits the
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    • 37 5 LORD RHONDDA’S STATEMENT. London, September 18. Lord Rhondda, the Food Controller, receiving a deputation of butchers, said maximum prices would be strictly enforced. The high prices were largely due to competition among the batchers themselves.
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    • 359 5 BALTIC FLEET INCIDENTS. Petrograd, September 18. M. Kerensky, in a message to the Baltic Fleet, emphatically demands the immediate cessation of acts of violence and excesses, which the crews are committing. The Premier scathingly rebukes the offenders. Korniloff and his Officers. Petrograd, September 18. General Korniloff and twenty-three other
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    • 378 5 The Petrograd correspondent of the “Times,” writing from the headquarters of the seventh army on August 2, says.—l saw General Korniloff yesterday evening shortly before he proceeded to Headquarters to assume the supreme command. His opening words were characteristic of the man and of the situation. “Three
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    • 33 5 ACCUSED’S BANK ACCOUNT. Petrograd, September 18. At the trial of General Sakhomlinoff, a banker, who gave evidence, stated that accused’s current account was £50,000. An additional £20,000 was deposited during 1914.
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    • 37 5 A REGENCY COUNCIL. London, September 18. An Austro-German decree announces the forthcoming inauguration of a Regency Council in Poland, but the real power will remain in the hands uf iht> Austrians and Germans and the GovernorGeneral.
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    • 632 5 Amsterdam, August 1. —Up to some months ago the German Press was continually boasting of the great reforming and civilising work which the Fatherland was carrying on in Poland. Recently, however, doubts began to be expressed by some more candid writers as to
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  • 45 5 BREAK WITH GERMANY. San Jose, September 17. Costa Rica has broken off diplomatic elations with Ge r many. The President discovered German residents were conspiring against the Government, and several were arrested. Ad Germans in Costa Rican ports are ordered to be interned.
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  • 42 5 The following German vessels are interned in the port of Punta Arenas: Memphis, D.D.G.K. 7074 Monte Video, H.S.A.D.G. 4140 Navarra, H.A.P.A.G. 5794 Radames, D.D.G.K. 4756 Ramses, D.D.G.K. 7128 Tucuman, H.S.A.D.G. 4702 Turpin, Roland Linni 5152
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  • 898 6 THE LAMB AND THE WOLF. Mr. Frederic Harrison writes to the Editor of the Times As we enter the fourth year of war we find the Hud, now satiated with blood and and booty, and at last trembling in sight of the ruin that awaits him, masquerading as
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  • 703 6 It was recently announced that the Russian Government had agreed to give autonomy to the Ukraine. hat is the Ukraine It is a vast, fertile, and attractive country which really does not exist, since it is a geographical expression. The peopele exist, but not the country,
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  • 184 6 Hongkong, August 29. —The extraordinary National Assembly in Canton met for the first time on the 27th. Fifty-six members were present. The meeting ended in disorder, despite the repeated appeals of the speaker for moderation of language. The Commissioner of Civil Affairs of Kwangtung, in a letter to
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  • 122 6 Calcutta, September I.—The Exemption Tribunal to-day dealt with about 275 applications, some 80 of which were made by railway men and in whose cases the usual orders in connection with railway servants were passed. An application on behalf of five officers in the Adjutnat-General’s Department was considered.
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  • 60 6 The Government of India have decided that Government servants granted commissions in the Anglo-Indian force shall receive, whilst serving within Indian limts, pay at civil rates according to the “next below” rule, or military pay of rank and branch, whichever is greater, and military pay of
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  • 897 6 INCREASED COST OF PRODUCTION EXPLAINED. The seventh annual ordinary general meeting of the Bukit Jelotong Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held at the company’s office on Friday, September 14, at noon, Mr. Tan Cheng Lock (chairman) presiding. The other gentlemen present were Messrs. Chi Kang Cheng, Tan Soo
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  • 414 6 3.—“ S.F.P.” Reasons for Disappointing Year The seventh annual general meeting of the Bukit K B Rubber Co, Ltd, was held on Saturday at the Chartered Bank Chambers, Singapore. There were present Messrs J M Sime (Chairman) and Neo Ong Hee (directors), W H Lamb, H L
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  • 458 6 The Directors’ Rbport The Report of the directors of Nellmay Rubber Company, Limited., to Ue submitted to the shareholders at the seventh Annual General meeting of the Company, to be held at the registered office of the Company, Downing Street, Penang, on Wednesday, 26 of September,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 61 6 •maaaoa ae» a |°lt’s Astonishing g® Sluggish Liver at when they «an cure the trouble by an occasional doe» of PINKETTES, B the tiny laxatives that work as gentle as nature. Do not gripe. J 2 50 cents per phial at your druggist’s or direct by mail on receipt of
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    • 145 6 iSTELASTIC i =TYBES. I s i i The only Tyres holding the R.A.C. Certificate g for 5 9 000 miles without Cuts or Punctures. g B BRITISH AND MADE IN BRITAIN. I Ki H S 3 AGENTS FOR PENANG: s= S nt Eastern Pacific Trading g COMPANY, LIMITED. S (Incorporated
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 27 6 WAR CARTOON. [Reproduced from the World'» Pre»». —4 Sh WF WILHELM: “What do those big words spell? UNCLE SAM: In German, Wilhelm, they spell ‘ruin’.”—“ Baltimore American.”
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  • 1693 7 breach of agreement. A civil case of more than umal interest wft s heard on Monday by Mr. Justice Farrer-Manby in the Judical Commissioner’s Court, Ipoh, when the Penang Rubber Estates, Ltd., claimed $1,285.70 pg damages incurred through breach of an agreement by Mr. Edward
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  • 91 7 Small men make as good soldiers as big men is the revised opinion of the U. S. War Department, which has instructed recruiting stations to open the ranks of the regular army to men not more than 5 ft. 1 in. in height and who weigh
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  • 97 7 Peking, September 2.—The Austrian Government will not allow the Chinese Minister to return until the Austrian Minister in China has reached home safely. According to a certain diplomatic official, the Austrian Minister will go to Shanghai shortly, and will return to Austria by a Dutch steamer. He
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  • 1352 7 BARK DISEASES QUESTION. An extraordinary general meeting of the Negri Sembilan DPA took place in the Sungei Ujong Club. Seremban, on Saturday morning, Mr C Ritchie presiding over an attendance of over thirty. The Chairman, reports the Malay Mail,” mentioned the first item on the agenda, which was
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  • 82 7 The followin’ are the latest quotations in Messrs Kennedy aud Co.’s share list Yesterday. To-day. -to a; OB Shares. S'© s© a as x Rubber (Dollar). A. Molek $2.70 $2.80 s2| $2.85 ex A. Panas $l2 sl2| Kelemak s7| $8 $7.90 $8.20 Lunas s7| $8 $8 $B.lO
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  • 71 7 Messrs. Cunningham, Clark 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 sll7—sl2l Plain smoked sheet $lO7-- 112 Diamond unsmoked sheet... slo2 110 Plain unsmoked sheet sloo 104 Bark crepe s 64—
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  • 98 7 Amount previously acknowledged $54,441.19 Rahman Hydraulic Tin Ltd 500 00 Mr G H Pritchard (£100) 850.00 Mr H O Maas 100 00 Mr A B Voules (£100) 860.C0 Mr Qaah Bang Kee 250.00 Mr Jules Martin 1,000.00 Mr and Mrs J H Nellis 250.00
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  • 202 7 Paris, August 20.—Tne Matin publishes a statement by the Japanese Major Kobaya«hi, now at the French front to the effect that the victory of the Allies is scientifically and mathematically assured, Germany being now nothing but a besieged fort, which has lost all hope of being relieved.
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  • 118 7 A CASE POSTPONED. Six Chinese, Chua Si, Sisw Kwek, Chua Gok, Kang Tean, Ch wee Teak and Teh Kor Chow, who are charged with attempted murder, were remitted to the next Assizes, the complainant, who is ill and in Hospital, being unable to attend Court for at least
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  • 139 7 A charge of voluntarily causing grievous hurt, the last case at the present Assizes, preferred against Mohamed bin Ismail, was commenced before Mr. Justice L. P. Ebden, in the Supreme Court, yesterday afeemoon. The Solicitor-General, in outlining the erse for the prosecution, stated that accus d
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  • 107 7 The Penang Harbour Board is making preparations for after-the-war trade. The work of erecting a new bonded warehouse opposite the Treasury is in the hands of contractors, who are busy on the new building, which is expected to be completed in about eighteen months. The building will
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  • 125 7 To-morrow evening, commencing at 9.15, the management present Universal’s Wonder picture in eight reels entitled 20,000 Leagues under the sea,” the first and only submarine photo drama filmed. In the first show new episodes of Pathe’s great serial The Iron Claw will be shown. The booking at the
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  • 35 7 The follow? g whs the rubber quotation in London on S pc. 18th, rec ived PKntalio 1 Ist latex ?repe 2s 9£d Smokeu Sheet 2s 7|J [•By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead Co
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  • 500 7 A correspondent writing to the M.M. sayB J should like to make some remarks a®, piopos your leading article in favour of changing the value of the dollar from 2s. 4d. to 2s-« You say that the cost of European goods would increase, but that with producers
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  • 96 7 Sept 19 and 20. —Lawn Tennis, C.R.C. v. P.C.C. C.R.C. Ground. Sept 20.—Meeting Bukit Mertajam, 4.30 p.m. Our Day Fund. Sept 21.—Grand Musical Evening, Town Hall, for Our Day Fund. Sept 22.—Football, C.R.C. v. Kedah, C.R.C* Ground. Sept 23.—P. V. Field Operations. Sept 26.—Nellmay Rubber Co., Ltd., Annual
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 104 7 J. W. MANIN GT ON I AND COMPANY, TAIPING. Spare parts for Bosch Mag- I neto’s in stock. APPLY FOR PRICES. I L_ t ,.n jl JUST ARRIVED. JUST ARRIVED. I Q|J C C Innh POSITIVELY THE LAST CONSIGNMENT W.W. I|/Ul|« OF THE WORLD-FAMED. CARS. One ordinary latest 1917 model
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2181 8 P.&0, -British India N. Y. K. jWgS Japan Mail Steamship Co. Ld. Ml X“" T" 'S’ T AND INCORPORATED IN JAPAN. MAATSC Reserve Fund fl’gott A e (INCOBPORATED IN HOLLAND.) Reserve Liability of Proprietors £1 200 0% I 11*) F* X (Royal Packet S. N. Company) SB bibhopsgat^wndon z vL
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