Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 9 January 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 7. VOL. LXXVI. WEDNESDAY, 9th JANUARY, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 843 1 UP-TO-DATE PRINTING g c of every description undertaken. from a visiting card to the largest size poster, by The Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd., b with care and promptitude. a Estimates given free and artistic g g displav guaranteed. g n n D gannnnMiw«nn«BMMnnnanDa Important Notice. i -V I IF you
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    • 81 1 D ■■■BMUDOnnon D TXTHEN YOU ARE AWAY g n V V on leave you want to keep n in touch with Malayan affairs, Social, Commercial, Mining, Planting, &c. This you can do B in no better way than by subs- cribing to the Weekly Edition of B the Pinang Gazette,”
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  • 855 2 Mr. Frank Adam arrived in Penang this morning by the Krian. Dr. and Mrs. G. B. McHutchison have returned to Taiping from their health trip to Japan. Mr. J. G. Cruickshank, the former Ceylon planter, and now of the F.M.S., has gone to Ceylon with Mrs. Cruickshank
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  • AHEAD OF THE MAIL.
    • 396 2 London, December 6.—A high military authority, in his weekly review of the progress of the war states There is little doubt from the enemy’s counter attack that we broke through the famous Hindenburg line, which general von Ludendorff designed. The latter declared that if it were
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    • 368 2 London, December 4.—The Elder Dempster steamer Apapa, 7,832 tons, was torpedoed without warning. A second torpedo was fired while the women and children were being lowered into the boats. The Apapa carried 120 passengers and a crew of 100. She also carried mails. The vessel was torpedoed
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    • 39 2 The Rome Agenzia Libera states that the Pope, replying to a letter from the Austrian Empress, declared that he could not approve of Rome Catholic soldiers assisting the Turks to retain holy places in Palestine.
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    • 33 2 The A’ienna Neue Freie Tresse denies the right of Serbia to her original status. The journal says Austria must improve her frontiers. The war has made pre-war conditions unsatisfactory.”
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    • 73 2 Toronto, December 6.—Air. Arthur Pollen, a British naval expert, who is visiting Canada, expects that before the war ends there will be a naval battle of unimaginable violence, in which new engines of destruction will be used,.resulting' in the annihilation of the German fleet and the partial
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    • 36 2 London, December 6.—The Cologne Gazette states that a great financial syndicate is being formed at Hamburg to restore the oversea trade of Germany after the war. The syndicate has a capital of £5,000.000.
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  • 201 2 AVe are asked to give publicity to the following telegrams exchanged between His Excellency the Governor and the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies in connection with the O ur Day movement throughout the Straits Settlements and the States of Johore, Kedah, Kelantan and
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  • 126 2 —SWINBURNE. New Year be good to England Bid her name Shine sunlike as of old on all the sea Alake strong her soul set all her spirit free Bind fast her homeborn foes with links of shame More strong than iron and more keen than flame Seal
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  • 108 2 lady. I ain’t got no sideways.’ ”—“Pittsburg Chronicle Teh graph.” Alfred A. Knopf, New Yoik's Russian expert, said the other day “The Rus ian revolutionists are mystics. They’re idealists. They now invite the German populace to revolt, but revolution demands a demcc'atic spirit, and the German people,
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  • 98 2 Two houses, Nos. 220 and 221, Victoriast, near the Victoria Bridge, Singapore, collapsed on Saturday about one o’clock in the afternoon. The houses were cccupied as rikisha depots, bus fortunately at that hour all the rikishas and their pullers had gone out, and no one was killed. Three
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  • 69 2 Jan. 9.—Piano Recital, Anglo-Chihese School Hall, 8 p.m. Jan. I 7 —P.V.R.C. Shoot, 7 a.m (Deliberate). Jan. 14.—P.V.R.C. Annual General Meeting, Penang Cricket Club, 7 p.m. Jan. 15, 17 and 19. —Penang Races. Jan. 16.—General Aleeting of the Straits Racing Association, at Chamber of Commerce, at 11 a.m.
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  • 87 2 The Band will play the following programme of mesic at the Esplanade fron 5 p.m. to-day 1. Overture William Tell ...Rossini 2 Cake Walk CZK CZK ...Ti.urban 3. Fantasia Grand Pastoral and Hunting ...Godfrey 4. Waltz Studiantina Waldteufel 5. The Motor March Ruey Messrs Sandilands, Buttery, Co,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 561 2 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Wanted six Disc Harrows either six or eight Discs -suitable, new or second-hand. Please quote. B x No. 9, c/o Pinang Gazette. W A tvi TED, A SECRETARY for Klang Club. Chinese preferred. Salary $l5O. Must give $3,000 security. Apply PRESIDENT, Klang Club. NOTICE. HOLGER MELBYE DECEASED. Notice
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    • 180 2 Estates and Jsoeal Jig ents. 1 SEE THAT YOU TRY OUR g Jsoeal Make Meranti Gases. H The value for your money. The thing for E H your entire satisfaction. Tested and proved iĔ to be far better than MOM! or other 1 European make cases in point of s
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 121 2 X TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! COMMENCING AT 9-15 P. M. SHARP. u Manager THOMAS SHAFTO. J METRO 44 Metro Features n H /PICTURES PRESENT U X Francis X. Bushman 4 and n y Beverly-Bayne n Pennington s Choice, 5 Great Thrilling Acts. Screening time about 10-30 p.m. SEE a g THIS—ITS GOOD.
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  • 991 3 LOOK OUT MAN’S F.VIDENCE. The inquiry into the collision between the British steamships Laertes and Warrimoo on December 15, as a result of which the formervessel was sunk, was continued in the Marine Court Singapore, on Saturday and then adjourned to Monday. The court comprised Mr.
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  • 626 3 Secondary Marriages and Man-Power. The New Morality.” During the war there have been frequent, but for the most part unverified, reports of German schemes for increasing future manpower by the promotion of bigamy or polygamy. We have now received some trustworthy evidence in the shape of a
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  • 358 3 Plea for State Compensation and Pensions. The Rev. T. Eynon Davies, general secretary of the British and Foreign Sailors Society, discussed at the Aldwych Club the War Service claims of the mercantile marine upon the nation. The dividing line between the Navy and the merchant service
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1005 3 EUROPEAN, 31, at preseat planting w in F.M S desires change. Com- A PfflllA Kofllfll niercial or planting. Office experience. 11x111” llVvlltll Box No. 5, c/o Pinang Gazette. WILL BE GIVEN BY ie—l 9 1 Mr. Bennedick R. Solis, ENGLISHMAN 43, married, ineligible THE 5 years Tea and Rubber. 16
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    • 57 3 bit’s Astonishing ~£S Sluggish Lvr-| to when they can cure the trouble by an occasional does of PINKETTES, M g the tiny laxatives that work as gentle as nature. Do not gripe. m 50 cents per phial at your druggist’s or direct by mail on receipt of s J q
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    • 25 3 PRITGHARD CO., LTD. Just received "by Post tfje latest 3asf)ions in MILLINERY SUITABLE FOR THE RACES Also a Splendid Assortment of SEMI-TRIMMED HATS NOW SHOWING
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  • 17 4 Cullen.—On January 5, at the Maternity Hospital, Singapore, to Mr and Mrs Garrett Cullen, a daughter.
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  • 1213 4 There are a good many people in much the same position as the old rural labourer who suddenly realised that the war was a serious business because his supply of breakfast bacon, on which he had always relied, was absolutely unobtainable. It is when the effects
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  • 73 4 The homeward mail D”) closes at 10 a.m. to-morrow registration till 9 a.m and parcels till 8 a.m. Letters posted io the pillar-boxes before 9 a.m. to-morrow will be in time. Letters, etc, for despatch bythe homeward packet may be posted at the Head Office up to 10-45
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  • 53 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $127.75 per picul business done. Tin was quoted in London yesterday at £2Bl spot, and £274 three months. The opening shoot for season 1917-18 of the Penang Volunteer Rifle Club, takes place at Kampong Bahru on Sunday, 13th January, at
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  • 1794 4 Australian papers received to-day report that an important rubber Australia’s conference was held at Rubber Supplies, the directorate of munitions, Melbourne, at the end of November. It was arrrnged by the Federal Government between representatives of the rubber growers in Papua, and the Pacific islands and Australian
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 258 4 J- 8 O iu SL tn I U <9 m 2 S *J k. BL s I SCOTCH WHISKY Sj As.'Prepared for fexport. j qu <l~- v EXTRA SPECIAL GOLD LABEL SPECIAL VERY OLD. WHITE LABEL JSfl Proprietors Bulloch. Lade &\Co., i u«i.. S 1 OiaTILLCRS *T GLASGOW. ISUAT. ANO
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    • 48 4 “E. S O.” Hotel. RACE DINNERS. TUESDAY, 15TH JANUARY. THURSDAY. 17 TH SATURDAY, 19TH DANCING after DINNER, ON SATURDAY, 19TH JANUARY. E. A O. ORCHESTRA. ♦■■■■■■■■■■■■(«■((■■■■■■■■■■■■■a Pinang Gazette Press, LIMITED. TELEPHONES. a Printing Works Manager and 5 Cashier’s Office 498 Managing Editor 477 Editor’s Residence 221 5 ♦■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■a
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  • 198 5 SIR D. HAIG’S DEPATCH. MR HUGHES RESIGNS. LORD READINGS APPOINTMENT A despatch from Field Marshal Haig covers she operations in the west daring 1917, till the opening of the Cambrai battle. Th- 1 British cap-urea in the w-steru theatre during the whole of the year inc.uded 73,131 prisoners
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 860 5 P.EVTBsa Telegrams THE 1917 OPERATIONS. London, January 8. The London G?ze”e contains a despatch from Pie:d Marsh*. Haig, of 26 000 word’, covering the operations in 1917, except those at Cambrai It exc'ains that a conference cf the military heads of the Allies in November, 1916,
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    • 417 5 THE YPRES SECTOR. London, January 7. Field Marshal Haig reports We repulsed a raid south-east of Ypres. The hostile a-tillery was active at Passchendaele. Our aeroplanes on Sunday frei from machine guns 12,000 rounds on troops, transport and other targets and dropped three tons of bombs on different
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    • 68 5 A YEAR'S RECORD. London, January 7. The War Office announce-* that the British captu'ed in 1917 the following: Prisoners. Guns. Western theatre 73,131 531 Palestine 17,646 108 Me»op>tama 15,944 124 East Africa 6,728 18 Salonika 1,095 Total 114,544 781 Losses. The British losses in 1917 were approximately Prisoners.
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    • 49 5 THE ATTACKS IN GERMANY. Amstrdam January 3. A telegram from Karlsruhe, on January 4th. reports Allied air attacks on Msnnaeim. Kastalt and Freiburg. The Tetegrasf states that a big new dying camp at Ovstackeron. on the GhentLokern Antwerp line, his been great!} damaged in aerial attacks.
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    • 105 5 GENERAL MILITARY WRITER’S ADMISSIONS Lindon. January 8 Tbe specially well known German military writer, General Liebert, in a significant article in tbe Taegliche Ruadsschau points that the world’s balance of power at present greatly favou-s Britain, who not on y c u’d now proceed to the completion
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    • 49 5 THE FOOD PROBLEM. London. January 8. The first batch of 235 officers and men. and 370 civilians, landed at Boston from Germany. An officer declared that the food shortage in Gernuny win end the war. Ex-prisoners agreed that only parcels from England enabled them to live.
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    • 59 5 London, January 7. Last week’s subscriptions to the National War Bonds, through the Banks, amounted to nearly £24,000 OCO, rhe record for a week. Hitherto over £211,000,000 has been subscribed through the Banks, and over £11,000.000 through the the Post Office. To December 29th over £137,000.000 had
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    • 28 5 London, January 8. Provincial butchers have been licensed to buy oniv half as much mean as in October, the surpluses to be sent to London.
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    • 56 5 London, January 7 The Order of Commander of the British Empire has been conferred on Mr. J. J. Virgo of tbe Y.M.C A. Sir John Farley, Mr J. A. Seddoc, the Labour leader, and Mr James Parker, Labour M.P., have been appointed Companions of Honour cf
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    • 420 5 PRESIDENT WILSON’S APPROVAL. London, January 8 President Wilson sent a message to Mr Lloyd George, warmly approving and emphatically endorsing his -peech, on behalf of himself and the American Government. Farther Commendation. London. January 8. Every hour brings fresh commendati n of Mr. Lloyd George’s speeh from Dominions
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  • 56 5 NEW MINEFIELDS. Dondoo, January 8. Lloyd’s ann r unces that twi> new British minefields for the protection of merchantmen against submarines been laid, covering practically the whole sea area between the Belgian coast and Dover and Folkestone. The British mine area off tbe coas" of Jutland and the German
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  • 24 5 London, January 8 The Admiralty reports that a British destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the Medi’errrsnean. Ten men were lost.
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  • 27 5 Washington, January 8. The Fuel A iministrator recommends that coal be only exported for war purposes, or in exchange for commodities the United States needs.
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  • 34 5 New York. Janua-y 8. Mr. Rockfeller has donated $5,500 000 to the Rock'eller Foundation to m»et the increasing expenditure on war work. Mr. Rockfeller s contributions to the Foundation total $130,000,000.
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  • 13 5 London, January 5. Silver is at 45 1 8d with yesterday’s tone,
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  • 243 5 APPOINTMENT TO WASHINGTON LjQ'ion, Januiry 7. It is understood Lord Reading has b-?eo appointed Bri ish High Comm.s-i.ner to the Uaved States, ani that h® will also take charge of the British War MLs.ou in N j w York and Washington, Lord Northci ff-? rem lining at the
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  • 701 5 Lord Nurthcliffe addressed the following commnnicarioTi to the Prune Minister on November. 1917 Dear Prime Minister.—l have given aaxious consideration to your repeated cavitation that I should take charge of the new Vr Ministry. The reasons which have impeded me to decline that great
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  • Italy’s Campaign
    • 101 5 BRITISH ACIIVIIY. London. January 7. An Italian official report eay* British and French batteries repeatedly swelledpositi- ns an-1 rear areas between Vidor,. Ponredella ani Griu a, with excellent result-». British patrols forced the at some points. British Activity. London, January 8. A British Italian official report says r
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  • 287 5 MR. TUDOR SUMMONED. Melooarne, January 8The Hughes Cabinet has resigned. Mr. Taior baa oeen sumaiouea. LATE MINISTER’S DECLARATION. Sydney. December 11.—Speaking at Yaae, Mr Webster. Postmaster-General, addressed a large audience in favour of an. affirmative vote. He declared that if the Referendum were not earned the Ministry
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  • 259 5 The followin’ are rhe iacest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy and Co a share lists Yesterday. To-day. a on ou a Shakxs. s XX XX Rubber (Dollar). Bukit Katil 85c 95c 9»?c 95c ex tfonerak Malavan C 510 f 510| 511 S. S*. 6% War Loan 5101 5102
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  • 621 6 STERN WARNING. A striking pronouncement on the importance of frustrating the enemy plan of domination from Hamburg to Baghdad was made by President Wilson in a speech at the opening session of the convention of the American Federation of Labour. Remarking that the war was
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  • 244 6 Girls sorting out bundles of laundry which had just come in to be washed in Detroit, Michigan, found a three-raonths old sleeping baby girl wrapped up in some sheets just in time to prevent the child suffering a frightful death in the boiling water. The babe,
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  • 273 6 M. Pierre Mille contributes to Excelsior an article on Great Britain, which conc'udes as follows What ardour, enthusiasm, and friendship, I might even say love! The old animosities which separated the two peoples have been abolished for ever. Never will they forget the brotherhood in arms which
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  • 214 6 Lord Rhondda’s Address. Speaking at a luncheon of City business men in the Trades House at Glasgow Lord Rhondda claimed that the Ministry of Food during the past five months had prevented prices from soaring high, and that was a great thing. There was no use mincing
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  • 121 6 Kaiser’s Blasphemous Speech to Submarine Crews. The Cologne Gazette records that the concluding passage cf the Kaiser’s speech to German U-boat crews on the Adriatic was as follows When I now look in your face I do 85 with a rock-like conviction that this weapon will nob rest
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  • 457 6 A former resident of Japan, now in Swi'zsrland, writing under date of 12th October, draws a gloomy picture of conditions there. He says Our beautiful summer-like autumn came to a close about a week ago, since when we have been plung ed into chill dreariness. When, every
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  • 234 6 Southampton Harbour Pilot in Kaisers Navy. “You can’t throw a cow cover over a horse and expect to get milk in ths morning,” declared Mr F M S Fisher, the New New Zealand statesman, at Manchester Univert-ity in the course of a strong appeal against trusting
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  • 601 6 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S SUGGESTION. Bangalore, December 20.—General H A Iggulden, Commanding the Bangalore Brigade, to-day held a meeting of civil and military residents to discuss the question of treating in deference to the express wish of the Commander-in-Chief, conveyed in the following circular The Comman-der-in-Chief is of opinion that
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 29 6 WAR CARTOON. [Reproduced from the World’s Pres®.] r "r 1 'fee'll C iWxl \tv HillSßwiW-gWL ;fctwl fetaO 'ttS&WM! ft < wU&-> #4j£-~. a THE NEW HYMN OF HATE.— “Philadelphia Press.”
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  • 1052 7 bagan jermal lane tragedy. At Penang Assizes, in the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice L. M. Woodward, Senior Puisne Judge on the Bench, with a jury comprising 3 Messrs. W. M. Dodds, (foreman), R. Eady, L. H. Wemyss, T. Wilson, A. J. Van der Zee. F A Pledger and
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  • 792 7 The local managers of the Eastern Smelting Co Ltd., to-day received a cable from the London Office, advising that the annual report and accounts were to be issued in London on the 7th inst. The net profit is £49,931 which with the balance appropriation accc unt
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  • 907 7 OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUTINY. The following matter is drawn from the official report presented by the Russian Military Mission in France to the Provisional Government and recently published by the Provisional Government in the Russian press. Socn after the Revolution had broken out in Russia
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  • 504 7 The fourth annual general meeting was held on November 12 th, at the Cannons’reet Hotel, Mr J ihn I. Philips, the chairman of the company, presiding. Mr H A Huntley, representing the secretaries, Bright and Galbraith Limited), read the notice convening the meeting and the auditors’
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  • 203 7 Another £8 to £9 a ton was within the past week added to the price of tin, the positions of wh'ch seems more complicated than ever in regard to prospective supplies, says a London writer on November 11th. This movement was precipitated by the continuation
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  • 128 7 WEAKER MARKET AND DECLINE IN PRICES. At the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association’s 327th auction on January 3rd aad 4tb, there were offered for sale p’culs 15,854.12 or 2,113,883 lbs. (tons 943.65) The prices realized were as follows Smoked Sheet fine ribbed $lOO to $lO6 good
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  • 117 7 Messrs. Aldens’ Successors Ltd London, reported on 15th. November, as follows The last week hag shown a fu'ther shrinkage in values this morning’s values of Crepe being not more than 2/7 and Sheet 2/6. At the decline there is a steadier tendency. It will be seen that
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  • 74 7 Messrs. Cunningham, Clark Ar Co., Pen *ng, advise us that the under-mentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them by auction and private tender to-day. Diamond smoked sheet s9B—slo6 Plain smoked sheet sBo 85 Diamond unsmoked sheet $70 85 Plain unamoked sheet ss9 65 Bark crepe
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  • 139 7 The following are additional rubber outputs for December Aima lbs 37 500 Atbara 10,723 Ayer Tawah t 27,129 Ayer Molek 15,500 Ayer Kuning 6,500 Bute 17,158 Bukit Jelotong 9,890 Batang Benar 25,617 Batu Anam 18,189 Batu Lintang 4,900 Batu Village 2,257 Bukit Toh Alang 16,410 Chemor United 20,439
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  • 348 7 British Foreign Bible Society Emergency Fund Already acknowledged $429.97, Mrs S Tomlinson $7, Mrs N B Westerhout $lO, Dr Maclntyre, Kuala Lumpur, per Mr Purdy $lO, J S, Kuala Lumpur, Mr Purdy $l, Mr R Meech, Ku via Lumpur, Mr Purdy $2 Total $459.97 Chas E G. Tisdall, Agent. Singapore,
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  • 411 7 One of the many less ns that war conditions have brought forcibly to the attention: of American manufacturers is that without control of raw material supply, back to the source, in case of a disturbance in market and transportation conditions, business can. expect to be greatly handicapped.
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  • 433 7 Fluctuatisg Pricks There was a sudden i< clinaticn for the market to weaken y-sterday, say'-f he “Rangoon Times of January 3, when it became known thwt millers were ffering rice at Rs 240, and this aff ctfd the pr ce immedia ely. cia iog it to
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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