Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 10 April 1923

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 81. VOL LXXXI. TUESDAY, 10th APRIL, 1923/ PRICE 15 OENTB.
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    • 359 1 KIDD’S i LETTER PRESS J IRK I COMPOSITION j I AGENTS J I P. G. Press, Ltd. j IC. C. WAKEFIELD CO., LTD., C k (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND.) I 1 BRITISH THROUGHOUT. 1 'j T' j B VW IN. 14 '.r 'iff I g LIMIT THE CONSUMPTION to eliminate the
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    • 14 1 a j T. NAGATA, DENTIST; f K NRXT DOOR TO |r “THE DISPENSARY.” 1
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  • 532 2 PROPOSALS OF AUSTRALIAN SYNDICATE. Recently a visit was paid to Singa pore by Mr. J.J. Anderson, the chairman of the Glover Meat Company of Queensland, and at the time just a handful of people were aware of his presence and the object he had in view, says the
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  • 134 2 The last case on the list of the Sin gapore Assizes was heard when two Chinese, Wong Yong and Lock Liong, were charged with armed robbery and attempted murder. The evidence for the prosecution went to prove that on February 25 the two accused proceeded to a house
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  • 73 2 Bombay, March 30.—The “Times of India” reports a fatal accident at Kharapure shikar camp near Mysore, laird Ruthven and the Rajkumar De saraj Urs. (son of the late Col. Desara’ Urs) were out after a tiger. The an: mal was striving to get out of the beat.
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  • 34 2 Tokio, April 4.—Mr. Yokota, a Secretary of the Board of Decorations has been appointed Chief Secretary fvr the mandatory islands of the South Seas, in succession to Mrs. Tashiro Tetsuka, resigned.
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  • 629 2 London, March 31).—The following Association football matches were played on Good Friday: League Division I.—Aston ilia Chelsea 0; Bolton 0, Everton 2; Burn lev 1, Cardiff 5; Liverpool 2, Shefheh United 1 Sunderland 2, Manchester Citv 0; Tottenham 1, Preston 1: Notts Forest 2, Middlesboro 1 Ohlham
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  • 106 2 SOLDIER JONES BEATEN. Txmdon, March 26.—At the National Sporting Club to-day, in the contest for the British Empire cruiserweight championship, Jack Bloomfield (British champion) beat Soldier Jones (Canadian champion) who retired in the fifth round. Jones began briskly, but after some quick exchanges in the second round Bloomfield sent
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1020 2 POSITIONS VACANT PENANG DRAWING OFFICE. A course of private lessons, extending to WANTED good Tamil Cook. Gaji one year, will l»e given to those who wish to $25. Apply Box No. 93, c/o Pinang qualify as Overseers. Draftsmen and Gazette. Surveyors for the P. W. D. Terms moderate. For particulars
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    • 991 2 BANKS. NEDERLANDSCHE HAND?? OliVj MAATSCHAPPIJ. J, NEDERLANDS TRADING SOCif t W w/ fejw M ESTABLISHED 1824. H 7vK> n Capital (Paid-Up) M M f- 80,000,000 abt. 1 vT" Hl/Z X Statutory Reserve M f 19 445 211 abb £1,620 4? J n 111 Special Reserve M M f. 22,600,000 abt.
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  • 1120 3 ■PROFESSOR MYRES’ SUGGESTION. 'I The munificent gift of £lOO,OOO to the Ktoyal Society by Sir Alfred Yarrow for Scientific research has aroused the keen■gt enthusiasm in science circles, and ■professor J. L. My res, Genend Secretary K>f the British Association, has outlined to "a representative
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  • 216 3 Bride after bride chooses Victorian dresses for her attendants. Whether this will lead to a general revival of the mode it is not possible to say, but there is a distinct feeling for full skirts and modified crinoline effects for bridesmaids. These dresses show the rounded neck finished
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  • 193 3 Twenty-seven of the crew of fortythree from the steamer Tuscan Prince Line, arrived at Liverpool on board th« Canadian Pacific steamer Metagama. They told a remarkable story of their being wrecked in a blizzard on a desert island between San Francisco and Seattle. When the vessel
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  • 1282 3 THE BOIS IN THE MORNING. (By a Lady’ Correspondent.) Paris, March 14. In a few w’eeks. Spring flowers will be in full bloom, and the Gay City’ in all its glory’. In the meantime, there is an absence of colour on the Boulevards, that strikes a visitor
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 79 3 |g||gr Baby Wants Cuticura It Keeps His Skin Soft Smooth and Clear Baby's tender skin requires mild, soothing properties such as are found in the Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Talcum. The Soap is so sweet, pure and cleansing and the Ointment so soothing and healing, especially when baby’s skin is
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    • 189 3 HAVE YOU A SICKLY CHILD? HOW BABY’S OWN TABLETS HELP. For the information of parents who have ailing children, Mrs. A. R. Nelles, of Thessalton, Ontario, writes: “When my baby was five months old she was very sick. I tried several medicines but they* d'.d her no good. I then
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    • 109 3 Z 2, z—gc ■Mp PRITCHARD I I CO., LTD. NEW STOCKS TO HAND r 'I i A Visit to Our J Ladies’ I > Department, will reveal an attractive selection of new and dainty underwear at conspicuously moderate prices. I Fine Hand-embroidered Lawn and S iliF Silk-crepe, Nightdresses, Chemises, fti
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  • 2123 4 Alleged Malicious Prosecution. A CLAIM FOR DAMAGES DISMISSED. A claim was brought in the District Cpurt, Penang, on Monday before Mr. R. Scott, by Mr. Goh Chong Keng, Managing Director of Messrs. J. W. and T. Connolly (Far East) Ltd., of 34, Church Street, Penang, against Mr. Albert
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  • 379 4 CLAIM FOR CEYLON INVENTION. i i Colombo, March 22.—An invention that seems likely to go very far towards the elimination of the bane of motorists, namely, a punctured or burst tyre, is an inner tube made of raw rubber recently patented in Ceylon. The tube is made of
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  • 176 4 The last witness for the prosecution gave evidence before Mr. W. Sansoni, the acting Colombo Magistrate, Colombo, on March 28 in connection with the enquiry in the case in which D. M. D. Stephen, J.P., is charged with having cheated Messrs. E. B. Creasy .Co., in
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  • 756 4 ANNUAL VESTRY MEETING. The annual Vestry Meeting of St. George's Church was held in the Governor’s Office yesterday. There were present the Colonial Chaplain (Chairman ex-officio), the Hon. the Resident Councillor, the Hon. Mr. W. H. Thorne, Messrs Hastings Rhodes, A Lunberg, R. P. Phillips, H. G.
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  • 93 4 Apr.ll—Football, P C.C. v “D Cov, P.V. 5.15 p.m. 12— Football, H.Q. vs C. Coy P.V.1., Esplanade. 13— Town Club, Meeting, 2.15 p.m. 14— M.F.A. Cuptie, Hutton Lane F.C. vs Crescent F.C. M.F.A. ground, 5.15 p.m. 15 P.S.C. Monthly Handicaps, A Class 50 yards, B Class 50 yards.
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  • 346 4 It is the second time that the wick Comedy Company, has pro( in Penang Bernard Shaw's comedy “Pygmalion;” but it is apj which, both for its intrinsic nil and from the manner of its presentati never fails to attract and please a w audience. Last
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 228 4 [To the Editor of the “Pinang Gazette.". Sir, —In view of the need that exists of some kind of printed respository of facts and figures relating to the various branches of field sport in Malaya, the writer has devoted some time to an effort to fill this
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  • 100 4 E. O. Orchestral Concert. The following programme of music will presented at the orchestral concert to be gi' el at the E. and O. Hotel to-morrow (Medni* day), commencing at 9-45 p.m. 1 Overture Rosammde Schubert 2 Two Pieces a. Traumerie b. Schlummerlied Schumann 3 Suite The Garden of Allah
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 397 4 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. POSITION VACANT. European Assistant with experience in office work required by Tin Mining Co. Young unmarried man preferred. Apply in own handwriting with copies of recent testimonials to Box No. 94, c/o Pinang Gazette. WANTED for Estate in Selangor, Assistant of about two to three years’ experience. Knowledge
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  • 1351 5 secretaries. Messrs. Evatt and' Co.—“S. T.” I CHAIRMAN’S INTERESTING; RE VIEW OF THE SITUATION. I The fourth ordinary general meeting of Bthe Rubber Producers.’ Association of KM;ilava, was held at French Bank buildBjinirs, Singapore. Mr. 11. Freeman presidKed. ami the others present were Messrs. J. kKI. Sime. H.
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  • 202 5 His Highness the Rajah of Sarawak having decided to co-operate with the Str.uits Settlements. Malay States and other rubber producing territories in their policy of restricting the output of plantation rubber has given notice that the quantity of plantation rubber w hich may be exported after March
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  • 216 5 The thirteenth yearly report of the directors of the Ayer Paras Rubber Estate Ltd., for the year ended January 31, 1923, states: —The profit for the yeaa- is 527, 641.44, brought forward from last account $37,566.39, making a total of $65,207.83, which the directors recommend be
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  • 639 5 •SOME SINGAPORE COMMENTS. We have recently been courteously supplied, says the Singapore “Free Press,” with samples of rui her manufay tured by the U.S. Rubber Plantations at their Boenoet Factory by the Hopkinson process. In this method of producing rubber from the latex, which was fully
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  • 236 5 When the Eastern crow has scarce begun hits morning “Hymn of Hate,’’ I'in wakened by a Nurse who comes my temperature to takeWhen this is done, I sigh content, for now methinks I’ll get. More sleep and happy, fairy dreams, till yonder moon has set. But no! there
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  • 464 5 A popular novelist once wrote a papei on the text, “Punctuality is the thief of time”, sdys the “Times.” He complained bitterly of the hours which he had lest in waiting for other people. From his writings we suspect Mr. Arnold Bennett to be; very methodical but
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  • 220 5 The Publicity Dej lartment of the Irish Free State Government announ ces that captured documents indicat** that De Valera’s salary is £l,OOO year paid more or less in advance. In a letter dated Dublin, February 5 to Joseph McGarity, Chestnut-street Philadelphia, De Valera says, “Some more of
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  • 176 5 The amazing prosperity of the Ruh; coal and steel syndicate is revealed by balance sheets for 1921-22. Profits have in one instance been quadrupled in 12 months, and dividends of 11)0 per cent, declared by a number firms. The group controlled by Hev Hugo Stinnes, the richest man
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  • 1135 6 The news that was cabled through from India the other day that plague was raging with increased intensity in several Provinces has no doubt served to create in the minds ot many people a greater receptivity to any information that may lie forthcoming regarding steps taken to promote
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  • 1277 6 Now that silver coinage is again fairly freely in circulation, there Currency are less currency notes of Notes. the small denomination about. There is still a large enough number of the latter in daily use to convince the observant that from the health point of view, it
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  • 167 6 VOLUNTEERS’ ADVENTURE. Singapore. April 10. A party numbering about thirty of the Singapore Royal Engineers Volunteer* who recently engaged in pontoon bridconstruction left shore yesterday afternoon upon the pontoon which wa? constructed upon two sampans. Owit.to the choppy sea one of the sampan? tilled with water with the
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  • 146 6 The homeward mail, by the Don-tola, closes at 6 p.m. on Friday, the l-'t* instant. The homeward mail, by the Porth<’?. closes at 10 a.m. on Saturday, the lit’ l instant. The Blue Funnel s.s. Glaucus. pected to arrive here on the 19th instant, with 5 mail bags
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    • 143 6 I PORTABLE 1 AND CHEAP. The “Grippa” Portable t "AsJaJ I Gramophone Price $5O. Case made of oak, two lever locks, all fittings highly nickelled, loud clear tone. CALL AND HEAR IT TO-DAY Robinson Piano Co., ESTABLISHED OVER FORTY YEARS. PENANG. iwiTr i mi— ti ww—ra eaaaaaaHß—■wjiiOT— 11—OMW THE EMPIRE
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    • 4 6 E. O. DANCING TO-NIGHT.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 141 6 TOWN HALL, j I TO-NIGHT. I 5 RETURN VISIT OF THE POPULAR g Edgar Warwick Comedy Co. IN g II The Greatest of all Detective Plays “RAFFLES” H Prices $3, $2, $l. S Booking Plan Now Open at ROBINSON PIANO Co. S J Town Hall, Taiping, Wednesday 11th, J I
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    • 22 6 THE TIDES. High Water. I ,ow Water. To-day. 9.20 p.m. 3.54 p.m. To-morrow. 10.44 a.m. 4. 7 a.m. 10.15 p.m. 4.40 p.m.
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  • 20 6 DEATH. English—At the General Hospital. Singapore, on sth inst.. Anatasia. beloved wife of Captain J. English, 2nd Bn. Middlesex Regt.
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  • 179 7 Significant Vote. Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, April 9. Kwaptured documents published in Dublin show that al a meeting of tin Irregular Executive on the 23rd March jjgniotion by Barry, Deputy Chief of Staff. seconded by the Commander Illg Irregular f irst Southern Division that further resistance to the Free
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  • 508 7 AMERICAN’S CURIOUS PROPOSALS. Mr. F. >l. Lowe, secretary of the American aS'oe.iat ion known as the Friends of the Irish Free State, has arrived in Dublin with novel proposals for an Irish peace He |Bays that the objects ot aocietv is the development of trade relations between
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  • 143 7 M>nd<m. Mflrc’i 31. —The fact that motor KMan- among the goods to be subjected duty when the new Irish cus'.tafiil barrier is enforced led to extraord|Mjry scenes in Wales recently when a targe number of motor cars being driven to Holyhead fwßsh i pment before the tax was
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  • 138 7 London, March 31. —That Irish immi giants were making Glasgow unfit for Scotsmen to inhabit was the contention of the Rev. J. Maclagan in a rejairt to the Glasgow Presbytery' of the Church of Scotland. He said that forty per cent, of the Corpoiaiton employees were
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  • 172 7 A LIVELY DEBATE. e London, April 10. In the House of Commons, there was a lively debate on the Speciil Constables Bill providing for the continuance of recruiting and the maintenance in force of the Act undei which Special Constables were enrolled in war time, and which
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  • 98 7 OPENING ON OCTOBER 1. London, April 9. In the House of Commons. Mr. Stanley Baldwin announced that -the Imperial and Imperial Economi Conferences will open on the Is October. Mr. Baldwin said it was anticipated (hat all the Dominions and Ind’ i would be represented at the Imperia'
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  • 47 7 London. April 9. Mr. Bonar Law made an early ap pearance at the re-opening of the House of Commons, and was univer sally cheered when he rose to speak It was noticed his throat affection was still troublesome; his voice being al most inaudible.
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  • 59 7 DEVELOPMENT OF RAILWAYS AND MINES. Constantinople, April 9. The National Assembly discussed a law accepting contracts with representatives of an American Development Company for railways and ports in Anatolia, and also a stipulation as regards mines 20 kilometres on either side of the railways. The majority
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  • 93 7 London, March 31.—A Constantinople report states that the mysterious disappearance of AH Shukri, Deputy for Tre bizond and member of the Opposition, who is believed to have been assassinated for political reasons, occasioned stormy scenes in the Angora Assembly, the Opposition accusing the Government of placing themselves
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  • 173 7 Mr. Thomas and the Extremists. Reuter’s Telegrams. London, April 9. Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., warmly rebuked the extremists when addressing a mass meeting of railwaymen in London. He stated that labour’s weakness was a superfluity of unions and an insufficiency of unity. He pointed out that 28
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  • 259 7 ABERDEEN DEVELOPMENTS. London, April 9. While the Aberdeen fishermen, though suffering from destitution, artrefusing to go to sea till the landing of fish from German trawlers is stopped, German boats continue to arrive in increasing numbers. Sixteen arrived at the week-end. and six re sailed without landing their
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  • 83 7 LABOURERS’ 11 PER» CENT INUREASE. Pittsburg, April 9. The Carnegie Steel Company has increased the common labourers’ wages by 11 per cent. There were similar advances at some of the United States Steel Corporation’s subsidiary companies, accompanied by a promise of adjustment of the other classes
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  • 22 7 Le Havre, April 10. The striking firemen of the liner France are returning to work. Tn? vessel sails to-day.
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  • 36 7 Pittsburg, April 10. Among the independent mills, the Jones and Laughlin Corporation, one of the largest steel companies in th country, is granting an increase approximately 11 pel cent., affecting about IG,OOO employees.
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  • 109 7 Liberal Gain. Reuter’s Telegrams. J London, April 9. lhe agricultural depression was the chief issue in the by-election in Angle sey, due to the death of the Indepen dent, Brig.-General Sir Owen Thomas. The result was as follows: Sir R. J. Thomas (Liberal) 11,1 W Mr. L. T.
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  • 72 7 Berlin. April 9. lhe President of the Railway Administration at Treves, telegraphed President Ebert that 106 families of railway men had been ex jielled from their homes by coloured troop- and that a further 600 families would be evicted in a few days. Pre sident Ebert forwarded
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  • 96 7 FURTHER DETAILS. Lnndon. April 9. According to telegrams from Meme! received in London, the troubles there broke out with the troops dispersing a demonstration of 26,000 Germans in the streets on Saturday against heav\ taxation and customs duties. There was intermittent rifle fire throughout Saturday night, resulting in
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  • 78 7 BRITISH OFFICERS MURDERED. Simla, April 9. Majors Orr ami Anderson of the Seaforth Highlanders, when walkinir near Landi Kotak (North-West Frontier Province), were fired on ami killed. The murderers escaped. Shot During Evening Walk. Simla, April 1(1. It appears that Majors Orr and An derson were walking four
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  • 13 7 London, April 9. The French franc mis improved to 69.30.
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  • 124 7 BRILLIANT SCENES. Rome, April 9. Princess Yolanda and Count Calvi di Bergolo were married at the Quiri nal. The civil marriage took place in the Throne Room, and was attende I by Their Majesties the King and Queen of Italy and other Royaltv, Signor Mussolini and other
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  • 28 7 A RECORD RUN. New York, April 9. A Wright E-4 aeroplane engine completed the record-breaking test at Washington, of running 573 hours with’out a stop.
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  • 210 7 Terrible Revelations. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, April 9. Sensational allegations regarding the slave traffic are contained in a letter to the “Times” from Major Henry Dailey, ex-Frontier Agent in South-West Abyssinia. He declares that an area of South Abyssinia, 306 miles square, has been depopulated and devastated by slave
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  • 106 7 BRITAIN TO THE FRONT. London, April 9. Lloyd’s Shipbuilding Returns show that 1,492,000 tons were unde, construction in the United Kingdom on March 31, an increase of 23,000 compared with December, the first increase since March. 1921. The total for other countries is 1,367,000 tons 50,000 less
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  • 292 7 Before the war German ram-ant ile shipping was second to that of the Inited Kingdom. Of the total, amounting to 5,459,000 gross tons, about 2.600,000 were lost during the war, and 2,800.(XX) appropriated by the Allies under the terms of the Versailles Treaty, leaving Germany with a
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  • 36 7 Riga, April 10. A Moscow message states that in consequence of attacks against the Church and mockery of Easter festivities, disorders occurred, which the Red Army put down. Three Reds were shot dead.
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  • 28 7 Berlin, April 10. President Ebert received M. Krest inski, who presented his credentials as representative of the Soviet of White Russia and the Trans-Caucasu-Soviet Republic.
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  • 63 7 A New Government. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Riga, April 9. Owing to the condition ot Lenin, the reorganisation of the entire system of Government was decided upon in Moscow. A Special Council of Forty will be substituted for th? People’s Commissaries, and will constitute the supreme authority. The position in
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  • 365 7 REPORTS FROM MOSCOW. London, March 30.—The Moscow co- respondent of the “Daily Mail” states that, though there is no certainty that Lenin may not last weeks or even, months, until another stroke, he is already mentally dead. The manner of his death is terrible. The right side, arpi
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  • 359 7 Paris, March 29. —With three knocks, which is the signal in Parisian theatres for the raising of the curtain, the usher of the little Church at St. Francis de Sales inaugurated the simple service at Madame Sarah Bernhardt’s funeral. The coffin rested on a bier near f
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  • 1607 8 A PENNILESS PROSPECTOR’S LUCKY STRIKE. The Toronto correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says when Benny Hollinger staked the claim that afterwards became the nucleus of the Hollinger Gold Mines in the Porcupine area in Northern Ontario he was scarcely out of his teens, and
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  • 63 8 The per capita debt in the United States-is now- $230. A lot of people wiJl be relieved' to hear this who have thought they owed much more. King George has won a verdict of $669 because of failure by an American concern to deliver corned beef. As
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 171 8 JKdlinS Food R j P ej'. red as directed Mellin s Food is the wpHfff pero.ct sul's'.iiuie lor breast milk and jM l 11 constiim nature's essential constituents for budding sturdy limbs and solid flesh, fif/ 1 ij! IIM I |,,j JU Equally good for nursing or expectant mothers as
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    • 20 8 MARTIN 1 Pf LLS A Remedy for all Irregularities. Saperaeding Bitter Apple, Pennyroyal, PU Cochia, Sa '-'rder of aix Chemists.
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    • 134 8 I FRUIT I > 5 Australian Apples] S? s Grape Fruit Singapore Cold Storage Company, Limited, PENANG. |A WARNING! H Children need Milk to sustain them against the ravages of this trying climate We offer you THE BEST and at the most reasonable price. We cannot do more, we leave
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  • 777 9 Mr. A. (’avendish is leaving for Singa-to-day prior to going home on leave by the Karmala a month hence. Mr. E. B. Marsden, Manager of Meranti Estate, Perak, is proceeding on leave, and Mr. E. L. Huson will act for him. Geo. Hindle, of the Locomotive Department
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  • AHEAD OF THE MAIL.
    • 209 9 London, March 31.—1 n a leading article dealing with the Budget controversy in India, the ‘‘Times” holds that the Government of India has acted with the greatest care and circumspection and that the Viceroy was guided by a wise perception of the highest interests of India. It
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    • 178 9 London, April 2.--In a leading article on the awakening of Afghanistan in connection with the opening of telegraphic communication the “Times” thinks it is difficult to overrate th* importance of the new departure which is an over abandonment of the benighted anti-foreign policy. It says that there
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    • 152 9 London. March 17.—The Baghdad correspondent of the “Daily Mail” states that excavations have lieen begun north of Chaldea. Mesopotamia for records which Abraham is said to have left; also to recover the world’s ohlest and finest library of the original works of history, religion, art, law, and
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    • 99 9 Leafield, April I.—The bodies <d eighty Belgian soldiers now lying in England are to be taken in state to Zeebrugge. Four hundred are buried here and eighty bodies will be selected to be representative of all ranks am’ classes. It is hoped that
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    • 138 9 London, March 22. It is str ted in Parliament that th? Empire Exhibition would be open in April 1924 and closed at the end of October of that year. It was hoped that the whole costs would be covered by the receipts. The Agent-General for
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    • 105 9 Adelaide, March I.—As the shortage of skilled men is retarding build ing, the Government is bringing out two hundred men—carpenters, bricklayers, masons, and plasterers—from England. The Premier, Sir Henry Barwell, proposes immigration of thic kind wherever it is needed. The absorption of such men
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    • 127 9 According to the army estimates, the trials which have been carried out during the past year with the new type of light tank are nearing completion and it is liojm*<l that orders will be placed for the manufacture and delivery in 1923-24 sufficient to equip
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    • 118 9 London. April 2.—The “Daily Telegraph,” discussing the certificate n on the salt tax says that Lord Read ing’s defence is unanswerable and considers his action is absolutely .ill' tiffed. The alternative was again t« postpone setting India’s finances on a sound basis and postponing it, mor<
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    • 102 9 Paris. March 28. —Interesting statistics of passenger traffic through the Suez canal are published here-. (Jerman -hips in 1915 carried about 25,000 passengers. A large proportion of this traffic has now gone to the Dutch lines, but British ships carried la-t year 9,300 or 59 per
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    • 85 9 FIGHT AVI TH SMUGGLERS. [Reuter's Telegrams.] New York, April 9. Prohibition agents seized $2,000. in two raids at Manhattan and Jsersey City, the larg est seizure made hitherto. The latter raid resulted in a pitched battle with the smugglers. An attempt to recapture the liquor was
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    • 66 9 London, March 31.—Declining the Leeds Liberal Federation’s invitatio i to meet Mr. Lloyd George at luncheo?. to-day, Mr. Herbert Asquith writer to say that he considers it is better to postpone such a function till the process of active liberal co-operation -n the House
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  • 205 9 —“T.O.M.” The installation of Bro. Leonard George Attenborough as Worshipful Master of Lodge Kinta, No. 3,212, E.C., took place on Saturday evening at the Masonic Temple, Gopeng Road, the Board of Installing Masters con. prising: Worshipful Installing Master Rt. Wor. Bro. Sir Neill Malcolm, K.C.8., D. 5.0., D.
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  • 300 9 Benares Opium p. chest $5,000,00 nom. Cloves no stock Gold leaf 72.00 sellers Mace Pickings no stocks Nutrnr gs 80s 1105... Coconuts per 1,000 48.00 sellers Copra Sundried 12.50 sellers. Rattans 11.20 sellers Rattans Coarse 10.50 Green Snail Shells 13.00 Siam Rice No. 1 15.00 per bag do
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  • 67 9 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s share list Yesterday To-day. 2 Shares. >» >* 53 SO QQ CQ 30 c. c. c. c. Mining. Johan 521 55 50 52 A NawngPet 1.35 1.40 1.30 1.35 Ratrut Basin 15/6 16/- 15/- 16/Rawang 1.271 1.321
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  • 37 9 10th April, 1923. Local. cts. (Smoked Sheet 57.*> Fine Pale Crepe 571 Unsmoked Sheet 53 Singa- (Smoked Sheet 58, pore (Crepe 58:, London and New York. London {Smoked Sheet 1,.«d (Crepe ls.4£d New York G34’
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  • 83 9 The following is an additional rubber output for March lbs. Bute Plantations 11.550 Bandar Sumatra 34,000 Consolidated 43,423 Dominion 15.379 Eastern Sumatra 31,000 Glen Bervie 22.782 Gula-Kalnmpong 58.000 Karan 4.376 Kota Bahroe 21,574 Langkat Sumatra 25.000 Lankat Rubber 13.734 Nellmay. 2,380 Padang Jawa 18.772 Rantau 3.320 R. E.
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  • 106 9 London. The Straits Trading Co., Ltd., gives the following London prices, on April 9 Spot £213.175.6d down 125.6 d 3 mos. buying 214.15 s 10s 3 selling „215 10s The Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd:— London, April 9, £214 spot, and £214.15s three months buying, £215 selling. Local. April
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  • 28 9 Tongkah Compound No. 2 N. L. for March, hours run 807 hours, yardage 78,088 cubic yards, output 525 piculs. Kepong Tin Limited, for March, piculs 78.38§.
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  • 116 9 PENANG, APRIL 10, 1923. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London Demand Bank 2/4 5/32 4 months’sight Bank 2/4 1/4 3 Credit 2/4 1/2 3 Documentary 2/4 9/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs 174-> 3 days’sight Private „178 *5 Bombay Demand Bank 174| Madras Demand Bank 174 A > g-
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  • 1110 9 KENNEDY CO’S SHARE LIST. NAMES £.2 *5 RUBBER [Dollar.] S c 9 c 0 Allenby Rubber Co 1 15 1 Alor Gajah Rubber Estate 1 20 1 40 Amalgamated Malay Estates 2 10 2 30 Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate 12 50 13 50 Ayer Kuning Rubber Estates 60 W Ayer
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    • 143 9 SORE AND TENDER THROATS. A REMEDY. Some people inherit throat tenderness, and with them just a flight «hill makes the breathing tubes so swollen and sore that it is sheer agony to attempt to speak. There is one infallible remedy for this condition—* WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMENT CURE so if at
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  • 110 10 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURES. Menggala for Deli and P. Brandan. Aing Thye for Alor Star. Peng Fook for Langsa. Lake Gitano for Singapore and China. Kopah for Deli. Pulau Jerejak. Klang for Port Swettenham, taking mails for Klang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Kampar for Teluk Anson. Vickers. I Ad., have
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  • 297 10 Sydney. Febuary.* 22.—The Press is now publishing the first authoritative figures as to the position of the Commonwealth Line. The coming of Mr. Larkin, the General Manager of the Line, to Australia, together with the publication of the conditions under which certain business men were prepared
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  • 350 10 CLOSE DAILY (except Sunday). IT HUM. Federated Malay States, Malacca. Johore Singapore and Hongkong Registration and Parcel Post, except where otherwise stated, close half an hour earlier than the Ordinary mail. FOR AT Bata Gajah, Tapah Road, 'J By train Teluk Anson.Kuala Kubu, Kuala j 7.15 a.m Lumpur.
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  • 416 10 One who knows him writes in the “Daily Mail”:—The Commission which has been probing into the finances of India is about to complete it' report. The chairman of that Commission, Lord Inchcape, is a man over seventy years of age, with a very wouderful record. Half a
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    • 496 10 MILKO. "YIII 8 a cream dried milk powder, prepared from the fresh ■LV-n-1-.L milk of selected cows, fed on rich Canadian pastures by a wonderful new process. During this process, nothing is removed from the milk except water, and nothing is added. I\/111 ICIY goes BO lution, quickly and easily
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    • 344 10 Talk to Advertisers and Buyers The man with reliable goods to se is the man vho advertises —and ad vertises discriminatingly. The reason is obvious after moment’s consideration. No amount of advertising will se cure large and permanent sales f o* inferior goods. Advertising in th'» case is mere publication
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    • 249 10 j LATEST MODEL fit CANADIAN s i IFORDI CARS I 1 ARRIVED I S A number of improvements have s been incorporated in the new g model FORD g I INSPECTION INVITED. j WEARNE BROS. LIMITED. f PENANG. i 4 K STRIKINGLY LOW UPKEEP EXPENSES. I THE WILLYS KNIGHT Owner
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  • 510 11 CHOWRASTA MARKET. Penang, April 10, 1923. cts Government Mutton Head, sheep or goat each 80 Liver with heart <fe Inng do 1.20 Tripe do 1.00 Goat or Sheep per lb 52 Sweet Bread pair 30 Leg of Mutton lb 52 Kidney pair 30 Feet the four 40 i
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    • 263 11 I BLACK, GALVANIZED J I a- STEAM J PIPING’ o 0 R. T. Reid Lri > Penang C I REPRESENTING E COBB Co., IPOH KUALA LUMPUR. i—r~~inw I Eel— ;sSj B I I I II SB I K g THE BEST COSTS] (LEAST I VWhen you think of the cost
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    • 77 11 When a man asserts his disbeliei in advertising, ask him whose soap he uses, whose beverage® he drinks In nine cases out of ten they will be advertised articles, and though he states that he has not changed Lis taste for years it proves not so much that he is
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    • 249 11 I H SHI H Mono-twin I IF 'AI I I h i I IK? 'J Carries the Truck Farther I Is K I’l k ml I IB 1 I Hlblh 'I H I Th e Mono-twin is built of grainless IHRI I I ru bber—non-splitting. Rubber and J I aSe
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    • 1372 12 “ELLERMAN” LINE. Nippon Ymen Kaisha. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE INTENDED SAILINGS FROM PENANG. (Incorporated m England.) IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT HOMEWARD. LINE. BELLEROPHON April 14 London, Amsterdam and Antwerp. The following fast steamers of the Fortnightly Service. PYRRHUS 12 London, and Rotterdam. above line will be despatched:— Colombo, Suez, Port Said,
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    • 642 12 p. 0.-BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINES. (Companies Incorporated in England). MAIL, PASSENGER CARGO SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL S. N. Co. (Under Contract with His Majesty’s Government) P. O. SAILINGS. LONDON-FAR EASTERN SERVICE. From London Due Penang. To Marseilles London Lcave p about abont 1 4 NY ANZA Apr. 13 DONGOLA
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