The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 25 January 1915

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  • 15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. PEN CENTS SINGAPORE, MONDAY. JANUARY 25, 1915. NO. 8,351.
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  • 184 1 Results of second day's racing at Kuala Lumpur Page 5. 'J he report of Pantai Rubber Company has been issued Page 10. The Johore Planters' Association met at Johore Mahru yesterday Page 10. The annual meeting of tbe Singapore Rowing Club was b«ld o:i Friday Page 5
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  • 1579 1 11 O children, open your arms to me, I ft your hair fall over my eye?, Let me sleep a moment, and then awake Id your gardens of sweet surprise, For the grown-up folk are a wearisome folk And they laugh my fancies to scorn, My fuu
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 437 1 PATRONAGE GOES TO THE SATISFACTION GIVER "Self Praise Is do recnimnaodation (THE BEST ADAGE TO ADOPT > •A man has not enough range of thought to look for any tfood which do*** not relate to his own Interest Addlson We do not hypnotize the Public Into biting a lemon and
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    • 393 1 PALLADIUM ORCHARD ROAD. Singapore's Premier Theatre. ORCHARD ROAD. TO-NIGHT COMMENCING AT.ff ?.M. SHARP. TO-NIGHT WHY BUSINESS IS GOOD BECAUSE. We pnt on the Best Programme lv town All New Films at that) which is changed Twice a Week. We have the B«pt Lighting, an 1 the Moat Oouiiortable Building. You
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    • 166 1 L 1 EST ADVERTISEMENTS. N' t ice re Balgownie Rubber estates P.i -i. Bt aiding officer wanted for Singapore Page 2. The Exchange banks will be closed on Saturday Page '2. v bifcky and Tansan, the best brands of ea h at Caldbeck Macgregor'e Page .">. \t the Palladium fresh
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 118 1 THE WEEK. Monday 25th. High Water -4:^ a.m 6-«0 p.m. Emulation Lodge, 8 30 p.m. Conversion of St. Paul. Tuesday 26th. High Water— .Vv« H.in 8-J1 p.m. la'iaglti iSiiuatu) Rubber, Kvatts, neon. Wednesday 27th. High Water— 6 .9 A.m., 9-23 p.m. Thnrsday 28th. High Water— 7 :n .t.in., ICI2 pm.
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  • 114 2 Amsterdam, Dec. 29th'. The colossal character of the German wnr losses is shown by the official casualty lists, of which 108 have now been issued m I'.erlin. The laßt eight lists numbered 101 to 108, recording the most recent losses, give the casualties sustained by the Prussian
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  • 127 2 A yonng French doctor who is at the front with an Algerian regiment, writing home t > his eitfteY m London, tells a delightfnl etoty of a liarmecidal feast. Having Bhot a pig, he took the trouble to smoke a ham and after giving it to an orderly to boil
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 805 2 Notices BaLGOWNIE RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED. NOTICE OF CLOSING OF TRANSFER BOOKS. Notice beieby giveu th<t Iho Transfer Books of the CoiupHiiy will he cosed from Tuesday, the *^6th to Friday tbe '29th February, jy 5. both days inclusive, lor the purpose ct preparing Divide- d Warrants. By Order of the
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    • 534 2 Notices THE EXCHANGE BANKS Will be closed on Saturday 30th inst., Tal pusum (Hindu »*»btival). Ml 80-1 NOIICE. Mr Percival Lo\d WllHaus has been ap pointed a Manager ul W. .\iaustleld Co., Ltd. of Singapore and Penang, as from January ist 1915. W MANSFIELD ft Co., Ltd. W. G. dkNNiNos,
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    • 640 2 1 Wanted NOTICE Applications, accompanied by testimonial*, will be received at the Master Attendant's Office up t 3 ist instant for the post of Boardm iug Officer, Mugapore. Salary $660 per annum, free quarters and 1 allocaurts. 25 30-1 WANTED For Hydraulic Mine In Pahang for Ist March. 1915, Assistants
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    • 507 2 1 To Let TO LET In mediate Entry. Bungalow, 4 bed rooms tennis, stabling, water and gas. Apply lo Z," c/o Free Press 25 1 uc TO LET Convenient shop premises m Kr flies Square, lately occupied by The International Dispensary (80 feet by 27 feet). Immediate entry, For terms
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    • 580 2 Shipping nTTr JAPAN MAlt STEAMSHIP Co., Ud EUROPEAN LINE. a service Is maintained betww.n L ela ports to Marseilles, London acYfiS ander mail contract with th£ i*** Japanese Government. The v acrew Steamers malntaininc thin Z Twl > been specially designed and l oonsSulS are fitted with all the latest
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  • 338 3 ST. JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION. Kuropeau War Fund. Amount previously acknowledged $2,669.51 List So. 35. Collected hy Mr A. Elly. j Nicholson, c.m.g., 525 Lane 10 l Neileon 5 Tan Cbong Kuang 5 jack Ah Young 5 j. McCormick 5 Suow 5 Lim Choon l>ock 1 KbooCbong Hoow 1 Tiew Swee
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  • 183 3 before Mr Justice Earnshaw, on Friday, the otiicial Assignee m attendance, Joe examination m bankruptcy of Mr J. Lar apiet, one time proprietor of the !>> Hotel was partially heard. Questioned by the Otticial Afetignee, Mr Ca ra]Met ndmitted that he now bad debts t0 the extent of 5163,000.
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  • 545 3 Fortifications Damaged. LoDdon, Dec. 29th.— Details of the raid oq Cuxhaven chow that the British shipg approached Heligoland m daylight. The weather was then clear, promising a sue cee*ful raid, but a log descended when the boats were near the coast. Neverthe less, it was decided that the
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  • 156 3 i I r t-» ti>*t Asfi/.H-. fjr 19 i h CiJ fu to a cooclutiou ia tLe Supreme t' uitf on Friday Miteroooa, wbtii c'biiu Yaonn n Canlofwsfe whs iirraii^Ml upon a charge of nr order j ar.<l attempted murder of two wouum nf ill repute m a
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 10 3 Hacking Congh at Night, Woods' Great Peppermint Core, li. M.
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    • 125 3 GELESTINS VICHY TABLE WATER. Thin most celebrated and incomparable table water m cder to meet the risicg de i mands of the public has been now introduced here m small bottles, being formerly only use 1 m large onea. The VICHY WATERS are three I m number. Grande Grille Hospital
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    • 499 3 For Cuisine AND Cleanliness TRY THE EMPIRE HOTEL, KUALA LUMPUR. 0. MULLER, Manager SIEMENS I WCUHttrER HOaSC, SMB4PO4t TKLKutAttS: SIEMENS, SINGAPORE Telephone No. 547. Electrical Engineers, Manufacturers and I Contractors. IIMMN BROTHERS DTWMO lO«TUi H—ut ppUm Gavtoc House, Wsstmiotsrer lofdor tin;i>itn* l>*pt. aiyl Store* ucpg' fhamei 3tpeet, Lnoooa l.nmpt ana
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    • 25 3 DRINK CARLSBERG BEEE COLEMAN HOUSED 3, COLEMAN STREET, SINGAPORE. Late Hotel de la ;Palx.) ROOMS TO BE LET FURNISHED OR UNFURNISHED WITH OR WITHOUT BOARD.
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  • 1655 4 The Singapore Free Press Monday, January 25, 1915. v*Bre Mali Dae Fveii fnr faopie U*ai a*jr»- O saved by inSu- :c and Bi<br'c«d «y E*li Mara p*t lot Troth her eiarlooi ync*tf* *s»+ H*mm t* RtlUlon. l*o*r}tr *o£ Law. Matthew Puiou must have had a prophetic conception of the modern
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  • 631 4 A band will play at the Garrison Golf Club this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock. There were !23 tons of wolfram ore exported from Tavoy during the month of December. No tin wan exported from Tavoy during this period. The final of the ladies' lunateur golf championship of India was played
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  • 351 4 FRENCH SONSULAR TELEGRAMS. Paris, Jan. 22, 4.40 p n T three per cent. Honda are at fran We have made a little protfr^? gium. The firing of our atiii| e l V° very effective between Yon* 'N River Oise. lad The situation m the vicinity of Sn is unchanged. s
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  • 36 4 London, Jan '2 1. —M. Pierre lafc l ex-Minihter of Marine m tbe Kreucr. ernnifMit, ha« bepn appointed Qot««4 Cochiu china. .This report li .1. r i by the Freed CoiJalllar IlieSsin
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  • 176 4 President's Tkam -Tut This match was playeil on Saturday vi ended m a Kin for the Pre>hl»ut Teia Winter anJ Braddell lj v DfM mi Kveritt 0. Hutchison und Knox 1 I v M vMillaoui Binnie 0 (rilbertson and Springs 0 v King and ter6on 1 De
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  • 121 4 The following letter bus been receive by tbt> Hon S»» c of Uu> fcbov< food the Itelgiiin Legation, thro i«h the Hongkong Hank. BELGIAN RELIEF FUND Dear Sir, lam m receipt of your letter o s 'h iust., together with DM N" Wr Willinin llrockie Wilson of
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 185 4 KELLY AND WALSH, Ltd. lIAVE A LARGE ASSORTMENT OP LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS ANNUALS for 1915 Ac. THE STRAITS CALENDAR 1915 4 SHEETS 3 MOMTHS ON A SHEET CONTAINING PICTURES OF LOCAL INTEREST. $1.00 FINE ASSAM BLENDED TEA BLENDED ff^j PRODUCED FROM ||j JSW §Bt 1N THE CAREFULLY
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  • 215 5 ANOTHER REPORTED RAID. Rumours Disbelieved [Bj Submarine Cable]. irei'tkk > Special Service.) London. Jan. 23— The Amsterdam newsTyd says that a British air raid at KeDdba6«rpatlydrtrnaged both the rail way Vatioue aud killed a number of soldiers. Vo civilians were killed Three Hritisu airmen bombed /eebrugge D
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  • 35 5 London. Jan. 24. Dutch fishermen who have arrived it Noordwyk repoit that they wn /eppeliu founder at Ma, and were unable to render auy assistance. The weather irai clour and gusty.
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  • 102 5 London, Jan. 24. The Admiralty announces that Squadron Commander Davies, and Flight Lieut. Peirse visited Zeebrugge cv Jan. 22 and dropped 27 bombs on two submarines and on the gnus on the uaofe. It is beli* vtci that one submarine was I damaged considerably and that there
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  • 126 5 (R) Special Samoa.) London, Jan. 22. All the American papers denounce the East coast air raid m the most scathing terms. The Tribune 6ays that it shows a wanton disregard for the principles of humanity which there is nothing to excuse. The German people *ill
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  • 161 5 A Wonderful Record. London, Jan. 23.— Sir Frederick Treves, ment surgeon, speaking before the Koyul Society of Arts, stated that there had only Wvn 212 cases of typhoid fever m the '>ritii:> Expeditionary Forces since the war *f«n; of which only eleven haJ been protected by inoculation. These
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  • 61 5 London, Jan. 22.— Reuters correspon- at Rome states that the Pope, at a emphasised the Vatican's neu«Mity and its strenuous efforts to alleviate the consequences of the war. ihe Pope invited all the faithful to join n a great expiatory function, m Europe en February
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  • 556 5 NEARING KOULERS. The Allies' fine fighting. [Bj Submarine Cable). KllTii'd SIBVIOB Paris Jan. II. This evening's communique Bays that the GerniMUs bombarded Nieuport with considerable violence. We progressed slightly eastward of the Lombaertzjde highroad. Our artillery between Ypres and the Oise had some successes against tbe German
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  • 61 5 Paris, January 24. The evening communique Mtyi that m the Argonne fighting continued all night at Fontaine Madame and St. Hubert. All the enemy's attacks were repulsed. Fighting was resumed this morning. News of the day's operations m this region have not yet been received
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  • 66 5 (RBUTUI*! SPECIAL Skkvick London, Jiui. 'li. Aq Amsterdam telegram btates that correspondents m Belgium declare that the trenches are now only four miles from Koulers, which baa suffered much. The inhabitants are leaving, fearing Laish treatment from the Germans. The latter have mutilated a buwt of
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  • 64 5 (Reuter's Special Service.) London, Jan. 24. An Amsterdam mes sage states that 100 Belgians under thirty years of age, who had previously signed a declaration that they would not take up arms against Germany, were arrested at Verviers and have beeu laken to Germany as
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  • 18 5 Mr R. B. W. Grove, late of Sungei Siput, has received a commission m the Durham Light Infantry.
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  • 163 5 SKIRMISHES NEAR THORN. Austrian Efforts In Bukovina. [By Submarine Cable London, Jan. 22. A Petrograd communique states that tbe Russians continue to remain m close contact with the eceuay towards Thorn, and elsewhere there has been the customary cannonade. We* noticed m Bukovina a concentration of considerable
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  • 51 5 (Reuter's Special Service.) London, Jan. 23. It is telegraphed from Kieff that since tbe beginning of the war the following prisoners and war material have been brought to Kieff 54 guns, 126 machine guns, 950 ammunition waggons, 132,000 rifles, and nine aeroplanes. Nineteen Generals, 5,300 officers, 194,681
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  • 51 5 Petrograd, January 24. It is announced that tbe Russians defeated tbe thirtytbird and tbirtyfourth divisions of the eleventh corps iv the regiou of Chor6an aud cap tured all their mountain artillery. Th Russians at present occupy solidly all Turkish territory which they held before the fighting at
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  • 36 5 London, Jan. 'JJnd A Paris telegram states that tbe t'nited States Embassy at Constantinople announces that ten men have beeu saved from the French submarine Saphir," that was mined m the Dardanelles.
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  • 53 5 London. Jan. 22. The Germans who sank the Durward boarded her first from a submarine and ordered tbe crew to take to the boats and then sank tbe vessel. They then returned aud towed the boats for six hours to a lightship when tbe submarine went away
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  • 38 5 London, Jan. 24. The Berliner Tage blatt states that at Constantinople the Turkish Parliament has voted credits of thirty nine million pounds aud has auth orised tbe Government to conclude an immediate advance of five millions.
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  • 27 5 London, Jan, 23rd. The King has given a hundred pounds sterling to Queen Alexandra's fund for providing comforts to the troops at the front.
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  • 34 5 London, Jan. 23rd. A telegram from Melbourne says that a British cruiser captured and sank on Jan. Ist a ship (with supplies?) for German cruisers. The crew were made prisoners.
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  • 171 5 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Rowing Club was held on Friday evening m the Cricket Club Pavilion, the following members being present Hon Mr. C. W. Darbisbire (m the chair) Messrs A. H. Turner, Clarke, Robertson, Day, Uughee-DavieH, Powell, Pater6on, Adcock and R. M. Williams.
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  • 28 5 Mr H. A. J. Bidwell is now practising at No. 11 Raffles Quay as an architect suri veyor nad valuer m association with Me Peter J. B. Sow.
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  • 478 5 The following is the report to be pre sented to the members on Jan 28. The accompanying Statement of Ac counts shows that there was a loss on the year amounting to $16,080.06. This loss must be put down to the effect of the war, for a
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  • 288 5 {From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, Jan. 28. The following were the results of the second day's racing at iwiala Lumpur. Pony Handicap. Class A. Five furlongs, Stella 9.9, Mr Walker 1 Flywheel 10 2, Mr Percy 2 Barnabaß 12, Mr Walker 3. Won by two lengths
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  • 81 5 Saturday night saw a large audience at this popular bouse the native sections m particular being well filled. A special colour film A Tragedy of the Court of Milan, 1 is one of the chief attractions now but as the management received a very large batch of films
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  • 66 5 A Chinese stall holder, named Lim Chap, a seller of pork m Victoria Street, was prosecuted on Saturday by Inspector Cuckney for being m possession of forty catties of unsound pork, also with offering for sale, meat not slaughtered m the Municipal slaughter-houses. Accused was coavicted and fined 120 or
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 177 5 Robinson Co.'s PATENT LEVER WATCHES A TJIP CELEBRATED FOR THEIR ACCURATE TIMEKEEPING AND DURABILITY. Non-Magnetic >^^^^^^V Ev ery Watch has Movement /^^M/^^ our name Every Watch [(//*>? on the dial and j MI ~J 3'nwKrOnt i 1 V^^B Guaranteed. B*feS (Q^r^asfllt works. PRICE $5.50, POST FREE. I Pianos 1 1
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 663 6 P. O. S. N. Co. SPECIAL STEAMER FROM Singapore, Port Swettenham and Penang DIRECT FOR Marseilles, Plymouth and London THE COMPANY'S s.s- "NUBIA" 5913 tons. 4500 h. p. Capt. A. B. Garwood, R.N.R. will be despatched from SINGAPORE on or about 9th MARCH, 1915, calling at PORT SWETTENHAM one day
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    • 505 6 ELLERMANB °HALL LINE. FROM JAPAN, CHINA, STRAITS, TO MARSEILLES, LONDON LIVERPOOL A frequent service of fast cargo and passenger steamers of this Line will be run m the above trade. The following are the intended sailings s.s. "City of Madras" 8,500 tons, arriving on or about January 26th and s.s.
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    • 483 6 Shipping M. M. MESSAGERJES MARITIMES For CHINA, JAPAN, CEYLON and MARSEILLES. HOMEWARD 1915 OUTWARD Dumbea .lan 29 Chili Jan 31 <ordil!ere Feb 12 Atlantiqne Feb 14 V. de la Ciotat Feb 26 Polynesian Feb '2s Chili Mar '2 AtJantiqne Mar 26 For all particulars apply to J. de COURTOIS, acent
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    • 525 6 Shipping I p. 0. STEAM NAVIGATION CO*J For China, Japan, Penang, cj Australia, India, Aden, Ed, Mediterranean Ports, pj. and London Through BUIh of Lading i HRn^ Coa^^.anOa.f.Coot.nU^J Bte«roerK will leave Bln g &po le MAIL LINES Homeward (roR Edeop», From Singapore, conctctim J Colombo with bs Arcadia h n
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  • 322 7 The moderate organ of Native opinion, the Allahabad Leader, commenting ou Sir Harold Stuart's speech la a leading article, entitled "Utilise ludta'a Manhood," says: I Why dues Great Britaiu limit herself to the standing Indian Army instead of utilis ing the manhood of the Indian
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  • 322 7 OCR TkOOIS M A(iNU It ENT. In a letter from the front to his politi cal agent at Preston, Major the Hon. G. F. Stanley, M.P.. of the Royal Horse Artillery, brother of the Earl of Derby, writes In the part of the line immediately
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  • 150 7 Chinese Girls Stabhed to Death. A sensational double murder, committed apparently out of revenge, was reported to the Shanghai Police recently. The victims are a girl named Hu P'ei hua, aged 21, daughter of a wealthy Chinese, who was formerly, Prefect of Hupeh, aud Ho Hua,
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  • 152 7 A Censor surnamed Chen recently submi'ted a petition m which he asked for the restoration of the custom of "Kow- tow m order to show respect for superiois. He suggested also that instead of a superior receiving a "Kowtow" while seated he should stand up when them,- ferior
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  • 461 7 Striking Produces Peculiar Wounds. The editor of American Medicine calls attention to facts overlooked by most persons who imagine that high speed bullets are comparatively harmless. He calls attention to the fact that the ex plosive effect of high velocity bullets has been forgotten by those who
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  • 163 7 Lady Londesborough's escape from injury during the bombardment of Scar borough was most remarkable, since ehe was the whole time at Londesborougb Lodge, which is m the centre of the town, and almost next door to the Grand Hotel. The Londesborough connection with the watering place
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  • 161 7 Remakkahle Statement BT a French Savant. The Paris Journal says Iv the course of a lecture at the Conservatoire des Art* et Metiers yesterday, Professor Yiolle stated that the Hughes balance was now being used to locate bullets m wounds. It was enough, ho declared, to
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  • 51 7 Beautiful and adaptable to any style of Architecture and to any method of interior i finish, are the CRANE wonderful Art Metal Ceilings, Cool, clean, white ant, and vermin proof, for Bungalows, Hotels, and Public Buildings. For illustrated catalogue and particulars write to the Borneo Company Limited,
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  • 243 7 Nowhere more than m the Far East is the expression off colour so fr< qaently heard. When the State of health gives risn fo this expression there is lack of energy, of vitality and appetite, Often au over mastering gloom envelopes life and nothing seems worth while. Reluctant
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 205 7 SUPPLIES FOR Estates Mines Etc. Ant Exterminators. (The Universal,) For fumigating with Patent "Universal" Powder. Arsenite Of Soda. (For killing weeds.) and Locusts. Calculating and Adding Machines. "(The 13nmsvi<ia" and "Bri-GaL") Cement. "Borneo," and Buffalo brandsFresh stocks monthly. Cigarettes. (De Reszke and Weinberg). Disinfectant. Sanitas m 1, 5 and 10
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    • 644 7 MilL J X A "J Jlf lIWH ■■JJP i IVii 'I TNE IDEAL TONIC FOOD. STIMULATES THE APPETITE ENRICHES THE BLOOD STRENGTHENS THE NERVES. Of all Chemists $179 Sole Agents for the S. 8. and F. M. 8. THE PHARMACY, SINGAPORE Nervousness Anaemia, Indigestion, and Awful Nervous Terrors cured by
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  • 273 8 A Selangor Enquiry. In Comptes Rendus for 1891, Stanislas Meunier described mineral deposits of opal type supposed to have been formed iv hot spring m dHuugor and Malacca, m the Malay peninsula, these depobits being reported to contain as much as 0.5 per cent, of tin
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  • 325 8 OUR EFFICIENT SOLDIERS. UNUSUAL TRIBUTE BY GERMAN OBSERVER. little' 1 hut no longer "contemptible." Herr Morbert Jacques writes m the Frankfurter Zettung concerning the En^'lit-h Koldieib aud their practical equipment as follows They are exceedingly fine men. Their well trained bodies march with an elastic step. The equipment of the
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  • 277 8 The report of the Sekong Rubber Com pany, Ltd., to be submitted to tbe meeting on the 10th ult. covers the year ended 31et July, 1914, and states that the output of dry rubber amounted to 126,522 lbs. The average gross sale price obtained per 1b was 2s.
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  • 208 8 The report of the Reinbia Rubber Hstates, Ltd., for the year to 30th Septem her last, to be submitted at the meeting on 21st ult,, states that tbe net profit amounted to JC8.951, as against t'5,930 for tbe previous year, to which has to be added a credit
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  • 152 8 The directors of the Permas Rubber Company, Ltd., m their report to be submitted to the meeting on '22nd December, state that for the year ended 30th June the output of dry rubber amounted to 123,967 lbs (against an estimate of 122,765 lbs). The average gross sale price per
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  • 261 8 (.HKAT CIiAKfiKS 91 CONNAI (JHT RaNGKKS. I'arig Dec. 1& A thrilling story of how the Connaught Raugers saved an Indian regiment has been told to me by a wounded interpreter. It was arranged that the Indians should make a surprise attack on the German trenches
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 609 8 .■.lit? I Perfect Emulsion. Angier's Emulsion is the most palatable, the most cream-like, the most perfect I all emulsions. Even the most fastidious take it with pleasure and it agrees I perfectly with delicate, sensitive stomachs. Those who have found other emulsions s= distasteful should try Angier's and note the
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    • 427 8 Yorkshire Weave and British Wool. Get light pure wool for a Smart Suit. fftK Pure Wool Suits are light, healthy, smart and comfort- hi/ able. Send for 120 Suit Length Patterns Free. Get ry your local tailor to make up suit lengths sent direct from %r Huddersfield, the hub of
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  • 53 9 (Cobbhctbd uf TO Jan. 23) Bank 4 me 2 4 13-82 demand 2 4 1-16 Private credits 8m 24 11-16 India, T. T. 176 Hongkong, demand 22 Yokohama, demand ut Java, demaad ...141$ Bangkok, demand cci SoverbiqnB, Bank Buyi* g $8 6 4 Bank of England Rate 6% Bar
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  • 144 9 January 23. Tin (150 tons) 175.50 Gambler 7 50 Gambler Cube No. 1 9.00 Gambier Cube No. 2 8.50 Pepper Black ordin. fe'pore buyers 19.25 Pepper, (White fair) 86 00 Nutmega (110 to tb*> lb 21.00 Nutmegs (80 to ttit lb 22.00 Mace (Banda) Cloves (Amboiua) 40.00 Bali Coffee
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  • 274 9 Per P. A O. ftr. Namur- Messrs. H. Fitz Maurice, J. E. McKinley, Hutchinson, T W. Clayton, A. Maxwell, Mr Mrs S. B. Smith. Mrs Wilson, Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott, Mr and Mrs Pritcbard, Mrs A. Black, Miss H. Banwell, Mr A Mrs Wrefford, Mrs Rogers, Mrs Button,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 938 9 THE ONLY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY REGISTERED IN THE COLONY. UfiGEST PAID-UP CAPITA Of ANY EASTERN COMPANY. PROSPEROUS and PROGRESSIVE. THE GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. HEAD OFFICE: Winchester House, Singapore. LONDON OFFICE: 32, Old^Jewry. E.C. The Company has £20.000 deposited with the Supreme Court of England, and compiles with
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    • 500 9 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. PAID-UP CAPITAL 11ff.000,000 RBBKRYI PUHDB Sterling £1,500,000 at 2s. 115,000,000 MR Bilver 118,000,000 1 WB,ftOO,ooo Reserve Liability of Proprietors.*. 115,000,000 COURT OF DIRBGTORB. Hon. Mr. D. Landale, Chairman. W. L. Pattenden, Esq., Deputy Chairman. 8. H. Dodwell, Esq. P. H. Holyoak, Esq. O. T. M
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    • 348 9 CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE. Lc Hongkong, CAPITAL BDBSOBIBED W,600,000,Pl 0 Amount Paid-dp 500.000.0-i RBBBBVB FDMD 11,800,000,011 Marine Risks at Current Rates, Boustead ft Co., Ageatt ALLIANCE ASSURANCE Co, IK Accumulator Fnnds exceed £17,00 C 000 FIRE ft MOTOR CIR RISKS. Insoranoes effected at rates of premlm whloh will be found favourable
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    • 84 9 ELLERMAN BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED. FOB PHILIPPINES, CHINA AND JAPAN. For particulars of freight, etc., apply to HcALISTER Co., Ltd., Agents. THE BANGKOK TIMES Established 1887.) LEADING PAPER IN SIAM. DAILY AND WEEKLY ENGLISH AND SIAMESE LARGEST CIRCULATION. KELLY AND WALSH, LTD., Singapore Agents. Telegrams TIMES BANGKOK If you desire
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 500 9 LATEST ARRIVALS. List of vessels m port at 10 a.m. on January 23, 1915. British. Name Date of Arrival Remarks Sri Muar Jan 22 Inner Roads Perak Jan 28 No. 5 Wharf Kaka Inner Roads Quorra Japanese. uki Maru Jan 22 No. 4 Wharf Maru No. 2 Wharf Dutch. Emile
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  • 1205 10 ANNUAL GENERAL, MEETING. At the Johore Bahru hotei, yesterday morning the above annual meeting was beld, there being present The Hon. Mr G. N. Oawler m the chair, and Messrs F. E. Becker, A. P. N. Vesterdnl, A. H. < hi hers. C. Fraser, E. S. Jorgenseu,
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  • 318 10 The following is tbe fifth yearly report of the directors to the shareholders to be presented at the anuual meeting ou Jan. 30. Your Directors have pleasure m submitting the Balance Sheet and Profit and Lo6s Account for the year endul Bl6t October, 1904. The net profit amounts
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  • 134 10 Copenhagen, December 80. Considerable aurpriae has been caused both m Denmark nud Scaudinavia hy the appearance m the Berliner Tagcblatt of a letter on the war signed by Herr Conrad Haflzamann, a member of the K^ichbtag. of Belgian descent. Heir llauzamann declares that everywhere m Germany 1
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  • 118 10 An unusual recruit for the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force was found m wiry-built, brown fckinned man who made his application m full khaki kit, forage cap, and leather puttees. On bis tunic dangled the South Africa and Tirah campaign medals, "I'm a Sikh," he ex claimed proudly. Two years I
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