Straits Echo, 20 December 1915
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Straits Echo
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Title Section36 1915-12-20 1 Straits Echo 1 DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, MONDAY, 20th DECEMBER, 1915. Siaflc C«fr, IS uots. No. 29136 words
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Advertisement1180 1915-12-20 1 i> tok N'* &s<i ktAMM Si £=f :jtj 111 n a «i *B-’S -S 2 s«u Ax»u> TIANG LEE 9 CO., P«n»ng tf K«tli Q Ua« S l»l»llU»li aHßßaaßai J| For Cars on Hire m EMPIRE “’The Little Aristocrat Call at or 'phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 71,180 words
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Advertisement16 1915-12-20 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET HEALTHY. APPLY 53, Beach Street. nmnnnvnmnnn*16 words
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Advertisement18 1915-12-20 2 DRINK 1 m RECOGNISED BY CONNOISSEURS THE LEADING BRAND ON THE MARKET. SOLE AGENTS: KATZ BROTHERS, LTD., PENANG.18 words
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Article1982 1915-12-20 3 Wounded Officer - By Wounded Officer. It speak** well for our medical arrangements at tbe front when I state that being wounded was my pleasantest experience during a nine week’s spell of war. Being shot has Us disagreeable moments, even in the most fortunate case; but it compares favourably1,982 words
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Advertisement217 1915-12-20 3 I* WEAKNESS, Kill PI ASTHENIA CONSUMPTION CHLOROSIS O r A B t L/C V Use REMOGLOBIK Resell iens Sample» on application to J. B. Daatoor, 27 Bcso ffanrar Strati, OmfamUi jl JUST UNPACKED A Large Selection of ALL BRASS AND BLACK BRASS *L.ft g i HilJ 2isi J. 3 ALL217 words
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Advertisement43 1915-12-20 3 Bad Taste in the Mouth. If you have a bad taste ia your mouth in the morning, your stomach is not in proper order. Chamberlain’s Tablets regulate this and give you a relish for your meals. For ■ale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.43 words
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Advertisement575 1915-12-20 3 Debility When you feel limp and washed out, weary and fatigued with no inclination for exertion—your body is in a run-down condition—you are debilitated. You need something to put fresh go" into you —you need a fortnight’s Iron ‘Jelloids’ treatment English price 1/1 J). Unequalled as a tonic restorative, Iron575 words
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Article971 1915-12-20 4 Widespread relief will be occasioned by the Admiralty’s intimation to a number of ship building companies that they may com* plete ordinary mercantile tonnage which has been left unfinished. This, as Reuter says, is an indication that the programme of new warship construction has reached an advanced971 words
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Article943 1915-12-20 4 A CnxjroxD Was Spirit. A Danish traveller gives belo w his impressions of the changed war spirit of the German people. I was in Berlin when the war broke out and have twice visited Germany since. Each time 1 see a change in the spirit943 words
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Advertisement434 1915-12-20 4 Plants for Sale. No. 15, Northam Road. Important Auction Sale. OF VALUABLE FREEHOLD A LEASEHOLD TOWN and COUNTRY PROPERTIES. Belonfing to the Estate of the late YAP QUAN SENG (deceased). To be sold punuant to an order of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements at Singapore. Bt Musses. CHINO434 words
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Advertisement70 1915-12-20 4 Vhoofißt CoufV When your child h&s whooping cough be careful to keep the cough loose and expectoration easy by giving Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as may be required. This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus and make it easier to expectorate. It has been used successfully in many epidemics, and70 words
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Advertisement48 1915-12-20 4 The Children's Colds. Watch the children's colds and cure them before they weaken the ritality. Use Chamberlain’s Couj?h Remedy freely. It is perfectly safe. It has been tested by chemists and pronounced free from injurious substances and costs but a trifle. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.48 words
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Article1576 1915-12-20 5 SATURDAY S CROWDED MEETING. Hearty Support. A meeting of Btraits-born Chinese for the purpose of discussing the advisability of forming a Chinese Company of the Penang Volunteers drew nearly two hundred people to the Chinese Town Hall on Saturday evening. Practically all the principal Straitsborn Chinese attended. Mr.1,576 words
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Article339 1915-12-20 5 Fortnichtbt Handicap Shoot. This competition took place on Saturday aftprnoon and resulted as follows —ranges 200,500 and 600 yards—with h’cap. made. BQ M S Murray nil. 95.00 Pte Kinder '63 92.42 Forrest '65 92.40 Robertson ‘7O 92.40 Everest 'l7 90 81 Corpl Nicholas '62 90 56339 words
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Advertisement473 1915-12-20 5 I < hi </) Q Ui Q£ 9&S*. sue i SCOTCH WHISKY U liJ 0. c/> </> z < z < z u 3 m o -J < H m ag^ssf JAMES -^1 l ge SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT' BLACK WHITE •4»«.-/•■ <rr> ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY CD ee e*i473 words
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Advertisement462 1915-12-20 5 P““ j Westminster Cigarettes TURKISH BLEND A. A. GRADE are unequalled. j Packed in Hermetically Sealed Tins of 50 s. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS, t J TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHTI •J The Electric Polyscope Co Lyceum Theatre, Argyll Road. Thanhouser’s Fascinating Serial T H E MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY In 46 Farts462 words
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Article140 1915-12-20 6 Lori Derby is Losios. London, December 19. Lord Darbj, speaking on Sunday after* noon at a meeting in London, said that he was convinced that a statement of the results of recruiting would show that the heart of the country was absolutely right. Pro* bably the end of140 words
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Article, Illustration95 1915-12-20 6 Published diily (except Sundays and pwfc'us holiday*) AT THB CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang Pbicb. Daily Local $24 por anns:- Outstation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Port Free) $17.50 CABLE iDDKIIS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 K H. —All kmluM MB>unie*tioii ihoaM95 words
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Article1318 1915-12-20 6 There seem to be unmistakeable signs that Christmas in the Western theatre is to be celebrated this year not by peace on earth and goodwill towards men but by a mighty clash between the opposing forces and mutual slaughter oa au immense and terrible scale. Before the last1,318 words
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Article886 1915-12-20 6 Sir Thomas Braddell, C. J. C., is paying a visit to the Crag. Mr. H. N. Ferrers, of Kuala Lumpur, has been spending a short holiday in Penang. Mr. B. C. N. Knight has returned from his trip to Japan much improved in health. Mr. and Mrs.886 words
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Article941 1915-12-20 6 A Mighty Scribe. I President Wilson has found time in the intervals of diplomatic correspondence to get married, disregarding in two particulars the advice of the elder Mr. Weller. If the President writes love letters with j the same gusto as he indites Notes the new Mrs. Wilson941 words
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Advertisement179 1915-12-20 6 "~r S Si..., What shai! I give? ‘s U! qucslionab y the question of the hour. I you are in quest of an establishment where there is an infinite vu iety of useful yet inexpensive presents, the right phee is here. t W' A special display of Gents, Ladies, and179 words
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Article646 1915-12-20 7 Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. POSITION AT SALONIKA. GREECE TO PROTEST. Paris, December 18 The official communique states that there ia no change to report in Macedonia or the Dardanellea. The Allies in Qreece have prepared a solid defensive. The German heavy guns do not seem to hare646 words
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Article567 1915-12-20 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. BOMBS ON METE. London, December 18. A despatch from the British headquarters in Franca reports that last night the enemy made a small bombing attack on our line about the Quarries north of Loos. It was easily repulsed. There was artillery567 words
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Article627 1915-12-20 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram HIS SORROW AT PARTING AND HIS CONFIDENCE IN ULTIMATE VICTORY. Viscount French, in a farewell address on relinquishing the command of the British Army in France, says 1 wish to express to the officers, noncommissioned officers and men with whom I have been so627 words
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Article654 1915-12-20 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN CRUISER SUNK. ALSO A TORPEDO-BOAT. Amsterdam, December 18. An official communique issued in Berlin reports that the small cruiser Bremen and a torpedo-boat that was accompanying it have been sunk in the Eastern Baltic. A considerable portion of the crews was rescued654 words
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Article132 1915-12-20 7 MRS. ASQUITH v. THE GLOBE.” (Reuter Service.) Copyright Telegram. SENSATIONAL LiBIL ACTION. Donlon, December 17. Mra. Asquith, wife of the Prime Minister, ii suing the Globe to restrain the publication of alleged libels upon her. Counsel stated that Mrs Asquith had been persecuted by accusations of want of loyalty and,association132 words
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Article472 1915-12-20 7 A GRAVE POSITION. Washington, December 17. The United States Government has not yet received the Austrian Note regarding the Ancona but if it is in accordance with the outline given in the press telegrams it will be entirely unsatisfactory and result in the severance of diplomatic relations.472 words
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Article746 1915-12-20 7 LA 1 RAVIATA.” Th-ro was a fair house at the Town Hall ou Saturday evening when the Kalian Grand Opera Company just back from a most successful visit to Medan Btaged Verdi’s “La Tiaviata.” Mile Gonsalez, as Violetta, was in very tino voice and scored a veritable triuu746 words
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Article25 1915-12-20 7 To-day's Quotations, Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to day at 883.25, business done, and in Singapore (refiued) at $B4 12business dooe (350 tons sold).25 words
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Article74 1915-12-20 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pageß Page 3. —From Stretcher to Hospital. 4. —What the German People Say. The Tonnage Crisis. 5. —Chinese Volunteers. P.V.R.C.J 8. —Havoc in the Peninsula. The Late Mr. E. A. Hewett, Band Programme. Concerning Some People. Education in Malaya. Penang74 words
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Article571 1915-12-20 8 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. Mss; Killed cad Injured. London, December 17. There has been a terrible railway accident at South Shields. A passenger train, a pilot engine and an empty workmen’s train all collided in a fog. It is reported that Bever&l coaches of the passenger train571 words
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Article970 1915-12-20 8 A friend in another part, of Malaya, referring to recent Colonial Official changes in Crown Colony Governorships, says:— From my small experience of the West Coast I think Wilkinson has got the worst of the lot. In 1900-1901 they bad a scurrilous native press. Tna product of970 words
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Article467 1915-12-20 8 Rain Heaviest foe Fifty Years. Nakon Sridharmaraj, December 3. The oldest inhabitant of Nakon states i there has not been a rainfall equalling that; i of the last few days here for fifty year-. It i is certaiu there has been an unusually heavy i precipitation.467 words
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Article453 1915-12-20 8 Hongkong, November 27. The event of the week has been the death of the Hon E. A. Hewett, superintendent of the P. and O. Just a week ago to-day he was in his office. Two days later he felt slightly unwell, and two days453 words
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Article93 1915-12-20 8 Monday, 20th December 1916 Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. 1 Overture The Children of the Mist Bishop 2 Polka Cuckoo Philipp 3 Waltz Love’s Labours Won Volletedt •4 Lancers Trial by Jury... Albert 5 March Trasburgo Bintura It may not be generally known that one can now get93 words
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Article715 1915-12-20 8 To THi Editor of tbr Malaya Tribune. Dear Sir, —Tour leading article on education yesterday I have read with much interest and gratification. What you say i about bad hand-writing is quite true. My two sous write horribly, yet they are sup- posed to be well educated715 words
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Article119 1915-12-20 8 Penang, December 20. {By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4, J 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4/* 3 Credit 2/4* 3 Documentary 2/4f Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 175 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay, Demand Bank 175 Moulmein, Demand Bank 174 3 days’ sight Private 176 Madras119 words
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Article735 1915-12-20 8 Ykstrrday's Field Dat. The Penang Volunteers, including the Cadets and a party of the Sikh Police, had a field-day yesterday in the vicinity of the grounds extending from the Chinese Cemetery at Mount Erskine to the Swimmiug Club. The fall-in was at Gottlieb Road for the different companies735 words
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Advertisement636 1915-12-20 8 PENANG VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE Co. rr HE NEXT COURSE of TRAINING X will begin on 6th January, 1916. Volunteers wishing to join the class will send in their names to the Acting Adjutant. 740 a W. HAMILTON. NOTICE. Penang Volunteers. THE EXAMINATION for St. John’s Ambulance Certificate will be held in636 words
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Advertisement80 1915-12-20 8 Occasional spells of Fever may be said to be the inheritance of all who come to the Tropics. As an easement and to quickly break them down and restore the body temperature to normal, there is nothing better than WOODS' GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE, A dose or two of this medicine80 words
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Advertisement10 1915-12-20 8 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppormint Care Is, 6d.10 words
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Advertisement44 1915-12-20 8 THE CHINESE ENGLISH SCHOOL SAMARANG JAVA. WANTED. rflHREE CHINESE MASTERS to teach JL English in a good-class school. Quarters free. Commencing salary $50, —more for young good men. Apply with copy of a letter from an English master to W. E. MANN, 7*6 a44 words
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Advertisement110 1915-12-20 8 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is. (id. THE MONTHLY LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE National Review NOVEMBER ISSUE will be considerably enlarged and will comprise reviews and matter dealing with publications suitable for Xmas. There will be a very large circulation of this issue110 words
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Obituary111 1915-12-20 8 ObituaryEari 4* la Warr. London, December 17. Earl de la Warr has died at Messina of rheumatic fever and pneumonia. D, I. G. P.'s Suicide. London. December 18. Mr. Charles Beatty, Deputy Inspector General of Police of Belgauro, has committed suicide at Cheltenham. A Labour M.P.” London, December 18 The111 words
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Article1114 1915-12-20 9 Francis Gribble - A BRITISH AND GERMAN CONTRAST. By Francis Gribble. |Jfr. Francis Gribble has been a prisoner in Germany from the outbreak of ths War until quite recently No reasonable person who has spent ten months iD a German internment camp would seek quarters in a corresponding English1,114 words
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1169 1915-12-20 9 I Mr. E. C. Buley, in the Preface to bia new bonk, Glorious Deeds of Australians in the Great War” (Melrose, 3s.6d.net), makes one statement which should not be I overlooked Finallly (he says) I|have spoken to no woundI ed Australian in this country1,169 words
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Advertisement260 1915-12-20 9 runnymede hotel, PENANG. 1 25th and 26th December, 1915. CHRISTMAS DAYS Special Dinners will be served. excellent cuisine NO BAND. To Reserve Tables 'Phone No. 635. The Bernese Alps Milk Co. CONTRACTOR* TO THR Admiralty S* India Office rom imp, lOdf*4 tf aa alwnju agf SLEDGE BRAND MILK. SANBttANBS, BUTTERY260 words
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Advertisement487 1915-12-20 9 hxtotice. NOTICE. I and my wife Oon Oh Lang alias Oon Leng Nga of 41. Oreen Hall, hare by mutual consent separated before the Protector of Chinese and I will not in future be responsible for any debt or debts contracted by her. 754 UNG SIN CHOR. NOTICE. T 6487 words
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Article1272 1915-12-20 10 The strange vocabulary of the Scotch Lowlanders has long been a valuable literary asset; in Scott’s footsteps petty men j, have trodden their way to fame and fortune, j It has been remarked that Great Britain is being divided amongst the novelists, who carve out kingdoms for1,272 words
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Article692 1915-12-20 10 Strange Rangoon Case. The District Magistrate on Monday, says the Rangoon Times, passed ordeis in a case in which a Chinaman, named Fok So m, was charged under section 373, I. P. C.. with obtaining possession of a minor girl Hkai Tai with the intent that she692 words
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Advertisement53 1915-12-20 10 Unnecessary Words. Why waste words and advertising space in describing the many points of merit in Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy The most fastidious are satisfied when we state that it cures colds and coughs from any cause, and that it contains absolutely no narcotics or injurious substances. For sale by all53 words
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Advertisement198 1915-12-20 10 ■>v.v sv\ S'-»: V>», m WHEN ORDERING YOUR CHAMPAGNE FOR CHRISTMAS BE SURE TO GET THE BEST. THE BEST IS Reserve cuvĕe (5aO Champagne S MM'M 1906 VINTAGE extra DH AS DRUNK BY THE KING ROYAL FAMILY. OBTAINABLE FROM: TONG JOO A Co. HOONG KEE Co. CHONG KEE A Go.198 words
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Article1772 1915-12-20 11 In a recent telegram Dr. Starr Jordan is ■tated to have made a personal appeal to ■esident Wilson, on behalf of certain peace societies, urging that the President should OTer his good offices to bring the European belligerents together with a view to the restoration of1,772 words
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Advertisement320 1915-12-20 11 The Eastern United Assurance Corporation Ltd. Head Office: SINGAPORE. The undesigned has been appointed Agent for the above Corporation, and is now prepared to accept MARINE FIRE RISKS atcurrent rates. QUAH BENG KEE, 43. Bĕaeh Btr«ei, Peuanq, The Anglo-Japanese Dispensary, 393 A 395, Chulia Street, PENANG. Qualified Japanese Doctor always320 words
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Advertisement62 1915-12-20 11 A Germ Destroyer. There is no danger whatever from lock jaw or blood poison resulting from a wound when Chamberlain’s Paiu Balm is promptly applied. It is an antiseptic and destroys the germs which cause these diseases. It also causes wounds to heal without maturation and in one-third the time62 words
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Advertisement61 1915-12-20 11 THE OFFICE MAN leads a sedentary life; his brain grows sluggish—so does his liver. His health suffers—so does his business. jtha tiny laxatives, gently stimulate the bowels, thus toning up the system and nerves which lead to sparkling good health- Do not gripe. Of Chemists, 50 cents per phial, or61 words
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Advertisement283 1915-12-20 11 BY APPOINTMENT s i TO H. M. THE KING NESTLE CHOCOLATE FOR THE FRONT. Having been requested by several Residents in the Malay Peninsula to Bend parcels of Nestle Chocolates to relatives or friends at the Front, we have now made arrangements to send parcels from our London Office on283 words
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Advertisement1575 1915-12-20 12 P. O.—B. I. AND APCAR LINE Mail and Passenger Services. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. MAIL SERVICE. Homeward (for Europe.) Outward (for China and Japan.) KONINKLIJKE PAKETYAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. (ROYAL PACKET S. N. COMPANY.) For Ihtbhdrd to Sail. Stmammh Langsa, Telok Semawe, Segli, Olehleh, Sabang, Padang, Benkoelen and Batavia. INTERMEDIATE DIRECT SERVICE.1,575 words
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