The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 1 August 1917

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    21 1114 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. rtf Per 0 Single Copy 40 eta •1. 15 Penang, Wednesday, August 1, 1917. No. 31.
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      298 1114 p CONTENTS. iT I Leaders: Miscellaneous (Cenfinued) Our Share in the Cost of the War 1.116 Dutch War Items ../1,129 11.40 i S k 8 nd he Tr r 4 Vital Statistics ...1,134 The Alienation of Land M24 The Cost of the War11.34 S a e tO x^ e ™i
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      624 1115 WGF VOO S B| Jv. I 1 J iWf‘J ;V Take 2 Tablets at Bedtime > Ĕ |I. H VUl and you will rise feeling I Refreshed, Bright Vigorous. When you feel gloomy and depressed and cannot sleep, suspect you: nerves. When you shrink from company and would rather be
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1010 1117 Mr. Balfour. To-day Mr. Balfour completes his sixtyninth year. Whether people do or do not agree with his political acts or his philosophic outlook is hardly the question to be considered. What we hare to do is to cinsider and appreciate his versatility. His work as a political
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    The Union Jack Club, Singapore,
    14 1117 bas been exempted from registration unde' tie Societies Ordinance.
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    The Government Gazette
    25 1117 contains a list of fifty six persons deported from the Colony under banishment orders during June —all but two of th?m Chinese.
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    A special tdegram to our Sumatra exchanges states that although Dr. Michacli9, the Imperial Chancellor,
    50 1117 A special tdegram to our Sumatra exchanges states that although Dr. Michacli 9 the Imperial Chancellor, did not oppose the pacifi t resolution adopted by the majority of the Reicbstsg, Admiral von Tirpitz sent a message to Herr Bassermann, leader of the National Liberals, urging them to vote against it.
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    From Monday’s Malay Mail :
    116 1117 From Monday’s Malay Mail News was received by the mail that Y rs. J. H. Tyte, who had been seriously ill, was convalescent. We regret to learn that Lieut- E- Healy, late of Petaling Estate was killed in action in France on June 7There passed through here yesterday en his
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    Rubber Rising.
    24 1117 (.From Our Own, Correspondent,") London, July 24. The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were Pale Crepe 2/7f Diamond Smoked 2/7
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    BRITISH FRONT.
    450 1117 SUCCESSFUL U IM I .«I ir ,P 0UglaB H ‘t°re F ortr- 1M0 I I f root of six huedred yard. Md I three hundred yards, W. I oaaualtiea .nd did n>S 5 I successfully raided a rtrongly.Wd’J I the east of Oort Taverne I enemy attack to
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    410 1118 !»«<»««•] MtTlI ON A LARGE SCALE. Powerful Attacks. D.mes W 71 thlt ‘V C e "'“b’ battle 0“» 1»W 80al .1" second d»y since A P?! 20 K Soh captured this positron’b“. b rk has been most powerful since vXd opened with an amazingly J 7 3 .*hnmba'dment
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    RUSSIA IN TRANSITION.
    531 1118 [Reuter’s Telegrams,] M. KERENSKY INTERVIEWED. Stera Measures with Traitors. Petrograd, July 24. M. Kerensky, the Russian Premier in an interview, said that the Government would save Russia by blood and iron if appeals to reason, honour and conscience failed. Whatever happened the pre-Revolution legime was impossible. The
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    COST OF THE WAR.
    562 1118 [R.UTBb’b Tiligbamb.! DEBATE IN THE COMMONS. Huie Vote of Credit. nx r, London, Julv 24. Mr, Bonar Law will move in the’House of Commonsi this afternoon a vote of credit for £650,000,000, the largest hitherto, making the total war credits £5.290,000,000 Mr. D, M. Mason, Liberal
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    FEDERAL COUNCIL MEETING.
    999 1119 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] HIGH COMMISSIONER'S STATEMENT. Further Vote at War Gift. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipob, July 25. At the meeting of the Federal Council at Kuala Kangsar His Excellency the High Commissioner announced that he would at the next meeting ask for a further Tote as a
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    Dutch cables state that a demonstration by Berlin Socialists,
    17 1119 followers of Liebknecht, was dispersed by the police.
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    GERMAN VERSION.
    381 1119 [Bbutw, Tn, Wun] I* the Wen, »11 e 7nd“.11Xte i0 Ne. precedented intensity. The a»/ are increasing. The Fronnk enem J 8 thrnut uneucceeafull, at Chemin de7S J’ 6 0116 Pre "‘< J?? the past few davs Wa uunn® Rvssiaa Froat. the who*”eMtfroBt k from the to?'? B
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    Mr. R. P. Brash.
    384 1120 T 2. I t0 tbe rtB iberof til0 u V. pAvne Gallwey, tsirs'»'»-'”»- PP °X urpwe to Ipob people, »*"*“,£“ly admitted tb.t he 11 W 8 for the seat vacated by j tb0 Ifl n D1 nLv other possible candi* in Mr. F. E. Mair Ashworth
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    It was stated in the House
    40 1120 June 5 tbatThp a ous9 Co namona over 4 000 8t ca em V° de P tched of letten pJ? 8 of Parcels, 40.000 baaa 9l, ‘«iUTooooOf 1 1 b Ut 900 00 P»r-
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    For every bane there is an anti dote,
    114 1120 Xrt’ 1 dote, and n ot «eeooa wanth» V| >itti r correaOlil >bou d m D 9 dp t ra ,7-am air-tight an(1 future be S< ft e A doub »9 hd The l edu P. to bf V J iilrco which
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    Huttenbach’s Sued.
    1234 1120 Huttenbach s Sued. Mb. John Hands’ Case. In tbe Supreme Coart on Thursday and Fr day last, before Mi. Justice Evoshaw, the Civil Suit —J bn H«nds (pla niiff) versus August Huttenbach, Aexander G. Anthony and Francis James Hill (defend ints) was partly heard and is being continued, says the
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    Six thoucand clerks in the clothing stores at Petrograd
    55 1120 Six thou c and clerks in the clothing stores at Petrograd won a wages strike aud bave been granted doub'e wages ret os[62tively since tbe war was i dared. Some clerks receive XI,000 back p y. Forty par cent, of the storekeepers were unable to comply with the clerks demands
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    Current Coin.
    837 1121 A Local Scale” Explained. Stye Tuesday’s T. 0- M A large section of the public, not entirely confined to the uneducated class, has been greatly perturbed over a recent proclamation forbidding the melting down or breaking up of current coin on pain of a fine or imprisonment. As
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    Penang Automobile Club.
    181 1121 [To the Editor of the Straitt Echo 1 Sir, The gross proceeds of the Club’s Gymkhana on Saturday, Julv 14, in aid of the British Red Cross Fund amounts to S721.85. Some delay has unavoidably been caused in publishing this owing to the intervention of Race Week
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    One of the most perplexing experiences of the present
    234 1121 war has been the constant tendency of the weirdest rumours to pass into circulation, and (fortunately) out of it again after enjoying a longer or a shorter currency. As such stories have almost invariably depicted affairs unfavourably to the Allies, it
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    Police Court Cases.
    57 1121 UNFIT FOE FOOD. p« lk brought up before Mr 8 W* r charged with selling or L1 W fi.h which wa, unfit for hum.».? 8 ”"b ded t0 take the&,h The Market Peon who un»w tu accused stated that ha bad accused selling the fish. guilty and
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    THEFT OF A FOWL.
    138 1121 A Tami! P. C. named Nagapen, whovu off duty yesterday, was walking Dxto Kramat Road when his attention Web drawn to a Chinaman strewing rice on the padang, Soon three fowls bem to feed. Suddenly the man Kind ore cf the fowls, while the other two
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    CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
    108 1121 At the inatance of Mr. A. W.B, Hamilton, Superintendent for the Pretention of Ctueity to Animals, Ponnamaland Nama Mohamed were summoned for cruelty to cow? by neglect. They pleaded guilty, Mr. Hamilton stated that Ponnamal'i cow naa a fractured leg and the iojiuy wai DPgkcted. The cow
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    THEFT AT A MILL.
    81 1121 Yeoh Kooi appeared before Mr. S. R Langston this morning on a change of of an iron girder valued at $40. For tbe prosecution it was et,l6^ d Malay named Chembee saw the ”bout\beoi 1 m. 1 iinS X P 1 m iron girder on bis
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    TWO OTHER OFFENDERS.
    60 1121 -r AL Pih was 1 Long Ab Poh w person a snatching a chain o gC hoollittle girl on her w J bQt for Court Inspector Nicol stated^ 3 d the two schoolboysi w arrested tbe accused, g ji moot Accused was sentenced ia TZ wbo convictions,
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    Kelantan in 1916.
    2904 1122 ae fxtr.ct. from Mr-«aministrat-.oa I l>- r ‘""L Xr*- |916: jkancial. riR22 86O) W4S tbe higbe t 'i'Sli? d 1915 fig° re8 1916’Jse’448 ’mat Customs ou’000... 349,700 L'cances 24,432 34,248 Fee», etc. ;> O ma and decrees 0 were Stationary items ana aec. >«“• <gjg Mj®’ c
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    Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild.
    124 1123 Queen Mary s Needlework Guild. Penang Women Workers. Amount previously acknowledged |5 437 53 Mrs, D. C. Macintyre 20.00 Mrs. Armstrong 10 00 Mrs. Winfield 2.00 Pat Stephens 2.00 15,471.53 Hospital garments for soldiers ready cut out for workers will be given out at the Town Hall every Friday from
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    Before Mr. W. Langham Carter
    81 1123 in Singa- pore on Monday, Kasman bin Dollah was charged that on or about July 5 last, he idnapped a Straits-born Chinese girl aged 14 years, the daughter of one Kim Lian. The accused’s wife is alleged to have helped to entice away the girl
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    Municipal Commision.
    332 1123 M wuti, or Mains,, Minutes of a meeting o f thn u Commissioners held on TiJJ Muni< W July, 1917. 00 TueBd ‘y. the 3rd Present WSWifr* A. M. Goodman, e bo J E0H w UAN *****1 Esq Abtmti Chm E.,. A F. Goodrich, Esq Quah Bing K«,
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    At the meeting
    197 1123 At the meeting of the Federal Councilit Kuala Kangsar on Tuesday HE. tb fl H1 J Commissioner made a short speech expr ing the feelings of the Council 10 regard to the recent death of HH. the Sultan Pahang. He said that since be CcJC‘ had W
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    Marriage.
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    RUSSIA AND THE WAR.
    902 1124 k iv« large in the cables again ?““hct Gorenment in another „„niaue admit! further con’ft.’mW Idrancss and dwell» once the instability of some of the ’0“ ld seem th !u® Wf* morale which has enabled the !t turn the tables on General ’nd“take the offensive with
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    THE ALIENATION OF LAND.
    328 1124 It is with satisfaction that we give publicity to the following: With re'erence to the Rubber Lands (Restriction) Enactment 1917,” which was passed by the Federal Council on the 2lth instant, imposing during the present war certain restrictions upon alienation of, and dealings in, rubber land*
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    Mr. E C. Burroughs,
    30 1124 who went Home to the war from Ipoh, writes to a friend stating that he was wounded and that he is now in the Chatham Hospital.
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    Telegraphic communication
    24 1124 by the Gov- eminent land lime betwarn Penang and Singapore, which was interrupted yesterday morning, w»s restored at 2 p m yesterday.
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    Miss Eileen McCallum,
    32 1124 daughter of Sir Henry McCallum, has gone to Blair Castle for six months V. A. D. wt rk under the Duchess of Atholl, who is the Commandant there.— 8,FP,
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    Mr. J. H. Stone,
    35 1124 of Messrs. Adamson, Gilfiilan Co., Penang, and Miss E J; Sellers, headmia f r?ss of the Government Girls* School, Penang, were married in S ngapore on Mord iy by special licence.
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    In the June number of the F.M.S. Chamber of Mines Magazine,
    62 1124 for a copy of which we have to ihmk the publishers, appears a Roll of Honour of all those io any wav connected with mining in these parts. The list contains fifty-eight names; of these five have made the
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    We regret to learn that Mr. T. L. Gosling’s second son, Lieut. Leo Gosling,
    68 1124 was wounded seriously in the head on June 7 at Messines and is now in a Manchester hospital. Ssrgt. W. Gosling, New Zealand, R.F.A, has gained the V. C. for an act of gallantry in giving
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    The personnel of the Cabinet at Tientsin, as given out by Primier Tuan Chi-jui, states the Chung Wa Press Service, is as follows:
    59 1124 —War Minister, Tuan Cbi-jui; Justice, Liang Cbicbiao; Educ ation, Tang Hua-lung Chief of General Staff, Chang Chingyao; Communications, Yr Kung-cho; Finance, Li Shih-hao; Agriculture and Commerce, Lu
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    From Tuesday’s Malay Mail:
    82 1124 From Tuesday s Malay Mail: Mr. W.N, Van Someren has Lft for Home. Mr. A- B. Slee is now a Captain in the R-A. Mr. T-H B. Phillips, of Sungkai, is going on six months’ leave to Australia. An engagement is announced between Douglas Reginald Cary Lawford, of the Bukit
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    The last mail
    87 1124 brings news that Mr. Vernon van Someren his not only promoted to the rank of Major on the field but baa been given the Military Cross. He went to the front in January, 1915 as scond lieutenant, and his promotion rapid —phenomenally S'», seeing that ht is
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    At the general meeting
    100 1124 of the Straits Athletic Club held at 61, Tanjong Pagar Ro id, Singapore, on Sunday, the following were elected office b j arers for rhe year ending June 30 next: —Messrs. Khoo Ho 8wee, president; E. K. Cheng, hon. secretary, Png Kong Teck, bon. asst, secretary;
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1015 1125 An Early Entente.** In the Cornhill is an extremely lucid and excellent summary of the entente with France from very early times indeed by a Frenchman, Prof. Gaston E. Broche. It is full of curious facts. The writer, of course, alludes to the incident at Fontenoy in 1745
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    Mr. C. H. G. Clarke, District Offices, Dindings,
    17 1125 8. s. Pangkor. arrived here this mornmg by the
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    The Government war films,
    24 1125 the Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of tin Tank?, are to be shown in Singapore from \ug. 1.
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    Our Singapore correspondent
    26 1125 wires that the Balgownie report shows a nett profit of $170,550. A final dividend of 40 is recommended, making 100 %> for the year.
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    The quarterly communication of the Scottish District Grand Lodge
    34 1125 of the Middle East will be held in the Masonic Hall, K ang, on Saturday, the principal busings being the nomination of District Grand Officers,
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    A deposit of a very pure galena carrying a small quantity of silver
    33 1125 is reported as having been di?covered in Kelantar, and anyone interested in working such ores should apply to the Adviser.
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    Says a French consular cable :
    42 1125 Says a French consular cable An important agreement has been concluded between France and the United States, who have adopted the 75 artillery field guns and the heavy quick-firing 155- Petrograd: Finland has proclaimed her independence and has hoisted her national flag.
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    In the Singapore District Court
    94 1125 on Fiiday aftern on Mr. W. Lmgham-Carter continupd the bearing of the case in which Mr. E.F.A. Swann, manager of Messrs. Barlow an 'V' 8 c h ar e d with an offence under the Tiading with the Enemy Ordinance by dec aring goods for
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    RUSSIAN FRONT.
    460 1125 [Ranns', Ts ENEMY ACROSS THt,,.. states’- eS9R 8Sian men^oeeupte "d t’hZ G," D iMk the wuole unit, voluntarily g-nal trenches. A number of nnihff the commands. The wenty-FoTth acted heroically and lost heS 'A»» heoferawasD A. *1 lhe enemy occupied a heioi a north Of Bogush >, the
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    443 1126 [B.ctw’’ Tn«<»A“ 8 LOST POUTIONS regained. c '*c»i,r.r.>. Pl*'»" 1 London, July 25, 6 8-™-i French "’““““‘’''vigorously counter- wbo lioce July 22 by occupied the first-line the Cwernatee and California The attack» w*» carried out with Pliteaux- T fa brilliant results Our 80 ldi6rs re S“ed the iho'eofthelottpoei-ione
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    FERMENT IN RUSSIA.
    486 1126 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] MR. A. HENDERSON INTERVIEWED. Dangers to the Revolution, London, Ju'y 25. Mr. A- Henderson, memb r oi the War Cabinet, interviewed by Reuter on his return from his mission to Russia, dwelt on the existing dangers to the revolution. He regarded the discontinuance of the
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    BRITAIN’S WAR AIMS.
    1080 1126 [Reuter’s Telegrams,] OFFICIAL PRONOUNCEMENT. The Broad Peaee Priaeiples. London, July 25, Rjbsrt Cecil, replying to various criticisms, strongly repudiated the allegations of Mr. John Dillon that the force at Salonika was demoralised. Dealing with the Government’s broad aims he said that it was a mere platitude to
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    FEDERAL COUNCIL MEETING.
    1053 1127 FORMAL BUSINESS. (From Our Own Correspondent,') Ipob, July 25. The Federal Council did formal business. All the bills were passed, except the Customs, Quarantine, and Land Amendment Bills. Council adjourned sine die. From the T. O. M, we take the following extracts from its report of the
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    Our Taiping correspondent writes:-
    47 1127 Our Taiping corresponds™ d B i-reported that f.U grow a tigress are now at the laip g far from Kli.n Pau, having,. down from their haunt, where some J I h.db ien cleared. It in hoped that will be taken to destroy them.
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    Our Ipoh correspondent
    40 1127 Oar Ipoh correspondent wi e Timet of Malaya announces th I» Baker has made another aeroplane to the Malayan aerP rcn, marking the M< contribotthird -quadron. Malay i9f oplaM ed $546,353 towards the Malay Fund. s he
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    A cold Supper
    52 1127 Fund. 4 ||j fl A cold Supper will!be dll Penang Club, to members and at 10 p m., on Saturday, the the Volunteer Manoeuvres. of TheBrnd willplaya eeleotion during Supper. notifying b Members will oblige by „»«1 Secretary of the numbar of their later than Friday at
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    Assessment Appeal.
    1818 1128 1MP omNrj^ BTY case. L* S X P e Co.eM gM the b8Ar:Dg cf ,A ratl ith 3 JCIB: m' C 8 rs Littl0 and C Wlth premises io Square W rJ tJ throughout the day and adfl, coating tb k.g, AppeH* Dt8 aBk jrDe V D ton
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    Penang Swimming Club.
    57 1128 The July Monthly Medal competition v’z 200 yords handicap for ”A” Cl ss and 50 va r ds for B” C’as* wi’l be held at the Swimming Club on Sunday, the 29th instant, at’11 am. Entries will ba rrceived by the Secretaries up to within half an
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    Huttenbach’s Sued.
    404 1129 ME. JOHN HANDS’ CASE. Further Proceedings. In the Supreme Court yesterday, says the Malay Mail of Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Earnshaw, the Civil Action—John Hands versus August Hottenbach, A. J. Anthony and F. J. Hill—was continued the whole day. Part of the forenoon was taken up with the
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    M. F. A.
    109 1129 The inter-Settlement match is expected to take place in Singapore about the 10th of September, as requested by the Singapore Association. The following League programme, under the 1916 regiatiation, will provide the selection committee with opportunities to find a side capable of recovering the cup, which will
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    Mr. Quah Beng Kee’s Tamil chauffeur,
    43 1129 who was brought up before the Magistrate this morning and charged with driving his motor car in a manner so rash and negligent as to endanger human life, was discharged and the charge against him was withdrawn.
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    The Assizes.
    290 1129 Central Market Tragedy. The hearing was resumed yesterday before Mr. Justice L. M. Woodward and a special jury comprising Messrs. J. Lamb (Foreman), H. Dove, L E.iSlowe, Loh Beng Qoang, F. C. Marples, Yeoh Paik Tatt and K. M. McLeod of the case againstJYeap Chooi who was charged
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    Perak Water Rights Case.
    100 1129 {From Our Own Correspondent,) Ip 3b, July 25. The Perak water rights case was concluded after a hearing of 52 days. Plaintiffs’ counsel offered to settle the case on certain terms, including a re-giant of the water licence by the Government in the original form and
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    Dutch War Items.
    47 1129 A German biplane came down at Aardenburg. The occupants have been interned by the Dutch authorities. Generally, the Dutch newspapers regard the speech in the Reichstag of Dr. Michaelis, the new German Imperial Chancellor, as discouraging forthose who had hoped fora speedy pi ace.
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    Eastern Produce Exchange.
    76 1129 At the Eastern Produce Exchange 153rd Auction Sale the following prices were obtained per picul. Diamond Smoked Good from $127 to $128 >♦ Fair 111 to 126 Diamond Unsmoked M 107 to 119 Plain Unsmoked 103 to 105 Brown Crepe 103 Scrap Crepe 68 to 82 Pressed
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    Penang Golf Club.
    262 1129 Pena ng Golf Club. S’fMmCn, I We.ppendtbere.BU,,. I the Sydney Cup W I H Oxenham I G Marshall bye I F G Penny I J T Nicol H Bulford I E D Acton I F B Rickett I V G Ezechiel I J Crabb-Watt > I C B Redway >
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    The third session of the Malacca
    154 1129 The third session of the Malacca Assiws for this ve«r opened on the 9th idi n fore Mr*. Justice R. C. Edmonde. The first four days were spent in ths n» ing of a case in which Surat Chan r stood charged with the
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    A DATE TO REMEMBER.
    921 1130 A 7it. that deierves to be Joly j’ T bv the officers and Rrffish Mercantile Marine of to o f the s'aughter 11 of Captain Fryatt 61 tbe r»o doubt familiar to many The Bt° r J J 9 fc t 9 worth repeatir,,*de June of
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    Mr. N. N. Mitra, Assistant Surgeon,,
    21 1130 General Hospital, will be proceeding <o Icdia on leave about thn «nd of this month.
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    There has been some dissapointment
    62 1130 expressed by the local subordinate Government sei vice that the question of a war allowance was not considered at the meeting of the F tS d°r*l Council, as exp r ctfd. We (T. 0. Af.) understand that c-r ain decisions reached at a recent conference
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    The Times Weekly ut June 22 says :
    73 1130 The Times Weekly ut June 22 says Mr. E. J. Kbory, barrister-at-law, a leading member of tbe Pa r see community here, baa died at his residence at Cricklewood, at the age of 73. For many years he practised at Singapore. He w*s prominent in Free masonry, being Master of
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    With much regret we hear that Lt Col. H. G. Sergeant, R. G. A. an old adjutant of the S. V. A.,
    98 1130 has be j n killed at the front. News has coma to Mr. William Dunman, whose niece, a daughter of Cipt R. Dunmar, formerly Officer Commanding the S.
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    M. A. P.
    570 1130 ,Mr s R B. Bannnn h«a obtained n oommission in the R. N V, B, Mr. and Mrs. P. 8. Goodall are still «pending their holiday up the Crag. Mr. Jack Jennings, Managing Director of the Times of Malaya, io on a visit to Penangi Mr, Patton
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    911 1131 Street Names. An interesting article might be written on the street names of Penang. Light Street, Farquhar Street, and Anson Road explain themselves, but who was the McAlister that gave his name to the finest avenue in Penang Beach Street has became a misnomer by the construction of
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    The F.M.8. Railway
    8 1131 clock is out of order.
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    Reuter’s correspondent,
    26 1131 wiring on July 25, states that silver is at 39 J. There have been increased offerings and the tendency in the market is easy.
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    Says the Malay Mail of Wednesday :-
    54 1131 Says the Malay Mail of Wednesday There arrived in Kuala Lumpur by the mail train from Singapore this morning a party of schoolboys from Hongkong University, who during their holidays are on a visit to their parents and friends in the Straits Settlements and the F M.S. The University re-opens
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    An earthquake was felt at Pegu on July 5 and the bonnet of the famous pagoda was thrown off its pedestal.
    51 1131 The bonnet was very valuable, being of stone studded with numerous priceless gems, all of which were scattered. Strict precautions have been taken to prevent the theft of the
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    Residential accommodation in Kuala Lumpur
    140 1131 was the subject of one of Mr. Nutt’s questions at the meeting of the Federal Council:— Has the Government heard complaints regarding insufficient residential accommodation in Kuala Lumpur And has any action been taken on the report of the Committee which dealt with this subject
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    478 1131 [R«UTBa’. battle OF casemate, I Reuter’. ccrrespond.^ 1 I Headquarter, .bow, that th. h Pre »S I counter-attack on Jul, 24 -S 4 I throw,»g O u t the I Plateau, practically depriveH.u* 1 I g»m. which temporarily «th I Tiew-point over the French M.iii- 4 I ha.
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    RUSSIAN FRONT.
    463 1132 [gw T l,8 r OFFICIAL VERSION. c 4il “tX. Ju'y s C3m UD,que it* te 4h of Krevo our detachments DOrth °'-trenches retired owing E°’“ with the exception of the 6“ rd v O iLd, voluntarily retired. At Brigade •> faithIW’F 1 <»’ T t [> e joutb-eaat
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    FERMENT IN RUSSIA.
    494 1132 CONFERENCE AT MOSCOW. Measures agsiast Traitors. Petrograd, July 26. The Government is convoking a conferance at Moscow of the delegates of the principal reprentative bodies in Russia to consider the country's position. The Judiciary is taking measures to bring to justice all organisers of the recent revolt
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    GERMAN VERSION.
    487 1132 [Reutbb’s Telegrams la Tke We»t. London, July 26. A wifeless Garman official communique fit dtps The artillery battle not diminished in intensity. Bitwean the coist and the Lys English reconnoitring thrusts continued but they were unsuccessful. Our flame throwers captured an important trench in the sector near Monchy.
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    U. S. A. and the War.
    487 1133 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Skipping Dispute. Washington, July 25. At the President's request General Goethals, manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and Mr. Denman, Chairman of the Shipping Board, have resigned as in the President's opinion that is the only way to end the dispute which
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    British Front.
    439 1133 [Reuter s Telegrams.] ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. Sir Douglas Haig's Report. London, July 26, 12.5 a.m, Sir Douglas Haig reports: Following a heavy bombardment to the east of Monchy le Preux the enemy, using flammenwerfer, attacked Infantry Hill and drove in a few of our advanced posts on a
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    Quarantine Enactment.
    790 1133 MALiEI4 the first .rUsoTtbeB I Quarantine and L V®”! 2 I of 1903, said that it was inter I malaria within its scope I. I «.ct malaria figured n I of the day, for in addition to .u' I Bill on this subject there P ni I Tbe
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    Peaang Rubber Auction.
    95 1134 The undermentioned prices were realised tor rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys u dCo at their 301st Auction Sale yesterday and to-day Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 1 1127 to $130 per picul Smoked Diamond Sheet No. 2 113». 121 do Plain Smoked Sheet 112 do Uoiaoked Sheet
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    Singapore Rubber Auction.
    76 1134 Our Own Singapore, July 27. f J! ii Singapore Rubber Auction 'he tol owing prices were obtained Msd Am fine »124 to »132 perpicul Hl (i 123 do pll-i 108 113 do wracked Ho 116 do ft- S; J: «tx -F' M 100 H3 do Bark 73
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    Vital Statistics.
    79 1134 Tk II Q S? feciuliu f 6alth tat ®ment of the for the ended Tot^Dut H3 f Male 4d j >57 rate oo ni C Female 12) X mill v per ann 3L8 m the eorr e^? C d n8r week and mt. wee k o f last
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    Perak Water Rights Case.
    416 1134 Apart from the 1 acts invoked in the al ready famous Peiak Water Rights case that has just tried before Mr. Justice Farter Manby in the Ipob upreme Com t ther are many features in the trial that is now making hist ry so far as
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    Singapore Assizes.
    279 1134 AttheAss'zes yesterday afternoon (says the St raits Tinies of Thursday) the jury returned a unanimous verdict ot guilty in the case of Loh Ah Wi and Lob See long, who were charged witb committing forgery and Tan Say Coian, charged with abetting the other accused. The ebarge was
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    The Cost of the War.
    559 1134 MALAYA’S SHARE. The Lords of (be Treasury have ac* kn wledged ta d y but appreciatively the spontaneous g ne osi'y of the St (.its iu foregoing a claim for excess military co tribution wbicu had accrui-d before the war quite legitimate'y. Aso for the
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    Parish Hall.
    52 1134 Billiard Tournament. The following are the results of the ties that have been played off; Double Handicap. R H Tegj a u and CV C Aeria beat C E and J J Theseira 250—234. C C Steward and A M Ford beat H A Phipps and J M
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    Civil Servants’ Salaries.
    1921 1135 Unofficials Urge General Increase. At the meeting of the Federal Council on Wednesday the Legal Adviser, in moving the Bill further to amend the Pensions Enactment of 1906, said that its object was to improve the position of Police Inspectors At the present time these Inspectors were
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    A Goverment Gazette Extraordinary
    54 1135 A Government !tf d i» ki notifies that uod-r the power p,.»»bv section 2 of the 1915, “ion of Disease Excellency the 0oT ne ■,i f e «r k ‘>* declares th,t “^’’«teMio» included i,hin 1 b t e ha el £po.ee o“ w Disease” for
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    Conditions of Commerce in Java.
    1045 1136 b, letter to‘“ 3 r v ...ionsto d” p! °P bu,,nP89 Dooot be d>.con'.ged tell you; bod out kj»Mt' 0 ,0 Ior .oueelfoo toe epot. tbl coodUN" I J hjQ your prospective fl'"'’ 0 ''!'Les whet n>»y b’undoubted ly en‘>» w^’“, on for withholding busiyou
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    Food Supplies and War Taxes.
    302 1136 Chinese Member’s Views. At the meeting ot tbe Federal Counci the Hoo. Mr. Ed Tong Sen said that he wished to say a word about food supplies in the Federated Malay States. They knew that at present there was a great shortage of wheit in
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    Q’s “Lottery Lectshers.”
    892 1136 (By Tom Wright.) erse is by nature (and otigin) more emotional than piose. So said Professor Couch in one of his university lectures on English literature. How many of his young gentlemen *ould ponder the full drift of the two woids in brackets? It seems to me
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    Church Army Tents.
    439 1137 The Church Army has Huts at work in all the large Naval and Military Camps throughout the United Kingdom. There are over 350 Centres in France—more than 200 of these being in the shell areas, the others at the various Bhs 3 s and Rest Camps. The
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    Assessment Appeal.
    907 1137 Opining cf Case for the Commissioners. The heating of the appeal by Messrs. John Little and Co. for a reduction in the assessment of $60,000 cn th-ir premises in Khfflts Square was continued by the Chief Justice (Str John Bucknill, K C.) in the Singapoie Supreme Couit on
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    Shares.
    163 1137 The following are the alterations io A, A. Anthony Co/i ebare list to-day Ayer Molek Rubber Co, $2.60 buyers and $2 70 sellers; Chanvk<t Sardaog Estates $9 40 buyers and $9.75 sellers; Glenealy Plantations $2 30 buyers and $2 45 sailers; lodrac’ri (Sumatra) Rubber $26 buyers and $27 50
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    Penang Volunteers.
    92 1137 Field J)at Operations, To baT g The Pen.nn Volunteers He been detaibd for 0 t ’> ,os 2?i provide protection for object' 811 io Ayer Etam Vdlaga and wb»i j the Treasury. Th(i t p3 d o f Then I,k not to be witbin 500 yard» ot K
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    SECRETARISTS AND CENTRALISATION.
    1120 1138 v occa S to*Mhe past we have Onffltny excessive cenfralisaprotested again riges the conduct of 0°® b u° iness in this country. Naturally, P DbllC b am makes ine vitabl y for dela and it i« all against the d the times which favours devolution and responsibility
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    “Our Day” will be celebrated this year by British residents
    21 1138 in Sumatra on behalf of the funds of the R«d Cross.
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    A. Government Gazette Extraordinary
    58 1138 notifies, with refer-nce to the Prohibition < f Import Proclamation of 1917, pub’isb°d in th' Gazette Extraordinary of M»/ 16. 1917, and to Notification No. 687, pi ibl’ehFd »n the Gazette Extraordinary of Jur e 6, 1917, that lictncas will be granted to i nport car»
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    M. A. P.
    382 1138 Mr. R, N. Bruiel-Normin haves for Smgapoie to day, r X' Skelchy, of the Survey Office, Kuala Lumpur, wo.) a prize in the Western India Club Lottery.—M.tf, Mr. J. A. Thomson, superintendent of the Ppnang branch cf the Extern Extension Telegraph Co., and an old and popular
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    At the Lam Hua Hospital
    13 1138 tc-lay Mr, Lim Tai Lee did fifteen vaccination?.
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    Wong Ah Cheow, who was charged with kidnapping Chong Ah Cheow,
    49 1138 a girl said to be 14 years of age,from the lawful guardianship of her mother, Chin Swee Nyonp, at B*Lk Pulau, was this morning discharged as there was not sufficient eulence of the exact age of the girl,
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    Says the Singapore Free Press:
    179 1138 When we remarked the other day on the fact that other Crown Colonies had published lists of names of officers in the local forces specially mentioned in Government despatches for their services, we did not insist on the point too much, since the examples we
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    970 1139 Three Years Ago* Three years hare parsed since Austria declared war on Snbia. On July 28, 1914, the Central Powers—as we now know—set alight the conflagration in the Balkans, the quarter in which disaster of the kind, though not perhaps of the extent, had long been prophesied. It
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    Khoo Cheng Chian, an employee of the Runnymede Hotel,
    62 1139 was this morning arraigned before the District Juige on a charge of breach of trust as a servant of $32.74. Inspector McLernon applied for an adjournment and asked that a bail of $200 h fixed as there were some more accounts
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    Apropos of our Random Note
    91 1139 on the street names of Penang yesterday a correspondent has put us on the track of the MaoaHster after whom the road was named. There is in St. George’s Church a very fine mural tablet inscribed In Memory of The Hon. John Macalisteb, Esqr., of
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    We fully agree with our Kuala Lumpur contemporary when it says :
    156 1139 We fully agree with our Kuala Lumpur contemporary when it says Much unnecessary alarm has been created among local Asiatics by a rumour that persons in possession of pound brooches or buttons would be or were being arrested. The rumour had its origin in a recent Colonial Gazette proclamation prohibiting
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    416 1139 [Rbdmb-, ATTACKS IN E y enemy did not make the .112 We recovered the ground ,t I™ 8 whjcb were lo.t i/tbe oUt^'* 1 An unsuccessful enemy ahwt' pagne, followed by a viX.T? 1 1 extended on the left and on the right to the the Casque, Our
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    BRITISH FRONT.
    453 1140 pwnrrn’» Loe.l Fr«bH.«. London, Joly 27. 2 P-“‘ Sir D g |‘L? fifbtiog'in tbe “eighhourJ 0 4 7 y.lle, to tbe south-west MW dto" 0Ut the en9my f u° 0 d eneIny counter-attacked we withdrew from the .raid st njght in the ffe dof Monchr to the south-west
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    RUSSIAN FRONT.
    478 1140 [Rbutbr’s Tblbgramb.] RETREAT CONTINUES. Official Versioa. London, July 27. A wireless Russian official announcement states: “To the east of Tarnopol we retired under pressure to the Gniezdiczao and the Gniezna rivers. A superior enemy penetrated eur positions on the Gniezna R ver to the northeast of Trembowla, Simultaneously
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    RUMANIAN FRONT.
    312 1140 [Rbutbb’b Tblbgramb.] ADVANCE CONTINUES. Pmoaert nd War Material CapturU. London, July 27. A Rumanian communique, dated July 26. says J 1 advanced twelva kilometres beyond the old front and occupied all our objectives ten villages. We made 450 prisoners and captured many guns and much war material. The
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    Dutch War Items.
    210 1140 The following special cables from the H«gue appeared in the Sumatra Pott of Wednesday and Thursday, the 25th and 26'h inst.: Tbe Kaiser, Dr. Michaelis, Dr. Helferrich, the members of tbe Bundesrat, the Prussian Ministers,the President of theiReichstag and the leaders of all tbe political parties, with
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    FOOD CONTROL.
    498 1141 [Reutbb’b Telegbams.] LORD RHONDDA'S STATEMENT. Aa Appeal to the Publie. London, July 27. In the House of Lords, Lord Rhondda, Food Controller, in a statement on the control of food, said that there was a feeling of unrest in many quarters owing to the extravagant prices of a
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    A number of petty burglaries
    15 1141 i or attempted burglaries have occurred in Kuala Lumpur recently.
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    BRITAIN’S WAR AIMS.
    842 1141 BRITAIN S WAR AIMS. [Rbuteb’s Tilegbamb.] A PACIFIST RESOLUTION. Discussion in the Commons. London, July 26. In the House of Commons Mr, Ramsay Macdonald, on behalf of five Pacifist members of the House of Commons, moved a resolution asking the House to endorse the sentiments of the resolution of the
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    Tin.
    35 1141 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to day jt SI 10.00, buyers no sellers, in Smgajw (refined) at $110.50 business done, tons sold), and in London at spot and at £241 three months.
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    London Rubber Market.
    25 1141 (From Out Own CwyorM Landon, July The price, in the London Rubber MerW to-day were Pale Crepe 26 i Diamond Smoked 1
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    Chuah Ah Leng
    36 1141 Chu.h Ah L9n 8'" tb "“j™“he WM* up before Mr, B. D. A c aWl y a married Court charged with entici g w J g woman, Accuse until the 31 at instant.
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    The total values of Trengganu
    39 1141 until tne oi*«-L rt iod The total values of import trade last year are' $2,300,000 each. All trade se there being no 8 ix or It is financed almost entirely J Chinese firms in
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    A Goverment Gazette Extraordinary
    54 1141 X Government t ted i» ki notifies that under the pew a p re ri«' by section 2 of the jfo tion of Dise.se Ordmsn e. Excellency the aov er “p ill Ji ferer «£“2 declares that included within t ar noses of Dis<ase”for all the
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    Super-Centralisation.
    641 1142 qiestion »bout raeS 00, Mr thfl High Commisioner J.Wb.d ited ot9 progress m ide and .jMpsclio». proba bly meant to be rtoaireffl eD^’ *ha guper-centrabzation Su.1 ‘8‘' D n tbe th e P Adm in istration. M «w«PPf“‘ tUt some eucb protest f g t h e public can
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    Perak Water Rights Case.
    1078 1142 THE JUDGMENT. la the course of his judgment on the Perak Water Rights case Mr. Justice Farrer Manby said The damages as to the Mine I regard as the most important part of the case. If plaintiffs can establish a value which will entitle the Court
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    Sarawak Man-Power and The War.
    220 1142 in view of the demand for man-power for the purposes of the War, His Highness the Rj* desires it to be known that it is his wish that any Europeans in the State who are of military age and who cm be spared should offer
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    One of the first men to join the colours, from Malaya, wrote by last mail-
    85 1142 I I am ve r y fit. We have been in the line’ sometime now, and expect to go into 'reserve' for a few days shortly. Tup weatberis fine, j bnar —bas been called up
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    Singapore Assessment Appeal.
    796 1143 Hearing Concluded Judgment I ESERVED. In the Supreme Court yesterday (says the Free Preu of Fiiday) afternoon the Chief Justice (Sir John Bucknill, x. c.) continued the hearing of the appeal by Messrs. John Little and Co. against the assessment of 160.000 fixed by the Municipal Commie*
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    Alleged Rash Act.
    131 1143 Mr. Mohamed Sybol Ariffin, son of the late Mr. Mohamed Ariff and a brother of Mr. Wanchee Ariffin, was this morning brought up before Mr. R. D. Acton, District Judge, charged with causing the death of one Tong Ah Hock by doing a rash or negligent act
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    The term of office of His Excellency Sir A. H. Young, G.C.M.G.,
    47 1143 as Governor of the Straits Settlements, High Commissioner for the Malay States and Brunei, and British Agent for North Borneo and Sarawak, has been extended from September 2, 1917, until the end of the war.
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    The rate of mortality in the Settlement of Singapore for the week ended July 14 was 31 47 per mille of the population.
    86 1143 The tot »1 number of deaths was 217, of which 158 were male subjects and 59 female. Convulsions claimed 29. phthisis 22, malarit 29, beri-beri 30, small-pox
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    Dr. Greene
    93 1143 who has just returned from home have has spent the last twelve months in the R A.M.C. and has seen service on the western front, says the Sarawak Gazette. He was a passenger by the Mongolia and had the unpleasant experience of finishing the voyage to Bombay by
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    Mr. E. W. Howell, late of Pulau Samboe Tank Installation, and of Singapore,
    109 1143 who )pft here early this year to join up writes cheerily to afr end in Pulau Samboe- He has beet) through an air raid and adm ts that it is •< a rotten feeling.” He pays a
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    Price of Milk Orders.
    357 1143 "inch milk i, to be «old well as retail dealer» G u 1. No person shall direct. sell by retail or offer for sal/hJ Of the brnod, of milk herehU’. “I *t a price exceeding the amour/ e»ch such brand Petc Nestle's Milkmaid Sweet. ened Condensed
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    The following passengers
    55 1143 rrivefi The following P» 8seD erl this morning fr0 l g J[ r V 1 J’S Mr. and Mrs. dre1 J w rg Wolft J* Miss Arthur. Major ay* X’ Mr!' »1 °Mr From Port M* Lim Eow Thoon, Mr. “J, gy. Art* Swee. Mr. W._ Mr.
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    M. A. P.
    540 1145 Mr. E. C. H. Wolff, of the Singapore Secretariat, and Mrs. Wolff are staying up Penang Hill. Mr. G. Grant, of the Federated Engineering Co., haa left for Australia, where he intends to* join up. Inspector Morgan takes the place of Inspector McCarthy at Taiping, writes our
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    859 1145 The Second BloomingVery few Governors add to their reputations duringspecially extended terms of office. Lord Curzin, Sir Frank Swettenham and, perhaps, Sir John Anderson are examples of proconsuls who seemed to u go off” during the second period. Let us hope that Sir Arthur Young may prove an
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    Mr. J. Lornie is appointed to be a police
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    The output of the Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging
    18 1145 ended June 28 was nineteen tons. Company for the weei
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    The engagement
    52 1145 is announced of Mr Kboo Soon Leong, the youngest woof Towkay Kboo Hock Cheong, nf Awpm; Road, Kuala Lumpur, to Mies Y*p Kong Kiow, tbe only daughter of Liew Hup N?oh, widow of the late Towkay Yay Loong Kk, of Pudu Street, Koala Lompur. The marriage will take
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    The engagement
    53 1145 is announced of Mr. D. Sbarpin, acting manager of the local branch of tbe Hongkong «nd Shanghai BanJ.id Miss Doris Campbell, daughter of tbe lafc Mr. A. Campbell and younger sister of in C M Hende son, Both pirties are extremely P<JPp lir Penang and bare been tbe
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    By appointment
    81 1145 By appointment of the Bev. Bishop J- K Robinson. D. D, who i. at P«.«»t e»mi annu-1 official visit to M J Eev. J. A Snpr.m.ni.mh.sbeentrwrfenji from Penang to Kuala Lump"' pastorate of tbe Tamil J» Church, and is expected to in*' 1 w duties at an early
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    To-day congratulations
    96 1145 10 was to tbg To-day congratulations ar a Queen of the Belgians, overwhelmed anniversary. Since tfce Q O0 en Eli* tbe country of her adoption,, W berl elf beth has by her actions' All* whole-heartedly on gb0 ji by the fact notwithstanding birth a Bavarian P»“ M teri
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    BRITISH FRONT.
    1060 1146 T» p am8 t FjGHTING IN FLANDERS. r Loodo», July 28, 7.451 ..tn. j „f cuds in Fl.oders, which ba. Tb ‘"”i"^dv g in London for weeks past, t*« helld -re audible during the last W during which, according (ortJ.»? M n j qu ei and correspondents .Fr’nMn«
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    RUMANIAN FRONT.
    494 1146 [Rbutbs s TKLKOBAK9.] breach in enemy line. Nearly 1,250 Prisoaers Captured. a p Paris, July 29. states aDUn commuDi( l U9 da ted July 26, We enlarged the breach to the north in the enemy front and seized the whole of the o’d position on a width of
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    THE ALLIES AND GREECE.
    497 1147 [Rbutik’s Telegrams.] DECISION OF BALKAN CONFERENCE. Queatioa of Military Occupation. London, July 28. The Allied Balkan Conference adopted a I resolution to the effect that it was the intention of the Allies to terminate at the earliest possible opportunity and simultaneously the British, French, and Italian
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    GERMANY’S TREACHERY.
    536 1147 GERMANY S TREACHERY. [Reuter’s Telegrams] A FATEFUL MEETING. Explaaatioa of Herr Haase’s Refercaee. London, July 28. The Times is authoritatively informed that the reference in the speech of the S ocialist Herr Haase in the Reichstag last week to the meeting of July 5,1914 as requiring explanation before the origin
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    BRITAIN’S PART.
    484 1147 record or servici tN »>««!«•. St....... r p .Mr Lloyd Gaorgr ia 28. Jiurnalut., ..jd th f a "«Hint b «d ed C j“ ,ereoceh,dk 8 »w?w »nd good would speedil. “'"‘S He dwelt on the Briti.h efl” "X ol million men were now «X «1 colour,, in
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    RUSSIAN FRONT.
    403 1148 IN GALICIA. i “ToX,July28 it*"- n front the 6nemy t0 °J t '0« the<3l No“bio S material occ arred thecffe»»'»- ”;“Lt pressed back our Kirbbabn. de StteeO1 <n in9 continued the pursuit «TbeBu® 4111 t h 0 direction of oftbe rebnofi• D h “J They occupied the Ki,di
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    Several residents of Muntri Street
    15 1148 7^XV^" 0,r i St -t have Urcp bulb the loss
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    German Version.
    123 1148 la West aid East. London, July 28 A German wireless states Except at short intervals the artillery duel io Fhndets has not diminished in intensity. Drumfire recommenced this morning. The enemy lost thirteen aeroplanes in the course of numerous engagements on the French front. Bombs were dropped last
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    Penang Volunteers.
    277 1148 Successful Night Operations. I The Penang Volunteers were on Satur- I day engaged in very successful night I operations in the vicinity of Aver Etam I village. The idea was very well carried out I but for the unfortunate incident of one of the buglers blowing the cease
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    From the Malay Mail:
    240 1148 Miss M. Charter is now working in Government office at Howe. 2nd Lieut. J. P. Mead, East Surrey Regt.» has gone over to France. Lieut, C- FT. A. Huxtable, R. A., late of Tanjong Ma im, has gained a bar to his Military Cross. Mr. Tan
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    P. V. R. C.
    366 1148 The results of Sunday’s shooting were as follows; Rapid at 300 yards, 8 shots in 45 seconds. H. P, S. 40, h’cap. made. Capt J G Allan .55 37 30 Pta G B Southam ,55 37.30 L M Bell .80 37 00 Mrs A E Murray
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    Captain Eichler, the former commander of the steamers Imperator and Vaterland,
    33 1148 was killed when the Zeppelin L48 w»i destroyed last month. Ciptiin E chler commanded Uh Zepelin squadrons in many raids on England.
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    Recently we have had rabies in Selangor, said the hon. Mr. W.J. Nutt at the Federal Council meeting.
    60 1148 Ido oot know that any one has been bitten, but whoever was would have bad to go to S*igon. It is several years now since this matter was brought up, and I
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    From Friday’s Straits Times :
    138 1148 From Friday’s Straits Times The marriage took place at Panglima Prang on the 24tn inst- of the youngest daughter of Mr-Jiak Kim, C.M G and Mrs Tan Jiak Kim wi:h Mr. Lim Kian Bang, the second son ofthelaie Mr. Lim Teow Chuan It was a very quiet and simple weeding,
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    Police Court Cases.
    764 1149 Thift or Watbr Mbtbrs. Two lads, Si Toh Sam, aged 10, and Lye Wee Seng, aged 12, were yesterday charged before Mr. R. D. Acton in the District Court with theft of eight water meters at the junction of Kimberley Street and Cintra Street. They both pleaded
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    P.C.C. Tennis Tournament.
    250 1149 The following was the result of the drawing together with the handicaps for the different events in the Penang Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament Championship. H E Mason bye E H Everest M M Stewart F D Hindley R E Prentis A M Forrest L O Hargrave
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    Penang Swimming Club.
    80 1149 The July Monthly Medal Competition viz.200 yards handicap for '*A” Class and 50 yards for “B” Class was held at the Swimming Club on Sunday morning with the following result: A Class Start. 1st W. H. Threlfall Scratch 2nd D. Randle 7 secs 3rd G. A. de
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    Kedah Notes.
    526 1149 I The clerical I towards the end of the X n 1 tlk I is whispered that th. eDt I ■tiffer this time, I Composition. Mr. J.wTAM I Yahia and Che M. Sheriff J* bur I Board of Examiners. 3 th I I I regret to write that
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    BIRTH.
    14 1150 Q/b i, ingtant at Goodot Ha Alor 1 diag bter SM 0 8
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    THE MODEL EMPLOYER.
    720 1150 Straits Civil Alth0 V,st; di.tinctu includes the post. t the General Hospitals among of 8aM hl. offices there is reason to beis being systematically ‘“7 defeat this provision by not de ,1., Sisters at the termination If, as it would of ,te it h the deliberate policy
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    SIGNS AND PORTENTS IN RUSSIA.
    393 1150 An encouraging sign of the times in Russia is the firm attitude of the Cadets who, mere mud in the eyes of their Socialist rivals a few weeks ago, now appear to dominate the political situation. If they can rescue the Government from the irresponsible
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    M. A. P.
    602 1150 j is e*‘ill indispose 1 and did not attend office to-day. A daughter was born yesterday to the Adviser to Ktdah and M r s. G. A Hall Mr. G. Aurely, Italian Consol for Penang, has joined the Penang Volunteers Mies Smith, matron of the General Hospital,
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1024 1151 Economy and Education. In his annual report cn Education in the Federated Malay States, to which we have already referred editorially, Mr. H. W. Firmstone makes one point clear and that is the dearth of qualified teachers as compared with the increasing number of pupil* who flock to
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    On the occasion of the anniversary of the declaration of war by Great Britain,
    47 1151 in con- nection with which a demonstration will be held on Saturday afternoon, there will be a compulsory parade of the Penang Volunteers. The fall-in will be at 530 p.m. die review order.
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    One member of the deposed Russian Royal family
    176 1151 who bears the fall of her house with comparative calm is the Dvwigir Empress Marie Feodorovna, who looks forward to the happiness of spending the remainder of her days in the genial atmosphere of France. The partiality of the Empress for France
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    Tin.
    35 1151 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at $111.50, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $112.50, business done, (100 tons sold), and in London at <£246 spot and at .£242 10s three months.
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    FRENCH FRONT.
    442 1151 CBwn»’. artuuby ACTlvln Vaux Enemy Attack*. I The French commun^qj 0 151 I the artillary struggle contLued to to I vigourous m the Cerny^Crant 0 I ceeding a short but very I ment, the Germans attX I but were completely frustrated I left of the Meuse there wi’i
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    DR. MICHAELIS’ STATEMENT.
    157 1152 T«’ 0SiM9 'J LLOYD GEORGE. Srit.m the Enemy Copenhagen, July Jy- fh e Imperial Chancellor, Ik. Mic b e I, of Unaliete to Berlin nnmoiri P«'J J Mr. Lloyd Gsorges «’I’S n,l,2 oo ai “>?- ■If h J tWit»' e idMt tbat Brl,Mnd d!Cl,re bv «greement end
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    Brown Bast.
    404 1152 Niw Rubber Disease In F.M.S, At the close of the busmens part of the quarterly meeting of the Taiping District Mrs Association, he’d in Taiping on Saturday, says the T.O M. the Chairman (Hr.C.W. Cookson) invited Mr. G. N. Mteillto deliver a paper on Brown Bast. Mr. Magill
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    RUSSIAN FRONT.
    542 1152 [Reuter 8 Telegrams.] FURTHER RETIREMENT. The Rumanian Rally. London, July 30. 1 20 a m. The Russian communique states that: “In Galicia an enemy attack in the Questzbarau region was repulsed. “The enemy’s advanced elements approached south of Tarnopol. “We were forced to evacuate the line wett of
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    BRITISH FRONT.
    536 1152 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] POSITION IN FLANDERS. Freaeh Comments. London, July 30. The Paris correspondent of the Liberte states “In Flanders after a brief lull the cannonade again started on Saturday morning with the greatest fury and swelled at ten in the evening to an appalling roar, shaking the ground
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    U. S. A. AND THE WAR.
    156 1153 [Reuter’e Telegrams Mr. R. LANSING'S ADDRESS. The Mcaaee of Germae Militarism. New York, July 30. Addressing the officers of the Reserve Corps Mr. Robert Lansing, U. S. Secretary of State, asked them to rid their minds of any idea that they were fighting anybody’s
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    “Private and Confidential,”
    416 1153 (To THi Editor of the Strait» Times Sir —Among the many dangers that threaten the Plantation Rubber Industry the chiefest is undoubtedly the menace of disease, and while scientific knowledge on the subject is certainly increasing very rapidly it is not keeping abreast of the troubles which
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    Ferment in Russia.
    186 1153 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] CABINET RECONSTRUCTION. Diverse Views. Petrograd, July 30. The Cadets insist upon the Government not being controlled by the Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates but agree to an equal number of Cadet and Socialist Ministerg. They refuse to enter a Cabinet includins. M. Tchernof, Minister of Agriculture.
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    Water Rights Case.
    354 1153 Argument on Costs. Mr. Justice Farrer-Manby sat in the Judicial Commissioner’s Court, Ipob, on Saturday morning, at tbe special requ°st of counsel, to hear the discussion as to tbe costs to be awarded in the Perak Water Rights case, the judgment in which we published on Friday.
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    Chinese Widows and Orphan’s Institution.
    268 1153 191 6, of the Obinsse Widow, *1 Io.titut.oe, p enti which to tbe annual general August 5. meeting it Fimanci. Our position has imp rove J ieaves nothing to be deSirad tbX 114 good management of our Central n who was largely responsible f" compared
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    Speaking
    141 1153 Speaking with regard to the E«r«I*“ HospitalI in KuateLumP« j, Nutt said I think It is jU a very short time that Blte .A Hire absolutely untenable as k now that on the hill ad J 01D1 g o’clock in tb J from midnight till th hunting ol morning
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