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Fire in the New York..
Underground.
New York, Jan. 6.-To-day the entire Underground Railway service was disorganised by an outbreak of fire in 53rd Street, Hundreds of people were going to work and a panic enened, one person being killed and no fewer than 200 injured. The police and firemen wery called out and msay rescues were effected through the gratings, Those who had been imprisoned in the tube nearest the coat of the fire fought frantically to get out, and many who were extricated had most of their clothing tore off in the struggle.
Tipperary in Malay." Tipperary tempat-lah yang jauh, Tempat yang jauh kita pergi ; Tipperary tempat-lah yang jach,
Dengan "Chiata" di-hati.
Tabek Piccadilly,
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perary. Hati raya laksana.
T.T.G. in the Singapore
Free, Press.
Abdication of an Indian Prince.
His Highness Sir Sri Rama) Varma, G.C.S.I., G.C.LE., Rajal of Cochin, who bas just complet- ed his 62ad year, has abdicated the ralership he has held since October, 1895. Io a message to his subjects he states that he has basa for some time feeling the strain of administration rather
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Montreal, January 12-A de scription of a naval battle off Grenada, British West Indies, is given in a letter received here: Mail steamship to-day from a person who asserts that his Highness, who is an Mongolis, Captain Emery Rice, that he was sa oye-witness, and orthodox Hindu, intends to devote bas arrived from the Orient, says that, in his opinion, the German &San Francisco paper. There was bimself to religious meditation. Panama Rioting.
nothing about the big ship to in-crainer Karlsruhe took part and
was sunk. Washington, February 16.-A dicate that it had passed through
The letter was dated Grenada, eerions rict between soldiers and one of the worst storms ever December 3, and the writer police bas taken place at Panama experienced on the "Sunshine asserts that after the battle a life- according to a exblegram which Route," but, according to the boy came ashore marked "S. M. Secretary of War Garrison skipper, he had never experienc- S. Karlsruhe," together with received from the Canal Zone ed such severe weather since be
wreckage and barrels and food. authorities to-day. Several hun-started to cross on the Pacific stof. He farther writes that the first floor of No. 3 Duddell State price and maker's name to -dred men took part in the riot Mail ships.
fishermen had brought the neTE and several companies of infantry
shatoy had met dead bodies Pesk. were finally ordered out to quell
floating in the vicinity of the the disturbance. Twenty-three
battle, numbers of sandles marked Americans were injured and one
Kaiser Light," boots with feet policeman was killed. A search
in them, helmets, and other ing enquiry into the cause of the
wreckage. The letter reads as riot has been ordered by Secretary
follows. Garrison. Soldiers who were in- volved are in anstody.
It was on Friday, December 18. that the gale began and it became necessary to bring the liner about and remain hove to for seven hours Before this the doers of the after wheelhouse were smashed, some of the liferafts broken, and the sasa swept over, the decks and flooded down the ventilators and down into the steerage quarters.
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Miss Fera Rogers Apologises for Pro-German Talk in Britain,
It may interest you to know "London, Jan. 9.-Mia Fern
that on Wednesday evening, the Rogers, the American actress, who
Swept by Mountain Seas,
25th ult., while at my house, was forced to give up the leading role in the Drury Lane pantomims,
Even after the vessel was hove situated on a ridge overlook- "The Sleeping Beauty," because to the mountsia seas continued to ing the sea to the north of Grenada, I witnessed a naval of her pro-German utterances, do damage. They rous high over
which WID writes a long statement in the bows and broke with fary
engagement, andoubtedly carried on between night's Weekly Dispatch headed "My Apology to the British ard, and the delegraph casings more than two warships. The on the bridge were torn away, & action lasted, as far as I observed, People," in which she 3, in portion of the starboard rail from 7 o'clock p.m. to 11 p.m., part: While playing in Germany
smashed, three portholes broken, I learned to appreciate the good and then the biggest as of all and appeared to be on the vory qualities of the German people swept over the boat deck, high of the island. As the darkness among whom there were good above the water, and carried the increased it was quite apparent, ones and bad ones, as in any other nation. They certainly treated piano and a score of passengers when broadsides of projectiles] across the deck and against the
exploded within seconds of each me with every kindness and cour-
rails.
other, on either side, within tesy, and it would have been the
of four to six miles... I did range basest ingratitude on my part to
None of the travellera was injor-not hear the explosion of the have refused to ɛoknowledge thin. When I started rohoni sala at Druryed and the drenching was taken as shells, as the fight was too far Lane I found that, apart from the joke. Thereafter the passengers
the position of the combatants pantomime itself, the only topic remained off the decks until the away, but as the fight went on discussed was the war. Unless I kale abated. Leaving Ecnolalu chose to allow myself to be con- the weather was pleasant, but the veered round to the north and
delay of seven hours made it east, and inoressed in severity.
Nobody in St. Patrick's ap sidered tongue-tied, I had to discuss the war. I certainly did necessary to remain in Honolulu
happened, and though I made join in the discussion, and it is longer than had been intended peared to have noticed what had perfectly true that said I had a and an extra day was added to the diligent inquiries I could not get liking for the Germans, but I said time of the voyage. The Mon-
Whether the Government knew it without any intention to give golis brought total of 887 my theory of & fight supported. passengers, of whom 185 were in of the engagement or not, they offence. It would have been more the first class, 70 in the second certainly concealed all news s tactful not to have emphasised my class, and 422 Asiatics in the
ragarda it.: liking for the German people." steerage.
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The letter was made public by UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS, firmed in my opinion by the fact the Montreal Gazette and was re-
Eastera Extension Australasia, that Sauteurs fishermen, fishing.ceived by a member of its staff in the Carriacon channel, brought from one of his friends at Grenada,
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The Mongolia brought a hig in the news that they, had Batler, K. C. 8. I., O. I. E., to be cargo, there being 13.500 measure- met dead bodies floating in the
Importing Enemy Goods. Lieutenant-Governor of Burmas ment tone stowed away beneath water, together with numberless
Ipob, February 12,-At Tai- in anccession to Sir Harrey the hatches. This included raw candles, marked "Kaiser Light" Adamson, who will shortly retire and manufactured silk to the (a sample of which I send you as ping police court a tongkang cap- on the expiration of his term of value of $2,500,000, one of the a Christmas card); also boots, tain was fined $60 for importing office. Sir Harcourt Butler, who largest consignments sent across with feet in them, helmets, pieces into the State five kegs of wirs nails without dentering them in was horn in 1869, was educated the Pacifio for some months. Ow-of wreckage, etc.
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word, which came ashore wrapp- time trought, with the usual Cus- career. In 1910 he was appoint
toma declaration, articles of mer- Two days out of Honolula the ed up carefully in oil-cloth. the Governor-General of India, Mongolia encountered and spoke All this confirms my conviction chandise into the State without and has since 1913 been Vice- the schooner Emigh, en route that not only did an engagement kaowing the country of origin, President of the Council. He from Newcastle to this port with occur, but that the dreaded They had been given the oppor- was created K.0.8.1. in 1911 a cargo of coal. The wohooner Karlsruhe has been sank. I also tunity of taking them back or was nearly out of provisions and got a quantity of wreckage, I sending for a vertidoste to prove IF you have lost your appetite a fresh supply was sent on board hope to tend the life buoy to they were in the Colony when war Canton St., Shanghai.
one of the big variety of by Captain Rice. The Emigh frame as a momento, but for the was declared, in which case the dafaty dishes at the AL XAN will probably arrive here in about present the Government has com-ordinary daty obtains.--Straits
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