Straits Echo, 13 November 1914

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  • 39 1 Straits Echo DAILY CDROftiCLE Of EVENTS. Cl SCI) LA iNG THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum -PEN A.NG, PKIDAY, l3ih NOVEMBER, 1914. Single Copy, 10 cent; No. 204
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  • 1550 3 (Foe the Echo, by Tom YVriobt). Seventy years ago, ou October 15th, 1814, Friedrich Nietuche was bo.n lie died in 1900, but has to bo reckoned in the “yet livetb class, f .r reasons now to bo discussed. Gerhart Hauptmann, a popular German novelist, in answer
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  • 434 3 NEW—BOOKS. The following book* have been reoeived at the Library:— George the Third and Charles Fox, Vol. 11, by The Right Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 1914. Wagner as Man and Artist, bv Ernest Newman, 1914 The Kaiser’s Heir, 1914. The Religion of the Sikhs, bv Dorothy Field,
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  • 1204 4 We note with regret that no notice has beeu taken by th 9 local authorities of the sound suggestion made by a correspondent in the local press that a committee should b? appointed to collect monthly subscript:ons to the Prince of Wales’ National Relief Fuad.
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  • 153 4 There was something of a breeze in the Supreme Court this morning when Mr. Thambyah appeared to make an application before Mr. justice S9rcombe Smith on behalf of a man detained in the Civil Prison. His Lordship refused to entertain the application and referred several times
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  • 761 4 Sir Richard Morris Dine leaves Loodon shortly for China. H. E. the High Commissioner wm expected in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Mr. A. W. H. Hamilton has returned to Penang and resumed his duties with the Police. Mr. E. A. Swan, of Messrs. Caldback, Macgregor A Co., Singapore,
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  • 114 4 Ifttsrcitiag IpoK Cate. (From Our Own Correspondent j Ipob, November 12 An interesting case is being heard before Mr. Justice Edmonds, in the Supreme Court. W. M. Reid, formerly Manager of the Teluk Anson branch of Messrs Aylesburr and Garland, is suing the firm for $2,200 damages
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  • 57 4 A Client Sued. (From Our Own Correspondent,) Singapore, November 12. In the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Earnshaw the Kwong Yik Bank sued Soon Keck Ltd., and Chop Chin Tai and Chop Tee HiD, as guarantors, to recover $4,901 and accrued interest due from the first defendant
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  • 129 4 A Hague official telegram of the Bth inst. says: The Germans have made a fresh attack on Ypres and Lille. The attack is most fierce and.is still in progress.” Auother Hague official telegram of the same date says The action of Turks? finds no sympathy or support
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  • 150 4 Claim for Damage*. In the District Court, this morning before Mr. G. A. Hall, District Judge, the case John Stephens Raja Rae ve A. M. Abdul Kadar and K. M. S. Seeni Tamby, the Proprietors of the Janopakari Daily News, wa» concluded. The plaintiff alleged that he
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  • 46 4 Mr. W. G. Peter, Hon. Treasurer, sends us the following further list of contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang Nov. 11 By Balance ...$27,400.48 12 3 Musketeers 2nd instalment 45.00 Balance Nov. 12. ...$27,544.48
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  • 190 4 Mr. VV. G. Peter, Acting Manager of the Chartered Bank, advises us that the following amounts have been received by him for the credit of the Belgian Relief Fund opened by Mrs, John Mitchell: Nov. 11 By Balance 522 74 12 H. B. Marshall of Brunei 100.00
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  • 659 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 13th of Nov. at 8-45 a.m. Paris, November 12. (t is offi-’ially stated that the enemy throughout the <1 iy continued his effort of yesterday, but without achieving anj fresh result. Ho made a counter-attack at Loinhiertzyde but was repulsed. He also
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  • 632 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram Received 13th of Nov. at 9-25 a.m. king opens in person. LondoD, November 11. His Majesty the King opened Parliament in person but with diminished ceremonial. Troops from the Don iuiona and the lodiau troops lined the route from Buckingham Palace to the House
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  • 2029 5 A SPY AND HIS SECRETS. (Lehti Special.} (Continued from yesterday’s issue.) Bekiad the S**»fi ia High Politics, The next story related tells how Graves secured the return from an English lady of noble birth of some letters compromising the heir to a German Grand Ducby and
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  • 1201 5 WELL-KNOWN TOWKAY SUED. The hearing is proceeding in the Supierae Court before Mr. Justice T. Sercombe Smith of the case in which Khaw Joo Tok and several others sued Ng 800 Bee and sjveral others to have (1) an account taken of the partnership dealings between the
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  • 345 5 The following articles will bo found ou our outside pages Page 3.—Nietzsche aud the Kaiser. Penang Library New Books 6.—The Task of Russia. More German Barbarism. Officers for the New Army. What Kaiser ism Meins. Germ in Influences in Chin a. The Press and the War. China ..ud the
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  • 673 6 In the Fortnightly Review the reader will find a very timely p iper on Russia and the War” from the powerful pen of Politicus.” The writer suggests the formidable nature of Russia’s task Even if the Russian should defeat the German armies sent against them, their
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  • 266 6 A story illustrating British braver/ on the one hand, and German callousness on the other, is told by an officer of the Lancaster .Regiment, now in London Hospital Durmg the lighting of a fortnight or more ago, the officer was wounded and removed to hospital, and when
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  • 693 6 The Editor of The English Review is one of the few writers who can say I told you so,” and it is only natural that Mr. Harrison should improve the occasion by rubbing it in.” The current number of The English Review contains three articles which will
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  • 276 6 (To the Editor Sir. —There are required, approximately, 30,(X0 officers for Lord Kitchener’s One Million Army, and the difficulty is where to find them. As Mr. Asquith said at Dublin: There is an urgent need of competent officers.” A large number of ex-officers of the
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  • 286 6 An English Editor Discharged. Mr. H G W. Woodhead, editor of the Peking Gazette, is the latest victim of the German campaign to control the Press in China, says the Peking correspondent of the North Chini Daily News. His services have been dispensed vvith as from
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  • 578 6 Tue great uuauimity in the United Kingdom brought about by the war, fine as it is, is not without its flecks and flaws. L'it it be granted that the censorship has been “Xetc'sed not wisely und none too well, there was no need for some
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  • 588 6 A good deal of sympathy may ba extended to China in tho further difficulties brought upon her by the outbreak of war iu Europe uring the last few years she has paJTd through grea" travail, aud she has emerged from her difficulties in a way that
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  • 339 6 The following has been issued from the Press Bureau of the Belgian War Office From De Tijd (Amsterdam), Septem- her 26 Maestricht, September 14 (From our war corresponent M.) I have just i conversed with Dr. D. H. van der Goot, a Hague physician, who from the
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  • 665 7 Stamping out Corruption. From time to time correspondent* of various newspapers throughout China have made the statement that official corruption under the Republican regime is worse than it was under the Manchus. This has been repeated so often that it has almost come i to be accepted
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  • 170 7 Since the Japanese-German hostilities were opened in Shantung, says a Pekiug dispatch to the Asahi, the revolutionary movements in China have increased in activity, and reports of unrest have been coming in from many places. President Tuan Shih-kai is overwhelmed with demands for measures
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  • 418 7 Says the Bangkok Tim of Not. 5 Tbe Emien visired Penang hirbour at dawn oa Wrtdae9dty morning, Use week, with the result appirentlv that over a huti- dred lives were lost and 114 men wounded The world Darned of the exploit on Siturday from Reuter’s Tokyo correspondent
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  • 489 7 In The Contemporary Review Giovanni Pioli presents us with a brief character sketch of the newly elected Pope The outward appearance of Benedict XV. is neither majestic Dor attractive. He has an ascetic pale face. He is of middle stature, slenderly built, has a slightly limping—though distingoisbel—gait.
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  • 958 7 R b?l Activity-More Bjmb-Throwial—-t A Serious Situation Cantona* Di.satishcti a -An Apyai f-r Leya ty. From Our Own < orrespondent.) Canton, October 28. Twenty-eight persons were killed and more than fifty wounded here oa the night of October z 7, when a bomb exploded in front of
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