Straits Echo, 8 December 1914

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY. VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum PENANG, TUESDAY, Bth DECEMBER, 1914. Single Copy, 10 cents No. 284
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1153 1 WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY *'Dof Head Stout." 1 -«Jv. £S 5 It is Strengthening end Invigorating, B S.U Agent» TIANG LEE Co.. Penang A Kuala Lumpur ■IIRDDODDDIIIII T Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Pm to arrive by a steamer. EMPIRE CAR m a EMPIRE "The Little Aristocrat" ,P. with
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    • 31 1 Sole A tiang LEE CO. Penang S’ Kuala Lumpur. m 3S CJ .ta O The Doctor advises and recommends. It is nourishing', invi- goratiug and strengthening. Drink Dot’s Had Guinness Stout.
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  • 782 3 I The following is the report of the ComII inittee to be presented at the Annual General Meeting which will be held at 6 p.m. on Friday next: Aenm 1. To read, and confirm the Minutes of. the Annual General Meeting held on the 31st October, 1914.
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  • 401 3 We rejoice that the cruiser Emden has been destroyed at last, but we salute Captain von Muller as a brave and chivalrous foe. We trust his life bas been saved, for if he came London he would receive a generous well come. Our maritime race
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  • 474 3 Discussing the reasons for hatred of Germany the Saturday Review says “It may well prove that hatred of Germany—founded as it is on something more than the mere accident of war —will loDg survive the making of peace. With far less excuse, Germany has done in
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  • 42 3 W dnerday, December 9. Esplanade 6 to 7 p m 1 Selection Irish Airs Hartmann 2 Two Step Mumbliu Moss... Tburban 3 Waltz Immense Success Krier 4 Two Step... Oh. Y'»u Beautiful Doll Neat 5 March The Dt-ar Couutrv Carter.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 906 3 Why worry yourself so much 1 Just because your wife or sister is a Gambler 1 IT'S A BAD IDEA WANTED AT ONCE. FURNISHED HOUSE in Good to correspond through the local papers in Locality, order to find means of putting a stop to THIS GAMBLING EVIL Apply to X,
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    • 49 3 The Children’s Colds. Watch the children's colds and cure them betoie they weaken the vitality Use Chamberlain’s C« Ui?h Remedy freely. It is perfectly sefe It has been tested by chemists and pronounced tree from injurious substances and costs but a tiifle. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 159 3 1 A A A O m W Packed in 50$ 25$ Tins. Obtainable Everywhere. i > IOOO®§OQO®| CASH CHEMISTS Ltd, PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMISTS. DEVELOPING AND PRINTING UNDERTAKEN FOR AMATEURS. FRESH FILM?, PLATES AND PAPERS ALWAYS ON HAND. CASH CHEM STS, Ltd., 52 54. BEACH STREET. PENANG. =3 ALLEN DENNYS CO., Penang,
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  • 86 4 fmblished daily (except Sundays and pnblic holidays) AT THI CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang, raice. Daily Local 124 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABI.R ADDEBSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Echo, 586 Printing Departnent 343 jyr a.—All bu*in*M ooi-.wunie*tiOßß «bonld b*
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  • 1110 4 One of the most difficult problems arising out of the war between Great Britain and Turkey will be that of regulating the status of Egypt. Great Britain, it will be remembered, was drawn into the Egyptian question largely as a result of the shocking mis- government
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  • 114 4 Gazette Notifications The following appointments in the F.M S Public Works Department are approved, with effect from the 18th October, 1914 Mr. F. W. Mager, Executive Engineer, Grade I, SerembaD, to be Executive Engineer. Grade I, Federated Malay States Government Factory. Mr. H. E. Steele, Executive
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  • 92 4 The English have mined the coast near Zeebrugge. The Harwich-Rotterdam service is now reopened. There are rumours that several German officers have been shot by their own men. A Hague telegram of the sth savs thet a violent outbreak occured on the 4*h in the camp of
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  • 853 4 Capt. F. Mills has resigned bis commission in the M 3.V.R. Mr. H. Ashworth Hope, the well known Ipoh lawyer, sailed Tor Malaya on November 14th. Major C E. Borton, Officer Commanding Troops, Penang, left for Taiping this morning by the mail train. •.e Miss B. Cheeseman,
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  • 1008 4 Some good stories are told of Colouel J. 8. Mosby, probably the only man still living who played a distinguished partin the Amerioan Civil War, who celebrated his eighty-first birthday yesterday. He was the most active and successful of the guerrilla leaders on the Confederate side. On one
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 81 4 PRITCHARD 8 Co. SOLE AGENTS FOR ROVE CYCLES. FILTER ff' IS THE Fil,ration by Gravity. No Rubber Tubes, No Sucking to start Filtering Action. Filtration. The George Town Dispensary, Limited, Penang, Taiping Ipoh. THREE STERLING LINES. 1742 ESTAB Mackie’s White Horse Whisky. A Heart Tonic and Digestive.” if Guinness’s Buil-dog”
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  • 587 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 7th of Dec. at 3-30 p.m. ARTILLERY DUELS. Pari», December 7 An official statement issued from Paris this evening announces that there is nothing to report. Receive© Bth ot Dec at 840 a m London, December 7. 7-5 p ui. An official
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  • 605 5 (Reuter's Special War Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 7th of Dec. at 5-45 p.m. NOVEL METHODS OF WARFARE Loudon, December 7. Au Eye-witness at Headquarters in his uarrative of the recent fighting adds that the weather continues to ba warm. South of the Lys there has b3en some shelling
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  • 1746 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 7th of Dec at 3-30 p. m. BATTLE OF LODZ. London, December 7. It is officially announced in Berlin that the Germans occupied Lodz on Sunday afternoon and that the Russians ate retreating after severe losses. Received 7th or Dec. at 5
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  • 424 5 Before Mr. L V. J. Laville in the Third Court yesterday afternoou Soon Yean S *nn, ricsha coolie of Mr. V. G. Exechiel, was charged at the instance of Chinese P.C. No. 637 with committing a nosance. The accused, who claimed trial and was defended by Mr.
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  • 32 5 Dec. 5 By Balance $33,927.69 7 H. Lupton 30.00 E James 50.00 Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Edwards 50 00 Balance Dec. 7. ...$34,057 69
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  • 25 5 Dec. 5 By Balance $1,013.06 7 E. James 50 00 Balance Dec. 7. $1,063 06 Amount previously acknowledged 4,266 66 Total $5,329.72
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  • 60 5 Sums previously acknowledged $160.00 Donations since: McAlister A Co., Ltd. 50 00 Datoh Sri Adika Raja 15.00 Wong Lam Yen (Kampar) 25 00 Societe des Etains de Kinta 100.00 Wong Fong (Kampar) 50.00 Oh Cheng Keat (Kampar) 50 00 290.00 $750 00 Further donations will be thankfully
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  • 180 5 Accused Scat lor Trial. The preliminary enquiry into the cai* against a Chinaman named So Ah Fab who was charged M in that be on June 22, 1912, being lawfully banished for life from the Colony did return from such banisbtaont on or about November 14, 1914,
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  • 34 5 Sumatra Consolidated Rubber Estates, Ltd. 27,911. Bu’rit Mertajam Rubber Co., Ltd.... 33,755 Taiping Rubber Plantations, Ltd. 34,500 Sungei Siput Rubber Plantations, L*d 5,910. Bungei Reyla (F.M S.) Rubber Estates, Ltd. 7,3*6
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  • 63 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 3.—Penang Cricket Club. The End of the Emden. The Hatred of Germany. 6. —The Last of the 'Emden Vivid Description of the Fight. The German Fleet: Was it Worth £300,000,000? Stage Producer of Europe Theatrical Traits in the
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 203 5 NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the business of Heap Huat Co. as a going concern has been purchased by Madam Cheah Soh Lain who will pay all debts due by and to the said Chop and Notice is also hereby given that Yeoh Pok Cheang is authorised to sign
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  • 1524 6 Vivi4 Dtwnsliai of tk« Fijkt. The Times of Ceylon gives a vivid description of the fight at the Cocos between the Emden and the Sydney from interviews with the crews of the two warships. We take the following from a long account of the fight:
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  • 117 6 And Why She Steered Clear op Colombo. According to one or two of the German wounded in tbe General Hospital, the Emden captured a Russian cruiser near Vladivostock, no sooner had war been declared, aud bi ought her to Tsingtau She left Tsingtau
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  • 867 6 Th* Pbinck Faints. A sailor at tbe General Hospital says that after tbe lauding party bad destroyed tbe wireless station at Cocos Island, tbe Emden sent a wireless to the BuresJc, which was about 18 to 20 miles away, to come up 'as she wanted
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  • 1290 6 Was it Worth £300.000.000 A valuable article, which will reassure those who are perturbed by the occasional losses of ur Navy, appears in the Fortnightly Review, by Mr. Archibald Hurd, entited, No Naval Battle—Why This very lucid article shows what overwhelming superiority in naval force belongs to
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  • 602 6 THEATRICAL TRAITS IN THE KAISER’S CHARACTER. Hie Manx Uniforms. Does a knowledge of the so-called science of p'lysiognomy, asks the Daily Call, the new London illustrated morning paper, enable us to discover the disposition <>f the mind by the examination of the lineaments of the body
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 51 6 Tell me not iu moumtul wheezes Life ii but an empty dream, For the man is sick who snetzee, And things are not what they seem. Life is real, life is earnest. Of this fact you may be sure, But piecious little will ail you After taking Woods’ Great Peppermint
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    • 346 6 SPECIAL OFFER! EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN AT LESS THAN ORDINARYPRICE. To make rooms for our New Stock a consignment of 500,000 Tough White Manila Commercial size Envelopes will be cleared at $l-30 per 1,000 for cash. Usually sold at $l-50. Don’t low this opportunity. This Bargain will never be offered again. The
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    • 10 6 For Chronic Cheat Complainta, Wood.’ Great Peppermint Core. la. 6d.
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  • 836 7 The purchase bv Germany of the Peking G+ttU*. the only English newspaper published in the Chinese capital, is an interesting illustration of the value she attaches to the control of the Press even in the weakest and the most remote of neutral States. The three greatest figures
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  • 1871 7 ti«rr Friedrich Naumann, who is described as a German Radical of high character and some international reputation, has provided the Germans with a new formula to justify their violation of the neutrality of Belgium. No State, he says, has the right to stand aside from a historical
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  • 263 7 tt «.nmnarative table of the Davies of the Allies aud of Germany and Austria Ir *hn s th*v co«jnsre in Her*!* e u««ful comp reB *l individually and in the two group* Tri,»l- E d-*u*e and !‘ual Allune-. T* i- T,H. qu™ted F the 0 Sclent
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  • 505 7 (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE DAYS. FIKBT DAY Thursday, 7th January, 1915. SECOND DAY Saturday, 9th January, 1915. 1 FIRST DAY. I i Thursday, 7th January, 1915. 1. The Opening Stakes. Val uo $50(J A Handicap for all Horse.» I to
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  • 1008 7 I [Te the Editoe or tee Timet of Malaya.] I Sib, —It is a painful fact that, whenever I a subject of vital interest to the community I on the score of a public health is mooted in I a general newspaper, there always arise cerI
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 376 7 Fflfrjflc f Irtsp at p m on Tuesday, 29th December, 1914. Handicaps for tla« 1*1111 l*o vOC First Diy will be published on or before the 2nd January, 1915 A penalty of 7 lbs. incurred in a Handicap by the winner of any Race run subsequent to the publication of
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    • 27 7 M T*ste i<* the V) 0 »h. If have a had tut* i„ yn Ur roou h the morn, De vour -tomacb i, not i u pr
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1242 8 THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY INCORPORATED BY ROYAt. CHARTER A.D. 1720. THE undersigned, haring been appointe Agents for the abore Corporation, ar« now prepared to accept MARINE and FIR fe risks at current rates. PATERSON, SIMONS A CO.. LTt> Commercial Union assurance Company, Limited Hod OfficeLONDON. Eastern Branch: —SINGAPORE. (nannnnnnnnnnnnnnnoannnnnnnnnnn Try
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