Straits Echo, 10 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 EAST GENERALLY VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum, PENANG, THURSDAY, 10th DECEMBER, 1914 Single Copy, 10 cent] No. 286
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    • 1084 1 ■■■■■l WHEN ORDERING SPECIFY “Dog Head Stout." 5> U s: Ks. s* It ii Strengthening and Invigorating. s*l« Agents TIANG LEE Co.. Penang Kuala Lumpur ■■■□□□□□□■■a nnanon Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Due to arrive by a steamer. One 5 Seater EMPIRE CAR AS ILLUSTRATION. m EMPIRE "The
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    • 30 1 Sole Agent»: XIANG LEE 6* CO, Penang Kuala Lumpur. V. A D S& o The Doctor advises and recommends. It is nourishing, invigorating and strengthening. Brisk Dot’s Head Goiaaess Sto*L
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    • 65 2 DRINK »1 m >2 BE SH v:': Km m r4‘1 R9| Pfl b-:.. 3 HR ■y miJm m •a it-*. m mra-. m T: W m BE 19 9 ss-i f k&IJS R» m Hi c *5* m S&> ■DS £e>fc«S 2»f£ rJ«BR 'iWm H 'v > KflsW 1 3
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  • 578 3 DENUNCIATIONS FROM AMERICA. Crimea of Militarism Washington, November 4. In a ieading article tins morning the New York Herald says that with the progress of the war the belief grows that. New York lias been the subject of especial study on the part of Germany, and
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  • 335 3 R iSRBATIOKfc ©V TUB pRBNCH < OLONIALS Paris, November 8 The inextinguishable gaiety of the I* 'em h soldiers, even when condemned to weeks of i wearisome waiting in the trenches, is we illustrated bv a daily newspaper which is being produced by membeis of a
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  • 688 3 A Gioamtio o***atiow. A British officer who took part in the work of arranging for the transfer of the British Forces from France to Belgium has written an interesting account of that important operation in a letter, from which we are permitted to make extracts. His letter
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  • 305 3 Mr Liang Shih- vi is far more practical when be suggests that merchants should do all »hey can to revive and promote native ndu-tries to supply the deficiencies in imp* r f s resulting from the d'slocation of inanufac uriiig industries in Europe. He points out that
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    • 52 3 The Children’s Colds. Watch the children’» cold" and cure t b m before they weaken the vi*al 'v T7> >* hpi!a>n’s Crush Remedy 1 J S ta fect’y safe It ha, teMed by cbem.sts and pronounced tree from injunous stances and cost» but a trifle. F° r sa 7 all
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    • 301 3 Huttenbach Bros, e COMPANY. ENGINEERS ■nufy SOLE AGENTS FOR: AH kinds of Electric l ¥ESj*£ii22S*iJU?’lfiWirr> siimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical ork Mining Plants and PriYate Lighting Installations A Speciality. AGENTS FOR: I B s >*. d f p d T- V1 C £li: P30 r;* *W5 fir 00.,
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    • 65 3 A Germ Dis'reyer. There is no danger whatever from lock jiw or blood poison resulting from a wound when htirb-t lain's ain Balm is promptly applied. It is an ant septic and destroys the L."rms wlii h cnise these diseases It also c.uses wounds to heal without maturation and in
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  • 2034 4 An Englishwoman's Experiences at the Front. by Mrs. Haden Guest. The following vivid account of work under the banner of the lied Crons is an authentic document in every wav, coming as it does from Mrs Haden Guest, who is working with her husband, Dr Haden
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  • 119 4 Penang, Dbbbmbbb 10. (By xmrtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2/4 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4f 3 Credit 2/4} 3 Documentary 2/5 Calcutta, Demand Bank Ra. 174} 3 days’ sight Private 177 Bombay, Demand Bank 174} Moulmein, Demand Bank 173 3 days’ sight Private 176 Madras Demand
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  • 205 4 S. P Tipioca ...$3.85 tales M. P. Tapioca ...$4.10 tiler Gold Leal $64 40 Black Pepper 18. —buyers White Pepper 3 buyers Trang Popper 19 no stoc Cloves 40.— tellers Mace 110 nominal Mace Pickings 85. —nominal Nutmegs 110 23 —tellers No. 1 6.10 tales Sugar < 2 5.50
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  • 215 4 Penang, December 10 Beef— cts. Soup per catty 20 Roast 30 Steaks 30 Stew or Curry Meat 22 Rump Steak 30 Ox Tail each 50 Tongue 55 Feet 20 Heart 50 Liver per catty 43 Pork— Pork per catty 36 Pig’s Head... M 22 Feet M 26 Tongue
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  • 642 4 Official Minutes. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday, the 24th November, 1914. Preterit. W. Peel Eeq, President. F. Duxbury, Esq. Quah Beng Kee, Esq. John Mitchell, Esq. Yeoh Guan Seok, Esq. Lim Eow Hong, Esq. Absent P. T. Allen, E>q. 1. The minutes
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    • 282 4 DOCDOCDOC3CC2GCDCC3OCOOaOC3OCDO: DR. S. P. SENG, nrMTIQT 155. CARNARVON STREET, ULil 1!□ A 9 CORNER OF CARNARVON LANE. CROWN AND BRIDGE WORK. BEST WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED. CHARGES REASONABLE. Soocsoc OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR o o o o o o o o o o AINC CHEANC Co.. Road. We have just unpacked a large consignment of
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  • 939 5 Boab-Throwia* Easiness Dali —Rebels md Soldicre—A Queer Police Uv —Gimklini Monopoly—A Gruesome SpecUcle—Rewarding Rebel-Hunters. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Canton, November 27. The Government has now come to know that all the bomb-throwers are not rebels as at first believed. The bomb.thrown inside the city on November 9,
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  • 1087 5 Bt Hush Hoewimxb. It is sixty years since England was last I plunged into a European war such as no I man could see the end,” and sixty years I ago an English fleet sailed from PortsI month across the North Sea to fight a European Power.
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    • 431 5 < Id CO a Id Q£ _l < U Id 0. </) V) m z < z < x u 3 CD o i/i gUCHANANS SCOTCH WHISKY SCOTCH uchanan -«W* LONDON JAMES OIASGOW SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY Sole Agents PENANG AND KEDAH. By affonitmtnt
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    • 150 5 Packed in 50s 25s Tins. Obtainable Everywhere. I cc ALLEN DENNYS CO., Penang, RUBBER BROKERS, PROPRIETORS Or THE PENANG RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. SALES HELD EVERY TUESDAY RUBBER bought or sold by PUBLIC AUCTION or PRIVATE TENDER. FORWARD SALE3 ARRANGED. RUBBER transhipped and insured to any PORT at winimam rates. RUBBER
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  • 91 6 fmbliahed daily (except Sunday» and public holiday») ▲T THU CRITERION PRESB, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang, raic*. Daily Local 124 per annum. If OuUtation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Po»t Free) $17.50 CABL» ADDEBSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone No». (Echo, 586 Printing Departnent 343 jf J|._AU butia*M ecnjaunicatioß* ahooW
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  • 1032 6 Not without a certain satisfaction we have ucticsd during the past few v.eeks a change in tin attitude of Penang towards the recruiting question. The place is literally swarming with strong, healthy and sturdv young bachelors, many of them without binding ties of any sort
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  • 384 6 Now that Beyers has found a watery grave in the Vaal and De Wet has been captured, Finis may, we think, be definitely written to the short chapter of history which records the outbreak and course of the abortive rebellion iu South Africa. Whether it
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  • 398 6 Mr. B B. G iffin, of the Singapore office of the Straits Tradiug Comp n y, who recently went home, hns joiued Lord Kitchener’s Army.— S. T Mr Arthur Thornton, of I’enang, has two brothers r.etving at the front; one is a doctor in the R. A
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  • 421 6 To the Editor of the Times of Malaya,. Dear Sir,—l end se herewith copy of a letter I have received in answer to enquiries I have made at the Admiralty, Your readers and the whole of the F M S community will no doubt hear with pride and
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  • 297 6 A telegram has beau received by the Penang Agents of the Deebook Dredging Co., Renong, recording the fact that Lee Kon Fall, the cleik to the Company, has b?en found dead From another source we have b en g.ven the following alleged details Lee Kon Fab
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  • 138 6 It is with regret that we annouuco the which took place at the Butter worth H ospital, at 9 o’clock this morning, of Mr. rl. A. Meredith, proprietor of Geuolan Estate, from wounds received iu the muiderous attack ou him near Kulim two weeks ago Despite
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  • 96 6 We regret to have to anuounee the death of Marian, wife of Mr. Charles Nelligan, Mauaging Clerk of Messrs. Wreford and ThorntoD, which took place at 12-30 o’clock this morning after a relap-e. The deceased lady, who was 66 years old, leaves her bereaved husband, two
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  • 91 6 Mr. P. K Nambyar, who was recently elected a member of the Prince of Wales Relief Fund Committee, is, in co-operation with Messrs. H. G Sarwar and T. Isaac Tambyab, convening at the Chinese Town Hall on Saturday, the 12th instant, at 2 pm. a meeting
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  • 24 6 Dec. hi By Balance ...$34,119,19 9 A. B. Voulee, 2nd Donation 100.00 Balance Dec 9. ...$34,219 69
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  • 81 6 Dec 8 By Balance $1,167.06 9 M. M. Noordiu 100.00 Pritchard Co. Weighing Machine Box 1190 Balance Dec. 9. $1,278 96 Amount previously acknowledged 4,266 66 Total $5,545.62 A Chinese nonia was this morning arraigned before Mr. V. G- Ezechiel in the Second Court, charged with dishonestly
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    • 84 6 PRITCHARD 8 Co ROVER CYCLES THE n» 4IMM «JW /4 «MV 4 IS THE DOULTON. Fil ration by Gravity. No Rubber Tubes. No Sucking; to <tarfc Filtering: ction. p c fe t Filtration. Call ani see one at any of ur branches. PRICES: 2 Gallon 4 Gallon 13. $22. The
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  • 548 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 9th of dec. at 4:35 p.m. ALLIES’ GOOD PROGRESS. LcndoD, December 8, 6 20 p ui. According to a P.nis official communique, the Allies made progress today between J.ab iif #e and Vermelles, and iu the Argouue. German Bomba on Rheima. German
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  • 454 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 9th of Dec. AT 6 p.m. Loudon, December 9. 6 a ui. An Austrian communique claims to Lave driven the Russians from Wielicxkn, south i of Cracow. It also states that tbe Germans have repulsed renewed Russian attacks to the south-west of
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  • 171 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. Received 9th Dec. of at 6 .30 p.m LOYALTY OF THE DOMINIONS. London, December 9, 6 a m. Co: respondence relating to tbe war gifts <f tbe 1) minions and Colonies i 9 published to-night and forms a most impressive volume
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  • 785 7 Received 10TH Of Dec at 1.20 pm Interviewed by Reuter. Londou, D.-cember 10 j The Hon Mr Alfred ?z°, tbe new Chinese Minister in Louloa, interviewed by R'uter, stated that there was general confi lonce in the present Chinese Government an! in tho 1 President. Tbe Government
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  • 292 7 > Hogue Tolpgra ts&3 of Dec. sth—7th Captain Volz and his fourth Officer, who were recently sentenced for endangering Dutch neu'ra’ity by using a wireless telegraphic apparatus on the German vessel Prcvsten at Sabang, have appealed. The Medan Court has decided to send tbe matter to the
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  • 107 7 To the Editor of the Straits Echo Dear Sir, A Serendonian is either misinformed or ignorant with regard to the Chinese New Year Festivities, or otherwise he would not have written such a letter to th 9 press and make a 'fuss of himself I should advise
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  • 24 7 Taipeng Hydraulic Tin, Ltd,, outputs March 125 picula April 119 May 188 June 133 July 83 August 148 teptember 128 October 195
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  • 182 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 3. in War Denunciations from America. Shifting an Army. Journalism in the Trenches. China’s Export Trade. 4. —With the Red Cross. Municipal Commission. 5. —News from Canton. A Naval Contrast 8 —Prince Von Buelow. The Spirit of the
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  • 1236 7 MOHAMEDAN KATHI CHARGED WITH ABETMENT. The preliminary enquiry into tbe case l agiinstSved Omar, a Mokamedan Kathi, i who was charged with abetting tbe offence > of going through the ceremony of unlawful marriage, was comm Deed yesterday afteri noon in tbe Second Court before Mr. V.
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    • 132 7 DRESSER WANTED For Gula Estate Hospital. Apply MANAGER, Cull Estate, Kriin, F.Hf.F. 10-12-14 712 HORSE FOOD The best horses must have the best food. Don’t insult and injure them by giving inferior substitutes. This food is good value for your money. Penang Cycle Emporium, 12. KING STREET. THE GREAT EASTERN
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  • 121 7 Received 10th of Dec. at 8-39 a m Obituary. Mr. William Rockhill. London, December 9. The death has occurred at Honolulu of the well-known American diplomat William Rockhill. Mr. Rockhill was on his way to Peking to act as Adviser to President Yuan-Shi-Kai. Mr. William Woodville Rockhill, who was formerly
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  • 2046 8 In view of the fact that Prince von Hu low has boon app duted Gorman Ambassador at Home the following character ekotcli of the Imperial ex Chaucellor from M' U Around the Kaiser” is topical: Prince Bernhard von Buelow, fourth I Chancellor of the German Empire, relin-
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  • 717 8 WHAT SOLDIERS AND SAILORS THINK. AN ANTIDOTE TO CROAKERS. i From a large number of letters in the Home papers we select the following as exemplifying the spirit in which the men at the front are setting about their business They should serve as an
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  • 178 8 Says the China Prets We republished yesterday some of the Ordinances enforc d in the Straits Settlements regarding newspapers during the war, which are similar to those applied in Hongkong and other British colonies. A reading of the Ordinances reveals that under a literal interpretation of
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  • 1454 8 FIRST CASES HEARD IN SINGAPORE. An Encmt't Right to Appeal. What is probably, says the Siraitt Timet, the first Priz i Court to be held in Singapore or the Straits Settlements, was opened in the Supreme Court, Tuesday on morninsr, before the acting Chief Justice, Mr. L.
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  • 340 8 At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, before Mr. R. Scott, on Tuesday, T. A. Ramanatban Chetty, of Penang* pleaded guilty to a charge of making alterations in the frontage of his house No. 119, in Cross Street, Bukit Mertajam, without having first obtained permission in writing from
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  • 125 8 A Press note at Bombay, dated November 27, announces the Secretary of State’s approval of the Bombay Government’s proposal that the Imperial revenues should contribute one lakh of rupees to assist the repatriation of Hajees stranded at Jeddah, provided a like sum is provided by Mohamedans
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    • 658 8 Why worry yourself so much Just because your wife or sister is a Gambler IT'S A BAD IDEA to correspond through the local papers in order to find means of putting a stop to THIS GAMBLING EVIL Why eiposo jour family secret to the world when you can, by good
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    • 36 8 I’ve wandered East, I’ve wandered West, I’ve seen of everything the best That money can procure; But what attracted me the moat, And made my life secure, Was that great Wurld-wide remedy, Weodi’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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    • 37 8 WANTED CHINESE CLERK for Estate in Alor Star Knowledge of Book-keeping and Typewriting essential. Salary to commence $50. Free furnished quarters- Apply in writing enclosing copies of testimonial! to h\ W. BARKER A Co., Pmm^> *12-14 70«
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  • 1719 9 Bt Elbert F. Baldwin. To-day at Oxford I entered Balliol quadrangle. I saw a sight which I can I never forget. That college is supposed to |be the most intellectual of any here. It was long presided over by the great Jowett, the Vice-Chancellor of
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  • 264 9 Au account of an impressive ceremony which took pi >ce at tb burial of ten Briti-h soldiers is given in the Pet t Parisian "The procession was headed by the Ah' e Leroire, member for the district in tht chamber of Deputies and Mtvorof H z b*nwk.
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    • 949 9 for sale. NOTICE. Guide to Peaang LABOUR CODE, 1912, F.M.S Indian Immigration Fund Ordinance 1911.’ BT THE LATE Employers of Indian labour are hereby reminded that assessment En {>< returns for the pn;ceding quarter must be IP. OKCrtcKIv. F F sent to the Office of the Deputy Controller jv c.
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    • 78 9 Whooping Cough. Whon your child bns whooping couwi bo ear* ful to keep the loo«e to j xp»c* r tion easy by g vinkj Ch sinberlain C* l*» tuedy h« nony le r* qnired l b will also liqudy the ruu ue ai wak* it easier to expectorate It has
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    • 595 9 BBCZ^S Indigestion. Used Angler’s for many years. Wonderful Healing Powers.” The Hoath, Canterbury. T)ear Sirs, —I have much pleasure in testifying to the wonderful healing powers of Angier's Emulsion, which I have taken off and on for many years. When I first began taking it, I suffered very much from
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  • 573 10 OUR MEN’S CHEERY CONFIDENCE. Enemy’s Fate Sealed. We have been favoured with extracts from a letter from a British officer at the front, which expresses the generally received opinion as to the superiority of our men in marksmanship and in other ways. In forwarding it to
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  • 429 10 Germany's Treachery and Duplicity. Ihe rebellion in South Africa lias an interest beyond its int'insic importance because it seems to afford d- finite e idence of a German plot a ainst this country long before the war. Boyers wa« at B rlin in or about last
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  • 503 10 (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) J RACE DAYS. FIRST DAY’ Thursday, 7th January, 1915. SECOND DAY Saturday, 9th January, 1915. < FIRST 1>AY. Thursday. 7th January, 1915. 1. Th* Opening Stakes. Value #600 A Handicap for all Horses to be enter*d at
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  • 759 10 A member of the Bavarian Laudt g who-e views on the war we reported the other dav expressed the common 1 avarian dislike of the Prussians. “We Bavarians” he said, like them only as generals otherwise we don’t like them at all aud. he addl'd,
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  • 472 10 One who has been a resident in Russia; for seventeen years writes to the Spectator to say It behoves the British public to look ■nto the future and conoid-*r whether the j attitude which we adopted in the past—! Th“. Bu*Biar>s thall not have Constonti- j nople
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    • 12 10 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, W •■In’ Omit Peppermint Cmrela, Hd,
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    • 526 10 Fnfrilt flrtfP 5 p m on Tuesday, 29th December, 1914. Handicaps for tV Vlwav First D»y will he published on or b fore the 2nd January, 191 A penalty of 7 lbs. incurred in a Handicap by the winner of any Race run subse quent to the publication of the
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    • 358 10 Daoecrsar Words Whv wa 3 te words and advertising space in describing the maDv pnin*s of merit in Gh imb a rUin’s Cou<jh R°naedv The most fastidious are satisfied when we state that it cures colds and coughs fr >ra any cause, and thnt it contains absolutely no narcotics or
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    • 124 10 WARNING. All persons are cauioned against making unauthorised use of Reuter's Service of News, and any person or persons found infringing the Copyright Ordi ance of the Straits Settlemen's will be strictly dealt with in accordance w<*h the provisions of that Ordinance. REUTER, Penang, TRANSLATION. rfpHE UNDEUSIGNED undertakes to 1
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  • 215 11 Socialism in Great Britain has heretofore been negligible in its influence, but, in a certain sense, the tenets of the Socialists have received a striking justification in the social revolution which has changed the whole ourrent of national life. Extreme Socialists have urged that in the realm of
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  • 222 11 Who is China's Friend Bince the fall of Tsingtau, if we are to believe all we see in print, China has begun to lose some of her respect for Germany The wonder to us is that it should have taken so much to have changed her opinion. Germanj has long
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  • 377 11 “In the turmoil of the world-wide explosion, we had almost forgotten who sent the 1 spark into the magazine,” says the Neia Skitaamain. I But whilst the cannon have been roaring from Calais to Warsaw, the half-for-gotten Austrian court at Sarajevo has been trying, in the leisurely
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    • 401 11 HOTEL NORMAN. PENANG’S SELECT RESIDENTIAL HOTEL. COLD STORAGE FOOD. Special Terms to Government Officials and F.M.S. Visitors. A Specialty is made of the TABLE D’HOTE at $1 in tie large dining room or $1-25 in private rooms. The Proprietor invites comparison with any Hotel in the East or elsewhere as
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