Straits Echo, 5 March 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo OA*LY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS», CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, 6th MARCH, 1915. Siafle Copy, 10 cent». No. 6l
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    • 13 1 2 BUNGALOWS Nos. 142 A and 1428, BURMAH ROAD. APPLY 53, Beach Street.
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  • 999 2 At a time when the price of bread has risen iu England to an uncomfortably high figure, the ieport that a:i attempt may shortly be made to force the Dardanelles >s of very great interest to everyone No railways servo the forts guarding the southern outlet of that
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  • 797 2 RAISING IMPORT DUTIES lUKTHFE IMPOST ON Bkjtr In a Government Gazette Extra** r dated March 1st. substantial made to the import -duties 0 f theTV? The new duties which came into» S March 2nd, are as follows ffect Table A IMPORT DUTIES Description of article n ufr Intoxicating
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    • 64 2 A Lif: Saw. It is safe to «av that Chamberlain’s Colir», Ch<»l«*ra and Diarrhoea Remedy ha» earn! the 1 1 Vt*s of more people nod re'ieved more suffer than any other remedy in exist Dee. It it kuown all over the civilized world for its speedy cures of cramps iu
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    • 199 2 Huttenbach Bros. S ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS CONTRACTORS. SOLE AGENTS FOR: All kinds of L MACHINERY. SK33SS 4f.j| < Free estimates Given for all Kinds of Electrical Work. Mining Plants and Private Lighting Installations A Speciality. AGENTS FOR: 111 STEELING PE 00., LID. Large Stocks of Telephones are kept and Private Installations
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    • 54 2 Best M-d cine Made. A better medicine can not bp made than Ohamberlaiu’s Coui*b Remedy I f rp! |MTt the 'uuf'P, opens the secretions, aids exp*^ toration and assists nature in rest' rice tb* system to a healthy oondition 1( contains no opiates and is perfectly take. For sale hr
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  • 430 3 Practical Scqoestioits from British MalayaIt would seem, from information to hand from the East by the Malay States Information Agency, that the larger importing firms in Malaya are doing what they cau to obtain from England goods hitherto imported largely from Austria aud Get many. It
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  • 472 3 Only in three countries, Holland. Japan, and Norway, last year was there an increase in shipbuilding. Of the three Japin’s figures are the most striking, according to the auuual summary of tbe world’s shipbuilding for 19 4 compiled by 1 Lloyi’s Register,” the tonnage luanched being 85.861, noa
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  • 296 3 A pleasant little function took plaoe is the Guild Room yesterday afternoon (say* Wednesday’s Free Press), when about a dozen members of the Committee and Guild gathered as representatives of the otherl members, to make a presentation to Mr. Walter Mikepeace, their honorary Treasurer, who is
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  • 124 3 Our Bukit Mertajam correspondent writes: At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, before Mr. R Scott, yesterday, a Hokien named Khor Tong alias Khor Theau Sung, was convicted of defamation and sentenced to pay a tine of 00 or to uudergo imprisonmeut for the term of three months.
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  • 100 3 To THi Editor of thi Free Press. Sir, —As there has been some discussion as to what is the effect of the above law bere, the following remarks may be of interest to your readers Where actual war is raging, a Civil Court, e g., the Supreme Cou
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  • 284 3 By S, R. Ltsaoht.J Count on yourselves, not on the victories Of Russia number not the captured guns, Nor the Archangel Host, while Hell o’erruns The fields of France, and nears our seas and skies. Leave fools to babble about Royal spies, Nor heed awhile those
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    • 493 3 Everybody’s doing it I Doing What Why, going to the Electric Polyscope. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! ATf The Electric Polyscope Co., Lyceum Theatre, Argyll Road. DETECTIVE DRAMA! DETECTIVE DRAMA 11 2 Reels Nat Pinkerton's Latest Exploit. Parts 2 A brilliant detective drama. Scintillates with thrills and intense situations. This great feature will
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    • 11 3 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Qraat P*>tp#>rtn<nt C» r« Is 6d
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    • 42 3 Trouble Averted, That little cold and sore throat of jours must becbpcked at once or it maj develope into aomthing worse Take a few do«es of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and jour troubles will soon vanish. For sale by all dispensaries and dealers.
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    • 434 3 SWEET CHESTNUT TOE J and i s Work for all men— For all men rest, And a time to taste the joys of life. WILCOX. SOFIEE it GALA To-night! To-night!! WILLISON'S CIRCUS AND MAMMOTH MENAGERIE OUR NEW PROGRAMME A Veritable Triumph. THE WEATHERLEYS STEVE BUCKINGHAM MISS VAL ROSE MADAME WILLISON
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  • 98 4 Published daily (except Sundays and publio holidays) AT THI CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. Price. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 A T R A 1! busin»*s
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  • 1347 4 Supposing the authorities refuse absolutely to budge from the attitude that there is no place iu any local defence force but «.he Volunteers for men below the age of 38, wbat is <o become of those who are really debarred by their occupations—which are .fteu in the
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  • 811 4 Dr. A. L. Hoops, State Surgeon of Kedah, and Mrs. Hoops are payiug a short visit to Penang. Mrs. W. G. Maxwell, wife of the Secretary to the High Commissioner, goes Home by the Japanese mail to-day. We understand that Dr. V. B. Kyle, of the District
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  • 1023 4 Says the Free Press > There is said to be much satisfaction the members of what is thought to atUon,ttt registered secret Society named the Sr" Conference, on the roping in of the Eli PP n,? line among the numbers of the elect may not now ship by
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  • 606 5 (Reuter's Service) Copyright Telegram REVIEW of the operations. Loudon, March 3 The Eye witness, in his account of the operations up to February 26, states: “The pist three days were quiet. As alroidy repj.ted on the morning of February 21, the enemy blew up a short line of
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  • 186 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. german submarine sunk. London, March 4. It is reported to-night that Admiral Egerton is satisfied that the small British collier Thordis sank a Gorman submarine off Beachy Head, The Th»r<lis has been placed in dry dock. An examination of the vossel showed that
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  • 334 5 FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. London, March 3. A Petrograd communique states: Between the Niomen and the Vistula the Germans delivered no attacks except in the Ossowiecs district, where sevoral attempts to approach the fortress were repulsed. Our troops iu the Grodno region and other sectors of the whole
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  • 32 5 (Reuter). London, March 3. The London market prices are as follows Copper, 63. Rubber, 2/5^. Linseed, Argentine 48 3, paid, Bombay 53 6. Delhi Wheat, 59/6 paid. Rubber, 2/3 J.
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  • 1029 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. RESULT OF THE OPERATIONS. London, March 4. The Admiralty states that the Triumph, Ocean and Albion entered the Straits on Monday and attacked Fort No. 8. The enemy replied. Our casualties were six t wounded. Simultaneously four French battleships entered the G elf
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  • 53 5 Mar. 3 By Balance $4,010 47 4 G. N. Burnham, subscription for March 10.00 Clerical Staff of Paterson, Simons A Co., Ltd 1st instalment 32 80 Staff of Brown, Phillips and Stewart, Feb. subscription... 80.00 Balance Mar. 4 $4,133 27 Remitted to London
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  • 60 5 Mar. 3 By Balance $1,698.84 4 H. Zachariah 10.00 Syed Mahdar 10.00 Syed Hamid 1.00 Jakfar 1.00 Golf Club Ladie« Bridge Book, Feb. 2000 Balance Mar. 4 $1,740.84 Amount previously acknowledged 8,323.80 Total $10,064.64 The non-commissioned officers and men of A Company and the Maxims held a
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  • 1476 5 ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING AT THE P. C. C. A large number of the British resi T ents i Penang gathered at tho Penm Crick. Club yesterday evening to diseuss the i niation of a Volunteer Veterans’ C. rp* i Penang From the number of tin se pr
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  • 268 5 SITUATION ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY. A FURTHER CASUALTY. Wo have received for publication from th'< Hou’bie Resi lout Councillor the following copy of a telegram received from the Private S eretary of H. E. tho Governor yesterday Definite information has been received -t Mr. N F. Edwards, of Messrs.
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    • 75 5 EA :> I a n N Ml E ASSURANCE CO., LTD. i *KI> Oi<Fic*: —SINGAPOKE. owitfftt in Ail For ms. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Mnct 'l Agents for Penang. LI;I. i :.iXJI MAY A CO. f.'jCiil (?i'icc ;—No. 7, Union Btescrt. Cocoanut Husk Fibre Refuse. Offers wanted for above packed
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  • 1617 6 PRAI9E FOR A LOYAL INDIAN OFFICER. HOW TIB OUTBRBXE STARTED. State» the Strait* Tim*» of March 3 The Court M irtial proceedings were continue I throughout yesteiday the case ot Naik Rukhmuddin occupying the attention' f the President, Lieut. Col. C. W. Brownlow, R. O, A. and the
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  • 1434 6 GOVERNOR INSPECTS RUSSIAN DETACHMENT. A Larok Assembly. Although the Russians who assisted in the recent field operation throughout the Island did uot uumber as many as their French and Japanese allies, the reception which they received ©u the Esplautde on Wednesday evening, when thay paraded for inspection by
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  • 1018 6 In one of our recent letters from the front” an Artillery Officer said that he had a pocket volume of Kipling with him which be had not y*d oponed. Life,” be added, is too strenuous and exciting to cimtem» plate imHgn.ry scenes and situations. Everyday incidents far
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  • 615 6 Foreigners whose lot is cast in the Far East, whether they belong to the commercial and financial classes or not, have («ays the Hongkong Telegraph) a vital, though in many cases an indirect, interest iu trade prosperity in tbie part of the globe. The Hongkong and
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  • 351 6 Creation or N*thkrlanl>* India CoMNANT. The articles of avocation of Behn Meyer and Co. Handel Maatschappij,” which was registered as a Netherlands Indian limited liability company at Batavia at the bpginniog of January on the instigation of f heudor He'ffirioh, acting as attorney fir B hn,
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  • 680 6 GROWN SMALL AND AGED. Impressions ow ths Camera Amsterdam, Januar? 31 The Berlin correspondent of the JVuu Roti-rrdimeche Courant devotes an article to the Kaiser arising out of his birth° day. He says that the Kaiser has becom* like a mythical person living behind the
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    • 258 6 or Children'* Hacking Coiph at Night, O-rnnt I *i I MINING. VVe, A B Snow of Victoria Point, Lower Burma and W W. Webster of Tongkah, Siam, M ning and Metallurgical I ngineera, he r eby notify the public that we have entered into partnership, our office being situated at
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  • 1166 7 RUMANIA AND HER KINSMEN. Bt Stdwkt Brooks. It is curious how completely the Magyars h'ive lost the esteem they once enjoyed. We know them to-day better than d d our fathers and grandfathers, who were enthralled by Louis Kossuth’s eloquence and fe't for his country in its
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  • 652 7 at the Cikcus. A Tamil, who was employed at WillisonV 1 Circus and has sinca been dischirged, wap yesterday morning arraigned before Mr G A Hall on a charge of theft of a piir of trousers belonging to a Filipino who is in the employ of the
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    • 50 7 Some folks sigh, some folks cry, They are never happy quite In fact-, they don’t know whit they want. For nothing’s ever right. But one thing that is obvious As the l’ght of day. I’m sure, Is tb it there’s nothing in life so good As Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.
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