Straits Echo, 10 March 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo i>Ali V CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, loth MARCH 1915. Single 10 cents. No. 65
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    • 20 1 S TO LET. m 2 BUNGALOWS Nos. 142 A and 1428. BURMAH ROAD. JJ APPLT M 53, Beach Street. m
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  • 2031 2  -  Bt 1 E. B. Osborn. j Th’ word is on everybody’s lips, but much more often than not it is used without any 1 clear idea of its application to the subject 1 which is being discussed. M<>st people, for I example, will freely admit that discipline is
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    • 566 2 LAST 4 NIGHTS! MflLLISON’S CIRCUS AND MAMMOTH MENAGERIE THIS EVENING AT 9-30 P.M. C0MPL1MEN TARY BENEFI TENDERED THE BARTELL SISTERS The Two Little Sunbeam». PENANG’S POPULAR FAVORITES A SPECIAL PROGRAMME Of all the Latest an<l Groate'-t SONGS AND DANCES. Presents distributed nightly. FRIDAY EVENING. GRAND MILITARY NIGHT Under the Distinguished
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    • 78 2 A Family Necessity. Every family should be proved with Chamberlain's Pain. Balm at all time* Sprains uia? ba cured in much less time wh -n promptly treated. L ime back, lame sti< older, pains in the side and chest and rheumatic pains are some rf the diseases for which it
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    • 521 2 1 m m «8 u SKr*»- 3* *5, CiuiJ ,ss«co.v a f> V.“ n a “*%> N.5. -•> C*. w U m V. i'dLLUA'i *M?answ-. ‘i‘4v FROM ALL FIRST CLASS DEALERS OR SELLAR, MURRAY 8 Co., AGENTS, PENANG. IN THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR HENRY AUSTEN MEREDITH. deceased. Pursuant to the
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  • 681 3 A Penan® Warder’s Letter. One of the Pan mg warders now serving with the Royal Euginfers in the British Expeditionary Force in France has sent to a friend here the following letter from the front: 2nd Fd. Coy R E. Bth Dir. B E F. On Service.
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  • 171 3 The pessimists and the propbe’s of evil found yesterday that they had laboured in vain, for, in spite of war, hard times and absence of Germans, a particularly successful day’s racing has to be recorded. The weather was magnificent—which i 9 more than can be said of it
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  • 198 3 The last four nights of this popular company are advertised. Owing to the detention c f the steamer the departure has been delajed until Sunday. This evening has been set apirt for a well-deserved benefit to the Sisters Bartell, Penang popular favourites, aud aa interesting Vaudeville i programme
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  • 202 3 Ordinary Meeting. An ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held at the Municipal Office yesterday afternoon. There were present Messrs. W. Peel (President), P. T. 'Allen, J. Mitchell, F. Duxburv, Quah Beng Kee, L M. Bell (Municipal Engineer) and L. A. C. Biggs (Secretary). The minutes of
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  • 237 3 Thk School Propaganda in China. From a statement made public by the Japanese War Department which contains a detailed account of the German intentions in planting her influence in China, the following reproduction may be of interest, showiug the German efforts to Germanize the Chinese
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  • 362 3 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys A Co. by auction and private treaty yesterday. 50,u00 lbs. were sold Diamond smoked sheet 8114 to $l2O Plain *lOB *ll2 Unsmoked sheet *lO4 *lll Fine Pale Crepe *llB Blanket Medium Pale Crepe *lO9 $ll5
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 529 3 Lest you forg6t! Vanity renders beauty contemptible and Vice often begins in mi take, and as often ends in ignonrny THE STRAITS CINEMA, PENANG ROAD. The Leading Premier Show in Penang AND The People's Favourite Rendezvous. TO-NIGHT special chance TO-NIGHT!! 2 Reels AFTER DEATH. Parts 2 A Powerful Detective Drama,
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    • 407 3 CHESTNUT TOE. SWEET i s and J s St n Work for all men For all men rest, And a time to taste the joys of life. WILCOX RITCHARD 8 Co. SOLE AGENTS FOR (OVER CYCLES. Messrs. Charles Howitt and A. Phillips Have arrived with their Powerful Company of 16
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  • 97 4 •üblished daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. Pbicic. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra, if ail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Departnent 343 JV. B. All bueinw* coninunicetion*
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  • 1469 4 From a wall-informed correspondent wc have ieceived the following communication apropos of the article published in this column ou Monday In the recent loading article of the Straits Echo under the above heading, one particular section in the Criminal Procedure Cede which calls for immediate change, was not
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  • 478 4 Mr. Fleming, formerly D. 0., Kuala Kubu, has been sent to Seremban on return from leave. Mr. E. W. Battenberg has arrived in Bangkok and taken up his duties as Assistant Comptroller General, Ministry of Finance. Mr. Battenberg is a member of Grey’s Inn, and his services
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  • 62 4 SIXTEEN REBELS CAPTURED. The Hon’ble Resident Councillor forwards us for publication the following copy of a telegram received by him yesterday from the Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor Owing to the harassing and hunting down of the rebels 16 have been captured to-day. Estimating that
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  • 224 4 {Reuter.) London, March 9. The London market prices are as follows: Copper, 64. Linseed, Argentine, 48/-, Bombay 53/9. Cotton seed, 150. Wheat, White Karachi 58/6, Delhi 58/9, Rosafe 60/3. Afloat 2,335,000 quarterns, 59/3 paid. Hemp, 28 paid. Lead, 21 Tin, 185. Iron, 5711/-. Peas, 53/6. Linseed oil, 29/9,
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  • 965 4 Things we should like to see done u Wilkinson then rose to speak and Mr received with loud murmurs of approval’’" There are plenty of useful planting i o k. going in the Straits at present, a ot fo managers but for good, hardworking assist ants with some
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    • 248 4 Beauty is truth, truth beauty,— that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. f» ——W—i vjr>h r it i i Huckaback Turkish Tow'd» f LV' EW- JU T UNPACKED BFA T J IFIIL ENGLISH MADE TOWELS at truly low prices. EXTRA THICK AND DURABLE. Sizes
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  • 590 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. SEVERAL FORTS SILENCED. London, March 9. The Admiralty announce* that the operations in the Dardanelles are progressing. Favoured by fine weather, the Queen Elisabeth and other British battleships on Saturday renewed the attack on the forts of the narrows by indirect fire across
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  • 536 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. ALLIES’ PROGRESS CONTINUES. Paris, March 9 This afternoon’s communique stutas “Our progress at different points in Champ rgne increased and at the end of the day we captured some trenches north-west, of Souain and about five hundred metres between Perthes and Beausejour. We
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  • 309 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CONTINUES. Petrograd, March 9. An official statement t-avs "In the region of Suwalki the enemy attacks were repulsed and on the front Mariampol—Simuo—Au ustowo our offensive continues. The German offensive has been arrested in the region of Piiitza, on the left
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  • 165 5 London, March 9, At an important and representative meeting held at the Caxton Hall a resolution was passed expressing the meeting’s deep sense of sorrow over the irreparable loss caused by the untimely death of Mr. Gokhale who consecrated his life to the service of his
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  • 93 5 London, March 9. The Jockey Club has called a meeting for the 16th instant to consider whether racing shall be continued during the war. Lady Aileen Roberts in a letter to the Times, roferring to the recent letter of Lord Hamilton of Dalzell stating that Lord Roberts
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  • 559 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. Rome, March 9. Signor Salandra, is opening the works of the new naval harbour at Gaeta, said they should work faithfully and conscientiously to enable Italy to emerge greater and stronger than ever. General Morra said the army was ready to obey
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  • 69 5 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, March 9. In the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Woodward, the Attorney General asked the Court to condemn the collier Pontoparos which was captured by the H. M. ship Yarmouth, while serving the Em den on the Sumatra coast. Sir Evelyn
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  • 961 5 SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. A Special General Meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce was held in tho Chamber yesterday afternoon at 3 p.m. There were present Mr. John Mitchell (Chairman), The Hon. Mr. A. R. Adams (Ex-officio), The Hon. Mr. R Young, Mr. H. A. Low (Messrs.
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  • 1117 5 Three week» have pissed sinca the fatal 'ls:u md all is quivt again in Singapore, si' < the Atraits Times of Monday. So [quotarewo that evm the Golf Courses have lieeu reopened. We are pretty much as we were, though tho anxious task of sit-iug a mass of
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  • 2318 6 TRIAL OF THE GUIDES. Accused in the Box. The seven men from the Malay States Guides, who were before the Court in Singapore a week ago, were again brought up on Saturday morniDg, the charge against them being one of mutiny. After Mr, da Silva had opened the
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  • 273 6 With that bovine fatuity which h°s characterised all their dipl matic proceedings, the obtuse Jankers of Berlin are discussing the indemnity they will exact, when the war is over! Up to the present the task of fixing upon a definite sum has proved too grent a strain
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  • 270 6 Safety Only in Asms. TV. Kuyper writes in the Standaard All too easilv men are apt to think that there is no immediate danger of our country being involved in the war. Yet all such suppositions, however plausible, mav easilv prove false. The distance between Bruges and Dutch
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  • 1486 6 A Crowded Meeting. Saturday afternoon was the occasion of the great public meeting of the Mussulman community, summ med together by their leaders to affirm their loyalty to H M the King. There must have been at least three thousand Mahomedans present in the Memorial Hall besides a
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  • 57 6 Mar. 8 By Balance $4,867.77 9 Socie f a Italiana Estermo Oriente Ld., monthly contribution for Jan., Feb. and Mar, in addition to contribution at home 45.00 G. Gibelli, monthly contribution for Jan., Feb. and Mar. 30 00 Balance Mar. 9 14,942 77
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  • 325 6 Telegrams to the Java Papers. The Soer. Handel*b ad has received a special telegram from Geneva stating that the yquadrou of the Allies in the Dardanelles will wait before Tehana-Kolessi for the forward movement of the troops, that have been disembarked to drive back the garrison of
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  • 771 6 There seems to be a certa u revival tr, man 41 peace talk.” Two months r Uuited Spates were selected as th from which to utter it, and Mr* Schiff was its chosen preacher. Now Jac theatre is used, though the piece is L her being revived
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  • 226 6 Stoeers iir Action. Sir David Beatty has officially acknowledged the public obligation to the engineroom staffs for the fine steaming of bis squadron in the North Sea action. The captain of the Kent had previously thanked his engineer commander for getting two knots better than her best
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  • 1064 7  -  By Anthony Nugent. BEHIND THE SCENES. London, February 5. There seems to be no doubt that the health of Ktiser Wilhelm is causing the gravest anxiety to his entourage. A good deil of information gets through from Germany that does not even find its way into
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  • 671 7 Law and Local Government. Two very interesting items of news have been telegraphed from Peking this week. The first item tells us that the ru!«s for local government hive been revised and are i shortly to be placed before the President for ihis sanction and signature before
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  • 307 7 The most significant incident in connection with the visit of the Kaiser to Wilbelmshaven is the singing of the Hymn of Hate by his soldiers and sailors. That this demonstration would be gratifying to the All Highest” the men and their officers well knew, for a
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    • 586 7 HOTEL NORMAN. Penang's Select Residential Hotel. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. y. U. —In tbe event of change of Proprietorship, the Hotel will not be closed, but will be handed over to tbe uew tenant ns a going concern. URGE AIRY ROOMS FACING THE SEA. Under the patronage of H.M. Judges, Medical Officers,
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