Straits Echo, 17 March 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DA.LV CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIHCHIATIN6 THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY YOL. 13. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 17th MARCH, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cent!. No. 61
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    • 1090 1 >w—— WHIM OmtlMC SPECIFY "Dof Head Stout.” f.T JFAD S it Strengthening and Invigorating S TIANGLEE6’C<T <t Ktviia Lumpur ■■■DDnnnDiMn aanDn^MBI|IB aDDDaa Georgetown Motor Garage 7*. Penang Road. NOW ON SHOW One 5 Seater EMPIRE CAR AS ILLUSTRATION. i BAN KS > Chartered Bank of India. Hongkong fir Shanghai ;The
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  • 1375 2 Notable Report bt the Rubber 1 Growers’ Association. Two years ago it might have been said, 1 without being guilty of gross injustice, that 1 the Rubber Growers’ Association scare ly justified its existence There were signs 1 that this potentially powerful body was becoming moribund. The industry
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  • 651 2 Those who took part in the welcome to the Singapore Contingent of the M. S V. R. yesterday could not but have been moved by a certain pride. There was little in the way of ceremonial, In fact, it would not be departing from the
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    • 497 2 notice: MY wife Ong Cheng Kee, youngest daughter of Mrs Ong Looi of Trang Road, baying left my protection on llth instant I shall not be responsible for any debt or debts that may be contracted by her from that date. YEOH KIM TEAN. Penang, 16th March, 1915. 156 NOTICE.
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    • 433 2 PROWODNIK MADE IN RUSSIA U V Of O O K A ft ft» hIH/ -TATi > V R FROM ALL GARAGES OR SELLAR, MURRAY CO., PENANG IN THE ESTATE OF ARTHUR HENRY AUSTEN MEREDITH, deceased. Pursuant to the Conveyancing and Law of Property Ordinance 1886 Section 46. Notice is hereby
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  • 1474 3 A Vindication. When the Indian troops first to )k the field the public mind was filled with the most extravagant expectations of their performances. For several weeks afterwards preposterous stories of their exploits were passed from mouth to mouth, and occasionally printed in newspapers. Then
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  • 335 3 At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court, before Mr. R Scott, yesterday, a licensed opium-smoking house-keeper named Ang Kong Choo was convicted of (1) sell- ing chandu dross other than to the superin- tendent of Government Monopolies and being in possession of chandu dross in quantity more than
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  • 258 3 Service from thb Hague. The captain of the German ship Maine has been arrested at Flushing under suspicion of espionage. In the Inner Court at The Hague the first meeting was held in connection with the establishment of a fund for the middle closes. The Queen and
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    • 502 3 PRITCHARD g Co. OVER CYCLES. KUAINYM&Djbi HOiML. (SEA-SIDE) PENANG. New improvements have been made at our promenade on the sea front. THERE WILL BE A MOONLIGHT DINNER Every month, weather permitting. String Band on the Lawn. AND EXTRA DINNER $2. Date will be announced later. METHYLATED SPIRITS! (Quality Guaranteed) Wholesale
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    • 44 3 Let dogs delight to bark and bite, It pleases them, no doubt, For probably they’re greater friends When they have had it out. And let me also here remark, That I couldn’t life endure Unless I took in Winter time Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure
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  • 95 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) AT THI CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Peuaog Pric*. Daily Local $24 per annam. Outstation... Postage Extra. Ma i Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABI.X ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printinj Department 343 A’*.—All lu*in<**e communications ehoultl be
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  • 1378 4 On the western front of war, where the armi-'s have dug theraselvi s in like rabbits and the positions require at least as great an effort to attack and capture as is necessary for the reduction ofmolern fortfied place*, tie issue hrs become largely one of numb vs
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  • 854 4 The new German minister to China is reported to be seriously ill. The Hon. Mr. P. M. Elliot is shortly going on a trip to Japan and may extend his journey to the homeland via Canada.— S T. Mr. C H Owen, of the Chartered Bank, Kuala
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  • 1003 4 Among members of the local Bar wq fi D ,j a well-defined feeling that the break with tradition represented, by the execution of Khoo Puan after he had been found guilty by a verdict of 5 to 2 emphasizes both the drawbacks and disadvantages of the system of
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    • 231 4 WAR MAP OF EUROPE. The Da'ly Mail War Map h the Clearest a >d most Comprehensive War Map e ’er PuVish:! It exhi 1 its at a gla: co iho relative r graphical positions of the belligerent Powers, with tVeir pohtica ;r< upmg arcl ma n strategic positions an I
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  • 564 5 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. BRILLIANT INFANTRY ATTACK. Paris, March 15. A communique says •••There is no change to report at Neuve Cbapelle. “The enemy made a third and moat violent counter-attack in an attempt to retake the lost trenehes between Four-de-Paris and Bulante, but was repulsed on
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  • 546 5 (Reuter’s Service) Copyright Telegram. RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. Petrograd, March 15. To-day’s communique states 0 Q the whole front in the region of Przasnysz, from the Mlawa railway to the 1 Orzyc river and on the left bank of the latter, we made progress, fighting all the way. i
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  • 632 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. MATTERS WELL I HAND.” London, March 15. In the House of Lords, Earl Kitchener made a brief statement in the course of which he said that the many weeks o trench fighting had not affected the moraj of our troops. The fighting
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  • 996 5 SAINT PATRICK HIS DAY. (BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.) Once more the great religious and patriotic day of the Irish people comes around. Every year through long centuries the Irish have celebrated this day, looking back with gratitude to the noble man who taught and worked in the island to which he
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  • 1078 5 IRELAND S NATIONAL HOLIDAY. (From a Correspondent We find it written in the journal of Thos, Dinelj gentleman (1687) that the “17th day of March yearly is St Patricks, an immoveable feast, when the Irish of all stations and conditions wear crosses in their hats,
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  • 53 5 Mar. 15 By Balance $5,260.37 16 European Staff, Chinese and Tamil Clerks A Machanics employed on the Caledonia Qroup of Estates, 6th instalment 590.72 Irishmen of Penang and Province Wellesley, St. Patrick’s Day Fund 250.00 Balance Mar. 16 $6,101.09 Remitted to London on
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  • 35 5 Mar. 12 By Balance $2,972.98 16 Mrs. Armstrong’s Bridge-winnings 13.00 Irishmen of Penang and Pro vince Wellesley, St. Patrick’s Day Fund 100.00 Balance Mar. 16 $3,085.98 Amount previously acknowledged 8,323.80 Total $11,409.78
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  • 81 5 (From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, March 17. At the rubber auction held yesterday 210 tons were offered and 152 sold. Sheets showed a slight decline, but crepes were better. Following are the quotations:— Sheet, fine,smoked... $126 to $129 per pieul fair to good $llO $126 unsmoked $lll
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  • 281 5 (Reuter.) London, March 15. The London market prices are as follows Copper, 65 Linseed, Argentine 49/9 paid. Wheat, firm, Rosafe 61/6 March-April, buyers, afloat, 2,535,000 quarterns. Hemp, 28£ paid, buyers. Lead, 23. Iron, 60/6. Peas, 53, sellers. Linseed oil, 30/6. Shellac, quiet. Rubber, 2/3J. Copra, 28. Coconuts, 39,
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    • 37 5 Penang Automobile Club. All outstanding accounts against the above Club are requested to be sent in at once to the Acting Honorary Secretary. Town Hall. 3 ALAN W. B. HAMILTON, Acting Hen Sec., P. 4 C, 163
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  • 39 5 Obituary. Mr. Walter Crane, London, March 15. The death is announced of Mr. Walter Crane. 'Mr. Crane was known as a painter, decorator, designer, book-illustrator, writer, lecturer, and socialist. He was born at Liverpool on the 15th August, 1845.]
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  • 462 6 THE COURT MARTIAL. MONDAY’S PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of the Court Martial were resumed this morning (says Monday's Straits Timet), when the four men of the Malay States Guides who appeared in oourt last week, Lance Naik Mir Ahmad, Gunner Mozhar Khan, Gunner Sultan Ahmad aud Gunner Abdul Rahman,
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  • 1301 6 Exactly a month has passed since the emeute—the word is official—of the 5tb Light Infantry. Practically the whole of the men of the regiment are accounted for; several proved guilty beyond all question have been shot, and the same fate may await others who were
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  • 249 6 Two Malays, who, in the second police court, Singapore, on Saturday, were convicted of assaulting another Malay who gave information that brought about the arrest of two of the mutineers were sharply dealt, with by the magistrate, Mr. Clarke Tiie complainant, Abdul Mij'd. said he caused
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  • 2308 6 (From Our Own Correspondent). London, February 12. The Heatiest-Gunned Ship Afloat. Toe new battleship Queen Elizabeth- the first ship armed with tne new 15-inch gun—has already b eu nicknamed the "Black B-iSs” after Turpin's famous horse by the bluejackets who man her The command of the Quern Elizabeth
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  • 632 6 NEW SIDELIGHTS ON HI3 CHARACTER. T f Calmness and Self-Control J A new character-study of General Joffre r 1 Lis been made bv a handwriting expert in Paiis, and the Times correspondent in the 3 French capital take3 the occasion to set down some uupublished facts concerning
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  • 1090 6 Many of our readers will be familiar with the great ighland bagpipe, the instrument patrouistd by the Highland and Lowland regiments of Scotland, as well as by certain native regiments in tho Indian and Egvt, tian armies It is an instrument of great antiquity, with a variety
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    • 47 6 Rub It In. A good many people think rheumatism can not be cured without taking nauseous medicine. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm massaged thoroughly into the skin has cured far more rheumatism than any internal remedy in existence and gives relief quicker. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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  • 1199 7 ADVENTURES OF A STATE COACH. M0KOCCA.N MbMORIBS. (From Our Tangier Correspondent.) The fiual (stage of the history of independent Morocco began and ended in the early years of this century, when the young Sultan, Mulai Abdul Aziz, entered upon that period of his reign which
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  • 645 7 Some Amazing Lies. The fiction factory at Constantinople stands at the bead of all agencies run under the auspices of the German Government Some amazing examples of its products are given by a Paris correspondent of the Daily News. The Terdjiman-i-Afkier of December 6 thus describes
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