Straits Echo, 29 June 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DMLi CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT Tilt STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Anr.um. PENANG, TUESDAY, 29th JUNE, 1915. Siftjle Co»y, 10 coots. No. 145
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1029 1 fcfek N'l feiftaai Sttvt. la* 7 /FAD I ».l. A**aU: TIANO LEE 9 CO., PtMAf y Kuala Lumpur, r/ar ««sbs«ba ß*aaas BANKS. >— For Cars on Hire Call at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN REPAINTING Motor cars, carriages and
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  • 929 2 VII—AMUSEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE. A Changed Spirit. The change of spirit of the German 'people from buoyant optimism to sober realization of the seriousness of the war is reflected in the amusements provided by the music-halls and theatres, of which the "Times' neutral correspondent supplies a description
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  • 906 2 Unable to smash Britain by fair means the Germans have resorted to foulest tricks that cultured savagery can devise. The chemists have taken the place of the armament workers, and are endeavouring 1 to suffocate our troops with chlorine, or whatever the hellish fumes may be. It
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  • 452 2 CORRECTED PROGRAMME. (UNDER S.R.A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE DAYS: FIRST DAY Thursday, 29th July, 1915. SECOND DAY Saturday, 31st July, 1915. FIRST DAY. Thursday, 29th July 1915. 1. —The Pont Roadster Handicap. A cup presented by the Committee with $250 added by the Club.
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    • 1019 2 For a few nights only, at The King Street Theatre, The Grand Opera Co. of* Penang, after a half-year’s tour of the Dutch East Indies. To-night, 19th June, 1915 when the company will stage THAT MOST INTERESTING PLAY JULA JULI” OR The Three Golden Stars.” Come Early! Come Early!! Come
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    • 39 2 Something Dependable. Diarrhoea is always more or less prevalent during this weather. Be prepared for it. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is prompt and effectual. It can always be depended upon. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 89 2 Chamberlain's Pain Balm. A touch of rheumatism, or a twinge of neuralgia, whatever the trouble is, Chamberlain’s Pain Balm drives away the pain at once and cures the complaint quickly. First application gives relief. Wheu a bottle of it is kept in the house the pain of burns and 6calds
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    • 546 2 DREADFUL ECZEMA Cured by Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pills. That torturing and disfiguring disease has its cause in an impure condition of the blood. The impure condition of the blood often arises from a diseased condition of the stomach and allied organs of digestion and nutrition. When digestion is imperfect
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  • 365 3 The following verses have lately reached us from a young soldier fighting in Flanders. They are signed only with his initials, but we may be ■permitted now to reveal the fact that they were written by Captain Julian Grenfell, whose death from wounds we regret to record this
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  • 411 3 A Military Dictatorship. If this Coalition Government comes to grief, like its predecessor, what is going to happen One of two things Either the diversion of our whole political energy for several months from the war with Germany to a domestic struggle between parties for supremacy, with
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  • 126 3 Comino Elections Peking, June 10. The text and the notes of the SinoJapanese treaty, ratified on the Bth inst., in Tokyo, have been published by a Presidential Mandate. The Sino-French arrangement with regard to the suppression of robber bands on the borders of Indo China and the
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  • 281 3 The following was the result of the Shoot at Kampong Bahru, on Monday afternoon: Spoon Shoot (Oven). Del. Firing. rrs -o ns rz a ►> K S 8 80 i—< i— CU Miss Smith 33 28 28 89 Mrs Liston 29 30 28 87 Miss Mathieu
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  • 116 3 The following was the result of the play for the Monthly Medal for June CC Rogers 39 41= 80 scr=Bo J Crabb-Watt 39+37= 76+ 4=Bo C Cunradi 49 +52 101 —20=81 S F B Martin ...40+45= 85 scr=Bs AC Baker ...61 54=115-21=91 Messrs A F Goodrich, J
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  • 103 3 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP. 36-Holes-8troke Competition. Total. A S Evens 169 7 mJ E Scott Brown 169 j John A Hunter 175 A Forsyth 185 C King retired F C Marples W J K Muirheed On a replay of 18 boles Mr J E Scott Brown won the Championship
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  • 29 3 June 26 By Balance ...$24,016.35 28 Lim Kongsi, 6th instalment 3000 Balance, June 28. ...$24,046.35 Remitted to London on 24-2-15... j 610,000
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  • 111 3 The Gibtou Cup. The final race of 220 yards in the Gibbons Cup Competition took place at the Swimming Club on Sunday morning and resulted as follows Ist S. A. Yell 2nd W. H. Threlfall 3rd F. Scarborough The final position of the Competitors for the series
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 452 3 >oc MOTOR GARAGE CHIN SENC CO., LTD., 41, FARQUHAR STREET. (Within a lew minutes walk of all the Hotels TELEPHONE 420. We have the best fleet of motor cars in the place driven by expert drivers. WE STOCK ALL MOTOR ACCESSORIES. Our Lorry collects and transports Passenger’s luggage. TJS. ,o
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    • 338 3 BOER TOBACCO REAL MAGALIESBURG SPRINGBOK Sold in i pound Lead BY ALL THE LEADING DEALERS. o xr 9 IN weakness, neurasthenia CONSUMPTION CHLOROSIS Use HEMOGLOBIN Deschiens All doctors agree that this vital Iron of the Blood and f' Far better than uncool Semples on application to J. B. Dastoor, 275,
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  • 98 4 Published daily (except Sundays and p»tvio holidays) AT THI CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Boach Street, Penang. Pkicb. Daily Local $24 per aanum. Outstation,.. Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDKUSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone No*. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 N B.— All buainaaa communication* should
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  • 1315 4 It is necessary to go back for a moment to the first weeks of the war in order to find the origin of a misunderstanding which has been caused by the generous praise given by French critics to the British army and the comparatively small attention
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  • 669 4 Our Singapore correspondent vures that Mr. Justice Woodward will leave for Ipol j on Wednesday. j i Mr. W. Duncan, of the Straits Rubber I Company, contemplates taking up his resi- i dence for a few months in Penang. i The many friends of Lrnce-Corporal J. i
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  • 262 4 The mails this week will arrive on Sunday afternoon, as the s.s. Tara- is being detained at Negapatam awaiting the arrival of the mails from Bombay, which are due at Negapatam to-morrow. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to-day at 882 70, business done, in Singapore (refiaed) at 883.75,
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  • 1036 4 With regard to the case of Jagat Singh, who was yesterday committed for trial by the Police Magistrate, we understand that it is open to His Excellency the Governor to decide at his discretion whether the case shall be tried by a civil court—that is to say, at
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • 686 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ON THE HEIGHTS OF THE I MEUSE. Paris, June 28, 3 20 a m. A Paris communique states Tb? fighting on t* 16 central and northern fronts was confined to cannonading ••Isolated actions in the Argonne did not affect the respective positions. <•
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  • 588 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ENEMY’S LATEST EXPEDIENT. Rome, June 28, 3 20 a.m. A Rome communique states Nothing iuipoitmt took plac« during the last twenty-four hours. The artillery duel is increasing in intensbombJ he AU8tnaDS are U9in 8 asphyxiating The enemy, lal.st expedient i, to epread •he
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  • 573 5 (Reefer’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION London, June 28. The Press Bureau announces that au expeditiou was despatched recently against Port Brukoba, on the western shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza, the base of the German operations and a point ef considerable im--1 portance. The expedition sailed from
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  • 94 5 (From Our Oim Correspondent Ipoh, June 28 At the invitation of Mr. J. S. Ferguson, the manager, the members of the Central Perak Planters’ Association and others attended a lecture on The Rubber Tree” by Mr. Coombes, of the F. M. S. Agricultural Department, at
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  • 2145 5 COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. The preliminiry inquiry into the case against Jagat Singh was conclued yesterday afternoon beforo Mr. E. E. Caiman in the Second Court. The charges against the accused were as follows: (1) Abetting the wagiug of war against the King and abetting the waging of such
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  • 252 5 Important Questions Discussed, (From Our Own Correspondent.') Kuala Lumpur, June 28. Mr. Darby presided at the Annual General Meeting of the Malacca Planters’ Association which took place on Suqday. Chinese Immigration. There was considerable discussion over the question of restricted Chinese immigration and a letter was read
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  • 100 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, June 29. At the meeting of tho shareholders of the Be)at Tin Mine Mr. Derrick, who presided, said that the manager estimated that during tho current year an output of 3,600 piculs should be easily reached. But for the fact that there bad
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  • 122 5 To-merrow, at Dtto K raui at Hardens, Darul Mohibah (P. W.j play Oeutral Police. Teoh Urn, a Cantonese woman, 'was this morning charged before the Third Magistrate with selling chandu dross and b?ing in possessi n of chandu dross beyond three tahils On h3r own application tho ca e
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  • 66 5 The following articles will b a found pn our outside pages Ma Page. 2. —ln Germany To-Day. Britain’s Oldest Ally. 3. P. LR. C Penang Golf Club. Caledonia Golf Club. The Priuce of Wales’ War Relief Fund. Penang Swimming Club. 6, —Opium Rubber Directors’ Fees. Bukit Mertujam Cast's. A
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  • 1010 6 It is not often that those who have urged from time to time the adoption of important reforms connected with the ways and means of raising revenue, say, from the opium traffic, for instance, have been afforded an opportunity of witnessing the suggestions and confident predictions substantiated by the
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  • 796 6 Our readers may remember that some weeks ago we Malay Mail) asked the question What is a fair director’s fee We asked then Ought it to depend upon (o) the amount of capital involved, or (6) the profits earned or dividends paid, or (c) merely on the
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  • 1011 6 With your shield, or on it.” The counsel of the Spartan mother to her warrior son finds its echo to-day in a million hearts. We have been told of a Russian mother who sent forth her sons with almost these very words on her lips, and countless
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  • 972 6 We believe it was in tbe early part of 1913 (bow far off those days seem to be now) that Mr. W. F. Nutt, suggested the formation of a Malayan Society in London, but 60 far as we are aware, nothing practical in this direction has been
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  • 194 6 Effect of the Stoppage Referring to the East Coast Railway in bis annual report for 1914, the Resident of Pahang says Railway construction proceeded ooatinuously on sections 1,2, 3 and 4 between Kuala Tembelmg and Kuala Lipis, but was suddenly stopped shortly after the outbreak of
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  • 258 6 A National Danger The time has come when stern action should be taken against those journals which, inspired seemingly by animus or egotism, are subordinating national interests to their own ends and Bhaming us in the eyes of the world. The venomous attacks in a section of
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  • 261 6 We are glad to note that the Government is devoting serious attention to educational schemes and proposals. The problems just at present being discussed are those involved in the organization of provincial education. It is recognized that education is nruch advanced in some provinces than in others.
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  • 52 6 The following ties have been fixed for to-morrow:— Ladies' Doubles. Mrs W Motion and Mrs Jarvis vs. Miss Hogan and Miss Pritchard (Final). Championship Pairs. R N Goodwin and Lindley VB. Messrs G K Wright Motion. Doubles Handicap. F Scarborough and R C B Hay vs. Pritchard
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  • 418 6 At the Bukit Mertajam Police Court before Mr. R D. Acton, yesterday, a Malay, named Lah bin Budin, was convicted of carrying a dangerous weapon in public, and sentenced to pay a fine of 810 or undergo rigorous imprisonment for the term of fourteen days. The fine
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  • 465 6 Exploits of E 14.” The Admiralty’s recent massage on the exploits of the El4is in many respects a very remarkable one, says the Daily New». It is clear from it that the British submarine did not merely dive under the Dardanelles minefield and back again, which would have b=*en a
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  • 2622 7 (From Our Ourn Correspondent) Loudon, Maj 28. Conscription Is conscription coming I believe it is. Lord Kitchener wants 300,000 more men and as apparently most men who were willing to enlist have done so, some other means must be resorted to. Voluntary enlistment has heretofore carried the
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  • 222 7 Nature sends pain for an important purpose. If fire did not burn and knives cut few children would survive their babyhood. The burn and the cut warn them to leave dangerous things alone. So with pain in the bead or the back—it is Nature’s warning
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