Straits Echo, 28 July 1915

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo i AtLV CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALI! VOL. 13. $24 Per Annua. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 28tn JULY, 1915. Single Copy, 10 cent!. No. 170
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1030 1 MnCßA'j S *'oo /3 'JTT 9NVIX ronm a PI x •Wj, fLWX# The Dootor advisee and reoojnmends. It is nourishing, invigorating :.nd strengthening. uar. saaEisJiDisiisaißiiiins I*9}s tiMSi7ls «.tlj For Cars on Hire C all at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7\ Penang Road. < BANKS i WE
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    • 17 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET ft HEALTHY. APPLY S 3, Beach Street.
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  • 1682 2 If, as we are frequently assured, the object of the recent Sino-Japanese negotiations was to promote friendship between China and Japan, then the strongest language used by the Opposition in the special session of the Diet in describing ‘‘Japan’s diplomatic failure was far too weak.
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  • 204 2 A noted brigand of the name Chin Tshinli has been run to earth, states the Peking correspondent of the Hongkong Daily Press. He is a native of Kityaug county. This man has had a wild and exciting career—ofteu running big risks and having hairbreadth escapes—slipping like
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 464 2 ✓5 m The best of white sauces. Your white sauces for boiled fowl, fish or vegetables will be much improved if yourcook uses rown Poison's! pafenf Com Floor instead of ordinary flour to thicken them with. Corn Flour sauces are much nicer, l>etter flavoured, an 1 quite free from lumps
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    • 94 2 Don’t Neglect Your Family. When you fail to provide jour family with a bo(He of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diai iLcea Remedy at this season of the year, you are Deflecting them, as bowel complaint is sure to be prevalent, and it i 9 too dangerous a malady to be
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    • 53 2 Crtmp Colic. No nerd of suffering from cramps in the stc-raacb, or intestinal pains. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cb< lera and Diarrbaei Remedy never fails to relieve the most severe cases. Get it to-day, there will be no time to send for it after the attack comes cn. For sale by all
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    • 430 2 RESERVE YODR PJBCHASFS. Annual Clearance Starts Monday, August 2nd, DOORS OPEN 9 O’CLOCK. SALE CATALOGUE POST FREE. Whiteaway, Laidlaw 8 Co., Ltd., PENANG aggrasEggMHißnjtißgsass Deer Brand NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that he mark dopicted above ia our property, nd is used by us as Trade Mark in iBspect f medicines
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    525 3 TO-MORROW’S PROGRAMME. 1. The Pont Roadster Handicap.— 3 30 p m. A Cup presented by the Committee with ?250 added by the Club. A Handicap for all ponies 14.2 or under, imported as Griffins, Rule of Racing No. 4, to apply to all ponies entered. Eutrance fee* 810.
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  • 63 3 Tennis Tournament. The following ties have been fixed for Friday, the 30th inst:— Championship. H C Sells vt. A 8 Hall. R N Byatt vs. F W Harries. Single Handicap—A. S F B Martin vs. R E Prentis. Bowls Tournament. The following tie has been fixed for
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  • 232 3 QUESTION IN- THB HOUSE OF COMMONB. Governor Sends No Information. House of Commons, June 28. At question time this afternoon, Mr. Gershom Stewart, the Unionist member for Wirral, asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies for information respecting the institution of a system of National Service for
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  • 195 3 Ordinary Meeting. An ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held at the Municipal Office yesterday afternoon. There were present Mr. W. Peel (President), Mr. Quah Beng Kee, and Mr. Yeoh Guan Seok, with Mr. L. M. Bell (Municipal Engineer), and Mr. L. A. C. Biggs (Secretary) in
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  • 213 3 Unquestionably the first resort of the Germans to poisoning by ga9 had a great military effect, and the moral influence of this particular expedient is still so great that it would be grossly improper for the Allies not to give their troops the confidence which a
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  • 172 3 The undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by Messrs. Allen Dennys Co by auction yesterday and by private treaty during the week. 62,700 lbs. wore sold: Diamond Smoked Sheet $132 to $137 No. 2 $l2B $l3l Plain $l2l $127 Un3moked Sheot $llB $124 Fine Pale Crepe
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1049 3 HOTEL NORMAN, Penang’s Select Residential Hotel. To-night! To-night! ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. ENGLISH CUISINE English Treatment large airy rooms facing the sea. Under the patronage of H M. Judges, Medical Officers, Colonial Secretaries, Magistrates, etc» Term» Moderate and Inclusive. Tonight! At the B<g Show George Town Kinematograph, Kuala Kangsa Road Theatre. Noted
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    • 530 3 THE MAGNUMS K O V'.-OW V* £o*«rcut i h> i.^f^"AX!!->jJ jThe MAGNUMS.* jJ 1, Three Castles Cigarette^ Caflle /oh \t£ Ve I i btrfrr brand W.D.& H.O.Wills Bristol London A Handsome Goose Quill Silver Gigarette Holder Enclosed in a Leather Case, Free on Return of 100 Coupons Packed with these
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  • 97 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) ST THIS CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Paic». Daily Local $24 per >»n»n> Outstation... Postage Extra. Wail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS J M ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 tf B.— All bu*in**a
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  • 1305 4 In ancient days, when the whole manhood of a nation was its army, and men fought in hard-to-hand encounters, war may well have been an agent which prevented racial degeneration by constantly weeding out the physically inadequate and feeble. It would be a kind of natural selection
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  • 48 4 P. O. Passage Rates. Rebate for PiastersThe P. A O. Agents inform us that the P. O. S. N. Co., have decided to allow a Special Rebate of 5% off Single or Return Tickets by Intermediate Steamers in favour of Rubber Companies booking such passages for their Employees.
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  • 852 4 Mr. W. Pryde, who hag recently been stationed in Kelantan, has gone on leave. Major C E Borton, Double-Compary Commander of the Malay States Guides, is on a visit to Penang. Mr. R. Scott, District Judge, dealt with all the summons cases fix> j d for to-day,
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  • 916 4 It is sixty-one years to-day since the Government purchased Burlington Ho with a view to providing a home for th! Royal Academy. The famous old mansion built by Richard Lord Burlington in 174?’ which was painted by Hogarth, BUng b Gay, and described by Horace Walpole a seeming
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 244 4 GREAT ANNUAL SALE. Commences to-day for one month only. it. Wo can say no more than our Sale Bargains will tell you. They are the last word in Reductions Our new stock of Straw Hats, Silk Sporting Hnd kerchiefs, sock**, ties, boots shoes, etc for the coming races will also
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  • 476 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. french aerial activity. Paris, July 26. 5 25 p.m. A Paris communique states Isolated struggles with hand-grenades took place. French aeroplanes dropped heavy bombs and a shower of arrows at the German military station at Mantillos.” Comparative Quiet. Paris, July 27, 5.10 p
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  • 157 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. OFFICIAL FIGURES. THE LIST. Mr. H. H. Asquith announced that the total casualties up to July 18 were: Naval 9,1061 Grand Total: i Military 321,889 j 330,995 Of these the Army lost in killed 4,000 officers and 57,384 men. In Flanders and the Dardanelles.
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  • 301 5 IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS BILL. London, July 27. The Government has been defeated in the House of Lords which, despite the appeal of Lord Lansdowne, adopted, by 44 votes to 31, the motion of Lord Balfour of Burleigh to adjourn the debate on
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  • 134 5 Madras, July 14. A Military Court Martial, held at Kandy on the 2nd and Brd instant, in connection with the recent rioting, sentenced a notary named Rajapaks to penal servitude for life, the charge against him having been treason, riotously demolishing a building and shopbreaking. Four others
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  • 572 5 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. MAGNIFICENT RESISTANCE. ENEMY TIGHTLY HELD. Amsterdam, Julj 26, 5.25 p.m. 3 The Russians are making a magnificent resistance. All the vital sectors are still maintained. Ib the NiemcB District. A Berlin communique claims that General von Buelow made some progress in the Niemen
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  • 446 5 (Renter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RESOLUTE ADVANCE. ON THE LOWER ISONZO. Rome, July 27, 2 20 a m. A communique, issued in Rime, states: l "After artillery preparatioa the Italian infantry on the Lower Isonzo resolutely advanced on Sunday and made appreciable progress The left wing captured a
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  • 226 5 Gbrmi.n Insult to U. S. A. Allahabad, July 14. A Pioneer special London cable, dated 14th July, states The New York Herald demands the prompt disavowal of, and apology for, the action of a German submarine, which compelled the American barque Normandy to act aB ma*k while she
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  • 390 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. VIVID PEN PICTURE. BATTLE Or JULY 15 LondoD, July 27. Mr. Ashmead Bartbtt, tho official cor.-o*-pondent in Galiipoli, gives a vivid picture of the fighting described by Sir lan Hamilton on July 15. Our Artillery Preparation. He pays a tribute to the Territorials
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  • 62 5 The following are our selections for to-morrow’s races Race I. 1. Noreen 2. Flywheel Race 11. 1. The Friar 2 Tam Tom Race 111. 1. Cordon Rouge 2. Michael Oraham 3. Brorcn ComH Race IV. 1. Glorify 2. Sador Race V. 1. Betting Bill 2. Loaddeer 3.
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  • 65 5 July 23 By Balance 828,026.04 27 Simpang Estate, Co Ld July subscription 10 00 Staff of Simpang Estate Co., Ld July subscription 10.00 Amount collected by Mr. O. R. Wickham, Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd, Bagan Luar, July subscription 17.15 rf Balance, July 27
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  • 847 5 NO NEED FOR ALARM. Says the Globe's Naval Correspondent: Two of our contemporaries, tli9 Daily Mail and the Evening News, are highly disconcerted by the discovery that Germany is ’arming her new bittleships with 15 inch guns. It came about in this way. On June I 1
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 55 5 Anniversary of the Declaration of War. A Mass Meeting will be held on the Esplanade at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday. August 4, when a Resolution will be submitted recording the inflexible Determination of the Citizens of Pen mg to continue the War to a Victorious End. Every loyal British subject
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  • 97 5 Obituary. Sir James Murray. (Reuter). London, July 27. The death has taken place of the lexicographer Sir James Murray. [lir James Augustus Henry Murray, the •ditor of the Oxford English Dictionary, w m born in 1837. He was a BA. of London ond an M.A. of Oxford (Balliol College). For
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  • 911 6 The Honourable Artillery Company, 1 which has just shown conspicuous gallantry and resource in the field, is London’s Own" London saw its origin, London I watched its development, Londoners filled 1 its rauks, and it was London’s Corporation t that provided it with a home. Concerning its origin,
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  • 1501 6 WORK AND PLAY IN THE DESERT. Golf Behind the Firing Line. The fullowing extracts from letters j written by soldiers in were recently published iu the Manchester Guardian: Golf Under Difficulties I At the back of the firing line and among the trees we have rigged up
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  • 380 6 A Novel Experiment. The servants of several of the local hotels have, during the many years that the hoaest Hylam has ruled the roost, attained such power that managers have teen absolute subjects to their dictates, says the Malaya Tribune of Monday. The Adelpbi Hotel management,
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  • 1011 6 MARVELLOUB RESULTS OF NEW TKHATMENT. 112 Cases. It works like a charm.” It was Mile. Lascaux, Sage-Femmeen-Chef of the Hospital Beaujon, Paris, who spoke, and she was describing the wonderful new treatment discovered in Paris by which childbirth is made painless. But for the war all the
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  • 161 6 Madras, July-12. The Tanjore correspondent of the Madras Tim*s relates an interesting marriage story. Some time ago a Telugu Brahmin girl in the Tanjore District was married to a pleader’s son. Shortly afterwards the child-bride became a widow and continued to live m her father’s house. Her fatherin
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  • 80 6 Lahore, July 12. Pandit Munshiram. an A.rya Samajist preacher, has been directed not to reside in the Lahore and Amritsar districts, nor to lecture or write to the papers. He will intern himself at Koni, Feroiepur. An application has been made to the Chief Commissioner for the
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  • 381 6 Lahore, July 13. The Zemindar announces it will not comment on political nor war topics but will confine itself to history, religion, morals,) the improvement and culture of Hindus and Mahomedans. For the purpose of overcoming threatened strikes for higher wages in some German towns, the Military have
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  • 208 6 To the Editor of the Strait» Echo Dear Sir, I shall be much obliged if you w :n publish the enclosed statement. Yours faithfully, Mart Barnard. Kuala Lumpur, July 26, 1915. THE QUEEN'S WORK FOR WOMFV FUND. Previously acknowledged $960on Mrs. Herbert Cooper, Profits
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  • 264 6 Russian Liberals (writes a correspondent) are congratulating themselvts on an important Ministerial appointment tbit has just been made. The last two Ministers of Public Instruction, the late M. A.N. Schwarze (of such Dames the Russian bureaucracy is full) and M. L. A Kasso, have both been thoroughgoing
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  • 204 6 j The Colonial Chaplain goes to Alor Star on Saturday for services in the little Church j there-on Sunday next: i 8-00 am. Holy Communion 1 5-15 p.m. Evensong (Volunteer Parade b Service). The Rev. C. F. C. Elvin, of the Singapore j Diocesan Association, will
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 42 6 Owe for Blues. Correct that disordered storoaoh with a few doses of Chamlrerlain’s Tablets, and that feelicg of distress and deepoftdencj will disappear like magic. They are a sure cure for the hlueß. For sale by all Dispensaries sn/l i» ea erB
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    • 85 6 Occasional spells of Fever may be said to be the inheritance of all who come to the Tropics. As an easement and to quickly break them down and restore the body temperature to normal, there is nothi g better than WOODS’ GRE4T PEPPERMINT CURE, A dose or two of this
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    • 57 6 Blazon Type Not Necessary. Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrbcei Remedy need» do glaring headline to attract the public eye. The simple statement that all chemists sell it is sufficient, as every family knows its value. It has been used for forty years and is just what its name implies For
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    • 13 6 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, la. 6d. i
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    • 68 6 Can You Afford the Risk? Were yon ever seized with a severe am P or diarrhea without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house? Don’t take such risks A dose or two will cute you before a doctor could possibly be called and it never
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    • 10 6 For Chronic Chert Complainti, Wood*’ Greet Peppermint Cere li Id.
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  • 2149 7 It was uot until 1830 that Belgium attained the status of an independent kingdom She had been incorporated with Holland on tho fall of the empire of which she had been a part since the conquests of the Revolution. Before that she had been a Spanish province, a
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 621 7 John Roberts Billiard Table Manufacturer, HOTEL NORMAN. PENANG. HAS IN STOCK New Billiard Tables FOR SALE AND All Billiard Accessories such as Cues, Balls etc. Undertakes Repairs to any Kiud of Table at reasonable Charges. NOTICE. Penang Auction Mart. BY ORDER OP EWE KEOK NEOH, wi e of Mr. NO
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    • 1648 8 P. 40. 08 «U» Cr> S.N.C“ Wireless Telegraphy, fitted on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp. Expected Arrivals and Departures. Mail Service Outward. I on BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD, Die (Penang Aug.
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