Straits Echo, 11 October 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo PAILY ClißOMtLfc OF BJ'ENTS, CIRUIUTIIWi IIiROUGKOIT, "lit STRAITS, ITfT FEDERATED MALAY STATES ASD fHE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annua PENANG, MONDAY, 11th OCTOBEK, 19lS. Single Cops, »0 cents. No. *32
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    • 1072 1 hittszcßGKaaeßMsit»bshiobbiibs»» !4 S ‘*©O«o 33T9NVIX Hi 1 a 1 3 *r i H v 3 S-- s; *gl Sr s.a t*g% 3 WMTJSAaii’ For Cars on Hire fJ3k EMPIRE "'The Little Ariilocrtj* C all at or ’phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A Penang Road. Just Unpacked A
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    • 19 1 TO LET I 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET <5 HEALTHY. APPLY H 53, Bench Street. nnmnmunnunnm
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  • 889 3 What May Happen after the War. Discussing the prospects of the raw rubber market after the war has become a thing of the past, a writer in a Brazilian contemporary expresses the opinion that German and Austrian manufacturers will not go near the London auctions of plantation rubber
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    • 1119 3 Children likeMellin’s and thrive on it Mellin’s Food always satisfies. It coivains in correct proportion nutritive elements which, when the food is mixed with tres't cow's mil*, provide a comp tte and satisfactory diet for children of all from birth. Mellins Foed A Sam pi 2 Bottle cf Mellin’s hood,
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    • 93 3 Diphtheria-How It Map Be Avoided. Dipth9ria is usually contracted when lit) child has a cold. The cold prepares lhe child’s system for the reception and development of the diphtheria germs When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighbourhood children that h ive colds should be kept at home and
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    • 432 3 Anaemia or Poorness of Blood, is far more prevalent than is generally supposed. Men, Women and Children are all liable to suffer. If neglected, serious consequences may result. If taken when the symptoms are first noticed, it is a very simple matter to enrich the blood and so effectually check
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  • 3081 4 SOME POINT IN PRESIDENT’S J REPORT. 1914 A Healthy Year. From the aoting Municipal Secretary comes a copy of the 1914 “blue book of Singapore Municipality—the volume which contains the Presidential review of the city's corporate life for the year and the reports which record the activities of
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    • 46 4 Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. There is nothin? so Rood for muscular rheumatism, sprains, lameness, cramps of the mu cles, bruises and like injuries as Cb imberlaia’s Pain Balm. It will effect a cure in less time thau any other treatment. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 389 4 WA.ISTTimD COMPETENT COMPOSITORS. Salary according to qualification. Apply in person to FOREMAN, Straits Echo." The Eastern United Assurance Corporation Ltd. Head Office: SINGAPORE. Tie o'id- rsigned has been appointo<l Agent for the ahova Corporation, and is now prepared to accept MARINE FIRE RISKS at current ratos. QUAII PENG KEE, 4-i.
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    • 64 4 LID. SOLE AGE ITS F’OR ROVER CYCLES *cw* r 8 Thu a* if TON SEMI-DIESEL OIL ENGINE MANUFACTURED BY Ciayton 8 Shvttltworth Ltd., LINCOLN, ENGLAND. Automatic Work* throughout ctj’jitly bsu 9 requires wdl with a*#» ao lamp or Crude, m. attention Residual, ar after refined starting. L>.ap Oil. The Cheapest
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  • 784 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. L»4jr Sydenham's Appeal. London, October 8. In appealing for comforts for Indian soldiers at a meeting at Kensington, Lady Sydenham said that in view of the increase in the war theatres the needs of the troops i were greater than ever The chief
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  • 981 5 To-da\ is the forty-first anniversary of Fiji’s entrance into the British Empire. Sighted by Tasman in the seventeenth century and visited by Captain Cook in the eighteenth, Fiji remained practically unknown until a hundred years ago, when its ciunibalistic inhabitants were converted to Christianity by the Wesloyan missionaries
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    • 430 5 J < Ui (/> o UI Q£ -1 < O Ui Q. m </) m z < z < X u 3 m o in GO SCOTCH WHISKY UCHANA SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT’ Hr SCOTCH (m JAMES OIASOOW* ph 99 ■—J S* BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY rt> ■o
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    • 535 5 I I I QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. 'VIRGINIA c <car.ett£s y ®SISTOL LOHDO^i That’s why “EMBASSY VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as THE CIGARETTE DE LUXE. 7777, Ka v.r.w.’xai TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT I The final episode of the 1 BLACK BOX
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  • 89 6 daily (except Suudnja «id pabhe holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, Ltd No. 59, Baach Street, Penang. P*ic«. i 'ailj Local $24 per am Outstation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CARLS ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG." Telephone Nos. (Echo, 58€ Printing Department 343 Nd. —AH huaiaaa» cvmaunicatioa* thould b«
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  • 1323 6 Armenians count themselves among the most ancient of race?. They conquered the country from which they take their name nearly seven centuries before the Christian era, aad the fact that they have survived as a people with nationalist aspirations in spite of being for hundreds of
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  • 158 6 This Circus with the bi lingual name opens to-night at Dato Kramat. If the I weather is at all favourable there ought to be a bumper house for the show comes with a great reputation from Singapore and the Native States. It did, for instance, really good
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  • 955 6 Mr. C. J. Perkins is now a corpor.J iu the 24th Batt., Royal Fusiliers. M M Messrs. Liru Seng Hooi and Cheah Kee Ee are appointed members of the eommittee of the Penaug Free School. Sorgt. T. A. Zee, of the Chiuese Company, Shanghai Volunteer Corps, has
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  • 584 6 (Renter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. RUSSIAN PROGRESS. GERMAN TRANSPORT SUNK. London, October 9, 5 25 a.m. The capture altogether of 3,870 prisoner -i by the Russians in the fierce fighting along the whole front and the destruction of a German transport by a British submarine near the Germ
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  • 40 6 Po Th r M ,gbl 5 Dd A A Rowlands Para Rubber t-o., Ltd. and the Chersonese (P. M S Estates Ltd. have declared au Interim Sr 5% £t yab,e on the 29th October and 12th November respectively.
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    • 158 6 Always the very latest here. •Tust cut a good assortment of Sc*Dg Post Cards, beautifully lljn-trat *d in colours. Hold in sets only at cents per set. They comprise the following:— ft’s a long way to 1 ipporary. Kiss Good-Bye. Bow can L bear to Leave Thee r Har.dy Boy.
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  • 1189 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. PERSECUTION OF GREEKS. Paris, October 8. The Tempi states that si ace the TurcoBulganan Treaty the persecutions of Greeks in Turkey have been greatly intensified. The Greak language is forbidden everywhere aud many assissinatious have taken place. Many Greeks have been driveu to the
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  • 80 7 {From Our Oim Corre~ < *pondent.') Kuala Lumpur, October 9. At the Klang L jdge installation meeting j on Saturday Wo. Bro. C. L. Chapment was installed as Master. Deputy D. O. M. < Young was present and Wof. Bro. Heniy acted as installing master. The banquet
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  • 1260 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. HEAVY ANNONADING. Loudon, October 8, 6.15 p m. A Paris communique states that ceaseless cannonading took place in Artois and Champagne, in the regions of Roye and Tracy Le Val, in the Argonne aud on the heights of the Meuse. There was also
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  • 677 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram SUBMARINE OFFICER S COURAGE. London, October 9. A thrilling story of superb courage and hardihood is contained in an Admiralty j Statement, giving details of the of Lieutenant D. Hughes, a subrn irine officer iu the Sea of Marmora, He went ashore at
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  • 512 7 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from j the •Sumatra Post of Friday and Saturday last, October 8 and 9: Holland nnd The Wnr. 1 Th importat ion of Germ in coal into Holland has agaiu been stopped. The Teleyraaf stab s that on several
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  • 360 7 The following aruoidi wiil be found on our outside pages Page. 3. —Rubber Notes. 4. —Municipal Siugiporei 5—R udom Notes. 8. —British Malaya, Malay States Gui les. Ttia Muuieipil Ordinance. Singapore Races. Penaug Golf Clu\ Penang Swimming Club, Government of Sarawak. Kelantan Notes The Priace of Wales’ War Rdiet
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  • 1038 8 THE RAILWAY TEAR. S o Stores and Materials Purchased in the United Kingdom ci Last year the Railway Department of the c Federated Malay States purchased iu this fi country stores and materials to the value of s £522,728, as against £330,283 in 1913, and I a further
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  • 414 8 LOYALTY TO THE KING. 1 Official Telegrams The following telegrams despatched prior to and subsequent to the departure of the M day States Guides on active service from Penang (26th September, 1915) have been officially communicated to our Kuala Lumpur contemporary From the High Commissioner to the
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  • 446 8 Proposed Extension of the Provisi ns An ordinance to amend the Municipal Ordinance 1913, is to be introduced into the Legislative Council. The principal amend ments contained in this bill are the following:—Power is given to the Commissioners to make by-laws to regulate, restrict or prevent exhibition
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  • 1374 8 The Entries. I Entries for the Singapore Spring Races J dosed at noon on Saturday. They were not, I says the Malaya Tribune, quite up to expectations, though there is every prospect of a < really 6ucc36sful meeting. The only three < notable absentees among the competing horses
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  • 151 8 The Quarter Mile Championship Competition for the President’s Challenge Cup took place at the Swimming Club on Sunday forenoon There were only 7 Mai tors but the race was very keenly contested aud resulted in a victory for Mr. Henderson by 4 seconds, the places being Time.
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  • 109 8 Men's October Prrsgrave Cup. The play for this competition resu.ted as follows V G Ezecbiel 1 down C R Samuel 3 VV S Goldie 5 P J pproule 8 Messrs A M Sellar, J G Anthony, E A Hender<oD, T E Wirfidd, J A Martin, P T
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  • 148 8 The Rajah of Sarawak has issued the following proclamation, under date Kuching, October 4 :—Whereas the Government of Sarawak has hitherto in my absence been entiusted to a Committee of Administrate n it is now my intend >n to inaugurate on November 1 next a peimanent and
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  • 148 8 Kota Bahru, Oct. 4. The Kelantan special constables together with the Sikh police and the S.V.I. had a field d»y on the seaside at Tumbat. The S.V.I. under Lieut, Myles, and the whole force under the commaud of Capt. Anderson C P. O. The band of the Sikh
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  • 256 8 Oct. 7By Bilance $38,111.39 9 Staff of Messrs. Adamson Gilfillan Co., Ltd., 9th instalment 91.50 Balance, Oct. 9 38;202 89 Remitted to Loudon £lO,OOO on 24-2 15 85,618 73 Total subscriptions to date ...$123,821.62 It is many months, says Friday’s Straits Times, since
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  • 330 8 Following are the Agenda for to-morrow’g meeting of the Municipal Commission 1 Minutes of last meeting to be read and confirmed 2 Any special business the President may bring forward. 3 Questions. 4 borne bills to be passed. 5 Plans. Tbe concluding chapters of “The Black Box were
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    • 10 8 For Chronic Cheat Complaints, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure la, 6d
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    • 37 8 Children's Coughs. Why let the children rock their little bodies in such a diet reccing manner when you can so easily cure their colds with bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealerp.
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    • 68 8 Sufferers from Indigestion will find speedy and permanent relief bv taking a course of woods; great peppermint core. This medicine has been proved by generations of English Colonists throughout the world to bo the beet for family use. It is a true corrective and preventive. Millions of people rely upon
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    • 364 8 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d. NOTICE. The Mohammedan and Hindu Endow* ments Board. f SLENDERS are invited for the erection of L a Minaret and New Ablution Tank for the Captain Kling Mosque, Pitt Street, PenaDg. Plans and specifications can be inspected at
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  • 360 9 It appears from figures published by the Board of Trade that our exports to China during the the first six months of the current year, valued at £4,059,000, were less than half those of the corresponding period of 1914, Our imports, on the other
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  • 253 9 We have now had the announcements of the half-yearly distributions of all the Eastern Exchange banks. The statements have made quite satisfactory reading, and it is evident that the institutions concerned have bad a good half-year, notwithstanding the war and the dislocations that it basciused in so
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  • 201 9 Tho N. C. D News has a note on tbe absurd manner in which some Chinese women dresß themselves according to what they apparently believe to be the Western style. Recently a buxom Chinese girl of eighteen or nineteen was seen sitting with a quietly dressed woman in
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  • 40 9 Monday 11th October, 1915. Esplanade, 6 to 7 p m, 1 Selection The New Barmaid Crook 2 Mazurka Souvenir Braroaser 8 Waltz Spirit of Love Hartu inn 4 Polka Are You Engaged Hewitt 5 March Nulli Secundus Bentley
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    • 58 9 It Never Fails. Cha i.berlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhoea Remedy is all its name implies. It cures diarrhoea and dysentery in either children or adults, and the most violent cases of cratup colic or pains in the stomach give wav to a few doses of this medicine Safe, sure, always
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    • 644 9 RRI i m 1 IB iiiiiili litii i! iliiiiiii I :iii U!i i i i The Greatest Joy in Life is the possession of a happy healthy baby- a baby that is always ready with a smile, that chortles and fIU gurgles with delight from pure good health. All healthy
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  • 1232 10 Probably never since the historic day when chests were thrown into Boston Harbour has tea been so much in the eye of the world as at the present moment. Lon# considered in the light of a luxury, tea has recently been placed in the category of a
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  • 745 10 1 Among the various festivals and fete-days i observed in China the most noteworthy at 1 the present time are probably Chinese New Year Eve, New Year Day. and C rnfuciu 5 Birthday. For hundreds of years Chinese calendars published, and sold by the million, in various
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    • 53 10 As Smooth as Velvet is the action of ESMtm the gentle laxatives. They do not gripe, yet their work is more thorough than harsh purgatives, which leave the bowels in a worse oondition than before. Of Chemists, 50 cents per phial, or post free from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co.,
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  • 2050 11  -  Bt the Right Hon. Sir Josnph Rickntt, M. P. THE STATE AND THE NATION. T n »f the war be brought to a suecessfnl isiue during next year, we are not likely to recover mueh indemnity from Central Europe. Germany is rising to still greater
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    • 309 11 THE SECRET TO HEALTH RESTORING. BOOKS of advice, given by Dr. K. C. Dim. a physician of over 50 years’ experience in the above subject, can be obtained pest free from the following places:— PENANG RUBBER 8TAMP Co., 40, Church Street, Penang. THE FRIEND OF THE PUBLIC Co., 49, Lahat
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    • 59 11 Sunshine tod Comma Scam. Don’t doctor your blood far rbeumatiim. Use an external application of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm In a few days it will get you up and out into the sunshine, then nature will restore the rich red blood to your reins and soon rid the system of this
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    • 1969 12 SR oU >5 S.N.C“ Wirelew Telegraphy, fitted on all Steamers. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans FREE of Charge and each berth is furnished with an Eleotric Reading Lamp. Expected Arrivals and Departures. For Singapore BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Intended to Sa.il. Stum ik. Thur., 14th Oct.,
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