Straits Echo, 12 October 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo I,AILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY < VOL. 13. $24 Per Annun* PENANG, TUESDAY, i2th OCTOBER, 1916. Single Copy, It cctli, No. 233
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 989 1 HIKHWM t m s S 3 H M > z Q r r W Cl BTh« Doctor kdrisefl and moo»mnnd*. It ii lonrisking, inriZ forattng and strangtkncinf. ■ac V"t *.N For Cars on Hire < BANKS. > t FOR EMPIRE “'The Lillie Aristocrat** C all at or 'phone (No. 694)
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    • 18 1 t TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428, BURMAH ROAD. LOCATION QUIET e HEALTHY. APPLY S 3, Bench Street.
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  • 2242 2  -  THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE. j Fourth Article. By Rudyard Kipling. We passed into the zone of another army and a hilher couutry, where the border villages lay more sheltered. Here and there a town and tke fields round it gave us a I glimpse of the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 707 2 Singapore and Straits Directory, 1916. ALL papers in the hands of the public referring to the Directory should be returned' to the Publishers at onca Firms, Planting Companies or individuals whose names were omitted from the Directory for this year, and who desire their names to appear in the 1916
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    • 57 2 It Never Fails. Chamberlain’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 cramp colic or pains in the stomach give way to a few doses of this medicine Safe, sure, always cures.
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    • 440 2 DO NOT FEAR GERMAN SUBMARINES!!! Is there a Dearth of Bicycles in Penang now f MO CERTAINLY NOT!! In spite of the German Submarine activity or scare we have just received a new shipment of British-made Bicycles, PRICE, FITTED COMPLETE WITH THE SPEED TYRES. L\MP, BElt, PUMP Sc. $4l-00 nett.
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  • 680 3 The Jockey Club for some reason did not call the substitute race for the Leger, the New Leger but the September Stakes. Pommern, however, added it with some ease to tns Guineas and Derby victories* So to all intents and purposes he may be considered as the
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  • 152 3 Tennis Tournament. The following tie has been fixed for to-morrow Double Handicap B. Bennet and Hargrave vs Large and Cowap. Bowls Tournament. Tha following tie has been fixed for to-morrow Fours. Rose, Dunn, Adams, Owen vs Allan, Chalmers, Reid, Sharpe. According to the China Critic the Masonic
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  • 559 3 Opinion iir Siam. Opinion in Siam with regard to the Germany's submarine warfare on unarmed merchant vesssls, which have so often been torpedoed without warning, does not differ J from opinion in other neutral countries says I the Bangkok Times. This is made perfectly clear m the Journal
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  • 417 3 The Seventh Annual General Meeting of tbis club will bo held at the P. V Drill Hall on Wednesday, November 3,at 630 p.m. Agenda. To receive and if approved adopt the yearly statement of accounts made up to September 30. 1915. To receive and if approved
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 506 3 FIRST VISIT TO PENANG THE! MW CIRQUE! (of London Paris) TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! AND EVERY EVENINC AT 9-15 AT THE DATO KRAMAT GARDENS A High Class Circus and Variety Company of European Artistes. Freely acknowledged by the Press to be absolutely the Best Show ever seen in the Orient. EVERYTHING NEW
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    • 500 3 I i 1 QUALITY is the point which is necessary in an enjoyable Cigarette. 'VIRGINIA C| CaR.ETT£S-^^'|J Vv D.6HOV/il^#i!. 6 *ISTOL 1 THE CIGARETTE s. That’s why “EMBASSY VIRGINIA No. 77 has been justly described as DE LUXE. r/y TO-NIGHT I TO-NIGHT f Phe final episode of the BLACK BOX
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  • 94 4 FmbliVnad daily (eicept Sundays and pebiio holidays) AT TEI CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. Nj. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Paica. Daily Local m $24 per annua. Outstation... Postage Eitra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDEBSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 586 Printing Department 343 AT <4.—AII bu.iii»»» comfßunic'ioß. should
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  • 1287 4 Although we are without precise official figures wa know for a fact that over two million —and probably three million —men from the British Empire have during the past fifteen months undergone training for war mostly in the British Isles. They have gone from their homes
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  • 58 4 Most unfortunately, the weather made it impossible for the New Cirque to open its season iu Penang last night. It id intended, howpv*>r, to start to-night and as all the accouuts which reach us from the Native States describe the circus as a really genuine first-class show
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  • 105 4 At the Tanglin Club Singapore, on Tuesday the 12th inst, the Misses Aileen and Doris Woods ■will again appear for the members in an entirely new programme Onefifth of the proceeds are to be sent to the Red Cross Fund.” During Race Week these clever Artistes (with
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  • 923 4 Mr. H. Welham proceeded to Singrpore by the s.s. Klang thi9 afternoon. Mr. W. Lubbetink joined the staff of the Bat. Handelsblad, while Mr. W. Schountendorp leaves tlis journal for the Soer. Handelsblad. Our Kuala Lumpur correspondent wires news of the death of Mr. E C. Hatch,
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  • 977 4 Now that German is being ousted Lom tle curriculum of some of the secondary f- bools in England possibly Italian may be inserted in its place. Such an alteration would have been cordially welcomed by Gladstone. A favourite topic with Mr Gladstone.” writes the present Headmaster of Eton,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 43 4 The George Town Dispensary, Ltd., Penang, Taiping and Ipoh. ruin k do., us. SOLE AGE MTS FOR ROVER CYCLES. New Bottling. m N H3 sf r i > i Jy £g Q SI K »S0A£: AGENTS: T TlfV ii 6y THRIE Ce., Ltd., PENANG.
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  • 659 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram CRISIS IN GREECE. the secret treaty. Athens, October 11. The British Minister at Athens has handed to M. Zaijuis, the I remier, the text of the gecrtt treaty between the Cential Powers Bulgaria mentioned this morning, [loibtle*'* it will be the subject of a
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  • 397 5 (Reuters Service.) Copyright Telegram. RUSSIAN SUCCESS. London, October 11. A 'Petrograd communique records the further cipture of hundred* of prisouers bj the Russians iu the disparate lighting north of Drinsk, wheie the villages cunstautly changed haud^. Ibe communique calls attention Po the wonderful success of the scouts,
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  • 231 5 Penang Women Workers for Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild are informed that a case of Hospital garments for soldiers has been packed and will be sent to St. James Palace at the end of this week. The case contains the following articles as a result of four
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  • 891 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. CAPTURE OF TAHURE HILL. EFFECTIVE ARTILLERY PREPARATION. London, October 11, The French “Eye-witness” states that the capture of Tahure Hil! was the result of a strong artillery preparation preceding brava j attacks on the enemy trenches which were I everywhere choked with corpses.
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  • 330 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ON THE ISONZO FRONT London, October 11. A Rome communique states that the enemy, after heavy artillery fire, attacked several portions of the Isonzo front in conI siderable force. They were everywhere J repulsed with heavy losses. The Austrian communique makes no reference
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  • 72 5 {From Our Own Correspondent. Singapore. October 11. Yesterday morning in the presence of Brigadier-General Ridout, the Admiral and staffs of the Shropshires and the Volunteers, H. E. the Governor presented the Long Service Medal to Sergeant Constable, of the Engineers, before the garrison church parade. His
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  • 297 5 The following articles will be found od our outside pages Page. 2. —France at War. 3—The Lusitania. P. V. Rifle Club. The English Turf. Penang Cricket Club (j.— Malaya’s Contribution to the War. After the War. India’s ’Princely Gifts. My Treatment in Germany. Naval Notes Mining in the F.M.S.
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  • 2055 5 The hearing was resumed yesterday, afternoon before Mr. V. G. Ezechiel of the case against Adji bin Junus, employed as a quartermaster on board the ns. Carnirvonshire and charged with voluntary causing hurt to one Mr. Jordan, Second Officer on the same ship. Court Inspector Nicol prosecuted
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  • 33 5 Obituary. {from Our Own Correspondent.') Singapore, October 11. News have been received in Singapore of the death of Mr. P. T. Evatt who retired from the firm of Messrs. Lyall, Evatt in 1909.
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  • 1042 6  -  AS8I8TANCE IN MEN AND MONEY. (By E. H. B) At first sight, and to casual readers, this article may appear to be written in a spirit of rivalry and comparison. This is far from being the case, and the writer’s aim has been simply and
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  • 299 6 KING ALFONSOS PREDICTIONS. Nations Will arm More than Ever.’’ Paris, September 8. The Journal publishes a conversation between King Alfonso and an Argentine Journalist. Speaking of the European War, His Majesty said it was impossible to predict the date of a return to normal conditions. In reply
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  • 415 6 MEN, MONEY, AND MUNITIONS. A Splendid List. The latest gifts from Indian princes include one from Maharaja Holkar of Indore of one lakh of rupees for providing comforts for Indian pritces on active service; from the Maharaja Sindhia of Gwalior one lakh of rupees to the Minister
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  • 1340 6  -  MORE PRISONERS’ STORIES. I Bliad I By P. A. McKenzie. The man sat in the Kentish garden fumbling his bands in the way the newly blind have. He was a giant from the West, a trapper and a pioneer, able to drive his team of four
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  • 749 6 Agricultural and Industrial Development. The announcement that the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce has decided to establish four model establishments for agricultural industries, is one that should receive a hearty welcome from all quarters. The four establishments to be set up are an experimental cotton farm at
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  • 876 6 THE WORK OF THE MAIN FLEET IN WAR. Submarine Hunting. London, September 8. It is only a few weeks since the suggestion was made in these notes that Mr. Kipling’s impressions of a week’s visit to the Main Fleet would provide a national tonic of first water. Toe
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  • 1041 6 Prospecting Problems We have always found it difficult to understand the motive of the Government in adhering to the-existing polidy surrounding prospecting in this country. It i 8 retrograde and wholly against the interests of the country. What ever has to be kept to the fore
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 84 6 It ia but a abort atep from a chilled condition of the body to Pneumonia, and un'ess the chill be driven off that second serious condition iB reached, sometimes in leas than 24 hours. Apply this warning to yourself when you feel out of aorta with a cold. Take a
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    • 44 6 Chamberlain's Pain Balm. There is nothing so good for muscular rheumatism, spraios. lameness, cramps of the muscles, bruises and like injuries as Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It will effect a cure in less time than any other treatment. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 92 6 Diphtheria—How It Map Be Avoided. Diptberia is usually contracted when the child has a cold. The cold prepares the qhild’s system for the reception and development of the diphtheria germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighbourhood children that have oolds should be kept at home and off
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    • 10 6 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Co»e Is. 6d
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  • 230 7 [n the tropic* many people lost* appetite, al ],l from 'his draw conclusions that ara not medically sound. Soma say that in the topics the body does not require so many meals but this i> wrong. Certainly the body does not require so elements that create heat,
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  • 831 7 6PY HANGED FoIThiGH TREASON IN PETROGRAD. > i bar’s Ex-Guabdian Who Took t Millions 0» Roubles From Germany m U f Pans Sep* A 3. i ibo papers here jrave published full de tails, drawn from the Russian Press, of the sen* itional espionage affair in
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  • 779 7 1 ARMENIANS lO BE EXTERMINATED.” I Dats or Hoeror in Constantinople, Lausanne, September 1. Till a few weeks ago it was still possible 3 for Armenians—if they were women, or men over 60 or under 16—to leave Turkey. s Those who were able took advantage of this
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 287 7 THE SECRET TO HEALTH RESTORING. BOOKS of advice, given by Dr. K. C. I)d88, a physician of over 50 years’ experience in the above subject, can be obtained post free from the foliowing places: PENANG RUBBER STAMP Co., 40, Church Street, Penang. THE FRIEND OP THE PUBLIC Co., 49, Lahat
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    • 12 7 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d.
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    • 59 7 Sunshine and Common Sense. Don't doctor your blood far rheumatism 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 veins and soon rid the system of this
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    • 563 7 D BY APPOINTMENT *3 TO H. M. THE KING NESTLE CHOCOLATE FOR THE FRONT. Having been requested by several Residents in the Malay Peninsula to send parcels of Nestle Chocolates to relatives or friends at the Front, we have now made arrangements to send parcels from our Loudon Office on
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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