Straits Echo, 20 October 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum, PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 20th OCTOBEK, 1915. Single Capj, 10 cent». No. 240
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  • 1832 2 The present position of the submarine question is perhaps more satisfactory to ourselves than to America. The celebrations on the other side of the Atlantic of the great peaceful victory achieved by President Wilson’s diplomacy have been rudely disturbed by the sinking of two more
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  • 787 3 First Day’s Results. 3 (From Our Own Correspondent*) Singapore, October 19. The opening day of the*Singapore Autumn Meeting was fine, but dull. There was a fair attendance. The results were as follows: Openiicg Stakes. Value $6OO and $5O to the Second Horse. A Selling Race Handicap for horses
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  • 1016 3 A Chinaman named Kueh Lai was this morning charged before Mr. E. E. Colman in the Second Court with maiming a calf valued at $35, the property of Yeerappen, on i October 13. Court Inspector Nicol, who prosecuted, stated that this calf went near the house of
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  • 95 4 Published daily (except Sunday a and public kolidsifs) AT TE2 CRITERION PEE S 3, Lro. No. 59. Beach Street, Penang. Fbicu. Daily Local $24 per aunua Outstation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDEE3S ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Echo, 583 Printing Department 343 Nit. —All busineM
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  • 1365 4 CONFOUND THEIR POLITICS A very fair idea of the financial straits to which Germany is now reduced may be gathered from the following paragraph which we take from a London weekly paper The facilities offered to intending investors in the thii*d German War Loan may be expected to ensure its
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  • 116 4 Despite the unfavourable weather there was quite a fair house at the New Cirque last night and it is quite certain that but for the persistent rain the company’s season horo would have been a most successful one for it is universally acknowledged to be quite the
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  • 978 4 Mr. H. C. Ridges, the Kuala Lumpur paper hears, is now attached to the < Official Press Bureau. Mr. T. P. Sargent, Assistant Engineer, is gazetted to the appointment of District i Engineer, F. M. S. Railways, with effect t from Sept. 20tb. 1 Our Singapore correspondent
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  • 1034 4 The recent air raids upon the Eastern <• mntries and London have produced, us might have been expected, just the opposite result to that imagined by the enterprising bat dull-witted enemy. Frightfulness docs not frighten -it enrages us. It was evor t iius. When we are hit our
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  • 1429 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram FKfcNCH BATTERIES ACTIVE. London, October 18. 4 55 p m. The French batteries made very effective practice along the whole front. A j communique states: .< We completely repulsed three German attacks eastward of Soucbez and also repulsed evaiywhere an attempted moveinsut northward
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  • 651 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. CRITICAL SITUATION. SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED. London, October 19. Yesterday’s meeting of the Cabinet lasted three hours. It is understood that the conscription controversy was not touched upon as Mr Asquith is slightly’,indisposed, but the Daily Chronicle declares that the Ministers in favour of conscription
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  • 655 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. IN THE PIROT REGION. Paris, October 18. A telegram from Nish states thit so far the Bulgarians have captured a few weaklydefouded positions in the region of Pirot and have been repulsed at many other points. On the Save. The Austro-German troops have attacked
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  • 469 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FURTHER RUSSIAN SUCCESSES. PRISONERS CAPTURED. Petrograd, October 19. Further Russian successes, resultiug in the capture of a number of villages at various points of the front with (altogether) 3,300 prisoners and rainy machine-guns, are recorded in a communique which says The fiercest fighting
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  • 294 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages:— Page 2. —France at War. 3. —Singapore Races. Maiming a Calf. 6. —Straits CLine80 and the War. Griff’s Farewell. Affairs in China. Local AfEairs. China in Convulsions. 7. —The Future of the Submarine. From last night’s T.O M We
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  • 471 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The foiiowing special telegrams aro from oho Sumatra Post of Monday, October 20 Holland and the War. It is officially announced that the Netherlands Government has repeatedly protested to the German Government against the violation of Dutch territory by Zeppelins, notably again on September
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  • 341 5 Oct. 18 By Balance $38,497.28 19 Municipal Staff, 12th instalment 400.00 Penang Baud, 10th instalment 18.90 Subscription from Patrol 4.00 Staff of Penang Harbour Board. September subscription 77.20 Balance, Oct. 19 38,997.38 Remitted to London £lO,OOO on 24-2-15 85,618 73 Total subscriptions to
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  • 1068 6 The meeting of the Legislative Council on Friday was interesting in many ways, says the Straits Timet, and not least because 1 it provided an opportunity for' clearing up a good many points. The Bpeech of Sir Evelyn Ellis puts very clearly indeed the real meaning of some
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  • 886 6 The Monarchical Movement. The opposition to the proposal to afford the people of China an opportunity of showing whether they wish to maintain the existing nominally republican form of government or to revert to monarchism, appears to be weakening, says the Peking Daily Newt. It has become
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  • 1010 6  -  By THE Shellback. In the days before Durban boasted its new Town Hall, and when the site thereof was a public garden, the Senior Apprentice and I met Griff, the ordinary seaman, in West-street, and the three of us were accosted outside the garden by a longshore hobo
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  • 355 6 At the outset of the present war we heard a good deal about how the subject races would rise and throw off the hated British yoke and all that kind of thing. But, oddly enough, the subject races and peoples within the British overseas dominions
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  • 543 6 Bowls Tournament. The following tie has been fixed for to-morrow Fours. Rose, Owen, A R Adams, *W S Dunn vs Allan, Chalmers, R H Reid, W K Sharpe. It is reported that the price of steel and iron in Harbin has advanced about twofold since the outbreak
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  • 1917 6 MEANING OF THE NEW i MONARCHIST MOVEMENT. By Sie F. T. Piggott, Late Chief i Justice, Supreme Court, Hongkong 1 The rumour has been published that there is a real, definite desire to revive the Monarchy in China, and that it is well 1 within the bounds
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  • 2433 7  -  THE COMMON TASK OF A GREAT PEOPLE. Sixth Article. By Rudyard Kipling. This is the end of the line, said the Staff Officer, kindest and most patient of chaperones. It buttressed itself on a fortress among hills. Beyond that, the silence was more awful than the mixed
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