Straits Echo, 25 October 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, TftS FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum, PENANG, MONDAY, 26th OCTOBEII, 1916. Single Copy, 10 centi. No. 244
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    • 1135 1 iC£BKa«wßsnoarw*K*aiiaan3«BK»i •lUtCtDft-J *’oo a 33i onvix “»«>v »it I B H cr d n: o 5. S» 5 5. <2 P 5 fi.* 3 2 cv a.* *&aa;s pcif s.fag 3 5 u:u:k(io For Cars on Hire arcs. EMPIRE The Little Aristocrat Call at or 'phone (No. 694) to Georgetown
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    • 19 1 TO LET. 1 BUNGALOW No. 1428, BURMAH ROAD. a LOCATION QUILT e HEALTHY. APPLY X 53, Beach Street. JJ
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  • 1196 3 EXTERMINATING A RACE. Talaat Bey's Treachery. Cairo, Sept. 27. Confirmation has reached here of the reports that have been current of Armenian atrocities of a nauseating and appalling character. Undoubtedly, as on previous oc casions, these outrages have been engineered from Stamboul. There is reason to
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  • 573 3 Bitterness against England. Berne, Sept. 19. A Swiss merchant who has just returned from Berlin confirms what has already been said several tim°s as to life in the German capital at first sight appearing quite normal, but afterwards, especially to those who have already been there before,
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    • 443 3 CHIN SENG CO., LTD IY2otor-car and Ccach Builders. Saddlery, Harness and Rubber Wheel Makers. Motor-car and Motor Bu Establishment. A Fleet of First Class Cars (the best in Penang) for hire Day and Night. Office Northam Road. Hire Garage Farquhar Street. MOTOR GARAGE and WORKSHOPS PENANG ROAD, PENANG. x. <*«
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    • 59 3 Sunshine end Common Sense. Don’t doctor vour blood far rheumatism, Use an external application of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. In a few days it will get you up and cut 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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    • 373 3 Lassitude is a feeling of weariness, depression, fatigue, which affects equally men, women and children, and it is most important that these signs of a run-down condition be not neglected. Neglect may easily lead to more serious ailments. Therefore if you are feeling exhausted, slack and depressed, don t delay,
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  • 1000 4 On its retreat from Warsaw the Russian army had to traverse wide stretches of sand" poor enough in vegetation, though inters persed here and there with works and fac tories which form oases of life amid th suburban wastes. Beyond this plain and in the vicinity of
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  • 1002 4 SCARCITY OP COAL. Depression A mono the People. A dark picture of the plight of Constantinople and its inhabitants is drawn in the latest letter to hand from the correspondent of the Nieuws van den Dag in the Turkish capital. Scarcity is gradually beginning to be felt in
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  • 481 4 The Germans imagine that when the war is over it will be a case of kiss and be friends all round, and that they will be at once able to resume their old commercial propaganda. Of course, everyone not a German knows that this is
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  • 469 4 The report of the Staits Plantations Limited, states that the Dumber of nuts harvested in the year was 4,410,874, against an estimate of 4,200,000 and a crop of 4,092,327 in the previous year. One thousand one hundred and four tons of copra wore manufactured, at a cost of
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    • 363 4 Plain Crutbs on the subject of Health are the only acceptable pronouncement*. Ex«Kgerated statement* end by convincing no one—rather do they create suspicion, and give rise to doubt. But you may safely listen to universal opinion. The public have for lone known the value of Beecbam’s Tills in cases of
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    • 62 4 There is a reason for everything. Therefore let us tell you that the reason why WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE is so popular throughout the Indies is, that it fully carries out what it professes to do cure chills, dysentery, and complaints of the chest and stomach. One bottle will confirm
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    • 44 4 Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. There is nothing so good for muscular rheumatism, sprains, 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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    • 256 4 A Perfect Food for Baby Mellin’s Food. Perfect because it contains all that is essential for healthy development. Perfect because it can be given to the most tender infant with assurance of complete assimilation. Melliris Food A Sample Bottle of Mellin's Food, together with Handbook for Mothers ‘The Care of
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  • 991 5 Treating, which has now become an offence in London, has had some curious professors, and among them the staid Macaulay. In 1854 he was caught in a shower near Esher, and turned into a publichouse for a glass of ginger beer. A party of hoppers came in and
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  • 413 5 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23 Holland aad the War. The Court of Appeal at the Hague has > quashed the judgment of the lower Court which acquitted the Swiss named Dierks i
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  • 477 5 Farewelling Rev. Mr Ashdown. A Social Gathering was held at “Mildmay” Mr Keng’s residence, on Saturday last to bid farewell to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Ashdown and to welcome Mr. aud Mrs. E. Tipsou as co-workers for the local Y.M.G.A. Refreshments were served to all present and
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    • 660 5 -J < Ui U) o Ui K SCOTCH WHISKY O ui £L < X o OQ o </> -J < SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT’ s K s OtASCOW* 2S as w ras > «> u 70 o ■u > r o rn > ALWAYSI-THE IHIGHEST QUALITY m 70 tfl Sole
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    • 391 5 G> 4? /> < c> 1 7\ At <& <f <* <o X> x S> o V c> o *> V 5fe A a A, A <jr v <r; OMW W> We pick feature-films that are real features! See The Perils Pauline put into real life 'JL' H JE2 of
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  • 96 6 Published daily (except Sunday usd public holidays) AT tub CRITERION PRESS. Dm. No. 59, Beach Street, PeDang. Pbiob. Daily Local M $24 per annwna. Outitation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Poat Free) 317.50 CIBLI XDDtIIS ECHO—PENANG." Telephone No*. (Echo, 58G Printing Department 343 lf.it. —All bu«ia*M crin.municttioo» thould
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  • 1457 6 When it was irrefutably proved that the German soldiery hail, been guilty of the most appalling abominations in France and I Belgium the Kaiser’s semi-official apologists lin neutral countries hastened to assure the I world that these v ere but the excesses of individuals maddened with
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  • 928 6 Tbe Resident of Perak is on a visit to Id Ipoh. Mr. Frank Mills is now with bis regiment ct io th9 Dardanelles. M. M. of k We understand Mr. Justice Woodward goes on leave next month— T. O. M. i- st Mr. G. W. Bryant is
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  • 619 6 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram retroeraa, (October 24, It if* officially announced that a British submarine has sunk a German cruiser of the Prinz Adalbert class near Libau, [The Prim Adalbert class of vessels displace 8,850 tons and are 410 ft. in length Their speed
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    • 153 6 Warm to-day, bir but you will find our new Solar Hats very cool. -I Covered D.ab Silk Alpaca with self pugaree, chin strap and leather band inside Price $2.50. •r* v This hat has enough protect on on the back, best silk alpaca. Price $2.50. v T -.v~; r The
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  • 1380 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram MISS CAVELL’S MURDER. INDIGNATION OF NEUTRALS. The Death of a Heroine. London, October 23. Pathos has been added the horror of the murder of Miss Cavell by the description of her last moments furnished by the Rev. Mr. Gahan, British chaplain at
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  • 610 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. LOMBAERTZYDE BOMBARDED. London, October 23, 1 30 a m. A Paris communique states that the Germans bombarded Lombaertzyde and prepared for an attack but our fire dispersed the assembling enemy forces Our batteries in Champagne and the Argonne mastered the enemy cannonade in
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  • 971 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. GERMAN VERSION. Amsterdam, October 22. A Berlin communique states that the Austro-German forces are still making slow progress in Serbia and are approaching the hills where the greatest difficulties will begin. Bulgaria* Claim, The Bulgarians claim to have occupied Kumanovo, twenty miles north-east of
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  • 21 7 ([Front Our Own Corretpondmf Singapore, October 2S. The Singapore Volunteers will receive Princess Mary’s Christmas Gift next week
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  • 45 7 Lie«t. K. E. M. Gardiner. Cf'rom Our Own Corratponimf Singapore, October 23, Lieut. K. E. M. Gardiner, of the 14th Royal Fusiliers and formerly an Assistant of Telok Estate, Elang, who went home with the Straits Contingent, has been killed in action.
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  • 85 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages:— Page I. 3. —Wholesale Murder in Armenia. A 1 j Changed Berlin. 4—Turkey’s Difficulties. The Mysterious i' Marshes. 1 5.—Y. M. C. A. Gathering. Late War I Items. Random Notes. 8. —Johore Judiciary. Missing Links in Local History. The
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  • 330 7 RUSSIAN SUCCESS IN GALICIA. 7,500 Prisoners Captured. Petrograd, October 22. The Russians achieved a powerful coup de main in Galicia in the region of Novo Alexinet*, twenty miles north of Tarnopol. A Petrograd communique states “We carried part of the enemy positions yesterday and further positions northward
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  • 386 7 SATURDAY’S RESULTS. The following were the results on the concluding day of the Singapore Autumn Meeting The Stewards’ Stakes. Value $350 and $5O to the Second Pony. A divided Handicap for Ponies, 14.2 and under, that have run at the Meeting. Entrance Fee $25- Distance, Race Course. st.
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  • 1162 8 COURT OF APPEAL OPENED. Iwaugtjra.li Speeches. A report received by His Excellency the Governor from His Honour the Chief Justice (the Hon. Mr. J.A.S. Bucknill, x.c m.a.) on the inaugural session of the Johore Court of Appeal is published in the Straits Settlements Government Ganette. Mr. Justice Bucknill
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  • 260 8 There are some missing links in local history which Dr. Hanitsch is very anxious to supply, but for that purpose public assistance is essential. There is in Raffias Library a practically complete file of the Singapore Free Press for the years during which it has
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  • 426 8 To the Editor of the Free Press. Sir, —The sooner the Singapore Diocesan Association voluntarily relinquishes the pittance allowed by Government towards the local travelling expenses of the Bishop of Singapore, the better for the dignity of Ecclesia Anglicana. I for one am willing to give one
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  • 854 8 The Penang Volunteers and a party of the Sikh Police under Messrs R. H, Onraet and B, W. Allen, Assistant Superintendents of Police, were yesterday morning engaged in a strenuous Field Day, the scene of the operations extending from Coconut Point i Bay to a lino from
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  • 88 8 Under the auspices of this Society, Dr. Sydney Simon, M. D, will deliver a lecture on An Asiatic’s Impressions of America Australia,” to-morrow, the 26th instant at 5 p m., in the Free School Hall. All are welcome. A large number of paople patronised the Straits
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  • 1978 8 William Gilbert Grace, whose death Reuter announces to-day, was born at Downend, Gloucestershire, on the 18tb of July, 1848. He found himself in an atmosphere charged with cricket, his father (Henry Mills Grace) and his uncle (Alfred Pocock) being as enthusiastic over the game as his elder
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    • 57 8 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 crauip colic or pains in the stomach give way to a few doses of this medicine. Mate, sure, always cures.
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    • 91 8 KTOTICE. THE usual monthly Bale of Pawnbrokers forfeited pledges for sums exceeding $lO will be held punctually at 11 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 3rd, 4th and sth proximo respectively at No. 42, Beach Street. The above forfeited pledges may be viewed at the Sale Room on
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    • 492 8 Government of Kedah. PttMic Works Department, Alor Star, WANTED a Grade II. Clerk for tha P.W.D. Alor Star. Salary $65 to $95 per mensem, rising by annual incro ments of $5 per mensem. The appointment is pensionable. Applications stating a£ ?n and nationality accompanied by copies uf recent testimonials should
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  • 980 9 Perils and Hardships of our Advance. We have received the following letter, written by an Englishman who hat been a resident in Mesopotamia for some years past, for publication. Persian Gulf, August 27. As you know, we have had troops here since last November and at present occupy
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    • 176 9 X)C_ XDCDOCDOCDCX >OC DOC DOC DOC DOl O o n O o 0 o o o o o o n o A THE OF V 2 y/ 7 YjWT v* ill i -ryff WA W/ m. m A. &VA IV /fAj'tt X y /-> /1 MAINSTAY THE CLUB. .-■> I
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    • 10 9 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure Is. Gd
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    • 556 9 ■m •*:*< mmt i 'V i m m Every Mother would feed her Baby if she could BUT frequently the breast-milk is deficient in quantity or quality, or absent altogether. This, however, can often be rectified if the mother herself will take Glaxo three times a day—made rich and strong
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  • 978 10 SECURITY AT SEA FOR Ib. 104 d. A WEEK. Bebt National Investment. London, September 18. The comparative cheapness of the Navy as a national investment was never more strikingly shown than in the figures which Mr. Asquith gave in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The average cost
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  • 865 10  -  By Alex. Devine At the outset one may lay down the general proposition that the sentiment of the citizens of Holland, the sentiment of the mass, can hardly be a matter of doubt. For bow can be sympathies of so valiant, so democratic
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    • 92 10 Diphtheria-—How It May Be Avoided. Diptheria is usually contracted when the child has a cold. The cold prepares the ohild's system for the reception and development of the diphtheria germs. When there are cases of diphtheria in the neighbourhood children that have colds should be kept at home and off
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    • 220 10 HUTTENBACH B™ C o. SOLE AGENTS FOR ROYAL TYPEWRITERS Have much pleasure in announcing the arrival 01 THE NEW MODEL No. 10. fi A m Fj 3 7i *r-' «3W B J 35E I* i Ml vzu. 5 S.V7 i {Tpt* to! srr TB i r 5 O) a Typ
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  • 1618 11 As remarked on a previous page, it is difficult to take the alleged Cabinet crisis very ■enously. The majority of the people of this country are gifted with robust common I sense, although given to fits of temporary aberration. They expect the same gift of I
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  • 322 11 I Have Promoted You. Toronto, Sspt. 1. Dr. A- K. Haywood, of the Toronto General Hospital, who has just returned from the front, where he was decorated with the Military Cross for bis services to the Canadian wounded at Ypres, tells an interesting story of the King’s
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    • 36 11 Children's Coughs. Why let the children rock their little bodies'in such a distressing manner when you can so easily cure their colds with a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 53 11 As Smooth as Velvet is the action of PINKETTES the gentle laxatives. They do not gripe, yet their work is more thorough than harsh purgatives, whioh leave the bowels in a worse condition than before. Of Chemists, 50 cents per phial, or post free from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co.,
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    • 1542 12 P.&O .3 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. Homeward. FAKES BY MAIL STEAMERS. A Accommodation. Ist class 2ndclaBB To Lonuon or Plymouth... J6OO-00
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