Straits Echo, 27 October 1915

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo OAILY CHRONICLE CF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATE!* MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 13. $24 Per Annum PENANG, WEDNESDAY, 2?th OCTOBER, 1915. Single Cepy, 10 cents. No. 246
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    • 23 1 TO UjET. 5 1 BUNGALOW 2 No. 1428. BURMAH ROAD. j LOCATION QUIET ts HEALTHY. 6 APPLY J 53, Beach Street. J ♦BMMMMKKKKKHM+
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  • 1959 2 Some Important Factors, t The Archibald papers that were published 1 by the Government on Wednesday make 1 piquant reading. But they add little to what was already known or strongly suspected as to the character and methods of tho Austro- German campaign in the United States.
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    • 322 2 FOR SINGAPORE. HONGKONG. SWATOW S AMOY. WANTED. The s.8. Hong Bee, Captain L. Van Egdom, is expected to arrive here from Singapore on Wednesday, the 27th instant, and will leave for the above ports on Thursday, the 28th instant, at 4 pm. For freight or passage, apply to Messrs CHIN
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    • 60 2 Sunshine and Common Sense. Don't doctor your blood far rheumatism, Use an external application of Chamberlain’s Pa n 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
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    • 12 2 For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, le. 6d
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    • 306 2 Recipes for bread, rolls and cakes, in eoery tin, and the Brown Poison Book of 73 Recipes free from Mackenzie, Lyall Co., Lyon’s Range, Calcutta. They're nicer baked at home. Have your bread and cakes baked at home. Then you can know for certain what they are made of, and
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  • 1096 3 Mr. Alma Baker strafes Mr. C. W. > Darbishire in a column of the Afalsu/a Tribune for what was certainly a very unnecessary and ungenerous reference to the Malayan Aircraft Fund in the Legislative Council. But wa do not think Mr. Baker need worry overmuch for the nett
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  • 896 3 1916 Draft Budoot Conbidkrid. I A special meeting of the Municipal I Commissioners was held at the Municipal Office yesterday afternoon to consider the Draft Budget for 1916. There were present Mr. W. Peel (President) Mr. Yeoh Guan Seek and Mr. P. T. Allen, with Mr. L. M.
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    • 464 3 The Wagon-Pachaung Wolfram Min», Limited. notice re share transfers. NOTICE i« hereby given tbat by a resolution of the Board signatures on Transfers must from this date bd attested by qualified witnesses only. By Order of the Board, F. W. BARKER Co„ 631 Secretariat, E. 8 0. HOTEL SATURDAY, 30th
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    • 12 3 For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, le. 6d
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  • 546 4 Critical Position. Loudon, October 26. In the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne stated that he was afrad he must admit that the Gorman progress in Serbia was such as to render it improbable that the S-rbian Army will be able to withstand for
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  • 97 4 Published daily (except Sunday* rad pablie holidays) AT TK* CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. N). 59. Beach Street, Penang. Pkicb. Daily Local $24 per alata Ontetation... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDBBSS ECHO—PENANO Telephone Noa. (Echo, 58d Printing Departnent 343 S. H.— All buiiatu communication* abci'd
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  • 536 4 For a good many years post we hav» advocate 1 the establishment of a Pasteur Institute for Malaya and to this day we are not able to understand why the administration did not accept the genwous fft-r made by a leading FM S Chinese resident some
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  • 950 4 Mrs. R. D. Acton is' expected back in Penang by the) homeward bound Japanese mail this week. Our Kuala Lumpur coriespondent wires that Mr. F. J. Weld has left for Fahang to to take over the Residency. Lieutenant P. G. 'Lawford is to be Captain, aud h.cond
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  • 856 4 FROM DUTCH SOURCES The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Monday, October 25 Hollaad and the War. The reports regarding the condition of M. Regout, Dutch Miuister to the Vatican, are contradictory. One cable statos that he is better and a later one that
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  • 412 4 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY. London, October 2b. The newspaper controversy oa the question of Cabinet unity continues. The Morning Post again suggests a smaller Cabinet. The Daily News says that it would be disastrous if the most responsible Ministers are to be driven out to make
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  • 130 4 Meeting at Ctreosa,” (.From Our Oivn Correspondent 'o Kuala Lumpur, October 27. A meeting of fifty Kuala Lumpur ladies was held at Carcosa to consider the question of the ladies in the States rendering assistance to the F.M S. Auxiliary Hospital by providing the necessary
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  • 120 4 (.From Our Own CorretpondsnL) Ipoh, October 2b. Under tbe auspices of the Central Perak Planters Association Mr. A. Sharpies, Assistant Mycologist, Department of Agriculture, lectured on Diseases of the Kubber Tree,” making special reference to Pink Disease, which the leoturer said, was best dealt with by applications of
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 704 4 I Warm to-day. Sir but you will find our new Solar Hats very cool. VV-y C',*' s?\ Covered D ab Si k Alpaca with self pugaree, chin strap and lea'her band inside This hat has enough protect on on back, best silk alpaca t- rice $2.50. Price 32.50. The popular
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  • 505 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FALL OF USKUB. London, October 25. A gerhiau communique admits the fall of ffsfeub. formal Entry by Prince Cyril. Loudon, October 26 Au official telegram from Sofia states that the Bulgarians have captured Negotin 40 d the Danube port of Prabovo Prince Cyril
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  • 95 5 (From Our Own Correspondent, lpob, October 26. The members of the "C M Company of the M 8. V. R. gave a complimentary dinner to Lieutenant May who is proceeding home to join his old regiment, The Buffs. In responding to the toast of his health, Lieutenant
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  • 602 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. further progress. Rome, October 25. A Rome communique says that the Italians on Sunday between Garda and Adige descended from Monte Altissimo under a cross tire from the guus of two 1 enemy forts and stormed two positions, securing a hold ou the
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  • 616 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ILLUXT RECAPTURED. London, October 25. 3 A Berlin communique admits that I superior Russian forces compelled the weak > German forces to withdraw from IlluxtElsewhere on the Russian front, the com- munique emphasises stroug Russian attacks which the Germans claim to have repulsed.
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  • 640 5 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. FIGHTING IN 1 HAMPAGNE. ENEMY COU JTER-ATTACKS REPULSED. Paris, October 26, 3 am. A Paris communique says The Germans made very violent counterattacks on all sides of the work iu Cnam--1 pagne mentioned yesterday afternoon. “We remained in possession of the conquered positions
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  • 602 5 (Reuters Service!) Copyright Telegram. TO DESTROY MUNITION SHIPS. London. Octob'r 26. Four Germans have been arrested in New York charged with a plot to destroy munition ships by ingenious infernal machines Further revelations are expected. The Americans are very indiguant aud demaud the most searching investigation as to
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  • 338 5 UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES. London. October 25. Reuter’s correspondent with the British Headquarters in the Mediterranean states that an Armenian prisoner of war has given him the following narrative of the Turkish atrocities When returning invalided to his home at Zil>, north west of Sivas.be i was uu eye-witness
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  • 402 5 The funeral of the late Mr. Alfred Da Windt Neubronner, Consul-General for Siam in Penang, took place yesterday evening when his remains were removed from Perak Road for interment at the Protestaut Cemetery, Western Rjad. The cortege left bis residence Taormina at 4.30 and
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  • 63 5 Tbe following articles will be found on our outside pages:— Page 2—False Impressions of the War. A Species Doomed. 3.—Municipal Commission. Random Notes. 6. —Aircraft Fund. Housebreaking at Night P. C. C. Tennis Tournament. The Beggar' and the Earthquake. Singapore Races. P. nang Rubber Auction. The Prince of Wiles
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  • 1261 6 MR. ALMA BAKER’S DEFENCE, BsrbY TO THR Hon. Mr. C. W. Darbishire, m l c To the Editor of the Malaya Tribune. Sir, —The Honourable Mr. C. W. Darbishire, m.l.c., is reported in your issue of the 16th instant as having spoken in the Legislative Council as
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  • 321 6 Pong Ah Kit was yesterday morning arraigned before Mr. R. Scott, District Judge, on a charge of breaking into a house in Bishop Street early on the morning of October 19. Court Inspector Nicol prosecuted. The evidence for the prosecution was that on the night of the
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  • 198 6 i The following tie has been fixed for to-morrow Double Handicap ABennett and Prentis u Threlfall and Harris (Unfinished). The German ladies of Tientsin are taking concerted action to stop buying m enemy shops. A special war feature in three reels, entitled The Fringe of war” depicting
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  • 1029 6  -  (By Tangier Corresponden.) A RETURN TO ORTHODOXY. It was Dot really a bad earthquake, though it scared the inhabitants of Mekinez, cracked > a good many walls, and threw down a few antiquated buildings. It was however, suffi- cient to form an engrossing topic of
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  • 466 6 Some Statistic®. The Singapore Free Frees gives the following summary of the reoemt racemeeting Horses Placer. St. Alban's 3 0 0 0 Brown Comet 2 10 0 Batu Gsjah 2 10 0 Pretty Molly 2 0 0 1 Tongkah 2000 Hick 2 0 0 0 Charity 12 0
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  • 249 6 t The undermentioned prices were realised r for rubber sold by Messrs Allen Dennys > A Co. by auction sale yesterday and during a the week 0 Smoked Ribbed Sheet $129 to $131 b Plain $123 $124 1 No. 2 Smoked Sheet diamond $124 $126 b Unsmoked
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  • 1174 6 Manufactures and War Profits— Recent Reports—Malayan 5 Corporation. The idea that plantation rubber companies might come within the excess profit clause of tbe new Budget is naturally scouted by all concerned in the development of that Imperial industry. Whilst it is true that the producing companies have been
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  • 53 6 Oct 26 Staff of Messrs. R. Young, October subscription 100.00 Hong Hong Shanghai Bank’s Counter Box lo 00 J. C Bratfc 20.00 Staff of Messrs. Brown Phillips Stewart, monthly subscription 65.00 26 Balance,, 39,921.29 Remitted to London 410,000 on 24-2-15... 85,018.73 Total subscriptions
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  • 524 6 Get, 18 By Balanoe 91,451.72 26 Anonymous 10.00 26 Balance, $1,461.72 1 Amount previously acknowledged 18,558.21 Total ...$20,019.93 There will be a change of programme at the Straits Cinema to-night when The Grail”, Rene Haggard Journeys On” and "A Romance of Old Brittany”, all tworaelers, will be
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 58 6 Coughs and Colds are common ailments, aud in consequence often neglected, thereby permitting the system to drift to A stage favourable for the entry of serious disease. Protect yourself at the first sign of a cold by taking WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CUBE. It is the finest medicine. Sold at Dispensaries
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    • 10 6 For Chrome Cheat Cowpleiata, Woods’ Great Peppermiat C«r» U, grf
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    • 62 6 Il If ever Fail*. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, aad Di* r rboea Remedy is aH its name implies. It cur* diarrhoea Mid dysentery \n either children or adults, n 4 the nfost violent caees of cramp colio or pains in the stomach give way to a few doses of this medicine
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    • 45 6 CMnto'i Pm bln. There’. is nothing so good for muscular rheumatism, sprains, lameness, cramps of the muscles, bruises and like iujuries as Chamberlain s Pain Balm. Xt will effect a cut* m Inee time than any other treatment. For sale by all Dispensaries and itaitrv.
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  • 1436 7 k THE EFFECTS OF THE CENSORSHIP. German Spies in En»lani>. Paris, Sept 23. 1 ravelling on the railways in France is more than ordinal ily interesting at the present time. One meets all sorts and conditions of people, and meets them in an atmosphere created
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  • 378 7 Oae of the probable results of this unexampled war is the disappearance from the surface of the earth cf one of the most interesting species wo possess. In tho Lithuanian forests there existed before the war a few carefully-protected herds of the Euro pe n bison, the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 416 7 RAI SAHEB Dr. K. C. DAS’S SWASTHYA SAHAYA HEALTH RESTORER and LITERATURE. ELEVENTH EDITION can now be obtained gratis and post free from Sole Agents for S.S. ft* F.M.S. THE PENANG RUBBER STAMP Co., 40, Church Street, Penang. Sub-Agents THE FRIEND OF THE PUBLIC Co., 49, Lahat Road, Ipoh. MALAYAN
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    • 92 7 Diphtheria—How It May Be Avoided. Diptheria is usually contracted wbeu the child has a cold. The cold prepares (he child’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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    • 36 7 PINKfcTTES do not over-exert the bowels, they merely assist nature. Tiny but thorough, gentle as NatureDo not gripe. Of Chemists, 50 cents per phial, or post free from the Dr. Williams’ Mediciue Co., Dept. sb, Singapore.
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    • 257 7 .nd ies no tor be ba or, to ior ed iii of ire “g yer i or te 36 LU C ZDC 0 oc DC DOC *****0' DCDO n L BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT. Contractors to THE ADMIRALTY, THE WAR OFFICE, THE INDIA OFFICE, n o n o n ALL Government
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    • 1767 8 RAO. S3 S3 S.N.CS 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. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Fob Intended to Sa.il. Stuamhb. Singapore. Port Swettenbam
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