Straits Echo, 5 February 1918

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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. yoL. 10. $3O Per Annum PENANG, TUESDAJ, 6th FEBRUARY, 1918. Single Copy, 1© cents. No. 29.
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    The Living Ireland and Its People.
    2241 2 The phraee a human document has been so much hacked and taken up bj the general that writers with even a touch of fastidiousness dislike using it; yet by what other shall I describe Irish Memoriea, bv Edith CEaone Somerville and Martin Boss P
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    Points on Patriotism.
    1033 3  -  [By Tom Wright,] i Fully aware that my ideas of patriotism are, at this time, unsound, I would not have written this if I oould have thought of anytbing else to write about. Mail day approaches, I have tortured my brain for the last four day*, urging
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    Ship Transportation and the Submarine.
    842 3 i A contemporary refers to an article by i Mr. Arthur Pollen, the naval expert, in a December issue of the Nev> York Timet. •Mr. Pollen criticises some comments that appeared in that journal in a previous leading article on the doings of the United
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    The Y.M.C.A. Hut Fund.
    85 3 Pena.no Contbibutions. Total ram already acknowledged $6,940 F. Gh Penny 100 Miss Pritchard Miss M, Pritchard 20 H. Welham 25 Hon. W. C. Michell 50 E. P. Phillips 100 P. M. Morphy 10 C M. Henderson 50 J. R, Murray 50 H. A» Low 100 Justice
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      343 3 pa< d. Mr. M. J. Finlay P.P.C. NOTICE BY THE GOVERNMENTS d 0F KEDAH AND PERLIS. ■y tVVNEKS and Managers of Estates in Kedah and Perlis are warned that cott acts with Chinese labourers for more than one month are not legal in K>dah and Perlis. De. a. l hoops.
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  • Supplement to the “Straits Echo.”
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      THE WAR.
      443 4 [REWTEK’S SERVICE]. PENANG, 5th FEBRUARY, *918, Ita'i&n Front. Good Air Work London, February 3 5.10 p.tn. An Italian < ffi ?ia! communiq- c says: “Wh brought duwu eight aeroplanes *od the British brought dowa nix.” The Berlin Strikes. Strikers Threatened with Death. L indon, Februaiy 3 6 40
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    The Straits Echo.
    97 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays*) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price Dally [Local $BO pep annum. Outstatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB pep annum. Cable Address: "ECHO PENANG.” Telephono Nos. (Eoho) 580. Printing Department 343. M.B. —411 business communication!
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    THE MENACE TO SWITZERLAND.
    1234 4 On January 20 Reuter told us that he had learnt that Britain had informed Switzarland that the British Government desire to reaffirm the treaties and declaration of 1815 and to assure the Swiss Government that in conjunction with the United States and France they respect the
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    M. A. P.
    589 4 Mr. and Mrs. Ceoil Pearse hava left for Colombo. The Reverend Brother James has gone to Ceylon for a short visit, s v Mr. M. J. Finlay of the Chartered Bank leaves Penang to day on transfer to Medan. Mr. O, V, Thomas left here on Saturday
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    Indragiri Rubber.
    79 4 Transfer to New Company. C fhm Chur Gum Correspondent) Singapore, February 5. The Indragiri report Btates that the total number of shares allotted is 130,000 of which 100,000 are allotted as fully paid in consideration of the transfer to the Iadragiri (Sumatra) Rubber and Outta Peroha Company, Upon
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    London Rubber Market.
    25 4 (From Our Own Correspondent London, February 2, The prices in the London Rubber Market to>day were: Pale Crepe 2/3 Ribbed Smoked 2/2$
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    Tin.
    25 4 Latest Quotations. Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to<day at 9136, buyers no sellers, and in Singapore, (refined) at 9137, business done, (220 tons sold).
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    942 4 From Palestine—Via Ports. When the baggage and attendant, nr Secretary of State for India— whose J* tha name is Moses arrived at Tommy was heard to remark hor'in I'd Wd they’d cptured Je,a,lL“T l X didn’t know they wu goioe to ,i',! the bloomin' prisoners ’ere! ,en< The
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      576 4 YOU STOP 10 fUTTT n A1 It stands to re son we can supply your Drug Needs to your advantage better than any other firm in the Straits. We purchase Drugs etc. in enormous quantities for our Depots at Penang, Taiping aud Ipoh and the advantage so gained is passed
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    THE STRIKES IN GERMANY.
    479 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] STEEN iflLITABY MEASUBES. •list deputy court-martialled 50 An Outbreak in AustriaAmsterdam, February 8. tei e( ,ram from Berlin announces that military *re summoning to the colours U soldiers on leave and men recalled from '“my for essential trades who particiMt ed m 8trike8 Tbe
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    Outside.
    178 5 ••r on»i°i ainc^H *DI be foanu on J 0Q Uid? «t». Tbe LlTl “g Ireland and Its People. •"■Points on Patriotism. Ship Transportion and the Submarine. The Y Mc.A. Hut Fund. wr^ llina- Coroner’s Court. J he Week’s Events Tin Outputs. uani*. To-morrow’s Baud Chinese Will Case. P ar
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    BRITISH FRONT.
    268 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] SIR D0UGLA8 HAIG’S REPORT. The Usual Bailing. London, February 3, 4.10 p.m. Sir Douglas Haig reports We drove off raiders with loss to the east of Po’yuon Wood. “Hostile artillery was aotive south-east of Epehy, in the neighbourhood of the ArrasCambrai Wood, to the south of
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    Landlord and Tenant in Singapore.
    489 5 The Malaya Tribune voices tbe opinion that probably nowhere in the Empire is the tenant called upon to shoulder so much of the repairs that his landlord’s property that he happens to be ocouping requires from time to time as on Singapore. Our contemporary says
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    VERSAILLES WAR COUNCIL.
    291 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] RECENT ENEMY 8PEECHES. Complete Allied UnanimityLoud on, February 3. The Press Bureau states that the Supreme War Council at Versailles carefully considered Count Hertling’s and Count Czeruiu’s speeches but was unable to find in them any approximation to the moderate considerations laid down by the
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    Plague China.
    460 5 Dr- Tuck’s PositionThe Peking Daily New», remarking that its policy baa always been to refraio from unduly criticising the authorities, atatea that it doas not intend to minoe matters in connection with tbe lethargy and bungling which the Authoritea have been displaying in their methods of dealing with
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    CHINESE WILL CASE.
    4475 5 8EYENTH DAY’8 PROCEEDINGS. Attistino Solicitor’s Evidence. I In the Suprema Court yesterday afterI noop, before Mr. Justice L M. Wocdward, M Senior Puisne Judge, the hearing was t continued of a suit “In the goods of Choong Cheng Kian, deceased, Lim Gaik Teen Neoh, plaintiff vt. Lim
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    Queen Mary's Needlework Guild.
    589 6 Penang Section Mrs. Ebdec, Hon, Secretary of the Penang Womm Workers for Queen Mary’s Needlei work Gudd, has received the following correspondence i COPY Queen Mart’s Needlework Guild. Friary Court, St. James’s Palace, S W I. August 2, 1917. Hod. Lady Lawley, Hod. Sec. Dear Madam,
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    The Coroner’s Court.
    438 6 Maxwell Boad Murder- An inquest waa held iu the Third Court yesterday by Mr. S. H. Langston, sitting as coroner, intotbecircumstances attending the death of a Javanese sateh seller named T<*j*k which occurred in the General Hospital on the 23rd of January as the result, it is
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    The Week’s Events.
    74 6 Wednesday, February 6. Town Esplanade. Anniversary of the Settlement of Singapore (1819), Thursday, February 7. Football—P.R.C. vs. C.R.C. Esplanade. Friday, Febbuabt 8. Town Band, Esplanade, Ministering Children’s League Meeting, Penang Free School, 10.30 p.m. Sunday, February 10. Quirquagesima Sunday. P. V. R C Shoot, 7 a.m. Monday,
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    Tin Outputs.
    391 6 The output of the Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging, Ltd., for (he month of January, were: Hours run 1,210; Cubio Yards treated 153,700; Total Piculs 1,014.99 Realised on sale $76,641.53. The output of the Tronoh Mines, Ltd, from all sources for the month of January, was 1,740 piculs. The
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    Affairs in China.
    979 6 Thu Politica-l Puzzlm. Nerer before in the history of the R-public has the political situation in China Deen so complicated as it has been until two days ago, The Government has neither b*sn in favour of peace nor of war with the South Westprn provinces, and amongst
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    Lithuania.
    867 6  -  By L. S. Regine. [The article appearing below is of no little interest and is distinctly apropos at the present time, when the fate of Lithuania is in the melting pot. It will give the reader a good idea of the country’s size, resources, occupation, *tc. It may be
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    To-morrow’s Band Programme.
    42 6 The following programme of masic will be played at the Esplanade to-morrow at 5 p.m. 1 Fantasia Fleur de Lys Delibes Hiawatha Moret 3 Selection Mater Rossini 4 Waltz Modern Eve Gilbert 5 Maroh Out on the Hi-Ti-Hi Carter
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    January Rubber Crops.
    52 6 Siingei Batu (MaUya) 33.500, V*l D’or 27.250, Kurau 28.200, Malakcff 54,100 Straits Settlements (Bertam) 20,000, Windsor (F.M.8.) 37,900. M*ytisld 34,500, Merchiston 16,130, Foothills (Malay.) 15,600, Muda Syndicate 11,914, Kuala Sidim 27,600 lb. Perak River Valley, 21 ‘204 lb.; Semanggol, 14,174 lb.; Jura, 6,000 lb,; Kong Lee (Perak),
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    War Notes.
    974 6  -  By Major G. W. Redway. At 6»ery at&qe 2« i iieatre of operations has basn I* 9 tilQ oqq wbeie the main r poin, «d out i principal belligerents would f iiaisb, whila elsewhere the or DO siH* ht to 1 btof a demonstrative kind b P t
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    The New France.
    2240 7 Prospect After thk War. I In the Fortnightly Review for November Mr. James Milne has an article under the title of Our S*eet Friend —France in I the course of which he writes France has known how to make war without making enemies, and that has been
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