Straits Echo, 13 April 1918

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED HALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. voi>* I®- 930 Per Annum. PRNANG, SATURDAY, 13th APRIL, 1918. Single Copy, lO cents. No. 86,
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      1135 1 11 £*5^*5 iw rS igptee ;7 'vI? I I *»l-' 4< 1 Uffi IF YOU WANT COMFORT go to Tam Undermentioned Garage For Brand New Cara for hire day AND NIGHT j Telephone No. 694. Telegraphic Address: HOKIMTEIK. Motor car importers nnd largest dealers in cylinder oil, petrol motor accessories.
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      8 1 w H*ca ■2T Tttt e cuc u»c E3
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      31 2 OF EVERY Momi Cases. Acetic Acid. l English Tapping Knives.' Changkols. Wire Nails. Cat (Brand) Axes. Box Strapping. Sodium Bi-Sulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze. KATZ (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) PENANG. LTD
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    Corpus Vale.
    1150 3 Doctors and Patients, When I cast a benevolent eye round my prcfligate associates at the club,—as a preacher would call them -—I seem to be a survivor of an earlier ruder race fast dying ut m our midst. I belong to the pre-scien-tific age, to to speak, and
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      321 3 lodels in Sfylish Ladies’ Footwear. The Swiss Brand. PRICE L dies’ White Canvas 2 Button ShoesFitted with Cuban Heels, canvas lining, Emart shape and comfortable. Exact to illustration. PER PAIR The Swiss Brand. PR1CE $4-95. PER Pair if 3» m Ladies’ White Canvas Court Shoes,* stout sole, smart shape toe
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      493 3 TO LET. FOE Seven Month» from lit May Furnished House with Large Compound. Good Locality. 220 Box 106, e/o Strait§ Echo. GROSS HERMANOS, MALAGA, SPAIN. HIPP1S8 OW HIGH CLASS PAODUCS AHD QROCSRT LIMBS, INCLCDIMO RAISINS, DRIED FIGS, ALIONDS, VUTS, LEMONS, GRAPES, OLIVES, PURE OLIVE SALAD OIL, WINES, CHICKPEAS, ANISEED, CUMIN
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      322 3 k By Order of (he Custodian 1 of Enemy Prope r ty. t tnder the Alien Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinances 1914 to 1917. raa undbrmonsd iti instructed TO SELL BT PUBLIC AUCTION On Monday, the 29th day of April. 1918, AT 11 A M, SHARP IN LOGAN 8 COURTYARD All
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    Federal Council.
    4127 4 INCREASING TIN OUTPUTS. Th> Libel Law. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Federal Council the Libel Enactment was introduced. The Legal Adviser explaining the Bill said it was one he coaid not expect would be received with mich acclamation. He detailed the steps whioh led up to the introduction
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      12 4 For Children’s Hacking Cengh at Night Woods's Great Peppermint Oars Is, M.
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      313 4 M Kegi A Bouquet of India’s Choicest Flowers. An entrancingly fragrant and powerful scent, yet not cloying, Phul Nana blends all the choicest scents of an Indian Garden into an unique perfume. Try it and enjoy this luxury in sweet smells. Phul-Nana can also be obtained in conjunction with a
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    Count Czernin’s Lie.
    724 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] hb Antl-Czernin Czechs. London, April 11,11.45 p.m. An Amsterdam message says it is report* Hi ed from Vienna that a monster Czech Hu demonstration against Couot Czernin is HI beiDg organised and that the Premier has had an audience with the Austrian Emperor about it.
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    Penang Share Market.
    475 5 Messrs. Lean A Co.*e Repoet. Messrs. A Co say in their Weekly Market Report' d»ted April 12 Tfie market during the week has shewn great activity and the firmness displayed by Rubber has bean refl in a brisk demand I for Rubber-shares whioh in almost every I
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    Singapore Share Market.
    304 5 Mbssrs Fraser A Co’s Circular. Messrs. Fraser A Co. in their weekly share report, dated April 11, states There has besn a complete change in the position of rubber shares over the past week. The demand has certainly not been on a large scale but sufficient to
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    Singapore Rubber Market.
    120 5 Messrs, Barlow ai.d Co., report under Wednesday’s date:—Since we last reported the market has remained steady and the demand at the auctions whioh commenced this morning was good. Prices realised for the standard grades show considerable advances or the week. Fine pale crepe met with keen competition
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    To-day's Band Programme.
    52 5 The following programme of masio will be played at the Golf Cinb to-day at 5-45 p m.: 1 Selection The Yashmak Allan 2 Polka Wot Cher Crook 3 Selection From the Ballet Girl Retford 4 Walti Bleue Margia 5 Big Small Dram Morena 6 Maroh The Royal
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      279 5 *ff!wmfw?TfWT«wwwmmm?wiWTW3g I EMPIRE THEATRE l ft* I tr r Proprietor h 3. A. holm. Manager: Thomas shaft Have no hesitation in seeing This GREAT Metro Super Film. if* w* if Ir* 5 iACTSi COMMENCING .TO-NIGHT AT*io.3o SCENE FROM “EXTRAVAGANCE ,f FEATURING L. Ko. KOMEDY A LIMBURGER 2 REELS CYCLON Filled
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      275 5 S* Why not go to Church? FEW PERSONS ThINK THINGS THROUGH. If everybody reasoned this matter of churohgoiDg to its logical conclusion, there would not be many vacant pews and a wide-spread demand for more churches would speedily arise. The reason is simple People do not stay away from the
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    The Straits Echo.
    98 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and pobllc holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Dally Looal |3O per annum. Outatatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) 918 per annum. Cable Addreea: "ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Nos. (Eoho) 580. Printing Department 343. I M.B.—A 11 buaiaaee
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    CIVIL SERVICE PAY.
    1361 6 In the Federal Council on Wednesday Mr. A. N. Eenioc—wbcße flow of wordi seems to have been almost inexhaustible and who talked sheer nonsense about the L.fcal Bill—raised the question of Civil Servants’ salaries. Our own views on this subjeot are well known and the looal press
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    Tin.
    22 6 Litiit Quotation*. Tin (unrefined) is qioted here io-day *t 9162, buyers no sellers, in Singapore, (refined) at 9162, buyers no aellera.
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    KEDAH SECOND LOTTERY.
    699 6 "BOOKS UNACCOUNTED FOE.” We were told rathor a strange story this morning by a Chinese resident of Penang. He said that he was asked by a member of the Oommitte io charge of the organisation of the Second Kedah Ked Cross Lottery to sell tiokets on its
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    Havas Service.
    306 6 Two Great Frenchmen Paris, April 11. The Paris edition of the Nets York Tribuns in*an editorial headed Two Frenohmen” eulogises General Feoh and M, Clemenoeau. It says that General Fooh is batter qualified than anyone else for the high post he occupies is denied by nobody. Our affection
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1007 6 "The Loom of Youth." Barely has any to/ of g a book wbiob his o* UBM j r,tt ,0di S Qant Profe-t/ Z j"' *uoh high praise as "The L >om > by A'eo Waugh. It 1, rejf.J o l lif9 «4 the .ohool o „*'S dentlSed an
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      82 6 WHO SAID “RATS!” There are No Rats, where our celebrated BREAK-BACK RatTraps are used. CERTAIN! CLEAN! CHEAP! PER DOZEN SINGLE $5.50 nett. 50 cents. v KENC CO M penancs.poh. M .DC-KI^g NEW SHIPMENT Tri-scooped and Round Bodied RICKSHAWS. INSPECTION INVITED AND ENQUIRIES SOLICITED. Prices on Application. THE EASTERN TRADING CO.,
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    THE GREAT BATTLE.
    2708 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] A Nation’s Anxiety. Interne Interest In Britain. London, April 12, 7 40 a m. The nation ii watoling with anxiety, ■cpreoedented since the beginning of the war, the progress of the critical battle in Northern France. Anxiety ii mingled with admiration for the tenacity of
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    THE LICHNOWSKY AFFAIR.
    689 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] I General Staff Officer Arrested London, April 12, 4 a.m. A cable from Amsterdam states that the I arrest of Captain Bierfeld-*, of the Gorman I General Staff, for incitement to high treason jin connection with the L ohnowsky M>mo- random is announced in Germany
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    THE MAN-POWER PROBLEM
    406 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Beenlte cf New Age Limit. I London, April 12, 3 15 a.m. In the Commons Sir Auckland Geddea intimated that only seven per oent. of men t ffeoted by the raising of the age limit will be required this year. The remain* ing ninety-three per
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    Outside.
    230 7 The following artiolee will be found on our outside pages 3—Corpus Vile, 4. Federal Counoil. 5. —Penang Share Market. Singapore Share Market. Singapore Rubber Market. To-day’s Band Programme. TelSgrtuns. B.—The Education of Chinese Girls. Shakespeare in Mtlay. Churoh Seivioes. The Week’s E rents. Kuala Sidim Rubber Co, French Consular
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    Kuala Sidim Rubber.
    1542 8 Ninth Annual Mbeting. Tbe ninth annual general meting cf the shareholders < f the Kuala Bidim Rubber Company, L'tuited, was held at the Coamher of Commence to-d-v. There were present Messrs, William Duncan (Chairman of Dirpctora) in tb° chair, G J M. K ulemane, T. Wilaon, J.
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    Shakespeare in Malay
    204 8 Free School RevivalAn audience that was fairly representative of the d fferent classes of tbe community wtnesied the staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Town Hall by the Malay boy amateurs of the Free School last night and everybody seemed to appreciate the really pleasant
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    Perak River Valley.
    144 8 ▲t an extraordinary general meeting of tba shareholders which was held at the othoes of Messrs. Brown, Phillips and B'ewart this afternoon the amendment to article 69 which was passed at an extraordinary general meeting held on March 16 was duly confirmed. At the Federal Coancii meeting
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    Malayan Man-Power.
    636 8 It is a notable coincidence that the Prem er’s speech in Parliament in introducli g tbe new Man-power Bill should oome to our knowledge at the same time as His i Excellency the Governor’s address to Federal Council in which, in speaking on < tbe Registration Bill for
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    Britannia Opera Company.
    426 8 The management of the Britannia Opera Company announce that they have secured the services of a pucca Egyptian danseuse Mate Marica, who in conjunction with the famous dancer, Miss Maria, will give extra turns at to night’s entertainment when that most popular play entitled Zimin Sabha will
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    The Education of Chinese Girls.
    1109 8 [To the Editor on the Straits Echo.'] Sl l’n the concluding paragraph of my letter on Chinese Marriage Law Reform which \ou were kind enough to publish in Wed nesday's issue of your popular paper, I stated that it would be more reasonable if th
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    ST. GEORGE’S CHURCH, PENANG.
    106 8 A mil 14, 2nd Sunday after East»». 800 a.m. Matins 8- a.m, Holy Communion 10 00 a.m. Holy Communion (Chinese) 500 p.m. Sunday School 6-00 p.m. Evensong Hymn 197 Psalm LXXIII Soaper LXXLV Wesley Magnificat 7 Stainers Nunc Dimittis Parisien Hymns 221, 292 and 499 On
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    French Consular Cables.
    518 8 Paris April 9. President Poincare visited yesterday the troops of the region of La Falaise. Following the declarations of 8010, several judicial commissioner* have been sent to the provinces, a* well a* to foreign countries. Official. —Count Caernin repeating that the initative of peace negotiations between France
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    The Week's Events.
    64 8 Saturday, April 13. Kuala 8 dim Bobber Co. Ltd., General Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 11.30 R.m. North Kedah Onr Day/ Drawing of Second Lottery, Perak Rivet Valley Rubber Co. Ltdi, Ordinary General Meeting, 12.30 p m. The Penjom Robber Entates, Ltd., Statatery Meeting, Kennedy A Co., 12
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      546 8 WANTED TEACHER for a Lower Elementary Address No 99, 231 c/o Straits Echo. KTOTICE. Notice is hereby given that-Mr Leonard Ernest Slows is authorised iosigaonr firm p*r procuration from to-day. KATZ BROTHERS, Ltd. Penang, 13th April, 1918, 23 Bangnon Talley No Liability. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. Notice is hereby given that
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    SHARES.
    2356 9 a I 0 Dividend s •4* Kimbe af ai; Capital. Skar*t to Varna. 5 <35 laama* 2 Uat imamfer current i u J 3 aial y am r ymmr. w m 1 i 9 ota. 9 ets 1909 1 120,00« 119,900 1 i «9 M Alar Gajak Rubber Estate,
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      454 9 London Directory. (Published Annuatlij.) trader* throughout the World oommuniente direct with English Manufacturers fi* Dealers u, each class of goods. Besides being t« •nmolete commercial guide to London and £Xbs, tbs Directory oontam. li* of Export Merchants *ith the Goods they ship, and the Colonial and Foreign Market? they supply;
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    The Idols of the Market Place.
    1149 10 B*con remarks Thera are idol» arising from human inieroourse and LuoiinUogietf, which we call idols of the leaflet place became they spring up when men have dealing and association one witbiAPoibsr. For men get to know one another by means of conversation, and words
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      639 10 WANTED To rent o'- ?e a small bungalow or compound house o osa to town tuhei furnished or uuluroishhd. Apply T. E H. ejo Straits Echo, WANTED A CHIEF CA9HIER for r loc 1 Chinese Bsnk. Fair knowledge of English and Chinese essmti*!- Security required. Apply to H.H., 227 e/o
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      92 10 Since the H Began The Allied Governments Have Bought Over Liv* TYPEWRITERS To Equip their New Armies Compare the work and you too will choose the ROYAL Typewriter, —the machine that makes big organizations complete. STOCKED IN BRIEF, POLICY ft! FOOLSCAP SIZES BY THE I SOLE IMPORTERS NBACH AND COMPANY
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      108 10 X X t i X X X X X MILK Australian Concentrated 5 Condensed PRICES OH .A.FPLIC.ATTOIT. SINGAPORE GOLD STORAGE COMPANY, LIMITED. PENANG. Sampson t Ton MOTOR TRUCK For passengers or Goods, licensed for 12 passengers. MIAMI MOTOR CYCLE Lightweight, powerful and economical, new $27$. Oxo-Gas (Kerosine) Lamps 300 Candle
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    Our Street in Salonika.
    1159 11 I We live not five hundred yards from the White Tower, and yet we are as far from the orush and roar of Army traffic as if we were billeted in a dug-out cn the top of Kotos. Oar street is typical of Salonika, with conical
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    Humour in Sadness.
    393 11 And you will observe extraordinary high spirits in the midst of sadness in other plaoes besides among the pages of The Wipers Times.” It is almost everywhere. The outwardly miserable people are usually those who inwardly have little to worry them whereas those whom we know most
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    The Irish Leader.
    359 11 billon, wh apparently lead'ng the opposition in the Home of Commons to the Govemmert’s M*n-Power Bill M juh .“it. roenUy chairman of the Nationalist -Tarty. His election was a foregone conclusion. Born th aider fi 8 latter WM the mo,i considerable figure next after bim among the
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      152 11 NOTICE nnHE ESTABLISHMENT of B. P, de Silva will be closed for the Hindu New Year on the 13th and 14th irsfc For ?he Blood Kotp the 1« the Life. Blood Part Clarkes Blood Mixture If you suffer* from any such disease as mentioned below, don't waste time and money
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      332 11 It’s Bad Sign. Whon you bare that obstinate, lingering cou<jh whiah will not be shaken off. There is no cough at any stage, whether old or youog, but what needs at'ention. A. cough Boon wrecks a strong constitution, soon makes one helpless, in fact a cou s h is a
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      1379 12 P. 0. —BRITISH INDIA STRAITS STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.) AND APGAR LINK. (Companies Incorporated in England MAIL AND PAS8ENGER 8ERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS(Undei .Contract with Hia Majesty's Government.) The Company’s MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at preeent suspended. Pomengers for Europe are booked via
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