Straits Echo, 19 April 1918
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Straits Echo
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Title Section36 1918-04-19 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THB FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. $3O Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, 19th APRIL, 1918, Single Copy, lO cents. No. 9 J,36 words
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Advertisement1041 1918-04-19 1 W» V j V/ ji‘ a >A% 3a NATUEii LHZ IF YOU WANT COMFORT i GO TO THB Undermentioned Garage For Brand New Csrn for hire day and night j Telephone No 694. Telegraphic Addrei* HOKIMTEIK. Motor car importers and largest dealer* in cylinder oil, petrol j motor accessoriea. REPAIRS1,041 words
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Advertisement9 1918-04-19 1 "VP? am ffu «Oju D»£> pal ws£r ca BB9 words
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Article2362 1918-04-19 2 C From Char Own CkrrespondmL) London, February 21. Thu Western Front. A calm review of the position on the Western front shows that the Allied forces massed there may await with assurance the Hun offensive, which may be begun at any time. Allowing for the reinforcements2,362 words
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Advertisement395 1918-04-19 2 Wfi CARRY LARGC STOCKS OF CHINA GLASS WARE. Imperial While Dinner Wa^e 54 Si V •V The ‘lmperial' White Dinner Ware Made of Royal garni porcelain plain silver white, 12 sided shape as illustration, very strong and serviceable ware. Breakages can be rep'aced at any time. Dinner service for 6395 words
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Advertisement398 1918-04-19 2 Are you a Slave to pain? Do You Ever Re»t? Or is your life a perpetual burden-a wakeful, restless, fevered tortured existeooe? Do you etart aud cry out from twitching nerves or daiting piiotP Are you robbed of your nights of just repose and tranquil sleepP Then there is hope398 words
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Article486 1918-04-19 3 Petition Refused in thi Privt Council. Ob Tuesday, Febua r y 5, the Jadici 1 Committee of the Privy Council beard a petition of Chan Beck Cboo, who is the wif«a of the respondent, Tan Eng Lim, who we r e married on January 18, 1912, and486 words
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Article42 1918-04-19 3 Tbo following programme of ma9ic will be played at the Esplanade to-day at 5 pm.:— 1 R°mioiscences of Donizetti Godfrey 2 Garotte Sa die Amillon 3 Selection Macbeth Verdi 4 Waltz Passing Clouds Promt 5 March Lively On Balfour42 words
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Article33 1918-04-19 3 Mr. Khaw Joo Tok advises us that the outputs from the following two companies for the first fortnight, were: Bangnon Valley No Liability, 200 piculs; Deebcok Dredging No Liability, 165 piculs.33 words
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Article413 1918-04-19 3 Messrs. Kennedy Co., secretaries of the Malay Peninsula Agricultural Association, notify that the annuil general meeting of the Association has been fixed for Saturday, April 27, at 11.30 am, at the Chamber of Commerce. The following passengers arrived here to-day From Singapore:—Mr. King, Dr. and Mrs413 words
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Article103 1918-04-19 3 Good Price* (From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, April 19; At the weekly auction the following prices were realised Fine ribbed smoked sheet 8 93 to $lO3 per picul Good 80 92 do Pine plain 83 do Good 70 79 do Ucsmoked fine plain 74 76 do Crepe103 words
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Article64 1918-04-19 3 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. A, A. Anthony and Company’s ■hare list:— Tssterday. To-day. Rubbsr. S P P ►»3 Bt B a s W m CQ 03 Ayer Kuning 1.00 1.10 1.05 1.15 Jeram Kaantan 1*35 1.50 1.45 1.60 Mining. K&mpong Kamnting 44/- 45/864 words
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Article33 1918-04-19 3 The conquering Cameos come. They commandeer the Town Hall to entertain the public on Monday and Tuesday next when they promise to will put on an excellent burlesque and vaudeville performance.33 words
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Article56 1918-04-19 3 Subscriptions prom Bangkok. The results of the two fetes recently held in aid of the French Red Cross Funds are now known and are very satisfactory. The evening of the 2ad inst. produced the following amounts. Sale of Lottery Tickets. Tes. 20,000 Auction 15,250 Donations 3,030 Theatre56 words
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Article479 1918-04-19 3 The Electric Polyscope advertises another change of Programme to-night. In the first show chapters 7 and 8 of The Goddess” will be screened, and after the interval four new parts of The Mystery of the Secret Kingdom and Gloria’s Romance.” supported by “Wiffles is Married Despite Himself479 words
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Advertisement349 1918-04-19 3 ifctffm«wwwwwwTTmTfwwwwMwm?}| «t--mpire Theatre Hi H 8 JH '2+ Proprietor: HJ. A.. HOLM. Manager: thomabshafto. The only Theatre io The East with a Surbrite Screen 0„e Reason why Empire Pictures are Clearer and Brighter than any other in Penang. tf- 0- ah A Red Feather Feature s*Love Aflame jf Five Reels.349 words
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Advertisement354 1918-04-19 3 WANTED. A QUALIFIED CHINESE LADY TEACHER fe t acb E glisa st, the •t the “PeiYu Qi;ls’ Scbooi” Northern Riuii, Penang App’y personally or in to Mrs. LEONG TEK KHEAN, la, Light Street, Penang. Penang Sales Room. An Auction Sale of Valuable Household Furniture and Piano COMPRISING: Single and Double354 words
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Article, Illustration98 1918-04-19 4 PUBLISHED DMLT (Except Sundays and pnblle faelidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price x Daily Local $BO per annum Outatatlon Poe tare MaU Kdltion (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: "CCHO MNANG" Telephone Noe. (Coho) SB9. Prlntlnr Department s4s, N.B. —411 buiinm.98 words
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Article1482 1918-04-19 4 With Lord Bertie retired from Paris, 9ir George Buchanan from Petrograd and Sir Oeoil Spring-Rioe from Washington there are very few of the old gang in the British diplomatic servioe still helping I to run the nation’s foreign sffsirs though doubtless Lord Fardlnge, firmly entrenched ia1,482 words
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Article516 1918-04-19 4 Mr. H. Tane, late Treamrer, FMB., haa gone to Fraooe to work in a Church Army Recreation Hat Mr. 8. Seeiiivasagam, Deputy Registrar, haa been appointed to act aa Aaaiatant Registrar of Coarta, Ipoh. Mr. W. N. Guilin, of the Eaatern Ship* ping Company's Dockyard, Sungei Nyok,516 words
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Article444 1918-04-19 4 > I The following details regarding the death I of Mr. Justioe Edmonds will be read with I melancholy interest i— Mr, Jnatioe Edmonds had arrived in 1 1 Malacca from Scremban on Monday the 8th April, and bad been engaged w.th civil work I444 words
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Article1041 1918-04-19 4 The Submarine Menace. No ground for optimUm is yet disolosed by the submarine returns. It i 8 i tt lK d to say, from the latest weekly list, ed to-day, that any diatinot obeck ha. hJ?« imposed upon piracy, or that the manaoTtn our welfare has any tenderoy1,041 words
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Advertisement73 1918-04-19 4 BRASS BEDSTEADS MEW DESIGNS- -<«*»- RAY A VISIT TO OUR New Showrooms PRITCHARD Co., Ltd. COMPLETE HOUSE FURNITURES Union Street, PESANG. > 1 •OM Ol »01 Si t 4 O CERTAIN REMEDY SbrowTbast] j BLACK THREAD, j Recommended bj all the leading O mycologists in the country. *•;•> ocked in73 words
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Article3416 1918-04-19 5 [Reuter's Telegrams] A Localised Objective. TrUninltf Rings of Height! London, April 17, 1 p m. k Paris iemi*Tfhcisl mrs*age says i "The •npD7 P» id ,0F bU ,-C e,S betW6e B.UIPBI end Neuve Eglise with frightful hPOitombi of deed. Whole battalions were thrown in with unexampled disregard3,416 words
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Article636 1918-04-19 5 [Reuter's Telegrams] ADMIRALTY RETURNS. Blron Big Ships Lost. London, April 17. The Admiralty announoes that the arrivals during the week numbered 2 211 and the sailings 2.45« Total 4,647 Eleven veesels over 1 600 tone and four vessels under that tonnage were sunk. Twelve vessels were unsuooessfully636 words
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Article45 1918-04-19 5 The following articles will be found oar outside paves 2.—War News and Gossip, B.—Singapore Divorce Csss, Todaj’s Band Programme. Tin Output. M. P. A. A. The Share Market. The Cameos. Frenoh Red Cross, 6»—' The Rubber Position. Gambling in Siam. Telegrams, 7,—Affair* in China,45 words
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Article1403 1918-04-19 6 [Reuter's Telegrams.] PREMIER ON IRELAND. London, April 17, 4 a.m. In the House of Commons Mr. Lloyd George in his reply said that President Wilson’s deoision was difficult but was the only way in which America could render practical assistance in this battle. The decision however was1,403 words
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Article483 1918-04-19 6 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Hungarian CabinetLondon, April 18, 10 a.m. An Amsterdam message says it is reported from Budapest that the Kungtrian Cabinet has resigned. Causes of Resignation. London, April 18, 4 p.m, A Budapest message Btates that the resignation of the Cabinet was immediately due to the imposBiblity483 words
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Article159 1918-04-19 6 CONTROL OF THE COAST. No Further Withdrawal. London, April 18. Ipm, The newspapers state that the Germans are continuing in the north regardless of the enormous losses they have sustained. Their violent attacks allowed them oertain progress yesterday at extremely heavy cost. All the papers express full confidence159 words
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Article833 1918-04-19 6 rRlUTUE’U TULRGRAM8.] Publication in EnglandLondon, April 16, 8.5 p m. A translation of Prince Lichnowsby’s famous memorandum has been published and Lord Robert Cecil stated in the House of Commons to-day that it would be widely circulated. Professor Gilbert Murray, who writes a preface to the translation, contributes833 words
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Article154 1918-04-19 6 Recommendations to the Governor(.From Our Own Correspondent Ipoh, April 19. A crowded and protraoted meeting of Chinese miners of Perak, including a sprinkling of Europeans, discussed the measures necessary to inoreasa the production of tin with a view to a presentation of their views to the High154 words
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Article26 1918-04-19 6 (From Our Own Correspondent London, April 15, The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/4* Diamond Smoked Sheet 2/3|26 words
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Article365 1918-04-19 6 Friday, April 19. Town Band, Esplanade. Saturday, April 20. The Peojom Rubber Estates, Ltd,, Statutory Meeting, Kennedy A Co, Semanggol Rubber Co. Ltd., Annual General Meeting, 9 Union Street, noon. Cricket. —P.C.C. vs. P R.C. Esplanade. Sunday, April 21, Third After Easter. Parish Hall, Annual General Meeting,365 words
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Article573 1918-04-19 6 A careful examination of the plantation output return, for the la.t two mol h. •how. that, although individual compare, show changes, no great alteration i. yet Der ceptible in the Upping policy of Vha majority of plantation companies. I n total ling the published rttarna of 277573 words
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Article368 1918-04-19 6 Under the somewhat woeful caption “The End” the Bangkok Tim*s relates the news that a new amendment to the law relating to card-playing practically ends all gambling in Siam. When the gambling bouses were closed some while agooards took on a new popularity and all over the368 words
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Obituary46 1918-04-19 6 Obituary. London, April 17. The death is announced of Sir John Willoughby, London, April 18, 12.85 a.no. The oldest member of the House of Commons, Mr, Samuel Young has died, [The late Mr. Young was M. P. for the East Division of County Cavan frous 1892].46 words
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Article1841 1918-04-19 7 Hon. O. T. Wang, L L. D - WHAT THE SOUTH-WEST 18 FIGHTING FOE. By Hon. O. T. Wang, L L.D, rVicc-President of China's First Parliament; written for The Chinese Students' Monthly.) Tne South-West is not fighting to-day against the North but fighting to make China a genuine republic. The South-West i- fighting to defend1,841 words
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Advertisement326 1918-04-19 7 DCDDCDnCDC DC DCDn a Girl’s Complexion Indigestion and thin blood are the causes of unsightly erup1 pimples on a girl’s face. Because these eruptions are so tl0nS ,on with school-girls and young women, they seldome receive C0,n attention from parents. When they indicate thin blood, or there i« a remedy326 words
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Advertisement13 1918-04-19 7 Far Children’s Hacking Comgh at Night Waad' Great Peppermint On ra li, <413 words
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Advertisement76 1918-04-19 7 When Baby screams there is much to do to qnieten him, The poor little chap can* not tell yon what the trouble is, but, most likely, it is just wind. Two drops of WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE in a little warm water will pat the matter right and qsickly make76 words
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Advertisement1495 1918-04-19 8 p. BRITISH INDIA AND APC1B LINE. (Companies Incorporated in Ingland.) MAIL AND PA88ENQER 8ERVIOE8. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS. (Undm Contract with His Majesty’s Government.) The Company's MAIL BEK VICES OF BOMBAY are at preeent suspended. Passengers for Europe are booked via Bomba} aa opportunity off era and aa faraa arsommodation1,495 words
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