Straits Echo, 30 April 1918
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Straits Echo
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Title Section35 1918-04-30 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. •30 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, aOth APRIL, 1918. Single Copy, IO cents. No. tOO.35 words
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Advertisement1098 1918-04-30 1 PjpENSED 1 Milkmaid B» SWlSSCONDEtf i IF YOU WANT COMFORT 1 00 TO THS Undermentioned Garage j For Brand New Cara for hire day and night j Telephone Jo. 694. Telegraphic Address: HOKIMTEIK Motor car importers and lergest dealers in cylinder oil, petrol motor accessories. REPAIRS of every kind don©1,098 words
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Article695 1918-04-30 2 N > one who bat the least knowledge of the mass of firsthand evidence regarding German atrocities which has been collected daring the war, can doubt their extent and character. Tne popular estimate of these is within the truth rather than beyond it. The oruelty and695 words
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Article199 1918-04-30 2 The following is the health statement of the Penang Municipality for the week ending April 20,1918: {Male 38) 68 Female 30 Death rate 33.21 per mille per annnm compared with 32-24 in the preceding week and with 40.83 in the corresponding week of last year: Nationality. M. F199 words
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Article924 1918-04-30 2 UftOIS Marcosson, New Yok, March 4. The best way to check German spies and propagandists in this country is to stand a tew of them up against a wall and shoot them, Isaac F. Maroosson told members of the American Manufacturers’ Association. Judging by the applause which924 words
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Advertisement12 1918-04-30 2 Fur Children’s Hacking Cough at Night, Jfuud* Great Peppermint Cur* la, M.12 words
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Advertisement309 1918-04-30 2 Quality Bath Towels. THE "w. l.” nm OF BATS TOWELS. Guaranteed to give satisfaction in wear. These towels have been popular for many years on account of the high standard of quality that is always maintained. They are thick, soft and absorbent. Price* the Lowest possible for the quality supplied.309 words
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Advertisement50 1918-04-30 2 Whj It Sells. Chamberlain'. Cough Eemedy i, the largest .ailing ooagfa medicine in the world o-dej because it doe* exactly what a cough remedy i* .opposed to do. It .top. the cough by curing the cold, aad doe* it .Dead ily and «Aolullv. For .ala by alfSi p*«*an«i and deaLprij50 words
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Advertisement487 1918-04-30 2 KWONG SENG 43» LEITH STREET, PENANG, KIR ST CLASS TAILORS Moderate charges and good guaranteed, P Cutler: A.H BOOM. A trial it eoliciled. TATTOOING. Japanese Great Tattooer S. MAKING I have opened an establishment lor Tattooing at 184, Campbell Street. Head Office, No. 399, North Bridge Road, Singapore. Notice of487 words
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Article1071 1918-04-30 3 Tom Weight - (By Tom Weight.) Old tim»s bad old signs that now one sees do more Accommodation for i man and beast” wag one, and 14 good beda another. This was in a dear, dear country that died of a loathsome disease called progress, a land that died slowly and1,071 words
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Article436 1918-04-30 3 It is with deep regrpt tbit we announcethe death of Mr. J. Motion, 8 otiou Engineer, Construction Department, F M S. Railways, which took place at the General Hospital yesterday afternoon. Deceased w bo was 42 years old was born in Dundee and qualified for the436 words
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Article384 1918-04-30 3 SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING New Rules Considered. A special general meeting of the members of the Penang Cricket Club was held at the Pavilion yesterday evening for the purpose of considering the new rules of the Club as prepared by the Committee. Col. A. R. Adams (President) presided384 words
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Article111 1918-04-30 3 It is announced that ex-T«ar, his eonsort. and their family, together with their entourage, are now obliged tooonform with the food rationing regulations imposed on Bussian oitisrns, and that food cards have been issued to all the Bomaoiff m nage. This step has been taken by the111 words
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Advertisement396 1918-04-30 3 &fTTf?TWttTroTT?T?f??Tro?WT??T??ttmTrm¥?#i A Serial Greater than “Liberty"! 3 'IMPOSSIBLE," YOU SAY. r* t* W “r* f rt-* i j We Say- -Read about “The Red Ace” in our House Program MPI H8 PRESENTS TH£ strowg wild west picture. d u -n HI *e FULL OF TEN E SITUATIONS AND ADVEN: UBE3396 words
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Advertisement497 1918-04-30 3 PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. OTICE is kerf by gives that Mr. John Gordon Browa h s b n 1 admitted as a partner in this firm »s from lat May, 1918, A. A. ANTHONY Co, Penang, 30th April, 1918. 285 WHOOPING COUGH and Babies’ Bronchitis Cured by VENOS LIGHTNING COUGH CURE No497 words
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Article, Illustration97 1918-04-30 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang Price Dally Local *BO per annum. Outstatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PBNANG.' Telephone Nos. (Eoho) 586. Printing Department 343, N.B. —All business communications97 words
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Article1315 1918-04-30 4 At the present stage of the conflict it is of interest to look back a year sed see how Britain and b?r Allies stood st the end of April 1917. It was daring the last week of the month thst the German nary had shown signs of1,315 words
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Article30 1918-04-30 4 Latest Quotations Tin (unrefined) is quoted here to*day at $169.75. business done, in Bingapo r e (refined) at $l7O, buyers no sellers, and in Loudon at £B5O three months.30 words
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Article1872 1918-04-30 4 Th« Smallholder. A K-dah corresdondent writes: If the repott is true that a Chetty rubber estate proprietor was fioed $2OO by the Taiping Magistrate for having failed to treat certain diseased rubber trees, it would be interesttug to know on wbat basis this fine was calculated. Can it1,872 words
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Article25 1918-04-30 4 (From Omt Own Correip*nd«nt London, April 27, The prices in the London Rabber to-day were: Pale Crepe 2/4$ Diamond Smoked Bheet 2/425 words
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Advertisement173 1918-04-30 4 PRITCHARD'S PENAMO. SOLE AGENTS FOR VITAFER The Greatest of all Tonic Foods. Composed of tbe entire Protein Constituent B of Milk (Casein and Lactalbumen), combined with the Glycerophosphates of Calcium, Sodium and Magnesium. 9 Per Per Bottle Bottle GIVES VITALITY 11 RESTORES HEALTH For Brain, Body and Blood. VITAFER sitmulates173 words
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Article150 1918-04-30 5 Reuter’s Telegrams] Situation Reviewed. London, April 29, 6 55 p m. Week-end reports from tbe front re distinctly heartening, showing that Ihe Germans are prevented from exploiting their Kemmel success, thanks to itcut British and French resistance, Oa the whole, indeed, tbe enemy is somewhat poshed back,150 words
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Article185 1918-04-30 5 Londop, April 29Sir Douglas Haig reports “A hostile attack reported in the neighbourhood of Lccre yesterday wm repulsed with rifle and machinegun fire. The enemy opened a heavy bombardment with high explosive and gas shells this morning on the whole front from Metercn to Voortizeele, and185 words
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Article203 1918-04-30 5 London, April 28, 4.30 p.m. A French communique states s —‘‘There was violent artillery work at night time north of the Avre, between IiMsigDy and Noyon. We made two sucoecsful raids north of Chemin-des-Dimes taking prisoner twenty-five. We repulsed attempts preceded by lively bombtrdments north-west of Rbeims in203 words
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Article790 1918-04-30 5 Correspondents Accounts London, Apiil 28. 10 5 p.m. Voter’s cornapondent at British Headgarters, telegraphing on Sunday evening, i»yg j—'• Heavy fighting ia in progress at 0re Hharp fighting occurred for the old crater positions between Givenchy and Festubert, resulting in tho restoration of oar line as it originally stood. Subsequently790 words
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Article924 1918-04-30 5 General Wire News Finnish Civ.l War, London, April 29A cable from Stockholm states that a I Socialist deputation waited on the Finnish White Minister Gripanberg demanding in the name of Scandinavian Socialists the termination of the barbarous cruelties of White against Rsd prisoners, Gripenberg refused to transmit the representations on924 words
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Article272 1918-04-30 5 Petrograd Rumours. London, April 29. 6.50 a.m. The long silence from Petrograd was broken by the reoeipt of Renter’s latest dated the 23rd April wbioh does not confirm the rumours from Stockholm of the restoration of the monarohy in the person of the Tsarevitoh, which Russian cirolea272 words
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Article69 1918-04-30 5 The following articles will be found eu our outside paves 2.—The Culture of Callousness, Vital Statistics. Shooting enemy Bpies--8 —Good Beds, Death of Mr. Motion. P. C. O. An Ex-Emparor’s Food Cards. 6, The War and Asia Plight cf Armenians. Cavanagh’s Rum t A Billet Yarns. Submarine Yarns, S.69 words
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Article1129 1918-04-30 5 Political News 3 1 American Labour. 1 1 London, April 28, 11.25 p.m. The American delegation visiting the I United Kingdom were given a luncheon at I Whitehall Palace where they were enabled I I to meet British and Allied and Dominion I I pressmen, Canada, Australia Ne vzealand I1,129 words
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Article153 1918-04-30 5 ALLIED NAVaL COUNCIL. London, April 29, The inter-Allied Naval Council in Paris has finished its work and has taken important decisions destined to bring the Allies into closer co-operation and intensify their common Naval action. ALSACE LORRAINE. Basle, April 29. On Friday the Chief Committee of the Reichstag153 words
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Article802 1918-04-30 6 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, April 28, The Press Bureau annouooBs that the King haa sent thia meaaage (o the Viceroy for communication to the War Conference at Delhi on Saturday t M I learn with deep aatiafaotion of the reaponae to the Viceroy's invitation, of the ruling802 words
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Article1042 1918-04-30 6 Cavanagh's Rum A Billet Yam. Ah, sure, now, an’ wbat the divil other langutvQ ar n ve afther wani’n if ye sp.ke plain Eig i-b P" (We bad been discussing iq a desultory fashion tbe most useful second language whea this qu stion came out of tbe corner auadows.) Sure,1,042 words
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Article951 1918-04-30 6 Out of the heavy mist tbat hid tbe horiI3D of a dead calm sea the little drifter shot ai-d came pounding for her anchorage at her very best pace. Her captain, a short, stout, elderly, redfaced man, had had tbe fright of bis life. Once Bafely ashore, he951 words
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Article62 1918-04-30 6 For By Stiahrr At. To-morrow (W rinesclay)^ Dili Omapere 9 a.m. aetul and T ang (via Saogei Upth) Mambang 3-30 p.m. Madras taking units 10 a.m. for Eu ope etc., v a Regt. up to 9 a.m. Bombay Mail A Panels 8 a.m. 2ud prox. (Thursday). Tougkah62 words
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260 1918-04-30 6 The forty-second annual general meeting of this Association was hnd in tbe Tamil Chapel on Sam-day, tbe 27m instant oommeociag at 530 p.ur. Toere were present the R vtrend K Gamier (President, in the chair), tbe Rverend D 8. Ponmah (VicePresident), M sars. U. 8.260 words
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Article231 1918-04-30 6 Military Officer's View. la the debate oa tie Income-Tax B II, Sir Wiiiiim Meyer to d a «tory on the Hubj'Ctof frivolous applications to High Cou'ts from R veuue Officers’ decu-ions. I m iy p°rb*ps t-ll the Council 1 litrlf «(cry in thU. cono-'chon which happntd mmy231 words
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Article111 1918-04-30 6 It is B‘attd io a report to the Colonial Offi'e that a social revolution is taking placa among the p a oplss of the Gold Coast, I' is the policy of the Government to support the age-old native system of tribal administration and to ub ds bv111 words
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Article72 1918-04-30 6 The report that a ha ge containing about 100 tone of coconut oil for margariae bad gone down < £f Tilbury n quires investigation. If so large a pumtity ot much-needed fat h s bv>n ioct o v i impoiil ed by carelessness, a Very grave reflection72 words
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Article252 1918-04-30 6 Sir, —I present you with the phrase uttered two years ago by a rather well known man in town which is as true now as it was then: We are governed by a vacillating tyranny, tempered with gross incompetence.” Yours, Ac., A. B. Scot, February 19. A252 words
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Article664 1918-04-30 6 Some Effect» or Gsbiux Propaganda. Ic will ba wise oot to under*» imate or even Attempt to minimise the p rmoious fleet which Germany’s succ-sses in Russia will almost certainly exercise up in the Asiatic mind. 111 new» travels Apace, and among Asiatics gent rally there664 words
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Article123 1918-04-30 6 Those who wish to have another really good entertainment cannot do better than pay a visit to the Electric Polyscope to* night at 9 15, when the second show starts, In addition to two new episodes (four past*) of The Goddess,” featuring Stewart, the beautiful actress in the123 words
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Article123 1918-04-30 6 Though the course of events in Russia has naturally brought much anxiety to the 'Armenian Refugees Committee, the position in the Caucasus is not yet considered absolutely hopeless. The Armenian soldiers drafted some time ago out of the Russian army are resisting the return of the Turks,123 words
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533 1918-04-30 6 U. S. Urges Caution a s to the Far East. Must Not Alienate Ruseu*, Lord Cecil, sajs it would be ciminai and fool.lhl k dp let the Japanese intervene in Sibaria °m° statement to the press. however Hi| eardedas the final judgment 0 Government, though it is likely in rh.jS533 words
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Article206 1918-04-30 6 R'cenfc successes have not tended to dimioish the spirit of German arrogance. This w*s to be exp cted, and we are not, therefore, surprised to find a repetition on a larger scale of the boastings which characterised the pre-war period, Appropriately enough, these appear in the KVupp206 words
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Article130 1918-04-30 6 Tubsday, Apbio 80. Municipal Commission. Wbdnbsdat, Mat 1, Town Band, Esplanade. St. Philip and 8t James. Prince of Wales Lodg*\ 9 pm, Fbidat. May 3. Town Band, Esplanade Saturday, May 4. Ministering Children's League Entertainment, Town Hall, 4 30 p.m. Sunday, May 5. Rogation Sunday. An Australian130 words
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Advertisement12 1918-04-30 6 For Children’s Hacking Cough at Night Woods** Great Peppermint Cere Is. 6d12 words
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Article918 1918-04-30 7 Wht it is Still to >■ Wunn. Wdj ia it that from this Armageddon, from this great strife of baman emotion, love agaicst lore, and bate against bate, no really great patriotio song has arisen f How is it that the English composer has failed to918 words
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Advertisement1041 1918-04-30 7 Are yon a Slave to pain Do Tou Ever Root? Or ig jo«r life a perpetual bu'den-a W restless, fevered tortured exiatenceP Do you «tart and cry out from twitching BerT 8 or dait'Dg paioeP Are you robbed of your oighte of juit re* poae and tranquil aleepP Tbeo there1,041 words
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