Straits Echo, 6 June 1918

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THB STRAITS, THB FEDBRATEC MALAY STATES ANL THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 16. $3O Per Annum. PENANG, THURSDAY, 6th JUNE, 1918. Single Copy, lO cento. No. 129.
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      1503 1 MI b swisscond SK arid PENANG RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. OUR 384.h AUCTION SALE WILL BE HELD AT 7, DHION STREET. On Tuesday, 11th June, 19IS, AT 10-30 A M. SHARP AUCTION SALES EVICT TUESDAY AND THURSDAY- -PRIVATE SALES DAILYFORWARD SALES ARRANGED Consignments of Robber solicited. Liberal Cash Advances made on
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      25 2 r~ srt 22*3 w »Mi m& m bp Obtainable from all Leading Stores Throughout the Straits and Federated Malay States f lncorporated in Straits Settlements.)
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    PENANG TURF CLUB. Autumn Meeting, 1918.
    1014 3 RACE DAYS: FIRST DAY Tuesday, 23rd July, 1918. SECOND DAY Thursday, 25th July, 1918, THIRD DAY Saturday, 27th July. 1918. FIRST 'DAY. TUESDAY. 23rd JULY, 1918. 1 7. The George Town Plate and IPurse. Value $400 and $50 to each Second Horae. A Handicap
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    To Raise the “Lusitania.”
    1713 3 Fefore tbe submirires began to exact their toll of great, modern ships, the dream of almost every old-time skipper of tbe Seven Seas was to some day be master of a treasure ship that should bring to the surface of the 8panish Main a sunken galleon
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    Interstate Cricket.
    361 3 Selangor went to Ipoh to play Perak at oricket on Jane 3rd and hid the worst of I the weather to contend w.tb, tbe wet ground spoiling their bowling. Tbe matoh ended I in a draw. Scores. PEEAK, F S Pbysick, o (sub) b Jordan 29 O A
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      378 3 r» i sit -4 5 nni on Friday. 12th Jnly, 1918’ Handicaps for the First entries Close Day will be published on or before Wednesday, the 17th July, 1918. SptrUI Co*<Htloa R#gardiag Haadle.p R.e«. In all Handicap Races for Horses or Ponies, the Official Handicapper may, with the consent of
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      591 3 WHAT EVERY ONE NEEDS i Is a little corrective medicine from time to time. Bodily ailments th« lot of the majority of mankind Fortunately, most beginning, serious and if taken in time are easily amenable to mmpto treatment Among them are derangements of the digestive system. As soon as you
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    Bengal and the War.
    1207 4 What Bbxgal Mat bi Asked to do. M 1 The Bengal War Conference held in the < Ball Room at Government House on May 3rd was a very large and very representa tire gathering. His Excellency the Governor presided, and every community in the city was
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      789 4 TEA DINNER SERVICE. Crockery is getting scarcer and dearer. Get your requirements while the price is right. “THE STRATFORD” Dinner, Tea and Breakfast Set made of white semi-poreelain ware, decorated with apple green leaf design. St. Regant shaped as illustration. Very strong and serviceable Breakages can be replaced at arty
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      206 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The Commissioners of George Town, Peoaog hereby invite tenders for the following i— Quarters for Maneipal Employees at dungei Pinang. Fall particulars can be obtained and plans and spec fioations impeded at tha Muncipal Engineer’s Office. Tenders which shonld oe endorsed < “Quarters for Mnal. Employees at Sungei
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      217 4 JNTOTIOe. LABOUR F-M.s. •I«di>» ImmijriiTonTuad O f di Mtte EMPLOYEES OP XNDUn UBOUg are herebj reminded th*t returns for the preceding I be sent to the Office Cf\‘ e U, (Controller of Labour, p e put 7 tbennontbe on April, Jul/> 0c^d Forms for the return will for application at
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    Wright "Realizing."
    577 5 It seems only the other day that I dandled 3 him—a big-eyed boy child, full of searching enquiries, I gave him his first box of tools, bis first wateh. Only the other day, it «I seems, he was wrangling With his little sister—his mother was arbitrating—and he was
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    Killed by an Elephant.
    228 5 WiLL-Known Huhtik Mbits Hib Dbath. Sportsmen will resd with muoh regret, says a Ceylon paper, of the tragio death of Mr. T. C. Wiggin, Superintendent of Minor Roads, North Central Province, so well known as a successful hunter of rogue elephants. Thirty five rogue elephants had
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    Q. M. N. G.
    93 5 Pbna.no Womb* Woaxias Amount previously sckDowledged $7,301 82 Y. W. C A. 12. M'S.Oxenbam 10.00 M W 5 001 Mrs. C. D, D- Hogan 2 00 M s. Dodds 10.00 Ministering Children’s League 100.001 F. M. 10.00 R. A H 10.00 H. G. S. 2 00
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    Destroying a Document.
    295 5 Aoovsnn Com mitt id fob Trial. The preliminary enquiry into the oharge against a Tamil named Manikam for destroying a valuable security, to wit, a promissory note for $295.92 was concluded yesterday afternoon before Mr. 8. H. Langston when the aoouaed was committed for (rial at the
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    “Work or Jail.”
    241 5 “Work or Jail. Nnw Jhsbt’s Wat Witm Th« Idlm New Jersey has recently adopted a regulation known as “work or jail.” Now a law compelling everybody to work during the war has come into force by proclamation of the Governor. In a formal notification to all local officials the Governor
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    U.S. Army.
    153 5 No Limit Fixud, Washington, May 6. Secretary of War Baker in announcing that 283.000 more men have been called to the army from 45 States this month, added that Congress had been asked for an appropriation of 15 billion dollars for the army in the ooming year, He
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    Attacks on Public Men.
    179 5 The attacks of the modern press upon public men, says the Saturday Reaim, are as pin-pricks compared with the eabreeuta of Saxon speech” wbioh their forbears endured without whining. O'Connell described Disraeli in one of hia papers as the descendant of the impenitent thief on the
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    PRODUCE.
    240 5 Pmujre, Juki 6. 1 8. P; Tapioca $9 30 ejllers. M. P. Tapioca 950 sellers, i I Gtold leaf 72 e»llers Pepper (W.Coaat I lb. 5 0*).516 1/2 buyers, j Black Pepper 25.00 buyers White Pepper 40 nominal Traeg Pepper $32 season *v§r |Meoe $BO nom, Hace Pickings 49
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      421 5 £Twnwwnw?Tf?Tm«TWfron«Miwtttt§G •Z THE .SUCCESS OF A RUBBER C ES L'ATK is in its M 3 3 the success of the emp'he PICTURES is in their V ■H We* »«tr H-* Picture8 have a “Bit of a Bite” about them: They lay hold of you:—And you 3 just forget they are
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      239 5 FOR SALE. SECOND HAND FORD CAR. in on a few months onlj, almost as good as new. Price 92,200 or near offer. Apply, X, e/e Straits Esho FOR BALE. Rubber factory d ,i plant at Nos. 27/28 Station Road, Bakit Mertajjm. Apply for fall particulars to v A. B. C.,
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      336 5 SHAKESPE.ARK'S MIDSUMMBE Nias's DlliM WILL BB STAGED IV The Empire Theatre BY THE i. CAMBRIDGE CLASSES or thi Anglo Chinese School Thursday, June 13th, At 9 pm. raoonos Will be given to the Chinas® Relief Fund PRICES $9, 91 and 50 cent». A Dres» Rehearsal will be held on Wednesday,
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    The Straits Echo.
    104 6 ii PUBLISHED DA ILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) 1 AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Dally Local ISO pep annum. Outatatlon Postage Extra. I Mall Edition (Poat Free) |lB pep annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Noe. (Coho) 586. Printing Department 343,
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    BIRTH.
    24 6 Match. —April 3. at Orowboroe/b, wife of Li u ut N. F. H. Mather, R fla Brigade, and F.M 8 Civil Bervioe, daughter.
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    MARRIAGES.
    62 6 Walters—Waest. —April 3, at St. Saviour's, Warwick Avenue, William Btui Walter*, of F >ochow acd Hongkong, to Maud Label Wa>ry, daughter of John William Warry, late of Clifton, Bristol. Macaskiu Bbucu —March 33. at Folkestone Coarles Frecenok Cunciogbam Macaekie, E*«*x B-'gimtnt (and Civil Service, British North Borneo), to Maggie
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    THE WAR POSITION.
    356 6 Toe few telegrams that have come through make it fairly plain that the most recent German forward effmsive has been arrested. At what cost we cannot say. Yet s consideration of the general results of tbs 1918 fighting oannot be very inspiring for the enemy. The first
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    PEOPLES’ FOOD.
    938 6 According to the text bookj on sanitation quite seventy-fire per oent of the people f Penang onght to die every month, from aeglect of eome plain rule of oleanliness in feeding, of health, or of breathing, That they do not do ao, meat arise from sheer abstinaoy, for,
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    M. A. P.
    880 6 Mr. H. W. Raper, director of agenoiei of the Great Eastern Life, is on a visit to Penang. Miss Blaokie Oorloff, Kuila Kangsar, is i making a short stay in Taiping with Mr. i and Mrs. A. L, Jumeaux. i Mr. P. Soott-Falshaw, Government Veterinary Surgeon, Straits
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    883 6 ‘‘The Stuff to Give Them,*’ For sheer downrightness, commend to the correspondent of the Daily Hail who advocates tout court, "Let every otrgo Thin of more than 1.600 tons carry \t l e 2.t twS Germ.n officers with a guard, who will im mediately shoot them if the
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      134 6 Pritchard Go., Ltd Outfitting Department. THE GOODS IN THIS DEPARTMENT ABE UNBIVALLEJ 1 FOB QUALI1Y, VAEIEIY, ANDJPBICE. HANDKERCHIEFS. Gents’ Hemstitche-l Handkerchiefs all pure Linen Price *7 75 nd $8-75 d zen. Gents’ Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs, Hemmed Price *6.75 dozen. Gents* White Cambric Handkerchiefs Hemmed Price $2.75 and $3 75 and
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    THIRD AISNE BATTLE.
    604 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] Position Reviewed. London, June 4. Yesterday’» news is the most satisfactory ,inoe the 27th ult. The reports have been growing brighter in the past two days, but je«terday i> the first indication that the scemy is being definitely checked. The entry of Fooh’a reserves is
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    Haig’s Despatches.
    146 7 London, June 4. Sir Douglas Haig in his aviation report says i There was aotlvity on Monday, Night-fliers dropped eighteen tons of bombs, obiefly on the railway stations of St, Quentin, Dou*l, and Luxemberg. We brought down three and dreve down one enemy machine. No British machine la
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    FRENCH PREMIER AT FRONT.
    515 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE, London, May 31, The Times Paris correspondent states that M. Clemenoeau has just returned from the front where he had a narrow eeoape. He had just left a c-rtain point where he was surveying positions with a General, when a patrol
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    P.G.C. Tennis.
    149 7 Yb*tibdat’* Plat, Men’* Singles—A W Harries beat R G Prentis 6—3. 6—2 R A Hunt beat V G Savi 6—l, 6—l. lco Men’s Doubles B—Acton and May owe 16.2 w.o. from Tryner and Davies owe 4; Hogan and Eseobiel owe 1 w.o. from Pell and Cowap sor. Mixed
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    ROYAL SILVER WEDDING.
    356 7 [Rbutir’s Tblbgramb.] Thtir MaJ titles' Wiskti. LondoD, May 31. Great interest is being taken in the forth coming oelebration of the Bilver Wedding of Their Majesties which is the first of such celebrations in the oaso of a reigning sovereign since George the Third. Their Majesties are
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    Breach of Trust.
    381 7 Tblugu Sentenced. Mr. B. D. Acton, Distriot Judge, in delivering judgment in the case against Appalaiimi for oriminal breach of trust on three oounts in respect of $12.76 on esob count said that it was alleged by the prosecution that the aocuaed met oertain ooolies coming from
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    Tin.
    23 7 Latest Quotation*. Tin (unrefined) ia quoted here to-day at $162.60, baainesa done, in Singapore (refined) at $164, business done, (15$ tons sold.)
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    WAR NEWS AND GOSSIP.
    2841 7 (From Our Own Correspondents London, April 4. From oertain orders found on the body of a dead German officer it appears that in no one place did the Hun offensive reach its objective on the first day it begin. Hindenburg*s plan wis to pieroe tbe Allied
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    Outside.
    76 7 Tbe following articles will be feud ea our outside pages 3. —To Raise the Lusitania, Interstate Cricket, 4. —Bengal and the War. 5. Wright Real z ng,” Killed by an Elephant, Destroying a Dtcumeat. Q. M. N. G. B,—The “C. L, C." at the Front. Yellow Perilism.” Good-Bye in
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    The “C.L.C.” at the Front.
    529 8 Little baa been heard of the admirable work done by tbeCbineae Labour Companies behind the linea on the Weatern front, atatea a correspondent of a contemporary. Oooliea ef the O.L-O. are very well and com, fortably dreaoed by the British authoritiea blue auita, blue putteea,
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    May Rubber Crops.
    446 8 Stiawan 10,620, Consolidated 51,292, Rnbber Estates of Krian 24,000. Padang Jawa 13,242, Samagaga 15,900, Padang 23,000, Karan 8,920, Nellmay 7.683, Rantan 5 400, New Columbia 35.463, Alma 82,000, Bnkit Tob Alang 10,282, Shanghai Klebang 13,099, Kota Babroe 37,454, Sungei Dun 22,256, Chemor United 18,811, Shanghai Malay 22,224,
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    The Mind of a Child.
    1097 8 To catch and confine in the printed page the delicioui wildnesi of a child's fancies is impossible: no human utteranoea lose so much in the process of reporting. The one to avoid is a gushing ecatacy, an ostentatious fondlinr, or a deli«hted attempt to reproduce
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    “Yellow Perilism.”
    1336 8 Tbe suggested intervention of Japan in Siberia has onoe more aroused in certain quarters that spnetre popularly known as tbe Yellow Peril.” It is, of course, a political scarecrow on a par with the stick ard bat device with which tbe farmer seeks to frighten the birds away
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    China's Little War.
    321 8 Tkb Piaob Pbospboto But it is for the sake of the Chinese I people, who are the chief suffdrers, that foreigners ought to use every ounce of in|fljeaoe wfiion they possess to get tbe Premier to reoall the Hung Hu-ten and uniformed bandits. We are deeply indebted
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    Good-Bye in German.
    152 8 Fabbwblls in Enimt Lanouaoi, J Pi.c.rd* are now said lo be hang in all German railway statu ns admonishing passI engers to any goodby in German and I not in any language, Adieu, being Frenoh, I is strictly tab )o, and of coarse the Eoglhh bye, old
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    Tin Outputs.
    25 8 Ritiut Basin 606 pikuls; Hours worked 612; treated 72 000 cubic yards output valu d $58,000; working costs $ll,OOO. Rahman Hydraulic, 250 pikula.
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    Kuala Kangsar Malay College.
    1118 8 Kuala Kangsar Malay College Fabiwull to Mk. W. HAmasBAvne. Few men in the F.M.S, Civil Service have better earned the lasting gratitude of the p rmanent population of this country than Mr, William Hargreaves, m,a, who has jest retired from the headmastership of the Kuala Kangsar Malay College after 27
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    Cinema on Wheels.
    398 8 PbOPAUANSA fob VlLLAOita An interesting ceremony took cl.oa n« Victoria Embankment on Aprn 12 Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister It l ulor mation, inspected the fLet of th« c 7:*r c they started uff to .how prop.g.ad. a,*. the remotest corners of Crest Bntaia Each of these cars
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    Government Money.
    144 8 Abothbb Sbbtant Chakckd. B fore Mr, W, Burton, Joseph George Rodrigues, chief clerk, Police Court, Saresnban, was charged by Inspector Garside he, being entrusted oa May 7 with publio property, namely $1,279.15, in his capacity of a publio servaat, oomoaitted criminal breach of trust in respect of snob
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    The Week’s Events.
    177 8 Thubsdat, Junn 6. Penang Chamber of Commeroe, Special General Meeting, 2 80 p.m, Fkidat, Jonn 7. Penang Free School Annual Sports, S p,m. Penang Rural Board Meeting, 3 pm, Satuebat, Jvm 8. Penang Bisley. Athletic Meetiog Anglo-Ohinsse School, Magazine Road Field, 2 30 p.m. Menglembu Lode Syndicate,
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      9 8 F«r GhiWires’a Oo«fh at Qr*»fc i'«ppemial Out l*, §4
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      48 8 Do not allow yourself to become a victim to recurring Fever. There is a sure remedy at hand in WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. a truly marvellous specific in all conditions of fever and internal complaints- It is sold by Dispensaries and Stores everywhere at 30 cents per bottle
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    SHARES.
    2279 9 ft I m J5 Diriitii. V2 MoaW ef n m. c Capital. Sbarr* L) luu s h s ian aid 1 last imamfar current s k s 9H ’3 (L •ial jftar. yaar0 M 3 cr I KVBSER—99LLAK SHARKS. 9 Ots. f Sts 190» i 120,904 128,000 1 1
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    America at War.
    1074 10 Thu Futubb. It may fairly be asked t To what extent oau tbe Allies rely upon American help in tbe field during 1918 t American troops will undoubtedly furnish immediate relief I to the war-worn Frenoh line by taking over a great sector of trenchee, and will
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    A Question.
    1190 10 Have we been made better the war Many ask them.elva. ik°/' 0 b J Uoa and most answer it according q,e, approve or disapprove of the\Uu*^ Indeed, anyone wno says that wo I made worse by the war of pacifism or even sympathy enemy; while the pacifist sees
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      118 10 ALLEN DENNYS Co., 7, Union Street, Penang. Phone Nos, 393 4 412. Proprietors of/— THE PENANC RUBBER AUCTION BOOMS, where good prices are always obtained. THE PENANC TRANSHIPPING A FORWARDINCICo.. who THE'WORLD 0 f rm ri t(> Alllf PART 0F ESTATE DEPARTMENT.— We pay special attention to all supplies for
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    Under The German Harrow.
    2691 11 The following narratative was written by an inhabitant of those districts in Francwhioh the Germans were cbliged to aban 9 doned the retreat which was foroed upon them by the Allied offensive on the 8omme in 1916 I will now tall you how we were driven
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      402 11 Tenders for Sikh Gurdawara, 'I ENDERS ARE INVITED for tbs repairing of the Sikh Gurdawara, Brick Kiln Road! Penang. Tenders should he addressed to the Secretary and should reach him not later than 6th June, 1918. Plans and specifications can be seen at the Sikh Gurdawara from 8 a.m. to
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