Straits Echo, 11 June 1918

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    35 1 Straits Echo IDAILY CHRONICLE OP EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATEC «AMY STATES ANL THE FAR EAST. GENERALLY. VOL. 16. 930 Per Annum. PENANG, TUESDAY, nth JUNE, 1918. Single Copy, lo cents. No. 183.
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      1734 1 Sensed iM g^SSCOND *tu«rijnd: and PENANG RUBBER AUCTION ROOMS. OUR 385th AUCTION SALE WILL BE HELD AT 7, UNION STREET, On Thursday, 13th June, 1918, AT io_30 A.M. SHARP SALES EVERY TDESDAY AND THURSDAY- -PRIVATE SALES DAILYAUCTION FORWARD SALES ARRANGED Consigmmenta of Rubber solicited. Liberal Cash Advances made on Consignments
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      12 1 0* 1 pfO I 353 mm 3Wi m Zjffltn iwsimvjni jynm 5.3-I
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      30 2 OF EVERY Momi Cases. Acetic Acid. English Tapping Knives. Changkols. Wire Nails. v Cat (Brand) Axes. Box Strapping. Sodium Bi-Sulphite. Green Mosquito Wire Gauze BROTHERS, (Incorporated in Straits Settlements.) PENANG.
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    Alleged Forgery.
    964 3 The preliminary enquiry into tbe case agaimt Maidiu Madaraab, who is charged with using aa genuine a forced document, waa begun this morning before Mr. S. H. Langston. Toe Solicitor Genera), Mr. B. Voules, prosecuted, and Mr. J. Crabb- Watt appeared on behalf of the accused. Lawyrh’# Clirk'#
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    A Bangkok Tuba Story.
    117 3 Here ia something that may interest the Anti-Nicotine League Tbe other day a big boat bringing a cargo of tobacco to tbe capital anchored for the night off tbe Passe Cta oeu Duty Btation. But she bad sptufg a Dak or m e t with acme
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    Penang Anglo- Chinese School.
    214 3 Penang AngloChinese School. Alumni Banquet Last Night. One of the pleasantest events in conneo* tion with the commeooemrnt week oelebrations of this institution was the 0;d Boys’ Annual dinner at the School last night presided over by the Principal and attended by a large number of members of the AngloChinese
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    P. H. Billiard Tournament.
    42 3 The following ties have been fixed i Wednesday, Jdni 12. Bingle Handicap—J C Phipps t> C E Robles#Thursday, June 13. Singln Handicap—C A de Crus J J Theaeira. Friday, Junb 14. Single Handicap—T J Williams »E L Foley.
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    Electric Polyscope.
    103 3 The Coliseum having temporarily stopped its night shows owing to the Hal) being engaged by the Partee Theatrical Company, the serials and features which have been shown there are transferred to the Elect'ic Polyscope, Argyll Road, where they may be aeen from to-night. In tbe first show to-night,
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    Malayan Staples.
    68 3 The exports of Para Rubber for the first quarter of 1318 were:—Perak 8346 tons, Selangor 8843, Negri 4496, Pahang 429, total 22,116 tons against 20 333 first quarter of 1917. The tin figures were:—Perak ore 116,785 pik.,- tin 4886; Selangor 44 701 ore. 12,226 tin; Negri Sembiian 3,490
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    On Guard At Bethlehem.
    87 3 "At Bethlehem we were guarding the Church of tbe Nativity, where the Manger A silver atar marks the spot wbete Christ was born, and there is an altar erected in the place where the Wise Men deposited their gifts. One man was on sentry-go by the
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    London Rubber Market.
    27 3 (From Out Oxen On respondent,') London, June 7. The prices in the London Rubber Market ;o*day were: Pale Crepe 2/1J Diamond Smoked Bheet 2/0
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    To-morrow’s Band Programme.
    49 3 The following programme of music will be played at the Esplanade to-morrow at 6 pm, 1 Overture William Tell Rossini 2 Gavotte Fire Flies Paul 3 Selection From the Ballet Girl Retford 4 Waits Song of the Sea Quentin 5 March Sergeants of the Guard Rimmer
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    May Tin Outputs.
    16 3 Ulu Piah Co., < —Mine output, 225 piculs; tributora 150 piculs; Total 375 piculs.
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    Mails Will Close.
    104 3 Fon By Sthamne A* To-morrow (Wednesday). Australasia (and articles prepaid at letter ria Singapore rate of Western by train 6 p.m Australia via Sydney) Langkat (via Deli) Pungah 11 a.m Tongkah A Renong Jin Ho 1-30 p.m. 13th instant (Thursday). Madras taking mails 10 a.m. for Europe
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      358 3 rm SH TTmTWTTWTWroroWroWTTTWTWTWWiJg v Nearly 200 3 Years Ago 3 Wise men saw a HTAK in the East. This was a miracle. V To-night! To-night 11 i here are many NT4KN to be seen ia the East This is oot a miracle. *4It is Just the Usual thing Nowadays at
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      571 3 NOTICE OF SALE. SHA KESPEAR S’S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT 8 DREAM WILL BH STAG ID IN The Empire Theatre BY THE CAMBRIDGE CLASSES or THH A Agio Chinese School Thursday, June 13th, At 9 pm. PROCBIDS Will be given to the Chinese Relief Fund PRICES $2, II and 50 cents.
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    The Straits Echo.
    99 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and pnbllc holidays,) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price i Dally Local $BO per annum. Outatatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) tlB per annum. Cable Address: "ECHO PENANG.' Telephone Noe. (Eoho) 586. Printing Department 343. .V. H.— AII
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    FREE OR FAIR TRADE.
    1227 4 Compared with the storm in the tea-cup nature of the local discussions on man* power, war taxation and requisition of shipping, the coming attempt to arrive at sound decisions on such question as fiee trade, fair trade' within tbe Empire, fair trade with tbe Allies, discrimination
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    Weld Quay Murder.
    195 4 Estate Manager’s Evidence. Tee pnquiry into tbe death of Mohsmed I Abdul Rahiman, a ccoli?, who died las ihareeu.tof a woutd received on his head I was held this morning lefora Mr. S. H LiDgston. Kangco Fanya Sicgb, J a k At Singh, Surgan Singh, Abdullah and
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1820 4 The Perfect Min. Toe Bishop of New Guinea, wfco has ordained to the prie t’rojd a native of New Guiuet—the first of bis rses to be ordained deacon—states that no single moral fault baa ever been reoorded against the man. His Place is not Hia Palace. M. Bizin,
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    Tin.
    98 4 a-atest Quotation». iiu (unrefined) is quoted here to day at S 153.50, basiacss doue, in (Singapore (refiatd) at $154 54, sold 200 tooa and in London at £335 spot and at £335 time momhs. The sa. Perak will leave here for Port Swettenham, Port D.cksoo, Malacoa end Singapore at
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      197 4 Pritchard Co., Ltd. Outfitting Department. T UK GOODS IN THIS DEPARTMENT ARE UNRIVALLED FOR QUALITY, VARIEIY, AND PRICE. HANDKERCHIEFS. Gents’ Hemstitched Handkerchiefs all pure Linen Price 17 75 and $8 75 dozen. Gents’ Linen Cambrjc Handkerchiefs, Hemmed Price (6.75 dozen. Gents* White Cambric Handkerchiefs Hemmed Price $2.75 and $3.75 and
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    NEWS FROM FRONT.
    647 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] CHIEFLY HAIG. Foch'e Views Lordon, Jana 8. Ad important artiole on strategy by General Foob is published io to day’s newspaper The Field. General Foob argues that modern war, in order to arrive at its end of imposing its will oo the enemy, reoognisea only
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    WESTERN BATTLES.
    1561 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] TALI 3 OF THE EARLY FIGHTING Benter’s Survey Londcn, June 8. Reuter’s correspondent at French Headquarters at midnight on 2od June seysi— The past week brought many unwelcome surprises for the hours of acute anxii ty of whioh no blame can be attaobed to the troops,
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    WAR NEWS.
    560 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] The Dutch Ships. London, June 4. Toe Amsterdam Handeliblad regards the I German safe conduct of the Duteh steamers jin the Zeildyk sector as indicating a speedy I conclusion to the Dutch German naval I agreement. It believes that Germany haa now dropped her curlier contention
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    Outside.
    60 5 The following articles will be found on our outside pages 3.—PensDg Anglo-Chioese School. P H. Billiard Tournament. Alleged Forgery. A Bangkok Tuba Story. 6. Malayan Charities. German Fire and Fury, Hun Tanks. A Human Child, P.G.C. T-nnis. A Rubleben Misunderstanding. Flora of tbe Battlefields. Sir Henry Rawlinson Tbe Armv
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    NEWS IN GENERAL.
    1387 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Women Aviators. London, Jane 4. The Minister of Labour, Mr. Boberts» eddres-'iog Qa a ea Mary’* Auxiliaries r at Sheffield, announced that later on there would be women aviators aid he tboagbt that they would make very good aviatois. Speaking generally in connection wi<h the
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    CHINA’S SORROW.
    146 6 [Reuter’s Telegrams.] CIVIL,WAR. Shanghai, Jane 4. The northern troops have devastated Hanan and barned down the town of Liling and sacked Paoking. The contrast is very marked between the difficulty of the B-itiah mission obtaining a guard and a staff officer spontaneously protecting a German. Wherever the troops
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    The Russian Revolution.
    306 6 Professor J. Y. Bimpson gives in the Nineteenth Century the mo/t completely informed account of the present condition-* in Russia witbwhiohwe have been furnisben It gains in force because the author lookwith sympathetic and hopeful eyes upon revolution. The Bolshevik peace is bound, he bolds, to produce
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    The Week’s Events.
    309 6 Tuesday, June 11. St. Barnabas, Singapore Races. Penang Chamber of Commerce, Committee Meeting, 2 30 pm Mohatnedan Fasting Month, (Bulan Puasa) commences. Principal’s Reception, Anglo-Cbioese Sohool, 8 p m. Munioipal Commission, 4 pm. Wednesday, June 12 Town Band, Esplanade. Tmvebday, June 13 Singapore Races. Anglo-Chinese School, Cambridge
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    Malayan Charities.
    895 6 Liit of private Mibsc<»ptiona raised in the 8 r.its Settlements and MaLy Btates for purposes ooDnec el with the war th -wing rhe sums collecttd up to the 81st 1918. Aeroplane and Motor AmbuUooe Fund (Pg). closed 184,576.00 Australian W.dowg and Orpbana Fund (Pg), Co-si 292.00 A ethusa
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    Y. M. C. A. ’s Loss.
    313 6 58 Huts Destroyed. Good news has reached the headquarters of the Y.M.C-A. at Tottenham Court-road, la the first onrush of the Germans in the Arras-St. Quentin region fifty-eight of the Association’» huts were completely destroyed but the report has just come to baud that
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    The Nizam of Hyderabad.
    207 6 Sir Usman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad. has done even more than is suggested bv 8 r Stuart Fraser’s statement. What tbe N zim did when war broke out was to place tbe whole resources of his State at tbe disposal of the Government. As Hyderabad
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    General von Hutier.
    152 6 There is no reason to doubt the old story that the organiser of German thrusts,” von Mackensen, ii of Bcottiah descent, for Scottish adventure:! in tbe past played promiaent parts in northern Europe—especially in Russia—and have founded! families there. Bet a muoh more iutertting ■tcry is current
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    German Fire and Fury.
    508 6 Threats to Holland. Berne, Maroh 20. The German Press has been indulging iu an orgy of invective, the mattrial for which they have manufactured out of what they have described as the brutal ultimatum sent by the powerful Entente to helpless little Holland. The reply of
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    Hun Tanks.
    185 6 Armed With Plammenwerner. There is eridenoe now to show that German Tanka have played a part in the battle, writes a war correspondent. Tbe Tanks in possession of the Germans to-day appear to be of three types; first Tanka taken from the British or copied from their models
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    A Human Child.
    108 6 Over her old end broken doll the wept In grief so inconsolable and great That ali night long she sobbed end had not alept, And I. enable to appreciate The depth of her small tragedy, or gauge Her sorrow, brought in triumph and unrolled A splendid china
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    P.G.C. Tennis.
    76 6 Tennis ties fixed for Friday 14th June Men’s Singles Handioap A—H Waugh owe 15 v M K Whitlock owe 3; EG Chambers owe 3 v R A Hunt ow* 40. Lidies Djubis Handioap—Mrs C-abb-Watt and Mrs Clarke owe 15 v Mrs Welham and M'S Low sor. Piofession Pairs—Savi
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    A Ruhleben Misunderstanding.
    208 6 A correspondent wbo baa ja«t returned from Bablebcn sends a curious story of negro happenings in that camp. Among the prisoners were two negroes wbo bed been employed on vessels trading between the West Coast of Africa and the port of Hamburg. A few days after they
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    Flora of the Battlefields.
    153 6 What the bittlefisld of tbe Somme looks like now we can hardly imagine, but last summer much of the ground over which the fighting of 1916 took place was a vast sheet of superb colour, unbroken by tree ot hedgerow. The olotbing of this large tract
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    Sir Henry Rawlinson.
    142 6 Sir Henry Btwlinson was one of three Generals—Sir Edmund Allenby and Sir Hubert Gough being tbe others—who, after tbe brst battle of the Somme in 1916. were reported by Sir Douglas Haig to be a> equal to every call on them-” He has seen much active service
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    The Army in Amiens.
    129 6 Later on Amiens became a landmark for the new Army men—a fioe plaos for a Sunday afternoon jaant, if M. T. proved obliging, where a man might see the pictu e», and watch real civilians walking about in Sabbath olotbing and taking coffee with dainty demoiselles
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    German Lies About Captures.
    129 6 The public will be well advised to accept with the greatest caution the German ■torifs of the prisoners and guns they have captured. The Germans are certainly including all the wounded men they have poked op in the total of prisoners, and with regard to guns
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    Pronunciation of “Foch.”
    90 6 My Paris correspondent (says the London representative of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph) writes You ask me bow General Fooh's name would be pronounced. Even French people are at variance about it. I bare heard M. Clemencrau several times refer to General “Foeh,” the vowel being a little
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    Four at a Birth.
    63 6 Mrs, Page, a B rmmgham woman, has given birth to four eiildr n. Bbe is fortyor e yrars of age and has fifteen children, all living. Mrs Page has twice had twins. The eldest child, now eighteen, was called up for army servioe recently, and the
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    Officers’ Stories.
    395 6 Bhtirbment Through a Dbaolt Barbaob. An officer wounded in the March ha. figb’mg says “cavy ‘•When the German fire was at its hottest the barrage covered a huge area ti a of ...en .„d it g M b.d to retire. By mu,ole tk. i,j oti B°‘ b «b.
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    Germany’s Commercial Future.
    451 6 Aq interesting reviuw in a German newspiper of a book by Professor A Hettmer is 5 aatit'ed Peace and tbe Future of Gurmany,’* which was written to prove the d sistrous const quences which would 3 follow if Germany .were cut tff from hsr 3 international activities
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      82 6 I Whit an anxious time baa the mother I with a growing family to look after. Generally one or the other is ailing has caught a chill, or is feverish- With a bottle of WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. in the medicine chest, the worry ia much diminished. A dose or
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    Another Soldier-Poet.
    1213 7  -  By H. P. Cumings. He was star ding ia the entrance to the Tabe Station at Piccadilly Oireae—a mad staired khaki figure, hia back hamped with a pile of kit orowned by a battered ateel helmet; at hia aide, dangling from the hilt of hia bayonet, a tin
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      716 7 WHITE AW AY’S FOR HARDWARE. Absolutely Unbreakable Hallow Ware. Moet saccMtfully competing with oast Iron Pots Wrought is'esitsh analogs pan En&melhd Blaok oat gud white inbitie with bright cover. Sue 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 aad 12 ftsPrice* 2.96, 3.96, 4 95, 6.95, 6.95 and |7.95. Judge “Brand No I
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      346 7 Public Auction Sale of very comfortable roomy 5 seater 4 cylinder, 12/16. H.P., 1916 model “Wolsclcy” Motor Car (VERY LITTLE DSED) The a-a instinct-. d to «ell the above on WEDNESDAY, 12th JONE, 1918. AT 3 F.M. SHARP IN LOGAN’S COURTYARD The car is in thorough good order and repair.
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      430 7 $15 per Jar of 4) Gallons. Penny Saved is Penny Earned Coagulatex eaves money and earn* extra profit* for planter*. Mikes crepe, smoked or unsmoked sheets. Delij pays no dividend, Get a free sample bottle at once and don't buy until job are satisfied that it is the right thing.
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