Straits Echo, 18 September 1918

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    Masthead
    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. TAB FEDBRATBC MALAY STATES AND THB FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 10. $3O Per Annum *BNAN»i, WEDNESDAY, isth SEPTEMBER, IwiS. Single Copy, lO cents. No. *213,
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      1551 1 =te NESTLE'S IIIILKJtiOO THE Beil F jOD FOH »ui.K B.vuY 90 cts. ,b i BANKS Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. (Incorporated lo England by Royal Charter.) P&id up Capital m 4*1,200,000 g 8g erva Food 4*2,000.000 Pierre Liability of Proprietors XI,200,000 Head Office Ko.188, BI8HOPSGATE, LONDON, E.C, Agencies
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      12 1 MILKMAID BRAND SWEETENED CONDENSED WUL $20.50 B r A |N*BLF EVErrWHERI sL
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    GERMAN BARBARISM TO NATIVE RACES.
    1407 2 It is the wall understood habit of Country life to choose for illustration only subj ct» t ih*t appeal to the seithetio taste and rt tin d interest of reader*, and to avoid those of I sensational and revolting character. An explanation of the violent
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    As the Enemy Sees Us.
    714 2  -  BY A Neutral. It was my good, or bad, fortune not long ago to be ask«d to partake of a meal in a middle-class German family. Papa was a professor at a small local university, M .mm» was of the usual large maternal type, appartntly
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      304 2 ~>nc-inx ,GC -v—if n OCDOCD OCDCDC JCZX ii 4 -1 IK < i IS* L. TOWEL a n Best Quality- British MadeThe British” Bath Towel. Extra thick and very absorbent all white turkish bath towel Fringed end*. A good serviceable quality that will wear exceptionally well and give the ntmoat
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      11 2 For Ohildrea’a Hacking Coigh at Nigkt, Woodi'i Great dare U, fcL
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      516 2 BRITISH NORTH <M u 4* LOWEBi. Tickets for this Lottery art “> r ‘I* Wes, Coast, N orth B Subject to TBS follow,,» lekets X5 ear>ti rai_ 2 ourrencj icj C )ket' 15 6aCh (Strait Se^ The allocation 0 f subscribed will be as follow* la «percent for f„ R*j
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    THE ASSIZES.
    307 3 tragedy at a well. The hearing was oonoinded yesterday before Mr, Jastioe L. M. Woodward and a •peoial jury of the ease against Lm Keok was ohareed with the murder of Kok Kwee in the Dindinga on J>ly 26, the j«ry return ng a verdict of gnilty of
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    FORGING AN ENDORSEMENT.
    144 3 The next case was that against Peerambaiam Pillay for forging an endorsement at the back of a cheque for $51.43 and with using as genuine a forged document. The accused was found guilty and sentenced to one year’s rigorous imprisonment. The accused in this case stole the
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    Sundry Inventions.
    508 3 In the OaueUt appear a long list of inventions in connection with which full rights are granted, as follow The General Rubber Co., of New Jersey and New York i Improvements in processes of treating latex and the products obtained therebyi in adhesive rubber compositions; in apparatus for
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    PENANG “OUR DAY” 1918.
    148 3 AN APPEAL TO THE LADIES Mr. A. Cavendish, the Honorary Secretary Osr Dij 1918 will be glad te receive as soon as possible the names of any ladies of any nationality who are willing to help the Oar D*y 1918 campaign in all or any of
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    “WHITE ELEPHANT” AUCTION SALE.
    139 3 The owners of any artioles which they no longer require and which they regard as white elephants are kindly requested to present them for sale for the Ited Cross Fund, It is particularly desired that only artioles of some value be sent. The artioles will be
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    “OUR DAY” AT BUTTERWORTH.
    27 3 Our Day will be celebrated at Butterworth on Thursday October 10th when there will be aquatio sports, a football match, and other attractions,
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    Campaign Against Profiteers
    545 3 Polioi Activity. Acting onder instructions from the Food Control Committee, detectives are being sent to the different markets and elsewhere to arrest profiteers who violate the regulations regarding the control of the prioe of food* staffs. There have been several oases brought to the notice of the
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    PRODUCE
    147 3 PraAjro, SirriMaim 18. 1918. 8. P. Tapioca $6 90 aalea M. P. Tapioca $7 10 aalea Gold leaf 72 aellera Pepper (W.Coaat lb. 505).516f buyer*. Biack Pepper 25.00 buyera White Pepper 40 nominal Trang Pepper w no atook Mace |BO nom. Mace Picking* 55 aellera Olorea aeaaon orer Nat
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      491 3 1 PHENOMENAL ATTRACTION To-night 9-SO >.?*. To-night A 4 A 4 4 4 4 hi 4 V HI HI HI HI »41 »4 4 *4 HI HI HS HI -4 ■4 »4 HI •4 •4 4 4 »4 4 4 4 •4 4 4 <4 4 4 4 4 n:
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      353 3 IN the treatment of disease it is important that the bowels should perform their function of carrying off the poisonous waste materials. No progress toward recovery can be made until this is established, and in any condition of ill health in which constipation is present DINKETTEf the tiny laxatives should
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      489 3 PENANG AUCTION MART By Order of the Mortgagee TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION. On Tuesday, Ist October, 1918, <- AT 11 A.MAt the Archway of Logan*§ Buildingt Beach Btreei, Penang, The following property belonging to Lla Cheng Soo FIPST LOT. All those two pieces of land and hereditaments Adjoining
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    The Straits Echo.
    103 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sondays and public holidays*) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street. Penang. Price x Daily Local ISO per annum. Outstatlon Postage Extra. I Mall Edition (Post Free) US per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.' Tslephone Nos. (Coho) 580. Printing Department 343, H. 8.
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    THE PEACE TRAP EXPOSED.
    1352 4 I Mr. Balfour, besides being one of Britain's elder statesmen,” is known throughout the world ss s remarkably olesr thicker; he has I not taken long to tear to shreds- the Austrian pesoe proposal snd expose it for what it really is: an impudent attempt to
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    M. A. P.
    1014 4 Mr. Justice Wauiey ariived m Kuala Lampur oa Monday. Our Singapore correspondent w res news of the death, at the age of 79, of Mrs. Diana Adis. Mr. Evance, who established the match industry in Burma, is now in Kuala Lumpur with a view to opening up
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    900 4 Hating the Hun fclir Wntter M '[> Hill. J m t b d '«ret ra’gtithata Germanv 1«« lri pl J thu 8>r Walter 1. do b W, d.y b, d.y, n he w b t being uved aa t.rg, t b E d ‘“r,.°^. 08P r U1 very
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      107 4 r WHISKY FINE OLD SCOTCH. J. R. D. SELECTED QUALITY BtENDED AND BOTTLED BY John Robertson Sons SOLE AGENTS FOR S 3. F.M.S.. Pritchard 8 Co.. LIMITED. (IXCOEPORA.TED IN STRAITS SKTTLIMINTS iwamm OCDDCZZDC 0 n n DCDC DC am mcDO 0 n RETAINS THE EXCELLENT QUALITY WHICH MADE IT FAMOUS,
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    THE FIGHTING FRONTS.
    1331 5 [Reuter’s Telegrams] All Bound ProgressL ndon, September 17. 2.50 am. A cable from Pane says that tbe papers state that tbe news from theMoeuvres front is pxoellsnt. Tbe Americans bare gone beyond Villere sos Remy and have reached Vandiars two and a half kilometres frem tbe frontier
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    MACEDONIAN FRONT.
    657 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] An Allied Victory. J London, September 16, 10 5 p.m, A French Eastern communique of the 115th states that after violent artillery preparation tbe French and Serbians attacked I enemy works in the mountainous sone of Dobropoloe, entered the first line of the Bulgarian positions aud
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    THE AUSTRIAN NOTE.
    1416 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] ALLIES TO CONBIDER IT. Opinion In LondonLondon, September 16, 4 10 pm. In well-infoimed circles in London it is the 1 opinion that the Allies will carefully consider the Austrian Net?, Consfquectly,-- tbe answer carnet be given for seme days. It is thought, however, that
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    CHINESE MARRIAGES.
    228 5 d I DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERNOR I for Registration. 3 I <[From Our Own Correspondent*') Singapore, September 18, A deputation, headed by Mr. Cbeah Kee |Ea, waited on H E. the Governor this morn- ling with a petition largely signed—including I Messrs. Lee Tian Slew, Cheah Cnesng I
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    London Rubber Market.
    31 5 j (.From Our Own Oji respondent^ London, September 16. j The prices in the London Rubber Market to-day were: Pale Crepe M 2/2 Diamond Smoked Sheet 2 1
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    The Share Market.
    62 5 The following are the alterations in Messrs, A. A, Anthony A Co.’s share list to-day i Yesterday, To-day, Mining. I a c a PQ 02 PQ CQ Bangnon 1/6 6d 1/- par Deebook 24/6 25/6 24/6 25/3 Kampong Kamnting 56/- 57/- 56,6 57/6 Tinßentong 25.31 26/- 25
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    Outside.
    94 5 The following articles will ba found on onr outside pages 2. —German Barbarism to Native Raoes, As the Enemy Sees Us, 3, —The Assizjs, Sundry Inventions, Penang Our Day 1913, Campaign Against P. ofiteers. 6.—Colonel Bramble. Through German Eyes. Constantinople in 1914. Medioal Articles in the Foreign Press. The
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    New York Press Comments.
    230 5 Aoable from New Turk says that praotioally the whole press of the Uaited States unoofcpromi singly reje.tß the Austrian peaoe proposal, regarding it as part of the campaign of Teutonic trickery, Congressmen, alike Democrats and Republicans, are opposed to it. The World says that whan Germany
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  • Obituary
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    11 5 Obituary, London, September 16, Janies East, trainer of racehorses, is dead,
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    COLONEL BRAMBLE.
    1036 6 Lis SiLUNon* du Colonul BRaMBLi. Andie Maurois. (Panst Grassat. 8f, 5G Scene i A large barn *ear Poperinghe. The last of the boxing ohampionships of a Boottish brigade has just been decided, ana the General mounts a ohair. Gentlemen, he says (we have all heard the speeoh, and
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    THROUGH GERMAN EYES.
    820 6 THE BRITI3H EMPIRE. The meeting of the Imperial Conference has given the German Press occasion to discuss once more the structure of the British Empire. The professorial and other experts who have so long deluded the German publio are net yet silent. But even they are beoommg
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    Tin Outputs.
    79 6 The output of the Bandcn Property of Toe Siamese Tin Syndicate Limited, for the month of August was Piculs 362. Tbe outputs of Kampong Knmunting Tii Dredging Ltd. for the First fortnight of September 1918: —Hours run, 609; Cubic Yards treated, 90,700; Total Piculs, 639 84; Realised on
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    CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1914.
    975 6 Following the example of Mr. Garard and Mr Woitlock, Mr. Morgenthau, formerly Americin Ambassador in Constantinople, continues in the World9 Work his outspoken narrative of events in ConstantiI nople .Iter August 4,1914. His «torj h.s still barely arrived at the date at which relations between Great Britain
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    MEDICAL ARTICLES IN THE FOREIGN PRESS.
    965 6 The General St.ff of the War Office c la.uea a daily re.iew of the fort IRO Press, and once a month appear! a Meiioal Suppe- < meet, wbiota la oomptltd by the Meflio.l Research Committee. One of the commonest olee.ic.1 Ur. telle ns that
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    THE WAR AND TIN.
    591 6 SrBSTITUTBS FOB TlN CONTAINERS A London manufacturing firm which claims to make up about 60 per cent of the {total present English ou put of cardboard containers says that 5,000,000 containers {are being produced hero every wet-k, the great bulk of them being of the 2
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    To-day's Band Programme.
    344 6 Esflanadh, 6 pm, 1 Selection The Emerald Isle Sullivan 2 IntermeziD Merry Thoughts Anthony 3 Selection San Toy Jones 4 Waltz The Chooolate Soldier Fall 5 March Death or Glory Arbuokle The St. Leonard’s Estate contractor Liam Thoy, who was murderously assaulted and robbed on Wednesday afternoon,
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    CHINA’S NEW PRESIDENT.
    586 6 From 8-i.nguo coal.mpo.r.,. ifea followmg interesting iklnt, ot new head executive i 01 ''“■ftai The election of H*u Sbih ehanc perfectly the bizarre chrracter 0 o^ 81 politics in the last dec.d-i. For n GnioeB one of the most faithful of the o’d m B retainers and
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    Breach of Aliens Registration Ordinance.
    319 6 Moaa Japambsb Chabobd. At tha instance of Hr. V. 0Assistant Superintendent of P jlloe c Registrar of Aliens a Japanese) o S mudatichi and his wife o being aliens residing in the Colony f»i J notify their change of adlreei to th Polios Cffioer. Both
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    THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE THE SAME THING; OR, MORALITY FOR CABINET MINISTERS.
    1893 7 It is, we suppose one of the axioms of statesmanship that things that look like the same thing are equal to one another We find this also taken for granted by to bacconiate grocers, chemists, and. indeed, by
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    The Week’s Events.
    81 7 W IDVUDiT Bift»mbhb 18 Town Bf-d, Esplanade. Penang Free Bobool tp open». Thu asdat Siptimbbb 19 Moonlight Bind, Esplanade, 9 p*ob* F2l day Sbftbmbib 20. Fall Mood. Town B*od, Esplanade. Moonlight Golf Match's, 9 p.m. SATU ED AT, SBPTBMBB2 21. St. Matthew. Jewish Holiday (First day ot
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      696 7 NOTICE. TENDERS will be received at tbe Office of the Honourable Resident Councillor Penang, up to noon on 3oth September 1918 for t e following services for tbv, Government Monopoly Department. Penang for tbe year 19.9. (1) Bupp y of best Amoy or Hongkong pots each capable of easily containing
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