Straits Echo, 24 September 1918

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  • 34 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OP EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THB PBDBRATBC «MAY STATUS AND.,THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 16. 980 Per Annum. PE&AJKO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, IttiS. Single Copy» lo cent». No* Zl B#
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1470 1 NESTLES MILK FOOD THE BEST F9OO FOB Ybliti BaBY 1 90 cts. PER I lb. TIN BANKS. Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. (Incorporated in England by Royal Charters Paid up Capita; i 11 ,200,00'> kflßflrveFaud BANKERB. Bank or Kholakd, Londow Citt Air® diDLAWD Pakk, Ltd., Lowdoic Couhty lNd
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    • 10 1 i MILKMAID BRAND SWEETENED CONDENSED HU. $20.50 1 BTAINABLE gyr.WTWWtP
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    • 234 2 I! “OUR DAY’’ [TANK FUND. THIS SPACE USUALLY ADVERTISES DEWAR 9 WHI For which Messrs. KATZ BROS, are the sole importers. We can thoroughly recommend this whisky as Messrs. KATZ BROS, have been so good as to allow us to use this space to advertise 99 ebbibe» aig.7vas^Bß,-a:Brea MANY PRIZES
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  • 393 3 A correspondent writes i A public w*i h‘ld in th < Sangei P*tam Gleb on Septambor 22 to consider tbe beat means to collect funds for the Britiab Bed Orosa. It waa resolved to bold two days' aports, etc, on 16th and 17th, Rabial-Awal, 1827
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  • 544 3 Aleppo, the road to which the Palestine viotory has opened, is in tbs north of Syria tod the oepital of a Turkish province 1 between the Orontes and the Euphrates- It lies in a fruitful valley watered by the k fkuwtik, in a large hollow surrounded by rocky hills
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  • 138 3 Siooud List. Total previously acknowledged $20,464 70 Chooser Lye Hook 100.00 Chua Kee Ee 100.00 Anonymous 7.45 Transferred by War Demonatra* tion Committee 465.06 Can Ngoh Bee 500 00 A visitor to Penang Bisley 10.00 Collection Bunday, September 15 fjr Our Day at Charch of Our
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  • 596 3 Ovb Day Soottibh Sib Cross The following eubaorirtionfl have made on account of Ibe *bove fund J. C Bauson $250 L C. Brown 50 J. (J Browu 100 G, A C* nrchael 50 T. E D bbs 60 J. 8. DiUmtnood 50 W. S. Goldie 1.000
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    • 458 3 $5******* 4t 444i*****i*****44Mi444******44cfe44i ,J* r-T hf M THE PREMIER 7 HEATRE OF THE COLONY It would be quite impossible for any Theatre to have a more powerful Programme than the management are able to prepent THIS WI2EK onward. MONDAY TO WEDNESDAY. 5 6 i THE FINAL EPISODE ..f 42# a
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    • 568 3 SAKURA eaens/acw-' BEER -> STOUT ASK FOR IT. SOLD EVERYWHERE SOLE IMPORTERS: C. AURELY Co., PENANG SINGAPORE. Butterworth OUR DAY” OCTOBER ?OTH 1918. A collection of ornamental Brass is being made for Butterworth Our Day October 10th and will be sold, the proceeds Koinu to the local Bed Cross Funds
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  • 100 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays.) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price s Daily Local $3O pep annum Outatatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) v $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG." Telephone No». (Eoho) 886. Printing Department 3» 3. JN.fi,—
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  • 1104 4 Of the different kinds of poace with which to end the War, that which would mean that th8 Central Powers hsd come out of the idv-nture with a balance of loss, that they h»d met with an unquestionable de'eit, is to the German rulers unthinkable, bat
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  • 85 4 Mail G for Europe via Singapore by triin olos s at 6 p.m. to-morrow and letters posted in the Pillar-boxes before 5 pm. to-mo-row will be in time for despatch by it. A wire from London says that the Pos Office, the Eastern and Associated ComJames and the
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  • 973 4 Mr, 8.H. Langston assumed the dunes of Aoting District Judge and First Magistrate this morning. Major Mitchel, former Mayor of New York, has been killed at Gerstner Field, Louisiana, while fl/iug in a scout machine. o e Dr. R. M. Connolly and Mis. C ctohy proceeded th.s
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  • 31 4 Latent Quotations. Tiu (unrtfined) is quoted ber6 to fiaj *t »!4912J. no business done, and in Binr pire (retiocd) at 1149.87 j, business dor r f changing bands 100 tons.
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  • 940 4 Four Years Ago. I is just ever Mr slbilities of the eu» marm„ 1 lt Po, borne to the British public bl 4k» unpleasant manner, t, d m 1 highly he Atoukir, »hich so far as the general i cemed retains a considemble b Of mystery f or
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    • 105 4 FINE OLD SCOTCH SELECTED QUALITY BLENDED and bottled BY SOL AGENTS FOR S.S. F.M.S, a 4* ■I LIMITED. S (lNCOhPOFATED 1« STRAITS SETTLEMENT* enang and Ipoh, nfpmw I» io g J® to s so /i’ /V O.V ALL THE LEADING ESTATES AS A COMBATANT OF BLACK THREAD AND FOR APR
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    • 19 4 TANK FUND, TICKETS $l. FIRST New Elgin Motor Car just landed VALUE $5,000. 7 OUTSTATION APPLICANTS MUST ENCLOSE POSTAGE.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 1181 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] British Front. London, September 22, Sir Douglas Hsig reports:—A hostile attack north-west of La Battle reported this morning was not pressed. Oar position is not changed. In looal encounters we slightly improved our potitiens south of Villers Quislain and in the neighbourhood of Zillebeke. Stubborn
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  • 63 5 The following are the alterations in Messrs. A A. Anthony A Co.’s share Hit to-day i Yesterday. To-day. PQ co CQ co Kuxnbang 31/- 32/- 31/6 32/6 Bangnon 1/3 6d diso l/9 9ddieo Deebook 24/- 24,6 23/- 24/Kam pong Kamuting 57/- 68/6 58/- 60/Bairnt Basin 24,6 25/6
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  • 716 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] k Turki Cut Off ia Retreat London, September 22, 9 p.m. A Palestine communique states:—-By nine in the evening on the 21st onr left wing’s infantry, pivoting on their left about Birasur, had reached the line Beildijan-Samuria-Birasur shepherding the enemy on and to toe west
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  • 546 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] London, September 22, 6 30 p m. A Serbian communique states We j advanced over twenty kilometres to the i I nortk on the 20th. We arc now several I kilometres north of Kavardt. We captured twelve more guns. German and Balgar reinforcements are continually
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  • 136 5 The following artiolea will be found oo our outside pages j I, —Suogei Patani Our Dsy 1918 Penang Oar Day 19i8 (—Oar Friends the Dutoh. Indian Reforms. Mauritius and Malaria/ A Week’s Warring. Aooident at a Circus. Penang Automobile Club. 7.—The Vision of Painters. The Week’s Events. Nuw Advts.
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  • 729 5 [Reuter's Telegrams] AN ORD8R BY THE KAISER. Tit Germana to join BolshevikaLondon, September 22. A oable from Peking states that the J Kaiaer on the 10th Ssptember ordered all I Germans in Russia fit for duty to join the I Soviet troops and oppose Japan and the
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  • 968 5 SEMI-OFFICIAL REVIEW. The following cables were oounmnuicated I to the Bangkok newspapers by (he British Legation Thu Altukud Tone in Germ aw?. Loudon, September 13. The public utterances of the Rtiser, German statesmen, and the newspapers I continue increasingly to show an altered tone. Speaking at Erupp’s
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  • 1353 6 Ahhual Gsnubal Minima, The annual general meeting of the Penang Automobile Club was held at the Chamber of Oommeroe yesterday afternoon. Mr. L. M. Bell (President) presided and others present were Messrs. L. A. 0. Biggs, 0. G. May, R. P. Phillips, R N- Goodwin and V.O.
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  • 287 6 |< Claim foe Damaobi. j In the District Court before Mr. Justice L P. J. Sproule yesterday the hearing was oon- k oluded of the suit instituted by Mr. H. Sib-k belee, manager. Central Malaya Engineering I, and Motor Works, Taiping. and Mrs. Sibbeleeagainst the Wirth
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  • 263 6 A Siambse View, As we know, says a Bangkok exchange, the holding ot war lotteries was legalised in the Straits by an unanimous vote of the Legislative Council, no doubt fo the grave soandal of the nnoo guid.” As a matter of fact we think the
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  • 65 6 The Rove'end Lidy Superior and the Sisters of the Convent have kindly airanged »n mtertainment in aid of the Red Cross Fund on Wednesday, October 23, 6 p.m. (Rehearsal) and on Friday, October 25, 5.30 p.m. Oub Day Tank. Mr. and, Mrs. X have kindly presented
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  • 1330 6 The word “propaganda has, during the past year, been enshrouded with a de?p sansa ot mysterious omnipotence. It ha9 been used to explain every unfortunate phase of the war it is said to have been j the secret of the collapse of Russia, and of the
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  • 614 6 (To THU Editou o* THU Time$ of Malaya.) I 8i r# —A million and a half of our money j has been lent to Mauritius, whilst malaria kills thousands eaoh year in Malaya fce cause of the lack of a proper scheme to eradicate malaria in this
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  • 469 6 TIMES” COMMENT ON CONGRESS POLICY Appoihtmbnt or (Jommittbhs Ubqbd London. September 11. The Timei referring to the Moderates’ refusal to participate in the Special Congress, says: -This is not an unhappy split but a natural cleavage which finally should have healthy results The great weakness of Indian politics
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  • 502 6 The completion of Siam’s railway communications to the south and west has been greatly looked forward to by the Bangkok business community, since it was expected to bring about a considerable acceleration of the mails reoeived from Europe. However, although the railway connection with the west
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  • 365 6 commenting on the Dutch o incident the free P reM on *oy' Living as we do i n the Hollanders in the neighSct to and knowing them a. Wfi do wa the last to question this comn d long as the definite right of nr? 03
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  • 581 6 Will thh Allies Basil it? London, September 9, Most messages from the front now end in a note of interrogation or with a hint that must not be further elaborated, Tbs section of the Western front to which attention is mainly directed extends from the corner wherein
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  • 1761 7 1 1 Evesight, mirao'lous faculty as it is, of itself is passive, without intelligence easily deceived. I often wish for sheer t uriosity’s sake, that one could change eyes with one’s neighbour, just to observe the difference. Not the mere physical difference, though that would be
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  • 82 7 Tusbday, Sbptbmbbb 24, Municipal Commission, 4 p.m, Wsdhudat, Buptumbbb 25 Town Band, Esplanade. Board of Licensing Justice Meeting, District Court, 2 30 p.m. Fbiday. Sbptimbbb 27. Town Band, Esplanade. Residency ”At Home,” Lingerie Sale and Entertainment, 5 p.m. Satvbdat, Buptbmbib, 28, Jewish Holiday (Eighth day of Tabernaoles),
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    • 528 7 -CJOoo oqq( —)c ZD 1 I*l V# u GOOD VALUE IN GENT’S HEAP. JAECcR WOOLLEN MUFFLERS With .fringed ends In «took in white grounds with coloured ends. Al*o in self colours Price 14.50 each. SILK FINISH MUFFLERS Smart and dreisj, A variety of colours in s'ock. .“plendid value Price $3.25
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    • 13 7 For OhiMrea’s Haekiag Cbigk at Night, W v><*? G'Mf Fcpptraui Omie 1», €i,
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    • 82 7 CrMp. This disease is so dangerous and so rapid in its development that every mother of yonng ehildren should be prepared for it It is very risky to wait until the attaok of oroup appears and then send for medicim and let the child suffer until it ean be eb
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    • 510 7 BRITISH NORTH BORNEO LOTTERY. OUR DAY Ticket* for this Lottery are issued aader I the auspices of the British North Borneo War Relief Fond Committee, and by the OUR DAY Committee for the West Coast. North Borneo, Subject to the following Conditions i—1- The lottery to be unlimited. 2 iekets
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    • 1271 8 A. 'Jt $k 1* P. 0. BRITISH INDIA JLND apcar line (Companies Incorporated In England MAIL AND PABBENQER SERVICES, PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS(XJndei Contract with HU Majesty's Government.) Tho Company’* MAIL SERVICES EAST OF B°M BA^* r# I Singapore, Tanjong Pandan, (Billiton), pMMßftn for Europo aro booked ria Bombay aa
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