Straits Echo, 8 October 1918

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1 8 Straits Echo
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    35 1 Straits Echo 8 DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, TBB FEDBRATBC MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL* 16* 9(30 Per Annum. PENANG, iUUSUAk, oth OCTOBEK, 1918. Single Copy, to cento. No.
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      1496 1 NESTLE’S «ILK FOOD THE BEST FMD fQH YObil BABY I 90 cts. PER i lb. TIN t BANKS > chartered Bank of India, Ch Australia and China. (Incorporated In England by Royal Charter.) £l,20O,OUi> £2,000.000 1,200,000 P&id np Cap»]»' Reiarvefaud gemrve Liability of Proprietors Head Office No B18HOP6GATE, LONDON, E.C,
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      8 1 MILKMAID BRAND SWEETENER OONDENBEO Ml $20.50 btainaslc cvcmnMKßf
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      43 2 I as 3$ i BOTTLING OF i EXTR H FOREIGN "1 V ***>' f S* n and Bottled in 4 a* fa If "A M SOLE A QENTS. PENANG, (INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS) SINGAPORE a<ci <NC ikic i tjy KMJLj WWS z r. VTvT
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    GERMANY WANTS PEACE.
    1691 3 [Reuter's Telegrams.] 8PEECH BY NEW CHANCELLOR. i I Support of People. > London, Ootober 8. 11 A cable from Copenhagen says that the new Ohanoellor, Prinoe Max of Baden, speaklog in tbe Beiohstag on the 5tb, said that by an impetial deoree of the 30th September the
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    Singapore Sporting Club.
    265 3 FIB8T DAT’S* HANDICAPS. Tbe following are the handicaps for the Sicv -pore Autumn 1918 Kace Meeting i— BiCi 1. Tb Earl 10. 0 Miss Linacre 9, 7 Fa owland 8- Boyal Plame 7.12 Ao.p*ng 7. 9 Aringa 7. 7 Paul 7. 0. Hici 2, Mtr byr Boy
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    "Our Day” 1918.
    104 3 Intbkstatb Football. An into state association football match with Perak will be pl&' ed on Friday October 19th. »t the Esplanade in aid of the Our Day” Fund. Kck off 5 pm. Ihe Penang team will be selected from the various dubs. •Oun Dat TankCertain member» of
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      652 3 THE 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 •ft 4 k 4 4 A ft ft ft -ft STRAITS SETTLEMENTS i $2,000,000 OUR DAY” 1918 WAR LOAN LOTTERY. hi ft 4 •4 3 H3 ft ►4 4 HP •ft •ft •ft ft SANCTIONED BY GOVERNMENT and run under the auspices
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      425 3 X tJUUU. BEWARE OF NEW aicd CHEAP BRANDS 8TICK TO THOSE KNOWN BUT SAKURA Beep and Stout and yon will never be disappointed. 9 9 GET IT FROM C AURELY Co.. PENANG A SINGAPORE or from every Kedai throughout the S.S. and F.M.S. 0 0 9 bronchitis, asthma and Stubborn
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    The Straits Echo.
    97 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penan*- Price: Daily Local ISO per annum Outatatlon Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: "ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Eoho) 586. Printing Department 343. M.B.— All business communications
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    THE PEACE TRAP.
    1234 4 Washington and Paris have not taken long to see through the latest peace-trap of the Oentral Powers, whioh is nothing more or less than a palpable attempt to divide the Allies and to save Germany and her associates in crime from the penal consequences of their acta.
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    M. A. P.
    998 4 Henry Fielding, the distinguished novelist 1 and playright, remembered to day as the author of Tom Jones died this day in 1 the year 1754. The Press Bu.eau states that immediately on the outbreak of the polioe strike the Home Secretary (8ir George Cave) tendered bis resignation,
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1023 4 Lest We Forget. After reading the aoouunfs of recently committed upon British so'd f one Daturally asks the question i if I know that these atrocities have been com'' mitted by the Germans only through tom of their victims escaping, what horrors have been perpetrated upon British men
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      127 4 k I f X v 1 I >3 I a v .'seme rifckard 8 Co., I LIMITED. (INCORPORATED IM STRAITS 8ETTL1MENTS Best English Harness FINEST QUALITY THROUGHOUT >V LESS o r DISCOUNT FOR CASH. Best Black Leather, Handsewn with Collar. SILVER PLATED MOUNTS HORSE SIZE HARNESS $145-00. PONY $125-00. BRASS
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      30 4 r-Jr= tgnagsgi OUR DAY TANK fund, tickets SI. first prize New Elgin Motor Car VALUE $5,000. OUTSTATION APPLICANTS MUST ENCLOSE POSTAGE And apply to the Hon Becs„ Tank Fund Penang.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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    20 4 DEATH. PniNTis.—O-i October 8,1918, at Penang, Heather, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Prentia, agtd 17 days.
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    CHANCELLOR’S PEACE OFFER.
    2117 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] general armistice included. .Allies’ Attitude. L ondon, October 6, 3 p.m. A telegram to Basle from Vienna and BO to Berne from the Austrian Minuter |t Stoc kholm confirm the Chancellor's pro. p olt l to President Wilson to open peace negotiations, adding however that
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    Outside.
    54 5 The following articles will be found on our outaide pages i 3, —Telegrams. Singapore Sporting Club. 6. —Province Wellealey Our Day 1918. Penang “Our Day” R?d Cross Fend 1918. September Rubber Crops. Over A Rhine Town. The War and Finance. F.M-8. Hospital. Turkey and Germany, Influenza, Mr. Hughes’s Eoonomios.
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    THE BATTLE AREA.
    2040 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] North of the Scarpe. i, I British Take Fresnoy. I London, Ootober 6.10 p,m, I Sir Douglas Haig reportsi—We improvI ed our positions slightly in lcoal engage- Intents south-east and north of Auben ICheulaux Bois. North of the Scarpa we I took possession of Fresnoy
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    TURKEY AND GERMANY.
    990 6 Binoa the beginning of thii year Tarkey haa found a motive for shaking off the domination of her ally Germany stronger 1 than any they ooald hare supplied by the smooess of oar armies or by offers of favour* 1 able peace terms. It was the threat
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    OVER A RHINE TOWN.
    975 6 The following is the first descriptive account of one of the bombing raids into Germany, which have become a matter of almost daily occurrence since the recently formed Independent Force of the Royal Air Force began its activities:— Back on the green aerodrome, miles be- 1
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    THE WAR AND FINANCE.
    422 6 The war has now lasted four years, and it is interesting to bos the price changes that have ocourred in itooks and shares. Space does not permit of taking more than one representative aeourity of each class, but the following tables clearly indioate certain tendencies i
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    F. M. S. Hospital.
    438 6 WORK IN THE MONTH OP JUNE. Satisfactory Report. Dr C. J. Atkin. Medical Officer in charge of the F. M. 8. Hospital at Blackmore End, Kimpton, Hertfordshire, in his Jane report to Sir William Taylor, §»ys i The number of occupied beds has again been comparatively
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    PROVINCE WELLESLEY “OUR DAY” 1918.
    311 6 The Committee beg to acknowledge through this medium the receipt of the following for the Butterworth Our 1 ay October 10: Ornamental Brasses from Mesdames MacLean, Peach, Grey, Lamb, Hastie Russell Allen Moore, hunt, Flint, Hutson also Messrs. Elliot Ellis Gay lor. Kennedy. Frost, Stothard,
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    Penang “Our Day” Red Cross Fund 1918.
    114 6 Fifth List of Subscriptions Rbcbitkd Amount previously acknowledged 159,070-56 Justioe PJ. Sproule 100 00 Mr. Mrs. Joseph Gawthorne and family 100-00 Lean Co. 500.00 Commander <& Mrs, Maointyre... 100-00 Wee Gim Puay p. collecting card No. 72 issued to Mr. Yeoh Paik Tatt
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    September Rubber Crops.
    376 6 Perak River Valley 19,772, 8emanggol 13,754, Jura 13,500, Kong Lae (Perak) 1,080 lb. a At Semporna in British North Borneo the gular service of Japanese steamers resultf d in the import of a certain quantity of Jtpanese goods in 1917. As the Japanese estates extend operations and
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    INFLUENZA.
    1013 6 THE EPIDEMIC SPREADINGHow to Combat it The flu epidemic as in Great Britain, Spain and elsewhere is spreading through Malaya On Monday last we published a warning issued by the Committee of the Negri Sembilan Planters’ Association Meanwhile the scourge must be costing estates some thousands of dollars already.
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    Mr. Hughes’s Economics.
    734 6 Outspoken Criticism, London, August 18. The London Star says: Manchester commercial people must have been startled >y Mr. Hughes’s economics. He asked commercial men where were they to get wool if Australia were to say you are bo long making up your mind, that we have sold
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      12 6 For Ohildrta’a Hacking Oaagk at Nigkt, Woada't Great Pappemmt Out la, Idi
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      78 6 With the distressing moist heat of this tropical climate one is apt to get a body chill, always most dangerous because the liver or kidneys are affected, and with either out of order a diseased condition may be set up WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE is the finest corrective of a
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    THE HOHENZOLLERNS.
    1956 7 CHRONICLES OF THE MS AND GOIT” F AM ILF. Some fragmentary reoorda (compiled by the Sydney Bulletin) of the senior partners in the well-known firm of Me and Gott”i—■ They are new monaroha aa monarohi go. The firat King of Prnaaia began to be anoh in 1700. Tet
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      753 7 DC DC DCZDCDOo ooo CDC DC DC Whiteaway, Laidlaw Co,, Ltd,, PENANG. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND I TAIPING. Just Received a new stock ot "His Master's Voice" Records and Cramaphones. H. i W if W t O ft < 'a lUV^J V m 1 Jjk V P P y a ‘His
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      82 7 CrMp. Thia disease is ao dangerous and so rapid in ita development that every mother of young ohildren should be prepared for it. It is very riaky to wait until the attaok of oroup appears and then send for medioii. and let the child suffer until it c*n be el
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      504 7 BRITISH (SIAM) WAR AID ASSOCIATION. "OUR DAY” 1818 WAR LOAD LOTTERY. TICALS 1.000,000. ickets, 'I icals 5 each, Ticket*, Ticals 5 etch. If all tickets are sold Prize* will ceils! Prize Ticals 200,000 2 p 50,000 each *’Oui Day” Fuad. For further particulars and ticket* •pply to PaNAxa Tv*» Club,
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      753 8 o o ESSIMISTS Ml WPTIMISTS 2 TOGETHER WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE i V" I Being I EIN6 INVITED TO THE i 1 I I !|P "OUR DAY o SPORTS ENTERTAINMENTS O TO BE HELD AT MALAKOFF I TO BE HELD AT MALAKOFF ON SATURDAY 12th OCTOBER, 1918. ••KEEP THIS
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