Straits Echo, 29 October 1918

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  • 34 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATBC MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. !<>• «30 Per Annum. PENANG iUJtiSDAY, 29th OCTOBEK, 1918. Single Copy, IO cents. No. «43,
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    • 1450 1 NESTLE MiU r c THE SESI FOOD Yuiih BhBY I 90 cts. PER I lb. TIH 'Eg (BA NK S phartared Bank of India, Ch Australia and China. (Incorporated in England by Royal Charter. £i,2oo,oco .£2,000,000 £1,200,000 fiid up Capital jjjjerre Fond gaiervc Liability of Proprietors Head Office i No.
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    • 8 1 MILKMAID «WIITIIIII CONDENSED «20.50 BTAINABLC CVCmVIftRF 3E *r=
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    • 35 2 -J* W i BOTTLING OF "1 H EXTRA FOREIGN 'H.v. .f -T“ vitrv v Brewed and Bottled in he* KATZ BROTHERS, LTD. PENANG, (INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS) SINGAPORE SOLE AGENTS. f i Tjy ccmivi l#TvT
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  • 395 3 Militant Funmral. I The faoeial of the laie Mr. John E, Scott Brown, Chartered Aooountant, Penang Babber Estates Compsny, Limited, whose death occurred on Sanday from heart failure following influenza, took place yesteiday evening at the Protestant Cemetery in Western Boad, The cortege lefi the
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  • 492 3 From yesterday’s Timet of Malaya we t*ko the followingi— Kuala Krngsar presents this morning a mo t desolate appearance, every one being stricken genuine and sincere sorrow at the death of His Highness the Sultan, who did bis duty to the last, and did it
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  • 53 3  -  By Train at Last. This morning's postal express announces very briefly and tersely that <a commencing from Ist November this office will despatoh mails by train for Bangkok and Singora.” Thus ends a publio agitation that has lasted four months, ever sinos the railway was opened en
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  • 430 3 EPIDEMIC ABATING. We are authoritatively informed that the i incidence of the universal malady within the i Mnnioipal Limit* of Penang is mnoh less, and that admissions to the hospital are decreasing. Although it is dear that the nambir of deaths is increasing daily, yet it is impossible
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  • 254 3 Penang “Our Day 1918. The management of the Empire Theatre are postponing their special performance in aid of the Bed Cross Fund arranged for Saturday, November 2ad, until a date to be announced later when two specially attractive films oalled “The Murder of Nurse Oavell and British Bed Cross Work
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  • 47 3 OCTOBER MONTHLY MEDAL Bisult. Winner: C. B A. Goatly 46+44 =9O-12-78 nett G. B. Fitigerald 43+44 =B7- 8-79 E, A. Davies 47+ 54 =lOl-16=185 17 ethtf players oompeted but made no returns. Mr. Goatly wins the Ball sweep with e nett eoere ef gj
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    • 571 3 SUFFER FROM A CHEST COLD. *et rid of it «O easily-By using Y °V, Obi*>«tal Balm, you can «am J relief and ionn a11 Borenei8 U Penetrate, inr ,Dt f L Gow «traight to the exaet epot thl trouble is and drivwL away, where the jn th0 wor H quarter
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    • 316 3 r cf a o O a e o a SLSLSLSL&SmSLJLSULSLSLtLJL BEWARE OF NEW and CHEAP BRANDS STICK TO THOSE KNOWN BUY SAKURA fftBeeivand (Stout andfyou will merer be disappointed. GET IT FROM C AURELY Co.. PENANG SINGAPORE or from every Kedai throughout the S.S' and F.M.8. mv~rfv vrvvvyy v 9
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  • 100 4 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and pnbllc holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 99, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Daily Local $BO Per annum Outstation Postage Extra. Mall Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: 11 ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Eoho) SB6. Printing Department 343. JV.Zi. —All bus.
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  • 23 4 Muikhead Oa October 28tb, at Good* wood, Penang, the wife of W J M Muirhead, of Bakap Rubber Plantations. cf a daughter.
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  • 1778 4 Although tbe Britiab Agent remarks at tbe end of bis interesting report on Trengganu in 1917—which has taken some fire months to print—that a general I review of the year shows in many ways a definite though slow advance,” it can hardly be said that the
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  • 23 4 Latest Quotations. Tin (acrefioed) is qsoted here to-day at $149.25, and in Singapore (refined) at $l5O, basiaebs done, changing bands 150 tons.
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  • 992 4 Old Lord Mayor's Day. There was a time when this fcooU l bean Lord Mayor’s D*y. M ]> f fc fr •y, on *‘tha morrow of Simon j whioh means Ootober 29; and this WM ae the date when new calendars wt re nuh i u' 10 The
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    • 116 4 f I f J c iV' i U S P: CIA L LINE OF MUSLIN i I MOSQUITO NETS STRONG DURABLE INEXPENSIVE WRITE fox’ SAMPLE Sc PRICES PAY k VISIT TO OUR NEW SHOWROOMS 8,000 SQUARE FEET. ft ABO Co., Ltd., (INCORPORATED IN STRAIT3 SETTLEMENTS A complete house furnishers PE
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    • 26 4 TANK FUND, tickets si. FIRST PRIZE New.'jElgin Motor Gar VALUE $6,000. OUTSTATION APPLICANTS MUST ENCLOSE POSTAGE Aud apply to the Hon Sec*., I Tank (Sind, Penang.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 1978 5 [Kuo™ 8 TiLBoasMS.] .BMISTICE APPROVED in principle. Sian proposal accepied. DiCISION WITH THE AlLIM. London, Ootober 25, A |lb le to London of the 24th froa WMbi ngton»ay. that the Secretary of State awarded tbroigh tbe Swiss Affaires tbe following reply to Germany’s .Having received tbe
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  • 1252 5 [Reuter's Telegrams.] I BRITISH FRONT. Repulee of Enemy- Loadon, October 27, 9.45 p.m. Sir Douglas Haig reports i—Preceded by a heavy bombardment the enemy counterattacked in the morning in the neighbourhood of and was repulsed, leaving many dead. Our positions remained intact. We repulsed with heavy 1<
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  • 818 5 Mr, A- K Ml. lorabim bfgs to than j those who attended tbe funeral of bis wif lon hriday and also these who sent letters o I condolence, Keats, who was born on October 29, 1795 was one of the shortest Jived of Eoglul poets dying when
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  • 121 5 The following artioies will ba found on our outside pages i tf.—The Late Mr. J E. Soott Brown, Penang Our Day 1918. Mails to Siam. Penang Golf Club The Influenza, 6. Trengganu in 1917, Affairs in China, The Chinese Language. 7. Politics at Home. War Babies, Chandu Exporting. The
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  • 3288 6 BBITIBH AGENT'S BE POET. j* i< From the annual report of Mr. J. L Humphreys on .be BUte of Trengganu we make the following extracts i I.—FINANCIAL. 1,-BITUUI and Exbknditurb. Tne revonu i oolleoted in the year A. H. 1385 (28th Ootober, 1916, to the 16lu Oo’oW,
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  • 983 6 A STRAIGHT TALK TO OUR FRIENDS. Wtio is responsible for internecine strife m Coin* P Considerable attention has fce 3 n .<oent<y focussed on what is called the “Militaristic North,** the Piussianised Tu Cnune,” who would ride rough-shod over and every obstacle, and keep their country in
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  • 904 6 Wh maka no apology for rpfu tMssubjeot ifter l-av ng it studios; to for so many months, J the foreign# whose life-work will h, i uf c uotry there i no noon valuable JJv 1 capital than a knowled™ i lOB Cbmosa Language, and we stronL those
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    • 84 6 Chamberlain's Ceagh B mtti When yon bare a bad oo!d yos remedy that will not only gift relief, b* feet a prompt and permanent care,‘ re that is pleasant to take, a remedy tb»i tains nothing Injurious. Chamber* Congh Remedy meets all these wq* l It acts on natare's plan,
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  • 1289 7 A LEAP IN THE DARK. In ordinary circumstances we might consider a controversy between sections of the Government Party about the proper time to dissolve Parliament as a question of party politics ou which the rest of us had no standing to express an opinion. Bat in
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  • 389 7 How Fmuqglbbs Tar to Outwit Bimoapokb Officials. There are, or rather were as poppy cultivation has been cut down 1 1 a minimum fewer fairer prospects, as seen from a train w ndow. than the poppy fields of Northern India when in full bloom, Singapore has been described
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  • 388 7 According to leading authorities we believe in France, women who are extremely fatigued through arduous labour, such as working ten hours in munition factories, tilling fields, and acting as drivers of street oars, can become the mothers of male children only, and gynaecologists (i e those who specialise
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    • 11 7 For Ohilixea’s Haokrag Oamgk at N’gkt Or»! ftrpurant Omrt In, W.
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    • 397 7 AUCTIONS. The undent ned are prepared to take op auction sales of: Lands, Properties, Estates. Houses. Furniture. Motorcars. Rubber, etc. PROMPT ACCOUNT SALES RENDERED. Far Verms Apply to: ALLEN DENNYS 8 Co.. Auctioneers. Appraisers’eto. 17, Union Street, Penang. Phone, No.|S93 u th 6 m D QSSSSSS 1 WANTED. ASSISTANT for
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    • 972 8 P. 0. —BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINE. (Companies Incorporated In England.) MAIL AND PASBENGER SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL SAILINGS (Undei Contract with Hi« Majesty’a Government.) The Company’. MAIL SERVICES EAST OF BOMBAY are at present ««pended. Passengers for Europe are booked via Bombay a* opportunity offers and as far as
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