Straits Echo, 7 November 1918

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    37 1 Straits Echo DAlfcY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED HAL At STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. fOl» l6 #3O Per Annum. PENANCs, Xkiiui*sij>iA.jt s 7th NOVEMBER 1918. Single Copy, lo cents. No* 260*
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      1362 1 rESYU’S gIIkJFOOD .nttßtST fOOD fQg YOtih BaBYJ Pt 1 ,to--90 cts» tim. BA N K Q Bank of India, Australia and China. Charts® 1 England by Royal Chirtcr. 41,200,000 42,000,000 41,200,000 1 wreFond Liability of proprieteri Head Offie* t Ko BISHOPBQATE, LONDON, E.C, Afencic» and Branch*». Hengkong Peking Iloilo Penang
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      9 1 MILKMAID «20.50 BTAtNABLC ii ii?Hfr~ T r- T i
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      653 2 c “OUR DAY” I TANK FUND. i 55 Ksn v Ci *<.-• -*»si p FfW Sej Sil? 1 5 ii@l^!i .(-«i THROUGH THE COURTESY OF 'l' i ft. va KATZ Messrs «Tp* 11 AGENTS OF A list of the subscribers of $25, and upwards to the Red Cross Fund will
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    LABOUR AND THE WAR.
    1450 3 THE “DOWN TOOLS” EPIDEMIC. For the praotioal purposes cf modern life, the right to strike seems to me about the most important distinction, between a fneman and a slave. I would not for choice live in a community where all necessary distinctions between these two condition*
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    The Kaiser and His People.
    637 3 "The dominating o:rcam?t*noe of thf Ktiier’a life,” wrote Charles Metoiei in Land and Water, when considering similar speeches to that reoe itly madn at Baser, “ia that he is the German Emperor. He is the Emperor of a people whom we may, if we phase,
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      456 3 unnnnn nn. a on a an u n a a a n an a era n t"DOf#» MOBOAUNT BROS. I* S HELEN'S PLACE, LONDON E.C. 3 PRODUCE brokers and importers EXPORT and commission merchants Bat. 1867. Cables:—MORD AUNTS London. Oils, Nuts, Seeds, Rubber and General Produce Conslg’nmenta Received|and Advances Made.
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      51 3 Mow is the Time. For rhewmatiim job w'M find nothing I better than Chamber Iain’s V* u Balm. Mew is the time to get rid of it. Trj this Uni» 1 meat and see how qaioklj it will relieve the pain and ureaeii. Fer sale bj all dispeaI series and
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      707 3 ORIGINATING summons. SUIT 191 a No. 292. In .the Supreme Court' of «the Straits Settlements, Settlement of Penang. I In the matter of an Indenture of Statutory Mortgage dated the 15th day of November, 1897 Registered No. 56, Vol. LXXVII of 1897 of land known as Lot 79 Mukim IV
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    SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALISM.
    1184 4 War’s alarms are a commonplace. There have been so many of them during the last four years that they now fail to move the blood. Like Macbeth we have supped full with horrors, and even Russian atrocities cannot cause a shiver. The world has been brought face
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    The World’s Assize.
    767 4 GERMANY AND THE CLAIMS OF JUSTICE. The demand for full retribution on Germany has become a mirks! feature of American opinion. Th*re are people in this country who turned up the whites of their ey: s when Sir Edward Carson, epokt of carrying the war across the
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      402 4 IZXZDCDCDC TOOTAL PIQUE -Vt;* /fii "i < .*s ***•< V-N -0? 4==^^i v*\V TOOTAL HQUf', Od° of thr Tootsl gu*rM»*e»-d Fabrics, In Block in wlvtp. grey, b’scu’t »nd »«xe blue. Fist oo'ouro. ti»avy rih, Width 44 inches. Price $2-90 pet- y?»id. OCDOCd#C3CDOOCD OC Serviceable NEW Washing DCTX Materials AEHnX CELLULAR
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      92 4 Chamberlain's Cea«h lltmtnlj. When jo* bare a bad o*id jom want a rtMiedy f hat will not only giee relief, bnt fee; a prompt and t ;ure, a’ remedy that is pleasant to take, a remedy that eoa tarns nothing injnrJo**. Chamberlain’s Cc vh Eamedy moeu all base reqairements, ct
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      413 4 notice. i3i OISc, P. D n| and lenders will be received U p i- Friday t* e Bth November Kesident Councillors Office rerun* persons desirous of contracting for ro f:>r the Government at tenant f or a Upp, e of one year commencing from ferio( l J .nuary 1919:- tte
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    ALLEGED BREACH OF TRUST AND CHEATING.
    660 5 In somancm Employ» Ohaboid. In the District Court before Mr. R. D. Aoton this morning the hearing was com* menoed of the case against Tan Ah Kuai, a former employee of the Great Eastern Life Assurance Company, who was oharged on three caunta with
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    Penang "Our Day" 1918.
    127 5 To-mobbow’s Tunis Match. It is just as wall to remind our readers that another exhibition game of Lawn Tennis, in aid of She Our Day fund, takes plaoe to-morrow afternoon at the P.O.C. Courts beginning sharp at 4.30 o’clock, between Messrs. J. H. Spowers of Ipoh
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    Penang Cricket Club.
    162 5 Bowls Tounnambnt. The following will be the events in 1 1 the forthcoming Bowls Tournament i—--1, Championship, 2 Singles Handioap, 8. Dolbies Handicap, 4. Championship Pairs, 5, Teams of Feur, 6. Mixed Doubles Handioap, 7, Ladies Singles Handicap. Event No. 7 Ladies Singles Handioap will be played
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    THE INFLUENZA.
    882 5 fcOUTd AFRICA’S DEATH ROLL. 8uoeenfol Vtodnt Treatment[Riotubs Tiliobaxs London, November 8. A cable from Cape Town of the list Ootober says the iufluenia death-roll is 7,500 at Cape Town, 4,500 at Kimberley, 1,C00 at Pretoria, 600 each at Johannesburg and Stellenbosoh hut only 47 at Durban, The coloured
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      412 5 p or private Sale, »g two-8»*t»r MAXWELL 0 Mot r Car with double dioky ti ,lmo»t new. Owner gone to hl front. An ideal oar for estate work. pplj to: A LLEtf DENNYS Co., 7, Union Street, Penang. 798-1*- 11 Penang Sales Room. TO BB SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION At
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    The Straits Echo.
    97 6 PUBLISHED DAILY (Except Sundays and public holidays) AT THE CRITERION PRESS, LIMITED, 59, Beach Street, Penang. Price: Daily Local 180 Per annum Outstation Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Post Free) $lB per annum. Cable Address: ECHO PENANG.” Telephone Noe. (Eoho) 586. Printing Department 943, Ji.B.—A 11 busmen communications
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    COUNTING THE COST.
    1952 6 A few years ago wa used ta sroise the ire of our worthy Ipoh contemporary by cur frequent references to the prevalence of s*riem orima in the Stste of Porak, our si teles being interpreted ss s rt flection upon the Persk poiioe whom the local paper
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    Homeward Mails.
    71 6 Mail B for Madras taking mails fo r Europe etc. via Bembay and connecting wiih the same vessel as Mail H was coiveycd by, will close at 10 on Saturday morning next, registration up to 9 and parcels up to 8 o'clock, Mad D for the United Kingdom
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    M. A. P.
    807 6 Hebr Corner, the newl. ter of the Netherlands inVaf? ttd leave Holland for America by landia during the current month? M B The funeral of Mrs, Cheah Tat take place on the 10th fastest Vi" H when the remains will be removed f E,, d ,or t
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      142 6 THE FINEST TONIC AFTER INFLUENZA I s 5* GUNDY Re com mended by the Medical Faculty. PEE BOTTfE PEE HALF BOTTLE $1-05. OS CNT. i)UTY EXTRA, OBTAINABLE FROM PRITCHARD Co., Ltd I (INCORPORATED IN STRAITS SETTLEMENTS «2T t S' PEN AN G *9 •91 •ft *9 •9 •9 •9 •9
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      28 6 =Jf==Jr=Jr^ BBS—tank fund. 1 TICKETS $l. FIRST PIUZE New iEigin Motor Car VALUE $5,000. OUTSTATION APPLICANTS MUST ENCLOSE POSTAGE And apply to the Hon Sees., Tank Fund, Penang.
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    THE AUSTRIAN ARMISTICE.
    1929 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] STATEMENT BY THE PBIUIEG. Text ef the ConditionsLjndon, Lovtmber 5, 5 55 p m, The Press Bureau announces the conditions of the araratice with Austria-Hungary It follows Military ClausesXna First Clause provides for tbs immediate cessation of hostilities j bj iand, S3* »ir; the 8ecoud
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    Shares.
    119 7 The following are the alterations in Messrs, A. A. Anthony A Co.'s share list to-day i—- j Yeeterday. To-day. Rubber. J f, J j 5* 3 ca oo ca cd Ayer Molek 230 2.50 220 2.40 Indragiri 6.75 7.25 6.80 7.15 Jimah 1.65 1.80 1.55 1.70 Lanas 7.50 8.00
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    IN THE WEST.
    834 7 [Reuter's Telegrams.] BAPID ALLIED ADVANCE. > M0RMAL FOREST CAPTURED. I Extensive German EstreatLondon, November 5. Beater learns that the Germans are retreating on a seventy-mile front from the |8cheldt to the Aisne. We crossed the French and Belgian frontier between Valenciennes and Bavai acd osptured the I
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    Dutch War Cables.
    312 7 According to a cable to the Nieuvot van dtn Dag, it is stated in diplomatic circles that the Allies' armistice conditions stipulate tbat the German armj should be withdrawn thirty miles behind the Rhine, abandoning all its arms and rolling-stcck and material of war, and that Heligoland
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    Tin.
    183 7 Latest Quotations. Tin (uorefiued) ia quoted here to-day at 1145 50, business done, in Singapore (refined) at $145.25, business done, (275 tons sold. Reuter, cabling on tbe 2nd inst., says that silver is unchanged’ 1 and on the 4th instant that the silver market is steady. The directors of
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    Outside.
    65 7 Tbe following articles will be found oa our outside pages i 3. —Labour and tbe War, The Kaiser and His People. 4. —Soienoe and Spiritualism. The World’s Assise. 5. Alleged Branch of Trust and Cheating. Tbe IniJuecsa. B—lndian8 —Indian Immigration, Malayan Gang Robbers. The Key of tha P*c fic.
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    RANDOM NOTES.
    1020 7 War Poetry. Mr. B. B. Osbo n says tba ami I w»r Verse written by civilians siuca l *****, la fcimp y appalling. He qu<* j I estimate teat toe Garmin output aJoij I to more than a miilioo piece?. In I Britain atd America the product! I
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    INDIAN IMMIGRATION.
    1091 8 COMMITTEE MEETING IN PENANG A meeting of the Indian Immigration Committee wa; held at Penang on the 4:h November. There were present ‘-"The Controller of Labour (Mr. J. 8.0. Aldworth) Chairman, the Principal Medical Officer, F. M. 8., (Dr. C. L. Sansom, C. M. G), The H m’ble
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    Land Acquisition Enquiry.
    744 8 Text of Award The following is the full text of the award in the enquiry in connection with the acquisition of 23 acre*, 3 roods 81 poles of land (L-t 188 XVII Mukim I) frsm the Prai (Penang) Syndicate for public purposes by the Federated Malay Spates
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    MALAYAN GANG ROBBERS.
    1021 8 Something like seven jeari ago we point* fid out the grave prevalence of gang robberies and warned the Government that the ordinary police oonld not. grapple with the evil. We needed a criminal investigation department, and we needed a special force, provided with motor cars, or horses,
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    THE KEY OF THE PACIFIC.
    879 8 the future of the captured COLONIES. I i By thu Bight Hon W. F. Mas«by 1 (Prims Miuistbb of Nhw Zealand). [ln the following artiele, Mr. Massey summarises the powerful arguments against relinquishing the Pacific possession» captured from Germany, and ehyws that their reten- tion
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    October Rubber Crops.
    95 8 Consolidated 44.287, Batu Matang 9,245, Bakap 17,000, Jons Landor 29,579, Kedah 26,354, P*rit Perak 12,100, Straits 170,000, Penang 148,000, Tab Aver 53.500, Bubana 57,000, Bagan Berai 25,500, Batak 27,500, Aim* 32,000, Bokit Toh Alasg 11,244, Bba-nghai Klebarg 12 537, Kota Bniiroa 30,245, tiungbi Duri 20 050, Oh*mor
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER AUCTION.
    1178 8 > PRICES UP. D»m&nd for Higher Grades CFrom Out Gum Correspondents Singapore, November 7 Tee Auctions have not jet been finished, fine pete erepe fetched 71$ cents. Ribbed ■O3. k d i,beet tobed 67$ Cunts. Lower grades were difficult of sale. 6IMI DABBY CO.’S REPORT, Phi Rub3bb
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      12 8 For Ohildrea'a Hacking Oaagk at Nigkf Woada'a Qra»t h|spanii>i Car* la. <kL
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      195 8 Federated Malay r States War Charitiei Lottery. j Ticket» for this L.ttery are uiied under the auspice» of the Federated Malay States War Charities Committee and the Prize» will be allocated u 1 follows s— The Prizes. The allocation of the amount subscribed will be as follows 100 per cent.
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    SHARES.
    2258 9 0 Dividend. 1 c Hmu bf- o' cd > 0. j f.riul Shrtr iunaa. '0 last finanfor enrront s e 1 > s '3 fa. eial jear. yearS’ f <y t-H sq oo r i «UBBER— DOLLAR SHARIS cts ots y 1' i' 120 000 120,000 1 i 60
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      263 9 •t '/[LIEN DENNYS Co 7 t union Strait Penang. Piioat Nos. 483 4 412. proprietors oft THi PfHAHB RU3BER AUCTION ROOMS, where good prices sre always obtain#! THi PENANG TRANSHIPPING 4 FOKWARDINQ Co., wbo oiidei UKe to forwaia to ANY PARI ap T«ll WORLD. iiiAifc DEPARTMENT.—We pay special attention to
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    OUR CZECHO-SLOVAK ALLIES.
    1205 10 On August 14th the British Government took a momentous step in recognising t.e Czecho Hovaks as ‘an Allied nation and their »rmiea in Russia I ranee, and Italy a- an Allied and belligerent armr waging re gular warfare against Austria Hungary and Germany "No less si.nific nt
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    In Siberia.
    712 10 The lively despatches of the Vladivostok correspondent of the NC. D*Hy News are always good reading Apart from politics, this glimpse of conditions in the Siberian port is interesting:— The Americans are it si far as Vladivostok is concerned American soldiers and marines are all over the town,
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      14 10 Per Children'» H»r*V n?*Otlfh Ni.-' t W uut'i Gr*-i r»sp«ra» .%i (Jnie 1», id*
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      665 10 xx :4fcxx» 1 h//l v/, l rnr Xv I ■sw MC -V i. n w w 5 X m /X > ue a -z sa. e» NATURE’S WONDERFUL GIFT TO AFFLSCTED MALAYA A'CERTAIN, SAFE SPEEDY CURE FOR ALL CASES OF MALARIA, SPLEEN KALA-AZAR Just think of it!—more p?ople are killed
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    WEALTH FROM WASTE.
    1807 11 i It is said that, vfter the extravagance anc I laxity in living of tbe eighteenth century, il I was the long-continued privation and I multifarious taxation of the twenty years' I Napoleonic War that made eur grand* parents economical, and went far to ohange I our
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      540 11 r TENDERS INVITED tenders FOR 4 bungalow; r|'enders are hereby invited for the ereotic l r of 4 Bungalows at York Road Penan; for the Eastern Smelting Co-, Ltd. Fu particulars can be obtained and plans an specifications m&j be inspected at the Offid of Messrs. R Young A Co.
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