Straits Echo, 20 August 1914

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo Wit» ttJkCf.il c hr vat.ib. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT TUI STRAITS. TH-. FfitiSATED HALAV STATES AND THE FAR EAST G3Nfj.oUI VOL. 12. $24 Per Anaura PENANG, THURSDAY, AUGUST, 1914. Single Copy, 10 t<ntj No. 191
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1355 1 jCEMENT! CEMENT!! ••TIGER" BRAND. Best and Cheapest on the Market Highly recommended and used by the leading engineers, contractors and builders. Large Stock* Held By TIANG LEE CO., Pcaaag V Kuala Lumpur. BCiiiiirD «asißciiiiiiaiim Now On Show. Lagonda Cars 11 H.P. 4 cylinder water cooled engine of high efficiency. Body
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    • 35 1 Drink Dog’s Head Guinness Stout. o !> m i* El O o V Sale Agents: XIANG LEE Co., Penang <£* huala Lumpur. iiiiioDaaaanDaaDDiiiiiiii I be Doctor advisee and recommeude. It is nouriahintr, inngoratiag and •treagtWin k r.
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    • 100 2 NATURA jM La L r LION BRAND. (STERILIZES) J <r. K a hjj Crond Prix: 4 p «»‘‘s 1900 St. Louis 1904. 1900 £**|*J. >/** '893. c: trja 1899 O =0 Sthuttnurke oJw Boscti Co RCn Mecklenburg (Deuts chl nd Made in germanv sub. Prag «is: Ehr« n P f
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  • 1363 3 The Man or the Moment. Mr. James Douglas contiibutes to the Morning Loader a very readable sketch of the on*racier of 8 r Edward Grey, which ws i «produce below It any otUer statesman had turned a war dauco into a dream of peace he would have
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  • 308 3 Tue following report will ba presented at the general meeting to bo held in Hongkong on August 22 Gentlemen, The Directors have now to submit, to you a General Statement of the affairs of the Hank, and Balance Sheet for the half-year ending 3(Jth June,
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  • 177 3 When the motor-car first appeared upon the scene it was suggested that it opened up remarkable pcos bilities for light artillerv The experiments which have just beeu carried out under the auspices of Lord Fitzwilliam show that onr anticipations were more than justified. It has been proved
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 67 3 Ar< You Gaiftl cn a Journey Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera ami Diarrhoea Remedy should be packed in your hand luggage when going on a journey Change of water, diet, and temperature all tend to produce bowel trouble, and this medicine cannot be secured on board the Main or steamship. It tr.ay
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    • 323 3 £'«331 h •3 PENANG. 34 SINGAPORE. 34 IPOH. 34 KUALA LUMPUR. m V.r -.5*1 r_, .N ii »r a •Xu £££i3 ■-V; >* Ra eek 1JCM? Eg I ft m Z*A &k MP*** <W9'9 Rubber Factories Rubber Mills 4 y GAS. OIL 8 PRODUCER SEMI DIESEL CRUDE OIL ENGINES. CENTRIFUGAL
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  • SHIPPING.
    • 73 4 Sealda, Br. s.s., 3,438, Johnson, Aug. 19, Rangoon, Aug. 14, Gen.—H L. k Co. Brandon Dut s.s 176, Wuldrmaier, Aug, 19. Deli, Aug. 18. Gen.— K P. M. Fanglor Br. h.p., 94, Caswell, Aug. 20, I) i dings, Aug. 18, Gen.—E. 8. Co., Ltd. Tara Br. b.s., 3,651, Hamlyn,
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    • 75 4 August 20. Tong Chay Un, for Alor Star (Kedah). Rotorua, for Tongkah and Renoug. Arcadia, for Singapore, China and Japan. Kedah, for Asahan. Perak, for Port Swettenham, Port Dickson and Malacca. Padang, for Batu Babra. Brandav for Deli. Tara, for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Ava:ye*, for Dingings, Sitiawan, Bagan
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    • 222 4 For Alov Star (Kedah) —Per Ngi Th ye, to-morrow, 7 am. Po! t S vetfcenham, Singapore, China and Japan—Per Troilu*. 22od instant, 3 p.m. Colombo and Tuticorin—Per Eumaeus, 22ml instant, 3 p.m. I3y Train. Federated Malay States, Malacca, Johore, Singapore and Hongkong, 7-15 a.m. daily also at 5-30
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  • 202 4 Gold Leaf 164.40 Black Pepper >M 16.50 buyer» White Pepper 26.30 buyers Trang Pepper 19 no stoek Cloves 60. —uom Mace 110 nominal. Mace Pickings 85. —tellers Nutmegs 110 23 —nominal No. 1 6.10 talet Sugar < 2 5.50 sales Basket 5.15 buyers Copra (mixed) 9.65 buyers f Tab
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  • 231 4 Penang, August 20 Beef— cts. Soup per catty 20 Roast 30 Steaks 30 Stew or Curry Meat 20 Rump Steak 30 Ox Tail each 45 Tongue 55 Feet 15 Heart 50 Liver per catty 35 Pork Pork per catty 38 Pig’s Head 22 Feet 28 Tongue 36 Mutton
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 343 4 NOTICE P. A. M. A REGISTER of Estate Manager» and Assistants has been started by this Association. Employers, having vacant posts to fill and employees seeking engagement, are requested to communicate with the undersigned. By Order, H. C. E. ZACHARIAS, Secretary, Flanters' Association of Malaya. Kuala Lumpur, August Ist, 1014.
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    • 81 4 TRANSLATION f pHE UNDERSIOKED udartaltM to X translate any document from English into Chinese and vice versa. Also Chinese accounts into English. Fees according to the following scale: (1) For translations for insertion in the Strait* Echo or the Penang Bin Pot or to be printed by the Jobbing Department
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    • 698 4 CINEMTOGRAAPH FILMS FOR UNIVERSAL FILMS HIRING SERVICE. OUR LIBRARY Contains the following Makers’ Best Productions. «Cines, Kalem, Lux, Imp., Milano, Nordiak, A. 8., Urban-Eclipse, 101 Bison, Gaumont, Seiig, Vitagraph, Cosmopolitan, Barker, Nestor, Lubin, Moose, B. C., Essanaj, Flying A, Atlas, Hepwix, Edison, Clarendon, Majestic, Melies, Pathĕ, Butcher, C. M., Aquila,
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  • 660 5 j the policy of proprietors IN LONDON. Co-operation of Interests To the Editor or the Straits Times. Sir, —We Lave now to confirm our telegram of 15th inst and are glid to note that you have given same publicity in your issue of that date. We regret to
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  • 782 5 A meeting of tbe Indian Immigration I Committee was held at Kuala Lumpur on August 17. There were present: —Mr. E. 8 Hose, acting Controller of Labour (Cbairmau), j the Principal Medical Officer, F.M.S iDr. C. L. Sansooi), the Director of Public j Works, F.M S (M'- RON.
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  • 83 5 The proceedings at the Auction held this morniDg were extremely s! .w. Practically ail selling limits were considerably in excess of buyers’ ideas of valu aul as a result only about 3 tons ou‘ of 51 tons catalogued changed hands. Tho highest price realized ns 593 per
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    • 272 5 < UJ </) a iii Q£ < O LJ Q. (/> < X o => OQ o in _i < s SCOTCH WHISKY KI XN N SCOTCH iC°L. BUCHANAN lohd°" JAMES OIASGOW SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT" ‘BLACK WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY 00 r-» c=i > r r (V ■0
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    • 10 5 For Chrome Chest Complaints. Wood*’ Groat Peppermint Cure. 1 61
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    • 419 5 N c s o a E<si il£S EGNP FELUCCA a a -s* a >< ZHkv' itf m H 11 -Tf-tJ? SF RERES sa V. r%, Pa r c t par Maspero FreresU 1 DANS ItU"! N 'AMUfACTUHE AU vv>m 2125«» Hi1U E DE J> C1C-A31 Tt.SFCYPTIENNES ■Vl T^T' c u^s
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  • 96 6 fublished daily (except Sundays and pvbiio holidays) AT THB CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Peicit. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLE ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. fEcho, 586 Printing Departnent 343 SB. —All ba*in«M orauounicatioa* thoald b*
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  • 456 6 The little British Army—little as continental armies go—has set out on an expedition which will require all its courage, all its energy, and all its patience It has set out inspirited by the message of the King, and fortified by the instructions of Lord Kitchener. That it will
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  • 106 6 AUSTRIA ITALY. That the feeling in Italy is very strong against the Austrians at the present time is evidenced by a private letter received by an Italian gentleman in Penang yesterday. The Irreudentist movement, our informant says, has received a decided impetus and he would not be at all surprised
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  • 100 6 Last Tuesday night after the Japanese mail steamer Mithima Maru had left Colombo the monotony of the outward trip was relieved somewhat by mild excitement amongjthe passengers, says the Straits Times. All round the vessel was pitch darkness when, suddenly, within two cables’ length
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  • 76 6 Hirano M&ru't Parsengert. A number of French R servists by the B.s. Hirano Maru, were in town this morning sporting the Tricolour. Some 47 French reservists, we are told, are among the passengers, including five Roman Catholic priests, attached to the local Mission, the Rev. Fathers Souhait,
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  • 505 6 We are asked by the Milkmaid Milk Company to announce that, as the result of their recent policy of selling their milk direct to the public, the prices have been entirely controlled. For "this reason, they are now selling to the dealers as before, so that the
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  • 223 6 A COMPANY SING-SONG. The warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of “A Company invited the Officers and full non-commissioned officers of the other companies to an impromptu concert which was held last night at the “A Company Head-Quarters. There were some very good items in the programme,
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  • 634 6 The Peking correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the short term debts, of which he has a list, comprise about eighty loans, ranging from millions of dollars to a few thousands, and forming an extraordinary illustration of ingenious borrowing. Practically every concern in China possessing spare cash has
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  • 884 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, August 18. number of French reservists in transit from Saigon and Bangkok, for Marseille* by the P. and O. ss. Syria came in f ro Port Swettenham to have a look at Kual Lumpur on Saturday afternoon. They were delighted with
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 316 6 't > H 'I r if AGENTS FOR < KVB eyr., u> 9;,«’» r,v/j on a -SPEEDY" CYCLE. rTHe 11 SPEEDY*’ SPEEDS WELL. SPEEDS FAST. AND SPEEDS LIGHTLY! ■if f. v .^bam r r VU I; S I '^-v a IB* fi 5« r- it is British-made throughout and fitted
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  • 871 7 LIEGE FORTS STILL INTACT BRITAIN’S ECONOMIC CAMPAICN. CAPTURING GERMAN TRADE. (Reuter.) War Secretary’s Instructions Fear God and Honour Your King. London. August 18 f#rml Kitchener has issued instructions to every expeditionary soldi r which are to be kept in his pay book. He says: You are ordered abroad
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  • 73 7 Prcaident Wilson's Attitude. Washington, August 18. President Wilson's address to the American people warned them against “that deepest aud subtlest breach of neutrality which tnav spring out of partisanship and out of pas Innately taking sides It is known that the President disfavours attempts to embroil
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  • 37 7 Illness. (Reuter.) London, August If. ILs Holiness the Pop°, who has boon indit-po-ed for som days, has become much worse and passed a bad night It id reported that be has received communion.
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  • 411 7 POLICY ON THE CONTINENT Sir Felix Schuster's Views. In bis speech at the meeting of the Union of London and Smiths Bank the other day. Sir Felix Schuster laid particular emphasis ou the need of strengthening our gold reserves. During the past 12 months, he said, the
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  • 156 7 A dark day has broken over Germany. The sword in beiug forced int o our hand We hope, if peace is impossible, to wield the sword so as to sheath it with honour. The war will require enormous sacrifices. We must show our adversaries what it
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  • 135 7 According to the annual report, for 1913, of Mr. P. A. Anthony, general manager of the F. M. S. Railways, work on the bridge over the Johore Straits was commenced in September, 1912, and the following progress has been made Base lines were fixed on both
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  • 155 7 The appeal of Oog Ah Sok against a judgment given by Mr. Jus’ice Sercombe Smith in favour of Captain R D Caswell was yesterday dismissed by the full Court of Appeal. Chong Mah Sin was yesterday the appellant agaiust a decision of Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith on
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  • 178 7 Destitute Coolie* for Port Swettenham. The task of repatriating drsntute Chinese has commenced in Kuala Lumpur, and most strenuous times are being spent at the Chinese Secretariat, where the Chinese are given the necessary pass, etc. They are sent away in large batches, first to Port BWetteuham where
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  • 173 7 Was It a Blind According to tho Observer's Berlin conespondent, people in the Gorman capital concerned themselves very little about the revelations regarding the lack in the French Army of most of thoso things of which an army should have plenty—boots and shells, for instance. General Klein,
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  • 121 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 3—Sir Edward Grey The Man of the Moment. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Motors and Guns. s—Malacca Rubber: The Policy of Proprietors in liondon. Immigration Committee. Guthrie’s Weekly Report. B—Battle of Grimsby Making Artillery Independent of Horses aud
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  • 109 7 A Potato Pkst. The following from a recent issue of the Timet, may have an indirect effect upon the War:—Hamburg, July 17th.—The much dreaded and terribly destructive Colorado beetle has appeared in several potato farms near Stade, west of Hamburg. The most energetic steps have been taken
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  • 83 7 Russia’! N*w Armt. The Matins correspondent in St Petersburg telegraphs that he was informed by various high military personages that Russia is now capable on the sixteenth day of a mobilisation to put in the field thirtyone army corps, against six Gera an and fourteen Austro-Hungarian corps, says
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  • 569 7 la the Hou e of Commons on July 2 V t Mr Hunt asked for an explanation of 1 1» circumstances in which the Federated Malay States bad come to London to raise a larg* loan for public works. Mr. T. C Tajlor called attention
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 251 7 THE G£EAT EASTER> LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LTD. Head Offic*:— SINGAPORE Life Assurance and Endowment in All Forms. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATFS Financial Agent» for Penang. SELLAR, MURRAY A CO. Local Office: No. 7. TTvtov Strfft. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo*o A o o o o o o o o o o AINC CHEANC A
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    • 122 7 WAWTBD. > AGo :d Chinese Book-keeper. Appiy iu w stating previous #t* pen-*uce and sultry requirjd to E. 20-8-14 <*3s c/o Strait a E«ho. Bank Holiday. The Exchange Banks will be closed on Monday, the 24th August, which has been proclaimed a Bank Holiday. Penang Sales Room. AUCTION BALE OF
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  • 660 8 Marino Artillery Independent of Horses and Trains. Earl Fitzwilltam stood on his front doorstep at 2 a in on Saturday, says the Daily Sketch of July 20, and contemplated witb extreme satisfaction the unusual spectacle of a battery of artillery teariug around his lawn at a speed
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  • 236 8 A scheme is again put forward for the provision ot a Public Hall at Singapore, a building, that is, which will be the equivalent to the former Town Hall of Singapore That hall, it may be remembered, was conveit9d into a theatre. A letter signed by
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  • 677 8 Choosing Next Year's Holidays. Old Moore his already divulged his arrangements for 19i5, says the Daily Sketch f of July 23; so rustead of wondering > whether it is going to be fiue for our holidays next month we can now comfort 1 ourselves by choosing out
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  • 348 8 War Vessels in Half A Gale. King George V, Britain’s Sailor King, says the Daily Sketch of the 21st July, led his great Fleet to sea to-day. It was not the kind of day that land sailors love to ba afloat. There was almost a
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  • 938 8 POSITION BEFORE THE WAR. Hopes op Autonomy. The following, which expresses what is, in view of preseut events, a renarkable appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for May: Through no fault of their own it has been the fate of the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine for the last forty
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  • 499 8 Great Activity of the East Indies Squadron. Germany shipping in the Indian] Ocean and the Bay of Bengal has been receiving considerable attention at th- h inds of the East Indies squadron and qube a numVr of prizes are safe y moored iu Colombo harbour. Up
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  • 147 8 An Official Statement. There has beea much conjecture as to the position of the local banks and finance in the present crisis, and we (Bangkok Times) made inquiries at the Treasury as to what the Government might do. In reply we received ihe following authoritative statement In
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  • 405 8 Teeing Paper’s View The d inger of a great European w must have br mght homo to inauv .J/, the insignificant part China woulhTl r*-'j i-> p lilies, «rife OazH-i Lmu-i m Peking, the CspitJU the vast country thr.t has und-rg C D 1L? kaleidoscopic
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 323 8 Another Detective Film CROWN ClNEMA, chulia sheet. PRESENTS if V MA’TER CRIMINAL If M. Arquillicre (ZIGOMAR) in the leading, role. 5 Parts. 5 Reels. FOR ONE WEEK COMMENCING Friday, August 14th. DULL EVEMNCS ARE A MENACE TO HEALTH To make your evenings happy COME TO THE STRAITS CINEMA PENANG ROAD
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    • 53 8 A skinful of rum is a gargle with some. A skinful of whisky with others, While others "go nap” upon liquorice pap. Or s mi other concoction of mother’s. But sensible people with modern id~a. Much prefer something handy and sure. Without doctor or nurse, headaches or worse, Simply Woods’
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    • 101 8 For Children's Hacking Cough at Night, nods’ Great Peppermint Cu'-e Is. fi<l Singapore Cold Storage Co. t Ltd Penang. Beg to inform all customers that on and after 11th inst. business will he conducted on a CASH BASIS. Accounts must he kept in credit in order to obtain supplies. Prices
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    • 181 8 Supplied by All Chemists. Physiciaus prescribe Chamberlain’* Colie, Cholera aud Diarrhoea Remedy because it relieves cramps in the stomach and intestiaal pains quicker than any preparation they cu compound. It can be bought from sot chemist. A bottle will keep for yean, ana no home is complete without it. For
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    • 1989 9 —(S H P P N G.) Expected Arrival* and Departure*. Mall Servlet) Outward. Due Penang Steamer. Connecting with S <3. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD Fob Singapore (Three time* a week). Port Swettcnhsm and (Twice weer). Victoria Point, Mergui, Taro/," Yeh and Moulmein. (Fortnightly). Singapore, and Australia. Rangoon A
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  • 1159 10  -  (By A. Corbett Smith.) China during the past few years has been springing so many surprises upon the Western world that now we refuse to feel any particular concern even for the most startliug developments under the new regime. Bu" there is one interesting fact which seems
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  • 632 10 Fliit Pbbpabbs bob Wae. I (Special Correspondent to the China Press Hongkong, July 31. Hongkong is seething with excitement over the great, though secret, preparations that are beiug made to guard against attack. Who is to attack us and why nobody stops to answer, but that
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  • 52 10 Saturday, August 22. Golj Club, f-45 to 7-15 1 Reminisceuces Of Wales Godfrey 2 Lancers. The Army Burns 3 Selection The Yeomen of the w w <* uard Sulliran 4 Waltz Queen of the Cimma Gilbert 5 Two Step Merry Mitzi Anthony 6 March Rolling Home to T'ear
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    • 391 10 iU, :!Wfo r~vr- W>>: i iliiilifi I Mi m m yv -s>r»F I X* .V'''*•••••>' v♦rf.i ;/<i J r 4 H f A'J rf f;/ iliSiii, hi!: jtf > v 4 V L I ci. .ns Mr. Jack London, the famous novelist, w rites I mu tremendously pleased with Formamiut.
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    • 56 10 Supplied by All Chemists. Physicians prescribe Chamberlain’* Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy because it relieves cramps in the stomach and intestinal pains quicker than any preparation they can compound It can be bought from' any chemist. A bottle will keep for years, and no home n complete without it. 'For
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    • 72 10 Teething Chi'dren. Teething children have more or less diarrhoea, which can be controlled by civic* Chamberlain s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. All that is necessary sto give the prescribed dose after each operation of the bowels more than natural and then pastor oil to cleanse the system. It is
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    • 527 10 BILIOUSNESS, There are many causes of this complaint, but they all spring from n disordered* liver which does not properly fulfil its functions, -especially i n warm climate, when it becomes sluggish in its action. The biie is turned from r its proper channel, and enters the blood, and the
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  • 469 11 What will these craft be, or, rather, to what present type will they chiefly Approximate f It seems evident that the first of the kind will be a sort of flying destroyer, a winged amphibian monster of steel which will bur! lightning shafts of destruction now
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  • 253 11 Socialist Advocacy or Geweeal Steiee. The Socialist Congress at Paris recently discussed the question of possible means of preventing war. The speakers were divided m opinion, some maintaining that it would be useless to talk of revolts and strikes in time of war, since they kuew that
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  • 161 11 A very large fire took place in the Y iengyaokai, Hangchow, on August 1, when over 100 houses were burnt to the ground, and nine people burnt to death. This is the fifth time in five years that this part has been burnt out. Only a
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 528 11 I ♦< it h THIS IS IT! t I t WATERBURY’S METABOLIZED Cod Liver Oil Compound TASTELESS ODORLESS The latest scientific pre paration of COD LIVER OIL Does all that is claimed for it and super sedes the old fashioned emulsions which upset ihe stomach. Highly re commended by th
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    • 1135 12 Guardian Assurance Company, Limited Established 182!. Subscribed Capital £2.003,0 j To* n 1 Invested Fund» up- *»'•<!» of MGO.OOt Total Annual Income over 1,180,'-''X riIHE have been appointed A Agents of the above Com panj a,' Penang, and are prepared to issue policbt of Insurance against loss by tire at
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