Straits Echo, 21 August 1914

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  • 36 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONIC LB OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 12. $24 Per Annum PENANG, FRIDAY, *lst AUGUST, 1914. Siofle Copy, 10 cfotj. No. 192
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    • 112 2 i V i W 111 L r LION BRANDJ (STERILIZED) J 4rss3r*m* m n t j nr .< A*ti X* a Mj Crond Prix: f’ans 190c St. Louis 190 4 Paris l90o X 1893. Sil*. 1«916«»'» Kaoig5t«< Prag 15 1893. ,fi IS93 x m «SE**' 1696Schutzmarke E bx,w f !5**
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  • 1088 3 INDUSTRIAL, FINANCIAL, AN® SHIPPING I'OLICT. (Berlin Correspondent to The Times For some considerable time past tb« development of Germany's economic interests in China has been beooming a new catchword of politics. The subject was discussed at length in the secrecy of the Budget Con miltee, and
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  • 325 3 Death or Rock Sand Another Derby winner has passed to the happy hunting grounds. Bock Sand, a hoite-bred 6on of his lucky owner’s first Derby winner Sainfoin from the beautiful mare Boguebrune. Good and honest horse as he was could hardly compare with other wearers of the
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  • 201 3 To th 8 Tditor of Singapore Free Press. Sir, —It is very desirable that attention of Government should be called to the autiou of the Cbetties during the present crisis in trade. At a time when every consideration is necessary and is being shewn between debtor and
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    • 518 3 y-SS-: r, Keep well in the rainy season and protect yourself, from jnabria. It is in the rainy season that the European constitution suTiers most, says Sir Joseph Fayrer, M I). Hence our great need fora tonic at this season—for something which will really invigorate the constitution. “According to my
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    • 55 3 Supplied by All Chemists. Physicians prescribe Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy because it relieves cramps iutbe stomach aud intestinal paiLs quicker than any preparation they CaO compound. It can be bought from any chemist. A bottle will keep for years, and no home is complete without it. For sale
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    • 110 3 Yes, I’m Alick McLean, I’m well-known round the sheds Thev call me “The Ringer —I’m one of the “’reds.” Though aa tough as green hide, yet I have a weak spot; And it’s asthma! not often, but cops me real hot. My swag isn’t big. just bike, bluey and gear,
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    • 582 3 »9 <O. C *r As c 3E FELUCCA ilr t* 5 m rt u Mas AsperO FRfeREs iti i FK&hes^ MaSPERO F»ERESIfoW»h »■•«1 ilu* manufacture *u arfeik e m 'lw4» .71? BRIQLUE DE —J Oo 'KITTfSEGYPTIENNES wviyn r% Rouge JH H Mm .os-. i A-®; V‘4 i r«*»x>i *~n i
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  • 96 4 Published daily (except Sundays and public holidays) ▲T TBV CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Trick. Daily Local $24 per annum. Outstation... Postage Extra. Hail Edition (Post Free) $17.50 CABLB ADDRESS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Nos. (Echo, 986 Printing Departnent 343 N B. —All businea* ecnuaun>oatioaa aboald
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  • 549 4 Before proceeding to discuss the possibilities of air-craft in war, it is well to emphasise the fact that while the captive balloon has been fully tested and its capacity gauged in various wars, we have no experience in the use of either dirigible or aeroplane under active-service
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  • 651 4 There is mourning to-diy wharovar the Roman Catholic religion is practised, and that is throughout the world, for his Holiness Popa Pius X is tlead One need not be a Catholic to regret the pissing away of the head of a great Church which for ages
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  • 95 4 Dceisioa of the Authorities. We learn from a reliable source that as pressnt condition? are considered likely to be prolonged and that as the keeping of the Volunteers on permanent duty at Head Quarters is likely to affect the business community detrimentally, the Authorities have decided to
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  • 300 4 The Reservists proceeding home by the s.s. Hirano Maru were yesterday evening given a reception on the Esplanade by our local Vo’unteers and a Sikh Contingent. Towards 5 pm. the Reservists, amongst whom were twelve gentlemen in Holy Orders, gathered at the P C.C. where they were welcomed
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  • 55 4 Chased By a Cruiser. (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, August 21. The passengers booked homewards by the N.-D. L. Kleiit have returned. It is believed she was chased by a cruiser off Colombo. Her funnel was repainted and all lights put out. She steamed 17 knots
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  • 405 4 The Germans have entered Kalisz, Russian Poland. [Kalisz is 149 miles W.3.W. of Warsaw and 70 miles from the nearest Russian railway station.] The Dutch Government lias bought 14,000 tons of Australian flour which will be shipped per s.s. Houtman. Batavia is crowded with German refugees from British
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  • 1041 4 i. P. and O. s s. Medina. Thursday, Aug,s We are due at Aden to-night. W» k had a frightful dusting across ths Arab»* Sea, in the monsoon which has been bad this year, so much so that the B*l*#, which usually takes this run was knocked
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    • 278 4 The Dispensary (Penang) Ltd. Bog to inform their customers and the General Public that their prices are not advanced except for goods the prices ot which have already been advanced by the local agents. At a later date pi ices may have to be raised to meet the extra cost
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  • 758 5 GERMAN ADVANCE. CANADIAN LOYALTY. WHAT OF ITALY? (Reuter.) The Belgian Campaign. Oiraini Prtuini H»r4. Paris, August 20 Official despatches say that the German line had reached Dinar.t and Neufehateau. Important forces continue to cross the Meuse between and Namur. Advance guards have reached the River Dylc. [Neufchateau is
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  • 273 5 The news from the Russo-German frontier continues to trickle in from day to-dav and to b»*ar evidence of progress of Russian arm> across the German border in both Erst, and West Prussia. On the 14th Reuter wired "The Russian mobilisation has beeu unexpectedly expeditious". Fol’owing on that
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  • 88 5 HIS LAST WORDS. Reuter Rome, August 20. His Holiness Pope Piui X. is dead. Rome, Later The Pope died at 1 o’clock this morning. In a moment i f lucidity b« »aid My end is a; proaching. Almighty God in Lis inexhaustible goodn* 84 wishes to
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  • 3328 5 Pope Pius X (Guiseppe Melchoirre Sarto) was born on June 2, 1835 at Riese in the Province of Treviso, Venice. His pirents were Geovanni Battista Sarto and Margarita (n«4 Sanson) the former, a postman, died in 1852, but Margarita lived to see her son a
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  • 299 6 Mr. Normsn Aogell, speaking at Lady Barlow’s reception last week, said :—“Uutil our time all great social movemeuts whether the reconstructive work of a Frpcch Revolution or the reorganisation of a G rman or Italian nation, had fizzled out in in lit ary fireworks followed by political
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  • 259 6 The National Union of Journalists has protested to the Wesleyan conference against the custom of ministers doing journalistic work, and so entering into unfair competition with the journalists on the daily Frees. They say that it detracts from the dignity of the ministerial office when a mmister
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    • 1095 8 Guardian Assurance Company, Limited. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital jC2,000,00 Total Invested Funds upwards of 6,460,000 Total Annual Income over 1,180,000 THE undersigned have been appointed Agents of the above Company at Penang, and are prepared to issue policial •t Insurance against loss by fire at the ©west tariff rates KENNEDY
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